I’m still incensed over Obama’s victory speech delivered on June 3^rd in St Paul.  I’m going to go line by line and take apart this spectacular oratorical debauchery.   My Comments will be in Bold:  and pardon my spelling errors.

You will find a theme in here: Lies, Damn Lies, False Claims, False Assertions, and False Conclusions.  Most of them unproven.  In fact most of this are just assertions and conclusions with NO proof.  He makes no logical arguments in this entire speech. 

Tonight, after fifty-four hard-fought contests, our primary season has finally come to an end.

I want to thank every American who stood with us over the course of this campaign - through the good days and the bad; from the snows of Cedar Rapids to the sunshine of Sioux Falls. And tonight I also want to thank the men and woman who took this journey with me as fellow candidates for President.

At this defining moment for our nation, we should be proud that our party put forth one of the most talented, qualified field of individuals ever to run for this office. I have not just competed with them as rivals, I have learned from them as friends, as public servants, and as patriots who love America and are willing to work tirelessly to make this country better. They are leaders of this party, and leaders that America will turn to for years to come.

We've certainly had our differences over the last sixteen months. But as someone who's shared a stage with her many times, I can tell you that what gets Hillary Clinton up in the morning - even in the face of tough odds - is exactly what sent her and Bill Clinton to sign up for their first campaign in Texas all those years ago; what sent her to work at the Children's Defense Fund and made her fight for health care as First Lady; what led her to the United States Senate and fueled her barrier-breaking campaign for the presidency - an unyielding desire to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, no matter how difficult the fight may be. And you can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country, she will be central to that victory. When we transform our energy policy [Psst I think he forget that he voted for the Energy Act of 2005 that he now has all but opposed?] and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she worked to help make it happen. Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

There are those who say that this primary has somehow left us weaker and more divided. Well I say that because of this primary, there are millions of Americans who have cast their ballot for the very first time. There are Independents and Republicans who understand that this election isn't just about the party in charge of Washington, it's about the need to change Washington. There are young people, and African-Americans, and Latinos, and women of all ages who have voted in numbers that have broken records and inspired a nation.

It's not change when he offers four more years of Bush economic policies that have failed to create well-paying jobs[mmm, data is mixed on this.  Put it this way because we liquid our savings which were gaining us money it looks like we’ve all had pay cuts in our jobs.  Plus it’s not like the government is good at business either.  Should 100 senators, and 435 congressmen decide production in this country?  Sorry socialists but that doesn’t pass a common sense test.] , or insure our workers [McCain’s plan is vastly different from Bush’s which wasn’t even executed because of filibusters in Congress.  Don’t pin liberal filibusters on McCain.  And it’s not like Obama's healthcare is going to help either – it is just going to bankrupt this country.  Silly liberal economics are for conservatives.  McCain is going to update our healthcare so that it can 1) be organized in the free market and 2) get it away from employer based.  He is also going to continue his battle for tort reform.  Which is one of the main reasons health care is so expensive.], or help Americans afford the skyrocketing cost of college - policies that have lowered the real incomes of the average American family, widened the gap between Wall Street and Main Street [Main Streeters need to learn to save - sorry it's the truth.  They need to re-learn this virtue and they will without the government’s help thank you very much], and left our children with a mountain of debt [What the hell… his programs are going to cost us 875 billion dollars of new spending  875 875 875 875 875 875 875 OF NEW SPENDING!  AND HE HAS THE AUDACITY TO TALK TO US ABOUT DEBT?!  I NEED TO HOLD MY TYPING FINGERS OR ELSE THEY ARE GOING TO GO OFF ON OBAMA!].

Change is a foreign policy that doesn't begin and end with a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. [Ok but no one else is saying that.  In other words McCain would agree with him and everyone else that Iraq is not the be all and end all of FP.  Obviously McCain and his ilk wouldn’t agree with the should’ve never been authorized and never been waged part but that is a given.]  I won't stand here and pretend that there are many good options left in Iraq [In other words – I won’t stand here and pretend I’d actually be stupid enough to withdraw because any smart person knows that would be disastrous including my former adviser Samantha Powers], but what's not an option is leaving our troops in that country for the next hundred years [We’re going to have to leave a small number of troops there, any general liberal or conservative would tell you that… it’s not like we’re going to be in a war there for 100 years.  And he should drop the 100 years line, anyone liberal or conservative can see he is lying there.  Look, his chief campaign adviser David Alexrod said he shouldn’t be saying that because it isn’t what McCain said.  Note to Obama: If you’re top advisor's tells you to stop lying you should listen.]- especially at a time when our military is overstretched, our nation is isolated, and nearly every other threat to America is being ignored [So our military is overstretched to handle Iraq but they are not overstretched to be able to handle the other threats that apparently are just so many?   Ok… logic 101 for him!  And what other threats are there?  Iran, North Korea… Islamic terrorism.  Ok we’re dealing with two of those three on Iraqi soil and winning… and we’ve contained North Korea and are in heavy negotiations with them in which we’ve pretty much got the upper hand.  SO please can some liberal expound on this point?] .

