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After a rather wandering speech by one of the greatest oratators of our time, Obama settled in for the final pitch that can best be described as a jazz oddessy.
Seriously off the handle, I have no idea what he is on about here. Or even if this is above puppet show.
All of these approaches have merit, and deserve a fair hearing in the months ahead. But the one approach I will not accept is inaction.
Hold up there Obama. You will not accept inaction, yet we will hold high court over ideas for months?
Action requires actually doing something, not just meditating some compromise among industry leaders. Holding meetings is gonna look real cute, while millions of Americans lose their vacation on the beach this summer, due to BP accidentially the whole fucking Gulf.
Whoever wrote the speech should think about the spatial space between “in the month ahead” and “inaction”. Seriously, have we gone back to the million monkeys in the rooms again?
The writer strike is over you know. Hell, get Alvin Greene’s speech writer. Whoever writes his stuff has an economy of words that makes Ernest Hemmingway look like Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is somehow too big and too difficult to meet.
Let me guess. “It’s complicated.” Seriously Obama, this was on the Daily Show just last week for meta’s sake.
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Just threw some new gloss on that meme and called it a day, did ya?
Wow, and here I was thinking communication was your strong suit.
So what are you communicating today?
You know, the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough planes and tanks in World War II.
Wait, are you are saying the militarization of the United States in World War II was rife with inaction? No, real life action occurred, like war rationing. Only Edgar J Hoover could get silk hoses during that war.
But who said that? The Germans?
It wasn’t the Japanese. Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
That doesn’t sound like inaction to me. But carry on.
The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.
Okay now you have lost me. Are you talking fake moon landing conspiracy here?
What is the “same thing” being said about our ability? And who is saying these things? The Russians were racing us, so they had no reason to doubt we could. And I don’t really remember a third runner in the race to space, so who was saying this.
During the big closing no less.
Popcorns ready. Go on.
And yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom.
He nailed America there. We ain’t afraid to try something stupid. From fads to global empires, America is always ready to test the limits of conventional wisdom. Also known as common sense.
Now for the big closer!
Instead, what has defined us as a nation since our founding is the capacity to shape our destiny — our determination to fight for the America we want for our children.
Even if we’re unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don’t yet know precisely how we’re going to get there. We know we’ll get there.
In honor of the late-great Gary Coleman, “What you talkin’ about Obama?”
So you got a map of the future that lacks both directions for where and how we are going as a country? This is your chart to guide the destiny of the good ship America?
That’s your gameplan?
If you had anything going for you it was your speeches, but this, what the fuck is this?
You don’t have any vision for the future? You are unsure what is going to happen?
Did you just seriously say that in the Oval Office, also known as lofty speech dream meme factory, especially in a Prime Time slot. This is when Presidents say great things.
I wasn’t expecting a Green Act rivaling that of the FDA Act, though the historical parrelells are there, though the Republican President of the time was way more progressive than Obama. But something, instead of meetings about meetings, maybe even a public works program to clean the Gulf.
Just promises about ideas to come.
And Obama just told America he has no idea where we are headed, or how America is even gonna get to where we don’t know where we it is we are going.
Not very slick.
The honeymoon is officially over.
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Mine didn’t last four months. But you’re right: that speech was pure blithering from a guy who realizes he is out of his depth. He can’t be mean to BP lest he “spook the fragile energy or financial markets,” or something. US foreign, financial, and energy policies are ripping the US to pieces in short order and Obama just dialed into the fact that he’s refereeing multiple black holes in a galactic death match. His chances were never good, but he made every wrong-headed move along the way, both practically and morally speaking. There’s nothing left to do but watch the incredible violence unleashed in the wrangling.
your dissection of Obama’s mindless blatherings is quite entertaining; thanks. Judging him on his performance so far, he appears to have the weight of a helium balloon and the depth of a mirage. I’m beginning to wonder if he isn’t a secret, cutting edge, government ventriloquism experiment.
I have no clue what this might mean. Really. Or how it fits. So maybe it’s not that he needs a writer (don’t we all) but that maybe his editors have gone on vacation. Or strike. Sheesh.
It’s pretend. Time to wake up.