A comparison of the enthusiasm of West Point cadets in welcoming a Presidential speaker, the examples being this week's speech and President Bush's last speech. The ones who count are the people in the gray uniforms, though it turns out the civilian audience wasn't much more enthusiastic this week.
Reviews of the speech in the press have been terrible, but the ones I'm getting in email are vastly worse. The left hand limit on commentary for this speech is that it missed a significant opportunity to accomplish anything of moment. The right hand limit is that it will produce a rapid destabilization of American alliances, especially in Asia.
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Ooooh. Tough crowd. And it's not as though Bush's speech were in the first flush of his presidency. That's 2008, when his approval ratings were in the cellar.
Watching that Bush speech, I noticed how you could really hear the emotion in his voice when he talked about the greatest honor of being President was being Commander in Chief. In comparison, Obama's speeches could be given by a well programmed computer.
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