I dutifully watched Obama speak last night to Congress. I find such affairs to be tiresome but I thought the president was in fine form. This wasn't the grandiloquent Obama of signature flair, more the patient teacher going through the lesson, but there was flashes of brilliance and his words soared...
Tony Norman President Barack Obama's speech hit every note it needed to hit last night. Polling immediately after the speech as well as a survey of the pundits on the major networks and on cable bears this out. Despite the grim economic news in the weeks leading up to last night's speech, President...
The economy is a strange beast - it feeds on confidence. Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his next best thing to a State of the Union address with a heaping helping of optimism for the economic beast and all who wish it to prosper. It is possible to fault his speech (and some did) as somewhat...
Oh, something else great as we spiral toward the high school football season is pregame speeches. There are good ones, and not so good one. I found the above one on the best website in the world not called post-gazette.com YouTube and let's just say this is, uh, one of the not so good ones. The coach...