I Take It With A Grain of Salt.

Wall Street wasn't too receptive either as evidenced by the sell off the morning after. It's almost like President Obama's speeches have become irrelevant.

In my book, the President gets a B plus for delivery. The rating would have been less except for a display of more energy than usual. Maybe it was a hyper reaction to recent poll numbers.

Unlike a lot of expert opinions, I don't think the President is a great speaker. His speech pattern is predictible and his emphasis is always the same — as if someone highlights the same old punch lines over and over again.

I never get the feeling he is speaking from the heart. They don't seem like his words but the rhetoric of a puppet master. I quit watching him because the experience is irritating to say the least. I prefer to read the text of Obama's speeches to get their true meaning, and believe me, when you read Obama's words it is easier to read between the lines. You get a different picture.

He deserves a D minus for substance. The $400 billion American Jobs Act is more of the same. Short term boosts and long term deficits. Nothing new, just new ways to say the same old things. And we waited a month for this? No! We waited more than two and a half years for this. And Congress gets to wait a few more days before they
receive the plan in writing. Why another delay?

F is for for choice of venue. I would have taken the President a little more seriously if he had delivered his proposal from his desk in the privacy of the oval office — a one-on-one with the American people —- a  serious presentation that stressed solutions for a tired, worried people. This seemed more like a performance; more like a sales job.

And I am not sold.

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