Mark Steyn is back after taking the summer off and thank goodness for that. He had a column on his blog the other day and he rejoined the Ricochet podcast this week. We'll need him in the run up to the election. He's the rock star of the conservative movement. The only other conservative out there who garners the same respect is Krauthammer.
I'm only twenty minutes into the podcast but Steyn just picked up on something that I also noticed during Barack Obama's speech the other night. There were a lot of things to object to in the speech but what struck me most was how amateurish the speechwriting was. "Do these people really think that this kind of rhetoric will be effective with the American people?" I wasn't even talking about the content, objectionable as that was. The phony platitudes and the insincerity of it all was hard to miss. I called them, for the thousandth time,"amateurs," and I told my wife that he was being ill-served by his speechwriting team, though I admitted that Obama was so bad at delivering a speech Cicero could write one for him and it would still fall flat. The speech was a disaster and it was a team effort.
And Steyn just agreed with me, correcting Peter Robinson's (who may have just been being kind because that's the kind of guy he is) assertion that these were smart people doing the writing. "You said these are all smart people, the people who put together the speech. I don't think so. I think the speech was put together by amateurs who are idiots to let him go out in public with that speech....I don't understand how your minders can go out and let you do that in public."
We are being governed by amateurs folks. And thank goodness for that. If they were competent leftists they'd be even more dangerous.
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