Rate the president's speech

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Outstanding
	1 (6%)
	Excellent
	2 (12%)
	Very Good
	6 (35%)
	Good
	1 (6%)
	Fair
	0 (0%)
	Poor
	7 (41%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[JaneyVee]

1. Excellent.

[1awake]

2. I gave him a "Good".

He did a good job making his case on a situation that makes no sense.

An appeal to upholding "international norms" by a unilateral act that is illegal under the same international norms.

[PowerToThePeople]

3. I didn't see it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I can't comment because I would undermine the impartiality of my poll/nt

[aolwien]

5. Bullshit poll

Outstanding Excellent and Very Good are all the same. what a joke.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Only if you have an I Q < 65

LMFAO

[Whisp]

7. man laughing with no ass should not argue about IQs.

Confusus.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. My poll contained every logical choice.

Explain to me how outstanding, excellent, and very good are all the same.


Nearly half of the voters had no problem in making such a distinction.

[onehandle]

9. So add them up. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. TY

If you want to split hairs you could argue outstanding and excellent are similar but I wouldn't. And only in a parallel universe is outstanding and very good the same.

[liberal_at_heart]

11. well since the whole purpose of these speeches is to increase the public's support of a military

strike I guess we'll have to wait to see how the country as a whole feels about it. I didn't watch it. I don't support a military strike and I see the threat as either one of two things. Either they mean it which means they plan to ignore the public if diplomacy fails or they don't mean it in which case it would be a hollow threat and most hollow threats don't work very well. I guess we just have to hope diplomacy works.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. I can't comment because I would undermine the impartiality of my poll.

My goal was to give the respondents as many choices as possible.

[Llewlladdwr]

13. I have to say it was a poor speech...

if the objective was to present a strong rationale for an attack on Syria.

It failed to convince me, at any rate.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Do you think my poll was fair and impartial and met the standards of social science inquiry?

with the caveat that this is hardly a random sample nor a disinterested or dispassionate one.

[Llewlladdwr]

15. Honestly?

I feel you have too many positive choices. Out of the 6 responses possible 5 of them are positive. Collapsing this into fewer options (poor, fair and good, for example) would still let people show their support without having to decide between very good and outstanding, and would actually emphasize positive reviews of the President's speech. Those are just my quick thoughts, please don't take any of this as a personal attack or anything.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. TY for the input

My next poll will have A, B, C, D, E, and F.

But outstanding isn't synonymous with very good.

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was outstanding, JFK's Inaugural speech was excellent, and any random Bill Clinton speech was merely very good.

[aolwien]

17. So just any random Bill Clinton speech

merely because it came from Clinton. Do you think before you type?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. I was trying to make a distinction between a great speech and a merely o k speech.

My remarks require no further elucidation.

And welcome to DU.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

19. Your poll is biasd.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. Biasd (sic) how?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

21. 4 positive choices, 1 Non-committal choice, one negative choice.

Positive collumn

Outstanding

Excellent

Very Good

Good


Non-committal collumn

Fair

Negative collumn

Poor


Biased.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. How would that be markedly different than a rating of

A
B
C
D
F

or

5 stars

4 1/2 stars

4 stars

3 1/2 stars

3 stars

2 stars

1 star

That rating is commonly used for lodging and dining.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

23. When you are finished blowing smoke up my ass call me.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. I'm sorry my rating system disappointed you.

Next time I will use 0-10, you know how medical professionals ask a person to rate his or her pain.

However I can assure you I have no ulterior motive and know what a biased poll is or isn't.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

25. It is not a disappointment inasmuch as it is your partisan failure.

"I have no ulterior motive and know what a biased poll is or isn't."

Those are the words of somebody who is disingenuous at best.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. I used the rating system I am most familiar and that is the one used for lodging

If you think it was my desire to paint the president, in a positive or negative light there is nothing I can do to disabuse you of that notion.

For instance I don't think a Fair is a good grade. I would equate it to a D in school which is barely passing.

Outstanding would be an A and Very Good would be a B. Perhaps outstanding and excellent is redundant but at the risk of being risque I can recall my sexual encounters and can distinguish between the outstanding encounters, the excellent encounters. the fair encounters and so on and so forth. I would trade ten fair ones for one outstanding ones as it is the outstanding ones i can remember decades later.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

27. "I used the rating system I am most familiar"

Yes, that is the troubling part.

Good luck with that.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. I was trying to be unbiased

I regret i was unsuccessful in demonstrating that to your satisfaction.

[msongs]

29. 5 choices that are supportive versus one that shows opposition is NOT unbiased. nt