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By: Ernie's Place

Ernie's Place — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:24:00 +0000

“Obama’s speech last night was the best political speech of my lifetime,”

Mitch
It’s sad that you are too young to remember John Kennedy

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:03:21 +0000

So, I guess that means Obama is?

By: Plain Jane

Plain Jane — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:16:03 +0000

I found this very interesting this morning.

Romney was asked by Bret Baier if he regretted not mentioning the troops or the wars in his convention speech and he said, “No. When you– when you give a speech, you don’t go through a laundry list, you talk about the things you think are important.”

By: Plain Jane

Plain Jane — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:09:59 +0000

No, Joe. He isn’t ready for anything but a luxury retirement with his hoards of money in the Cayman Islands.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 23:27:10 +0000

So, which one of you has the guts to answer this question? Is Romney ready and can he be trusted to decide which Americans should be extrajudically assassinated?

By: Eric Kirk

Eric Kirk — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:31:44 +0000

Mitch – I agree. It started slow, and it never went overboard. It was unique in that it appealed to the sense of reason, rather than emotion. I don’t know if that’s a winning strategy with “gut voters” who are undecided, but we’ll see. The jobs report wasn’t good, but I think his speech was tailored to that possibility.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:29:08 +0000

Obama’s speech last night was the best political speech of my lifetime, as far as I can recall. Yet at least one pundit I usually respect called it “pedestrian.”

I don’t get it.

Between Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, and President Obama, I don’t understand how they can have failed to convince every listener except those few that have $100 million in their Swiss account.

No, the Democrats haven’t governed as well as they speechify. But they’ve made it clear where their hearts are, and they’re finally willing to call today’s Republicans on their bullshit and to remind us of the Obama administration’s accomplishments despite that GOP obstruction.

Accomplishments like cutting taxes for 95% of Americans, saving the American automobile industry, strengthening America’s support for vets, winding down the Bush wars, and standing up for the rights of women to control their bodies and to make equal pay for equal work.

By: bolithio

bolithio — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:30:03 +0000

As subjective as it is, I thought Obama’s speech was much more motivating than Mitts. He laid out ‘the choice’ well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:15:31 +0000

Speaking of messaging Eric, what’s up with KUMD and the news? Terri Clemetson asked about an 80 plant bust in Shively that was 800 plants. Does she check her facts before a story and asking questions? Even 80 marijuana plants is too many. Why is she on the cops for doing their job?

By: tra

tra — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:12:38 +0000

Well, you’re right of course. But I think the aggressive tone we’re hearing from the Dems this week means that they’re planning to keep loudly reminding voters of the mess left by he Bush recession, and the obstructionism of the Republicans in Congress ever since. Yes, Obama could still falter due to poor economic news, some kind of gaffe or mishandled crisis, or perhaps just from an avalanche of late-breaking, highly-negative, turnout-depressing SuperPac spending, but it looks like one thing that won’t be an issue for the Obama campaign is messaging, and another thing that won’t be an issue is timidity. This ain’t 2010.