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Editor's note: David Kusnet was President Bill Clinton's chief speechwriter from 1992 through 1994. He is the senior writer and a principal at the Podesta Group, a government relations and public relations firm.
1 posted on 09/11/2013 11:26:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Whatever it is a model of ... it ain't persuasion.

2 posted on 09/11/2013 11:28:49 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Baah! It doesn’t mean minds were changed, it only means
that more democrat Obamabots watched the speech.

This is what passes for journolisim today...


3 posted on 09/11/2013 11:29:12 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Only conservatives watching were bloggers, many drunk-blogging.

What right-thinker can stand to watch that guy?


4 posted on 09/11/2013 11:29:31 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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Did it even occur to Kusnet that the vast majority of people listening already backed Obama?


5 posted on 09/11/2013 11:29:42 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Not : Obama's speech a model of persuasion
Truth : Obama's speech a model of DESPERATION to be relevent !! "


6 posted on 09/11/2013 11:29:45 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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Please put Barf Alert. Thank you.
7 posted on 09/11/2013 11:31:25 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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How many actually watched the speech? Most were probably not aware he even made it, but were embarrassed to admit it.


8 posted on 09/11/2013 11:32:17 AM PDT by txrefugee
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A model of persuasion?...BULLCRAP!...A model of smoke and mirrors.


10 posted on 09/11/2013 11:33:52 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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No Barf Alert?


12 posted on 09/11/2013 11:35:25 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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americans suddenly agreed with him because he changed his position 180 degrees. we didn’t agree with him, he agreed with us.


13 posted on 09/11/2013 11:36:01 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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His assessment of OB’s persuasiveness is only valid if the distribution of people who have opinions on Syrian involvement is the same as the distribution of people who actually bothered to listen to that jackwad babble on and on.

Which I doubt.


14 posted on 09/11/2013 11:36:36 AM PDT by Stosh
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The explanation.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/11/president-obama-needs-your-help-starting-world-war-iii/


16 posted on 09/11/2013 11:36:56 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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17 posted on 09/11/2013 11:37:01 AM PDT by bolobaby
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Methinks the water-carrying is getting a little too heavy to bear even for the fawning “news” media for their boy-king wannabe..... They’re really reaching deep into the Bag of Deceptions.


18 posted on 09/11/2013 11:38:33 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Such nonsense.


19 posted on 09/11/2013 11:38:38 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Liberal women now play the vagina card to win their arguments.)
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The MSM can spin it until they drop from vertigo. The bottom line of this fiasco is that there will be no strong “limited strikes” that would have deposed Assad. Israel has lost and Iran has won a huge strategic victory. The Iranians will keep access to their forward Syrian locations for their mobile ballistic missile batteries. Israel cannot attack Iran’s nuclear facilities without suffering a devastating counterattack. Unmolested Iran will test a nuclear device in nine to twelve months. Netanyahu was not “persuaded” by Obama’s speech. Inept foreign policy has consequences.


20 posted on 09/11/2013 11:38:42 AM PDT by allendale
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LOL.

Ask those folks what his “Policy” is, and they can’t tell you...because there isn’t a policy...except to bomb or not bomb, it is urgent, but not so urgent that Congress should vote now, and the Russian plan is good or it isn’t—we’ll have to wait and see.

So keep pluggin’ that lie, CNN. Your ratings tell the story.


22 posted on 09/11/2013 11:40:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Well, I certainly found BO to be very persuasive. So much so, in fact, that when I listened to him speak four years ago I was persuaded not to ever listen to him again.


24 posted on 09/11/2013 11:41:36 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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I saw brief moments of Obama’s speech. Here was my immediate takeaway. The old adage of, “it’s not necessarily what you say as much as the way you say it.”

I watched as Obama looked into the camera with sincereity dripping from every pore of his eyes that gazed right through the camera. I knew instantly that it didn’t matter what he said or did, but that most Americans would be giving him a standing ovation because “he just looked so sincere”.

Americans are suckers for almost anyone that can manipulate them. It is why actors can sell people their 35th kitchen gadget or floor mop to the person living in one room apartment or nursing home.

People don’t examine any issue, they just want the best, nicest American Idol person to win, darn it!


25 posted on 09/11/2013 11:42:38 AM PDT by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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how did he do it?

Only those who can still stand listening to Obama tuned in

26 posted on 09/11/2013 11:42:49 AM PDT by grania
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