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August 28, 2008
UH- UH- Obama Seeks Solitude To Write Big Ole Speech
Obama Preps in Solitude for Speech
by Carrie Budoff Brown
For three days in a row, Barack Obama traded his Hyde Park home for a solitary Park Hyatt hotel room.
He needed space to think, on his own. With no aides and a small security detail, he put his pencil to his legal pad and worked on a nomination acceptance speech that pundits will inevitably compare to the 2004 Democratic National Convention address that catapulted him into political stardom.
Facing expectations much higher this time around, Obama was ensconced inside the downtown luxury hotel — alone, according to aides — preparing for the biggest speech of his career.
He worked on it for 20 hours, until past midnight each day.
“I am still tooling around with my speech a little bit,” Obama said Sunday.
In an obvious attempt to lower the bar, he said “it may not be as good as the headliners of the other three nights, but hopefully it will make clear the choice that the American people are going to face in November.”
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But after campaigning in Wisconsin, Obama flew home, worked out and made the 20-minute trip from Hyde Park to the Hyatt. His motorcade disappeared into a private garage, as did Obama in the hotel for the next seven hours. He emerged at 2 a.m., sitting in the back seat of an SUV, his head either bowed in exhaustion or buried in materials on his lap.
“He can clear his thoughts and write without the distractions of home,” Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
He has collaborated with speechwriters and top aides, but with many of them in Denver already, Obama has worked alone at the hotel, Psaki said.
The late-night sessions shed light on the meticulous preparations that are going into the speech. Expectations will undoutedly build this week as the media revisits Obama's 2004 convention performance and speculate about the impact of this year's address.
“This speech requires more thought, more preparation,” Obama told the Chicago Tribune in an interview published Saturday. “I’m not focused on trying to match the soaring rhetoric or levels of excitement that we had four years ago. This is much more a yeoman-like task of making the case for my presidency.”
Wild Thing's comment..........
"He worked on it for 20 hours, until past midnight each day."
I call this baloney!! There are only 24 hours in the day (unless Barry thinks that there are 57 hours). That gives him four hours to sleep, eat, listen to people chant his name, etc.
Obama preps........
First, look at the teleprompter on the left.
Then over to the right. Back to the left and then pause and gaze into the teleprompter in the middle.
Now stare at the crowd as they chant my name.
Back to teleprompter on the right. Then Left. Then middle.
More chanting...More teleprompters.
Posted by Wild Thing at August 28, 2008 04:50 AM
Comments
Socialist usually never have trouble with speeches as they don't worry about the truth.
I may or may not listen. I know it will be a feel good, promise everything, lie out your teeth, self praising, cliche riddled speech. The sheeple will love it.
Posted by: TomR at August 28, 2008 09:36 AM
Back during the Alaska State elections of the mid '80s the polls were shut down by activists(anarchists) who dynamited the power transmission lines feeding Anchorage, the state's largest voting block right about 5PM,the massive outage causing the polls to close early in Anchorage and Fairbanks, the working class got shortchanged and couldn't vote. It would be fun to see Obama wet his lips to begin his rampage and have that telepromter fail at the outset. I bet he'd stammer and uh, eh, uh, uh, uh, and come off with paucity like this guy.
Well stated Tom.
Posted by: Jack at August 28, 2008 03:15 PM
Tom, yes his sheep will love it. The thing is he has to always top himself so if he wins he will not be just sworn in either. It will have to be some spectacular horrible thing like this. augh!
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 28, 2008 05:55 PM
Jack, LMAO that would be a good thing. hahhaa
He would really freak out big time.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 28, 2008 05:59 PM
Face the facts, the man can't write or speak a coherent sentence. And this from a Harvard educated lawyer. I can do better. I've written speeches. I've been a proofreader. I know as much about the English language as a masters degree education could bring and I got it on the job and in high school.
God, he is so stupid.
Posted by: Lynn at August 28, 2008 07:45 PM
Lynn, and I will add to that you would make a great speech even without notes. Just like how you write in such a great way in your comments.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 29, 2008 12:02 AM
