Posted on 03/23/2010 10:28:41 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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This pattern of comparatively low scores for the handling of signature domestic policy priorities and higher scores for the handling of foreign policy may be due to several factors.
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If I were in the White House, however, I would be concerned about yet another possible explanation: perhaps the more the president talks about an issue the more he drives his own numbers on that issue down. I would worry about that because as a national security policy person, I do not want the president's political advisors to have a perverse incentive to avoid talking about the war.
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Among those costs is the one highlighted by Peter Baker in his account of how health care was crowding out national security:
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Another cost is raising doubts in the minds of the military, a key audience for presidential rhetoric. The U.S. military have internalized a lesson of warfare since the days of Vietnam: when political leaders shirk their responsibility to mobilize and sustain public support for their wars ultimately it is the military who suffer. Therefore, the military want their commander-in-chief to demonstrate that he is as committed to the fight as they are, and one way the president can do that is by regularly explaining his war policies to the general public.
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But I suspect that in the coming months that commitment will be tested by developments on the ground in both countries that cannot be ignored, not by the media, not by the public, and thus not by the president. It would be paradoxical and problematic for the Obama Team if they discovered that having the president speak to those issues seemed to undermine public support for them, at least on the margins.
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Still nothing.
National Security Strategy ping.
Only when his Tele-Prompter goes on the fritz.
Obama is not an "orator".
He is merely a very good "reader".
No, Zer0 still has a silver forked tongue.
Yes, and the silver plating is wearing away every time he polishes it with a lie.
Silver tongue???
He’s convinced the great majority of world leaders that he’s a certifiable idiot; he’s alienated our only reliable ally in the Middle East; he’s waffled on Guantanamo; he’s caved to Iran; he’s kow-towed to the King of Saudi Arabia; he’s done nothing about North Korea...
Our Fearless Leader may be in for a shock when he finds out that other leaders around the world don’t give a sh*t about “cutting him any slack” over his fashionable skin tones or his “silver tongue” when reading from a teleprompter. Unlike the American people - and especially the compliant, Democrat-pwned congress - they play hardball and they play to win.
America’s late position in world affairs is now in the toilet, the chain’s been pulled, and we’re going down.
Meanwhile, the government is so busy giving itself hi-fives over ruining the nation’s healthcare system - and, with it, the economy - that they’ve failed to notice that we are rapidly becoming an international laughing stock; a joke in the realm of world affairs.
I think he is a selected, controlled, handled, performing Narcisstic egomaniac. Without his handlers, he would make a bigger muddle than he already has.
This health care law was prepared and pushed thru by Congressional Dems. The more Obana touted it, the more the public hated it. Same still goes.
vaudine
“Has Obama lost his silver tongue?”
Ask Larry...
Yes. His vocal “Mojo” cratered on 9/9/09.
To us,,, he never had it.
Just like Bythe, we saw thru him from the start.
McGovern, Daschle, johnson, how did my state produce such people?
If I go to D.C. the first place go is to the grave of South Dakota’s favorote son,,,, Joe Foss
To us,,, he never had it.
Just like Bythe, we saw thru him from the start.
McGovern, Daschle, johnson, how did my state produce such people?
If I go to D.C. the first place go is to the grave of South Dakotas favorote son,,,, Joe Foss
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Jesus save me ,, I met George McGovern,, the respect I have for him over came the disgust of shaking the hand that touched Fidel’s
World events are going to bury him and his teleprompters. That is the good news. The bad news is it’s going to bury a lot of good people too. Literally.
“Has Obama lost his silver tongue?”
No. It’s just that the stupid morons that elected him are finally waking up to the fact that every word that comes forth from his mouth is a lie.
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Thanks for the ping Jet Jaguar.
Well said!
And yet, our "representative" government rammed it down our collective throats.
I still have a tiny shred of hope that this will blow up in their faces somehow.
He never had a silver tongue. His supposed verbal skills were always a manufactured legend created to get the man elected. There was nothing in his resume that qualified him so his groomers framed him as an orator because that could be easily, subjectively defended (i.e., criticizing his speech would be cast as racism a little more successfully than pointing out he had no resume, experience, character, raw talent etc.)
I read an article by a man who suggested that Julia Robert’s probably had an agent who was helping to craft a manufactured legend about her. That writer suggested that ALL of Julia’s contracts may have included a requirement that her movies include scenes where others treat her as if she is so beautiful that time stops when she walks in a room - as a legendary beauty. He gave, as an example, one of the Ocean’s Eleven movies where Dammon’s character dreamily waits for ‘the best part of his day’, the moment that she descends the staircase. His character doesn’t love her or know her - she’s just so beautiful that a man would consider watching her walk down a staircase the best part of his day. If she wasn’t famous and she was instead, an employee of a casino, would she really be the most beautiful woman in the world? In the state? In the casino?
I think that Obama’s handlers packed the myth with the hollow man in the same manner that Robert’s agents crafted the ‘legend’ of her beauty.- that ‘everyone says he’s a talented orator’ at a time when no one thought or said that about him. Giving leeway to subjective criteria, it took hold, some people noting that he’s a reputable speaker even though they personally saw nothing in his speech - they heard others praise him. Race baiters held the line, tarring anyone who pointed out his teleprompter dependence, incapacity to speak extemporaneously.
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