Yes.
Posted on 04/05/2009 11:00:10 AM PDT by Schnucki
Isn't it time for him to go home yet? It is good, in theory, that the new President of the United States is taking so much time to tour Europe. He arrived in London last Tuesday, has been to Strasbourg, Prague yesterday and now he's off to Turkey. It shows, I suppose, that he cares about the outside world and that is 'A Good Thing'. But his long stay means that we are hearing rather a lot from him, way too much in fact.
His speeches have long under-delivered, usually leaving a faintly empty sensation in this listener even though I welcomed, moderately, his victory last year as offering the possibility of a fresh start and a boost to confidence.
Yet, we are told that he is a great orator and in one way he certainly is. He does have a preternatural calm in the spotlight and a mastery of the cadences we associate with the notable speakers in US history - such as JFK and MLK. But beyond that, am I alone in finding him increasingly to be something of a bore?
His performance at the first press conference in London with Gordon Brown featured moments in which he sparkled - his riff on loving the Queen was a high-point. But most of the serious answers that I listened to were interminable, windy and not very impressive. At points there were pauses so long that it appeared he had simply lost his train of thought.
Today, we were treated to another set-piece Obama speech, and my didn't he go on a bit? The crowd in Prague was huge, and initially wildly enthusiastic, but what he served up was not any more impressive than his damp squib in Berlin last year. Is there a computer which churns this stuff out
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They can keep the marxist.
I can understand the Europeans wanting him to go home but we don’t want him here either. Maybe he’ll go visit Africa or something.
it was ronald reagan who made it possible for a narcisstic bore like obama to use AF One to take his angry wife out to dinner in prague
BWAHH! You can keep him.
“The Divine One” might kill his administration by boring people to death. He talks, and talks, and talks, and talks. People are starting to wonder does he ever work?
The world is finally realizing what we have been saying for years. Obama is a narcissistic windbag. They’re waking up after a raging night on the town, head pounding, and noticing the ‘1’ lying in bed next to them, who they could have sworn was a ‘10’ the night before. Too bad we all will suffer for their idiocy.
I thought he was boring the first time I heard him(on youtube). He starts off pretty good, and finishes ok usually. But the long period in the middle is extremely dull and pointless.
Europeans must think americans are not too bright by now. We had 8 years of a lying disgusting pervert that speaks very well, then 8 years of a president that just cannot speak period, and now we have a boring dunce that won’t shut up. He like a robot of some kind.
Bingo! Welcome to our crisis, cousin!
“But most of the serious answers that I listened to were interminable, windy and not very impressive”
He repeats his campaign speeches. Heard Obamachev once, that’s all there is. No substance at all.
I think maybe he means even the MSM here will recognize what a windbag he is. A lot of the press in Europe realize that already, including the writer of the article.
“...freedom is a right for all people, no matter what side of a wall they live on...”
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obama might want to watch what he says. Someone - some day - will ask if this refers to everyone but the Iraquis.
We’d like to reinstitute the Lend-Lease program. You get one socialist leader, in return we’ll take that guy, Daniel Hanan, who reamed Gordy Brown a new one in Parliament. Deal?
As you, Obama, dismissed Bush re Iraq and a new democracy in the festering middle east.
Great post, Schnucki.
Find this guys email and send him a link to FR. He doesn’t seem to know what’s going on overhere.
“Isn’t it time for him to go home yet?”
Oh how lovely!
“But Obama was only warming up. “When I was born,” (Everything usually leads back to him, you’ll notice)... “
True sign of a narcissist.
The author asks, “Is there a computer which churns this stuff out?”
Well, sort of. He reads all of his speeches off a Hallmark-sist card, and they convey all of the sincerity and true emotion of same.
Well, thanks to you guys in Europe, Americans were convinced to vote for the clown because, clowns that THEY are, they based their approval of him on YOUR approval of him. So, why don’t you keep him?
How much crap must a man’s mouth spew
Before you call him a fraud?
Yes, n how many lies must a mulatto tell
Before he loses his throne?
Yes, n how many times must the bull crap fly
Before he is forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.
How many times must a liberal look up
Before he can see it’s a lie?
Yes, n how many ears must a liberal have
Before he can hear liberty’s cry?
Yes, n how much freedom must be lost
For that freedom so many have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.
How many years can a United States exist
Before its washed to the sea?
Yes, n how many years can free people exist
Before theyre tied by tyranny?
Yes, n how many times can a liberal turn his head,
Pretending he just doesnt see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.
