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The President and the Chairman

Started by washingtonindependent · 8 months ago

He burst into public attention as Abraham Lincoln did, with a speech. When he next commanded the nation’s attention, last winter in Iowa and New Hampshire, what was remarkable was not only the power of his speaking but the intensity of his audience’s response — a ... Continue reading »

11 comments

  • l in la

    8 months ago

    STEP AWAY FROM THE KOOLADE
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  • Swami_Binkinanda

    8 months ago

    It's not koolaide, it's distilled hope. Koolaide is for people being sold Jim Jones' suicidal kooky religion. This is the fulfillment of a long put-off dream of America.
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  • DoveSong

    7 months ago

    Nuts dude... You must get some COOL-aid. Now that's Barack. Emphasis on the COOL...
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  • Gene Perla

    8 months ago

    Wow, Harold, Sinatra! Right on the money.
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  • lb

    8 months ago

    The President Elect has always reminded me of Cary Grant-confident and elegant
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  • Jim Burrows

    8 months ago

    I understand Harold's point, but the reason Presley held such magnetism, was not just that part of his appeal was "demonstrative", but that he was seen, from the start, as a person who was white, but sang the blues, gospel, and r&b with the gusto, and the guts that the mere fact of doing that, in mid-fifties America, necessitated. Besides, Presley was just as cool while standing totally still, and singing a ballad in front of 62 million American on the Ed Sullivan Show, as he was demonstrative when on his knees, or lying flat on the floor whilst in the concert tour, also that year, as the more than 120,000 pictures taken of him, on stage, and in 1956 alone, can clearly attest. The unvarnished truth is that Obama's power to captiivate people who are black, white, or of any other racial background, and affect them massively, is a lot more like the case of the young Elvis. Unlike Sinatra, or even Jagger, Presley really inter-acted with his fan base. Incidentally, of those 120,000 photographs taken, in 1956, at least 90 percent were taken by fans, off stage, with him...
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  • jp

    7 months ago

    OFFICE of the PRESIDENT ELECT what the !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Juanito

    7 months ago

    Yes, the uber-cool guy from Jersey who took the pics while his mobster pal raped Monroe
    at Cal-Neva Lodge at Tahoe. Raped her every which way. They'd slipped her a mickey
    and she'd puked her guts out, was half conscious. That was a few weeks after she'd
    flown east to sing happy birthday and soon was fired by 20th C. Fox.
    Happy birthday to JFK.
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  • a-j

    7 months ago

    Exactly! When I heard people describe Obama as this or that famous person, the only "cool dude" I could think of was Sinatra.
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  • DoveSong

    7 months ago

    Totally! I thought the same thing myself many times! I kept saying, he (Barack) reminds me of somebody - Frankie! Seriously - the same essence. Wow. You nailed it!
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  • Martha

    7 months ago

    I am glad you are doing and understand what the american people are going thru. I have already lost my home and my car is next because when I purchased it I could pay for it. Now how do I get to work where I leave the nearest bus is4 miles away.
    Well fargo will not work with me they say they cant but yet the USA bails out all of these banks and I have to pay to file bankupcty. More money the I do not have.I feel God has even abandonded this country and me.
    Hopeless
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