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The epic pictoral Obama fail thread (Page 3)
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Originally Posted by ironknee 
reading this thread i get the feeling reading from a teleprompter is a big issue. i suppose that's what rush is talking about lately.
am i wrong to say so did bush 2, clinton, bush 1, reagan, carter did too? nevermind 
Say what you please, but Reagan wrote his own speeches frequently.
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Originally Posted by vmarks
Say what you please, but Reagan wrote his own speeches frequently.
But did he read them on a teleprompter?
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Ha! What a dork! Is Kim Jong Il going to take him seriously in that hat?
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I bet there is a teleprompter hidden in his hat.
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Originally Posted by vmarks
Say what you please, but Reagan wrote his own speeches frequently.
According to William Safire (a former Nixon speech writer), so does Obama.... I mean Buttcrack!
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
Ha! What a dork! Is Kim Jong Il going to take him seriously in that hat?
I don't know. I'm an expert in the subject, and I can't even figure out who the bigger dork is.
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Originally Posted by Dork.
It's been a while, Pendergast! Welcome back!
Hey Dork! How ya doin'? Hope the chips business is good for ya!
What is this thing about Obama failing? Is he really? I can't believe it.
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Originally Posted by Pendergast
What is this thing about Obama failing? Is he really? I can't believe it.
Yes. The only thing he's not failing at is taking away our freedoms!!
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Originally Posted by besson3c
According to William Safire (a former Nixon speech writer), so does Obama.... I mean Buttcrack!
Where did William Safire say this? Certainly not in the wiki bio you linked.
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
Yes. The only thing he's not failing at is taking away our freedoms!!
In the name of our Lord JC!
You mean he is turning Americans into slaves???
Criminy!
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Originally Posted by ebuddy
Where did William Safire say this? Certainly not in the wiki bio you linked.
The said this at a public speech he gave at the local university in addressing speech writing. I know that my word is (rightfully) a flimsy source in your mind, but perhaps you could find him saying the same thing online if you Google it. I'm not lying though!
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Originally Posted by Pendergast
Hey Dork! How ya doin'? Hope the chips business is good for ya!
I'm all done with the chips now, they were yummy. Now I have a professional interest in time.
What is this thing about Obama failing? Is he really? I can't believe it.
He is failing at hoops. This shot was an airball:
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Dunno if I would keep bragging about Safire, he does say that Obama writes some of his own speeches, but he also says that they are therefore vapid and have no real substance.
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No, he said that Obama's speech about either race or patriotism (I can't remember which one was his latest at the time) was the best speech we have heard in at least a generation. As far as I'm concerned, Republicans and Democrats alike should be able to recognize the greatness of these particular speeches - they have nothing to do with partisan policy.
What is your source Macrobat?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/op...e.html?_r=1&em
Is one article I can still find.
Michelle Malkin posts this quote;
Barack Obama's biggest draw is not his eloquence. When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That's good. He's compelling, I like the way he speaks. And afterward all the commentators call him "impossibly eloquent" and say "he gave me thrills and chills." But, in fact, when you go on the Internet and get a transcript of the speech and print it out and read it--that is, when you remove Mr. Obama from the words and take them on their own--you see the speech wasn't all that interesting, and was in fact high-class boilerplate. (This was not true of John F. Kennedy's speeches, for instance, which could be read seriously as part of the literature of modern American politics, or Martin Luther King's work, which was powerful absent his voice.)
Mr. Obama is magnetic, interacts with the audience, leads a refrain: "Yes, we can." It's good, and compared with Hillary Clinton and John McCain, neither of whom seems really to enjoy giving speeches, it comes across as better than it is. But is it eloquence? No. Eloquence is deep thought expressed in clear words. With Mr. Obama the deep thought part is missing. What is present are sentiments.
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That article is a critique of Buttcrack's acceptance speech at the DNC, it does not refute my point. How is the Malkin quote related to my point, or is it?
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Probably because Michelle is quoting Safire? Duh much?
And - in case you didn't know - Obama's acceptance speech happens to be one of the speeches he wrote.
Youre president says nothing the vast majority of the time - he just says it well. On the rare occasion he DOES actually take a position - it has an expiration date.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Are you a time traveler?
No, you're confusing me with this guy.
I'm just on Atomic Time, which puts me 34 seconds ahead of the rest of you schlubs.
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Originally Posted by Macrobat
Probably because Michelle is quoting Safire? Duh much?
Why not post the source and/or article for the full context then?
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Is this you Dork?
I thought this was your picture?
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Why not post the source and/or article for the full context then?
Michelle's article was quoted by a commenter at hotair.com and given the impossibly high to measure probability that you will a) never read it and b) never be swayed enough to open your eyes, I don't feel like doing the archive search at Malkin's site.
The commenter at Hot Air is a regular and I have no doubt of his accurate quoting.
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I don't know anything about Malkin, so please don't assume anything. Have you listened to the Buttcrack Race or Patriotism speeches Macrobat?
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More platitudes and bullshit you mean? Yes, I have.
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Is this you Dork?
He's my hero.
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