Obama Channels Reagan II

[liberalnurse]

April 09, 2007

http://powerpresentations.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/04/george_will_the.html

Jeepers! Obama was spotted for his Reagan similiarities in early 07.....the mirror does not lie...........

George Will, the veteran conservative commentator, wrote a column in which he noted how Barack Obama, who rocketed to fame on the strength of one rousing speech, also exhibited a gentler side, akin to Ronald Reagan’s vaunted congeniality. Mr. Will’s analysis was the subject of my previous blog, “Barack Obama Channels Ronald Reagan.”


Now, Mr. Will’s opinion has been seconded in a New York Times article called, “ 2 Years After Big Speech, a Lower Key for Obama,” in which political writer Adam Nagourney notes how Obama has become even more Reaganesque. “He is not presenting himself, stylistically at least, the way he did two years ago when he gripped Democrats at the Fleet Center in Boston.” Instead, Mr. Nagourney notes that the aspiring Democratic presidential candidate has shifted to “a political style that contrasts with the more charged presences of John Edwards… and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.” Senator Obama explains his shift, “I use a different style if I’m speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well,” he said. “But when I’m in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat.”


In fact, the Illinois Senator adjusts his style for almost any crowd. If you had seen the broadcast of a speech he delivered last March in black church in Selma, Alabama on the anniversary of the historic civil rights march, you would have heard him say, “Folks are complainin’ about the quality of our government, I understand there's somethin’ to be complainin’ about. I'm in Washington. I see what's goin’ on.” But in the transcript of the speech on his web site, the final “Gs” in his gerunds magically reappeared. “Folks are complaining about the quality of our government, I understand there's something to be complaining about. I'm in Washington. I see what's going on.” And those final “Gs” have remained resoundingly in place in his subsequent speeches since Selma.

The sumation of the assessment:

Clearly, Senator Obama subscribes to the “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” philosophy.

[Rosemary2205]

1. Oh brother.

They ALL know how to play the crowd. That's part of being a politician.