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THE FACTS ARE THESE Ohaha's speech reeked of Rahm and Axelrod's political calculations. Some of the phrases used---the allusion to our fighting men----the Reaganesque "God Bless America"----show the WH mob had calculatedly written the speech using focus-grouped phrases intended to suck Ohaha out of the political sinkhole he's made for himself. In fact, the speech was so well-rehearsed-----even down to the orchestrated voice inflections and gestures-----that Ohaha must have channelled Lee Strassberg.
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The speech was slaughtered by Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman. Highlights of leftie thoughts on Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill.
Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."
Matthews compared Obama to Carter.
Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said."
Matthews: "No direction."
Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."
Olbermann: "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."
Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief."
Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."
Matthews: "A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk."
Matthews: "I don't sense executive command."
Rachel Maddow hung her head in despair.....too disgusted to even speak.
VIDEO: Obama: Oil Disaster "Most Painful And Powerful Reminder" That We Need Clean Energy
VIDEO: Krauthammer: Obama Gave It A Shot, But The Story Will Not Be His Speech
VIDEO: Frank Luntz Focus Group On Obama's Address: "Negative"
SOURCE http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/15/msnbc_trashes_obamas_address_compared_to_carter_
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If anyone is stultifyingly sophmoric it's Ohaha and his speechwriters. They promised a brighter day.....tomorrow.......Gosh, can you all wait til Daddy Warbucks comes back to Little Orphan Annie?
“They promised a brighter day.....tomorrow....”
And “ tomorrow” when the notes come due, a number of them will be living in the south of France.
I actually had someone tell me yesterday that it was okay for the schools to teach from a liberal slant, that it “forces students to think for themselves”...then went on to say that “liberals were the well educated”. Sounds like he attended a public school and drank the kool-aid.