Here it is, if you missed some, or all of it, or maybe the Secret Service took your laptop when you were getting a lemonade. Not quite as crazy as watching it with 80,000+ cheering Obama nuts in an outdoor football stadium at nightfall, but it is pretty great and filled with good lines. [YouTube]
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Can someone liveblog it for me while I watch it again?
Ha! You are all drunk! As am I. But, wasn’t it like a beautiful dream? Didn’t we almost have it all? Then WALNUTS! took it all away, like the reverse-leprachan that he is, killing all the rainbows and unicorns. Does anyone know how to get rid of the hope virus, because I can already tell it’s going to kill me.
No snark in this post. I think they are scared. Barack has strength that no Democrat has had and those Republicans don’t know how to respond. Next week will be a bunch of kids running around to defend their treehouse. And we have chainsaws.
Best vid of the night is Pat fucking Buchanan raving about how it’s the best convention speech he’s ever seen.
I’ll bet even John McCain’s Republican Party that doesn’t even know what a computer is would have some sort of back-up contingency plan in the event of shitty wireless service or stogie-chomping Secret Service throwing your editors in front of passing Truck-Nutz-less trucks or blowing up your laptops in the name of freedom, like having some well-stocked drunk sit at home and live blog the TeeVee feed and deliver real-time coverage of Tweety snapping and strangling Olbermann.
“Enough!” Its the new hope! The new black! The new rickroll! ENOUGH!
The cool thing is, if you play it backwards, it becomes the Muslim call to prayer.
Meh. I was quite frankly unimpressed. Hearing NPR cum all over it about how it was all “substantive” and shit was kind of repulsive, really. He did better four years ago. Then, I could haz had Hopez.
And truck nutz. But mostly Hopez.
(Note: this is even after getting lit with some guy from Indiana who wanted nothing more than to see a guy, any guy, throw up on his tie. So it’s not like it was a bad night.)
[re=74698]jbd[/re]: you must have been watching another speech. Prior to it, they were interviewing people about what they wanted to hear, and he hit every single one. This was truly a masterful speech.
This is so sexy it would be at home on Redtube, right between midget fisting and an A2M compilation.
wow — more people and feeling than when billy graham packed them into stadiums.
help, we must save the international corporations and darth vader from these people.
…Barry just declared a Jihad on WALNUTS! ass.
I watch, I listen, I had Nightmares, if this is change if this is hope please pass me the bottle and some Prozac…
…ok, Im up early as usual watching Joe Doucheborough on MSNBC and I just realized that either Chuck Todd is a midget or David Gregory has a tumor on his pituitary gland.
Now that we know he is safe, cool, clean, articulate, unthreatening he wisely gives us what we really wanted:
ANGRY BLACK MAN for President!
Cancel Christmas, McCain Motherfuckers!
Well, after the first couple of minutes, while he was doing his impersonation of a flight attendant, it was pretty good.
I get a bit sick of people praising Hillary and Teddy (hell that little accident was a long time ago) Kennedy, but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.
Monica Crowley on MSNBC just said WALNUTS! is looking for someone in a VP who is able to “assume the position.” I swear to Jebus that’s what she said. And being that he’s Mormon, and my own experience with Mormon women in college, I have no doubt that MITTENS can assume that position easy.
How many orders of magnitude greater is Barrington’s speechifying than WALNUTS!?
Weird trolly complainers begone. Barry just gave the GOP a rhetorical swirly. If you don’t see it you’ve been bitten by a zombie.
It wasn’t the inspirational 2004 speech that he wanted to make. McCain ridiculing that rhetorical style goaded Obama into making a policy laden speech that some people will agree with and some won’t. It wasn’t uplifting in tone like the 2004 speech but angry. Obama’s bump will be in the single digits, McCain will get a bump next week and it will come down to the debates.
[re=74698]jbd[/re]:
Dude, try watching it again, this time sober.
