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 Ive 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 Presidents 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
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
That’s more representative of the Obama presidency than just about anything I’ve seen lately.
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
“Baraqs 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......
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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.......
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We’ll watch this unfold, but the course was charted long ago....
Yep. Revolting isn’t it?
The tingle is gone.
What Chrissy gets from Obama doesn’t run up his leg, it rolls down his chin.
Ah yes ... setting the stage for Hillary to come in and “save the party”
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).
The You-Know-Who-We-Shall-Not-Name can give a sharper, cogent message with truly memorable lines.
Nope, Chrissy is going to call in sick, drinking and sobbing himself in the bathtub.
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.
Here is one YouTube video of Zell Miller challenging Chris Matthews to a duel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giS0382sFjw
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.
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.
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.
Congrats brain dead enemamedia.
Thank you.
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.
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