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Subject: Obama Videos?

  Posted by: Boxman - [571114225] Wed, Nov 05, 2008, 18:30
I didn't vote for him. I don't like his policies. Yet I celebrate the racial and cultural leap we took together yesterday as a country. Knowing the historical impact of him even being a nominee let alone President-Elect I'd like to have a video of his acceptance speech.

His inaugural I can put to a DVR or I'll just buy a DVD burner VCR and make a copy that way.

Where can I download his acceptance speech?
 
1Perm Dude
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      Wed, Nov 05, 2008, 18:59 		The DNC convention speech?
 
2Perm Dude
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      Wed, Nov 05, 2008, 19:00 		His 2004 DNC speech is pretty good too. So's his speech on race in Philly....
 
3Perm Dude
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      Wed, Nov 05, 2008, 19:02 		His website has a number of videos, but they are in-page:

http://www.barackobama.com/tv/

 
4Razor
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      Wed, Nov 05, 2008, 19:15 		I am certain he is talking about his speech last night in Chicago after he won the election.

Not downloadable, but here
 
5Baldwin
      ID: 201045320
      Wed, Nov 05, 2008, 20:07 		While we are at it get the whole collection...
"McCain's whole campaign was a concession speech." - Rush Limbaugh
 
6RecycledSpinalFluid
      Dude
      ID: 204401122
      Wed, Nov 05, 2008, 20:15 		I used the TechCrunch Online YouTube Download Tool to rip Razor's link as a FLV file.

Here it is as a 38 MB obama_election_night.flv

I'll keep it up there until tomorrow. Not sure on copyright of that thing or else I'd just leave it there.
 
7Boxman
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 07:37 		RSF, that worked like a charm. Thank you.

I have quite a few minority friends either at work or outside of it. I haven't talked to the ones outside of work yet, but the ones at work literally held back tears when they talked about his acceptance / victory speech.

One of them is a guy in his upper 50's whose parents went thru hell during the civil rights movement. Anyone with half a brain respects the hell out of this man because his department is top notch and you can count on him to deliver. He took two days off of work to knock on doors in Indiana. The man drove 100 miles to another state, at his own expense, in a car that he isn't too confident in, to knock on the doors of people he didn't know for two days to get them out to vote for Obama.

He's been a Democrat all his life, but he never got involved in the political process (other than voting) until this campaign.

I asked him why did he do it. Why blow two vacation days for a guy that's going to win in a landslide anyway. We're friends so we speak freely to each other about race. Was it because Obama was black and he just wanted the black guy to win? What was it?

He told me, holding back tears, that black people need a hero that doesn't leave college for the NBA, doesn't have a shoe deal or a rap album or a gang of thugs at his side. They need heroes with briefcases. He told me that black kids need to know it's OK to achieve in school and not be a sell out and that hard work pays off and that the easy way out is the losers way out.

Those were pretty much his words as I can remember them. I'll never forget that conversation as long as I live.
 
8Perm Dude
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 08:01 		Wow. Thanks for passing that along, Boxman.
 
9Boxman
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 10:21 		What amazes me PD. Is that he can't be the only one who did that, not by a long shot. I was offered a ticket to the rally at Grant Park and I turned it down. I don't regret that decision because there are 1000s of others more deserving to see that moment face to face than me.

From what I was told, when he was announced as the winner, black/white/brown/yellow/gay/straight/male/female didn't matter for once in our lives at that moment. The person who went told me it reminded them of the World War II victory photos of random people hugging and kissing in the streets.

Maybe Obama doesn't need to be a good President or a good thinker. Maybe he's even a Marxist like I and others have put forth earlier. But if the man, whether deliberately or not, makes us like one another more without regard to things that irrelevant anyway, then he'll at least achieve a large form of success for this country culturally.

Even if he doesn't solve our problems or fvcks up royally, it's always better to die on our feet than live on our knees. If he makes people feel that way about each other, many for the first time, where's the harm?
 
10Tree
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 10:58 		He told me, holding back tears, that black people need a hero that doesn't leave college for the NBA, doesn't have a shoe deal or a rap album or a gang of thugs at his side. They need heroes with briefcases. He told me that black kids need to know it's OK to achieve in school and not be a sell out and that hard work pays off and that the easy way out is the losers way out.

Those were pretty much his words as I can remember them. I'll never forget that conversation as long as I live.

thanks for re-telling that Box.

i might be mistaken, but i think a few posters on this board reflected something similar during the campaign - here was an african-american, and by all accounts was a good and decent man, and he was running for president, and had a danged good shot at winning.

yet, so many people tried to tear him down in violent and vicious ways.

From what I was told, when he was announced as the winner, black/white/brown/yellow/gay/straight/male/female didn't matter for once in our lives at that moment. The person who went told me it reminded them of the World War II victory photos of random people hugging and kissing in the streets.

