Obviously the most important speech on race in my lifetime (if not the only.) But I am officially calling "bullshit" on every white pundit who comes onscreen rambling on and on about what an "amazing", "transcendent" speaker Obama is. He's a good speaker. Clear, concise, thoughtful. But he's not a great speaker, he at times has awkward clips. He's not as good a speaker as Bill Clinton, for instance. He's not getting me riled up to run through a wall for him, as the UG has said several tmes. But the hairs on my neck are really rising now at this vaguely racist insistence that we're all spellbound by Obama's performances like he's some sort of preacher in a tent, hypnotizing us with his voodoo and his huge African cock. The subliminal message being that of course it can't be WHAT Obama's saying, but that he's somehow fooling us with verbal acrobatics onstage. Gimme a fucking break. It's like the old joke,
"How does a white guy steal second base?" Sheer grit, determination and knowledge of the pitcher.
"How does a black guy steal second base?" He's fast.
So let's stop breaking our ankles jumping up to blather about what an amazing speaker Obama is and maybe listen to what he's actually saying. Who knows, you might even like that better.
(confused while flipping through channels...what station is carrying McCain's speech re: being buddies with Falwell/Robertson/Bob Jones et al?)
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