Yes, he's a STYLE columnist, so I have no idea why he's tasked with writing about Obama's speech and it's import instead of raving about or panning Michelle's purple sleeveless number, but nonetheless, here's a snippet of his article, his article link and my email response.
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"For all his oratorical skills, however, it seems very likely that Americans who watched the speech probably are not terribly eager to see another one soon. There has been criticism that after eight years of a president who often seemed to be in hiding, the nation now has a president who won't seem to relinquish the TV cameras to anybody else -- a president who, as George Will said recently on ABC's "This Week" program, is too "in-your-face" for his own good."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022404247.html?hpid=topnewsMy email:
I think the American public has had too much of Tom Shales. You are agreeing with George Will? A willing lackey for the Bush administartion who obfuscated and made excuses for a rambling, incurious, and oft-vacationing president?
MAYBE WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS IS VISIBLE LEADERSHIP.
Maybe the people at Obama central figured out the American people actually respond well to Obama and his message and the chattering classes are all wet.
Maybe you guys can't stand that the guy is out there defining himself instead of letting himself be defined by career cynics whose only mission in life is to build a guy up so they can tear him down as a means of selling newspapers or internet ads.
Sincerely,
One very happy American who is glad sh!t fer brains is back in Texas