Barry ROCKED. He showed backbone, something many well meaning Dems have been reluctant to do for some reason.
I just saw this for the first time(I’m in Germany)and I think my roomate now thinks I’m insane, due to the random cheering/clapping/weeping noises coming from my room.
GO HOPEY
Glad to see the Democrats show some cojones for once. ENOUGH! was the best moment of that speech.
Even Kerry grew a pair, four years too late.
Obama knows how to organize a campaign. As conventions go, that was a fine performance. This shit is legit, self-confident, and disciplined. Persistent, too: I got two emails begging for money this morning.
Okay, now when do we get to see the McCain-Lieberman ticket announced? Drudge? Anybody?
Pat Buchannan in shades. “Hey look! I’m a blind black man too.!”
[re=74717]dedalus[/re]: …thanks for the endorsement, but the country isn’t ready for my level ANGER nor BLAKNESS!
Obama’s campaign should put out a congradulatory ad like McCain’s did:
“I’d like to congradulate Senator McCain on this, his 73rd birthday. Congradulations on living to such a ripe old age.”
Grand slam? I’m not so sure.
It is mile high stadium after all. Like baseballs, speeches probably carry further here than the would in other stadium.
I’m not some Toastmasters nut or anything, but Barry has to be the greatest public speaker of my lifetime. If you watch his face closely, he has such amazing control of his facial expressions, which just adds an enormous amount of force to the words. The combination of forcefulness while still seeming so relaxed and spontaneous is really fucking hard to pull off.
I imagine this one and a few of his other speeches are going to be studied in public speaking classes for a long time.
/dick joke
I’m getting fed up with the criticism about hopey and substance. What has Grampy McPlanecrasher given us for substance? Offering to whore out your tarnished trophy wife to a bunch of Hell’s Angels wannabees is hardly what I would call a platform.
[re=74739]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: It’s never ready. Sometimes you have to bring the heat anyway and make them ready for you.
Example (safe for work):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU6FWuOO-rA
Please tell me that one of you just saw Peggy Noonan attempt to explain how Barry’s speech was a “flop-ilini.” And that she then went so insane that she had Scarborough begging her to stop because he was laughing too hard. Anyone??
Congrats to Sarah Michelle Gellar for being picked as McCain’s running mate. You were awesome as Buffy.
Ken, it’s been nice, but if the Secret Service has your lappy, I suggest you get ready for Guantanamo.
[re=74746]Botswana Meat Commission FC[/re]: I have to agree. This was simpy a perfect speech. He got every single thing anyone wanted–the details, the passion, the life story, the nod to the Clintards, the unity (nice line about we don’t agree on abortion but we can agree we want fewer unplanned pregnancies), the anger (the 90%/10% line was genius, so was the “you’re on your own society”), the nod to McCain–that McCain is not doing these things out of political motivation but because he doesn’t get it, the inclusion of all the groups, the love for his country, MLK. Man. And yes, his delivery was incredible–even just listening on the radio, it was incredibly powerful. Even if you hate him and disagree with everything he says, you cannot say this was not an amazing speech.
[re=74747]Cape Clod[/re]: I agree, and you want “experience”? Ted Stevens has plenty, no? I’d rather have someone wise enough to know his limitations and how to listen to dissenting opinions.
[re=74759]Doglessliberal[/re]: Well, you can. But that would make you a cunt.
Can you imagine the pressure on Barry while preparing this thing? Can you believe how cool he was, how measured and rhythmic the delivery was? God damn it I can’t wait to have a president who doesn’t make me cringe every time he opens his mouth.
[re=74759]Doglessliberal[/re]:
It was feckin awesome.
Did you read the statement released by McCain’s camp? They looked even smaller. Focusing an attack on the pillars on the stage? Really? That’s the best you got?
[re=74752]Delicious[/re]: I heard he chose Monty Python alum Michael Palin, mostly because that would let him piss all over the one part of the Constitution his party hasn’t tainted already.
