Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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Off-Key
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Posted by:
Jonathan Garthwaite at
12:29 PM
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Perhaps I'm not an impartial judge but President Obama's speech seemed very off-key to me. As much as Obama's campaign speeches contained liberalism, I was always impressed by his speechwriters and his delivery.
Today was not the same. Perhaps the cold got to him but the speech sounded like they were trying to thread the needle of the sobering reality we face and lofty hope and change from the campaign -- and missed the mark. I am going to have to read the speech again but right now it seems he failed to meet expectations. As I said, who cares what us conservative types think.
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will disagree with you and that he had tingles going up and down his leg. I hope he doesn't get any on him. |
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all speeches by Bush are brilliant, thoughtful, uplifting, all speeches by McCain are full of wisdom, patriotism, experience, all speeches by Palin are stirring appeals to our better selves, and all speeches by Joe the Plumber are clever, wise, knowledgeabe.
Too bad the non-conservatives just can't measure up on TH. It's great to see the new spirit of comunity among Americans. |
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"And white will embrace what's right"?
A racist preacher gives the benediction. What a surprise. |
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...it's the spirit of community being reciprocated for all the years of BDS and just overall hateful, anti-Americanism spewed for the last several years by democrats. Enjoy... |
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Notice Obama's new minister has on behalf of every group except for whites. Brown can stick around, yellow can be mellow, red man can get ahead man--and white can embrace what is right.
If I'm not mistaken, this preacher's race is not the avatar of what is right. He represents a group that has totally embraced theft and violent crime. Single motherhood and the abdication of personal and parental responsibility. Gang violence.
Whites commit murder at a rate less than 1/20th that of blacks. So apparently whites do about 20 times better a job of embracing what is right than this minister's bunch.
Perhaps he should pray for whites to enforce what is right on his hopeless crowd. |
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For being able to give huge speeches along the campaign, this one fell very flat. |
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...B. Hussein O. is the most racist, bigotted, anti-American to become president of this country. Imagine the ire of his own lefty ilk if, say, a conservative preacher had uttered those blatantly racist words you quoted. The Repub president who had dared bring such a racist preacher to the inauguration would be impeached by tomorrow. But B. Hussein O.'s adoring sycophants will just deny, deflect and turn their hatred against their opposition instead - such predictable cultists they have become. |
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posts from here out. If we ignore them they might go away. Unless, that is, some of you get a rise from arguing with the loons. |
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...of enjoying their triumphal Bread and Circuses inauguration of the emperor without showing up here and spouting their usual lefty-wing hate speech. Why don't you party and have fun instead of hatefully trying to get in our faces? Not that we mind, for you give us constant perspective about yourselves and your cultist devotion to your prophets of doom. |
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Why not celebrate the fact that more Americans feel proud and ready to serve their country than ever before (even if only recently)?
I feel sorry for you all.
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I serve with my hands and I serve with my dollars. A full ten percent of my pretax income has gone to my church for the last twenty years.
The best way you can serve your country is to serve your neighbor.
The way not to serve your neighbor is to show up at his house with a gun and say, I'm taking your money to buy some votes with social programs.
Show up at the home of one who needs you--and help them. Don't steal one's property to give it to someone else to whom it does not belong. That is simply theft, not service.
You go out and find out who is more active in charity giving and volunteerism, and you'll find out who is out there serving. Hint: it ain't Democraps. Their mantra is "what's in it for me?"
I'm happy to serve. I could be of more use without you Democraps screwing up the economy by confiscating nearly 40% of all I make. Get your greedy hands out of my pockets and go out and do genuine service, from your own pocket and your own heart, using your own hands. You might not make as much money doing it that way, but you'll feel better about yourself. |
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If Obama does even half of what he promises, you'll be just as destitute as those of us you're gloating over now.
I promise not to gloat when his house of cards comes crashing down, if you promise on that day to work with me to restore our tried and true values of life, liberty and property after the Obama assault leaves us broken.
We can rebuild, just as we did with Reagan after the Carter debacle. |
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What you view as failure is not the same as what we have called succes. The war, in particular. Many don't agree with you. But many of us have said we disagreed with much of Bush's policies. You are a liar. |
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Just so you know, as far out of touch as we on the right are.....we have our fantasies as to what we "hope" will happen to "change" America.
Or are you too stupid to realize that?
Signed,
One of the Witches of Eastwick |
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While you listed some of the current and recent bastions of ethics on the left, one you omitted is that great "lion of the senate" you know Edward "I can swim while you drown" Kennedy.
The dems, rather than hold them accountable, reward them. |
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You see how Monkey Girl avoided me? Because those are facts that cause the Battered Liberal syndrome!! And that which makes themselves their favorite victims!! |
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I thought the speech was really an amateur effort. This is the first time I listened to an Obama speech and I was not moved or impressed. My advice to Barack Hussein Obama: Do not write your own speeches. This speech did not flow at all. It sounded like the muddled thoughts put together at the last minute without help from the professionals.
Barack, you may be a good basketball player but you are a mediocre speech writer. Leave it to the pros. Your acceptance speech dropped with a monumental thud. |
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and it was almost a Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers moment all over again.
Inspiring speech, Obama's. It must have inspired someone, somewhere.
The poet wannabe droning on about picking up pencils and looking each other in the eyes was slightly better.
And poor Rev. Lowery, still stuck in the 1960s. He did a good job of insulting "whitey" who ain't got it "righty." He apparently did not listen to MLK's "I Have A Dream Speech."
The good thing is that all of the speeches and poems and whatnot will be forgotten.
The honeymoon is over, the press has been deflowered, and let the games begin. |
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A clunker speech rhetorically that was delivered well. But that is typical of Obama's speeches overall: Great delivery but the words mean absolutely nothing. He tried to link 50 great lines into a speech that said nothing that we haven't heard before. Delivery: A Content: D |
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I remember as I watched it repeatedly saying to myself, "Okay, it's going to get better...okay, maybe now he'll get going," and then I noticed how even the adoring masses on the Mall weren't applauding or anything after the obvious applause lines, having collective "Huh?" moments, and I realized at that point, "This really IS dull as dishwater." It didn't come close to BHO's highpoint speeches of the campaign. (In fact, the high points of the whole inauguration were the musical quartet (Izhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, et. al.) and Dr. Joseph Lowrey (great entertainment). The poet - utter bilge.)
I think Jerseyvet is right: The key is, Obama wrote it himself. Axelrod didn't write it, his staff didn't, HE did, and what we saw confirmed our worst fears: The man is an empty suit, and in WAY over his head.
God help this country...
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