Obama's Amazing Speech Today - blogger round up...

[jefferson_dem]

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On the Take Back America speech, Ezra Klein writes:

Obama gave the best speech I've seen him give -- and I was at the 2004 Democratic convention.

argued that when citizens turn away and the voters accustom themselves to disappointment… a vacuum opens up. And politics, like nature, abhors vacuums. So the lobbyists and the special interests and the lawyers rush in to fill it.

This is why Obama's movement, his 20,000 person events, matters. Because the citizens must return to squeeze out the interests, and only he's proven able to spark that sort of civic revitalization.

http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=06&year=2007&base_name=post_4001

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Adele M. Stan, also on TAPPED, writes:

I found myself weeping during Barack Obama's levitational address, during which I found myself embodying a veritable panoply of cliches, including goosebumps and smeared mascara.

He took what the crowd so eagerly wanted to give him, channeled it through, and gave it back to them. He became more preacher than politician -- no, make that faith healer -- as he delivered his standard lines about how hope is the reason he is standing here before us, meaning the hope that the civil rights activists had that they could indeed prevail against racism.

http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=06&year=2007&base_name=post_3998

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David Corn writes in The Nation's blog:

Obama touched the right policy points.... But his appeal was not his policy shopping list. He was promoting himself foremost as an agent of change who can bring about "a new kind of politics."... And he connected. The crowd was jazzed by the combo of personal story, progressive policy proposals, and message of transformation. For an audience member looking to be inspired--to be wowed--Obama made it easy.
And here's some more reaction to Barack's speech at the AFSCME forum. Ari Berman posted a piece on The Nation's blog:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames/?pid=206543

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But Obama pitched himself as the one who could reach across the aisle and capture the independent and disaffected Republican voters needed to create majority support for lasting progressive change, through a "a new kind of politics" that is "not timid, not small, not divisive, not simply based on trying to get power, but based on how do we build the America we all dream of." And "if people disagree, and we can't persuade ‘em," Obama said, "then we just have to beat 'em, and that's what we're gonna do in this election." Moderator Chris Matthews compared him to Bobby Kennedy, saying he sounded "like the Sixties at its absolute best."

Obama also had the strongest personal connection with the hundreds of activists in the crowd, noting his work with AFSCME as a community organizer in Illinois registering new voters, raising the minimum wage as a state legislator and helping to organize workers at Chicago hospitals. He called for a "Department of Labor that actually understands it's the Department of Labor and not the Department of Management."

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=206530

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And here's some more reaction to Barack's speech at the AFSCME forum. Ari Berman posted a piece on The Nation's blog:

It was Obama... who stole the show.

Even the National Review said he "blew the doors off the Marriott Wardman Park ballroom."

Obama also had the strongest personal connection with the hundreds of activists in the crowd, noting his work with AFSCME as a community organizer in Illinois registering new voters, raising the minimum wage as a state legislator and helping to organize workers at Chicago hospitals.

http://hillaryspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTkxMGY4Yzg3NThhMjVmOTUxMGI4NTMzNGIxMDc5NDA=

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[Bullet1987]

1. Obama is hands down the most powerful speaker in politics right now

[TeamJordan23]

2. And its really special that he actually believes in everything he says. nt

[illinoisprogressive]

3. that speech was amazing. He had them cheering thru most of the 32 min speech.

And, Matthews is right. He embodies the best of the sixties and channels bobby kennedy.