Posted on 07/28/2016 7:27:04 AM PDT by orchestra
PHILADELPHIA — For all his appeal as a speaker, and for all the love coming from Democrats crowded inside the Wells Fargo Arena, President Obama made a classic mistake in his address to the Democratic convention Wednesday night. Determined to defend his own accomplishments in office as well as convince Americans to elect Hillary Clinton for what would amount to his third term, Obama painted a picture of life in the United States that was brighter and more positive than most voters believe.
"While this nation has been tested by war and recession and all manner of challenge — I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am even more optimistic about the future of America," Obama said.
"How could I not be — after all we've achieved together?"
In the most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 73 percent of registered voters said the country is on the wrong track, while just 18 percent said it is headed in the right direction. The 73 percent figure is the second-highest in the president's nearly eight years in office.
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Worn thin??, Worn Thin?? I could see through this ahole 12 years ago.
Worn thin, very thin, and a complete liar, failure...
I think it’s somewhere in the middle. Part of the problem is we are pounded with glass half empty talk day after day in an effort to discourage people from finding hope in a philospy of governance that we disagree with. If this were a politically friendly administration, the talk would be much more glass half full.
Springtime for Barry and socialists.
“While this nation has been tested by war and recession and all manner of challenge — I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am even more optimistic about the future of America,” Obama said.
“How could I not be — after all we’ve achieved together?”
Of course, you have to be liberal, to think of some of the events of his administration as positive achievements.
Off topic, but anyone else notice that not one word was said at the Democrat convention about the priest who was beheaded by Muslim terrorists? Did they mention terrorism at all at the convention?
I think we are going to be stuck with Michelle Obama running for office.
Let’s admit it: if Obama were running for a third term, he would win. Trump is a very effective candidate, and he (unlike his two predecessors) would make it a close race, but there is still something about the Obama mystique that captures the hearts and the votes of the LIVs. Lucky for us, Hillary has no mystique whatsoever, and it will be obvious tonight for all who watch.
Slams our country for 7.5 years, then tells us how wonderful it is. If his mouth is moving he is lying.
While Byron’s analysis is sound, it goes far beyond being “too rosy”.
Those speeches were pure examples of lying. It’s like they go in a drawer and select either the America is great speech, or the America sucks speech.
They don’t adjust the speech to reality, they just say whatever sounds best. It’s not facts, it’s not policy, just pure bs.
This is not a partisan reaction, I defy anyone to find any facts or policies in Obama’s speech.
The idea that Hillary had problems because she’s in the arena, is totally devoid of anything. It could be used to defend absolutely anyone.
DNC........total failure, on all counts!!! “FantasyLand”!!!
All is well in obamaland.
But in America and the real world, not so much.
This was addressed to Jarrett, Soros and the other Muslim Marxists in his administration not the American population.
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