Tony Blair Debate Video
“First, a disclaimer: I have never cared for Prime Minister Tony Blair. For years I viewed the man, or at least his caricature in the mass media, as yet another slick politician cut (not accidentally) from the same mold as Bill Clinton. Lately however, my opinion has literally flipped a 180.
Blair’s quick wit and laser-guided eloquence is all the more brighter when compared to the bumbling, stumbling, god-awful public speaker we have in the White House. Watch this video [direct Real Video link] of Blair’s searing, brilliant charge yesterday in the House Of Commons, and I defy anyone to say (whether you agree with his policy or not) that he is, without question, a leader who has the courage to stand by his convictions against public scrutiny.
Watching the video, I kept imagining what would happen if George W. Bush came down from his ivory tower for a similiar debate in a joint session of Congress, instead of the patriarchal choir preaching known as The State of the Union. As an American, I’d like to believe he (or any President) could hold his / her ground and state their case with vigor, confidence, not resort to black and white morality, and have the verbal agility to handle a freewheeling open floor debate like the House of Commons. But I have my doubts.”