Oh shit, Sarah is in Alaska, not Ohio, according to Drudge. And with Romney and Pawlenty out, Walnuts! is…boy, this should be fun.
[re=74768]Delicious[/re]: And now they’re saying Lieberman is in Dayton. What’s the word on Ridge? Anybody know?
[re=74765]Terry[/re]: Oh my god, I know! ANYthing they say is now going to sound petty, especially after Barry the Muslim was so gracious about McCain NOT acting out of political motivation. Hah!
Get those kids off my lawn! Five and a half years!
Peggy Noonan needs to put that crackpipe down. When even Pat Buchannon is a more honest critic than you, you have to hang up your blue pencil.
Unbelievable. I spent the speech pingponging between two distinct emotions:
Between all the “little” people – including lifelong Repubs – bearing witness to the fraudulent fiasco that has been Bush ["Barney Smith, not Smith Barney," indeed] and exorcising the ghost of “celebrity,” and the wall o’ generals and admirals demonstrating their faith in this young pup’s ability to lead the nation through perilous times, I saw something I thought I’d never see: a Dem actually stood up, showed his spine/balls and fuckin’ OWNED the flag and national security. “We ALL put our country first, Senator McCain!!! ENOUGH! ENOUGH!”
The second emotion was actual sympathy for McCain. Because wherever he was, I just KNOW he was shitting in his Depends and thinking “How the FUCK am I supposed to follow THAT???” Poor Juan, at a critical watershed moment finding himself on the wrong side of politics and history, the victim of his nation’s long-overdue ethical awakening. Alas poor Juan, we knew him well…. It’s gonna take a lot more than FIVE & A HALF YEARS! to earn him four more of the same old GOP shit.
I’ve been watching this Prezy shit since ’60 and don’t recall ANYTHING quite like this.
On the somewhat creepy tip, though, I did remark to the Mrs. several times that this was getting just a little Nuremburgy. Cue Living Color’s “Cult Of Personality”……
Steady as she goes, Barry-ster.
[re=74764]V572625694[/re]: As someone who has done some speaking (appellate argument/trial work type), I was stunned by how measured, cool, and calm he was. It is really hard to keep the adrenaline from making you speak too fast, from sweating like a pig, from sounding nervous, even if you are incredibly well prepared. He is just unreal.
He mastered the Marine drill instructor technique by looking straight into America’s face and speaking in a stern tone at a thunderous volume, not to convey anger, but to make absolutely certain that he is understood. Fucking brilliant!
[re=74776]Canuckledragger[/re]: I actually had that thought (about the culty vibe) and said to myself–well, it is a good thing he is not an evil overlord. At least this the cult and army of hope and unity.
[re=74751]itgetter[/re]: Yes, that was insane. Although her “a child was born with two heads” crack was somewhat Wonkette-ish.
[re=74759]Doglessliberal[/re]:I liked it, but I was afraid the 90%/10% thing was asking Americans to do too much math.
[re=74790]snig[/re]: What do you think we are, a bunch of morans?!
HELP!!
I just woke up from an amazing dream. How long have I been asleep?
I dreamt that an uppity black man with nice teeth, whose father was Kunte Kinte, ran for Pres. Along the way, he defeated Senator “Evil Doer” from NY and former President CumStein, her husband. Eventually Sen. Evil Doer transformed herself and 18mm frigid women, into Kunte’s posse by squeezing their breast milk on young Mr. Kunte.
Young Kunte, and his rebellious Chicago rabbi, told everyone he’d give them eternal life if they lived in Scranton PA. Sacrifices had to be made, however, and the benevolent Little Russ died along the way from one too many gravy sandwiches.
Then, in a large, Caligula-like stadium, Kunte watched billions of people ejaculate simultaneously and he went on to rule the happy kingdom once again, defeating Diplodocus and his wife Mrs. Stepford, along the way.
