Added: Dec 4, 2008
From: TheKaraokeBandit
Duration: 3:40
OBAMA CONVENTION SPEECH PT.1 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL 2008 CNN Barack Joesph Biden ticket John McCain race political commercial It wasn't a rock concert or a revival meeting. And despite the fireworks and the neo-Classical columns lining the stage and giant television screens, Senator Barack Obama did not look like the lead in "Oedipus at Colonus." Mr. Obama, wearing a flag pin and a confident mien, looked like a presidential candidate accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party.The speech was draped in American flags and weighted with symbolism — the timing coincided with the 45th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, and the place echoed John F. Kennedy's acceptance speech in 1960 in an outdoor stadium in Los Angeles.Mr. Obama quoted President Kennedy but waited until the end to allude to Dr. King. And he presented himself as a postracial candidate running on the content of his character by mentioning the civil rights leader only once, and not by name, but as "a young preacher from Georgia" who taught Americans that "all together, our dreams can be one."The finale of a political convention is a little like a wedding: the bride is always radiant, and the nominee is always stirring. In an unusual turn, even Senator John McCain, the expected Republican nominee, felt compelled to pay tribute to Mr. Obama's historic milestone with a television advertisement congratulating his opponent on "a job well done." (No good ad goes unpunished: after Mr. McCain's spot on CNN came a Mutual of Omaha commercial about retirement plans for the elderly, and another promising to reverse baldness.)Critics worried and commentators warned that the stadium rally would look too grandiose or gaudy. But television forces intimacy on even the largest gatherings. It was only when the cameras pulled back to a wide overhead shot that viewers could fathom the vastness of the crowd. Mostly, they saw Mr. Obama's face and close-ups of his supporters in the audience, especially African-Americans moved to tears by the moment.The prime-time portion of the spectacle was devised to play down race and highlight Mr. Obama's presidential stature: Stevie Wonder sang "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," but a group of retired generals and Susan Eisenhower, a Russian affairs expert who is the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, waxed lyrical about the senator's readiness for the Oval Office.Mr. Obama brought the crowd to its feet many times to cheer and applaud, but perhaps just as importantly for audiences back home, for almost 50 minutes he silenced the ceaseless chatter of television anchors and commentators who had insistently put their own stamp and faces on one of the most exciting political conventions in modern times.People do want to watch: the audience for cable news coverage this week was about double what it was in 2004. Yet despite the huge public fascination, the three major networks limited their coverage to an hour a night, a prime-time patchwork of highlight reels, catchup snippets of live speeches, and commentary.Anchors at conventions used to serve as omniscient narrators; at this convention, they mostly served as human V-chips blocking live speeches with their own palaver and predictions.The broadcast networks long ago ceded gavel-to-gavel coverage to cable and, more recently, to the Internet and news Web sites. Concerned citizens have more ways than ever to follow political events, but it requires ingenuity and patience to cobble together a coherent narrative.And even the 24-hour cable news channels proved unreliable at times, giving too much screen time to their gassiest anchors.Of the three cable news networks, CNN was the least intrusive: Wolf Blitzer and his colleagues were willing to let speakers speak for themselves. When Martin Luther King III spoke on Thursday, so did Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, who chose to entertain his viewers with a Doonesbury cartoon about Mr. Obama and the Clintons that also featured Mr. Olbermann and his co-host, Chris Matthews. (Fox News mostly focused on Mr. McCain's possible choice for a running mate, but raced back to the convention when Sheryl Crow took the stage.)It's a bad reading of the audience. For most of the convention, CNN — staid, stable and anchored by fewer egomaniacs — won higher ratings than the other cable news channels, as well as ABC and CBS. And Wednesday, CNN was neck and neck with NBC, and for a while even ahead, suggesting that when a political event is this interesting, television commentators are less so.OBAMA CONVENTION SPEECH DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL 2008 CNN Barack Joesph Biden ticket John McCain race political commercial
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SilentPrinceProtest Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - we LOVE Obama in Minnesota!
