Uhmmmm, Bring it On? Guardsmen offer candidates differing responses

Nice to see Kerry have the balls to stand up and speak to a group of people that may not agree with what he has to say unlike a certain pResident.

 

Looks more like camel toes.

 

LMAO.

 

Well you just drove this thread right off a cliff.

 

I watched a breif on that... here's my take. my thoughts are that bush's speech was more of a rally, where as kerry's was sobering. Kerry is obvious the more intellegent of the two, hands down. If that was a prep rally at a high school, bush was the popular jock whereas kerry was the class president. I did see about two people walk out on Kerry speech, but i also saw an older audience member started to cry during an intense moment.

 

That's because the truth of this war is sobering and some people can't handle it...

 

More likely they were bored to tears. What a dryball Kerry is! He has to be one of the dullest public speakers in recent memory, even worse than Clinton's rambling, flowery wastes of oxygen in vais search of a coherent thought.

 

as opposed to w's inspired eloquence, right?

 

I never said Bush was eloquent, but he doesn't exactly put you into a deep sleep like Kerry's rambling monotone does.

 

bush doesn't put me to sleep, he makes my blood boil.

 

Seriously!

My wife won't let me watch him anymore as I tend to start throwing things at the TV and screaming uncontrollably.



I'm out! Yankees and Red Sox tics! Time to drink some beer!!!!!

 

cool, i gotta watch it on tv

 

right, Bush keeps hammering away at the same thing over and over like he's forcing us to learn something. Some people learn through the Sesame Street method, but us adults have outgrown it. Seriously, watch his speeches, map out his logic, and then compare it to Sesame Street. Exactly the same. Not to bust on the middle states and the educationally weak middle-america, but its no surprise that these are the people most enamored by his speeches.

personally, when I'm listening to a speech, I want to know HOW we are safer and WHAT we are doing to continue with it. I dont need to hear that "we are safer" 27 times without any reasoning behind it. but if you are the type of person who enjoys being told how to think without a reason to back it up, vote Bush.

I'll agree that Kerry is a bore to some, but that's because many can't understand logic and others don't like to be lectured to. Again, if you wan't to be entertained, Mr. Sesame Street is right for you.

 

If that's what you think of Clinton as a speechmaker, then I don't know what to make of any other opinions about political orators that you might have. Well, I do, but I want to continue in the D&D effort to attempt semi-respectful give and take amongst the members.

Clinton was/is/can be superb. Several of his opponents give him credit for that, regardless of what they think of his politics. You don't look objectively at the abilities of people, certainly in politics, if their politics disagree with yours. I always thought Reagan was very good, even if what he was saying made me cringe. I don't see that coming from you... not that I can remember.

My opinion, of course.

 

This is exactly the problem with the Left in general. Your intellectual snobbishness is the very reason that you wonder why many on the Right despise you. Kerry is a huge offender as a leftist who thinks he "knows better" than most. His arrogance and condescension is insulting. But this is a common attitude amongst the Left, at least from what I can gather from this board, where they are the true intellectuals and those not in their orbit are mental midgets.

Well, you did "bust" upon the heartland, which I find very offensive. Flyover country as your ilk would dub it is more of real America than the crowded, decaying East Coast metro-hells most leftists call home. Kerry is an awful public speaker, no matter what party you are a part of.

As for Clinton being a great orator, maybe it was the fact he told the truth (where was the middle-class tax cut he promised us? Guess he forgot?) 10 percent of the time that was a turnoff. Or maybe it was the fact he rambled on as if he were in love with sound of his voice, which I think he did. I saw Reagan speak and he followed my father's rule of speaking (my father is a member of his church's priesthood and delivers sermons) which is "make it short, sweet and to the point." Clinton on the other hand, reminded me of the song about the Wanderer (I wander, wander, wander). I saw him speak and my first thought was "When is this sonuvabitch going to call it a day? Standing at position of attention is getting painful."

 

The Republicans need to hire some of those professional protestors that the Democrats use. Are they unionized? Are they even available?