We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in - but start leaving we must[ thanks Yoda, but remember surrender is not the Jedi way – they fight for what is right and wouldn’t stand for what he would approve even if the galactic senate would! - sorry couldn't resist y'all]. It's time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their future [They are and we do need to make them use some of their oil money to pay for repairs and rebuilding which McCain supports].. It's time to rebuild our military and give our veterans the care they need and the benefits they deserve when they come home [McCain’s bill was better imo than Webb’s.]. It's time to refocus our efforts on al Qaeda's leadership and Afghanistan [Seriously? AQ is in HQ’ed in Pakistan and the border region with Afghanistan.  The Taliban there is rebuilding in the South but we are still winning.  We need our NATO allies to do their part too.] , and rally the world against the common threats of the 21st century - terrorism and nuclear weapons [McCain would do that – you want to negotiate with terrorists and empower them.  He doesn’t know a thing about defense and never will.  He just doesn’t have that experience.  As for nuclear weapons... I guess when he sits down for tea with his pal Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he could discuss that.  Maybe make a few concessions and appeasements to him too while he is at it.]; climate change and poverty[ big government has a horrible track record fixing poverty.  Obama needs to go back to Harvard and learn economics and history for that.  Look at the Asian Tigers – how Republican economics works.  Again go back to school and study business (and history + economics)and economics and become a Republican.  As for climate change McCain is handling that and unfortunately for us it is going to be a big bureaucratic program instead of a simple carbon tax but that is a different topic.  Besides Obama and McCain agree on that agenda - hence no need to go after him.  The only difference is that Obama wants to tax and spend and create inefficient jobs “Green Jobs” which he hasn’t explained or elaborated on because he likes to talk about the big picture while ignoring pesky details like what he would actually do and HOW he would do it].; genocide and disease [Another reason not to leave Iraq too early].. That's what change is.  [No, change is not recycling ideas from the Socialist International meetings and updating them to 21^st century problems.]

Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and workers who created it. It's understanding that the struggles facing working families can't be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, but by giving a the middle-class a tax break [50% of Americans don’t pay any income taxes at all.  And btw the top 5% pay over 50% of income taxes… so again – why do people living in the 25^th to 75^th percentile deserve tax breaks (when only 25% of them pay any income taxes) but the 75^th to 100^th percentile income earners who invest in and build our economy don’t.  If you look at tax levels and revenue levels you will see that no matter how much you tax the rich you will get roughly the same amount of revenue.  Why?  Because high taxes stifle and shrink economic growth.  JFK knew that why doesn’t Snobama?  The data is not on his side here… Like I said before, HE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO HIS FANCY SCHOOL AND LEARN SUMTHINGS.] and investing in our crumbling infrastructure[he has a point here.  This would be a good thing to do.], and transforming how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to science and innovation[ all good points McCain agrees with and has in his policies too.  However the best innovation comes from businesses in the private sector, not government programs.]. It's understanding that fiscal responsibility and shared prosperity can go hand-in-hand, as they did when Bill Clinton was President.[WHAT?!  Bill Clinton practiced for the most part Reagonomics.  Yes he raised taxes and cut defense, but besides that in terms of discretionary domestic spending he was much more prudent.  In fact Clinton could be considered an economic moderate to conservative.  Shared prosperity sounds like socialism to me and when that happens no one prospers but everyone suffers equally.  And again he has NO RIGHT to talk about fiscal responsibility.  Mr. Spend-tax-borrow-and-spend-more. tsk tsk.]   

John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy - cities in Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in Minnesota - he'd understand the kind of change that people are looking for[He just finished touring the countries hardest hit areas in Appalachia, urban cities, New Orleans… He did exactly what Obama said he didn’t.  So that means he lied, or he didn’t know.  Since his speeches are proof read that means… oh screw it, he lied in my opinion.].

Maybe if he went to Iowa and met the student who works the night shift after a full day of class and still can't pay the medical bills for a sister who's ill, he'd understand that she can't afford four more years of a health care plan that only takes care of the healthy and wealthy[Short term solution: government take over of healthcare.  Long term solution: make healthcare affordable for everyone through innovation, and reform in the structure of the private market and in property rights aka tort reform.  Please for the love of my generation think about things in the long run.  We don’t need more debt and broken systems later on.]. She needs us to pass health care plan that guarantees insurance to every American who wants it and brings down premiums for every family who needs it. That's the change we need [You know something – there is going to be sob stories everywhere… show an Iraqi who lost his only child because terrorists are embolden by Obama’s “pull out” rhetoric.  Or for happy exceptions: show a family that is now well off because they got a new job created by free trade!]

