Posted on 01/15/2011 11:26:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The beginning of the president's speech wasn't good, and was marked by the sonorous banalities on which White House staffs in times of crisis always insist. "We join you in your grief," "We mourn with you for the fallen," "a quintessentially American scene . . . shattered by a gunman's bullets." Modern presidents sometimes speak as if their words were crafted by producers for a TV newsmagazine like "Dateline." This is bad because television producers tend to think their audience is composed of people who require the plonkingly obvious to be repeatedly stated in the purplest prose. The trend should be stopped. Presidents are not anchormen of true-crime shows, or were not meant to be.
I begin grouchily to underscore the sincerity of the praise that follows. About a third of the way through, the speech took on real meaning and momentum, and by the end it was very good, maybe great. The speech had a proper height. It was large-spirited and dealt with big things. It was adroit and without rancor. The president didn't mourn, he inspirited.
It began to turn when Mr. Obama started to make things concrete. Vaporous talk of victims turned into specific facts about real human beings: Phyllis Schneck was a gifted quilter, Dorwan Stoddard spent his spare time fixing up the Mountain Avenue Church of Christ. But the speech came into its own when the president spoke, again in concrete terms, of the condition of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: "I have just come from the University Medical Center, just a mile from here." He had learned that "right after we went to visit, a few minutes after we left her room and some of her colleagues in Congress were in the room, Gabby opened her eyes for the first time."(continued@link)
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"Groundhog's Day," except that it was Bill Murray. And you're right, of course.
She is a damned dim... she does not even rise to the low level of rino... she voted for obama... she is a leftist whore for obama.
LLS
Obama is one of the worst offenders and only finds fault in others. That isn’t presidential, it’s pathological.
If possible, an even more corrupt eel of Chicago cesspool, and she applauds!
These Beltway folks never get it - the left will be repeating this lie for years - they are still repeating the lie from last year that racist slurs were hurdled at those Congresscritters walking through a Tea Party rally. And the Tucson lie will have to be beaten down for years. This fight will never be over, as liberalism shows no sign of collapsing from the weight of its own failures.
She should ditch the chin-in-the-air thing too, and so should Bammy.
These Beltway folks never get it - the left will be repeating this lie for years - they are still repeating the lie from last year that racist slurs were hurdled at those Congresscritters walking through a Tea Party rally. And the Tucson lie will have to be beaten down for years. This fight will never be over, as liberalism shows no sign of collapsing from the weight of its own failures.
“”He should have reminded his cheering supporters that it was a memorial service and not a campaign rally.””
AMEN! I’ve been screaming about that all week and I’m still not back to my normal self.
As for Peggy - her speech writing days were over many years ago and she can’t accept that. She thought she’d remind everyone in this piece that she knows a good speech when she hears one. SORRY Peggy - none of us fall for your garbage anymore. There was a time when you made sense - not for many a year now.
I vehemently disagree. The text of the speech read like something a President would say. But when Obama read them, he did not sound like the President. He sounded like someone trained to read off of a teleprompter with zero emotional connection to the words being read. Compare Obama's reading with the real speech given by Daniel Hernandez (completely from memory - not even note cards). Hernandez spoke from the heart, connected directly with his audience, and came across as being believable and real. Obama was too pre-occupied with inserting pauses and inflection to even consider his audience.
What Noonan is saying, in the end, is that Obama is stepping up his game. Republicans had better step up theirs. Who do we have? Palin?
I wish Noonan, who was Reagan’s speechwriter, would write Palin’s speeches. Better yet, I wish Michael Reagan would run for president in 2012.... but I digress!
What Noonan is saying, in the end, is that Obama is stepping up his game. Republicans had better step up theirs. Who do we have? Palin?
I wish Noonan, who was Reagan’s speechwriter, would write Palin’s speeches. Better yet, I wish Michael Reagan would run for president in 2012.... but I digress!
You have stumbled on the truth.
Obama and Noonan are elitist’s that think they have mastered the art of emotional manipulation.
What they don’t get is that we are on to them.
They dont hide their High minded ruling class mentality as well as they think.
These people are charlatans.
Unfortunately, applause is exactly what the narcissist-in-chief wanted.
This was met with thunderous applause. He repeated the sentence: "Gabby opened her eyes for the first time." More and deeper applause. Something seemed to shift at this point. Suddenly the president was fully integrated into the text, he was it and it was him.
Stop right there Peggy
Did they actually have a jumbotron?
I was wondering about that as I watched it on TV.
That would be classic Obama.
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