I just watched the same speech. I thought he was great. (although I'll give you my complaints) This is an absolutely great philosophical and psychological study into how two people can watch the same event and have two entirely different opinions.
Sort of like watching the Iraq War coverage on Fox vs al Jazeera or CNN (Caliphate News Network). Fox shows the brilliant fireworks display and the fancy video game type graphics from the F-16 camera. al Jazeera shows the results of that bombing 24/7 on a continuous loop with little children covered with blood and women with missing limbs crying in pain. Of course, nobody knows if those injuries happened as a result of the terrorists or us, but that's besides the point. Propaganda and emotion are the key.
What didn't you like about it?
My favorite part was when he talked about the socialist education system and insisted that free markets, competition and capitalism is the answer to the problem.
However, I cringed when he mentioned Ronald Reagan 1,076 times (This from a guy like me who has a poster of Reagan in his bedroom). I'm not sure if my count is accurate, I lost track after the 787th reference. How about instead of being the next Ronald Reagan, you try to be the first Rudy Giuliani.
I'll ask you again, what was your specific complaint?
Too many to recount here. But here's a couple:
First of all, style: He was boring, boring, boring. One of his staffers should have sent out the hook about a third of the way in. 45 minutes? Sheesh. He was uncomfortable, nervous, stammering. Made me uneasy.
Incoherent. He'd start a sentence, stop, go in another direction and never make it back to where he started. He did this constantly throughout the speech. It was maddening.
His statements on fighting our enemies were weak, weak, weak. He kept saying we need to persuade our enemies...that our enemies would become our friends. How naive and silly can you get? We're talking about terrorists here. Sheesh.
He said something like, "We're not better than anybody else" in the world. Like hell we're not.
He kept talking about public education like any Democrat would talk. I wanted to throw up.
He talked about "bringing people out of poverty" or somesuch like he was Lyndon Johnson or something. I'll have to go back and read a full transcript to catch all that drivel.
Nothing presidential about this man at all. Nada.