Comments on: Full Text: Sen. Barack Obama Speech Accepting Nomination Democratic National Convention, Denver 2008

By: kenya

kenya — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:20:17 +0000

No matter what you say, it will not change that fact that he is our President. Build a bridge and get over it. Stop trying to knock him down. If you are not happy with the nation’s choice, after the first 4 years pass, try to change it.

I thought this was a one of many wonderful speeches. It renewed hope and responsibility, and made those of us who had lost such hope during the previous 8 years (when the country was being run into the ground)re-think our position. During this time, I myself am inspired to stand, take part in this, be responsible, be better. It is a wonderful time to be an American. No one can ever steal that joy.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:45:56 +0000

Barack mentioned in his video and again in his speech that his family shared “mid-west, Kansas, American values.” The reality is that his mother, whether angry at being named “Stanley” by her father, who wanted a boy(this is a fact), or not, moved away from Kansas before she was four, and grew up mostly on the Left Coast (California, Washington, Seattle, Mercer Island). While in High School in Mercer Island, she was mentored and taught by radical, leftist, Marxist teachers. Her friends pride her on “being a Liberal before (we) knew what it meant to be a Liberal,” and credit her with being “the original feminist.” She became a radical and a rebel. She is quoted by many friends as being someone who “questioned authority” and “challenged societal norms.” She chose, as her religion, Atheism. She chose, as her sexual appetite, to have children with Muslim men of color (twice). She chose to abandon her son, Barack, the same way his father had abandoned her, in search of advancing her own education. This is not the union of two young people who saw the hopes and dreams of America for their child. This was the union of a 17-year-old radical leftist feminist, and a 24-year-old communist muslim polygamist, privileged by his Kenyan clan and thus able to gain education in America. He was married or had children by at least four women, many at the same time, then went back to Kenya, taking his golden education and, instead of making the most of his opportunities, drinking himself to death. Barack junior, instead of being grateful for his white grandparents, who raised him, instead grew to mistrust all whites, and claims the American dream is dead. He claims to be a leader, yet he chose south Chicago as a place to “community organize,” a place where the most violent 60’s riots had taken place, and where he could appeal to the angry blacks and get them to vote the way the Left wanted. Never did he look the black community in the eye and say, “look at how you’re living! This is unacceptable. Start making the most of your opportunities and freedoms! Get your acts together! Get educated and work hard, and thus achieve the American dream for yourselves!” This would have shown REAL leadership. But Barack Obama has never exercised such courage. He plays to the choir, tells the lazy, poor, and disenfranchised that their lot in life is all the fault of the white establishment, and promises to redistribute wealth to them. He was mentored by communists, terrorists and murderers (Bill Ayers, fact), attended church for years with Black Liberation Theology, a radical belief system that has friendly ties with the Muslim Brotherhood (Reverend Wright) and Louis Farrakhan (fact), participated in the “Million Man March,” (fact), and has the most liberal voting record of all 100 senators. He is the least experienced candidate for president in over 100 years. But he can give a good speech. Let’s not make the media do their jobs…let’s just vote for the guy who looks and sounds good, without examining what he really stands for.

By: Disenchanted...

Disenchanted... — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:52:11 +0000

I believe that was either Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe Biden or Bill Clinton’s speech…sorry I can’t narrow it down for you…

By: Tom Giles

Tom Giles — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:18:43 +0000

I remember in Mr. Obama’s speech a reference to as many as 3 new Supreme Court justices who will come onto the Court in the next year. He mentioned Justices Thomas and Scalia specifically, if memory serves, yet I can find no mention of this in the text above.

Where is it?

By: Debora Patta

Debora Patta — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:04:48 +0000

What an incredible, moving speech.
One that I hope will represent a turning point in America’s history.
The world is holding its breath – hoping that America will dare to do what is right – kick out George W Bush and make sure that Baraka Obama is elected President. It is not just America but the world that needs a fresh new face like Obama in Washington. We are counting on you America to right the wrongs of the past eight years

By: Manuela La Gamma

Manuela La Gamma — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:24:00 +0000

Mr. Obama, I think what you are trying to do is really great. From my point of view of foreigner, I personally do think that America needs also a new image and needs to struggle in order to improve its perception abroad. Please please don’t let us down…make us believe again…also Italy stands for you!!!!:-)

By: Ahmed Hersi

Ahmed Hersi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:12:22 +0000

I was indeed moved by that historic speech and it will be remembered and recited by generations to come. Thanks Obama and we promise you to keep the American Promise alive

By: Disenchanted...

Disenchanted... — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:58:08 +0000

I am ready to work hard. I am ready to stand up for my daughter’s future. I am ready to be who I need to be, to do what I need to do, to have what I need to have to live a life worth living.

I am ready to be counted as one, because in America out of many we are one. No matter our color or sex, we are one people. We are linked in this life and the next and no matter if we close our eyes, our ears or our hearts because of hard times, frustration or disappointment, we have to be willing to say that in this world, as Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhist, Hindu or otherwise that we embrace the true meaning of brotherhood and sisterhood and that we care for one another. We care enough to help each other up. That we help enough to love one another in spite of our flaws and obvious differences. I am thankful for Mr. Obama. Thank you for standing up to the status quo and speaking truth. You are a breath of fresh air in a world grown stale and cynical because of failed leadership and assumes that hope and faith are pretty flights of fancy and not truly the driving force behind what we do and who we are as Americans.
I am ready. Thank you.

By: Laureen Andre

Laureen Andre — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:41:31 +0000

Mr. Obama,
I hope and pray that America sees what I see and hears what I hear when you speak; a renewal of the American Dream for all Americans. Thanks to you and your family for working so hard to achieve this goal for all of us. You have my vote and my commitment.
Laureen Andre