"Fascinating speech. It was so rhetorically flat, so lacking in rhythm and cadence, one almost has to believe he did it on purpose. Best not to dazzle on Opening Day. Otherwise, they'll expect magic all the time."-- Charles Krauthammer, once again using the language of cultism - "magic"? - when talking about a man who's supposed to be a politician (and you don't trust politicians, do you?) in the Town Hall.
Hat Tip: Althouse
Mark Steyn:" ....I love the way everybody was saying initially, oh, this is going to be a brilliant, brilliant speech. And then the fact that it was just sort of prosaic and journeyman-like, apparently just illustrates Obama’s even greater brilliance, because that’s his way of tamping down expectations. So the stroke of genius was to deliver this mediocre speech, because only a really brilliant man would have seen that America couldn’t afford to have a truly brilliant speech, because it would have raised even more expectations of all the glorious things that King Barack is going to usher in. So at that level, my head is just spinning at that point, and I think, you said it’s Day Three of the Obama administration? "
ReplyDeleteIs America ready for a bumbling administration and will Obama make the MSM regret they didn't challenge him more? I hope Obama will be at least a little better than he has been so far. There are a lot of intangibles to being President and all kinds of things you need to be experienced in.
Bush was a governor, his father was a President(which I don't like, but it did help him) and he chose Cheney and other heavyweights as advisers.Obama picks Biden - no help there.
Clinton was a Governor yet made many early mistakes out of inexperience and hubris.
We are going to see a lot ofdifferences that we didn't know existed because we had nothing to compare it to.
By the way your link at Althouse is essentially a dead end since it connects to your profile which is set to private and there is no blog link there.
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