Sponsored Content
« Obama: Hey, It Turns Out That 3000 Years of Warfare in the Middle East Wasn't Going to End Just Because You Elected an Unprecedented, Historic Guy Made of Pure Awesome. Sorry, My Bad, I Thought They Would. | Main | Jilted Lover Takes Expensive Revenge on Obama Advisor »
January 22, 2010

Obama's Town Hall In Ohio

It just wrapped up so I'm testing the better late than never theory but it was...awful. The speech was disjointed, flat in a lot of spots and just, well, a mess. If this Obama ran in 08 McCain (or Hillary) would have beaten him. Easily.

At one point Obama said, "here in Michigan" alas it was in Ohio. No problem though, it's not like those two states are rivals or anything.

Then it got really bad.

The Q&A was filled with questions one would expect more for a mayor or city council candidate and he didn't hand them well.

Jim Geraghty was watching too.

I was left with a bit of sympathy for President Obama, as questioner after questioner asked about their own specific concerns, often way out of the president's duties, responsibilities, and realm of expertise: one guy was an inventor who wanted to give him a sales pitch, one woman lamented the impatience of the American people before complaining about a slow response from the state environmental agency over her toddler's lead poisoning, one guy wanted to read the president a poem, a woman who talked about the problem of finding students for her truck driving school, an old lady who was upset that her Social Security didn't have a cost-of-living-increase, and a guy who had the patent for some wind turbine issue that was in a fight with some company about. One poor soul raised his hand and just wanted to shake Obama's hand.
I was Twittering (Tweating?) during it and at one point my feeling was that if this were a fight, the Ref would have stopped it. It went on so long and was so rambling that the props people in the background looked they wanted to make a break for it. One guy pulled out a Blackberry and started checking email or something.

In some ways this was like therapy session for Obama. He seems absolutely overwhelmed by the job and the fact that his Awesomeness simply hasn't translated to this job.

The State of the Union on Wednesday is going to be very interesting.



digg this
posted by DrewM. at 03:10 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
Tonypete: "Good evening everyone. To absent friends!! ..."

nurse ratched : "Thank You for the ONT, Buck. ..."

Ciampino - Nature gives us chillies: "never ..."

That Northern skulker: "14 https://youtu.be/CBPSr4TsQkI Lovely song Po ..."

Every child has a normal childhood, we're watching it be used as an attack: "Charlotte is imported yankee banksters, just sayin ..."

Cicero (@cicero43): "[i]Do they fetch different prices depending on sme ..."

CppThis: "[i]206 “CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A paramedic ..."

NL : "https://youtu.be/CBPSr4TsQkI Lovely song ..."

Tonypete: "His fear gene has to be severely stunted and malno ..."

Ciampino - Nature gives us chillies: "They also had school girls that would sell their u ..."

BifBewalski [/s] [/u] [/i] [/b]: " I think he says that bike made his H2R seem like ..."

Tom Servo: "Black aragorn shot up Florida. He thought the or ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64