The Audacity of Complete Sentences

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I think this is just another example of why Bush supporters who thought that his way of talking was an asset were so wrong. It always amazed me that the party of Reagan (AKA “the Great Communicator) could so quickly turn on the idea that having an articulate spokesman for our ideas was overrated or unnecessary. Bush talks “American,” people would tell me. I don’t care whether he talks American or the Queen’s English, so long as the conservative standard-bearer can win arguments. One of the great failings of Bush’s presidency is that he couldn’t persuade people who didn’t already agree with him. One of Obama’s great advantages is that he can.

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Obama is the most adept Teleprompter reader in the history of the Presidency, but watching his struggling search for clauses and dependent clauses in his extemporanous answers to the easy questions he was served up, reminded one of a drunk trying to cross an icy parking lot—you think he is going to make it—you hope he will do so, but at the end of the day, it came across as so much contradictory gibberish.