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In the column he filed earlier today for tomorrow’s lineup, George Neumayr captured our president’s SOTU in a few sweet strokes: “To hear one manipulative Obama speech is to hear them all. Each one is a mish-mash of falsely defined problems and equally sham solutions, with a few phony promises peppered into the mix.”
As for his live performance, what struck me above all was its almost funereal tone. Maybe Fox blocked out the noise, but what “interruptions for applause” the speech received struck me as tepid at best. For the most part one could almost hear a pin drop. I was hoping to pick up on someone snoring.
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Tommy Aquino| 1.27.10 @ 11:31PM
"To hear one manipulative Obama speech is to hear them all. Each one is a mish-mash of falsely defined problems and equally sham solutions, with a few phony promises peppered into the mix."
That would be a Jeremiah Wright sermon.
Franklin| 1.27.10 @ 11:49PM
"a few phony promises" ...
... phony statistics, phony stories, phony comparisons, phony judgements, phony sucesses, phony ...
Grzmlyk| 1.28.10 @ 12:29AM
Agreed. It pains me to see stuff like Nordlinger's post at "The Corner" on National Review. You can feel the gravitational pull of Obama's suppposed magnetism tugging at old Nordlinger's heart strings here and there.
Thank god I am not thus afflicted whatsoever. On the positive side of the ledger, barely, is this, and this alone: I think Obama speaks pretty well. Not great by any stretch of the imagination, but better than most of our leaden politicians (including the preternaturally tongue-tied George Bush); but there's no emotional investment (to use a favorite word of the Dems), no passion, no true interacation with his audience. Only gauging.
I see no charm in his off-the-cuff "I knew that would get applause" ad-lib. Too obvious an attempt to charm. Too calculated. Too modulated.
I will hand it to Obama in this regard: Political reality does not impinge on his confidence one iota. This is messianism full-strength.
The guy is an intellectual, rhetorical and charismatical mediocrity - both a boor and a bore by any other name.
Margie| 1.28.10 @ 5:02PM
Me neither, Grz. No charm, no charm at all!
Tim| 1.28.10 @ 8:16AM
"If I am with Me, who can stand against Me?"
Margie| 1.28.10 @ 5:00PM
You just them coming all the time, dontcha Tim? Very funny.
danny| 1.28.10 @ 8:24AM
i dozed off. how many let me be clear, did y'all hear?
Becky| 1.28.10 @ 11:28AM
I thought so to. I didn't watch, but was listening from another room while I worked. It didn't sound enthusiastic.