Giving A Good Speech

I've always liked this speech, it still gives me goose bumps when I watch it. Yes, it's from a movie (The American President) and yes you're damn right it was written by Aaron Sorkin. But the important bits are really important and very true and yesterday Obama finally came close to owning them.

Watch the clip and just replace Bob Rumson's name with John McCain's or Bush or Cheney or any other recent Republican name. The bottom line is it's the truth and we could use a little more of that.

John's problem isn't that he doesn't get it, it's that he can't sell it. We have serious problems to solve and we need serious people to solve them, and what ever your particular problem is I promise you John McCain is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it. That ladies and gentleman is how you win elections.

Sounds about right doesn't it?