ThatDamnedPanda
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ORIGINAL: Sanity "The Great Communicator"? The guy who won in landslide elections??? You're kidding, right? It seems more like you're deriding Obama, you appear to be describing current TOTUS, er, POTUS. quote:
ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda Sure, he could read from a teleprompter right up until the point where he couldn't read anymore. But left on his own, to speak off the cuff.... he was a press secretary's nightmare, throughout his entire presidency. I've seen Obama speak extemporaneously numerous times, and while he is nowhere near as polished, he still communicates clearly and I come away from the experience understanding what he was saying. Even if I don't like it or agree with it. His intelligence is obvious every time he speaks. I also saw Reagan speak extemporaneously more times than I can count, and he invariably left me with the impression that he was at best a willfully ignorant ideologue, and at worst dangerously retarded. The only times he ever came across as anything less than a babbling moron was when he was reading directly from a teleprompter, as when giving a speech, or in a scripted and rehearsed performance such as a "debate" (or what passes for Presidential debate in this country). Any time he was thrown the least bit off the track of his script, he would stand there with a vacant grin, blinking stupidly like a rabbit about to get run over by a truck. If he didn't have it memorized and rehearsed, or couldn't read it off a card or a teleprompter, he had absolutely no clue what to say. I honestly thought he had at least the beginning stages of Alzheimer's the entire time he was in office.
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