Friday, April 6, 2012
Hi. I’ve been busy lately, working on something way too long to post. In the meantime, brilliantly creative storylines have been piling up in my notes. I just haven’t had time to turn them into the short short stories I love to write. “Okay,” I’ve told myself. “I’ll just have to take a break from my blog for a few weeks,” but then I heard this speech, the one I’m going to talk about, and couldn’t help myself. It’s the feeling I get when guy at the table next to mine gets served a piece of key lime pie. To hell with my low carb diet.
Of necessity, this post is going to be longer than usual, but then so was the President’s speech. Fair is fair. Feet up, chips and guacamole at the ready, here we go. (What? You don’t type with your feet up on your desk? ..Oh. You prefer salsa. I’m okay with that.)
The speech I’m talking about is the one President Obama delivered before the Associated Press Luncheon a couple of days ago on Tuesday, the third of April. It was approximately 7,200 words that were intended to wow his audience through a lengthy, intellectual, sometimes mocking, explicitly devastating attack on the budget proposal authored by Representative Paul Ryan and endorsed by Mitt Romney.
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