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MSNBC Panel’s Verdict On Obama Campaign Speech: It Stinks (Video)
Mediaite ^ | 3:35 pm, June 14th, 2012 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 06/14/2012 2:09:18 PM PDT by Hojczyk

President Barack Obama delivered a campaign speech on Thursday that was billed as an effort to refocus on the economy and to frame the debate against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney moving forward. But a panel of liberal commentators on MSNBC reacting to the speech unanimously felt the President had wasted the opportunity to truly make an impact on the race.

I thought this, honestly, was one of the least successful speeches I’ve seen Barack Obama give in several years,” said Newsweek editor Jonathan Alter. “It was long winded. He had a good argument to make, and at the beginning of the speech he seemed to be making it in a fairly compelling way but then he lost the thread.”

Alter said he thought the speech was “way too long” and Obama had “lost the audience by the end.”

Daily Beast columnist and economist Zachary Karabell agreed with Alter, saying that the President opened the speech well, but quickly lost the plot.

MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall attempted to clarify the President’s points for her panelists, seeing that the conversation was rapidly spiraling into pointedly off-message territory.

UPDATE: Jonathan Alter appears to be taking heat for his insufficient support of Obama following his Ohio campaign speech. Not long after his appearance on MSNBC, Alter tweeted this:

Jonathan Alter@jonathanalter Just cheerleading BO doesn't help him. He needs a sharper, more cogent message with some memorable lines. I ain't walking my criticism back

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To: gov_bean_ counter

That’s more representative of the Obama presidency than just about anything I’ve seen lately.


21 posted on 06/14/2012 2:57:24 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Hojczyk; Scott from the Left Coast; Quix; Alamo-Girl; M. Espinola; whitedog57; stephenjohnbanker

Obama's Satanic Hand Signals

Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises !

Every day King 0 tells more lies and breaks more promises. He is most surely under the control of evil demonic entities

22 posted on 06/14/2012 2:57:49 PM PDT by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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To: nascarnation

“Baraq’s getting snarked at on PMSNBC?

holy cow....”

We’ve seen this strategy before. They’ll admit he’s a porker wallowing in a mud sty until the last moment when they’ll put lipstick on him and say that he deserves 4 more years to make his policies work......Pssst.... Romney’s a Morman, and a dirty capitalist......

.................................

To refresh.......

Tsk, tsk, tsk, Billy’s a bad boy...a very bad boy. Shameless.

It’s just about sex....everyone lies about sex!

It doesn’t rise to the level of High Crimes and misdemeanors. (?????Perjury is a felony....ie a “High Crime.”)

It’s just a political witch-hunt.......

..............

We’ll watch this unfold, but the course was charted long ago....


23 posted on 06/14/2012 2:59:42 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry bear formerly known as..........Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Yep. Revolting isn’t it?


24 posted on 06/14/2012 3:00:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over...)
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To: showme_the_Glory

The tingle is gone.


25 posted on 06/14/2012 3:02:14 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: showme_the_Glory

What Chrissy gets from Obama doesn’t run up his leg, it rolls down his chin.


26 posted on 06/14/2012 3:02:30 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Hojczyk

Ah yes ... setting the stage for Hillary to come in and “save the party”


27 posted on 06/14/2012 3:05:14 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Freestate316
We need to dig up that video of Zell Miller challenging FUR BALL to a duel! I have NOT laughed so hard as when I saw chrissy cough up the fur ball in fright.. OH MY GOSH, that was so funny. Even now I still laugh hard!! God bless Zell!
28 posted on 06/14/2012 3:05:28 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: DoughtyOne
He needs a sharper, more cogent message with some memorable lines.

You, dear DoughtyOne, just succeeded in doing the very thing that Jonathan Alter was looking for. Too bad he's not smart enough to read FR (or embrace conservatism).

29 posted on 06/14/2012 3:15:38 PM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: BitWielder1
>>> He needs a sharper, more cogent message with some memorable lines.

The You-Know-Who-We-Shall-Not-Name can give a sharper, cogent message with truly memorable lines.

30 posted on 06/14/2012 3:19:51 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Freestate316

Nope, Chrissy is going to call in sick, drinking and sobbing himself in the bathtub.


31 posted on 06/14/2012 3:22:26 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
No, He-Who-Feeds-The-Teleprompter can, maybe he's on vacation.

32 posted on 06/14/2012 3:34:34 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Hojczyk
He needs a sharper, more cogent message with some memorable lines.

exactly how does one put a sharp point on a snooker ball?

Obama has evolved again into a speech, egg-laying mammal known as the Dullville Platitude.

33 posted on 06/14/2012 3:37:52 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: RoseofTexas

Here is one YouTube video of Zell Miller challenging Chris Matthews to a duel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giS0382sFjw


34 posted on 06/14/2012 3:42:10 PM PDT by Big Steve
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To: Hojczyk
And if the pundits had told them it was a magnificent, poignant speech, they'd agree, and they'd be happy.

It has taken these media clowns almost five years to figure out Dear Leader ain't all that, something your average Freeper knew from day one.

I'd like to know where I can go to get a job like that, make a 7-figure salary for being painfully stupid.

35 posted on 06/14/2012 3:49:46 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: jimbo123

I don’t understand why Baraq didn’t issue an executive order giving all the peons a day off and requiring the evil capitalists to pay them for it.


36 posted on 06/14/2012 3:53:52 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Hojczyk

Weren’t long speeches a hallmark of the communist dictators like Lenin and Stalin?

I think the lengthy diatribes are a function of the idea that if you propagandize long enough, you can change people’s minds.


37 posted on 06/14/2012 3:56:35 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Hojczyk
3 and a half years to finally figure out BO Stinks.

Congrats brain dead enemamedia.

38 posted on 06/14/2012 4:20:53 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Thank you.


39 posted on 06/15/2012 12:30:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Republicanism: Y1 Rant Y2 Rant Y3 Rant Y4, Oh nevermind, vote for him anyway. Rinse & Repeat!)
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To: shelterguy

I hear ya. My favorite story line on this is...

Obama is half White, but he’s called Black.

Zimmerman is half Hispanic, but he’s called White.


40 posted on 06/15/2012 12:32:42 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Republicanism: Y1 Rant Y2 Rant Y3 Rant Y4, Oh nevermind, vote for him anyway. Rinse & Repeat!)
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