GOP strategists. Slurping cocktails long into the evening --

[saltpoint]

-- in their quiet kitchens in a sullen funk.

They heard the speech. They know they're whipped.

McCain lands in the Middle East and sticks his foot in his mouth. McCain has blood dripping off his teeth and few if any brains left. No poll supports what McCain stands for.

It will be a very long summer for pro-Surge Republicans.

Around lunchtime on Tuesday, Obama stepped into their grandchildren's History textbooks.

Obama selects stones that glow in the moonlight and drops them along the path to our collective future so we can find our way there.

Obama won the presidency in Philadelphia yesterday.

And the Pukes know it.

[JeffR]

1. I hope you're right, my friend

I heading for bed dispirited and unprepared for a long workday tomorrow. I'd like to have a chance to smile any way but sardonically tonight.

[saltpoint]

2. Howdy, good person.

You get yourself a good night's snooze.

You've earned it just to have survived this winter.

On many counts.

[JeffR]

13. Thanks, OC

and I'll drag myself up in the morning a little more optimistic for your kindness and good cheer.

[Tumbulu]

3. wow

I think that you are correct here. At least I hope so. And hope is what I got for the first time in a long long time listening to this honest brilliant person of integrity speak to all of us.

[saltpoint]

6. Hi, Tumbulu. Yes. That address was for all of us at once, and all who

have come before or who are yet to arrive.

It blew me away.

[Tumbulu]

16. I am still blown away

which is why I have come here to read other posts and post about it.

I loved the Hansel and Grettel stones in the OP two!

[saltpoint]

18. I hope high school teachers will make sure their government classes

feature Obama's address.

Every young person in the country needs to hear it, IMO.

[mythyc]

38. that's a thought I had as the speech settled in over the day yesterday

that it would one day, probably sooner than we think, make it's way into grade school classrooms alongside some of the other pivotal speeches on this subject

[scheming daemons]

4. Kickity kick kick kickity kick kick kick

[babylonsister]

5. "Stones that glow in the moonlight". Awww, you

and Obama have my heart! I think so, too, and the rethugs are so frightened. So sad...
And thanks, :pals::hug:

[saltpoint]

8. Hey there, babylonsister. That speech yesterday is still ripping through

my central nervous system.

And I don't want it to stop!

[babylonsister]

27. It's nice to know we have such a wonderful candidate, far and away

more inspiring than anyone I've ever had before in my lifetime. I'm jazzed!

[scheming daemons]

7. That was poetic and eloquent.... almost as good as Obama's speech...

...

[saltpoint]

11. Hi, scheming daemons. Thanks you, but I have to admit I

ripped the idea off the Hansel & Gretel story.

I am a shameless raider of mythic tombs!

[scheming daemons]

9. Can I use your words?

Better than anything I've ever written.

[better tomorrow]

10. So, is that why McCain messed up his lines about Iraq....

[Cha]

12. That was easy on the eyes!

The m$$$m have their work cut our for them to dress up mccain and tear down Obama..Americans are seeing through their bullshit after 8 years of selling george w bush.

[saltpoint]

14. Yes, zidzi -- true indeed about the media. They aren't going to be able

to hit the target when the target is as gifted as this one is. Obama's address yesterday spoke long into the future but it also slapped the living crap out of the junk media slams he's endured.

I think the man did himself proper and proud yesterday.

[Cha]

17. And us too!

[ampad]

15. Beautiful

I have read so many long, eloquent, post tonight but this one takes the cake.

[Divernan]

19. No Hillbots on this thread yet? Must be their shift change!

Ya know - like you can't get a taxi in Manhattan between 4 and 5 p.m. when they change shifts.
Or maybe HRC can't afford to run three shifts. They'll be popping up first thing tomorrow morning.

Love your imagery of Obama lighting a path to the future.

[saltpoint]

21. That thing with the taxis in Manhattan. Either it's a shift change,

or that's when every cab in the city is driving politicians to their appointments with hookers.

It's gotta be one or the other.

_ _ _ _

(Thanks for the kind words.)

[PetraPooh]

20. I haven't listened to it yet. Deep sigh. I won't either till Hillary is safely out of the race.

I seem to be jinx on the candidates I want to win, have been since way back when. I'm anti-Hillary, but not "pro-Obama" yet, I fear if I listen to the speech that will change and Hillary will somehow steal the nom. I don't think I could handle the anger I would feel if that happened. I've archived a few posts with links so I can listen when she drops out or gets booted out.

