I'm a lot calmer this morning than I was during this speech last night, and I can't get over how surreal Obama looked last night when he delivered it. He was obviously on the teleprompter, and kept shifting his stance from side to side and never looked directly into the camera. Anyone who knows anything about body language will have lots to say about someone who refuses to make eye contact with you when speaking.
This looked like a campaign speech, and there could have been nobody in that room at the White House except whatever news staff was invited in to broadcast it. Any other President in my memory would have (and should have) used the Oval Office to personally address the American People, and would have looked them in the eye by addressing the camera as if he were talking to them personally.
Obama's detachment and uber ego made this all about him. He put himself up on display for the masses to admire, and he kept switching his pose from side to side, and I could not help but think of the many old Soviet portraits of Lenin and Stalin, gazing off into a far, bright future. Obama simply could not resist spiking the football on this last night even though it is clear this morning that the "agreement" is in no way favorable to the United States, and even the French think Obama has screwed the world by agreeing to this.
Who would have ever believed that the Cheese-eating surrender monkeys would turn out to be the hard-asses??
