Posted on 05/25/2011 2:45:27 PM PDT by Justaham
The pictures were better than the words. President Barack Obama is a brilliant speaker, but also a very polite man, and in Westminster Hall his oratorical inspiration was smothered by the cautious politeness of an American statesman.
Perhaps Mr Obama was smothered also by his audience, which remained stubbornly unresponsive. For most of the time the President had nothing to bounce off: no applause and certainly no shouts of praise or blame as might be heard in an American church or at an American political rally.
The presidential text sounded as if it had been worked on so hard and conscientiously by a vast team of helpers that it had lost all savour, and been reduced to a series of orotund banalities, of the sort which can be heard at every tedious Anglo-American conference: “Profound challenges stretch out before us…the time for our leadership is now…Our alliance will remain indispensable.”
It did not help to hear Mr Obama assert, after only a minute or two, that “fortunately it’s been smooth sailing” between Britain and the United States “ever since” 1812, when we burned down the White House. Everyone present will have been able to think of occasions when this was not so. Suez did not seem like plain sailing.
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“President Barack Obama is a brilliant speaker”
Anyone who thinks that needs his ears cleaned out with an electric egg beater.
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Satire?
“. President Barack Obama is a brilliant speaker,.....“
For sure!!! JUST a sampling….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ju6kWfXEk&feature=related (Obama without his teleprompter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqcnjxYiG7M&feature=related (Obama without a teleprompter or script)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc&feature=related (Obama Speech - Teleprompter Goes Out)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyPAaubENE&feature=related (Obama Caught Lip-Syncing Speech)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpM_Pv430Qg&feature=related (Obama without his teleprompter)
“The pictures were better than the words. President Barack Obama is a brilliant speaker, but also a very polite man, and in Westminster Hall his oratorical inspiration was smothered by the cautious politeness of an American statesman.
Perhaps Mr Obama was smothered also by his audience, which remained stubbornly unresponsive. “
Team-America-barfing-scene-sized barf.
How did he type this with BHO’s schlong in his mouth?
He’s a moron.
Come on. You’re not even tryin’.
Someone must have added a laugh track into that.
He’s ~terrible~ speaker. Robotic and mind-numbing.
He sucks.
You do realize, don't you, that there's a mentally challenged individual who was loudly yelling at him while he was trying to speak? (That's who he turned to and answers...)
The creep makes my skin crawl, but don't underestimate his ability to sway the masses with his empty rhetorical delivery.
Ha...in your dreams Telegraph lefties...
Take away the teleprompter and add in the "middle finger on cheek " thingy...
and what you got left (no pun intended)
is a semi literate Chicago punk.
From the article: “We warm to Mr Obama, and feel an affinity with him, in part because he is a grandson of the British Empire.”
He is, indeed, which is exactly why he is not eligible to serve as POTUS.
Hey Brits, he’s an empty suit and he hates you. After you snubbed him by not inviting him to the Royal Wedding he wants all the perks of a State Visit to make his widdle fweelings all better.
He’s not a smart man, not an oratorical genius and he always simply mouths platitudes.
He only gets excited by thugs and terrorists like Chavez and Imanutjob.
Moronic Brit excuse-making... Øbozo is merely a dumb@$$.
That was one of the best “tongue in cheek” articles I have ever read. He literally kills Obama with seemingly kind but very insulting words...got to love British humor!!
Here was a personal connection rather than a platitude. We warm to Mr Obama, and feel an affinity with him, in part because he is a grandson of the British Empire.
And yet, Obama's Kenyan family is convinced his grandfather was abused by the British -- imprisoned and tortured.
I don't know if that's true, but grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama's conversion to Islam may be a sign that he didn't exactly have warm feelings toward Britain.
Someone has to go over there and play "emperor's new clothes" with these idiot children. Obama is not a brilliant speaker. He is a wooden speaker who's reliance on sound bite sized teleprompter cues are mistakenly called "clipped phrases."
Please, brit people, get real.
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