The President "Flunked " last night only because punditry set the expectation incorrectly.

[Perky]

A speech will not plug the leak. The optics were admittedly not great, but it was hardly a Jindal moment. Which is the way some of you are assessing where we are at today. The speech will be forgotten in a week

Really it will.

[AndyA]

1. I agree, the M$M set the expectations so high, when Obama didn't go into certain things,

it was a disappointment. I wonder where the media got the information that last night's speech was supposed to answer all questions and concerns?

When you remove what the M$M told you beforehand, there's no reason to be disappointed in Obama's speech.

I am, however, still concerned that it seems BP is in control of everything down in the Gulf.

Why are clean up workers not wearing masks? I've heard it's because BP said no. Why isn't the EPA down there INSISTING all workers were respiration equipment?

Why are independent photojournalists not allowed access to air space to photograph the oil? What are they hiding? Who is preventing this? These are public lands, BP should not control access except in the areas where there workers are cleaning up. Air space should not be under BP control.

I find those things to be of great concern. Just who is in charge down there?

[Posteritatis]

7. I don't think it's high expectations as much as retroactively mobile ones. (nt)

[Tansy_Gold]

2. Well now that's an attitude that makes sense, I guess?

The President goes on national TV to deliver an address about a major crisis to the nation.

It was really a successful speech, but the punditry didn't get what they expected, so they somehow or other turned the success into a failure.

But the speech remained such a success in spite of the punditry that the speech will be be forgotten in a week.

I guess that means all the ideas expressed in the speech weren't/aren't worth paying attention to? Or acting on? Or even remembering for a week?




Tansy Gold

[Perky]

3. Reading too much into what I said

I thought it was a poor speech not from content but from an optics vie... He just did not look comfortable and the speech was not well written,. but that is different than the quality of the content. You can't pound your fist and tell the electorate that you are pissed. It would look even odder.

[Tansy_Gold]

4. So, for those of us who didn't see the speech but only heard it

or only read it, it's still a good speech? Just not delivered well? Just not written well? And it's not memorable? Easily forgotten?

:shrug:

[Perky]

5. Tes. I think it just got obliterated by the outcome of the Meeting with BP

Watch for a solid bump in the pools.

[moondust]

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