Mile-high Rhetoric
August 28th, 2008My first thoughts on Obama’s speech tonight: weak. John Dickerson wrote a great column with suggestions on how he can relive the 2004 masterpiece but he didn’t take it. His foreign policy rhetoric fell flat on me, and I do not see it having any resonance with very many Americans in coming weeks and months. And he mentioned Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Kennedy as foreign policy visionaries but not Harry Truman. So he loses my vote again for not having enough sense. His post-speech celebration, with the orchestral score and fireworks, is the height of hubris, and he isn’t making it any harder for Republicans to paint him as a free-spender.