Business Insider: Obama's speech was a disaster.

[Soul Crusher]

FLASH JUDGMENT: Obama's Speech Was A Disaster
 
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Joe Weisenthal | Jun. 15, 2010, 8:31 PM | 2,559 |  71


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If you watched (or read) The President's Oval Office speech to the nation, please let us know if you feel better.

Because our sense is that this went over like a ton of bricks, at least based on our reading of it and the flash reactions we've seen on Twitter.

Some of the details up top are fine: It's great that a ton of folks going to be deployed in the cleanup, and strongarming BP to set up a cleanup fund is probably a good move.

But the second half of the speech killed the strong opening, because  it turned into just another pie-in-the-sky post-oil speech: Lots of talk, little substance, and little reason to believe that the worlds will end up resulting in something different than the last umpteenth time a President has promised to transition away from oil.

And unfortunately, it's the second half of the speech (the "blah" half) that people will remember -- not the details about the leak itself, which is unfortunate for The President



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/flash-judgment-obamas-speech-was-a-disaster-2010-6#ixzz0qytXOOUE

[pro nitrousADRL]

no surprise there, all he did was repeat what he has said before,  he shoulda just went and attended some more parties or something,

[Soul Crusher]

Oh my... Even CNBC is disappointed in OBozo...

MSNBC Trashes Obama's Address: Compared To Carter, "I Don't Sense Executive Command"

Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said:

Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."

Matthews compared Obama to Carter.

Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said."

Matthews: "No direction."

Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."

Olbermann: "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."

Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief."

Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."

Matthews: "A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk."

Matthews: "I don't sense executive command."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/flash-judgment-obamas-speech-was-a-disaster-2010-6#ixzz0qyu56rhX

[Skip8282]

It wasn't very good.

[Fury]

60+ days after the spill and that speech is the best he could come up with? What a joke.

[Soul Crusher]

60+ days after the spill and that speech is the best he could come up with? What a joke.

BF - check ouy my thread on BP and Cap & Trade.  Tons of info in there. 

[240 is Back]

33,

Do you feel Olbermann, mathews and Fineman are credible journalists - yes or no?

[Soul Crusher]

33,

Do you feel Olbermann, mathews and Fineman are credible journalists - yes or no?

No, but a broken clock is right twice a day. 

[240 is Back]

No, but a broken clock is right twice a day. 

I see.

Do you routinely cite articles and soundbites from pundits and journalists whom you consider rarely credible?









 

[Fury]

I don't see it being any different than the pro-healthcare people referencing Bush's daughter's opinion on the topic.

[Bindare_Dundat]

That was the first time it looked like he might crack and roll up into a fetal position.

[George Whorewell]

You guys are just racists!

He did a wonderful job and made me proud to be an Americant.

[MRDUMPLING]

I see.

Do you routinely cite articles and soundbites from pundits and journalists whom you consider rarely credible?








 

It's no different than somebody posting a Beck clip from his show to make a point.  Don't read too much into 333's answer.  I've said it myself on here...hell, Maddow actually did a great show on the oil spill and the past disasters.  I wish I could find it. 

[GigantorX]

33,

Do you feel Olbermann, mathews and Fineman are credible journalists - yes or no?

It is MSNBC the biggest Left-Media station in America. If the sycophants on that station are smashing Obama for his speech than yes, I would consider it noteworthy.