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Verbal Diarrhobama

Young, bright, and clean, maybe.

Articulate, maybe not...

The next time an MSM outlet describes Barack Obama as "articulate," I suggest you send them this audio link. My friend Jessica McBride sent it along, and man, is it painful. It's from his speech yesterday in Milwaukee--tying the Virginia Tech massacre to Iraq, Darfur, Don Imus, and everything but the kitchen sink.

It is worth a listen, epecially if you've thus far accepted the wisdom that Obama is some kind of masterful and inspirational communicator.

If you're not up for it (and I can't blame you), let me summarize:  After he gets done telling the crowd how remarkable he is and how delighted the world is by his grandeur, he numbly invokes Virginia Tech, then rhetorically sashays to and fro, pinballing among Martin Luther King, pop cultural violence, his tall daughters (who he hopes will get basketball scholarships and whose degradation at the hands of Don Imus he laments), drugs, the scarcity of low-skill jobs, religious tolerance, Bobby Kennedy, Darfur, and Iraq.  Whenever he seems to steer his rambling back toward the Virginia Tech massacre, he offers an implication that the shooter's motivation was one of intolerance, even superiority, rooted in an unspecified demographic variable.  From here, he draws unusual parallels - not only is America's reluctance to act appropriately in Darfur due to an entitled superiority with which we imbue our children over Darfur's, but our actions in Iraq owe to similar intolerance and a false superiority.

When he somberly asks himself on behalf of all humanity how we can ever regain a sense of control over our world, he essentially throws up his hands as to how to approach threats of physical violence.  Instead, he suggests socializing healthcare and enacting a universal jobs program.  With just that much of a sequitur.

He closes with one salient point:  "This campaign can not be about me."

That's starting to become clear.

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Verbal Diarrhobama

Young, bright, and clean, maybe.

Articulate, maybe not...

The next time an MSM outlet describes Barack Obama as "articulate," I suggest you send them this audio link. My friend Jessica McBride sent it along, and man, is it painful. It's from his speech yesterday in Milwaukee--tying the Virginia Tech massacre to Iraq, Darfur, Don Imus, and everything but the kitchen sink.

It is worth a listen, epecially if you've thus far accepted the wisdom that Obama is some kind of masterful and inspirational communicator.

If you're not up for it (and I can't blame you), let me summarize:  After he gets done telling the crowd how remarkable he is and how delighted the world is by his grandeur, he numbly invokes Virginia Tech, then rhetorically sashays to and fro, pinballing among Martin Luther King, pop cultural violence, his tall daughters (who he hopes will get basketball scholarships and whose degradation at the hands of Don Imus he laments), drugs, the scarcity of low-skill jobs, religious tolerance, Bobby Kennedy, Darfur, and Iraq.  Whenever he seems to steer his rambling back toward the Virginia Tech massacre, he offers an implication that the shooter's motivation was one of intolerance, even superiority, rooted in an unspecified demographic variable.  From here, he draws unusual parallels - not only is America's reluctance to act appropriately in Darfur due to an entitled superiority with which we imbue our children over Darfur's, but our actions in Iraq owe to similar intolerance and a false superiority.

When he somberly asks himself on behalf of all humanity how we can ever regain a sense of control over our world, he essentially throws up his hands as to how to approach threats of physical violence.  Instead, he suggests socializing healthcare and enacting a universal jobs program.  With just that much of a sequitur.

He closes with one salient point:  "This campaign can not be about me."

That's starting to become clear.