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The Obama Speech: What Must It Feel Like?

05 Nov 2008
Posted by Stan Collender

I'll leave it to all of the political blogs to analyse Barack Obama's speech tonight. 

But I can't help but wonder what it must be like to stand at a podium before hundreds of thousands of people and accept the power that the voters have just transferred to you.  Is it humbling or enabling?  As you are about to come out on the stage, do you ask yourself whether you are really ready for this moment or did that stop being a question a long time ago?

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"I knew this would work"

He looks as though he expected it to work this way.

Posted by Larry on Nov 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm.

The Consequences

One way or another--but especially if you're a Democrat--you have to Get a Dog.

Which is, presumably, ennabling. (A cat would be humbling.)

Posted by Ken Houghton on Nov 5th, 2008 at 7:34 pm.

I have a question for a

I have a question for a school project-

at this moment in time, how would you formally refer to Obama? Would it still be Senator Obama, or President-Elect, or just Mr. Obama?

Posted by Madame President on Nov 6th, 2008 at 10:58 pm.

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