Obama’s Speech-You Spin Me

I know I said I didn’t want to hear nor see anything else to do with Obama and the “Rev.” Wright but (gosh darn it) I really didn’t want to do it…I really didn’t want to do it…and the band played on.

I can’t help myself, I suppose, when something strikes me as ridiculous, such as the comments coming from Chris Matthews and the New York Times.

I read the speech and I was totally unimpressed. (As I have already said, nothing he could say would change my mind.)

The damage has been done. There is no way out of this and adding words as he has in this speech, actually made it worse in my eyes.

Chris Matthews said on Tuesday night's "Hardball", that the speech was "worthy of Abraham Lincoln," and he also claimed that it bypassed Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" address as the "best speech ever given on race in this country.” He went on to say "I think this is the kind of speech I think first graders should see, people in the last year of college should see before they go out in the world. This should be, to me, an American tract." [sic]

The New York Times compared the speech to the Inaugural addresses by Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech on religion.

Were we listening to or reading the same speech? The answer is yes; it is the same speech---however, Liberals and Conservatives hear differently as I am sure you have noticed. The comparison is similar to the book, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”.

I heard Obama bring up Geraldine Ferraro comparing her to his “Rev.” and I found that absurd. I heard him bring up his roots of slavery, which I can only roll my eyes at. It is not that I don’t feel for those who lived through it or those who lived through segregation but, it is the opposite; I feel very much for them. That was long ago, however, and let’s face it Obama and many black Americans have a good life and need to let go of the past. The Jewish people have gone through the Holocaust, as are my roots, but I am not living and dwelling in it.

I found it humorous to read Matthew’s praise and the New York Times praise of this “eloquent” speech. I found it humorous to declare that Obama just happened not to be there to hear some, or was it all, of these videos showing up now. I find it humorous how liberals are still giving him a pass in defense of him.

Talk about spin: What comes to mind is that old 80’s song used in the Wedding Singer, “You Spin Round” by Dead or Alive.