That last post would have made a bit more sense if I used a bunch of words that started with p, but I was sitting on my rowing machine trying to catch my breath at the time. Sorry for my lack of effort
Anyway sometimes I feel like anybody trying to “respond” to a speech like he was doing would be better off winging it because you always seem to sound like you haven’t paid attention to anything the other guy was saying when you just go on for a bit characterizing someone as standing for the opposite of what he just argued for. And yeah that is basically because it is not possible to have paid attention to a speech that hasn’t happened yet while you’re writing a response (plus I guess your goal is to make the other guy look bad), but that doesn’t mean you don’t come off looking dumb.
I guess I would rather someone took an extra 15 minutes to prepare and some specific examples of items from the freakin speech that they had a disagreement with and responded with some constructive alternatives.
