The OTHER Speech

Tom Brokaw's initial response to the President's address was "I expected more poetry" and "You could have given this speech three years ago."

It's true. I'm not even sure this was taped live, so much as spliced together from the other 20 Oval Office speeches. It was listless, rote, and had about as much emotion as a man reading off a grocery list. Seriously, I want to see the tape with a timestamp on it. I have no idea if he read this today or in October 2003.

One of the things Keith Olbermann talked about tonight was the missed opportunity. With the world on his side, with every means at his disposal, this President squandered and alienated and demonized and fearmongered his way into oblivion. The missed opportunities continued tonight.