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O-BOMB-A, O-BOMB-AMitt Romney helpfully runs down all the pundits running down Obomba's gruesomely bad speech. Even Ezra Klein noticed Obomba entirely avoided the jobs crisis. Barack Obama is deeply overexposed and often boring. He never seems to be saying what he's thinking. His speech Thursday was weirdly anticlimactic. There's too much buildup, the crowd was tired, it all felt flat. He was somber, and his message was essentially banal: We've done better than you think. Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? I think she's spot on with that "which he considers writerly." This was one of the many problems I pegged with the speech: A good speech, like good makeup, seems natural. Like you're just talking. So the craft of it becomes invisible. If the craft -- or in this case, the contrivance-- becomes visible, then you're aware you're the target of a manipulation, and your bullshit repellant kicks on and you resist it. Now Clinton wrote the hell out of his speech, but wrote it so it seemed like it hadn't been written. Obama grabs at poetry -- he fancies himself a rara avis, you know -- but he's a bad writer. It's one of his many bad talents. Remember, he wrote of apes crunching figs in grottoes. Wolf Blitzer: Gee, I was told to expect more specifics. Now, I used the words "brazenly empty." Krauthammer pretty much nails it here ( video at the link). CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I was stunned. This is a man who gave one of the great speeches of our time in 2004, and he gave one of the emptiest speeches I have ever heard on a national stage. Yes, it had cadence, and yes, there were deceptions in it, but that is not what is so striking about it. There was nothing in it. This is a man who believes that government can and should do a lot. There is nothing in here that tells us how he's going to go from today to tomorrow. For any of the so called goals and what government is going to do, what is he going to enact? But you know who loved it...? Of course you do. Now, MSNBC got the Word of God that apparently Obama's running as a Foreign Policy President now, and that they're to talk up Afghanistan constantly. Which they dutifully did. This was the first time they mentioned Afghanistan since December 2008, and baby, did they make up for lost time. After pretending they liked it -- and making excuses about why people might not like it more (that darned cynicism getting to people!) -- they stopped talking about it after about 20 minutes and just started talking about Romney. And specifically talking and talking and talking about why Romney said nothing about Afghanistan (something Obama almost never talks about, but he chose to discuss it in his speech, so now that's what we all have to discuss, I guess). So, they stopped talking about it. It was a distasteful subject, ash in their mouths. Even Lawrence O'Donnell conceded, understatedly, it was not among Obama's better speeches. But Maddow, and especially Chris Matthews, just loved it! CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think tonight he did it again, didn't he? (crowd cheers and applauds) But more than that, the profound thing he accomplished tonight - the President - was to turn the whole table on those who thought that the incumbency would be a problem, and the challenger would have it easy. Story Continues Below Ad ↓ Chris Matthews is praising something external to the speech-- Obama's an incumbent. Yes, we know, Chris. Your choice of discussing this external fact -- which has been true now for over 3 1/2 years -- demonstrates your aversion to discussing the night's actual news, to wit, Obama bombed. Vid via @rdbrewer4. | Recent Comments
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