*Lord have mercy, the democrats were on fiyah this week!
First Michelle, then Bill and batting clean up, the man himself, President Barack Obama. We’re talking about 3 back to back, out the park home runs.
We’re thinking that if Mitt Romney has a brain right about now he should be very concerned to say the least. Mitt, you’re not dealing with those other clowns you went up against in the primaries.
But the reality is that the economy is the President’s vulnerability. However, he made it clear that’s he’s up for the challenge. In his Democratic National Convention finale, the President said unequivocally, “Our problems can be solved, our challenges can be met.”
“The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place,” Obama said in advance excerpts of a prime-time speech to delegates and the nation.
The president’s speech was the final act of a pair of highly scripted national political conventions in as many weeks, and the opening salvo of a two-month drive toward Election Day that pits Obama against Republican rival Mitt Romney. The contest is close for the White House in a dreary season of economic struggle for millions.
With unemployment at 8.3 percent, Obama said the task of recovering from the economic disaster of 2008 is exceeded in American history only by the challenge Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced when he took office in the Great Depression in 1933.
“It will require common effort, shared responsibility and the kind of bold persistent experimentation” that FDR employed, Obama said.
In an appeal to independent voters who might be considering a vote for Romney, he added that those who carry on Roosevelt’s legacy “should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program or dictate from Washington.”
His campaign said the president would ask the country to rally around a “real achievable plan that will create jobs, expand opportunity and ensure an economy built to last.”
He added, “The truth is it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over a decade.”
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And the new theme song should be?….”Hammer’s, Can’t Touch This”!! Obie is the “ish”!!, & ONLY choice in this shyt!!! The H(beep!) IC put it down!! This speech was THE perfect “icing ‘on the cake” of brilliant speeches made by our 1st Lady, & BC. The Repubs. better take that shyt to “Mars” ! Kinda think of it?, maybe….”Move Bytch, Get Out the Way” is better. Hee hee! (like MJ!) OBAMA 2012, Stop Playing!!!!
Um, even his most ardent supporters admit that speech was decidely NOT a “homerun.” It was weak in comparison to most of the other convention speeches. I can think of a ton other speeches that were better prepared and better delivered–Bill Clinton, Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren, Jennifer Granholm, Ted Strickland, John Kerry, Michelle Obama, Sandra Fluke, Deval Patrick…
It’s actually sad that others stated his case better than he did. Maybe he should stick to the soaring rhetoric and leave the substance speeches for his representatives. He doesn’t seem to do “substance” very well.
It wasn’t his role to say the things the others spoke to. Their job was too tee things up for him so that he could be presidential when he took to the stage. That’s part of their strategic plan. I hope you understand what the word strategic means. If not please go look it up.
And let’s be real who would you really rather lead this country? Romney who says things like you people and tells a hurricane a victim who just lost their home to go home and call 211 or an empathetic and connected Obama who is striving to advocate for the middle class?
A weak speech does NOT necessarily equate to “being presidential.”
Also Obama is preferable to Romney–but what does that have to do with my post?
It wasn’t his job to defend himself? Really? Well that’s setting a very low bar.
Romney was roundly criticize for given a speech that lacked substance. Obama did the exact same thing and the apostles will swoon.
@TGEN, I have to disagree w/you on a couple of points. Sandra Fluke was just “ok.” But white women is their target group so that’s why they thought they should have a white female college student speak before Clinton.
Granholm was a discombobulated mess. I’ve been so impressed w/her in the past but this performance was a Saturday night live skit in the making. like she was on drugs or drunk.
Devaul Patrick? Hmmmm, he was ok. Gave the boilerplate democrat talking points. That is, “we need you to put steel in your spine and fight” and “we need to put this godly man back into the WH” and “the republicans don’t believe in you” etc.
Obama’s speech was lacking in luster and substance.
There was a lot President Obama had to accomplish with his speech.
He needed to acknowledge that he failed in some of the areas he promised change… ** check **
He needed to brag a bit about his accomplishments… ** check **
He needed to thank and acknowledge the military… ** check **
He needed to tell us about his plans for the middle-class… let us know that we can trust him to fight for us, restore ans rebuild it… ** vague **
He needed to discuss women’s rights… ** missed this **
He needed to tell us his plan for an upcoming term… Like the RNC he was vague.
However…. at the end… I had confidence in what he said / did not say. Lots more than the other ticket.
The speakers preceeding him touched on all of the other points!
He needed to tell us about his plans for the middle-class..Check
Really? What was the plan for the middle class he announced?
Bill Clinton’s speech was much more substantive and direct than Obama’s own.
You have confidence is what he says? Yes, most people do. But saying and doing are two different things.
Bless his heart. The man tries, but he’s just not the speaker he’s hyped up to be.
When I think of gifted speakers, I’m thinking of Farrakhan, Malcolm X, MLK, Stokely Carmichael …
Every time these men open their mouths, it’s captivating.
The amount of time and effort Obama and his handlers put in his speech, I would expect a little more now and again. It’s aiight, even better than others like Romney. But I’m still waiting for that Obama speech to make me say wow! Maybe it’s a sign of the time. They don’t seem to make public speakers like that anymore
It’s a fkn trip, that mofo’s think that POTUS has to “prove HIMself” when….he HAS the gig!! But never even “form that fkn sentence”, when it comes to….”YT”. I for one feel he’s MORE than proven himself, & azzkissas need to get use to the….”new flava”, & check DEY tapdancin & “selective criticism” racism “against their own”! The fkn nerrrrrrrrrrrve! Chuuuuuuch & “Deez Nuuuuuts” ( in advance!) trick!
Some of you Black folk here are nothing but crabs in a barrel!
Yo……Don’t confuse those “posing as” Blacks FOR ….Blacks! Just b/c they use the “thesaurus” or “look up” “Our” history?, doesn’t mean they “are” one of Us! Most of those who always “find/search” for a way to criticize “Us”?, are moles, here to fkn ease drop to “see which way “Our” wind is blowing”. And the rest?, well…..unfortunately you called that shyt correctly, sir! Crabs one & fkn all!!! 1st cousins of L. Holder, A. Williams, JC. Watts, H. Cain, the list goes on & on. So say day shyt “loudly”!!!, but don’t twist up the many “fakes” up in hurr. They luuuuuv to oit Us against each other, sit back & laugh dey azzes off. FK’em!!! Not letting ANY “crabs” off the hook?, but just acknowledging the “two” entities involved in this ish, ahiiiiight?,peace. SMGDH!
Sorry…..”they luuuuuuv to “pit” Us against each other etc…!