S---. I know s---'s bad right now, with all that starving bulls---, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.
Either he wrote it himself, or it was dumbed down because that is his base
Obama knows his audience.
How else would the democrat base understand the speech?
So, most progressives will be able to understand the words. But not the substance.
Wonder who wrote it for him?
Pray for America
I am surprised it scored that high.
So he was talking over the heads of most liberals.
Well Duh!....there’s a shock!...He acts like he’s talking down to group of eight year olds whenever he talks to the nation. That’s just another reason I could not stand listening to him from the start!
It’s all just part of the radical left’s dumbing down of America agenda.
It sounded more like a high school pep rally.
And that is STILL a few grade levels over his main constituency. Oh well, no worries, since they don’t need to be convinced to vote for him again anyway....
Obama 2010: “It’s time for colleges and universities to get serious about cutting their own costs.
Obama 2012: “Colleges and universities have to do their part by working to keep costs down.”
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Obama 2010: “And we should continue the work by fixing our broken immigration system.”
Obama 2011: “I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration.”
Obama 2012: “I believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration.”
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Obama 2010: “We face a deficit of trust.”
Obama 2012: “I’ve talked tonight about the deficit of trust . . .”
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Obama 2010: “We can’t wage a perpetual campaign.”
Obama 2012: “We need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign.”
If you are a “respectable conservative” you are not supposed to notice that half the D voters have IQs below 90 and cannot really have graduated from high school.
Consultants to the newspaper business (when it was a viable business) used to advise editors not to write their papers at anything over the 6th. grade level. To do so in their view would be going over the heads of their audience.
The New York Times is supposedly written at an 8th. grade level, and for that they pound their chests and crow about their literary prowess.
For the audience that Obama was trying to reach, “Pat the Bunny” might have been more appropriate.
Way over the heads of his followers.
But that just lets the media do it’s job of interpreting it to mean whatever his followers desire.
I don’t know if others have noticed this, but Obama’s speaking voice has been changing over the years.
The first time I ever heard him speak (around 2003/04), and heard his deep voice tones and overall quality of his voice, I figured we were in trouble. It was just a great speaking voice.
Lately, however, he’s become what I guess I would call, strident. Not so much whiny (though it wouldn’t be hard to get to whiny from where he’s at now) but strident, insistent, more high-pitched, like, well, like someone not getting his way anymore.
It’s like he knows he can’t relax and bask in the glories of his accomplishments, but rather, that he’s beginning to realize his time to change the country is short, and that there’s a chance everything he’s tried to do, or has already done, might soon be undone.
So, if the current progression continues, I hope he’s whining like a baby in 2013/14 as he watches everything he worked for get reversed by a Republican House, Senate, President, and eventually, a conservative Supreme Court.
S---. I know s---'s bad right now, with all that starving bulls---, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.
Wasn’t GWB ridiculed for having low-grade averages in his speeches? And so now it’s a virtue. Who knew?