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Obama Has Lost His Speaking Mojo
USNews.com ^ | May 7, 2012 | Kira Zalan

Posted on 05/09/2012 6:34:51 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Barack Obama's oratory skills may have helped him win the White House in 2008, but his speaking prowess could be a liability in this year's presidential election, says Sam Leith, author of Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama. Rhetoric is central to democracy, says Leith. "You win elections by talking to people, by trying to persuade them, not only on what you're going to do, but that you're trustworthy." And, he says, Obama talked his way into the Oval Office with "amazing speeches" that invoked Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., and he even beat out the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. "He just spoke better than everybody else," says the former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph.[See a collection of political cartoons on Mitt Romney.]

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mojo; obama; obamatruthfile; speaking; uuuuuhh
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I'd rather have Bush the Plain than Obama the Fraud. During the 2004 convention, when Obama was praised for his speech, I had a flight to Chicago. I remember three "yoots" at a bar talking about how wonderful Obama spoke. When I inquired, none could recite what he said. Finally, one of the three attempted and I replied "He sounds like any other Democrat." The reply by one babe was "But he's cool. You know he's black, right?" As Tom Daschle would say "Outrageous, outrageous!"
1 posted on 05/09/2012 6:34:58 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

H was never a great speaker..he was a great READER!


2 posted on 05/09/2012 6:38:58 AM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: ConservativeStatement

He was never a great speaker..he was a great READER!


3 posted on 05/09/2012 6:39:13 AM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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Great speaker my arse. That is all.


4 posted on 05/09/2012 6:39:31 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Today if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. RReagan)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What “speaking prowess”?

Never had it, never will.


5 posted on 05/09/2012 6:39:55 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: ConservativeStatement

You’ve pointed out a key flaw in the liberal marketing scheme: it’s all about style, not substance.

The Left is very good at packaging manure. The problem is, sooner or later someone opens the package.


6 posted on 05/09/2012 6:41:58 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: WellyP

I disagree.

If anything, he was an IGNORANT reader.

“Corpse men” two or three times in the same speech from the Commander-in-Chief is epic FAIL.


7 posted on 05/09/2012 6:42:33 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: WellyP

IMO, he was neither a great speaker not a great reader.

He stuttered and stammered and sprinkled his speeches with uh’s and er’s and nearly drove me crazy. I never could believe the hype about how great a speaker he is.


8 posted on 05/09/2012 6:42:45 AM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: WellyP

IMO, he was neither a great speaker not a great reader.

He stuttered and stammered and sprinkled his speeches with uh’s and er’s and nearly drove me crazy. I never could believe the hype about how great a speaker he is.


9 posted on 05/09/2012 6:42:45 AM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: basil

Sorry about the double post—it seems that quite often, my posts are doubles, but I only hit post once....don’t know what that’s about!


10 posted on 05/09/2012 6:44:27 AM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: ConservativeStatement
MOJO? WHAT DAMN MOJO?
The crook never had MoJo.

His days are numbered. . . . . . . .

11 posted on 05/09/2012 6:44:27 AM PDT by DeaconRed (My vote in Nov will be dictated by my extreme hatred for ZERO and what he is doing to our country.)
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To: basil

My opinion exactly. I don’t know where the myth of Bambi as a “great speaker” came from, especially since all you had to do was listen to him for about 30 seconds to realize how awful he was.


12 posted on 05/09/2012 6:45:08 AM PDT by livius
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This "Obama The Orator" crapola is truly the stuff of Urban Legend.

The man is a fair teleprompter reader ... not great. He shifts eye contact from one teleprompter to another, giving him a rather reptilian look on TV, swiveling back and forth, he rarely looks the camera "in the eye." I just don't get it, I guess .... because when he speaks, I itch.

Without prepared material to read, he is an unmitigated disaster.

13 posted on 05/09/2012 6:45:48 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: basil
"don’t know what that’s about!"

Try using Google Chrome if you aren't already. . . . .

14 posted on 05/09/2012 6:46:21 AM PDT by DeaconRed (My vote in Nov will be dictated by my extreme hatred for ZERO and what he is doing to our country.)
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To: IronJack

The Left is very good at packaging manure. The problem is, sooner or later someone opens the package.
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+1


15 posted on 05/09/2012 6:46:52 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Lost his speaking mojo? Call a corpseman! Um...er...uhh...umm...”let me make this perfectly clear...it’s Bush’s fault!” Either that, or TOTUS is broken.


16 posted on 05/09/2012 6:46:52 AM PDT by Freestate316
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To: livius

His handlers tell us he was a great speaker, and half of America is trained to believe it, as long as they don’t hear it first on Fauxnews.


17 posted on 05/09/2012 6:47:32 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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He used “corpseman” three times in that speech. He also used it once in a speech a few months previous. Either he was corrected and didn’t remember or his minions are afraid to correct him. I suspect the latter.


18 posted on 05/09/2012 6:48:39 AM PDT by MisterArtery
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I can't stand listening to the man. He speaks way too slow, with way too many affectations, that is like someone is drilling into my head right through my ear canal.

Also, Glenn Beck pointed out that when 0 stutters, he is about to tell a lie. That is true, since everything he says is a lie. I think when he stutters, it is a lie that he doesn't want to say for fear of offending his base or his own sensibilities.

19 posted on 05/09/2012 6:49:54 AM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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Around the time that happened, I overheard an older lady say “If Obama pronounced it that way, it must be right.”
20 posted on 05/09/2012 6:51:25 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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