"Watching and listening to Obama at the Brandenberg Gate this week, that sad line of Hamlet almost inevitably recurred: “Oh … what a falling off was there…” Only 6,000 people showed this time, a mere scattering, and these by invitation. The president himself seemed also much diminished. He could not even really bear a comparison with himself the candidate, never mind Reagan and Kennedy. He stumbled in his delivery (the teleprompter and he were not quite in sync for all the speech), wilted in the heat, and looked, this is the key term, so ordinary. Simply stated, the remarkable charisma of Barack Obama has fled. Fled, mainly because it was in large measure artificial from the beginning, embedded in external circumstances and fuelled in large measure by the media hyperdrive that attended his campaign."
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:08:57 +0000
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