Obama's Speech

Some thoughts on Barack Obama's speech yesterday:

1) I didn't hear him deliver it live. After reading the transcript, I though it actually a good speech, even though I disagree with his positions. Then, I heard the sound bites. Could he have delivered this speech more like somebody addressing a convention of retired insurance adjusters? In reading it, I expected an upbeat presentation. From his tone and cadence, it was clear that the Empty Suit wanted to be doing anything but giving that speech.

2) Senator Obama's reflections on the last 50 years of race relations and the factors that persist in American cities range from laughable to absurd to simply disingenuous. It's the Democrats who prevented the participation of African Americans in unions and opposed desegregation. It's the Democrats who have been running our cities and schools, by and large. It's the Democrats who have created the culture of dependency going back to LBJ's Great Society and before. It's the Democrats etc., etc., etc., so now we - and the minority groups who they claim to stand for - should just keep voting them in office, all the while ignoring the complete failure of all their policies over the last fifty years. Right, got it, keep pouring my glass of Kool-Aid please.

3) I can't see how anybody - except perhaps a spaghetti-spined, "can't we all just get along" moderate - could be pleased with the content of the speech. The left will think he sold out; the right that he completely missed the issue.