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Originally Posted by GocartMozart
I don't disagree that there is some fence riding that he's doing, but the speach has some very accurate reflections on how race is handled in this country. Now I can question his motivations and I do, but right now, just as a speach, it was brilliant. I don't like the mans politics, I don't like his party (particularly his side of the party), but that speach did exactly what he needed it to do. It forces Hillary to stfu which is by itself a reason to call it brilliant, it's stunningly well organized and flows very well (all the credit goes to the young academics who wrote it for him), but even more it was spun the accurate reflections about race, made a call to the country and particularly the media to stopping being such muppets about race, and then wrapped it in his own muppet spin.
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That speech was a whole lot of nothing new under the sun. Of course, there's already the comparisons to JFK's speech about his Catholicism during his campaign. The Democrats simply cannot get over the Kennedy Legend, it seems.
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Furthermore, it has definitively labeled Obama as the "intellegent" candidate.
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Pffffft..........it doesn't take much to see right through him. Of course, many have already drank the media kool-aid.