I watched the State of the Union address last night. It’s crazy after watching House of Cards how your view changes of all the possibly (but most definitely) sleazy politicians in the room.
There are two things I’d like to point out.
The first is that Obama seemed to be good at delivering his speech. But you know what he wasn’t? He wasn’t A LOT better (than I remember) at delivering his speech. He seemed comfortable and confident, this being his 6th SOTU address and probably his thousandth speech since taking office.
But when you get to be president, your skills don’t dramatically improve just because you live in the white house. There’s not some instant, fast track to speaking to the American people. Obama was a good speaker to start with, and now he seems a little better, from a lot of practice.
I know this is a bit of a rehash of a point I made last week, but this was a great illustration of it. Getting better at something takes time and practice, and can be expedited if you’re willing to pay very close attention. Phycological, sociological attention.
The second thing I want to point out is this. During his speech, Obama used the phrase “young and in love in America”. I wrote this down right away and googled it thinking I’m sure there’s a massive hit song with this title and I just can’t remember it.
Turns out there isn’t. Not at all.
At least not on the entire first page when you search it. So if you don’t have anything to write about today, there you go. Cause a title like that should be a giant hit this summer.
And you can use my story of hearing the president say it in his speech as your inspiration for writing it. In fact, say you wrote it last night right after the speech. People would love that.
