Obama’s Nomination speech at the DNC – FAIL!
Tonight, Barak Obama delivered his much choreographed nomination speech in the Bronco’s stadium in front of 80,000 enthused worshipers watching the return of the Messiah.
Obama spoke very well. He is well articulated, very charismatic, and always a person of presence. Unfortunately, beyond that – did he really deliver a worthwhile message?
For starters, he immediately went on the offensive and attacked McCain. He then went to play on the public’s fears stating that McCain is nothing but a continuation of “President Bush’s failed leadership” (his words.) Is that going to be his platform – a platform of fear and intimidation? Going on such a strong offensive from the start of his speech is a significant indicator suggesting that is his only tactic for victory. Such an offensive maneuver suggests he knows that he doesn’t have substance to solidify his platform, so he chose the next best thing – attack!
After a long assault on McCain he decided to present his platform, and here are the core points I noticed:
- He will fight for the blue collar worker that was laid off because his/her factory was shut down. He mentioned this blue collar worked over and over again. So let me get this, a factory is no longer financially viable – but Obama will keep it open. Who will pay for that?
- We will all get health care at the same quality senators do, including those of us who don’t currently have health care. Those of us who currently have health care will pay less. So we will all get more but pay less, who will pay for that?
- Obama will pay teachers more, and improve our education system. First, why is education a federal responsibility? The states should be in charge of education – not the Federal government, that is what federalism is all about! So, we will have higher paid teachers, look at the California education system that spends billions of dollars a year on education but is on the top three worst in the nation. How will paying teachers more help? Some of the least funded education systems in the world are some of the best – money doesn’t solve everything. Once again – who will pay for these pay increases?
- Obama promised affordable college education for everyone – who will pay for that?
- 95% of us will pay less taxes – yippee!!! I think I belong to that 95%, so I will pay less taxes. Now, if there is less tax revenue, how are we going to pay for items 1-4?
- Abortion – one topic he actually made some sense on!
- 2nd amendment: this is where his true colors show. Once again, he tried to “remind us” all that the second amendment was written for “hunting” and that “we should keep those AK47s out of criminal’s hands.” Well Obama – the 2A was written to protect “we the people” against a tyrannous government. Not a single word in the second amendment mentions hunting, or sporting, or target hunting. Obama - if the 2A is for hunting, then the first amendment is for pen-pals only. Obama, 2A shouldn’t be changed to keep those evil AK47s out of criminal’s hands, all that needs to be done is enforce the rules that are already on the books! This part of his speech demonstrated the DNP’s ever going attempt to rewrite the constitution whenever convenient.
So, Obama promised everything, to everyone, for less money – how will that work? Speeches like that demonstrate how gullible people really are – just say what they want to hear and they will worship the ground you walk on!
Obama – your nomination speech receives a FAIL!
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