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Obama's speech is all over everything, so here it is on the WGB too
All you can say is WHAT happened. You do not know why. You will never know why. |
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i thought he did well
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He gave a complex answer to a complex question. No wonder the media get it wrong.
A link to the text version: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/politics/18text-ob...ink&exprod=permalink »» "Forget infinity. I've got books waiting for me to read them." — colin »»"Speculative novels of last Tuesday." — William Gibson |
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I was shocked, shocked, to find out a candidate was allowed to write their own speech. What's next? They're going to be held accountable for all the bullshit promises they make during their campaign?
Sick, sad world. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -Albert Einstein |
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JFK wrote his own speeches, I think.
Lecturer of mine once showed me a JFK speech card, and a Ronnie Reagan one. JFK's were handwritten notes, with stuff scrawled in the margins ("Say something about what you can do for the US). Ron's were printed on 3x5 cards, double-spaced, in a largish font and even showed when he should pause. Might be an urban legend, but it's a good'un. The Lithos School of Curiousity is now enrolling |
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Well....Ronnie was an actor, playing the part of a leader.
What he needed was a teleprompter.  As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -Albert Einstein |
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Ronnie was also batshit crazy after the shooting.
The Lithos School of Curiousity is now enrolling |
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And batshit stupid before it.
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And a just plain shitty batter, but man, could he pitch a shitball.
Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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God Bless The Gipper
Fo Mo Years Any chance Dubya will go for a Roosevelt? |
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He's only mentioned the similarities between FDR and himself a few thousand times.
The road was started for him by his daddy, and paved with the patriot acts. I have said from the day he was inaugurated that he would try and pull precisely that off. All he would need is a big explosion he could point to and say: "See, them terrists is up to no good. Imma hafta postpone the rigged election 'til 2012. Shop as usual, and avoid panic buying." As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -Albert Einstein |
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Every time I browse past the title for this thread I mis-read it as "Obama on Ice"... a flurry of bad-TV ice-skating event mental images ensues.
Just thought you would like to know that. This is not a hijacking.  -G |
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Eldridge Cleaver in Souls on Ice! Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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And for all his press conferences to be adapted by John Milius. --- Reading, meanwhile, is an activity subsequent to writing - more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. |
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