Obama's Speech... Yawn

Fair assessment.



I've written this a million times - Obama's personality is flawed for this work. His only passion is to appear to be a good-hearted referee between two equally serious and earnest groups (Dems and republicans). No personal swats at anyone is allowed - everything has to be compromise and congenial, no matter what the loss or cost (e.g. extending tax cuts for the rich, extending patents for pharma, etc.) to the economy or citizenry at large.



Worst strategy ever was to send out clinton (and Kerry) to be Obama's policy hit man. In the course of doing so, the President, by contrast, can ONLY appear aloof, distant, and disconnected from policy. The only way to avoid offending a hardened republican or tea partier is to not say anything specific about their extreme policies - and thus you get nothing from the President's speech except his trademark cotton candy.



Again, in the wholly pointless pursuit of bipartisan gregariousness, Obama chooses to prevent progress. In this case, however, it was for his own re-election.



What clinton, Warren, Kerry, and other speakers did during the convention was to show what leadership and the courage of personal conviction looks and sounds like. Against that backdrop, the President's standard 'don't offend anyone!!' fare can only aspire to come off like second-rate fluff.
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