This was one of the worst speeches I’ve heard any president ever give. It was wooden, meandering, uninspiring, and arrogant. Obama once again snubbed our staunch ally Britain. Besides the US, no other country has sacrificed more blood and treasure than the UK. Britain stood with us when other countries refused to. They should have been thanked by name.
I also thought his backhanded compliment of President Bush was offensive. Why would this smug SOB need to assure us about Bush’s patriotism? George W. Bush’s love of country has never been in doubt. What’s worse, he didn’t even have the balls to acknowledge that Iraq is where it is today because of Bush — not him. He’s following the timeline for withdrawal that Bush put in place before leaving office.
The speech was meandering because it lacked focus. He was talking about Iraq and then suddenly changed course and began babbling about the economy for five minutes, then he was back to Iraq again. It sounded like he threw that economic stuff in at the last minute. The speech was disjointed and weird.
For a professional show horse like Obama I thought his delivering was pretty pathetic. It was flat, wooden, and completely devoid of emotion.
