I gotta be honest, I'm pretty tired of everyone bashing the incumbent president. God knows we had 8 years of Bush bashing and I'd like to have a break from all this negative stuff for a while. But I just checked out Obama's comments today about the Ft. Hood shootings. His comments last about 2 minutes and 35 seconds.
The first time I viewed the video things seemed to be going OK and then he starts repeating himself and saying 'ahh' a lot and basically not making a lot of sense. So I look at it again and, sure enough, the first minute and 45 seconds (I hovered over the progress bar to get the time) he's reading from some prepared notes and then, like a shot, you can tell when he gets to the end of his notes and decides to add a few closing remarks off the top of his head. He still glances down occasionally but it's likely just out of habit because its obvious he's putting his own sentences together. The result is dumbfounding.
And I don't mean this in a partisan way. I think one of the greatest speakers off-the-cuff I've ever seen is Bill Clinton. Heck, I can't think of anybody as bad as Obama. George W. had his has gaffs, for sure, but this is way out there. As far as thinking on your feet, Palin, for God sake, puts Obama to shame, and that's saying something.
Check it out for yourself.
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You're right. He says, "Uh" way too many times. But at least he has the right idea when he finally spits it out. I suppose it could be worse (see sentence #2).
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