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The Jefferson-Jackson Day Speeches: Viriginia

By Jeralyn

Here's a thread for the speeches delivered by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at tonight's Virginia Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. (Earlier thread on this here.)

Here is an AP summary of Hillary's speech.

Obama's speech sounds very similar -- almost a replica -- of this one he gave in Denver last week.

Update: 8:53 pm ET: There's your JFK references I predicted earlier, Ted Sorenson at work -- two in one parapgraph.

We’re the party of a man who overcame his own disability to tell us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; who faced down fascism and liberated a continent from tyranny.

And we’re the party of a young President who asked what we could do for our country, and the challenged us to do it.

More...and question for Obama supporters below:

Question for you Obama supporters: This is the second or third time I have heard him refer to being raised by a single mother. I thought his mother remarried when he was 4 or 5 and they moved to Indonesia where he lived with her and her husband until he returned to Hawaii at age 10 or 11 to live with his grandparents, and he lived with them through high school. How many years did he live only with his mother while she was single? Was he really raised by a single mother?

(As a single parent from the time the TL kid was two, this is of personal interest to me.)

[Update: When I saw a transcript of his speech, his reference to a single mother wasn't in it so I thought I misheard and posted a correction here. I just heard the speech for the second time again, and it prominent and at the end. So I'm removing my correction, I was right the first time.)

Update: Thread cleaned of off-topic comments and comments now closed.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).