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Obama In One Paragraph
By Kyle | December 10, 2009
Victor Davis Hanson, summarizing the Nobel speech:
1) Verbosity (4,000 words plus!) and extraneousness (he finally even referenced the world’s farmers); 2) I/me exhaustion (34 times) and the messianic cult of personality; 3) the 50/50, split-the-difference trope; 4) the straw man: on the one hand there are realists, on the other idealists, and I Obama singularly reject this either/or dichotomy (as if no one else does as well) 5) veiled attacks on the previous administration - 6) reference to his own unique personal story - 7) good-war/bad-war theory of Afghanistan and Iraq -eight) the hopey-changy rhetorical flourish. Is there a Microsoft program somewhere that writes these things out?
Ouch.
Topics: Barack Obama, Politics |