Sep 1, 2008

Obama's Rocky Mountain low in Denver

A report in the Boston Herald at the link below wonders if the once promising Obama is on a Rocky Mountain low.

The setting invited comparisons to John Kennedy.

The anniversary invited comparisons to Martin Luther King.

The stage invited comparisons to Zeus.

The remarks themselves invited comparisons to every Democratic stump speech of the last 20 years.

Barack Hussein Obama’s convention speech could have been given by Al Gore or John Kerry. Do they all have the same speechwriter? As the report points out, in various forms, Obama’s speech was given by Kerry and Gore.

It was all in there: the lunchbox economic populism, based on the assumption that most Americans are filling their lunchboxes with scraps from dumpsters. The attacks on corporations, millionaires and other sinister job creators.

The Democratic ticket consists of two of the most ideological liberals in the Senate. It includes no reasonable governor, no candidate with Southern roots, no member with a military background (for the first time in decades). And now it offers the purest message of partisan aggression and class resentment.

Link here to Boston Herald article.