[bpjam]

Hell, I have praised Obama my self. But my praise for him has been exclusively in the arena of his oratory skills and ability to rhetorically stun audiences into forgetting that he isn’t actually saying anything.

Remember when there was a term called ‘political doublespeak’ or ‘talking loud and saying nothing’? Obama needs his own saying like ‘inspiring the masses to do nothing in particular’ or ‘saying so eloquently so much and conveying so little’.

Actually, Obama reminds me of Oprah. Think about this. Oprah is amazingly famous and has a Svengali-like following of women(mostly) who hang on her every word. Yet nobody you ask could actually tell you what it is that Oprah really believes in. What religion does she practice? What does she think happens to you when you die? Does Oprah believe that tax increases create or suppress economic activity? Hell, what brand of hair spray does Oprah like the most?

Oprah talks about virtually everything but she rarely if ever takes an actual position on anything which has two sides. If she talks to a guy who believes that upbringing causes your sexual orientation, she is fascinated and acts as though she agrees. Next week, she has someone on her show who proclaims that it is a scientific fact that sexual orientation is genetic and Oprah says ‘I’ve heard that from many people’. But after both shows, you really don’t know which one Oprah herself thinks is true.

When we are talking about fashion or what your dreams mean or feng shui, its easy to not have a firm opinion since there is no right/wrong answer. But what about partial birth abortion? The Estate Tax? Jessicas Law? Nobody knows. Her viewers, readers and sychophants certainly don’t. They have a general feel of what she thinks but not about virtually any real issue which is politically contested.

Obama votes like a McGovern/Feingold/Bernie Sanders socialist but he talks like a guy who is charging $25,000 an evening at corporate retreats as a motivational speaker. Obama has yet to do anything that any garden variety motivational speaker doesn’t do every day on the job. They inspire, they excite and they provide a host of catchy phrases like “If you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you are right” which sound deep and profound but are intellectual cotton candy.

It would be a fascinating experience to have a US President in office who has absolutely no affiliations to anybody in business, politics or any other organizations and no policy plans. There are somewhere around 100,000 Federal employees who would be taking direction from a guy who doesn’t know who or where they are and what they do.

[bootless]

Good post.

While Obama’s oratory style is certainly skilled and impressive, the content of his words amount to verbal cotton candy.

[ncalburt]

Osama Obama is saying something its called a pot smoking , illegal alien haven socialist nightmare nation.
Just because someone is given a compliment, lets not read too much into it. As usual ,the liberal media overreaches and reads so much into so little.

Can someone name one thing Osama Obama has ever accomplished outside of being a black dem candidate ?
The power of the media to make something out of literally nothing is amazing. Herr Goebbels would be impressed by todays socialist media Obama propaganda campaign.

[athelass]

There are somewhere around 100,000 Federal employees who would be taking direction from a guy who doesn’t know who or where they are and what they do.

Not to mention a million and a half or so professional soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines scattered all over the world. Fascinating perhaps, but not pretty.

You're a good writer. I've read op eds by really famous people lately that didn't make anywhere near that much sense.

[rockinqsranch]

“Oprah talks about virtually everything but she rarely if ever takes an actual position on anything which has two sides. If she talks to a guy who believes that upbringing causes your sexual orientation, she is fascinated and acts as though she agrees. Next week, she has someone on her show who proclaims that it is a scientific fact that sexual orientation is genetic and Oprah says ‘I’ve heard that from many people’....”

Analogy: Reminds me of a scene in an episode of “Frasier” I happened to see the other night as I passed through the Den and my wife was watching television. His brother Nigel’s “Date” was “fascinated”, and so “Interested” by everything about him, and “Frasier” took Nigel into the kitchen and was explaining the “Singles Match Service” in which Nigel had met his “Date” was actually an “Escort Service”. It was quite humorous, but the point is the parallel to Oprah’s “fascination and Interest” without any commitment to “Position”, nor substance. She seems quite “Generic”.

One size fits all sort of a thing.

There is no doubt she has become quite wealthy with this sort of vapid format.

[shove_it]

I heard that ...

[SoCal Pubbie]

Well written post.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

In other words, he’s Chauncy Gardener.