Was this a dream or some bad Oxycontin overdose?#?#?
[re=74790]snig[/re]: hah!
[re=74797]Rush[/re]: That’s the plot of 2112, Geddy.
[re=74781]Doglessliberal[/re]: What a pleasure to watch the master craftsman use the oratorical tools. The temptation to let them cheer you endlessly must be unbelievably strong, yet Barry knew how to control the flow of adulation, let them have their cheering for a while, then reel them back into his stories again.
I’m thinking Gettysburg and Second Inaugural here. Okay, maybe not that great, but still…
Okay, back to the wise-ass-ery: dick joke, bitterz attack, Romney’s a douche, WALNUTS is so old that…
[re=74805]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]:
The sleep is still in my eyes
The dream is still in my head
[re=74797]Rush[/re]:
I dreamt that an uppity black man with nice teeth, whose father was Toby, ran for Pres.
/Whitey-ized
If Barry’s voice was the phone operator, people would dial the wrong number just to weep at the sound of it. He’s got genetically enhanced mutant-steroid vocal soul.
[re=74822]Botswana Meat Commission FC[/re]:
I stand corrected. The Oxycontin is still wearing off…..sorry about the flip/flop.
This just in: McCain plans to deliver his convention speech from the top of a large hill or mountain. In lieu of teleprompter, he plans to read off of several stone blocks that he and Joe Lieberman have been painstakingly carving with crude implements for the last week. When questioned, he said: “That’s just how things were done when I was a boy”.
[re=74833]turboSloth[/re]:
I presume that was before any liberals, queers, jews or colored people were around.
[re=74806]V572625694[/re]: Same theme though-working together, cannot be divided. And young, skinny, newbie from Illinois…
And yes, I found myself, as a word geek, saying “wow, listen to the craftmanship here with the language”. I actually felt the same thing reading his book. The man is a beautiful wordsmith, and orator as well. We really need him elected, because 4 more years of fingernail-on-blackboard speaking by our “leader” will kill me.
[re=74692]Vanity Smurf[/re]: That’s the one thing I like about Pat Buchanan. He may be a horribly bigoted blowhard, but he is perfectly capable of recognizing greatness in those he opposes and failure in those he supports. His views are just as, probably much more, detestable than your typical conservative pundit’s, but he does come off as honest in his methods. As compared to the “Republican Reaction” panel Larry King had after the speech, who mostly tried to play the speech off as average-to-poor, and acted like it had been full of vague and nonspecific language about hope and change rather than the clear specifics that it actually was.
In short, Pat Buchanan is an awful person but at least he won’t repeat a lie to try and convince people it’s the truth.
Or, if you don’t want to watch the whole thing, you can just listen to MP3 highlights: http://www.entertonement.com/collections/2638/Democratic-Nomination
[re=74845]Godot[/re]: except the lie about gays causing AIDS, and a few other related ones a few years back.
[re=74845]Godot[/re]: I would pay serious money to watch Tucker Bounds be publicly flogged. You have to work pretty hard for me to go from not knowing who you are to me wanting to see you beaten in just a few nights.
Woah. That was powerful, visionary, and pretty specific so’s even us poor, dumb Americans can understand without even a hint of arugula. WIN!
[re=74776]Canuckledragger[/re]: I don’t think it was really Nurembergerish, as Barry isn’t the sort of orator that depends ENTIRELY on emotional rhetoric. He has more control than Hitler ever did, sort of rising and falling in emotional content. At times, he’s very cool. Schicklnutter always coasted along the Catastrophe Curve of Crazy (TM by TGY) while speaking.
Those elitist pillars ruined the entire speech, just like Republicans said it would. I couldn’t listen to his message and hope and change without thinking: “Doric Greek architecture? You arrogant bastard!”
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
[re=75197]Miller[/re]: When I looked at those columns I thought: south portico of the White House.
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