Frank Georgalis – Writer

Political observations: Obama’s Eulogy

Obama faces tough test in Arizona eulogy By Frank Elias Georgalis What I hear about Obama’s eulogy it’s nothing but an opportune moment for politicians to drum up votes and the media to drum up readers. The word Eulogy comes from the Greek word (Eulogia) which means (Good words) and it often accompanied with theological pleas. It is also performed by self elected theological representatives, such as priests and or religious connected persons, in the Greek religion is always accompanied by the words (Kyrie eleison) which means God Help us. The headlines declare. I can’t see any importance in the speech that he is about to give. I know it will be done with rhythm, after all, he reminds me of a good Rapper. The attempted assassination on the congresswoman and the killing and wounding of innocent people is a tragedy. It’s a tragedy that takes place every day in Afghanistan but politicians don’t run there, it’s too dangerous and they don’t run in droves to the soldier’s home to offer any kind of cancelation because there are no votes to be had. A political science professor Jamie McKown, speaking about the speech which is about to be given by Obama and the ones that have already hit the airwaves and, in my opinion, they caused temperature to rise enhanced by the politicians hot air, Such speeches are “a way to take a tragedy and to be sober and somber but also to use it as a way to bring the country together and to move it forward,” said political science professor Jamie McKown. I have some bad news for Jamie McKown: not all tragedies divide the country, but some if not all tragedies are fattened the politicians.

Abraham Lincoln

Many post-crisis presidential speeches, dating back to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address in 1863, he won fame for praising the dead and advising the living. In 1995,

Bill Clinton assumed the grief of Oklahoma City, after a bomb attack on a federal building killed 168 people, vowing justice would be done, while seeking to promote healing. After the shuttle Challenger exploded, Reagan, using an actor’s gifts, sought to make sense out of a sudden tragedy. His promise that the future “belongs to the brave” consoled schoolchildren who watched the disaster on live television, and steadied the US space program at a time of crisis. As you can tell by now that all those speeches make a valid point. In short speeches about Afghanistan, nobody was able or made an attempt to make a valid point. Political analysists are predicting an improvement on Obama’s speeches. I say it won’t hurt. Smart Politicians run away from center crisis, but they return to the scene after the crisis is over, even if it’s only to have their picture taken and their voices to hear… Obama is very good at that: He is as good as the best rapper. But he shouldn’t get his hopes high; he should always remember in the US politics the politician is as good the day before election because in the US politics the public has a limited attention span. Today’s Arizona tragedy will not be remembered in November 2012. Bad saying will reappear; the public will be reminded by the media which stands around with its ears perked, hoping to hear something that can be used later. I would advise Mr. Obama not to allow the palms of his hands to get sweated before his speech, because whatever he says will be forgotten by the reelection attempt. If Sara Palin, on the other hand, thinks that she is the Great White Hope, she is simply not thinking. From what I know and have heard about her, she will disappear from the headlines as quickly as Anita Dunn after she made the announcement that Mao was her hero. Oops! Oops! What am I? Am I a mind reader or a prophet? I just heard that Anita Dunn, Oh, no Anita Dunn: its Sara Palin made an offensive statement to the Jews.  In an effort to stop some radicals from hanging the blame of the tragedy on the conservatives Sarah Palin coming to the rescue, released an eight minute video statement on Wednesday calling the rush to pin blame on conservatives for the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., a “blood libel.” “Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own,” she said. “They begin and end with the criminals who commit them.” In the eight-minute video, Palin says, “Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.” Palin, being a politician and having written several books around the political subject, never learned not to show face or body during crisis. Rushing to judgment not knowing what to say, she used the charged phrase “blood libel” — which refers to the anti-Semitic accusation from the Middle Ages that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood to make matzo for Passover. That was as Anita Dunne’s (See full text of Anita’s statement in my ‘Is democracy dead II, in my website). She has been around long enough to have known the historic context that phrase has. “The blood libel is something anti-Semites has historically used in Europe as an excuse to murder Jews — the comparison is stupid. Jews and rational people will find it objectionable,” said Hank Sheinkopt a New York-based Democratic political consultant and devout Jew. “This will forever link her to the events in Tucson. It deepens the hole she’s already dug for herself. … It’s absolutely inappropriate.” “By using those words she failed to rise above and focus on the victims,” said former Bush press secretary An Fleicher. “It was a mistaken approach, though I don’t think offensive on religious grounds.” I have come to a regrettable conclusion to think that if the Republican Party has friends like Sarah Palin, needs no enemies.