"His Gettyburg address": Obama Biographer Maraniss on Newtown Speech

Twitter ^ | Sunday, December 16, 2012 | Dave Maraniss

[kristinn]

There were so many levels to President Obama's speech: philosophical, sorrowful determined universal, simple, beautiful...

People will long remember what Barack Obama said in Newtown...his Gettysburg address...

[kristinn]

The media is swooning over Obama's speech tonight. This is the most over the top response of many.

[DManA]

Probably more accurate to call him Barry’s hagiographer.

[KC_Lion]

[Joe 6-pack]

I did not listen to obumbler’s remarks tonight, but I suspect that the ony thing it will ever have in common with the Gettysburg Adress is that generations of school kids will be required to memorize it.

[Spok]

No references to “typical white people” (like his grandmother) or talk of “punishing his enemies” or “getting revenge”? A new, kinder and gentler Hussein? Really?

[doc maverick]

An impingement in Sunday Night Football is unforgivable.

[yarddog]

Did he wipe away a non-existent tear this time?

[donozark]

Did Lincoln have a teleprompter?

[Vermont Lt]

I guess that means there is a great civil war going on. To determine whether or not this country can survive.

I am not sure how it turns out this time.

Gun control is not slavery.

[twister881]

Hey Moron-iss, wipe your chin...you didn’t swallow everything.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

0bama’s speech was the usual politi-sermon, done in true narcissistic fashion; Hitler without the mustache.

[Farmer Dean]

Good grief,this guy needs to wipe his chin.

[KTM rider]

No reference to the attrocities commited by his cousin Odinga in Kenya ?

[DManA]

No. It was his self righteous, “I DARE you to oppose me” look.

[Argus]

Gee, I remember when they said the exact same thing about Hussein’s speech throwing Rev. Wright under the bus. So much facile eloquence!

[combat_boots]

But guns are our ruby slippers.

0bama might as well say, “These things must be done delicately.”

[Marathoner]

So now it’s Abe the Kenyan I guess

[twister881]

GMTA—posted 33 seconds apart.

[combat_boots]

Gettysburg? No. Marc Antony, “Julius Caesar.” Act II, Sc. iii, IIRC.

This is 0bama’s “Bitter Clinger” sentence made into an entire speech.