Obama's Fine Art of Prestidigitation
As the dust settles over the planet following the longest speech of President Obama’s political life, (70 minutes), which included this downer line, “We do not give up. We do not quit. We do not allow fear or division to break our spirit,” the wags are wagging and the talking heads are talking their heads off.
If Obama meant to invoke Churchill’s, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,” he didn’t come close and, besides, he doesn’t smoke cigars.
Various observers did come close, to burlesque, to insight, and to honesty.
. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is always ready to inadvertently inject some absurd humor into the political scene and he scored again last night.
You may recall MSNBC, it’s the cable news network that no one watches. And you may recall Matthews who, not once but twice, experienced a “thrill” up his leg during the presidential campaign while in the presence of his Obamassiah.. .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1453)
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