Explosions at Boston Marathon

Big difference in communicating and smooth talking.

I did honestly think when he was campaigning that he would have a bit of the Kennedy/Reagan ability to communicate and inspire via speeches. I honestly think one big difference is that Kennedy/Reagan sought to inspire. Obama seems to come across as blame.

The speech Obama have after Sandy Hook, IMO, was one of his best, if not his best in office. He spoke from the heart and he spoke as one. Too many of his speeches have been too political and not Presidential.

Just my two cents.

 

Obamas greatest strength is his voice.

Its a shame he wasted it on apology tours and scolding children speeches.

 

Agreed

Most of the time he comes across as the an angry dad

 

Got no issues with this.

 

I really don't get this. I'm no Kennedy fan, but his Berlin speech was essentially Reagan's Tear down this wall moment.

 

Because I was being facetious with my "Yeah right" post. The face palm is because you should know me better than that.

JFK has some of the best, most inspiring speeches in American history.

 

I'm calling the sarcasm meter repairman immediately. No excuse, but I am sneaking posts in at practice, so I'm a bit distracted.

 

Adolph Hitler comes to mind.

 

I find defending the IQ of George Dubya akin to defending the Titanic as unsinkable.

 

it is ironic that kennedy was a supply sider.

 

Their basic economic philosophies were very close. What they spent yhe money on has some variance, but still.

 

Ventura, although no Mensa member, is more crazy than stupid, in my opinion. Palin just didn't know shit about anything, yet saw fit to embark on a career based upon mockery of others and blithely ignoring her complete lack of understanding of issues in order to gain positions of prominence for herself.

 

Plenty of people noted his detachment and inability to understand complex issues. Plenty of stories out there of Reagan dawdling away his time at the White House while advisers did the decision making. Hell, Nixon even thought he had "limited mental capabilities" as did Margaret Thatcher.

 

I've spent a reasonable amount around both of them for wildly varying reasons, they are both stupid as hell.

 

What complex issue of his presidency did Reagan fail to nail?

 

Fair enough, I guess trying to measure the tallest midget is pointless.

 

I'll bite, Palin?

 

Most anything that had to be delivered in video form because, as his aides noted, he won't read anything "longer than a paragraph" and it fit his conception of the world in terms of movies. Otherwise, Iran-Contra, Beirut, ketchup, tree pollution, Central American death squads.....the list is long.

 

She was in New York a great deal when I lived there and she was constantly raising funds at a couple of places I frequented. Attractive woman, not swift mentally. She might be the most provincial and narrow minded person on the planet.