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Obama's not much of a speaker

Posted by David Hardy · 23 September 2008 08:32 AM

Gad, here's some YouTube video of him when his teleprompter broke down. I've heard comment that he's good reading a teleprompter and helpless otherwise, but this is pitiful. He must not have done courtroom work, is all I can say.

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4 Comments | Leave a comment

AMB | September 23, 2008 9:04 AM | Reply

Courtroom work, h*ll! How did he survive as a law school professor? Most law school classes would eat alive a lecturer who is that bad at speaking before a group.

BobG | September 23, 2008 9:19 AM | Reply

But as a lecturer he could write his lectures ahead of time, same as the ones on the teleprompter.

AMB | September 23, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply

IF that's what he did (write a lecture in advance and read the lecture as students sat passively), then he was not exactly a "professor." ... I recall my contracts prof at GMUSL, first semester: Professor bounced us around so much one day, calling for responses and responses to responses, and responses to various variations to his first question that everyone was lost and confused. We couldn't remember where he had begun. Then he calmly took us back to what we were supposed to be looking at, and to how we'd gotten lost in the mess that he'd laid out before us. ... He didn't have a teleprompter, and he didn't have any lecture notes, and if he called on you and you couldn't remember how the argument had wandered to where it was, he walked up beside you and smiled as he said things that made others laugh.

tarpon | September 23, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply

Not much of a thinker either.

Obama spent all his time figuring out how to say it, with feeling and inflection, not much time figuring out what to say. Most people call reading a script acting.

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