I really appreciate the fact that Michael Moore is out there taking a stand against so many things that are screwed up in this country. But this speech struck me as even more tragic than his books and movies and TV shows.

Here's the tragedy: Moore has a tremendous talent for raising consciousness and he could really use it to fix things if he'd focus on one or two of the big issues that so many Americans of all religious, political and social stripes would become enraged about, if they simply learned the facts about these matters. Moore could educate all sorts of people and bring them together to fix these overarching problems.

Instead he pontificates about every issue under the sun. Every one of these strongly-worded yet tangential opinions alienates a group of people. Before long he's wasting his breath and preaching to the choir, to the small circle of people who consider themselves to be radical old-school liberal Democrats. Sure, he gets them all fired up, but that small circle tends to be all fired up anyway. Moore convinces everyone else on the planet not to take him seriously.

I love the guy but he saddens me. Michael Moore has so much potential to enlighten so many people, but it's drifting away because he won't focus.