” But his long stay means that we are hearing rather a lot from him, way too much in fact.”
Welcome to our world. We can’t escape his name, his face, his wife’s face... we are oversaturated with him as well.
“At points there were pauses so long that it appeared he had simply lost his train of thought.”
That was when the teleprompter went on the blink.
Ha! Four days of Obama seems like an eternity to the Euros—can they now at least understand how we feel?
That’s ok. We don’t need him back any time soon.
What doesn’t get mentioned is the crowds are essentially made up of those (and their children) who showed up on queue to protest Reagan
Re: “..but we don’t want him here either. Maybe he’ll go visit Africa or something.”
It does feel like a certain burden has been slighty lifted since he’s been away.
Like the mean stepdad went out of town for work giving us a reprieve to do as we please. Then when he returns, so do the anxiety levels.
“But I’ll wager that within a year or so he’ll be marked down as a wind-bag.”
Wind-bag... SNORT!
I guess he has not heard of TOTUS.
Obama’s European campaign to denigrate the US and try to buy the admiration of the rest of the world is the most disgusting display of egomania I have ever seen. Chrissy Mathews must be in a flagellating frenzy watching this sickening display.
Well done!
(now I’ll have it stuck in me head all day!)
;0)
Particularly on the stock market. I'm thinking of adopting a trading strategy that involves selling short just before each of his domestic speeches, and buying just before each of his trips out of the country.
Ha! This guy appears to be losing his luster very quickly.
Nothing but damp squib.
“we are oversaturated with him as well.”
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Never have so many heard so little expressed in so many words from people of minds so small.
We will all grow weary of being harangued by this megalomaniac, the way he puts emphasis on the end of every sentence. It grates against the nerves. I try not to listen to him, but there are times I can’t click on the volume icon quick enough. We’ve had Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and now we have this idiot, our gift to the world, and I wish they would keep him.
You people of the world wanted a World President and you got him.
You keep him.
Since they are the only ones praising him for his greatness at nothing, KEEP HIM!
I think Ben Franklin said it best:
Fish and guests stink after three days.
I think he is a horrific speaker. He stutters, wanders, says things that make me go WTH did he say? Lots of words, no substance. Lots of me me me me me, look at me. “let me make myself clear” ..............over and over and over. er uh mmm er uh mm er um um er mmmmy er uh um mmmmy er uh....boring zer0, very boring.
“Barack Obama really does go on a bit”
Just seeing the headline, I knew it was a British headline - good turn of phrase!
“Is there a computer which churns this stuff out”
The Axelrod-Vapidomatic (TM) software, churns out pablum that rips off every major speech made since the dawning of globalism. Sliced and dices it into gibbering platitudes.
His speech sounds as if he picked a tourism brochure on Prague before arriving...
I like Prague too but like Berlin and Warsaw, it is a relatively young city."For over a thousand years, Prague has set itself apart from any other city in any other place."
Vienna was founded around 500BC and Paris is thought to have been settled around 4,200BC.
“I thought he was boring the first time I heard him(on youtube).”
While his early primary speeches were impressive and he got crowds,
I knew he was over-rated since the March 2008 ‘race’ speech, which was dishonest hokum flatly delivered but gave Chrissie Matthews a tingle up his leg.
“He like a robot of some kind.”
He just reads whatever TOTUS tells him to. He who controls TOTUS controls the world.
He is a bore, boor, and loves hearing himself speak.
Dumb bunnies, all of them. He is a hugh disappointment to everyone who buys into his BS. LOL
“But I’ll wager that within a year or so he’ll be marked down as a wind-bag.”
The author should have said one week - he would have collected a lot sooner.
0bama is a master of circumlocution. He’s also as slick and deceptive as black ice.
“Europeans must think americans are not too bright by now.”
Unfortunately, they’re right! I’m surrounded by obamabots.
What gets me is this in his speech: “Few people would have predicted that someone like me would one day become an American President.” (Him again)...
“Few people would have predicted that an American President would one day be permitted to speak to an audience like this in Prague. And few would have imagined that the Czech Republic would become a free nation, a member of NATO, and a leader of a united Europe. Those ideas would have been dismissed as dreams”.
How can he with a straight face describe people in a thousand-year-old city as not imagining that things would someday change from the bad old Cold War days? Few of Barack’s American liberal generation thought it would change. The rest of Europe and American conservatives have always known that things change, often and always. Not only does he talk like a narcissist, his speechwriter writes like one.
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