I watched the entire speech. It had a lot of meat and potatoes, strongly delivered, as others have noted. In his own way, Biden is a better political communicator than Obama. Obama is a great orator, but he sounds like an orator. Style aside, for me the speech raised a big question, especially in light of my current misadventures in local politics.
There are ways to engage. Find a man whose wife died because she could not get miscarriage care. Find teenagers who were angry because their friends are being demonized. Find a tax paying immigrant, pillar of his community, who is fighting deportation with the support of his citizen neighbors. Find a Muslim physician who has worked tirelessly to save lives during the pandemic.
There are ways to engage. Find a man whose wife died because she could not get miscarriage care. Find teenagers who were angry because their friends are being demonized. Find a tax paying immigrant, pillar of his community, who is fighting deportation with the support of his citizen neighbors. Find a Muslim physician who has worked tirelessly to save lives during the pandemic.
“ Obama is a great orator, but he sounds like an orator.”
Bingo. And he knew it himself, expressed it in “Dreams of my Father”.