Kelly
2010-08-31 19:38:16
This is the first time I ever watched an Obama speech (usually wait for transcripts and recap) because none of them ever interested me before.
My husband is in Afghanistan right now (Iraq seems like Paradise by comparison), he was in Iraq with the initial invasion and back again for the surge. A few parts of the speech rang true, but it shouldn’t be to hard to say nice things about the troops that you command, I suppose the shout out to Bush was the best we could expect. Obama isn’t known for his graciousness after-all. I thought he seemed strangely robotic in his delivery. I have no idea where the stuff about the economy came from. Maybe he really, really, really means it this time that it’s an area he is going to concentrate on??