YouSoldMeOnThisDream Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - I'MA CUMMIN'!
bluecamaro98 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - What was Barack Obama doing seeking out Marxist professors in college? Why did Obama choose a Communist Party USA member as his socio- political counselor in high school? Why was he spending his time studying neocolonialism and the writings of Frantz Fanon, the pro-violence author of "the Communist Manifesto of neocolonialsm", in college? Why did he take time out from his studies at Columbia to attend socialist conferences at Cooper Union?"
TheKaraokeBandit Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - STFU dramafag. Obama is AWESOME!
KaraokeVidz Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - how can you be blind to the fact that this is an honorable and decent man who has devoted his adult life to public service? he has earned the right to be our president!
irdaniel Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - lame
iseelotsofdumbpeople Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - We need change! Yea back to 1800s principles? The ones that say you should not kill babies, the only right a gay should have is to die or the 1800s principles that people that set on their dead bass and wait for the Gov to pay their way should be put in a work camp.Yea we in the south believe in a few of the 1800 principles.
aubiecatt Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - McCain-Palin 08!!!!
natoland Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - All you right wingers don't commit treason when Obama is your Commander in Chief! Whatever he says, you must obey, because Bush left him a War and Obama will be a WarTime President. You must follow him blindly.
alwaysright5 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - @natoland..The muslim marxist terrorist will never win.
dtbakerqwe123ou Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - The man has selfish ideals/Marxist ideologies.No more ineffective federal "programs"No more selective taxesNo more federal spendingNo more federal government oppression (10th amendment)No additional climbing national debtNobama.
phatomdude Says:
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fennecfanatic Says:
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iseelotsofdumbpeople Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - Slaves where not only black but white as well. Good men went over to countries where people where starving and was nice enough to put them on a ship and take them to new lands where they could work and have food for their families. Everyone that came to the new land (white & black) had to pay back the ship charges and be indentured to someone till the fee was paid. Over the years people have made more out of it then it was just like the lies about the Jews and Germany.
rgftown1 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - This person is jealous of Barack and probably is a racist. You are below Barack. Yes we can!
bluecamaro98 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - Two of Obama's key supporters from the time of his first election in Chicago up to his current Presidential campagin are unrepentant, Marxist terrorists. They are William Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, prominent members of the communist, terrorist Weather Underground organization of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ayers and his wife have admitted setting bombs, and three of their communist comrades were blown up making bombs
TheKaraokeBandit Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - STFU
bluecamaro98 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - In Obama's book, "Dreams From My Father," he repeatedly refers to his friend and adviser as "Frank." Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. anti-communist congressional committees, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several Communist front organizations
bluecamaro98 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - B. Hussein Obama and his victim-wallowing wife Michelle have the far-left, Marxist, views that we see more and more everyday as BHO's facade is gradually pulled back on the campaign trail. Reading the following excerpts gives us an Aha.. moment, saying to ourselves, "So that's why he expresses such a Marxist ideology in his political views and that's what he learned in the 20 years he sat in Jeremiah Wright's pews:
bluecamaro98 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - The New Party, founded in 1992 with 7,000 members at its peak, had been an explicitly anti-capitalist party of ex-Communists, socialists and activists from ACORN, the hard-left group that's constantly in trouble over voter fraud. The New Party didn't ask for Obama's association; he asked for the New Party's endorsement.
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1102Bman Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - LUV IT!!!OBAMA HAS WON THE 44TH PRESIDENCY OF AMERICA!!! OBAMA HAS WON THE 44TH PRESIDENCY OF AMERICA!!!THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN CHICAGO & around the world... listened 2 Obama's speech...The union of 55 states of America.Witnessing a change in America.The people who voted Obama felt good about it!"Out of many we are one""WHAT AMERICA DO POLITICALY EFFECTS THE WORLD.""RAINBOW POPLE COMING TOGETHER FOR CHANGE WITH OBAMA"JESSE JACKSON'S DREAM CAME TRUE.
KaraokeVidz Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - save the drama for OBAMA!