The Whole Delivery

If this was Barack Obama's last speech as a regular citizen in the United States of America today, then he certainly closed it out in the spectacular and inspiring fashion that has become a trademark custom of his legendary monologues. Make no mistake, this speech today was just as great as the ones in Denver in late August, Lansing in July, St.Paul in June, Philadelphia in March, Iowa in January, Boston four years ago, and all in between. It highlighted the problems of America, but most importantly, focused on how those problems in the past have not stopped the people of this great nation (and may I even say citizens of this world) from getting back up after being so down. And honestly, I have even done this speech a disservice by just having a seven minute version of it. The transcript is here for all to see , but let the sentiments of this post from this author continue. In this seven minute segment of a memorable speech, Obama's preaches again the unity of not only this co...

Original photo form Google.com That country talked about in the preceding title isn't Iraq, or Syria, or Zimbabwe. Sadly, this is another disturbing conversation about America. When our Department of Justice does things like this ( as well as the FBI ), it shows how the Cheney/Bush Administration has embarrassed our country. The vote suppression movement is running deep in this country now. From the assiduous Zachary Roth : Add the Obama campaign to the growing list of players who think that DOJ's election-eve investigation into ACORN is a repeat of the politicization of the department that we saw in the US attorney firings scandal. "With this voter fraud [investigation], we're seeing an unholy alliance of law enforcement and the ugliest form of partisan politics," Bob Bauer, an elections lawyer with the Obama camp, said on a conference call with reporters just now. Bauer compared the decision to launch the investigation with the US attorneys scandal, in which ...