July 11, 2009 at 5:59 pm

The video stops playing about half way through and all I get is a black screen. I have tried both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Any help on this?

John

July 11, 2009 at 6:22 pm

I went back and tried again. The first two times it was the video from CNN. This time it was from msnbc and it didn’t stop so I was able to watch it all. However, in both the audio was somewhat broken up. I have a very high speed connection and got all of it well before watching most of it. I would like to know if there is a better video or at least an audio file I could download. All in all, it was a very good speech.

John, W6BXQ

July 11, 2009 at 9:00 pm

Thanks for bearing with the technical glitches. When we discovered the problem with the video, we replaced it, as you noted, John.

Unfortunately, the original feed was very low quality, hence the poor audio.

July 11, 2009 at 9:49 pm

I thought that I must tell you, the comments at nytimes.com in regard to the trip to Ghana and re: Obama are not exactly edifying. I have not looked in today but yesterday I had quite a bit of time to read and, with the exception of a very few, they were very right-oriented posts. There is an insular blame the victim for their poverty stance to many, many of the
comments which I was about to call arguments because they are, not so much with other posters but arguments, in the sense of “Pilate washes his hands” of any responsibility “for this mess”. It ends up leaning heavily toward stating Africans did this to themselves; after that they blame Bono and keep labeling him,”oh, well, Musician, you know.”

As I say, this may have mellowed out today and hit a better level but that is what was happening Friday.

At other sites there is a lot of impatience with Obama. Considerably less of that at nytimes where thus far the majority of comments are from people who would be embarrassed to label themselve as that ignorant.

I looked over the photo collection today at AOL Black Voices and they almost speak for themselves of the connection that was made,the hosts looked very happily anticipating about Obama’s arrival, and he gradually loosened up after his address and mirrors back the same happiness to be there interacting.

At first, I thought Michelle wasn’t there but then there she was walking into the picture to visit a group of pregnant women at a hospital clinic and before long there was that eager one on one back and forth, and one of those babies of some months maturity by now got to Obama extremely until there was that expression on his face,”Gee whiz, I forgot what that was like, Michelle, do you think it is time for us to have a boy?”. I had to stop at the point where we had the classic politician photo of his picking up a baby and getting into talking with it. I don’t recall his campaign photos ever got quite that far, that is quite that loose into being really entirely comfortable with the baby-photo op. He certainly achieved that in Ghana.

I’ve still got something like 300 photos to go!

July 25, 2009 at 11:14 am

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