The Presidents Speech Tonight

[Michael Tee]

<<oh like you say blah blah blah but she's excelling, that is a fact, she's making a difference, that is a fact, and she will harm Democrats this year in a big big big way, that is a fact. >>

That last is no more than a prediction, certainly not a fact.  She might get some votes for some candidates, but let her try to run for office and she'll be crucified as a quitter, and deservedly so.

<<Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.>>

Thanks, but there's better stuff to stuff in my pipe and smoke.

[Michael Tee]

Incidentally, a review of the President's speech by Dan Froomkin of Hufpo indicates that even though I missed the first part of the speech, I really didn't miss anything and my original assessment of the part that I caught was pretty much on target for the part that I missed as well:

<<But vague generalities and empty, convictionless rhetoric just don't have that effect -- certainly not in the midst of a real, concrete national emergency.

<<How unmoored from reality are Obama and his top advisers to think that some pretty words with so little substance could accomplish so much? It makes me wonder: Was that ultimately the lesson they took from the 2008 campaign -- rather than that a nation was hungering for, you know, actual change?>>


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/16/obamas-speech-not-the-tur_n_614273.html

[BT]

Maybe Obama quit on ya.

[Michael Tee]

Maybe I was just a dumb schmuck who didn't see what he didn't want to see.

[Kramer]

Maybe I was just a dumb schmuck who didn't see what he didn't want to see.

I saw it clearly.

[Michael Tee]

<<I saw it clearly. >>

You believed what you wanted to believe.  It was just happenstance that what you wanted to believe was actually true.

[sirs]

naaaaa, we of the rational mind set, knew exactly what we were getting

[Plane]

<<I saw it clearly. >>

You believed what you wanted to believe.  It was just happenstance that what you wanted to believe was actually true.

hahahahaahahahahahahahahaha!



That is just so excellent!

[Kramer]

<<I saw it clearly. >>

You believed what you wanted to believe.  It was just happenstance that what you wanted to believe was actually true.

Wrong thread

[sirs]

Didn't Like Obama's Oval Office Speech? It's 'Cause You're Too Dumb 
Posted by: Chris Field
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Everyone from Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh has criticized President Obama's Oval Office speech. The Left hated it because he didn't push the progressive line hard enough -- take over BP, end all drilling, sacrifice oil executives to Gaia, whatever -- while the Right hated it because it was typical Obama bilge.

But what we now know, courtesy of CNN, the real reason the nation didn't like the speech: Americans are too stupid to understand the wisdom and rhetoric of The One.

President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster may have gone over the heads of many in his audience, according to an analysis of the 18-minute talk released Wednesday.

Tuesday night's speech from the Oval Office of the White House was written to a 9.8 grade level, said Paul J.J. Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. The Austin, Texas-based company analyzes and catalogues trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture.

Though the president used slightly less than four sentences per paragraph, his 19.8 words per sentence "added some difficulty for his target audience," Payack said. [...]

Obama's nearly 10th-grade-level rating was the highest of any of his major speeches and well above the Grade 7.4 of his 2008 "Yes, we can" victory speech, which many consider his best effort, Payack said.

"The scores indicate that this was not Obama at his best, especially when attempting to make an emotional connection to the American people," he added.

On the bright side? At least CNN didn't accuse us of hating the speech because we're racists.