We’ve gone from “Obama’s the most rhetorically brilliant President since Lincoln” to “his speeches are actually kind of mediocre but that just proves how brilliant he is” to this unblinking self-caricature of Obama hagiography:
You’d think with all the practice they get speaking in public that politicians would know better than to say what they’re thinking when they’re thinking it. And when they do, and comments about the Special Olympics come out, it can make you shake your head and think, “Really?” But in a way, it’s heartening to hear our politicians stumble over words, mangle syntax and make inappropriate jokes. It shows politicians are human, too. Sometimes.
You know the stereotype about religious worshipers? How they’ll take anything that happens – good or ill – and find a way to spin it as God’s will? This is kind of like that. Except instead of being a believer enmeshed within thousand year old institutions that are navigating intractable metaphysical tensions, these morons just really obnoxious.
While we’re on the subject of the President’s oratory: can someone please tear his advisers away from their West Wing reruns and their Hillary Clinton cutouts and tell them that the US didn’t invent the automobile or the solar panel? Please thank you.
References:
* Figures: Obama’s List Of Pre-Screened Questioners Emerges One Day After Media Celebrations Of How Obama Doesn’t Pre-Screen Questioners (Plus: It’s Possible That The MSM Is Making Up Excuses For Their Obama Worship) [MR]
* A gaffe a minute [Lili Ladaga]
* Facebook: Obama Speechwriter Parties With Clinton Cutout [Huff Po]
* Fact-checking Obama [FP Passport]
* America invented everything [Ambinder]
Previously:
* Liberals Slowly Realizing That Obama Was Serious About His Disastrous Economic Proposals
* Confirmed: Obama More Eager To Take On The GOP Than Iran
* Black Press Of America: Obama “Lifts America’s Spirit In Speech Of Hope,” Economy Is Bush’s Fault [MR]
