I had hopes for the Panel when Juan came out definitely not digging Barry’s speech...but then Bill K. started praising it so I turned off the TV.
You’re all very brave. I didn’t watch one second of it. Counting on my fellow FReepers to bring me up to speed.
Kristol praises speech...
What did you expect, Kristol writes for the NY Times.
Next week, you will see ALL criticism, from All the media.
It will be sickening, he cannot be criticized because he is a black liberal.
I think Juan is panning the speech, because he feels Barry is NO Martin Luther King. This was supposed to be BHO’s ‘I Have A Dream’ moment...and what does he deliver, ‘I Have A Scream and a Whine’ instead.
Juan Williams didn’t like the speech because it put little to no emphasis at all to the civil rights movement which it was allegedly celebrating by Obama doing his speech on the night of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Obama never even mentioned King’s name, just said a preacher when referring to it. I think Juan thinks this disrespects the whole civil rights movement. Actually, Neil Cavuto on Fox today had the Rev. Sharpton on asking why he and Jesse Jackson were not invited to the stadium to speak or even be there. Jesse in particular was there from the beginning of the civil rights movement. Both were snubbed by Obama’s campaign. Obama really isn’t one of them, because he was a Kenyan raised in Indonesia and then moved to Hawaii. He hasn’t a clue about the civil rights movement and doesn’t really care. He just wants to (and did) reap the rewards of affirmative action so he could go to Harvard, and the leg up he had because he was Black when running for Prez, thus acing out Hillary, the first woman to go through an entire campaign for Prez. Guess Black trumps Female.
As to the music, it was like a combination of every Hollywood epic you’ve ever heard the soundtrack from. All drama, and it went on and on and on ad nauseum. The whole night was pure Hollywood. And with the Greek Temple in the background (the set design was by the same guy who does it for Britney Spears’ shows, ain’t that a kicker, as it was Britney and Paris Hilton that McCain used in his AD), all that was missing was a hand coming down out of the clouds to bless the Messiah. Geez, what a loony tune cartoon kind of nite.