skippy the bush kangaroo: barack you like a hurricane

Thursday, August 28, 2008

barack you like a hurricane

obama was pretty classy opening his speech by thanking hillary and bill.

plus, he seems to be switching between talking to the crowd of 85,000 and right to the camera w/ease and comfort, being intimate w/both.

great line: "america, we are better than these last 8 years." wow, out of the park w/that one!

also nice: next week in minnesota, the party that brought you the last two terms will ask you for a third.

tag of the night: 8 is enough!

more great moments (taken from the nytimes transcript):

but the record's clear: john mccain has voted with george bush 90 percent of the time.

senator mccain likes to talk about judgment, but, really, what does it say about your judgment when you think george bush has been right more than 90 percent of the time?

i don't know about you, but i am not ready to take a 10 percent chance on change.

. . .

now, i don't believe that senator mccain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of americans; i just think he doesn't know.

. . .

washington has been talking about our oil addiction for the last 30 years. and, by the way, john mccain has been there for 26 of them.

and in that time, he has said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. and today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day that senator mccain took office.

. . .

you know, john mccain likes to say that he'll follow bin laden to the gates of hell, but he won't even follow him to the cave where he lives.

. . .

we are the party of roosevelt. we are the party of kennedy. so don't tell me that democrats won't defend this country. don't tell me that democrats won't keep us safe.

the bush-mccain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of americans, democrats and republicans, have built, and we are here to restore that legacy.

. . .

as commander-in-chief, i will never hesitate to defend this nation, but i will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home.

. . .

the times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. so let us agree that patriotism has no party. i love this country, and so do you, and so does john mccain.

the men and women who serve in our battlefields may be democrats and republicans and independents, but they have fought together, and bled together, and some died together under the same proud flag. they have not served a red america or a blue america; they have served the united states of america.

so i've got news for you, john mccain: we all put our country first.

on a humorous note, mrs. skippy thought that the sky cam draped w/red & white banners looked like "the guys that talk on mystery science theater."

posted by skippy at 7:16 PM |

5 Comments:

Yeah, it was all good. The old skeptic in me rolled my eyes a couple of times at proposals too ambitious but it really was a grand slam three pointer with a two point conversion. I hope McCain had some nitrous handy to eep him alive to his convention.

By comparison, I recall the last RNC with smug old women wearing purple heart bandages. There's the difference between classy and someone who deserved to be smacked from silly into silliest.

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Kevin Hayden, 11:22 PM PDT

I meant nitro, not nitrous, but maybe laughing gas would help him, too.

commented by

Kevin Hayden, 11:24 PM PDT

mrs skippy wasn't alone last night -- we were thinking the same thing here. But instead of the Mystery Science puppets, we get the empty talking heads of the MSM.

commented by

sean, 9:04 AM PDT

we are the party of roosevelt. we are the party of kennedy. so don't tell me that democrats won't defend this country. don't tell me that democrats won't keep us safe.

yeah, great. Democrats can get 50,000+ Americans and kill a million foreigners in an unjust war just like the Republicans.

commented by

Left I on the News, 11:40 AM PDT

left i

He's talking about WWII and the Cuban Missile crisis. You're talking about LBJ, the Texas democrat Obama intentially omitted cuz Southern Dems don't really count.

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Anonymous, 11:25 AM PDT

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