FDR Meets LBJ

Posted on 02/25/2009 at 2:10 pm by Bob Cesca

This Gergen review is pretty amazing:

“This was the most ambitious president we’ve heard in this chamber in decades. The first half of the speech was FDR fighting for the New Deal. The second half was Lyndon Johnson fighting for the Great Society and we have never seen those two presidents rolled together in quite this way before.”

I still can’t believe how the president was able to be both grand and presidential while, at times, being personal and conversational with the room. Truly remarkable.

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  • http://www.politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ politicalpartypooper

    One of my favorite bloggers (not me) said it best for me”I gotta be bluntly honest here. As I watch the cameras pan across the audience it serves to remind me that President Obama is, in my estimation, the only person in that building being honest with me, the view, the citizen, the constituent.You can almost watch the political calculations being made as the cameras pan across the assembled members of Congress. The President makes a point and one side starts clapping in applause right away… then the “other side” joins in…”http://www.preemptivekarma.com/archives/2009/02/obamas_speech_t.htmlYou were right, he reminds one of Reagan. Total dominance of the audience, while relating with it. Also like Reagan, there’s just something about an Obama speech that keeps you literally smiling as you watch it.

  • Jeff

    Gergen rocks. I watch CNN just for him. He’s the smartest pundit out there, bar none.

  • NelsonZee

    Gergen was great last night. But your point about President Obama being so Presidential and, at the same time, personable is right on the money. He was great! I feel like we’re in very good hands.