By Stephanie Gutmann,UK Telegraph
By the end of his term the public had become to suspect that Bill Clinton dealt with anxiety and sense of failure with compulsive seduction – by grabbing for a woman,practically any women. Obama may have a different drug. He’s beginning to look like a compulsive talker,like a man who is only comfortable doing one thing:facing audiences,with the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd drowning out the din of unpleasant thoughts in his head.
Don’t take it from me,one of those nasty neocon types who is probably incapable of saying anything positive about the man. This is actually an emerging theme. With President Obama giving a speech nearly every day recently,and one major speech a week,a rising chorus of pundits have been basically saying the same thing: You weren’t elected to be talker-in-chief,you were elected you to be president.
On Friday,for instance,in the Wall Street Journal,a veteran Democrat practically begged the president to “talk less and pick your spots more”.
“You are outdoing even Johnson and Mr Clinton with your daily speeches in the capital and around the country,” wrote Ted Van Dyk,who was an assistant to Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. “Applause and adulation are gratifying but the more you talk,the less weight your words will hold.” Van Dyk basically told the president to sit down,read some briefing papers,stick with one subject,do some hard thinking,stop flitting around the world making speeches while the nutcases in congress make a hash out of your plans.
By Stephanie Gutmann,UK Telegraph
By the end of his term the public had become to suspect that Bill Clinton dealt with anxiety and sense of failure with compulsive seduction – by grabbing for a woman,practically any women. Obama may have a different drug. He’s beginning to look like a compulsive talker,like a man who is only comfortable doing one thing:facing audiences,with the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd drowning out the din of unpleasant thoughts in his head.
Don’t take it from me,one of those nasty neocon types who is probably incapable of saying anything positive about the man. This is actually an emerging theme. With President Obama giving a speech nearly every day recently,and one major speech a week,a rising chorus of pundits have been basically saying the same thing: You weren’t elected to be talker-in-chief,you were elected you to be president.
On Friday,for instance,in the Wall Street Journal,a veteran Democrat practically begged the president to “talk less and pick your spots more”.
“You are outdoing even Johnson and Mr Clinton with your daily speeches in the capital and around the country,” wrote Ted Van Dyk,who was an assistant to Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. “Applause and adulation are gratifying but the more you talk,the less weight your words will hold.” Van Dyk basically told the president to sit down,read some briefing papers,stick with one subject,do some hard thinking,stop flitting around the world making speeches while the nutcases in congress make a hash out of your plans.
By Stephanie Gutmann,UK Telegraph
Obama Talks and Talks and Talks
By the end of his term the public had become to suspect that Bill Clinton dealt with anxiety and sense of failure with compulsive seduction – by grabbing for a woman,practically any women. Obama may have a different drug. He’s beginning to look like a compulsive talker,like a man who is only comfortable doing one thing:facing audiences,with the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd drowning out the din of unpleasant thoughts in his head.
Don’t take it from me,one of those nasty neocon types who is probably incapable of saying anything positive about the man. This is actually an emerging theme. With President Obama giving a speech nearly every day recently,and one major speech a week,a rising chorus of pundits have been basically saying the same thing: You weren’t elected to be talker-in-chief,you were elected you to be president.
On Friday,for instance,in the Wall Street Journal,a veteran Democrat practically begged the president to “talk less and pick your spots more”.
“You are outdoing even Johnson and Mr Clinton with your daily speeches in the capital and around the country,” wrote Ted Van Dyk,who was an assistant to Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. “Applause and adulation are gratifying but the more you talk,the less weight your words will hold.” Van Dyk basically told the president to sit down,read some briefing papers,stick with one subject,do some hard thinking,stop flitting around the world making speeches while the nutcases in congress make a hash out of your plans.