Speechifyin'!

[fizzbang]

Holy crap, Obama's speech on Race and America was simply amazing.

Comments

[lillokiangel]

Cheesy!

(you totally gave me permission to do that)

[alazrael]

The speech was certainly well-written. I guess I would have been more motivated by the message if it wasn't being used to cover his involvement with a politically unpopular character in his life. I read it rather than watched it, and I got a much less emotional response. I think that says as much as his charisma as an orator as it does of my cold-hearted conservative viewpoints.

I wish there was a more apparent way for candidates to show how they'd lead in a campaign than just how they'd speak. I think folks of all areas of the political spectrum could find usefulness in that.

[fizzbang]

Considering he wrote the speech himself, and it successfully breaks several standard rules of political speeches, I think that says something about how he'd lead as well.

[alazrael]

Maybe I'm less idealistic than you (okay, I am certainly less idealistic than you), but I pretty much see Obama as a standard issue politician who is gifted with excellent charisma. It's laudable that he is successful at getting a lot of young people involved in the system who otherwise might choose apathy instead, but I think that's as much his marketing as it is his belief structure

[drspooky]

IF given the choice between a standard politician with charisma and one without it, I'll have mine with, please.

[mrsix]

Seconded.

[fizzbang]

Also, entirely unrelated to any of the above, but potentially quite awesome:
Michael Cera's Precious Little Life?

[mrsix]

Tentatively excited about that, but my only question is if Cera can pull it off. He was good in "Juno" but that's a totally different role.

[fizzbang]

Yeah, as I said to drspooky when he told me about it:

"I mean, it's kind of out of type for him - but if he can pull it off, I'll be impressed. Some of the awkwardness [of George Michael] is there in [Scott Pilgrim], but he also needs to have moments of unadulterated energy and determination, to go along with the cluelessness.

Also, he needs to be able to fight like a NES character.

And rock the fuck out on guitar.

Scott Pilgrim is kind of a complex character."

[auroravioletta]

Thank you for posting that. It was fantastic.