Correct.
When he is speaking extemporaneously, he babbles, gibbers, and sometimes reveals his true character in very embarrassing ways.
When he is reading the teleprompter, he has a weird, robotic tone and strange cadence that does not match the meaning or sentence structure of what he is saying.
The whole "0bama is a great speaker" meme is a pure democRat media construction; it has no basis in reality.
I read somewhere that Lehrer gave Barry four more minutes than Romney. That did not help him; it just let him ramble and get deeper in the weeds.
You cannot be bright and well read to say “corpseman” three times in one speech. And at the debate, he said “aircrafts.” As in, Look, Mom, at all the aircrafts in the sky!