Obumer’s Looking A Little Stressed
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I noticed in this he does that little distracted grin as he looks away, like he is so delighted in the cleverness of his coming thought. He does this a lot. It sets up an expectation in the viewer that he is about to say something really clever, a real zinger, or a major insight. You actually find yourself wanting to conspire with him - you start smiling in anticipation. “Oh this is gonna be so good. Obama’s got that twinkle.” But then... nothing. He just says more nonsense academic speak, dressing everything up to sound deep and intellectual when the actual content is completely pedestrian and obvious, or just empty political rhetoric that flows well to our ears because Hollywood has taught us that is how a wise political statesman should sound. I think he has these rhythms so memorized that he could just read Lorem Ipsum and all the pauses, eye glints, smirks, uhs and ums, would all be perfect.
Well said.
0bama is Sound and Fury (where “Fury” here is just puffery and strutting and eye rolls), Signifying Nothing.
He’s adopted the speech patterns of MLK (somewhat) and Malcolm X (a lot), and that works for him as long as he has crowds of adoring fans (here I include The Press), with cartoony stars for eyes, Ooooing and Ahhhing at him.
But his speeches are always always content free. And always rely on conventions like “everybody knows” level of “logic”, casual bigotry, veiled threats and smirks.
This Emperor has no clothes. And never did.
Hypnotism