Maybe Obama doesn't need to be a good President or a good thinker. Maybe he's even a Marxist like I and others have put forth earlier. But if the man, whether deliberately or not, makes us like one another more without regard to things that irrelevant anyway, then he'll at least achieve a large form of success for this country culturally.

and thanks for this. this was a really great post, and one of the better ones from you on this board.

here in NYC, people were honking their horns and singing and dancing and hugging in the street until all hours of the night. it was a beautiful thing.

last night, i hung out with an old friend from high school. although he's less conservative then he lets us, for the most part, we're on opposite ends of the political spectrum.

he LOVES his current boss, and part of his job is to protect his boss from harm.

but, he's getting a new boss on January 20, and he's unsure about the new boss. he was very much against this new boss, but now that it has come to be, he said to me last night. "i respect the man currently in office. and i respect The Office. but i don't know the man about to be in office that well, and he hasn't done anything to earn *my* respect. I will still respect The Office, and do my job, and i hope i come to respect the new guy as well..."

that's a far cry from a few months ago, when he was really, really against this change.

your post above, as well as my conversation with my friend, gives me hope that even people i disagree strongly with can see this as a momentous event, and possibly, even for just a minute, stop trying to destroy it.

i appreciate it. thanks.
 
11walk
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 11:13 		Box. Word. Excellent posts. Looking at the glass half full based on someone you did not support. Very cool.
 
12C1-NRB
      ID: 17101168
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 11:51 		I heard someone say yesterday that decisions can be seen two ways: You can make the right decision and you can make the decision right.
It doesn't matter which side of the decision you're on. In the end what is best for the country needs to be put first.
As someone who considers himself on the conservative side of moderate (my voting pattern has been rather ecletic over the last few cycles), I hope both "sides" are disappointed the next four years.
 
13Baldwin
      ID: 201045320
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 12:06 		The glass was not half full under Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro. It won't be half full under Hugo Chavez or any other tyrant who imposes a philosophy that never works for anyone's benefit, not even the corrupt nomenclatura in charge, and stands unmerciful over the dead and imprisoned bodies of their victims.

I don't know how much of Obama's agenda he can actually accomplish or how fast he can/or intends to accomplish it but in the end the net effect will not be positive.

I would love to celebrate the symbolism of a black man fully triumphant and inspirational to so many who truly deserve such inspiration, but not at the cost of the enslavement of the entire human race under marxism.
 
14Perm Dude
      ID: 56105866
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 12:16 		the enslavement of the entire human race under marxism.

Holy crap--what an agenda!
 
15Tree
      ID: 121035316
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 12:19 		I don't know how much of Obama's agenda he can actually accomplish

and what is Obama's agenda, because quite frankly, i'm pretty sure you have NO CLUE.

I would love to celebrate the symbolism of a black man fully triumphant and inspirational to so many who truly deserve such inspiration, but not at the cost of the enslavement of the entire human race under marxism.

everytime you say something stupid, i think it will be impossible for you to top your last statement. and every time, i've been wrong, because you keep coming up with incredible whoppers. INCREDIBLE whoppers.

with every post, you become more and more like David Vobra, Ramzee Robinson, Ryan Hoag, and Tevita Ofahengaue.
 
16sarge33rd
      ID: 99331714
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 12:22 		I was thinking more along the lines of "chicken little" Tree.
 
17DWetzel at work
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 12:36 		I think I heard on some web site that Obama drinks Hitler's blood at midnight for power. We should all be afraid.
 
18sarge33rd
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 12:43 		ROFLMAO DW. WND was it? ;)
 
19Baldwin
      ID: 201045320
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 12:54 		Study the globalists.
 
20Perm Dude
      ID: 56105866
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 13:02 		Baldwin's family contemplates conspiracies around the yard:

 
21sarge33rd
      ID: 99331714
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 13:06 		Dihydrogen-Oxide :)
 
22Baldwin
      ID: 201045320
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 13:36 		""

Thanks Tom and Charlie
 
23sarge33rd
      ID: 99331714
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 13:41 		gee, how many times is THAT gonna be trotted out, shot down, and demonstrated as trivial as it has been?
 
24walk
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 13:41 		"enslavement of the entire human race under Obama"...? Now I'm convinced Baldwin is some Harold or Kumar dude doing bong hits with his virtual superbad "buds" going: "Wait, I got another one that'll get 'em going. Read this. They are gonna freak! ROTFLOL!"
 
25Perm Dude
      ID: 56105866
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 14:16 		#22: Exactly what is that supposed to show?
 
26boikin
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      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 14:36 		Re:20 i could watch the whole thing, my head so hurts now....please tell me this is an act.
 
27Tree
      ID: 121035316
      Thu, Nov 06, 2008, 14:54 		I was thinking more along the lines of "chicken little" Tree.

btw, all the guys i named are Mr. Irrelevant's from the NFL draft, and Irrelevant is something Baldwin is rapidly becoming - if he's not already there.