Hey, It's Time For An Obagasm!

These people, including Marc Ambinder, are such a joke, they give whistling past the graveyard a bad name. Desperate for any ray of sunshine and hope in a currently failing administration, we're supposed to believe Obama actually accomplished something, making the history books for it, by . . . giving a speech.

Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they'll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won't do it justice. Yes, I'm having a Chris Matthews-chill-running-up-my-leg moment, but sometimes, the man, the moment and the words come together and meet the challenge.

It's simply embarrassing. But the fact is, this is all they've got. And it's the same thing we saw day after day on the campaign trail. So what? His stimulus package was a dismal failure, his health care bail will likely crash into the Senate and burn, and his popularity ratings are beginning to sag while his policy ratings suck.

However, man, he gave a heck of a speech. How awesome is that?

Weak, folks ... very, very weak. Ambinder should be ashamed to call himself a professional at this point. He reads more like a school girl with a crush.

Comments

[gary gulrud]

Somehow I don't think this failure of the FBI, the Army and DHS is going away. No one is listening to Oblabla, going forward, from this attack and his mendacious apologia.

[Elmo]

Obama gave a speech?

[Lala]

I like that "Oblabla"

[Brian]

That speech read like every George W. Bush speech - maybe ever!

It was that same old "Islam's a Religion of Peace, our troops make extraordinary sacrifices, etc.".

That's some really brave, fresh stuff.

We've got some elective leg-tingling going on.

[MarkJ]

Marc Ambinder's idea of computer "multi-tasking": typing laudatory pieces to Dear Leader Obama while simultaneously j***ing off in front of his "Hope 'n' Change" screensaver.

[mike farmer]

There's something unsavory about Ambinder using this tragedy to praise Obama. It's cheap opportunism during a time when the techniques of the speech are so far down on the list of concerns to highlight that it renders the author irrelevant and pitifully small.

[Babuga]

Major Garret of Fox tweeted some of the phrases that were "lifted" from a speech JFK made about going to the moon. Joebidenism.
Too bad some people will remember "just words" but not the sacrifices of the military.

[William Teach]

The speech was pretty good, I will give Obama that, particularly his references to Islam not being a religion of peace. Of course, what else was he to do? I seriously doubt he would have been able to give his standard Progressive guns and Bibles suck type speech.

But, all it was was a pretty speech, something he is typically good at. I'll be more impressed when he actually does stuff to protect our troops.

[PA]

Wipe your chin Marc.

[Lila]

He did a good job reading from a teleprompter, but it was not heart-felt.

[templar knight]

This trip and speech were just more of the same. It was nothing more than a photo op for a liberal asshat who has already proven he doesn't give a shit for our military. That's it in a nutshell, folks.

[Peach]

I think the Obama knob lickers were just jonsing for a reason to slobber over him whether or not he deserves it. I heard what Obama said. It was nice, but the heavens didn't part no matter how hard sycophant Ambinder tried to make it so.

[drjohn]

If that doesn't define "premature eja....." nothing does.

But then, it's all that Obama has ever been about. All rhetoric and no substance.

Twits like Ambinder and Matthews get sucked in by the oratory and pay zero attention to the absence of accomplishment. The problem with that is that words don't get anything done, and the proof is all about us.

[Gary]

There was no emotion, no passion. He could have been one of the invaders from "V".

I doubt very much if GWB could have gotten through that speech without choking up with emotion here and there, or at least displaying some seriously un-dry eyes. Absolutely nothing coming from Obama. Of course Bush's AG wouldn't have put the kibosh on Hasan's investigation, so it would never have happened under his watch.

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11277

Same walking through and putting the coin at each soldier's memorial podium. Robot like. Afterward, every soldier dutifully saluted each memorial, and it occurred to me -- shouldn't Obama, their Commander In Chief for God's sake, have done so as well?

[mark l.]

dude is crazy...

people accused bush of draping himseff in flags, now we get to listen to them admire the messiah who drapes himself in military coffins.

when the fates were spinning the strings of life of these soldiers, it is hard to understand that their destiny would have these people killed by politcal correctness.

In truth, I can't think of any politcal leader who could deliver a requim without touching pc, than the novice in chief.

[Proud Liberal]

Gary, after watching endless episodes of Glen Beck crying his eyes out says this, "There was no emotion, no passion. He could have been one of the invaders from "V"."

Isn't that precious. Unless you are screaming, shouting and holding up photos of Nazi death camp victims, I guess you not considered to have "passion" or "emotion". Silly, silly, silly.

[glennbeck4evar]

Yes, yes, his complete inability to render himself articulately was a good reason John McCain beat him so badly in the election.
Oh. Wait, that didn't happen. Of course it didn't.
So you're all full of crap.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Just like any crush, all you see is what you want to see in your enamored. These folks are doomed because they can't let reality interfere with the suave, first class intellect and temperament they assigned to Obama. To do so would be to admit that they are not super smart and can easily be duped into supporting a fraud who utters platitudes and liberal tropes.

That he is a first class lightweight is apparent to the majority of the country.

[Gary]

Nobody said anything about "screaming or shouting". I think what a lot of us have noticed is that Obama seems to have no real passion for anything except campaigning. It's almost impossible to read the man, so I guess it's possible he's torn up inside and is just "too cool". I don't care for "too cool", I'd like to be able to get some indication of what makes this guy tick. He gives few, if any, outward clues.

I didn't get any indication that the event touched him on a level any deeper than his teleprompter. His bizarre display of backward priorities at the BIA event adds to the suspicion that this was not something that took priority in his mind or even his teleprompter's mind.

[mark l.]

"Gary, after watching endless episodes of Glen Beck..."
-proud liberal.

3 million people(1% of the population) watch glenn beck. I'm not 'usually' one of them.

so proud liberal watches endless episodes of beck...must be a great life.
Do you take notes when you watch?