What are you expecting?
My picks, with 10 being the most certain:
Shout-out to McCain's service - 10
Shout-out to the Clintons -- 10
Shout-out to the Kennedys -- 10
Shout-out to the ladies -- 9
MLK-speech anniversary -- 9
Change/gridlock/aisle reacharounds -- 9
Something said with obviously false humility (such as his wife being his better half) -- 9
McCain = more Bush -- 9
Wow, someone with my background got nominated -- 9
Faith/religion -- 8
Biden as foreign-policy expert -- 8
Shout-out to young voters -- 7
It's about you, not me -- 7
Katrina -- 4
Universal Healthcare (in any other context than it being Hillary's mission) -- 3
GLBT rights -- 3
Getting out of Iraq without at least once qualifying it as "responsibly" -- 2
America having the largest prison population -- 2
Restoring Constitutional government -- 2
Apologies for smears from his campaign -- 0
Investigating, locking up GOP criminals -- 0
The big question is how much red tofu will he deliver to the base. My guess is more than usual by his standards, but not a lot. Whaddayouthink?
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-10 Ethanol is a disaster
(Negative numbers are OK, I assume.)
Directly coupling the markets for food and fuel! What could go wrong?
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
Ditto for nuke power n/t
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Looking annoyed
When the crowd dares step on his script and applause lines like his kids did - 4
Otherwise these are all 10s:
Shout-out to the ladies —
MLK-speech anniversary —
Change/gridlock/aisle reacharounds -
Something said with obviously false humility (such as his wife being his better half) —
McCain = more Bush —
Wow, someone with my background got nominated —
Faith/religion —
Biden as foreign-policy expert —
Shout-out to young voters —
It’s about you, not me —
And these are 0s:
GLBT rights —
Getting out of Iraq without at least once qualifying it as “responsibly” —
America having the largest prison population —
Restoring Constitutional government —
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Clean coal
That would be a 7.
"Green collar" jobs = 10
Borrowing money from the Chinese to pay "those who hate" us, or "the Saudis" = 9
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What are the odds that he'll mention
his phony Air Force One that's supposed to be on the field at the stadium before his speech?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew...
This is like the phony presidential seal all over again.
oil profits
roll-back Patriot Act = 0
personally regret FISA = 0
will listen to Iraq when they ask us to leave = 0
oil companies made more profit at US expense than any corporations in history = 0
denounce torture = 0
restore habeaus = 0
try Bush as war criminal = 0
campaign attack ads say I hung out with a bomber, but at least I never gave away military secret = 1
Uhh-bama
Uhh- 3,714
My bad
I thought this was the number of times he'd say something.
Uh- 10
The word
"Democrat" or "Democrats" or "Democratic Party", except in a phrase in which it is linked with "Republican" (as in "whether you are a Democrat or a Republican or neither")= 0
Can I use negative numbers?
BTW, if I'm wrong about this, I'll be (probably) pleasantly surprised, but it will take a lot more than one speech (or one line in one speech) to undo what he's done.
i wonder if he got the message about that--
i bet he does mention the party more than he would otherwise have done so.
it'll be undone tho by the rest of his speech, bec it kills his "unity"/postpartisan bs entirely.
Aha
I see Lambert beat me to the negative numbers. Well done!
Were other speakers other than the Clintons
hammering the word "Democrat"?
I admit I didn't listen to anyone else except Schweitzer (sp?) - I missed Kennedy and haven't gone back to listen to him yet.
not that were widely-televised or covered--
Cable has talked over and/or ignored almost all non-primetime speakers entirely, and networks only covered 10-11pm.
OFB
Netroots/new media: 5
A shout out to environmentalists
He'll free Shamu.
The friggin' place looks like Sea World. If you don't believe me, brace yourself and turn on cable news. Behold the big blue spot in the center.
"bottom-up": 1000000
"Government as a force that helps people directly" --
-1000000
100% certainty
I won't bother to watch the speech. If I'm not reading, I'll watch Charmed on DVR.
Want to win a bet?
Bet someone that they won't pass out before the end of the speech if they take a shot every time Obama says "middle class".
On second thought...
don't. Not because you'll lose the bet, but because you won't be able to collect after they fall into a coma and then die of alcohol poinoning.
2 - unionization
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
More 10s
"middle class tax cut"
"Hard-working americans"
the amazing job our troops have done in Iraq
and another zero
"16 months"
Lambert, you beat me!
I pointed out that Hillary said "unionization" and predicted it was the last time you would hear that word. So yes, -10. I think they might even try to get the word erased 1984 style.
And the biggies:
Progressive (except if "we need to be more than, or beyond") - 2
(except when compared to conservative. "not liberal or conservative") - 0
Liberal
So bonus points, which comes first?
"Now Republicans have good ideas...."
or
"We have to fight for our beliefs...."
Is that one too easy?
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VL, this is the best and most massive "called shot" post....
... in the history of the known universe!
It would be fun, as a followup, if some kindly reader would take the full text of the speech and compare it to the predictions, in comments and in the post.
It’s about you, not me — 7
For example. Spot on!
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.