NYT's Parker Celebrates 'Obama's Eloquent and Inspiring Rhetoric...Soaring Remarks' of 2008
New York Times campaign reporter Ashley Parker, following GOP candidate Mitt Romney around Iowa, nonetheless managed to celebrate Barack Obama’s "eloquent and inspiring rhetoric in the state four years ago" in Sunday’s “Romney Quotes His Favorite Patriotic Songs and Offers Voters an Interpretation.”
Mr. Romney often eases into the musical portion of his speech while saying how much he loves the country, the unspoken assertion being that he cares for the nation in a way that President Obama never will.
“The president said he wants to fundamentally transform America,” Mr. Romney said on Wednesday in North Liberty. “I kind of like America. I’m not looking for it to be fundamentally transformed into something else. I don’t want it to become like Europe.”
He continued, “I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.” He then began quoting directly from his favorite verses of “America the Beautiful.”
But Mr. Romney is also using the patriotic songs to try to elevate his own political speeches -- making them, in a way, more like Mr. Obama’s eloquent and inspiring rhetoric in the state four years ago. (Indeed, Mr. Obama became so famous for the soaring remarks he wrote himself that his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, borrowing a line from former Gov. Mario Cuomo, remarked that you campaign in poetry, but govern in prose.)
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Thought for a moment that
Submitted by celator on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 6:59pm.
Thought for a moment that Parker was writing about Dear Leader Kim Jong IL instead of Dear Leader Obama. She writes about Obama the way the North Korean press writes about the departed Dear Leader:
"Kim Jong Il was a defender of justice; for long, he conducted energetic external activities under the unfurled banner of anti-imperialist independence, remarkably enhancing the position and authority of Songun Korea in the international arena and rendering immortal services to promoting the cause of independence of mankind."
Or
"Whatever a sudden turn the international situation may take and however frantically the imperialists may behave, nothing can arrest our advance towards socialism."
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
Sounds like Parker might have a job writing for the North Korean press, if she wanted it.
Pardon my French
Submitted by IrateNate on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 8:14pm.
Just curious, but isn't "eloquent and inspiring rhetoric" just a fancy term for "bullsh!t?"
Good evening Nate
Submitted by cocodrie on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 8:39pm.
To put it eloquently - merde d'taureau
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Yeah Nate - that's about
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 11:20pm.
Yeah Nate - that's about right..............it's just that Boy Barry's verbal flatulence in 2008 smelled a whole lot better to most people, and even the MSM, that it does these days. A lot of people have figured out that is just plain stinks!!!