This time, however, the phantasmagoric politics of the city didn’t sway me, and the President’s speech fell flat. Words, though artfully phrased, can come too late, or be delivered with too little energy, to reach (let alone pass) the tipping point.
As I told the Orange County Register:
He said all the right things but I didn’t see the passion in the delivery I would have liked. . . . it was ultimately unsatisfying. It’s always puzzled me, frankly, because I had . . . naively assumed that the son of a Kenyan immigrant would care more, but I just don’t see the fire in the belly.
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