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JAMES JOYNER: Obama Oil Spill Speech Reax: Epic Fail. ?My general sense of the matter is that ther?

By Glenn Reynolds

JAMES JOYNER: Obama Oil Spill Speech Reax: Epic Fail. “My general sense of the matter is that there was really very little Obama could have said at this point that would have satisfied anyone. We?re already 57 days into this mess and he?s been talking about it non-stop. Absent some surprise announcement that he?s been working with James Carville and come up with an instant solution, he wasn?t going to give us anything new of significance. Even with those very low expectations, though, this was a shockingly underwhelming speech. The few sound bytes I heard on NPR this morning were exceedingly week, even by George W. Bush standards. Moreover, even those on the president?s side were disappointed if not outright angry.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 16, 2010 (boomark / email).