guess they get what they ask for then...
Posted on 09/07/2012 2:39:14 PM PDT by middlegeorgian
Such is the genius of The One that even his biggest failures are actually huge successes that most people simply haven’t appreciated yet.
Someday, we’ll all see ObamaCare for the masterpiece that it is.
While the pundits are generally calling the president’s Thursday night address mediocre, Obama and his advisers had taken great pains to avoid soaring rhetoric that might have been derided as empty.
Indeed, they extensively tested the president’s speech in dial groups, a type of focus group where voters twist dials to register approval or disapproval of specific passages, and say it tested off the charts. The reaction, they say, was more positive than to Obama’s 2008 acceptance speech in Denver.
In short, the president deliberately dialed it down, stopping well short of the altitudes he is capable of reaching. Perhaps that will prove to be a mistake, but the decision to go with a less rousing approach was carefully considered.
The campaign’s primary goal at the Democratic convention was to provide a concrete sense of what Obama would do in a second term. That was what independent voters wanted, according to the research, and that was the focus in Charlotte.
Yeah, the problem with this embarrassingly feeble bit of spin is that, per Charles Cooke, O really only has one speech left in his repertoire anymore. Whether the focus group loved it or not, that’s what America was going to get last night. He can’t do sweeping vistas and uplift anymore because literally no one outside the hardest-core Obama-bots takes it seriously. The delusion of Hopenchange is now a punchline; if you doubt me, have a look at the Daily Show/Larry David collaboration below. So he’s forced to run through his “things could have been worse” shtick, replete with the same old policy wish list that’s starting to bore even Andrea Mitchell. Just the thought of them holding actual focus groups on last night’s gutterball is funny. First question: “Did you enjoy this speech more now or the first thousand times you heard it?”
The only people who “liked” what he said last night are, I suspect, partisans strident enough to work for MSNBC whose top priority at the moment is moving the goalposts. See, e.g., Krystal Ball, who thought it was just fine and a useful reminder that we should stop expecting O to be Superman even though he was sold to us four years ago as Superman. That’s his winning message this time around, apparently.
guess they get what they ask for then...
I would even settle for a resignation speech.
Well, The Obamanation came through... 
with flying colors for them really focused up folks!
Bend, is this... 
a big focusing deal?
“The only speech I want to hear from Obama is a concession speech.”
hmm I just want him to shut up and go away.
Chalk up another FOCUS GROUP WIN for the FOREIGNER. He can’t lose in those democrat focus groups.
Obama is so unoriginal and stale that he even copied Peanuthead Carter nearly word for word in part of that disaster.
I would be inclined to pull off the road and pay attention if I saw him giving his opus before leaping from a rooftop.
umm yeah thats the ticket- we WANTED a boring speach because my wife- MORGAN FAIRCHILD loved it
Just like Obama was turning down the big money because the campaign intended to have small donations....
What a bunch of asshats.
Though it's fun to deride Team Obama, this strategy actually makes a lot of sense, given how the GOP endlessly ridicules his messiah image. And a more sober speech reflects the public's mood. We will soon find out if this will reap rewards for him.
lol
Remember, he has many advantages over Mitt Romney: 97% of the media, Hollywood, ACORN, unions and their millions of members and hundred of millions of dollars, the Black Panthers, LaRaza, Nation of Islam, Soros and other billionaires, the Lavender Mafia, the Democratic machine, NGOs, foreign donations, the Nutroots, LULAC and on and on. We should all work our tails off and donate as much as possible between now and November 6th.
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Jesus. Obama simply cannot take responsibility for ANYTHING.
I think they were trying desperately trying to change the channel to something more compelling - like reruns of "Three's Company"
Dang... that was a cute picture but huge. Ever heard of resizing?
The best by far ‘rat speech maker of modern times is Michael Dukakis.
It’s widely recognized that Dukakis was the one to commend for the part of the Big Dig project to depress the Central Artery by just speechifying to it.
Yeah, just like the controled crowds to make it homey or something! DAMN LIARS!
The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed. For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?
His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink.
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