It’s difficult listening to Sen. Obama. He started off talking about more people out of work, more people making less. The typical liberal ‘America, the Soupline Country’ speech. It isn’t flattering.

It isn’t that John McCain doesn’t care, it’s that he just doesn’t get it. (That’s odd coming from a guy whose friends includes a racist pastor and a terrorist neighbor and colleague.)

This administration wants an ownership society. When you get laid off, you’re on your own. Can’t get unemployment? You’re on your own. Please.

9:33: We will end our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. (Yeah right.) John McCain has been there for 26 years. (Michael Steele chimes in “Your VP pick has been there 36 years.)

9:35– We will tap into America’s natural gas. (How do you do that if you keep the OCS & ANWR offlimits?) This guy’s an idiot. Either that or he thinks we’re idiots. I don’t know which is worse.

9:36– Michael Steele asks how he’s gonna invest in small businesses when he’s planning on increasing their taxes. (I’m watching FNC’s Strategy Room.)

9:38– Now he’s talking about making government leaner, ending programs that don’t make sense.

9:40– If John McCain wants to debate, that’s a debate I’m willing to have. (Yeah right. You’re a chicken shit. You’ve avoided the townhall meetings.)

9:42– “John McCain says that he’ll follow UBL to the gates of hell but he won’t follow him to his cave.” It’s cheap talk.

9:44– “I will finish this war in Iraq responsibly.” “I will use aggressive diplomacy” to bring Iran to its knees. He wanted to finish the Iraq war by cutting off funding. Why should we believe him?

9:47– Michael Steele is rightfully asking how he’d get these things done.

9:48– One straw man argument after another. This guy can’t paint an accurate picture of America because it’d end the reason for his campaign. (two pages left in speech. Thank God.)

9:50– Now he’s talking about how we all have cynicism about government. When did Democrats have cynicism about government? (Other than about the military, that is.)

9:51– The biggest risk we can take is to take the same old approach with the same old players and expect a different result.

9:55– Finally, the ‘I Have a Dream’ section of the speech. (Final page.)

9:56– We cannot turn back with an economy to fix. We must pledge to march into the future.

9:57– Bishop (Panelist) seemed presidential visually. He didn’t address the how-to’s. He was too specific about where people are at. Very good on the visual, short on substance.

9:59– Michael Steele is saying that this is the same speech I’ve heard for the last six months. “At some point, he’s got to tell us how he plans” to get this done.

10:01– Steele- Obama ostracizes the people he needs for a healthy economy.

Frankly, this was another all-style, no substance performance. Sen. Obama is the quintessential empty suit. Michael Steele is right- He’s all platitude and no attitude.

Word before the speech was that this would be a workmanlike speech. It wasn’t. It was just about platitudes.

Mark Levin says that this wasn’t a great speech, especially from a delivery standpoint.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

1. Pardon me if I sound jaded, but this was the same bullshit Ive heard at every Democratic Cconvention since McGovern. Still trying to relive 1932.

   Every body in the country is just barely getting by, while the fat cat Republicans eat like Abbots and my God how the money rolls in at (insert your favorite filthy rich industry here), and poor us, the world doesn’t like us, were such meanies, but just you wait till we get in there next January. When the sun will come up every morning again, and the birds will sing and the grass will be green, and your father will never come home drunk again! Yaaaay!

   Comment by T A Gray — August 28, 2008 @ 10:53 pm