Barack Horatio Hornblower

Obama’s speech at Fort Hood has been declared to be his greatest speech ever. Seemed appropriate, but pedestrian, to me. Now if Obama had spoken from the heart without a teleprompter, that would have been special.

I much preferred Obama’s “my pet goat” speech, when Obama delayed commenting on the Fort Hood shooting to give a shout-out to a Congressional Medal of Honor winner who wasn’t really a Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

Want to hear a really great speech by a Democratic President? Here is Jimmy Carter’s 1980 convention acceptance speech.

Listen long enough, until 3:10, when Jimmy Carter called the recently-deceased Hubert Horatio Humphrey “Hubert Horatio Hornblower.”

Love it. At least he didn’t give HHH a shout out.

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