Clichéd, surprisingly dull, naive, and memorable only insofar as it was forgettable.
It was a schizophrenic speech that couldn't quite make up its mind whether we were in a time of peril and doom or simply suffering from national indigestion.
Even though a few Obama supporters swooned and called the speech “momemtous” others thought it was just another campaign speech.
It was an uninspiring speech and everybody knows it - including the news writers who have made a valiant attempt to whitewash the jumble of words.
One Lucianne commenter: “Every pundit and historian I saw interviewed expressed their disappointment. Dr. Krauthammer called it pedestrian.”
One website said it contained numerous grammatical errors.
It was Pablum for the masses as reported here.
Obama delivers overblown rhetoric and dull clichés as though it's the most important thing ever spoken in the English language.
Listening to an entire speech where every sentence is delivered in that manner is akin to fingernails on chalk.
Maybe Obama adds emphasis to the end of each phrase because he is afraid people won’t believe what he is saying otherwise.
Unless a person is part of the "he's gonna pay my mortgage and buy my gas" crowd, the cadence of his speaking style and that verbal tic where the final syllables in some of his sentences fade off -- will turn you off.
One writer wondered if that was to make him sound black when that mattered to him more than it does now. Maybe so.
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