Obama stealing speeches?

Good God. I simply do not understand how this is an issue to anyone with a shred of common sense. I don't. And I can't understand how anyone would use this as a possible determining factor on voting day.

And it was said earlier, had this been McCain, we would have been freaking out. To that, I say B.S. Doesn't matter which candidate this story falls under. Truly.

 

McCain doesn't know anybody who speaks this well.

 

You forget that McCain knew King Tutenkommon when "T" was younger...

 

King Tut...buried in his jammies...could have won a Grammy.

 

How quickly we forget that until Obama came along - and maybe even since - just about every significant speech, or even phrase from a speech in the last 30-40 years came from Republicans. Am I exaggerating? What am I forgetting?

 

Would you say JFK was the last great Democratic orator?

 

Until Sharpton, again, unless I'm missing someone.

 

Sharpton? Really? I see him a a racially divisive screamer, not really a speaker.

 

Bobby Kennedy, Jesse Jackson (84 convention speech), Mario Cuomo, Paul Wellstone.

Food for thought, anyway.

 

I see him as both. As we're seeing with Huck, you don't become a preacher by accident.

 

Bobby was before my time & outside of the range I gave - I know, after his brother. I think Jackson became a cartoon of himself too quickly to be considered to be anything else. Cuomo? Maybe. I'll defer to my elders, I was young. Wellstone was a great idealist & a hero to the true believers, but don't confuse the fact that you loved the content of his message with him being great at delivering it.

 

The first three I'm going off video and text.

But I saw Wellstone speak in person, and it was, generally, an event.

He wasn't as high-minded as some of the others, but he was passionate, and you left his speeches thinking about what he wanted you to think about.

Plenty good enough for me.