{"id":779,"date":"2006-06-08T06:13:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T11:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=779"},"modified":"2006-06-08T06:13:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T11:13:49","slug":"on-the-presidents-early-morning-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"On the President&#039;s Early Morning Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke this morning, fixed a cup of coffee, sat down at the computer, and turned on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Edition,&#8221; only to discover that President Bush would shortly be giving a speech on the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/13195017\/\">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi<\/a>, a high-ranking al-Qaeda leader in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the speech, without the President&#8217;s image, to distract me, I felt a vague unease.<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized why.<\/p>\n<p>President Bush wasn&#8217;t just slurring his words together as he often does; poor enunciation is common to the President&#8217;s speeches.  No, Bush was also dropping whole words&#8211;verbs, subjects, prepositions.  He didn&#8217;t come across as Presidential, as a leader; instead, he came across as weak, tired, perhaps even drugged.  All because he dropped words and slurred the ones he had.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a great speech by any means.  The President rambled beyond his problems with parsing and enunciation.  Has a corner been turned, as the President implied?  Who knows, but I&#8217;m not optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke this morning, fixed a cup of coffee, sat down at the computer, and turned on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Edition,&#8221; only to discover that President Bush would shortly be giving a speech on the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a high-ranking al-Qaeda leader in Iraq. Listening to the speech, without the President&#8217;s image, to distract<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=779\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the President&#039;s Early Morning Speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,387,4108],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-iraq","tag-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}