Via Kid Oakland at some little orange site somewhere, watch this:
It’s long, but worth watching.
Kid Oakland has several suggestions for how to get involved.
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Actually, what I like about this video is that it’s not “marketing over substance”, so much. The message here is a hard message. There were certain parts of that speech that gave me serious flashbacks to the less fun parts of the organizing I’ve done, or heck, to those terrible (but true) “You got time to lean, you got time to clean” pep talks you get as a service employee for a small business. It’s also almost word for word the speech that someone like the Line Producer or UPM gives the night before principal photography on the film actually begins.
It’s a celebratory speech, but it’s not necessarily a fun one. Which might be why, as someone in another thread said, the Obama campaign people sometimes come off like ‘college republicans’. These folks aren’t hippies. They’re working their asses off.
“It’s a celebratory speech, but it’s not necessarily a fun one.”
Which makes it all the more unusual. This is how an adult approaches problems and important decisions that are part of life.
You recognize the situation, and you don’t shirk your responsibility. You go into times of difficulty with your eyes open, knowing that real success requires you to be challenged and meet those challenges head on, not fall back and let your father’s consiglieres “fix things” for you.
George Bush has always had somebody cleaning up after him and paving the road ahead of him.
Barack Obama has had to make his own way because he wasn’t born into American “royalty”. We’re lucky there are still some people left who are Americans and not just self-absorbed political operatives…
Russert mentioned Obama overheard saying “behind a closed door” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25044937/page/2/ that w/o an Iowa win he wouldn’t have won the nomination. What is appalling is Russert made it sound like he had this was information derived from actual “reporting”. So I guess that Russert’s idea of “reporting” is checking Youtube (and Drudge) and passing it of as “journalism”. WANKER!
I am continually impressed by this man. I am a realist and pragmatist, but doggone if he doesn’t have me believing that he can and will make a difference. Yes we can!!
So I guess that Russert’s idea of “reporting” is checking Youtube (and Drudge) and passing it of as “journalism”.
To be fair to Tim Russert, the entire American media’s idea of “reporting” has been f5-ing Drudge for at least the last decade.
I know it sounds corny as hell but I felt like he was talking to me.
I can see why the right is so scared of this guy.
Does anyone have a transcript? I’ve turned up the volume on my computer as loud as it will go, and my hearing issues are still betraying me. :( I’d love to hear what he’s saying if anyone can write it out…?
(Even without the sound, the facial expressions and the body posture of everyone in the room is really cool. Like real people doing real stuff—and like they know the guy up close and still believe in him. Impressive.)
Never mind, I think I found a transcript, also at dKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/8/72844/41605/801/532101
Auguste, thanks for posting that.
I typically don’t watch these campaign videos and such because I’m just too burned out on politicians, and I’m tired of marketing over substance. But I watched this one. And I was impressed.
The man is real. He’s not just some over-entitled jerk who thinks POTUS is his birthright.
Real leadership isn’t about being “The Deciderer”, it’s about inspiring people to do their best job, and giving them a guiding philosophy they can believe in while doing it.
Obama has it. And thank god for it…