from the Editor's Desk at the Long Bar at the Alberta Hotel
31-May-10
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Can I shake your hand, Bob. You've been to a real press conference
in the White House. Wow!!!! a Canadian. who gets invited to the White House ... You deserve an Order of Canada --- no Canadian is nothing unless he done something south of
the border --- but when he does --- talk about fame.
On top a all yerrr otherrr eejit imbecilities, MGonigle,
ye've get the standard Canuck inferiroity complex. What's the big deal ---
Anyway I did goo to the conference. It was his first in 10 months.
Bob, I may na' be on the same page about Obama. I suspect
that all he's goood at is readin' a teleprompter ...
The very contrary, Me Lord. He's loosy a' the teleprompt.
Go see the conference on the web. The first part is the openin' statement
--- that's what he used the prompter fer --- not when he answered questions
--- he did a great job there --- showed his strengths. Telepromters are
OkyDoky for big speeches at conventions full a thousands. But at a press
conference yer supposed to be all business and cut out the theatrics. A
president is lots better off if he's got ta' read a statement readin' it
from notes --- readin' a line or two --- and lookin' into the eyes of the
audience. What Obama did was to shift his eyes between two prompter screens
and not look at the audience all the time he was makin' the opening ---
all the time --- his eyes looked glassy --- he looked like he was lookin'
at himself in a mirror. Whata' you say Chief? --- yer the finest speechifier
between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean ....
When he's reading the teleprompter --- he speaks too fast.
A good speaker always speaks slowly. Makes the audience wait for his next
word of wisdom --- looks calm. Obama sounded like the end of a Viagra commercial. But that
was only the opening statement. Once Obama got on to not reading --- he
was superb --- he took his time --- he got better and better. Trouble is,
lots of T.V. viewers may have tuned out before Obama got to the questions
and answers.
What Chief Crowfoot didn't say --- was that Obama chose from the start to be on the defensive --- My first love is war.
I'm a warrior --- the best there is. "Politics is a mere continuation of war by other means" It wasn't Clauswitz who said it --- it was Gabriel. --- In war --- Monsieur Obama
--- in the words of two other great war lovers, General George Patton and
Napoleon Bonaparte
--- be bold, be bold, be bold --- always be bold ... Right-wingers like
Rush
Limbaugh say you're as bad as Bush --- you're handling the Big Spill
worse than Bush handled Katrina. That's absurd. Bush was tongue-tied and
cross-legged throughout --- Monsieur Obama -- you know the subject better than most of
your experts --- you've been on the beaches twice. Hit Limbaugh back like Pierre Trudeau'd hit him with a snarl:
"Just watch me." --- and tie into BP Oil and
have a top-notch can-doer in the wings to step up and seize BP's equipment
and draft its engineers into the the U.S. Army --- and get the job done
--- not by BP's corporate bureaucrats or the government's government bureaucrats
--- appoint someone like Bill
Gates --- who can think outside the box --- when Churchill was losing
WWII in 1940 because of lack of fighter planes, Churchill appointed a Canuck
from New Brunswick, Lord
Beaverbrook. Beaverbrook hated flying and didn't know an aircraft factory
from a limestone quarry but he knew how to do things --- he was not an expert
--- he was a generalist --- a superb Cando. He kicked ass and burned red
tape and, in two months, doubled English aircraft production and won the
second world war. Bill Gates'd fix the oil spil in a week.
31-May-10
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