The Annotated Obama
It may also be worth mentioning that the chants of "eight is enough" that we heard at the Obama acceptance speech last night were previously heard on The West Wing, hurled by a Republican presidential candidate at the Bartlet administration.
It was mentioned on another blog that there was a similarity between Obama's saying John McCain "didn't get it" and a line from Michael Douglas' President Shepherd in The American President, written by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin.
That line, aimed at Richard Dreyfus' Republican candidate in the movie, is actually "Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's problem is that he can't sell it."
Life imitates art imitating life.
In an interview in this month's GQ, Sorkin says he digs Obama.
From the Q&A:
"The first time I met Barack Obama—I should say the only time I’ve met Barack Obama—was a year ago, when he was doing fifty-person-cocktail-party fund-raisers. He flattered me by saying, “My intention is to steal a lot of your lines.” My prediction is he’s just going to blow the doors off the place in Denver. This is a man who—the Jeremiah Wright of it all aside—was clearly paying attention in church. I don’t need to tell you that I’m a big fan of oratory. A big part of leadership is the goose-bump experience. We’ve been missing that."
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NObama, NO way, NO how
Posted on August 29, 2008 12:59 PM
Well reasoned, well argued, well expressed.
You, sir, are a rhetorical giant.
Posted on August 29, 2008 1:08 PM
No Obama No way No how. I admire people with guts enough to say what they think. There are those amongst that only can on speak, what the good ole boys in Raleigh tell them to say. See there people foolish enough to hear Obama, say we will not need foreign oil in 10 years. Yet said we will not be allowed to drill for our own. Then the same folks will not explain how, we are going to do it. Now rhetorical giant Killian, why do you not explain to brainless people how you are going to pull this off.
Posted on August 29, 2008 9:43 PM
I'm not running for anything, Doug. I don't have any policy proposals. I'm just suggesting that anyone interested in serious political debate should put forth a little more effort than a jeering slogan.
Posted on August 29, 2008 10:20 PM
Good, then seriously tell us how we are going to get our oil. If I was backing a candidate, before I attacked some blogger, I would be able to explain my candidates proposal. Could be that Holden, has some idea whats going on. So he stated a opinion. Since you did not like his opinion, I am asking all you liberals to explain, how Obama plan would work.
Posted on August 30, 2008 5:59 AM
The earth percolates liquid hydrocarbons up through its mantle. It's called abiatic hydrocarbons. Just be patient and prove this to the rest of the world, This is what the Russians are building their empire on. Not some friigin "fossil fuel field 40,000 feet below the Earth's surface",,,
Posted on August 31, 2008 11:45 PM
Wow, for a moment there, I thought the head said "The Anointed Obama".
Silly me, which I'm sure Killian will take the opportunity to tell us all.
Posted on September 1, 2008 4:16 PM