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Psychic Prediction
I just had a psychic prediction:
On May 7th, the day
after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, a gang of 100 superdelegates will
announce their support for Illinois Senator Barack Obama. Leading
this gang of 100 will be Al Gore, former vice president of the United
States and the winner of the popular vote for President in 2000.
We
have obtained advanced excerpts of his prepated remarks.
...We
are
Americans. The hope of the world. We are democrats. The party of enlightened fairness. We are, all of us, imperfect. But that does not mean we
must accept the world the way it is. That does not mean we must think
only in terms of victory and defeat. A great trait of our American
character has lay dormant for far too long: our ability to dream.
We have not, as a nation, taken kindly to the word "can't." But for a
generation we have also protected ourselves with a cynicism that only served to shrink our ideas of what is possible.
It was the same cynicism that led many of us to take the
pragmatic approach and sanction a war we believed it would be
political suicide to oppose...
...In
choosing our next nominee for
president, we cannot, out of fear, judge our nominee solely on some
vague notion of electability. Instead, we must, quite simply, elect
them. We must win the argument. We must be good teachers. And with
this most meaningful victory will come a mandate for change.
Without such a mandate, one more generation will be lost to the mere simulation of
action.
...The next president can band-aid America’s serious risk of decline,
or he can deputize a generation to reverse it. And this is why we
must not hope for the self destruction of any opponent. We must
defeat them fair and square.
If we don't try we will have already lost.




Comments (1)
I'm pretty sure Al Gore will come out for Obama because of Hillary's disregard for the environment with the stupid gas tax pander but 100 super delegates on May 7 is a bit much. As to your speech, I think you totally pick up on Barack's cadences.
May 5, 2008 12:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
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