Maybe if he went to Pennsylvania and met the man who lost his job but can't even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one, he'd understand that we can't afford four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators[Obama is dangerously wrong on this… let me talk more about it after you hear the next few lines]. That man needs us to pass an energy policy that works with automakers to raise fuel standards, and makes corporations pay for their pollution, and oil companies invest their record profits in a clean energy future - an energy policy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced[Ignore the protectionist anti-free trade bullshit here and let’s evaluate his energy policy.  First off let’s state that 99% of economists agree it will result in a huge increase in energy prices in the short run that could last up to a decade.  Second of all until we get new energy sources in place the only way to reduce the price is to lessen the demand or increase the supply of petroleum.  Every other country with oil is drilling and producing it.  Every other country with oil off its shores is drilling for it.  But not us.  Obama’s plan is reduce supply.  See by taxing oil companies you will have less expansion and less production because they use their revenue to invest in creating new supply.  The tax is also going to be at least partially passed onto the consumer – which anyone who has taken Macro 101 knows.  Again a passed on tax = a reduction in income if they are dependent on that product which is being taxed.  Second of all green energy is not a panacea!  It will take a modest estimate of 20 to 30 years before we will go green with energy and that is assuming we use nuclear power plants, something Obama opposes.  So again HOW THE HELL IS HE GOING TO ACCOMPLISH HIS LOFTY RHETORIC?!  He can’t.  He doesn’t offer a reality based solution.  It’s just smarmy feel good talk.  The fact that 45% of our population believes in this hollow bull shows just how much improvements in the education system that we need – heh the Democrats big issue would actually lead to a decrease in the number of Democrats J]. That's the change we need.[Indeed, less Democrats would be great!] 

And maybe if he spent some time in the schools of South Carolina or St. Paul or where he spoke tonight in New Orleans, he'd understand that we can't afford to leave the money behind for No Child Left Behind; that we owe it to our children to invest in early childhood education; to recruit an army of new teachers and give them better pay and more support[When has the federal government done that?  That’s usually a state task.  I don’t think the 40 plus states that are red states want him and Pinko Pelosi to invade their education system with your liberal agenda tyvm  - plus this smells like an expansion of bureaucracy to me.].; to finally decide that in this global economy, the chance to get a college education should not be a privilege for the wealthy few, but the birthright of every American[Starla is going to guest blog on this claim.  However I will say I support any sort of education initiatives because they raise more GDP and tax revenues in the long run then they cost.  It’s smart economics just like good infrastructure.]. That's the change we need in America. That's why I'm running for President.

The other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of policies and positions, and that is a debate I look forward to. It is a debate the American people deserve. But what you don't deserve is another election that's governed by fear, and innuendo, and division[Fear is important we should fear people who want to kill us.  Innuendo?  Like sexual?  He isn't running against Bill Clinton….and division is exactly what his policies in the senate created, oh wait, what policies?  Sorry your feelings about policies.] What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon - that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize[McCain is not going to use any of those things.  Patriotism will emerge because of the juxtaposition of them on stage.  A war hero versus a whiny kid with big eyes and a small non-lizard brain].. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first.

Despite what the good Senator from Arizona said tonight, I have seen people of differing views and opinions find common cause many times during my two decades in public life[He saw them but he sure didn’t help them out with his 97% Democrat voting record], and I have brought many together myself [Give us 3 examples as good as McCain’s  Heh give us .5 of one - no one can unless they include ones in which he reneged anyway]. I've walked arm-in-arm with community leaders on the South Side of Chicago and watched tensions fade as black, white, and Latino fought together for good jobs and good schools. I've sat across the table from law enforcement and civil rights advocates to reform a criminal justice system that sent thirteen innocent people to death row. And I've worked with friends in the other party to provide more children with health insurance and more working families with a tax break; to curb the spread of nuclear weapons and ensure that the American people know where their tax dollars are being spent[transparent BIG inefficient government bureaucracies!  Yay tell me where I sign up to say nobama!] ; and to reduce the influence of lobbyists who have all too often set the agenda in Washington [*in an opera voice* Tony Rezko!  Tony Rezko!].

In our country, I have found that this cooperation happens not because we agree on everything, but because behind all the labels and false divisions and categories that define us; beyond all the petty bickering and point-scoring in Washington, Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate people, united by common challenges and common hopes. And every so often, there are moments which call on that fundamental goodness to make this country great again.

So it was for that band of patriots who declared in a Philadelphia hall the formation of a more perfect union; and for all those who gave on the fields of Gettysburg and Antietam their last full measure of devotion to save that same union.

So it was for the Greatest Generation that conquered fear itself, and liberated a continent from tyranny, and made this country home to untold opportunity and prosperity.

So it was for the workers who stood out on the picket lines; the women who shattered glass ceilings; the children who braved a Selma bridge for freedom's cause.

So it has been for every generation that faced down the greatest challenges and the most improbable odds to leave their children a world that's better, and kinder, and more just.

And so it must be for us.

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals. Thank you, God Bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.  [insert reverend Wright line here… hypocrite]