Where's the Passion?
I was listening to Carly Fiorina tonight on the way home from work. It was really, really boring. I've heard more passion from my kid about finding bugs. I hated this speech. There is nothing there. On the radio, there was even less.
Fiorina is supposed to be getting people excited about voting for McCain, instead, she simply reads off the teleprompter much in the way that I would read a speech I've never seen before and didn't really care about my performance.
Joe Lieberman was slightly better, but still has that annoying 3 - 5 syllable and pause speech pattern that everyone in both conventions has. He makes a few, well scripted jokes, but for the most part, the speech was dull and predictable. In other words, it was clear he was pulling from the teleprompter, and while I believe that he believes his own bullshitake, he didn't really do a great job of conveying it.
Speakers at the DNC did a slightly better job in conveying their passion for reform in this country, but I suspect that the aura of Barack generates passion from speakers. Nancy Pelosi did a pretty decent job, but still doesn't get me doing cartwheels.
Hilary Clinton, also did a fairly decent job
It seemed like she deviated from the teleprompter slightly, but I still don't get the same warm & fuzzy passionate feelings that I got from this:
I don't know, maybe it was the slides, but in the end, Steve is more passionate about selling a 3G iPhone than any speaker I've seen at either DNC or RNC selling why I should vote for their party.
And that's just sad.