[saltpoint]

22. The coast is clear on this one, PetraPooh. Take a chance against that

jinx and dive in.

Unplug the phone and just listen to the man speak. I predict you'll hang on til the end.

[PetraPooh]

26. Oh, from the responses I've read, I have no doubt. But no, you don't understand

the depth and quality of jinxability. I will wait till the nom is Obama and is chosen irrevocably.

[saltpoint]

31. LOL. Well, ok. You know the lay of the land where you are, but just

remember when you do get to it, unplug the phone and prepare for a real lift.

[PetraPooh]

33. Will do, PROMISE!

[cliffordu]

23. RE: Around lunchtime on Tuesday,

Obama stepped into their grandchildren's History textbooks.

You are exactly right. Perfect.

:patriot:

[better tomorrow]

39. until the Conservatives rewrite it.....

[shraby]

24. There are even serious questions as to

McCain's mental competence. We've already had Reagan at the helm with alzheimers, slow Bush and we don't need any more non compis mentis presidents..the country wouldn't survive and almost isn't right now.

[saltpoint]

25. Agree with you, shraby. We've been torn apart by consecutively

disastrous Republican administrations, Reagan (who was already pretty thick prior to the diagnosis), Poppy (who may have been on so many prescription meds he couldn't find his own hindened with a 3-sided mirror), and of course, Junior, who is the most convincing argument I've seen against Darwin.

We could use a damn break!

[cliffordu]

30. Why do I think McCaine is a shill...

or a body double, who'll be used until the real candidate is sprung, full blown, from a hole in the floor at their convention like the bad guy in some Wagnerian opera?

Why do I think the Rove machine is not stupid enough to actually try to elect McCaine??

:tinfoilhat:

[saltpoint]

Good question. I can tell you I sure wouldn't want the job of being his

chief strategist.

All I could imagine I could offer him strategy-wise would be, "Uh, John. Try not to sound like a walking corpse."

[cliffordu]

35. LOL!

Yeah "....And stop drooling!!!! dammit....." :rofl:

[Divernan]

37. Not just mental competence, but his mental health.

Mental competence makes me think of Alzheimer's or IQ. However, as a therapist who had worked with Vietnam vets commented to me about McCain, anyone who went through 5.5 years of torture and confinement in the North Vietnam camps has got be majorly affected by that in his outlook on life. She thought his enthusiasm for 10 or 100 years of war, and his singing of "bomb, bomb, bomb; bomb, bomb Iran" reflected his desire to refight the Vietnam war.

I knew a US pilot who was shot down 2 times while flying the bombing runs on bridges and a dam in North Korea (the basis for James Michener's "Bridges of Toko Ri"). The planes had to fly at very low altitudes - 2 or 3 thousand feet, and were subject to cross fire from antiaircraft guns. It was rare for a plane to return without damage - and sometimes 30 percent of the planes were shot down. My friend managed to escape being captured and made it back across the 38th parallel to South Korea.
The point I'm getting to is that I NEVER heard that man make a single joke about war, and he came out of that war a strong pacifist. If you read the history of McCain he was one of the wildest party animals ever to make it through Annapolois - and he continued his partying, drinking and womanizing throughout his naval career, except for when he was a POW. His "war" was dropping bombs and napalm - not the boots on the ground urban warfare of Baghdad, or the patrolling of dangerous roadways in the desert or mountains of Iraq or Afghanistan. You know he's salivating at the thought of having the power to declare war on Iran - or any other country. Keep him the hell away from the red phone at 3 a.m.

[bleever]

28. By George, I think you've got it!

It was a watershed moment in American history.

K&R.

[NanceGreggs]

29. "And the Pukes know it."

It is not in keeping with good moral values to delight in the downfall of our enemies, nor celebrate their defeat.

So why do I feel so delighted as I celebrate?

:toast:

Oh, and K & R!!!

[saltpoint]

32. Thank you Nance. God forgive me -- I'm celebrating the Pukes' woes myself.

:toast: :toast: :toast: :hi:

[PerfectSage]

34. Well the GOP are gonna learn in Iraq and the GE in 2008

wars are won and lost on the grand strategic/moral level.

Warning: This post contains grand strategic subject matter which may be offensive to people who are afraid to think for themselves or realize Bush has doomed America as a superpower.

Gobama!
Go Dean's 50 State Strategy!
Go Grassroots!

[tabasco]

36. I thought Kerry was a shoe-in against idiot AWOL Bush.

I'm never taking anything for granted again.