Actual part of Obama speech. Absolute gobblygook.

"Just remember, my friends, the ballot is stronger than the bullet. And the sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. Remember, you cannot ignore politics no matter how much you'd like to. To put the world right in order, we have to first put the nation in order. To put the nation in order, we have to first put the family in order. To put the family in order, we have to first cultivate our personal life. We must first set our hearts right. We must have hope. Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics don't know what religion is. Politics perhaps is the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil people. I've always said, and you've heard me say it over and over again, in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow, and politics is the bow of idealism.

"Remember this: Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. And anyone who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with that office. Here we are the way politics ought to be in America, the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose, the politics of joy, the politics of hope. In our brief national history, we have shot four of our presidents, we've worried five of them to death, we've impeached one, we've hounded another out of office. When all else fails, we hold an election, we assassinate their character. A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party or men wherever, whatever, in religion, philosophy, politics or anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.

"If I couldn't go to heaven with a party, I wouldn't go there at all. And if they didn't have cigars there, I wouldn't bother, either. A popular government without popular information, with the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce of a tragedy, or perhaps both. Politics, my friends, is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. We don't have a money problem in America. We got values and priorities problems. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, the hopeful and the hopeless, means to side with the hopeful the hopeless, the powerful, and not to be neutral. People who don't vote have no line of credit, my friends, with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. And none of this can happen without hope and change."

You feel faint? You feel faint out there? Are you inspired? Were you elevated? You feel befuddled? Why?.., this was an Obama speech.

Ummm… I DO get it, thank you very much. Why did you feel it necessary to cut and paste the speech on a thread about Hillary's comments? What's there that you don't understand?

I smell a sarcastic hater…

I will also add — my final comment on this thread, promise — that there are plenty of other sites out on the interwebs in which ragging on politics and politicians is appropriate. I hope this is one free that's from that sort of tedium. I hope.

Really.

I do.

poo, Cord has been posting political tidbits here and there for awhile now.

and i'd like to know if anyone is actually going to take the time to read that speech.

and i'm offended by those ridiculous mansions. and i would the job of exciting javier.

oh, and hillary duff's boyfriend is so delish.

aw! noone caught on to her chant! I hate when that happens to me. :<

Mae, take back that comment about Mike Comrie (HD's boyfriend). He is a well-known hockey player who all self-respecting Oilers fans despise for his off-ice behaviour (which I believe involved sleeping with another player's wife) and his whining to be traded. He's a dick.

Will Shrill Hill's will power stop the force that Jedi-Master Obama-wan is using to hold Shrill Hill's farce at bay?

Ew, what a jerk. Sorry, now that Steve Yzerman retired and I don't really follow hockey to begin with (Even as a Detroiter, I despise the Wings) its hard for me to pinpoint a good looking hockey player. Oh wait, Elisha Cuthbert's ex squeeze, Sean Avery is pretty hot. I'll focus on him. Oh Sean. *dreamboat eyes*

It's kind of hard for them to be hot with their missing teeth and mullets, but my heart has belonged to Trevor Linden of the Vancouver Canucks since I was 15. And I am now 31, so this has been my longest and most rewarding relationship ever.