*OFFICIAL OBAMA SPEECH THREAD* (about to speak in Watertown, SD (and respond to Bush's BS))

[jenmito]

You can watch it here: http://www.cnn.com/live/

[livetohike]

1. Thanks jenmito!

:hi:

[jenmito]

3. No problem! They'll cover at least part of it on the cable news channels, too!

:hi:

[BattyDem]

2. Thanks!

:hi:

[jenmito]

4. No problemo!

:hi:

[helderheid]

5. 2nd rec, thanks!

[jenmito]

14. Thanks, helderheid! Tom Daschle up now!

[K Gardner]

6. Thanks, Jen.. CNN evidently is going to go LIVE to it. Banner: Awaiting Response.

[jenmito]

19. YW! Same with MSNBC! What a great gift from Bush this was!

He's so stupid! :D

[Eurobabe]

7. you getting sound?

I'm not :(

Edit, just got sound. :)

[Zachstar]

11. What browser are you using?

[Eurobabe]

13. just got sound. it's ok.

:hi:

[Zachstar]

8. Thanks for the heads up!

Hopefully will end this bullshit once and for all.

[K Gardner]

9. Daschle up !

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Change you title to "Official" speech thread!

Thanks jenmito.

[jenmito]

15. Thanks. I just did!

:hi:

[BeyondGeography]

12. Starting...warm and sustained applause for Daschle

Nice.

[Tatiana]

17. He looks good. n/t

[Tatiana]

16. Thanks for the heads up! n/t

[K Gardner]

18. "Rural Leadership for Rural America" -

[Tatiana]

20. Good Lord... I think Daschle is getting FIRED UP! n/t

[K Gardner]

21. Is that possible? LOL !

[Tatiana]

24. I didn't think so... but I just saw him show more emotion about fighting for health care and jobs in

SD than I saw him as a Senate leader!

[hfojvt]

22. of all places. That is awesome.

I wonder if McCain is even gonna get to Sioux Falls. Seriously, I wonder if SD has seen a Presidential candidate since Robert Kennedy visited my home town in 1968. Are Tim Johnson or Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin with him?

This primary could be good for the Democratic party if Bill and Hillary were not going all over the place and all over the media trashing the likely nominee and the party itself and were instead promoting progressive ideas and ideals.

[Ichingcarpenter]

23. Coming on stage now

good crowd, greeting supporters making
his way to the stage.

[Ichingcarpenter]

27. He is thanking Tom for his friendship and support

and other supporters in SD

[Fleshdancer]

25. I'm ridiculously impatient right now

Get on with the slamming! Thank the people later :)

[Tatiana]

26. Giving props to Daschle for being on board with the campaign early. n/t

[Tatiana]

28. "I did not think I could be surprised by anything George Bush says, but I was wrong." n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

32. The crowd is booing Bush

for his attacks on Democrats and Obama.

Now addresses McCain's comments.

[Fleshdancer]

29. sounds like Obama's first reaction was the same as mine yesterday...

After 8 years, I thought W couldn't say ANYTHING that would shock me. I was wrong.

[Tatiana]

30. "That's exactly the kind of appalling attack that divides our country and alienates our world." n/t

[stillrockin]

31. Take it to them, Obama.

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[Scurrilous]

34. Thanks.

:thumbsup:

[Ichingcarpenter]

38. "John McCain and George Bush" have a lot to answer for"

Going over WMD, loss of life, Osama, wasted money, making Iran stronger,
McCain wants to "doubledown" on failed policies.

[helderheid]

35. STANDING OVATION!

[Exultant Democracy]

36. So McCain is a flip floper. That is just great.

[Zachstar]

101. It is a bad title to have. Erodes support greatly.

[Tatiana]

37. Obama: "So much for civility."

If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting our country that is a debate I am willing to have because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for!

[Tatiana]

39. Iran is a DIRECT BENEFICIARY of George Bush's foreign policy.

They have a lot to answer for.

