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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Peggy can’t tell the difference between appearances and reality, so she assumes that they have equal value.
When your claim to faim is you were a speech writer for a President who wrote his own speeches, you better have connections.
Pray for America
Where is her glowing review of Palin? Pawlenty? Barbour? Gingrich? Trump? Cain? Jindal? Perry? Pence? Bachman? Guliani? etc
We have tons of people that could beat this guy if the media was on our side.
I Think the best thing for the party is to let Obama have 8 years, let him "own it" I say that with great reluctance as it will **** us over for generations, but let him own it. Pin the tail on the jackass.
We have 6 troops lost today in Iraq.
Afghan casualty’s are at an all time high.
Unemployment, real estate crash, inflation, flagging dollar, public debt, Enemy’s rising all around while cutting our forces.
How do we make him own it without the media?
I want Barbour to run just to make the kooks froth.
Lets get this discourse to a boil.
This frog is a simmering pot stuff is not cutting it.
We all know this race card has us in check, regardless of the fact that we are the party that tries to end racism.
Let it boil, call the nutters and the racist out.
We have to do something,The question is when to move. It appears the RNCs plan is to give him enough rope, but the RNC always lets us down.
Obama, without a doubt is the worst president of my lifetime.
He was keen on Tucson but reluctant on Ft Hood.
He is signing away our power via the new salt treaty, He ignores events in N Korea, And Venezuela.
Amadinijahd is running rampant, Tunisia is in turmoil, Burma is laying nasty plans.
I really dont want massive public debt and missiles pointed at me
He is ignoring our threats.
And the Media is ignoring our representatives.
Peggy Noonan; any excuse to bow down to the Libs. Hey Peggy, no bloviating if you please.
Anyone who pays any attention to what either of these fools says is an idiot.
You certainly do.
If ever the old saying “Actions speak louder than words” had meaning, it was with that speech. Words — just words!
What is is with these former speechwriters that they only look at what was said — and not go beyond them. Obama said only what he thought the country wanted to hear. They meant nothing to him. He supposedly worked hard on that ‘speech’, and I’m sure along with his writers. He w as trying to make it a defining moment, but all of us here know that it was simply a cover for his true purposes.
I use to respect Noonan, but when she first became enamored with O, she lost me. There was a while that she seemed to see the light, but this bit from her, finishes her forever. She is just a toadie roadie as far as I’m concerned.
When Krauthammer was going to be on the panel at Fox, I was delighted, but not any longer. He knows what that guy is all about, having the medical background he has, and he has analyzed him on the air. But he can’t see what O was trying to do? That the ‘speech’ was just a pile of words? That there is a goal he plans to reach, no matter what?
Thank goodness I have all of you here that see all this. I’d go bananas without you!
She must be angling for some kinda job. Either that or she has gone completely round the bend.
He sounded like the President, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE.
Noonan hates Palin. A few months ago she said Palin could not string together two coherent sentences.
After seeing Peggy herself ramble around nonsensically week after week, I guess I have to admit — yes, Peggy knows rambling.
Could be. ;-)
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