Comments on: Obama Rewrites Iraq and Gets Stuck http://axisofright.com/2008/07/15/obama-rewrites-iraq-and-gets-stuck/ Conservative Politics, Religion, Culture, and Anything Else Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:56:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chrishttp://axisofright.com/2008/07/15/obama-rewrites-iraq-and-gets-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-2918 Chris Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:08:04 +0000 http://axisofright.wordpress.com/?p=2583#comment-2918 I guess I must be the only person in the world who doesn't think Obama is a good speaker. In his speaking, he has awkward pauses and tries to have an authoritative sound to block out the upward inflection with which he tends to end sentences (think Jillian from <i>The Family Guy</i>...and I think his level of intelligence based on his Marxist theory rivals her's).I do agree with you, Scottymck, in that his supporters are closing their ears and eyes to realism and are being enticed by the false profecies of hope and change. On your comments on Bush, he has the potential to be an effective communicator when he is on message and using the bully pulpit of the president (aka "Going Public"), but unfortunately, he doesn't always do this and it goes with how he views himself: as opposed to Reagan who viewed himself as the leader of a movement, Bush views himself as just a man who will be going home to Crawford on January 20, 2009. This has been the basis of many of his problems during the second term.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2918','Chris'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2918','Chris','I guess I must be the only person in the world who doesn\'t think Obama is a good speaker. In his speaking, he has awkward pauses and tries to have an authoritative sound to block out the upward inflection with which he tends to end sentences (think Jillian from <i>The Family Guy<\/i>...and I think his level of intelligence based on his Marxist theory rivals her\'s).\n\nI do agree with you, Scottymck, in that his supporters are closing their ears and eyes to realism and are being enticed by the false profecies of hope and change. On your comments on Bush, he has the potential to be an effective communicator when he is on message and using the bully pulpit of the president (aka \"Going Public\"), but unfortunately, he doesn\'t always do this and it goes with how he views himself: as opposed to Reagan who viewed himself as the leader of a movement, Bush views himself as just a man who will be going home to Crawford on January 20, 2009. This has been the basis of many of his problems during the second term.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I guess I must be the only person in the world who doesn’t think Obama is a good speaker. In his speaking, he has awkward pauses and tries to have an authoritative sound to block out the upward inflection with which he tends to end sentences (think Jillian from The Family Guy…and I think his level of intelligence based on his Marxist theory rivals her’s).

I do agree with you, Scottymck, in that his supporters are closing their ears and eyes to realism and are being enticed by the false profecies of hope and change. On your comments on Bush, he has the potential to be an effective communicator when he is on message and using the bully pulpit of the president (aka “Going Public”), but unfortunately, he doesn’t always do this and it goes with how he views himself: as opposed to Reagan who viewed himself as the leader of a movement, Bush views himself as just a man who will be going home to Crawford on January 20, 2009. This has been the basis of many of his problems during the second term.

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]]> By: scottymckhttp://axisofright.com/2008/07/15/obama-rewrites-iraq-and-gets-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-2917 scottymck Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:06:53 +0000 http://axisofright.wordpress.com/?p=2583#comment-2917 The people who really need to hear these things are closing their eyes, putting fingers in their ears and shouting "La,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la."The vast majority of Obama supporters that I have spoken to are not informed on the issues, don't care about them and wouldn't vote for him if they did. They do think he appears very Presidential and is a good speaker. "These are the qualities of a good leader," they say.While communication is indeed, a prerequisite to effective leadership (a quality Bush seems to be lacking), holding true to one's beliefs and not wavering from them is the quality most important in leadership. Unfortunately, Obama can't sit still long enough on an issue for us to know what his true beliefs are.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2917','scottymck'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2917','scottymck','The people who really need to hear these things are closing their eyes, putting fingers in their ears and shouting \"La,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Obama supporters that I have spoken to are not informed on the issues, don\'t care about them and wouldn\'t vote for him if they did. They do think he appears very Presidential and is a good speaker. \"These are the qualities of a good leader,\" they say.\n\nWhile communication is indeed, a prerequisite to effective leadership (a quality Bush seems to be lacking), holding true to one\'s beliefs and not wavering from them is the quality most important in leadership. Unfortunately, Obama can\'t sit still long enough on an issue for us to know what his true beliefs are.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> The people who really need to hear these things are closing their eyes, putting fingers in their ears and shouting “La,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la.”

The vast majority of Obama supporters that I have spoken to are not informed on the issues, don’t care about them and wouldn’t vote for him if they did. They do think he appears very Presidential and is a good speaker. “These are the qualities of a good leader,” they say.

While communication is indeed, a prerequisite to effective leadership (a quality Bush seems to be lacking), holding true to one’s beliefs and not wavering from them is the quality most important in leadership. Unfortunately, Obama can’t sit still long enough on an issue for us to know what his true beliefs are.

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