They have to answer for Hamas now controlling the Gaza strip.

[Zachstar]

40. Hes laying the smackdown on Bush/McCain!

[jenmito]

44. He sure is!

[Eurobabe]

41. Great Barack! Keep tying McInsanity to Bush, FP, etc.

Make it stick like crazy glue.

[Zachstar]

42. Called McCain on his Flip Flopping

McCain must be pissing his pants!

[Tatiana]

43. John McCain himself said that we needed to talk with Hamas.

Hypocrite.

[Tatiana]

45. "I'm running to change course, not to continue George Bush's course."

Applause.

[Zachstar]

46. SLAM DUNK! Called Bush on Gates saying we need to talk to Iran!

[Fleshdancer]

47. "we don't need McCain's predictions on when the war will end, we need a plan to end it"

[4_Legs_Good]

49. OMG! I wish I could hear it

What a f*cking fantastic line.

This man in unstoppable.

David

[Fleshdancer]

53. He slammed both Bush and McCain hard

and that line was priceless...had a President Bartlett feel to it :)

[Zachstar]

84. He totally defeated them!

[Zachstar]

54. It will be on the news soon enough as well as youtube

It was historic and will really eat into McCains base.

[Tatiana]

48. "We don't need John McCain's predictions as to when the Iraq war will end...

we need to plan to end it."

[Zachstar]

50. Finished a historic Slam Dunk of a foreign policy speech!

[AzDar]

51. Thanks for the linkee!

:hi:

[jenmito]

58. You're welcome!

:hi:

[Ichingcarpenter]

52. Now going over the problems and solutions for Rural America

Will close tax loop holes on Agi Corporate Businesses

[ErinBerin84]

55. oh man.

I loved what he said about "McCain realized that the war was 'polling bad', so yesterday he predicted that it would 'end in 2013".

[jenmito]

60. That was ONE of the many great things he said! He called out both McCain AND Bush

on flip-flopping all over the place!

[RazBerryBeret]

56. This is music to my ears...

He's making all the strong points. This is what we need to hear!!
GoBama!!

[jenmito]

63. I love your avatar! (He's taking questions now after a standing ovation!)

[RazBerryBeret]

80. thanks, made the avatar

from an image I pulled off HuffPo...

He sounds good today...and the crowd seems to be into it!!!

[jenmito]

88. Nice...

good job. And I agree. He sounds GREAT!

[Fleshdancer]

57. MSNBC is already talking about it

everyone's in agreement that McCain got pwned today

[jenmito]

61. Good! I'm recording it while watching this live stream. I'm sure it will be all over the news

later, too!

[Zachstar]

pwned? More like his talking points destroyed!

[Ichingcarpenter]

59. He nailed McCain and Bush together on their failed policies

and lack of a coherent foreign policy that is filled with hypocrisy.

I can't wait for the debates!!!!!

[ErinBerin84]

62. lol

Joe Watkins is SUCH A TOOL!

"Barack Obama is playing some of the same old politics."

I guess now we are not allowed to criticize policies. What a fucking buffoon! The GOP knows that it just got its ass handed to them. I can't wait to see the beligerant response from McCain.

[americanstranger]

64. You know Gramps is gonna FREAK.

O is gonna drive that man even buggier than he is now between now and November. I will enjoy watching St. Maverick melt down. It's been a long time coming.

- as

[Ichingcarpenter]

67. This speech might drive McCain to display his notorious Temper

I think you we will see it when Johnny talks to reporters off hand soon.

[americanstranger]

72. And this is just the first salvo.

I think O and Axelrod have been laying for McCrazy for a long time now.

They have a list of buttons, and will not hesitate to push them. This is gonna rawk.

- as

[Ichingcarpenter]

73. I agree.... Obama touched some buttons that McLame

has weaknesses on. Barack is in the house and we know what's cooking.
Let's go get these assholes.

[jenmito]

66. Don't take him seriously...

he's just a RW hack.

