Few folks realize it, but Lincoln's Gettysburg address was roughly 200 words, spoken over a 2-minute period. That was it. One of the most impressive moments in speech-history....over in two minutes.
So I watched the Trump eight minute piece, and then the four minute piece with Pelosi and Schumer. As you match to some grading system against Lincoln's speech.....neither speech would rate more than a five on the Lincoln scale of one to ten.
Pelosi and Schumer? What exactly were they going to deliver in terms of dynamics and countering the President's problem with migration and issues attached? If they did have some big negative about his program.....they gave a marginalized speech, and it was worthless to have the two on the camera for the four-minute piece. As sales-pitch-folks, they are lousy.
Should they have used Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Yes. I wouldn't have allowed her to write the speech, but she would have been ten times better than Pelosi or Schumer at giving the speech.
If this were some sports team competition....I'd suggest that the Democrats go and rebuild their theme/message, and work on convincing working-class people of their intentions. In Trump's case, I'd go and suggest that hinging all of this repair of the immigration business just on the Wall....fails to address a dozen other immigration issues, and we need more practical answers.
As for the CNN crowd wasting hours and hours of 'chatter' after the two speeches? Well....that was a total waste of time. I think most people turned them off after about twenty minutes of worthless chatter.
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