Posted on 08/30/2011 5:50:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
The man is eloquent and that’s what his supporters continue to believe.
He’s very expressive in the way he makes decisions and especially articulate in the way he conveys his ideas to the public.
That’s right; I’m referring to Barack Obama.
Since he came out of nowhere, I have marveled at the way the he could mesmerize a crowd. He said it was time for hope and change and it seemed everyone agreed.
If you were a displaced worker who saw your job sent overseas, then Obama was talking to you.
If you were a single parent at odds with creditors and just trying to survive, then he was speaking to you. Or, if you happened to be a small business owner struggling to stay afloat, Obama focused his words to you.
It was a general message with no specifics, but it was so eloquent the words seem to roll off the man’s tongue and even brought a tear to the eye.
Then, I looked closer…Obama never looked at the television camera. In a large room full of people, he never focused on those in the center, only looking to the left and then to the right.
After a while, I saw the Obama struggle when asked off the cuff questions. He stumbled when he did not have a prepared speech, once claiming there are 57 states in the union.
It was then I realized the eloquence his supporters so warmly embraced was just a good old fashioned reading of the teleprompter.
Whether it was in a manufacturing plant or an elementary school, Obama was never without his trusty device. That’s probably why his most recent appointment of Alan Krueger (the Tim Geithner clone), is another result of not looking ahead.
Once again, Obama is simply looking to his left and to his right, pandering to one side and thumbing at the other. Instead of admitting he has failed economically and that a new approach is sorely needed, Obama simply brings in another in the long line of Keynesians who specialize in failed policies and botched ideas.
In order to sell this same old same old to the American public in September, he will have to be more eloquent than ever, and that means making sure the teleprompter is clean, well lit, and running very smoothly.
Then it’s left, right, left, right, but never looking ahead.
Unfortunately, until we elect a President who looks straight ahead and faces the tough issues head on, our grave economy will continue its dreary non-eloquent side-to-side direction.
The undocumented Kenyan primitive can be called eloquent if and only if ‘eloquent’ means glib, mendacious and generally divorced from reality.
He’s a good speaker? right, and Michelle is a fashionista
It’s not the teleprompters fault.
This dumbass can’t make a credible sentance without having some Handler put it in a teleprompter for him to recite like a parrot.
That is what his supporters believe. However we know better, don’t we?
The "Great Speaker" Big Lie has been reported and repeated so often that it has become the stuff of "Urban Legend." The guy has a level of skill at telepromptering that is lower than that shown by many small-station weather girls. He has worked diligently at mastering the one-teleprompter technique, so that now he at least occasionally looks into the cameras, instead of using the contact-avoiding reptilian head movement that characterized his first 18 months in office.
His speeches are very well planned psycho-gibberish, into which he has obviously had precisely no input. There is no message beyond "I am the President. Adore and honor me."
Hey! I have an African Grey Parrot....Do not insult him!
bump!
If I remember correctly (and I might not), his 2004 convention speech was pretty well delivered, like he had plenty of time to practice it. I don’t remember if his teleprompter use was obvious. However, he now slips into his natural annoyed fourth-grade teacher voice in just about every speech even with the teleprompter. It is much more nagging and condescending than inspiring, even to his political allies.
Yeah but an African grey is smarter than most birds as well as at least one dumbass kenyan
Obama, the Most Brilliant Man Ever to be President, could not even speak to a third grade class without his electronic crutch.
I believe this photo was truly Obama's "Emperor's New Clothes Moment". It was the instant the man was revealed as a hollow fraud; the second that many Americans finally came to realize that their President could not even fake it with a bunch of eight-year olds.
I would not be surprised if, you were to interrupt him in mid-sentence and ask him to explain what he is talking about, that he wouldn't have any idea.
When his true history comes out, as someday it will, the world will be stunned to learn just how much of a fraud he is.
This is a technique that can elicit a strong emotional response from a group without, that is WITHOUT, any ANY reference to content or concept, or for that matter, reality.
Andy's post enabled a connection to be made for me between this technique and the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques of "Key Word" use.
Bottom line: Obama's speeches may mean absolutely nothing to those who are read-oriented or who may visualize words in print as they hear them. But, they don't have to. This is not a good thing.
Thanks, Andy, now please, go scare someone else!
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NLP has been around a long time, and involves numerous techniques to subtly influence or persuade others, alter perceptions, model or change behaviors, etc. Like anything else that deals with influencing peoples' states of mind, it is most certainly subject to abuse (sometimes, amazingly enough, by politicians!). Sales people and corporate trainers are among those I have seen employ NLP in their business dealings, and a number of "self-improvement" gurus have made good money by promoting these sorts of techniques as a means to overcoming fear and negative self-images.
There are other techniques as well that can be used for both good - or nefarious - purposes. For example, in my business role as a group process facilitator, I use a number of methods in order to keep people focused and on task. But because I desire to have no personal interest in the outcome - and frequently remind them as much - I am careful to allow people to develop and build their own consensuses, while I stay studiously objective and neutral.
Now: let's assume that I were being less than honest with my group, and harbored a secret agenda that depended upon achieving a very specific consensus among the members. I might then use something called the "Delphi Technique". Google that one, just for fun.
How many techniques are there that are used to manipulate individuals and groups of people?
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