[ErinBerin84]

69. lol

RW hack, or "Reverend Joe Watkins", when MSNBC needs him to be.

[jenmito]

74. Yeah-it's funny when they listen to him as a "reverend."

His RW-ness trumps everything else.

[4_Legs_Good]

70. I'm sure Pat Buchanan will have something intelligent to say about it

like "Why can't he close the deal?" or "He has a problem with white voters" or "Americans won't believe a speech like this from a colored man."

He just gets more rediculous every day.

David

[Teaser]

76. He was stammering in frustration

hilarious.

[ErinBerin84]

78. I love it!

The GOP is NOT having a good week (well, they're not having a good year). So many good nuggets this week, between this, GOP losing another seat, Chris and Andrea Mitchell quasi-calling out Pat for being a racist, and Kevin James completely short circuting on hardball yesterday. Mika is annoying, but they replayed the hardball segment from yesterday in full this morning, and counted each time Chris asked about what neville chamberlain DID with little "dings" (20 times!). Afterwards, Mika said. "Ugh. Being half Czech, I was so happy when Chris FINALLY told him what Chamberlain did. And after watching that...let me tell you. I was NOT "engergized". or. "legitimized". I needed a Girl scout cookie." And then she opened a girl scout cookie box and started eating. Haha.

[panAmerican]

86. I hear that man's name, and I want to scream!

Joe Watkins doesn't even have a real church. His biggest attendance is probably around the holidays, and even then he probably can't draw more than 100 people. What a jerk. He makes his living as a politician and dabbles just enough as a preacher so that he can have a religious cloak. As a Christian, he deeply offends me.

[last1standing]

65. He didn't pull any punches.

He went straight for McCain's flip flop and his hypocrisy.

Excellent speech.

[gaiilonfong]

68. He was great

McBush and the Chimp opened up a can of worms and Obama opened up a can of whoop arzre on those LAME ReTHUglican LIARS pigs and old farts!

[mystieus]

71. I missed it... hurry up youtube!!!

[jenmito]

96. Here ya go:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBlCJ

[mystieus]

97. Thank you

[IDemo]

75. Prediction from my crystal ball

Bush will conduct a news conference: marches out to the podium while glaring at his nose. Puffs his cheeks, taps a sheaf of papers three times on the podium. "9/11, terra, brave men and wimmin, terra, over there, over here, bin Laden, Democrats, terra, no questions, thank you." Puffs cheeks, taps papers, stalks off stage.

[jenmito]

79. It wouldn't be the first time!

So predictable yet it'll probably happen!

[Thrill]

77. That was very explosive and impressive

He is clearly not going to stand there like Kerry

[jenmito]

82. Yup. I bet both Bush and McCain are both sorry they ever said a word!

[caledesi]

94. Not this time! - no distractions - just REAL issues! BHO is smart.NT

[rndmprsn]

81. God i wish i could watch this live...thank god for youtube!

please feed the cube rats!

[jenmito]

93. I'm sure this will hit the youtube soon!

:D

[helderheid]

83. Women should get the same pay!!!!!!!

YES!

[blogslut]

85. Wait just one minute now

I love this old fellow!

[panAmerican]

87. TRANSCRIPT??? Some of us are at work and can't listen

[jenmito]

89. Sorry. I'm sure one will be available later.

[ecstatic]

95. youtube clip

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-sOlaso_7Z8

[msallied]

90. I think it is now more clear than ever why the GOP did NOT want to run against Obama! LOL

[jenmito]

92. I agree. And they still don't know how to run against him!

He IS Superman! :D

[jenmito]

91. Obama was "bamboozled" by the girl who gave the mic to a guy to ask a question!

:rofl:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

98. everyone was smiling with that exchange

I loved his answer, too. serious, historical, content-filled, and responsive.

[jenmito]

99. Yup. He has so many great qualities and they ALL shine through in exchanges like that!

I can't wait 'til he's president!

[goclark]

100. I.Can't.Wait. Either.

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