Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Go to realclearpolitics.com and look at the responses to her speech.
The vast majority of them are very positive.
You may not like what she had to say, but no one is questioning her ability as a speaker and at connecting with an audience.
Obama has that great orator style similar to JFK and Martin Luther King.
Palin has that down home folksy style similar to Bill Clinton, Reagan and FDR.
LOL, Palin shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence as those three. I think a more apt comparison would be with Laura Ingram.
And should Obama be mentioned in the company of JFK and MLK??
I was speaking about her ability to give a speech and nothing else, get over it.
Funny how similar my post was to Red Dawn's responding to PJ, I wrote it before seeing his, of course.
When I comment on Obama, I have to put a disclaimer that my opinion is more negative than most on his speeches. His 2004 convention speech I thought was fluffy - it had some good things about it but I was not too impressed. Others see it as great, some as one of the best political speeches of the 20th century; there's a book actuallly coming out on it.
Having said that, while I don't see him as good as JFK (I'd say he's better in ways and worse in ways than MLK), mentioning them together is fine.
Kennedy's own top people who have commented, like JFK's top aide after Bobby, Ted Sorensen who usually doesn't get that involved in politics, say he reminds them of JFK.
Sorensen said he hasn't seen any politician since JFK that reminded him as much and endorsed him in early 2007 when he was a real long shot.
PJ, you're just using the fallacy of 'association' to say nonsense, mentioning Palin with the others and trying to get it to stick on her.
It reminds me of the same overblown technique used by LBJ (Vietnam President Diem was "the Winton Churchill of Southeast Asia) and Reagan (the thugs and criminals in the terrorist Contra army we made to attack Nicaragua wre "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers".)