The greatness of a nation is not how wealthy a few are….but in how you look after the poor and more vulnerable in society.

Great Speech by Barack Obama. Check out Barack Obama Infomercial Video here

http://www.iwebie.com/barack-obama-infomercial-video

“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.”

In another era, McCain had the integrity to agree with this, before he realized that today’s Republican party is the pro-torture party and he would need to change his position in order to get the nomination.

That being said, thank you for pointing out Guggenheim’s involvement. I think he did the Obama bio video for the Convention as well. It’s interesting to compare the two in terms of tone. As one of the previous commenters noted, last night’s presentation was important, yet it is precisely because of its scope that I think it needs to be picked apart as media and not necessarily message.

http://modernjackassmag.com/2008/10/30/the-audacity-of-trope-obama-guggenheim-emotion-and-film/

And I don’t know where it all started — this trotting out individual sob stories before the American people and then claiming the power to take care of them — but I don’t like it. It’s demagoguery AND it’s taking advantage of the already disadvantaged.

As to the promised spending cuts…

I noticed that the preamble to the 1/2 hour spot was Mr Obama saying that he was going to give the specifics of his plans in the time that follows. And he said in no uncertain terms that he was going to cut spending on redundant programs and programs that didn’t work…

….and then didn’t name a single one.

On the other hand, when the congress of ‘94 promised the same thing (spending cuts), the same media that adoringly accepts Mr Obama’s claims of spending cuts without even ASKING for specifics, is the same media that shoved an iron rod up Newt and company’s ass and out their cranium and roasted them over an open fire over budget cuts that didn’t cut a single budget.

Well, that may be incredibly unfair of the media, but to look on the bright side, at least with the media on Mr Obama’s side, he might actually be able to cut spending. Somewhere. When he decides to actually tell us where.

Oh…

…and trotting out Dick Durbin as a character witness? Beautiful. This is the guy who said that our soldiers were like Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot all rolled into one.

I was already pissed off going into the video because the local CBS affilliate had just done a hit piece (in the name of accuracy) on a McCain commercial. One of those segments that every news program is running in some form or another across the country — in this case called, “adcheck”, where they check the political ads for accuracy. Essentially what they did was took a claim of McCain’s (in this case that certain income level’s taxes would go up) and addressed it — claiming it was FALSE (complete with big red rubber stamp FALSE across the ad) because, and I am not making this up, letting the Bush tax cuts expire is not the same thing as a tax increase. Excuse me?