Barack Obama Speaks

Tuesday, August 31st at 7:58PM EST

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Not since February of 2009 has Barack Obama spoken in depth about Iraq. Naturally, he waits for Rush Limbaugh to go on vacation to it — notice he always waits for Rush to go on vacation before addressing the nation from the Oval ~~Office~~ Beige Room.

Here’s our traditional Cover-It-Live box. Have at it.

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=7db2a08adf">Barack Obama Speaks From the Oval Beige Room</a>

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Sorry....

WIBadger Tuesday, August 31st at 8:08PM EST (link)

…but I just can’t watch it.

Yeah, WIBadger, I get a gag reflex, too. [nt]

lineholder (Diary) Tuesday, August 31st at 8:25PM EST (link)

Well, at least it was short. NT

Moe Lane (Diary) Tuesday, August 31st at 8:22PM EST (link)

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And incoherent (nt)

SteveLA (Diary) Tuesday, August 31st at 8:47PM EST (link)

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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests

True: How Could It Be Long?

Ausonius (Diary) Tuesday, August 31st at 9:12PM EST (link)

MAOBama has little to no knowledge, and little to no interest of anything connected to successful military strategies in Iraq or Afghanistan.

And why would he? “Victory” is a word that strangles him. Defeating Islamo-fascists somehow is not quite proper for him, given his “America/Western civilization is guilty of crimes against Islam” rhetoric, with turning NASA into a revisionist History propaganda organ for lionizing fantasies about the scientific discoveries of Islam, whose more fanatical adherents want to freeze society in the 7th century.

Now that speech could go on forever!

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Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

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Did he "use" the military in this speech?

loganyung (Diary) Tuesday, August 31st at 8:55PM EST (link)

My sense of this speech was that Obama attempted to raise his profile as president by wrapping himself in the cloak of the military. I guess it’s worth a try, given his decreasing popularity, but, you have to figure that this will really piss off his base.

To quote Ace from AoSHQ on this very issue:

Mary Beth (Diary) Tuesday, August 31st at 9:21PM EST (link)

“Is this dirtbag really using an opportunity to thank the troops as a campaign commercial for his failed economic policies? I think he is.“

“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.” ~ Ronald Reagan

Watched it.

Jewels Tuesday, August 31st at 10:08PM EST (link)

He talked quite a bit about himself and his campaign. I think he’s trying to remind people that he used to be Teh One, once.

Also, his teleprompter was too slow. He did a lot of eye scrolling back and forth, and pausing for the next sentence to appear. Either that or he reads that slowly naturally.

But the biggest issue is that he tried to pass off the country’s economic problems on- oh yes- the war in iraq. Because THAT must TOTALLY be the cause of it all.

And we have the November talking points.

face/ palm