Talkin' Selma Blues

Some freely available political ANALYSIS

By STEVE RHODES
The Beachwood Reporter

Filed 3.05.07

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton gave two very different speeches in Selma, Alabama, over the weekend at events commemmorating the Bloody Sunday march 42 years ago .

Obama's speech was halting, filled with boilerplate ("I stand on the shoulders of giants;" "I am the fruits of your labor") and uninspiring - unless you are one of his cultish worshippers who remind me of rock fans so blinded by adulation of their star that they'd wildly cheer a favorite song performed in farts and burps.

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