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Poor Barack… He’s got Trump on the brain. Obama turned into a stuttering mess again today while talking about Donald Trump at his rally with Hillary Clinton. " Obama: So, if if if, you voting for the other team, it’s not because of the economy. It’s not because of the economy… I mean even, even, even, even, even the, uh, even the, uh, the, the Republicans on the other side don’t really know what the guy’s talking about. Poor guy. He just can’t help it

Poor Barack. He wanted to sound more powerful. He really did! The lame duck president went to Indiana today to hold a rally and trash-talk Donald Trump. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned. He turned into a stuttering mess.

"It's pumped into cars and bars and VFW halls all across America." President Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana on Wednesday and during a town hall meeting blamed "right-wing radio" for distorting his economic record and for making "people think big government is the problem." "I hope you don't mind me being blunt about this," the president said, "but I've been listening to this stuff for a while now and I'm concerned when I watch the direction of our politics." When Obama visited Elkhart seven years ago, the unemployment rate was near 20%. Now, he boasts that the rate has dropped...

A coming new world WITHOUT the corroding hatred of Barack Obama! Almost eight years on, Barack Hussein Obama has come out of the closet as a stuttering, stammering Porky Pig. It wasn’t Donald Trump, who by maybe having reached 100 percent name recognition, soaring past both Obama and Pope Francis as most famous man in the world right now, who dragged Obama stuttering and stammering out of the closet any more than Donald Duck ever did. Obama did it to himself by just being himself yesterday when he set out for Indiana to hold a rally to put a presidential...

Poor Barack. He wanted to sound more powerful. He really did! The lame duck president went to Indiana today to hold a rally and trash-talk Donald Trump. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned. He turned into a stuttering mess.

The lame duck president went to Indiana today to hold a rally and trash-talk Donald Trump. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned. He turned into a stuttering mess.

Former Vice President Al Gore visits the Brookings Institution for a speech marking the introduction of the Institution's Center for Effective Public Management. The Center for Effective Public Management will focus its research on increasing efficiency in government and working with public and private entities to solve 21st century political challenges, according to the Brookings Institution.

A student at a New Jersey community college who stutters said he was told not to speak in his class, WCBS-TV reports. [Click on link for video]

In my latest column for The Week today, I use the Academy Award-winning film The King’s Speech to bookend my point about the incoherence of the Obama administration on its Libyan adventure. Like King George VI, Barack Obama needed to demonstrate leadership, inspire a nation, and give a clear account of why the nation’s forces had been sent to war after ten days of contradictions, incoherence, and silence from the administration. Unfortunately, Obama turned out to be no more coherent on Monday than George VI before his speech therapy: Later in the same speech, though, the president then said that...

“The Kings Speech” is about a hero... who battles an invisible enemy that torments nearly 70 million people around the world. In demystifying the little-understood speech impediment, the award-winning film reveals myths and fascinating truths about stuttering, and has won praise from stutterers of all ages. For Erik Yehl, an 11-year-old ...who began stuttering in preschool, the movie’s powerful message is, “I’m not stupid.” It’s a stigma all people who stutter contend with — ...that because their words sometimes sputter or fail to come out..., their minds must be... mixed up. “People who stutter — their minds are perfectly good,...

Stuttering Kids Need Help to Cope with Bullying Fri Jan 21, 4:27 PM ET Health - Reuters By Alison McCook NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents and teachers need to do more to help kids who stutter deal with any bullying or teasing, according to a speech pathologist. William Murphy of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, reasons that stuttering kids who are teased may find it even more difficult to say what's on their mind, because their hurt feelings are getting in the way. Moreover, children who stutter may have a harder time coping with bullying itself, since they...

VITAL SIGNS Just thinking about language can be enough to set off a chain of events in the brain of a stutterer that differs from that of someone who does not stutter, a new study reports. Stutterers appear to process language differently, even when they are asked to remain silent while solving word problems, the researchers found. The study, led by Dr. Christine Weber-Fox of Purdue University, was presented last week at a conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Stuttering, the authors suggest, results from a complex set of problems. Although the most obvious one involves oral motor skills, the...