I watched it and I was appalled.
"Pundits boo Obama speech
President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address on the Gulf Coast catastrophe is being greeted with a barrage of criticism from commentators and political analysts across the ideological spectrum — the most intense negative reaction to any major public appearance he has given as president.
If the goal was to change the widespread Washington storyline that Obama is not rising to the occasion for the BP debacle, it became clear within moments that the 18-minute speech was an emphatic failure....
“Junk Shot,” blared the headline at Huffington Post. Salon took a similar theme: “Just words: Oval Office speech fizzles.”
Generally sympathetic commentators Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews likewise honked with critical reviews on MSNBC....
“It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days,” said Olbermann on his show’s recap of the speech....
Appearing with Olbermann, “Hardball” host Matthews said Obama fell short in showing the American public that he is in charge....
Huffington Post, underneath a picture of Obama, linked to stories from its own writers on what he was “overlooking” and asking “what was the point of that terrible speech?”
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The withering reviews from the commenting class were so widespread that they created a new problem for a White House that already has a plateful....
The pundit reaction wasn’t all bad for Obama.
David Gregory, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said....
Time’s Mark Halperin said the speech was “well-written and well-delivered.”
Ezra Klein, a liberal blogger for The Washington Post wrote....
And The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder pointed out...
--MORE--"No one asked me what I thought.
"Dear President Obama. You do not kowtow to Israel, defending the nation that attacked Americans in international waters, then expect those same Americans to fall for another BS sales pitch about the disaster the US Government itself allowed to happen. Your presidency is finished, and you will go down in history as the most treasonous head-of-state since Charles I." -- Wake the Flock Up
It is in my eyes, no matter what comes next.
