Barack Obama

I have to agree with Larry Lessig on this one, Barack Obama gave one of the best speech of the campaign tonight. I had heard buzz surrounding him for the last couple of days. Talk that he could very well be the presidential candidate in 2012, so I did my homework. And then I watched him on CNN this morning, and C-Span tonight. This man is phenomenal. His oratorical skills are unmatched (or have been for a long time). With all of the reading and thinking I have been doing about language and orality this week I thought I was becoming a bit jaded, but this man made me believe. He is a master rhetorician, if he can make a cynic like me melt...even for a moment he must be damn good. Now, if only tengrrl sends me the Obama 2004 lawn sign...

Read the text of the speech here, but it must be seen for the full effect.

Update: As John pointed out in his comment, Obama also has a blog and while like most of the political blogs he doesn't author the posts there is a picture of him reading the 100s of comments that get posted by blog readers here.