Great speech from Obama tonight.
i agree
The crowd was annoying and I felt as if they weren’t really listening, which was disheartening, but Obama’s one of our best presidents when it comes to public speaking, right up there with JFK and Reagan, which is probably why he decided to have a crowd in the first place. So he does well on his delivery, but Eisenhower on the other hand was not that great a public speaker, yet his message still resonates today. So, on the content, how does Obama’s speech fare? It addresses a lot of what was predicted, and was very respectful overall (Obama’s always been pretty respectful to the opposition, when some people were upset in 2004 about W. Bush getting a second term he said a lot of the same things about getting involved in politics and I quote “Get over it. Go to the movies, go to the park, go on a date - get some perspective. Losing an election is not a tragedy. Tragedies are my mom getting cancer at 53 and dying in six months.” Okay, so maybe a little more respectful than that.). It went over all he’s accomplished, and called for us to pay closer attention to one another. I don’t think there were any new revelations made here, in regards to bubbles and everyone has problems and we need to accept everyone etc., but it was very well delivered. Obama’s thanks to Michelle and Biden was very touching and surprisingly personal, he was very visibly tearing up. It was an interesting experience, not bad but not the greatest Farewell Address I’ve heard.
It was prettay, prettay, prettay good.
It was nice to hear a heartfelt, moral message not overcome in division or partisanship spoken by the president in this very partisan, divisive time.