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"An Army of Cliches Marching Across the Presidential Palate"
Townhall ^
| January 21, 2009
| Wynton Hall
Posted on 01/21/2009 6:55:11 AM PST by redstateone
President Obama's Inaugural Address? Clichéd, surprisingly dull, naive, and memorable only insofar as it was forgettable. Mr. Obama's oration wasn't even...
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blahblahblah; cliche; inaugural; obama; obamainauguration; obamaspeeches; speech
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To: redstateone
Since it was apparently cribbed from other speeches, I suspect that Joe Biden was supposed to deliver it.
To: a fool in paradise
To: redstateone
To: All
To: redstateone
From what I hear it was done at a Starbucks using cut, copy and paste from successful speeches of past presidents, I bet he couldn’t take a dump without passing someone else’s crap.
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:08:03 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
To: redstateone
From the article: “Presidential stewardship—not popularity, but stewardship—requires a sure and complete understanding of human nature as it exists, not as we wish it to be.”
Profound - a writer of Wynton Hall’s talent is clearly needed to write BHO’s speeches.
Obama is a published author??????????????? You can’t be serious!!!!
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:08:49 AM PST
by
sodpoodle
To: JACKRUSSELL
WOW....bet he googled most of the phrases....
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:09:38 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Tell the truth - GOEBBELIZATION (propaganda) is what many voters suffer from.....)
To: redstateone
..but...but... Peggy Noonan called it 'serious and solid'...!
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:09:57 AM PST
by
Guenevere
(..........".If you don't run, you won't win".....)
To: redstateone
I thought the speech was a embarrassing
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:12:56 AM PST
by
Need4Truth
(...the borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. 22:7)
To: redstateone
While I appreciated the tone of the speech-it wasn't all lib talk-it was surprisingly bland, and delivered without passion.
Viewed without messiah glasses, Obama is one dull guy.
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:13:20 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
("HeÂ’s articulate, heÂ’s left wing and heÂ’s black. So whatÂ’s there to criticise?")
To: Eye of Unk
From what I hear it was done at a Starbucks using cut, copy and paste from successful speeches of past presidents...A Frankenspeech?
To: JACKRUSSELL
Obama's mind reader has crashed his way through yet another deadline.The most accurate line of the article. "Crashed" is right. The whole speech was a crash-and-burn.
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:15:06 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
To: thecodont; Eye of Unk
In model railroad lingo, this is called “kit-bashing,” where bit and pieces of different model kits are made into a finished product.
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:18:45 AM PST
by
Excellence
(What Madoff is to finance Gore is to global warming.)
To: Excellence
In Obamas case he thinks he is a 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 with a Vanderbilt tender.
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:21:21 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
To: redstateone
"All we have to fear, is what I am going to do to our country."
"Speak softly and don't ask, don't tell."
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:22:02 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat. But they know what's best.)
To: Excellence
Go ahead and say it, he is really an 0-0-0-0.
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:22:50 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
To: redstateone
I thought it was a remarkable speech for 2 reasons:
First—I bet it was the first inaugural address to use the word “swill.”
Second— as a Zeppelin fan, I was gratified to hear one oftheir song titles quoted (”When the Levee Breaks”).
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:24:06 AM PST
by
I-ambush
To: redstateone
"An Army of Cliches Marching Across the Presidential Palate"
Well, duh!
Forget about high rhetoric and memorable speeches. He is the president as of yesterday, which is all that he was targeting ever since he came to Washington. He's attained his goal and everything else is secondary. A memorable speech wasn't necessary and a dull speech wasn't going to change the fact that he is now president.
He doesn't have to create or read any more memorable speeches, at least, not for the next 3 years until the next election cycle. Those speeches from the last 2 years were the means to the goal. The goals has been attained. The means can be shelved until it's needed again.
He knows that promises made during the election cycle cannot be kept. Lofty goals and great sound bites are no longer in need. The election is over. So, why revisit unnecessary lines from past speeches about hope and change? He is now the most powerful person in the world, and has more power than any black person has ever attained. Heck, he is the most powerful African ever, and even Mohammed would have to worship him.
So, let's not be silly with the high expectations from a no longer necessary memorable speech.
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:27:30 AM PST
by
adorno
To: a fool in paradise
That’s what I heard from a co-worker, than the thing was an exercise in plagiarism.
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posted on
01/21/2009 7:27:33 AM PST
by
visualops
(portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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