rock wrote:It didnt really move me much.All i heard was i did this and am going to do that bla bla bla..whereas i fought back tears several times while listening to michelle and almost gave bill a standing ovation! It could also have been their strategy so that all obama needed was a little effort to convince americans and bring the dnc to a thunderous climax!!
Rock,
That was exactly the outcome Obama wanted. He can no longer use the soaring rhetoric that he used in 2008 because he is the incumbent.
A challenger is supposed to inspire and words help, but an incumbent is supposed to defend his turf. A challenger can speak theoretically about what he will do but an incumbent speaking theoretically will look out of touch. So the incumbent has to lay out what they have achieved and what they want to achieve in realistic and less bombastic fashion.