Barack Obama (election coverage only-official)

[daddyphatsacs]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeMike80

Seriously this guy could start a religion and have followers at this point. yes it is sad and yes I've watched that speech two times - nothing special other than it comes from a Black guy.

I guess charisma is a bad thing? What draws people to Obama is the fact that when he talks, he seems logical........ After 8 years of Bush, and watching McCain on the stump..........it's refreshing.

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by Muck

I don't think there has ever been a post on BP that made me sadder than this.

Seriously? The greatest political speech ever?

Ask not, We Shall Overcome, Fear Itself, Tear Down This Wall, Fight Them On The Beaches!?

a) ...perhaps...from a politician

b) I wasn't born at the time Churchill etc made those speeches and Reagan's speech was not broadcast here.

Muck, just note that I also didn't include the Rivonia Trial speech (see below) which dwarfs all of the speeches that you noted, in my opinion.

[BayBuck]

Originally Posted by MuckFich06

I'm getting very tired of hearing how Barack Obama has no executive experience. That is patently false. He is effectively the CEO of his campaign, which is an organization with over 2500 employees and "franchises" in all 50 states, and will have operated on a budget of 500 or so billion dollars by the end of the election season. By all accounts, he has run a tight, efficient, and disciplined organization.

CEO of an election campaign

[kinch]

It's the Barack Show! Starring me: I'm Barack!

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by BayBuck

CEO of an election campaign

[BayBuck]

Originally Posted by Steve19

For the record, I was poking fun at MuckFich's typo that Obama's campaign ran a budget in the 100s of Billions of dollars. But Dr. Evil does have a lot of executive experience himself.

[Southpaw Stone]

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[Steve19]

Originally Posted by BayBuck

For the record, I was poking fun at MuckFich's typo that Obama's campaign ran a budget in the 100s of Billions of dollars. But Dr. Evil does have a lot of executive experience himself.

Now, how do we get these frikkin' gerbils to vote?

[fourteenandoh]

There's not even no crack heads in Alaska.

[osucollegebuck]

Tressel is and Woody was REPUBLICAN!!!

[AKAKBUCK]

Originally Posted by osucollegebuck

Tressel is and Woody was REPUBLICAN!!!

Okay, that's about enough of that.

['BusNative]

Originally Posted by fourteenandoh

There's not even no crack heads in Alaska.

Hella meth heads though

[Jake]

I originally posted this in the Palin thread but it probably belongs here:

What has Obama done besides write two books about himself?

The man has voted "present" over 100 times in his short career- you can't do that when you're the boss - and his cry of "I opposed Iraq from the beginning" is hollow because he wasn't even in the Senate at the time. Pretty easy to claim a position after the fact when you never had to actually cast a vote. Then again, casting votes isn't his favorite thing to do, given all of the "present" nonsense.

Again, what has he done to lend credence to all of the "hope and change" rhetoric? What has he led? What decisions has he made?

[DGADBTWSOM]

Originally Posted by Jake

I originally posted this in the Palin thread but it probably belongs here:

What has Obama done besides write two books about himself?

The man has voted "present" over 100 times in his short career- you can't do that when you're the boss - and his cry of "I opposed Iraq from the beginning" is hollow because he wasn't even in the Senate at the time. Pretty easy to claim a position after the fact when you never had to actually cast a vote. Then again, casting votes isn't his favorite thing to do, given all of the "present" nonsense.

Again, what has he done to lend credence to all of the "hope and change" rhetoric? What has he led? What decisions has he made?

During the President's rhetoric leading us to an escalation with Iraq, the war was enormously popular, this was the time Obama voiced his opinion that maybe we were being a little hasty. He was right and deserves credit for his judgment.

He has a number of bi-partisan bills in his short time in the US senate, including nuclear proliferation with republican Lugar as well as Ethics Reform.

His books were pretty good too.

['BusNative]

Obama's first book was a memoir of his life through that point - it was a highly interesting book about his life story (now committed to many people's memories) from being the child of a single mother through his early political career.

His second book was some personal reflection and alot of his views on issues.

Give 'em a try, Jake