Big Speech Fatigue?

The Root (Professor "You a rasis'!" Gates' web-zine) ^ | 1 Dec | Terence Samuel

[flowerplough]

Subheaded: Obama may soon find out that he can't talk his way out of Afghanistan.

On Tuesday night, we got the president’s Grand Unified Theory on Afghanistan, and in it we may have begun to witness the limits of the political efficacy of the Big Obama Speech.

Given what he had to work with—no good options—the president did the best he could, but the question is, who's listening? He reminded us that Afghanistan was a war that al-Qaida started, not us, and that we only went after the Taliban because they refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, after he killed 3,000 people on 9/11. He reminded us that the guys who occupied the White House before him made the monumental mistake of fighting a war of choice in Iraq, while neglecting one of necessity in Afghanistan.

He encouraged us to think back to the unity we felt in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and exhorted us to try to renew that feeling as he tries to “to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan and to prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future.” Americans, however, may no longer be interested in how the war started, just how soon it ends.

The president promised the cadets at West Point, on whose shoulders it will fall to fight the war, a mission that is “clearly defined” and worthy of their service. Though he talked about “defeating al-Qaida and its extremist allies” as a “narrowly defined” mission, he took 35 minutes to situate that mission in proper context—the trillion dollars already spent on the war; the poor comparisons to Vietnam; why more troops mean a shorter war; and the importance of a target date for exit.

[Vendome]

It is Barry TV.  24 hour fricking hours a day.  Hell, I can't go to the gym and work out without seein' him on TV. 

 

He is everywhere boredcast in Barack-O-Vision

 

This guy has had more than 240 speeches in what?   About 296 days!!  Amazing!

 

Major speeches in the last month? This a-hole needs his own channel.

 

He is on TV damn near every day and sometimes twice as day.

 

He started his own sitcom back when he invented the “Office of the President Elect”.

 

Oh! And great news. He is having another Telethon Tonight!

 

Yeahhhh!

 

Yeah, because now all broadcast are now improved and enhanced “Barack-O-Color”

 

 

[andy58-in-nh]

Barack-O-Vision, indeed. The problem is not "big speech" fatigue - it's HIM fatigue - we are all suffering from Obama Overdose Syndrome, the only cure for which is an electrical blackout. Pray for an ice storm, perhaps.

The picture accompanying your post is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.