making noise through minutiae
(Blink)
Not that any Party rebuttal is ever remembered. Â It was so during the last administration — only Jim Webb’s got anything more than a “dozing off” — and the trendline continues in the Obama Administration
but nonetheless… this man wants to be president, and he has a task in making impressions on an indifferent electorate…
And here’s the only moment anyone will remember from his speech.
Not that this is bad, per se… it’s just… discordant — breaks the rhythm of…
well, breaks the rhythm of a rhythm-less speech…
So then again if not for this no one will be thinking of this Marco Rubio speech, so there might just be method to the madness. Â In the future, politicking will start being full of these wacky intercessions of meaningless and random things tossed in to get people talking. I wonder if this was written on the teleprompter:
[Reach across screen and grab water].
Wouldn’t surprise me.
The “Think Outside the Bottle” campaign, organizers of the tap water taste test, were probably hopping mad at this political product placement