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s said,
August 28, 2008 at 5:37 am
it’s pretty great. i agree.
s said,
August 28, 2008 at 5:37 am
wait. or are you being sarcastic? i guess it depends during whose speech you typed this.
anatomyofadress said,
August 28, 2008 at 5:16 pm
No, I am completely involved in this! I have cried more times than I would like to admit.
d said,
August 28, 2008 at 7:13 pm
oh my god dude, so have I!
unreliable narrator said,
August 29, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Okay so what’s wrong with me, WHY did Obama’s speech last night leave me cold? When even the Brujo was nodding vigorously at critical junctures. I feel all Meursault inside.
Party politics just quit doing it for me sometime, oh, during two stolen elections maybe….I don’t know, I’ve always voted for hopeless causes, from Jack Kemp (hey, I was just a kid) to Jerry Brown and Nader/LaDuke.
Then too McCain has gone and done something smart today in response. Actually, for “smart” read “unbelievably canny.” Maybe you and J. will come visit us in Todos Santos.
the almost right word said,
August 29, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Although I teared a teeny bit last night, it wasn’t a result of Obama’s speech. Like the UnNarrator, I was left cold. I am, without a doubt, in support of Obama. And I certainly respected a lot of the points he made and the way he made them. I just didn’t *feel* it, like I have before with other speeches he made.
Enjoy the Fe!
unreliable narrator said,
August 29, 2008 at 9:26 pm
See, and it’s all the more frustrating because the Dems have JUST as much old money and JUST as many think-tanks and spin professionals, but could OBAMA go out on a limb and pick a female running mate, nooooo, that would be toooo scary and BLACK. And until the end, when Barack was permitted his calculated Dr. King moment, his was basically a speech written by polls (“they want to hear that you’ll keep them safe; they want to hear that you won’t take away that nice little $300 tax rebate they got this year; they want you to talk a lot about your daughters”). Without real fire, or animus.
Because (she continues, insensitively hijacking) the DNC has never gotten over being terrified of anything edgy, not since Slick Willie came on Monica’s dress; and I for one could cheerfully wring some salaried-at-two-million-a-year campaign advisor’s NECK, because where’s the sex, people?! Where’s the change versus more of the same?!
Admittedly Obama is so much more satisfyingly out there than Bad Hair Kerry or even Al circa 2000 (“The Ironing Board”) that I feel a faint stirring of hope at times. Almost as if it were nausea.
Because this is what presidential elections have become for me, a minimax-regret strategy/scenario. Because it is bitter and because it is my heart. And because I am turning into some kind of Arizona crankcase.
anatomyofadress said,
August 29, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I was left a little cold too, but I think that’s my fault and not his. I think we’ve all come to expect–to demand!–the soaring rhetoric, the feeling that Obama gives us that maybe the ground will fall out from under us but before we can truly panic we’ll find ourselves weightless! If we keep expecting every single speech, every Obama encounter to be BIGGER! And get us HIGHER! then his (let us pray-) day-to-day presidency will leave us all feeling very tepid and disappointed. I think all the fundamental tenets are there to carry me through: we are ALL proud of our country; you work hard for us and we’ll work hard for you; it’s time to leave behind a new deal government and refashion a government for the 21st century. I am pleased as punch by the speech last night (although Hillary and Bill made me cry.) One pundit last night very aptly said: “It wasn’t an ‘I Have a Dream’ speech but he has plenty of time to give that one at his inauguration.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin? WHO?
anatomyofadress said,
August 29, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Oh man, Un, I disagree. That McCain chose Palin because she is a woman and might make republicans look edgy is MORE sexist than Obama passing Hillary over. Did you see her body language this morning at that Ohio rally? Deferrent, totally deferrent–that woman looks like a token.
The sex was there, Un, he’s just a politician and not a messiah. : /
the almost right word said,
August 29, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Ladies, we could obviously take this to some newfangled form of UnNarrator, a.r.w. and Miss Bovary discussion-blog. For now, I just want to say that I am relieved I was not the only one who felt a bit “let down.” However, you make a good point here, Miss Bovary — we have come to expect such greatness from Obama’s speeches.
I remain disappointed that it felt a little TOO influenced by the polls, by what US citizens *want* or *expect* to hear, as the UnNarrator mentioned above.
unreliable narrator said,
August 30, 2008 at 1:07 am
I happily confess that I laughed aloud at the idea of inspirational Obama speeches as addictive, and now we just want more More MORE! give us more! with disco balls and gold lamé and dancing girls popping out of cakes! It’s too, too true.
Yet can we be blamed, when some of us have suffered through 20 years of contemporary Republican presidential schnorrers? I’m saying.
And I’m still always gonna yearn for Al Sharpton. Because despite the inevitability of Realpolitik, I’m a leftist not a liberal.
NB however that we actually agree: McCain’s choosing Palin is of course blatantly sexist (especially her; he may have shot himself in the foot; beauty pageants? MAYOR?!). I surely didn’t mean to imply that it was sexually liberated, just (potentially) politically effective. Cagey and canny, the way the GOP can be, cuz they’re wily ones.
Quand même, I also think Joe Biden is a big white drag. I do! I just do. Okay, so the Dems wanted someone to plug the résumé holes, not someone to jazz up the ticket. Okay, he has all the insidery goodness we crave and yet he still takes the train home every night. Okay. I get it. I accept political exigence as much as the next desperate progressive. And, I’m glum about it. Because I still looooove Hillaarrrryyyy….
Because she and Bill would make anyone spout like a water fountain. They’re, I mean, they’re just, yeah. She’s so. Yeah. Sigh. President McDreamy.
I lived on Capitol Hill until September of ‘92, and after the election everything changed about the city, it was like Paris when the Allies rolled in, men were kissing in the streets. So to me they’ll always be archetypal, like, I don’t know, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman. Hepburn/Tracy, Bacall/Bogart. Louise Bryant and John Reed! Emma Goldman and—OKAY I have romanticized sausage-making enough for one day.
Now if only Gore would start workin’ that beard. Put it to use, Al!
unreliable narrator said,
August 30, 2008 at 1:34 am
PS Krugman’s op-ed today, first paragraph says it ALL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/opinion/29krugman.html