What I Missed Not Seeing Michelle Obama's Speech Live
I expressed disappointment in her words, explaining that I know she's a better, stronger speaker than the copy indicates.
Some readers of my blog have given me flack for this, and now I know why. My colleague, US Liberals Guide Deborah White, sent me the link to a commentary by New York Post op-ed columnist Kirsten Powers. As Powers tells it, the power of the speech was not in the words but in the delivery:
On paper, [Michelle's] speech was a schmaltzy concoction sprinkled with patriotic bromides and cooing about family - but it was radically different when delivered in her voice, and with her warm demeanor. The words took on a new shape as she talked to America about where she comes from, who she knows her husband to be - and how much she loves her country.I bolded the last two sentences to emphasize that I wasn't the only one thinking the printed remarks were flat.Earlier in the evening, politicos - many not Michelle Obama fans - had e-mailed me to announce their disappointment in the remarks released by the campaign. But they followed up after the live performance with effusive praise.
But now I know what I missed by not seeing Michelle Obama's speech live. And that makes perfect sense. Michelle is fiery, passionate, strong, warm, intense. The words that come across as pedestrian and run-of-the-mill in print are obviously something else when delivered on camera by this uniquely engaging woman.
And now that I'm home and have a good high speed internet connection, before I finish unpacking and doing the laundry, even before I take my daughters out to finish their back-to-school shopping, it seems I have to watch Michelle Obama deliver this speech online.
Then it'll be time to catch up with Hillary's speech as well.
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May sound trivial and may seem irrelavent, however, she really must change her eyebrow shape.
I mentioned that she looks like an angry Black women and I just realized why.
Someone might want to mention this to her.
Separate from that, the speech was as I stated before, nicey, nice.
Yikes! I completely agree with the eyebrow comment. Someone really needs to give Michelle a complete eyebrow makeover. I knew that something about her was immediately unlikeable. But, I couldn’t put my finger on it. After seeing her all this week during the Democratic convention, I figured out that it’s those wicked looking eyebrows. They have extremely unnatural looking sharp angles. Even when she’s smiling she looks sinister.
The solution may be quite simple. I found this photo of her taken with no eyebrows (I guess that was the style back then):
Photo with no eyebrows
To giver her a softer image, someone just needs to paint on some kinder, gentler looking eyebrows. This could make all the difference in the election!