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Arianna Huffington down on Obama’s ‘magical thinking’ about speeches

Feb. 11, 2013 2:06pm Eddie Scarry

Ahead of President Obama‘s State of the Union speech Tuesday, some unexpected criticism from Huffington Post founder and publisher Arianna Huffington. She writes on her own website today that it shouldn’t be “news” that Obama plans to address jobs in his remarks:

[T]alk about jobs has gone up each year. But significant action hasn’t followed. And yet each year it’s somehow news that the president will talk about jobs or unveil some new rhetorical angle on the economy (one “built to last,” one that will “win the future,” one that shows how we “do big things”). Maybe the reason it’s news each year is actually because there’s so little action in between the speeches. …

It’s an example of Obama’s — and our — magical thinking about big ceremonial speeches. Yes, they can be important in setting an agenda and letting the country know what the White House’s priorities are. But only if that’s really the agenda and those are really the priorities. More often, instead of a kind of tent pole undergirding and anchoring an agenda until the next one can be put down, it has increasingly become a not very meaningful night of kabuki theater.

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Comments (5)

dodgedart1966
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:25am
But, that’s all the pres knows how to do, talk.
He can’t make a decision to save someone’s life(Benghazi)
I’d like to see he and J. Carter in a Jeopardy like game.
That would be funny

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dodgedart1966
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:21am
Arianna, there’s a big difference between living off a trust and actually running a business, isn’t there?

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betterpart
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:34am
Don’t anyone be fooled by the pendulous Huffington woman, who is a bold terrorism supporter and is anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, anti-US, anti-US military, and despises all faiths and ethnicities equally. Her ugly and boring ‘Huffington Post’ is merely a cover for her leftist-communist tirades which encourages her minions to attack those faithful to God and the US.

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tonypro
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:18am
WHAT !!!!

Arianna went down on ocommie and huffed.

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illinioshoj
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 2:14pm
Obozo’s speech is old news it would be real news if he actually created a job.

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