Obama Wows Germans — But Will It Play in Streator, IL? »
Posted By pc25 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsThe speech may earn Obama raving applause from Europeans but just shrugs from my neighbors.
I must confess to a weakness for listening and reading good political speeches. I wrote an article a while back on the top ten American political speeches of all time and never had so much fun writing and researching anything.
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pc251 year, 5 months ago
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"For Barack Obama, it might be unfair to saddle him with the expectation that he would make a speech as memorable as the address delivered by John Kennedy when Berlin was the flashpoint for nuclear confrontation............Reagan and Kennedy went to Berlin in order to accomplish something specific. Obama went to Berlin to make a campaign commercial.Obama is NOT PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!
In the end, my fellow townsmen will shrug their shoulders and not think it a big deal anyway.
Obama was hoping for a grand slam home run, a thumping denouement to his overseas trip. Instead, he gave a middling performance in front of a relatively subdued crowd and will come home secure in the knowledge he didn’t strike out — but still finding elusive the time and backdrop that will allow his rhetoric to resonate down through the ages."
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