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Will Obama's lackluster speech really help Coakley?

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
01/17/10 4:58 PM EST

Martha Coakley, the struggling Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts, has had the luxury of two presidents campaigning for her. Bill Clinton was in Boston and Worcester on Friday, and Barack Obama came to Boston today.

Who was more effective? Having watched Clinton's Boston speech from inside the room Friday, and Obama's speech on television today, it's impossible to escape the conclusion that Clinton just blew Obama's doors off. Obama's speech was halting, wandering, and humorless; the president looked as if he didn’t want to be there. There's no doubt the crowd was excited to see Obama, but he seemed so hesitant and out-of-rhythm at the top that it appeared he might have been having teleprompter trouble, and he was also clearly rattled and unable to handle the completely-predictable presence of a heckler. By contrast, Clinton's speech, delivered without a prompter and seemingly off the cuff, was about as good as you can get on the stump. Clinton remains the greatest simplifier in American politics; he can present an issue -- usually the wrong side of an issue -- as the most obvious, common-sense idea you could possibly imagine. His speech was better than Obama's by a mile.

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It's amazing how often the word "lackluster" shows up with the phrase "Obama's speech"!biggrin

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Pres.Clinton is by far .. by miles.. the better speaker.. the more effective appealer.

Byron York of course has to find a way to jab into Pres.Clinton even in the midst of appreciation.

And, yes, Pres.Obama's performance was dismal. He could not command the audience.  Not from the get go.  There were both "positive" and "negative" hecklers.. and he simply gave into them starting with the positive heckler.. by saying "I loveyou back." So very unpresidential.  It got worse from there.  Of course, he shouted at the top of his lungs as usual.

In the final polls on Sunday 1/17, Brown was leading Coakley by healthy margins, tied in one poll.  Between that and the "lack luster performance" by President Obama, no, I do not see much bailing out Coakley this time around.

Now, union phonecalls and the Obama campaign phonecallers and ... other dem phonecallers having been activated MAY make a difference.  There is a whole army working on the case of Coakley to turn out voters tomorrow.


-- Edited by Sanders on Monday 18th of January 2010 09:16:16 PM

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