Surprise!

This week POTUS gave his State of the Union speech. Obama the great aurator. I have to admit I didn't bother to listen. There are ripples out there though. Reverberating effects that have caught me off guard. Out of all the commentary and criticism, I was surprise to hear people cracking on the way the President gives a speech.

This was his strong point! This was where he always won his battles. Even his staunch critics conceded this point. I even heard a fifth grader at a school, during the campaign, say "He is really good at speaking, but I don't like his ideas". That kid was regurgitating something he had heard his parents say, no doubt, but they said it often enough that even he picked up on it.

Now? Now he has slipped even on this ground. When Obama lent a hand in the effort to defeat Scott Brown recently someone remarked "We used to think he could sound eloquent reading the phonenook, now it seems he always is". Even his admirerers in the mainstream media seem to have become critical.






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