It's on now. He's talking about change.

That's Clinton's strength (IMO).  People overlook how significantly she complements his rhetoric with detail and professionalism.

Maybe if someone records it and plays it backwards, we will discover the hidden message: I am Oz, the Great and Powerful...

After 8 years of yelling obscenities as the President speaks.....I can look forward to at least 4 years of

Soundbite from the speech: "My two daughters see themselves differently because Hillary ran for President."

He's lost the magic, too.

In passing, about his speeches, in my (very informed) opinion a contributing factor to the slowdown on his Jan/Feb momentum was the quality of his clips playing up against a schedule of oncoming primaries.

People at upcoming stops would see a clip of a recent speech with wildly cheering crowds and in the dead of winter think, man, I gotta see that. That's free is it? I gotta go.

Now, when he misses his cues or has paused for audience cheering / fainting / applauding, it's agony, like one of those SNL gags that's not funny even for a second but goes on forever. A seasoned speaker -- someone who's legitimately GOOD at it -- knows how to compensate but Obama's "excellence" relies more on his audience never having heard the phrases from Obama's cobbled material.

When he yells out a speech and there's NO cheering (like there was supposed to be) he sounds (a) daft; (b) like he's talking while listening to personal audio too loud or (c) he's using the outside voice again.

Also, Obama's a good speaker when he's working off audience energy, but he's really teh suck when they're not with him. He's not a good recoverer; eople who are bored easily never are. Plus, he doesn't do flop sweat well. On him, it's agonizing.

He'll have to work on that or have a box/hump on his back eventually.

Obama: I'm cuttin' ties with Rev. Wright. He's not the man I once knew.

Obama: I'm cuttin' ties with Father Pfleger, he's not the man I once new.

Obama: I'm quittin' Trinity United. It's not the same Church I once knew.

I sure hope his daughters didn't hear the remarks about how deeply flawed and untrustworthy she is.  Or how she periodically attacks when she feels down.

All the middle class, middle-age to older, white, hickish-looking folks all sitting there right behind him...

And how egotistical is it for Obama to smoothe things over by listening to the sound of his own voice. Why not throw in a few choruses of My D!ck in a Box?

To gnignprop, it's been two days. As others have said, let people blow off some steam. They aren't trashing Obama, they're venting their frustration that their candidate didn't win and at how poorly she was treated.

I'm very flattered that the readers here have treated TL with respect by staying within the comment rules. It's not easy on a day like today, even for me.

I've said a dozen different times I'm voting for Obama. Even Obama says change doesn't happen overnight.

It's not time yet to launch into Obama v McCain -- it's months to the general election, I'm not a party activist and I'm not that interested yet. I tend to live in the present and the news today and tomorrow and Saturday will be Hillary dropping out and Obama getting the nomination.

Right now I care about Hillary and her supporters, not Obama.

let's face it, the guy is a plastic man, all facade, no substance. good luck to him in the GE, he'll need it.

* full disclosure: i started out liking sen. obama, at the beginning of the primary campaign. i honestly thought (and still do) that his biggest negative is his lack of experience, by comparison to sen. clinton.

however, i did think they'd make a great democratic ticket, her as pres. and him as veep. that would give him time, and a good mentor, to get that valuable experience, for 2016.

as a result of the sleazoid campaign he's run, i no longer even like him. while i won't actively campaign against him, nor will i vote for mccain, i won't support him and i can't, in good conscionce, vote for him in nov.

The CHANGE I'm looking for is already starting:  

On Good Morning America Thursday, ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos reported "the Democratic National Committee will no longer accept contributions from federal lobbyists, will no longer take contributions from PACs" in keeping with Obama's well-publicized policy.

You can say you will vote for McCain or not vote at all or give money to McCain, but the truth is that Obama's beliefs are mostly like that of the average Democrat. If he becomes president he will be vastly better than John McCain in so many ways. Supporting McCain because you are mad at Obama is like shooting yourself in the foot. Believe me, for all Obama's flaws, McCain is not deserving of your support.

McCain will overturn Roe vs. Wade via his supreme court nominees. There is no way Obama will do that. McCain will keep us in Iraq years longer than Obama. McCain cares absolutely nothing for regular Americans. I believe Obama cares and will take action on health care. As BTD said in an earlier post, on almost every policy issue Obama and Hillary agree.

If you care about our country, it is time to move past the bitterness and the meanness toward Obama. I believe Hillary wants what's best for our country. She's an amazing leader and despite everything that happened during the primary campaign, she is going to back Obama. She's a class act and we should follow her lead.

My challenge to you, Jeralyn, is to ask your readers to stop bashing Obama. Set an example for them by telling them it is time to move on from all the negativity.

Obama is not your first choice. I respect that, but the meanness here has got to stop for the overall good. It doesn't belong on TalkLeft.