After watching the Obama speech in Berlin, I have only one thing to say:
HE
IS
RISEN
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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17 comments:
Let's hope the same fate does not await!
Yeah, who needs another nuclear standoff and a Prez fiddling with a sex-ay starlet?
Please come back, Coyote! *Wraps pathetically around your leg*
*walks several steps trying to shake the Free Man from her leg*
I'm locked out, baby, one o' youse guys has to email invite me back in. I don't pay so close attention to politics anymore, 'cos it's summer (as you could tell by my not knowing about the Edwards Love Child story!)
I do want to say that your Calm Before The Sand final cut was totally brill, and you should send to to as many local newspapers as you can for their editorial page. You may have to cut it down a bit, but someone may bite and print it. It's that good.
*shoooommm!*
!Phenomenal Cosmic Power!
(over an itty-bitty living space)
As long as your email address is unchanged, anyway.
Forgive them, Lawd, they know not what they do!
Oh, sure I do.
Milo - I just read The Speech. Great stuff, as usual, with my usual caveats about the usual American-centric distortions. Without them, I suppose no politican could be elected to office . . I trust his delivery was exemplary.
*and like that, she walked back into our pathetic little lives*
Idio, It was good, but he has given better. He was holding back I think... did not want to go over the top. I take that back it was better than I thought, cause he made it low key.
Crowd estimates?
German police predict 200K.
Someone on Eurotrib said it would take at least 100K to make it not look sparse, so I guess it looked good.
BTW, Ripley's mom is in hospital - go send good vibes, eh?
HE.
IS.
RISEN?
OY.
I actually listened to the whole speech and it was pretty good, except for one part that fell flat - I can't remember which one, but when he said it, I cringed, even before the audience did. I can see what he's trying to do, and I kinda hope it works, though it occurred to me that the world has become so cynical, having hope feels (to me) kinda naive.
It was discouraging to hear his hawkish talking points. I know many in the crowd grew silent on that issue. He flubbed one line on the word "responsibility", but just ran over it.
He certainly was not as forceful in projecting his speech as I have heard him in the States. But like I said, I think he wanted to come off (somewhat) low key.
People are wanting the best for our country! It's a welcome sight. For too long I've been cynical, the world has been cynical. To move in a direction of hope, encouraged by Obama's talk of change is a breath of fresh air.
Yet still, there are some who will want to deny others this final straw to grasp.
I hope you're right.
Yet still, there are some who will want to deny others this final straw to grasp.
It took me a while to see it from that angle, but I understand. As I listened to the speech, I felt the tug of wanting to see a better world wrestling with the knowledge that he isn't going to be as great as the images, he's effectively projecting to the world. None of them ever are, though, are they? This trip was to get that crowd image in people's minds - I don't think a lot of people will take the time to listen to such a long speech, if they know it happened at all. But they will see the picture. And it will remind them, as will the talking heads, but derisively, of another young president. Savvy calculation on Obama's part. The gibbering monkeys won't be able to make a dent in that picture.
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