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Athena Calls Speech at her Temple a “Flop-a-lini”

August 30, 2008 by GayPatriotWest

When I watched Obama’s speech, my initial reaction was that it was one of his worst.  Still, he had greater fluency that does George W. Bush in most of his addresses.

The Democratic nominee came across as distance and, at times, angry.  He didn’t seem to connect to the crowd, though I have read reaction online that many at Invesco Field were move by their candidates’ remarks.

In listening to television commentary and reading blog and pundit reviews of the speech, what struck me was the great diversity of views.  On FoxNews, Dick Morris called it one of the greatest speeches ever.  Charles Krauthammer, with whom I normally agree on most things political, thought it wasn’t a great speech but a smart one.  He thought it worked.

Bill Kristol offered a similar assessment.

Michael Barone was not so impressed.  While less critical than yours truly, he thought the speech was “workmanlike rather than . . . inspirational.”  He also pointed out that it’s “pretty easy to refute” Obama’s “notion that John McCain is the (90 percent) same as George W. Bush.”  Thus, he concludes “that the major themes of Obama’s speech . . .  may not be sustainable.”

In a similar vein, Athena (AKA Peggy Noonan) doesn’t think that “six months from now,” people are “going to remember what he said.”  Well, she did say they’d “remember the Parthenon” which, after all, is her temple.

Simply put, “there were things about it that didn’t work.”

Noonan said those who described the speech as symphony were engaged in “fatuous suck-upping.” And Peggy has crafted some pretty symphonic addresses of her own.

Well, with Peggy calling the speech a “flop-a-lini,” I think I’m on pretty solid ground with my criticisms.

(Via a reader who found the link here.)

More commentary here as well as the video which I couldn’t manage to upload.

Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Politics, Divas, Mythology and the real world, Obama Watch

Comments

  1. michael says

    August 30, 2008 at 8:05 pm - August 30, 2008

    40 million plus watched or heard. one hell of a failure.

  2. michael says

    August 30, 2008 at 8:22 pm - August 30, 2008

    sorry bruce, can’t let this one slip by…..everyone one in the bush family has, ” greater fluency that does George W. Bush ” as do most of us.

  3. V the K says

    August 30, 2008 at 8:39 pm - August 30, 2008

    And 20 million turned to the other 20 million and said, “*That’s it? That’s what the hype was about?”

    There was a certain Matrix Revolutions quality to the ratio between hype and what Obama delivered. As with Matrix Revolutions, it was obvious a lot of money went into the production, but the product was talky, unfocused, and contained nothing memorable.

    [And I’ll leave aside the topic of michael pining for the days when inferior children were put to death so that the genetic purity of the Fatherland was protected for another time.]

  4. michael says

    August 30, 2008 at 9:05 pm - August 30, 2008

    you are such a brownshirt vinnie, dismissed. this election is over. i do remember your comments when i reported in to report that gonzo was toast and your denial. good luck bud.

  5. North Dallas Thirty says

    August 30, 2008 at 9:51 pm - August 30, 2008

    Actually, michael, I believe you and Barack Obama are the ones arguing that Sarah Palin is bad because, quote, she “knowningly lets a genetically defective child into this overpopulated world vs a redo on the pregnancy. ya, a clear thinking woman…”

  6. Tim O says

    August 30, 2008 at 10:04 pm - August 30, 2008

    When did barack obama make any comment on Sarah Palin’s baby?

    Um never, douche.

  7. ILoveCapitalism says

    August 30, 2008 at 10:15 pm - August 30, 2008

    It’s his *supporters*, Tim O. You know… people like you.

  8. ILoveCapitalism says

    August 30, 2008 at 10:16 pm - August 30, 2008

    (or in fairness… like michael… and some of the Daily Kos types)

  9. michael says

    August 30, 2008 at 10:40 pm - August 30, 2008

    so like you are telling me NDT that it is saner to give birth to a trisomy and waste the resources than abort and try again.

  10. V the K says

    August 30, 2008 at 11:00 pm - August 30, 2008

    “michael’s” same logic would apply to a child who was born congenitally deaf as well.

    Here’s a pic of the baby michael thinks should have been killed for the good of the genetic purity of the Fatherland.

  11. ILoveCapitalism says

    August 30, 2008 at 11:13 pm - August 30, 2008

    sorry V, 403/404.

  12. North Dallas Thirty says

    August 30, 2008 at 11:42 pm - August 30, 2008

    Yes, michael, for one simple reason; I have never met a person with Down syndrome that I, or their parents, would call a “waste of resources”. The Democrat Party and Barack Obama do, but I don’t.

  13. jeb says

    August 30, 2008 at 11:45 pm - August 30, 2008

    OMG! I can’t believe comments regarding the “trisomy”.

    Did everyone forget the genetic testing that was being promoted to weed out the homosexuals!

    I am offended and embarrassed that someone here is justifying the idea of a “do-over”.

    GOD help us all.

    jeb

  14. ILoveCapitalism says

    August 31, 2008 at 11:07 am - August 31, 2008

    Safire on The Speech:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/31safire.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

    Read the whole thing. Just one very small tidbit I hadn’t realized. Apparently,

    In one catchall sentence, Obama promised to defeat “terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease.”

    Delusional?

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