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		<title>Was Obama Really Ever A Great Orator?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of disappointment across the board about Obama&#8217;s speech at the Democrat&#8217;s Convention, even from the liberal left. But was he ever a great orator or was it all a myth generated by a compliant media that almost everyone else was afraid to confront? After all Iain Martin of the UK Daily Telegraph labelled [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lot of disappointment <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199935/Democratic-National-Convention-2012-Critics-savage-Obamas-speech.html#ixzz25p5b9sij"><em><strong>across the board</strong></em></a> about Obama&#8217;s speech at the Democrat&#8217;s Convention, even from the liberal left. But was he ever a great orator or was it all a myth generated by a compliant media that almost everyone else was afraid to confront?</p>
<p>After all Iain Martin of the UK Daily Telegraph labelled Obama a <a href="http://grandrants.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/the-great-orator-simply-a-windbag/"><em><strong>&#8220;windbag&#8221;</strong></em></a> when he came to London in 2009 but clearly even the DT was shocked and it was blown down the memory hole&#8230;.you can&#8217;t find the article now..</p>
<p>But at t last I have found at least one other person on the planet who agrees with me &#8211; Shawn P of Virginia Beach with his comment <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199935/Democratic-National-Convention-2012-Critics-savage-Obamas-speech.html#ixzz25p5b9sij"><em><strong>on this piece.</strong></em></a></p>
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<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Obama&#8217;s reputation as masterful orator under threat&#8230;&#8221; That would be because that was just another media lie, a part of the cartoon character they created in 2007/2008. The guy has NEVER been a good speaker. From &#8220;speech one,&#8221; if you were actually listening to what he was saying instead of swooning like a groupie, you suddenly realized&#8230;he wasn&#8217;t actually saying ANYTHING. None of his speeches ever had any content. None. He uses more words to say nothing than any politician I have ever seen. And get him off the teleprompter? Stand back. He can barely complete a sentence without stuttering and mumbling and contradicting himself.</strong></em></p></blockquote>
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<p>I always felt that he would have been ideal as one of those actors who are shown in insurance commercials telling us how such and such a policy was great for his family (cue the Obamas)&#8230;good for an eighty second spiel spouting a script containing all the buzzwords but no substance &#8211; and certainly no chemistry&#8230;.if you want chemistry, go to Palin&#8230;</p>
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