Thursday, September 06, 2012

Joe Biden and Barack Obama's Speeches to the Convention

I listened to the speeches of both Biden and Obama tonight.  Biden was a blowhard, full of enthusiasm but offered nothing but generalities.  Joe Trippi said he thought the second half of Biden's speech was sheer demagoguery.  Obama then gave his speech and offered the same standard stump speech we are used to hearing from him.  I found it uninspired and unconvincing.

Obama set up various "straw men" arguments, by telling us what the evil Republicans want to do, when in fact they have no such goals.  If you can't refute what they said, refute what they didn't say.

Charles Krauthammer said Obama's speech was empty and flat, but other than that, he loved it.  I agree.  The speech was just a lot of promises about what he was going to do in his second four years (probably a lot of golfing back in Chicago, since he will have lots of time on his hands).

If this is the best the Democrats have to offer, I'm not too worried.


3 comments:

Always On Watch said...

The mainstream media this morning were all trying to put on a good face about Obama's speech. However, the official WaPo editorial wasn't very flattering. Neither was what appeared in the Atlantic. See THIS about the latter. Hmmmm....

Stogie Chomper said...

Thanks for the tip on the Atlantic article. I referenced it in my morning post. My feeling is that Barack Obama needed a home run and merely bunted the ball.

Anonymous said...

OfoQxz http://kuroebaggu.com/ NekQcl [url=http://kuroebaggu.com/]シーバイクロエ[/url] IjlIsi http://saiyasunerubutan.com/ VrxWip [url=http://saiyasunerubutan.com/]クリスチャンルブタン セール[/url] TajJhg http://mcmhannbai.com/ ZjhTvl [url=http://mcmhannbai.com/]MCM 店舗[/url] VviHgk http://vuittonkakaku.com/ MdwQny [url=http://vuittonkakaku.com/]ヴィトン キーケース[/url] BfxJou http://chloenihon.com/ UarMdn [url=http://chloenihon.com/]シーバイクロエ[/url] WwlZgj http://louboutindendou.com/ QuyTdh [url=http://louboutindendou.com/]クリスチャンルブタン 靴[/url] CovMjl http://guccisenmon.com/ GezPgy [url=http://guccisenmon.com/]GUCCI ショルダーバッグ[/url] ScfWzt http://tuminihoo.com/ RflXvq [url=http://tuminihoo.com/]TUMI バッグ[/url]