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Before First Pitch, Obama Hits One Out Of The Park

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Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve
10/31/08

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I sobbed all the way through that pretty much.

My God America, don't let me down!
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rollergirl76
10/30/08

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To me it felt like Obama was at a poker game with McCain, and he said "I see your Joe the Plumber and raise you these families." It was amazing.
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rollergirl76
10/30/08

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It would be so refreshing to have an intelligent President. The past 8 years have made me really miss Clinton...sigh.
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iloveorange
10/30/08

@rollergirl76: You might like this video:

[www.huffingtonpost.com]

Clinton rallying for Obama in FL. Great speech by Clinton.
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rollergirl76
10/30/08

@iloveorange: I watched it last night, and you are so right: it was an amazing speech by Clinton. That man is so eloquent and charismatic. Hopefully, this speech benefits Obama's campaign. I loved every minute of it.
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Magnakai Haaskivi
10/30/08

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"Whatever, I also cry when the Beast dies in Beauty and the Beast, at the end of Ghost and during the funeral scene in Steel Magnolias. I'm a complete sap when it comes to grief and death."

Me too...but I held back on this one. There's something about being deliberately manipulated into it that makes it less emotional.
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theysaidwhat
10/30/08

@Magnakai Haaskivi: And the movies aren't deliberately manipulating you? ;)

I'm a great crier myself. But I also didn't cry last night, perhaps because I was wondering how it was going over with undecideds.
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hortense
10/30/08

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Oh man. I was doing just fine until he got to the "everybody has a story" part. My grandparents were factory workers, and worked so my father could be the first one in his family to go to college. I lost it at that point. Cried like a baby.

I honestly don't know what I'll do if he doesn't win on Tuesday.
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brendastarlet is on it
10/30/08

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They should make kids study his 2004 speech. A classic, in delivery and message. I got choked up again, too, and I cried when I saw it live.
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sybann
10/30/08

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He made me want to go back to college and be a teacher. I cried all my eye makeup off.
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scullymurphy
10/30/08

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Just watched it on youtube here in Edinburgh. And i cried like a baby through the whole thing - could be the pregnancy hormones, but I doubt it. It was the man who lost his retirement fund that started me off and it never stopped from there.

Amazing video that managed to be folksy, deep, emotional, and logical all at the same time without cheesiness. Kinda like B.O. himself.

Oh and if you make over $200k a year you should be happy to help out your brother/sister Americans by contributing higher taxes. My husband and I are. It's just when the bulk of the money is going to fund an irrational war that it starts to burn you.
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neitherherenorthere
10/30/08

@scullymurphy: Or things like tax breaks for nascar race tracks. and all the other pork politicians, including Obama, put into nearly every single one of our bills...things that are absolutely unrelated to the bill. Yeah. So I mind paying more when my govt has no sense of responsibility about where it goes. I give to help others through charitable donations, through organizations that spend it efficiently. The GOVT is the absolute least efficient mechanism of getting help to people....aka Hurrican Katrina. And that wasn't just repubs. Even Obama voted no on rebuilding the bridge that was destroyed. Perhaps the govt is far more efficient in the UK, I have no idea. But I know it isn't here, on ALL levels. And I am getting pissed that our tax dollars are continually taken for granted and spent willy nilly (all the IOUs in Social Security?). The bastards can't be trusted. Tea Party anyone?
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Kilotwat
10/30/08

@neitherherenorthere: Oh, where to begin...

OK, you're going to cite Katrina as proof the government is incompetent? The Bush-appointed moron fucked it up, as did his benefactor, no doubt. But using Katrina to say the government is unable to help is like saying "New Coke" proves Coca-Cola is a company doomed to fail.

And here's a little secret about the charity groups you hold in such high esteem: you rely on the government to check their accounting to make sure they're not corrupt. They rely on the government to grant them the charters, tax breaks and public resources to run. If a charity had the power, responsibilities and accountability of a government, it'd be a government.

You see, the government is not one organization of many. It is unique. It is the center of a cooperative society. Companies are beholden to shareholders, charities are beholden to donors. The government, beholden to society itself.

If you choose to live with other people, you will share your resources with them. Most of this sharing will be done through something called the government.

The solution to bad government isn't to opt for alternative groups that have far less people to answer to, not to mention far less power. It is to change the government by voting and participating.
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CrankyOldBroad
10/30/08

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I've said it before and I will say it again, if you folks don't elect this man then send him up our way because Canada can sure as hell use leadership like his.
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Miss Scarlett
10/30/08

@CrankyOldBroad: Many of us are working our hardest to get him elected.
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scullymurphy
10/30/08

@kate voted for Obama!: True that. We are even having a get out the vote for Obama rally in Scotland on Saturday (lot of american expats and students here).

And I would venture to say that no one on this board is voting for McCain or ever voted for Bush. I hear a lot of this sentiment "how could you have elected that guy?" from Brits over here and i always reply, "do you have any idea how hard I worked to not get him elected or how much it broke my heart TWICE when he was? No, you have no idea."

No hates to you, COB, just that it hurts us liberal Americans to be tarred with the same brush as the conservative eedjuts by the international community.
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Rose.Selavy.Needs.A.Drink
10/30/08

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This was, as the great man himself said, an infomercial.

And many of the issues Obama touched on, well, been there done that, particularly regarding health care and ailing family, so not crying. Instead getting furious. All the fuck over again.

Still pissed off and sad that I cannot vote 537 times. If I remember correctly, isn't that the amount Bush won by in 2000 Florida?

The anger burns. It fuels my vote.
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Kali Mama
10/30/08

@Rose.Selavy.Needs.A.Drink: He won by 537 but only because a tens of thousands were purged from the voter rolls so you know.
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brendastarlet is on it
10/30/08

@Kali Mama: he won by 537 because Al Gore ran a lousy campaign in Florida, too.

When you think about Al Gore of today, it's hard to believe that people didn't flood the voting booths, but he had distanced himself from Clinton, he was mired in a wussy image (earth tones) and Ralph Nader took just enough votes away to make a difference. Yes, Gore won the popular vote nationwide, but his campaign didn't think strategically. Tim Russert kept saying "Florida," and nobody paid attention until it was too late.
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Liz11685
10/29/08

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I love this. It really energized me after a lot of fear that we will have this descent into Depression under a Republican government that devolves into a theocracy. (Yeah, reading The Handmaids Tale so close to an election=bad idea!) I cried when he started talking about waitresses living off tips who cannot take a day off for their kids. It really is true- I get help from my parents(I'm in college), but so many of the servers I work with can no longer make ends meet, even some of them with two jobs. Tips are declining along with the rest of the economic picture. If things continue being a server will no longer be a job that pays a living wage.
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trixavicious
10/29/08

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"They called me a socialist. They found evidence that when I was in kindergarten I used to share my toys. I split my peanut butter sandwich in half, and they called me a redistributionist." *swoon*
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
10/29/08

@trixavicious: Maybe we can track down one of McCain's nursery school buddies. "I asked John McCain to share his marbles and he threw them at my head."
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SkipToMyLou
10/29/08

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Stephen Colbert just endorsed Obama!
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emilyanne
10/29/08

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Bill Clinton finally did what I have been waiting for him to do, he reminded me why I as a 19 year old loved him and believed that a new world was coming. Thank you Bill, for hitting it out of the park when it really mattered.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
10/29/08

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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama together. Politicrush of the '90s, meet politicrush of the '00s.
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