Obama is little more than a snake oil salesman. Take away the financial crash one month before the 2008 election and Obama is a one term Senator.
Why is this teleprompter thing always coming back? Most public speakers use notes, particularly for new and/or lengthy presentations. Paper has been replaced by a monitor.
I disagree. Obama is not a gifted orator, nor is he particularly charming or charismatic, except to those who are already drunk on the koolaid. He is gifted at reading a speech someone else wrote for him. When he's on his own, it's a barrage of stuttering and uhs and ahs, usually followed by the race card or some sort of demagoguery. Bill Clinton was an orator, as was Ronald Reagan.
I disagree.A good orator is good at delivering the message,not writing it.Doesn't matter if he didn't write the speech or if he is using a teleprompter You are in complete denial to say he isn't a good orator and isn't charming or charismatic
Obama's profession: <img src=http://www.cristyli.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Obama-Snake-Oil-Salesman1.jpg>
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/14/earlyshow/main3829938.shtml Obama's Oratory Grabbing Spotlight Being Compared To JFK, Drawing Huge Crowds, Moving Some To Tears; Pundits, Rivals Noticing (CBS) Barack Obama is often treated like a rock star on the campaign trail. People wait hours to hear him speak. He draws huge crowds. And, pundits say, his powerful speechmaking style plays no small part in his appeal. People "come in droves -- by the tens of thousands at times" to hear Obama speak, observes Early Show national correspondent Tracy Smith. His "soaring rhetoric," she says, "is moving his audiences not just politically, but emotionally," even moving audience members to tears on occasion. Even some political commentators who've seen it all can't help but gush. Chris Matthews, host of CNBC's "Hardball," recently remarked about "the feeling most people get when they hear a Barack Obama speech. I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean -- I don't have that too often!" Longtime Republican strategist and pollster Frank Luntz, author of the book "Words That Work," told Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith Thursday he's "more than impressed" with Obama's oratory. "I've been mesmerized." Tracy Smith says Obama's "stoic eloquence, " with lines like, "WE are the ones we've been waiting for," conjures up images of President Kennedy. "Ask not what your country can do for you," Kennedy said in his inaugural address. "Ask what you can do for your country." Obama says something similar in his stump speeches: "We will invest in you; you invest in your country!" JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen supports Obama and speaks regularly with the campaign's speechwriting team, Tracy Smith points out. "Kennedy had this wonderful, wry, ironic sense, just as Obama does," says Time magazine columnist Joe Klein. " ... Both of them are cool customers, which works well on television." http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/25/opinion/oe-mcmanus25 The power of Obama's oratory Like Roosevelt and Reagan, Obama used his speech to rally supporters. Speechmaking has always been good for Barack Obama. In 2004, as a 42-year-old state legislator, he vaulted to national stature with a brilliant speech to the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2007, he won the hearts of Iowa Democrats with a rip-roaring Jefferson-Jackson Day talk. In 2008, after losing the New Hampshire primary, he rallied his flagging presidential campaign with one of the greatest concession statements ever made. And he saved his candidacy later that spring with his Philadelphia address on race relations. This is a man who knows the power of oratory. And it's a good thing he does: We needed some. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5114841.ece Barack Obama: orator in the mould of historyâs best Even in the age of YouTube and the soundbite, Barack Obama has proved that soaring, sustained oratory still has great power. His victory address to crowds in Chicago last week was widely regarded as one of the finest speeches in modern politics, delivered by a master.
If I were a bleeding heart liberal dim wit drunk on the kool-aid and unable or willing to see Dumbo for what he is I might be impressed, but I'm not.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/14/earlyshow/main3829938.shtml Longtime Republican strategist and pollster Frank Luntz, author of the book "Words That Work," told Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith Thursday he's "more than impressed" with Obama's oratory. "I've been mesmerized."