This thought is left over from tonight’s drunkblogging. I’d have thought of it sooner, but, Jeebus, did it take a lot of very cheap vodka to make it through one not-very-long speech.
If President Obama’s Awfully Lame Little Speech gives him an almost-unprecedented 14-point bump in the polls for his handling of Afghanistan, then 51% of the American people will still think he’s screwed it up.
And that’s according to Gallup, not Fox or Rasmussen.
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Why is it the drunken ones among us harbor the most sober(ing) thoughts?
ABC news just called it a “sobering assessment.” I think the drunk one was better. Thanks, Vodkapundit. F
There are some things that man was never meant to see sober.
You have a tiny, tiny penis.
Thanks Mr. G,
I needed some way to get the gest without having to listen to that Marxist voice over, probably chain smokes a couple before each spooch to get the phony silky deep just right. Hear he runs a double tele-prompter now to ensure on message, on time!
2012,2012,2012!
Antigon –
I drank your weight in vodka and made it through the entire night without making even a clever dick joke.
What’s your excuse?
Thanks, once again, for doing the hard work for the rest of us. I can’t watch the man. Not even with the help of beer goggles.
Besides, I’m with China’s prez: I want a kiss when a someone is trying to do sex to me.
Except, Obama can kiss my ass.
Oh, feh. I forget you’re with PJM’s site here. Sorry for the potty mouth!
I won’t push it here since I’m banned in so many bloggs,
Thank you again for keeping me from having to listen to the “O”ver exposed one and…well CHEERS!
I still refuse to buy Toshiba products….
Due to “circumstances beyond my control”, I read your live blog about an hour after it was live.
And then I watched the speech on DVR.
IMO, you were WAY too gentle this time around.
Terrible speech, but semi Ok message, with an obviously snoozing audience.
Considering who the audience was, this was not a good thing overall.
Jay –
I don’t know how it is for USMA cadets, but I can tell you how it was for cadets at Missouri Military Academy, circa 1987.
When somebody important showed up to give some important speech, we cared a lot less about the speech (or the speaker) than we did about whether our shoes were shined well enough, and if our brass was polished well enough, to keep us out of trouble.
The rest was just a matter of not falling asleep during review.
Stephan,
Most of those cadets were probably more concerned with passing tomorrow’s quiz in electrical engineering than in what the prez was up to.
Ooops, that Toshiba line was an accidental cut and paste artifact from a discussion at another blog.
http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/9061.html#comments
But still, based on the shots of the audience I saw, I’d call this speech an epic fail.
I can’t stand to watch Obama give a speech, so I have come to count on you to give me a great synopsis of every important speech he makes. You came through again! Thanks so much. My vodka was Tito’s for this nite.
One point about the speech that I haven’t seen elsewhere: Obama declared that the U.S. has continued to support freedom and democracy around the world. If so, why has there been a long, loud silence from the White House over the crooked election in Iran that kept the madman in office and led to the deaths and oppression of courageous Iranians who took to the streets?
Drunk blogging to die for, VP!
It took inordinate amounts of vodka to get through Obama’s not-very-long speech because it was not a not-very-long speech — which means that you didn’t take in inordinate quantities of vodka either.
At 4,582 words, this speech was nearly twice the painful length of Obama’s Inaugural Address which clocked in at 2401.
I gave up watching and/or listening to Obambi so I’ll wait until morning to read the good, the bad and the ugly about his speechifying. But if experience teaches me anything it’s going to pretty much the same old same old..Bush, hard job, economy has to recover, Bush, etc…all delivered in a somber monotone with lots of “let me be clear” lines thrown in.
I spent my time much more profitably, practicing Aikido. Thanks for taking one for the team, even if you had to slurp down some vodka to brave through the wussy-assed pre-surrender.
(cheap vodka? has the recession reduced Vodkapundit to plastic bottle type vodka? Oh the humanity!)
I would have liked something to help me suffer through that speech. Vodka would have been a good idea. However, I needed to be sober to make sure my child was not exposed to Hilt… I mean Sadam Hu… You know the crazy guy who has already spent her future.
Obama gave a speech?
No way. We would have heard.
Great work, Stephen. I enjoy it immensely. Wish I had something clever to say, but hey, that’s your job!
My liver thanks you. My throbbing head and aching hair thank you, as do my eyeballs too full of blood to both open properly at the same time. If I did what you do everytime that man appears on TV or, God forbid, gives a major policy speech, I’d be out of a job and probably in some low-rent Betty Ford Center knock-off, hiding under the bed and gibbering every time someone turned on the TV. Sure, it might be just “Wheel of Fortune”, but who knows when The One will cut in to announce that he and Oprah have solved world hunger by raiding your secret donut stash? The horror, the HORROR…!
Seriously, one of the best things Obama could do for his image would be to move into and spend a few months redecorating Dick Cheney’s other “secret lair”, and not being seen once while doing so either with or without a telepropmpter. He’d miss the State of the Union speech, of course, but would that be a bad thing…?