On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:46 PM, JW <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong about preferring to provide my own emotional context > for things, instead of having the President, or the newscaster, or the > Oprah (if I watched her) provide it for me. >
If your comment was aimed at a newscaster or Oprah I would agree with you. But one of the jobs of the President of the United States is to articulate the emotions of the nation. Reagen did it with the Challenger, Clinton with OKC, Bush with 9-11. I detested Reagen and Bush as presidents, and did not like having them be the guy who spoke for me, but I had to accept that often that was there job (though obviously not all of the 300 million or so of us will agree with the President when he tries to do this). When I said I liked Obama's speech, one of the things I meant was that he did pretty much capture my emotions at the moment. I think it is valid for other Americans to criticize the speech if they feel that it did not capture their emotions. I don't think it is valid to criticize the speech for attempting to do that - I think that is what any president in that situation would try to do, and should try to do. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
