I am going to be honest with you, I tried watching the President’s “press conference” but I just could not make it through. After five minutes I loaded up the DVR & caught up on reality TV which, as fake as those programs are, offer more “reality” than anything that was said by the President last night. During that five minutes I heard enough “uh, ums” to lull a Buddhist into Nirvana and marveled at how Obama exchanged his teleprompter for a flat panel television. WOW, exciting.
In short let me say this, if the President is not going to call on reporters who will be critical, if he is only going to call on the select few he screened ahead of time and whose names he reads off a list and if he is going to offer the same tired explanations he has on eighty other television programs, there is absolutely NO NEED to interrupt television. Obama needs to stop forcing his way into our Tuesday nights and go bother someone else. Couldn’t he spend this time talking to Iran or something? Seriously, enough with the TV Obama, enough with the TV.
Finally let me say this once and for all, I don’t want to hear people tell me Obama is a “great speaker.” He gave essentially the same exact speech for years and on the campaign trail. If he couldn’t recite that thing with proper timing and inflection his skill level would be at zero instead of the level one he is hovering over now. Every time the man has to speak extemporaneously it is like a cat spinning out of a blender, its nails scraping a chalkboard with musical notes on a scale that are being played by a bagpipe player kicking a sitar. GW doesn’t win any awards for inspiration but I don’t remember him claiming to be Cicero reincarnate.
Obama’s words are lofty and made meaningless by action, it is propaganda and prose not a sign of aptitude or enlightenment. Actions matter and in his short but busy time in office he has undermined his intended meaning behind nearly every platitude offered during the campaign; from bringing lobbyists into his administration to shutting out any opposing voices, our President is now diametrically opposed to the man he claimed to be when he ran for this office.
His stumbling, meandering, cantankerous, empty and worn speech since election leaves almost everything to be desired for; the fawning by his easily amused and awareness devoid followers is laughable and more than a little dangerous for a nation that was built on the concept of removing blind worship from the political sphere.
