Posted on 03/20/2007 6:14:39 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Joe Biden proclaimed him to be articulate but apparently that ability left Barack Obama last night when he was fielding questions from Larry King. Since Larry is known for lobbing softballs at his guests, one can only imagine how poor Obama will perform when hit with real hardballs. Even the DUmmies were completely unimpressed by Obama on King since there were two DUmmieland threads on the subject of Obama's poor performance. The first DUmmie THREAD is titled, "Anyone see Obama on Larry King? Is it just me or was he awful?" The second DUmmie THREAD has the equally unimpressed title of "Obama on L.King. I was cooking in the other room. He did not sound great." Thanx, DUmmies, for arousing my curiousity. I was busy watching "24" while Obama failed to impress you on Larry King so now I shall have to hunt down an online video of that disaster for my own entertainment. So let us now watch the DUmmies dismiss Obama's performance in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering if Obama's weakness is that he needs to constantly consult a script, is in the [brackets]:
Anyone see Obama on Larry King? Is it just me or was he awful?
[From the other DUmmie comments I read, it wasn't just you. He WAS awful.]
I could only stand a few minutes of his uh-uh-uh-stutter-stutter-uh-uh-you-know-uh-uh before giving up on it. Did I not give it enough of a chance? Or did he sound completely unprepared throughout?
[Uh-uh-uh-uh. I think you're right.]
I've noticed he's pretty unimpressive without a prepared speech.....
[WARNING: Do not separate Obama from his script.]
I'm watching the repeat and I'm not impressed. In fact I'm very surprised. I thought he was such a great speaker and I'm very disappointed.
[Now I know the Democrats are in terrible shape for '08. All their prospective candidates sound like sure losers against the likes of either Romney or Thompson.]
Answering questions is totally different from reading from a prepared speech.. BHO admits copying the style of his favorite local preacher. He comes across differently when answering questions. Not quite as sure of himself. I fell asleep out of boredom.
[Wow! So he is not even being himself on the stage. Instead he does an impression of his preacher. When Obama has to be himself, he turns out to be a BORE.]
I Like Him not preparing. He is showing he is like one of us.
[Obama is just as BORING as you are. WHOOOPEEE!!!]
He needs 4 more years of practice.
[Yes, at least 4 more years before he can perfect being a fake.]
He just has a bad habit of using uh's and ah's while speaking. He needs to work on getting rid of them.
[I think we can cross Hillary off his speech coach list since she has the same problem with the addition of a lot of "you knows."]
King just got over here, not just awful. He was God awful.
[Super Duper AWFUL.]
He really needs to see a speech coach and learn a diversion tactic so that he doesn't blow it with that little problem.. think how easy it would be for someone to just cut everything he says out except for the Uh's and Ahs, and destroy the guy with a "Dean Moment"..
[YEEEEEEEEEAGGGHHHHHH-UH-UH!!!]
He's not great with interviews...a little more experience is needed, perhaps.
[Great time to discover this weakness. Right in the middle of his campaign.]
I have seen him on tv giving interviews in the past and he is just ok.
[Now there is a non-ringing endorsement!]
i uh.. cannot stand uh... all the uh.... uhs uh... he has in uh... his speeches uh... i had noticed this a while ago. i would have thought long ago that would have been taken out of his speaking. but it is really bad.
[Uh-uh. It won't be happening.]
He's been a bit off lately. His speech at the firefighters meeting was lacking he may be getting burned out.
[Bad timing since he has over a year and a half left of heavy duty campaigning. And now to go on to the other DUmmie THREAD...]
Obama on L.King. I was cooking in the other room. He did not sound great.
[And he wasn't looking so hot either.]
he is very attractive. He communicates a lot with his face. What he says seems fine.
[So Obama's face language counteracts what he is actually saying?]
I listened many times to Obama... When he does his speeches he is excellent. They are written, probably by him, and he knows his lines. However, when he speaks off the cuff, from questions, he has pauses and ah's constantly. He gets his points across, but he needs to work on his delivery. Its like he has to think about what to say, with all the pauses. He needs to work on that!
[Great time to work on that. Right in the middle of a presidential nomination campaign.]
EDWARDS 2008
[So you gave up on Barack already?]
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Bu-bu-bu-but, I thought he HAD the experience to be President.
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They weren't impressed by Obama? Didn't he do any magic tricks?
Little experience, almost unknown. NOMINATE HIM!!!
Funny how Obama's stammering and stuttering is just "he needs a little more experience." Yet President Bush's verbal stumbles are incontrovertible proof of idiocy.
Exactly.
'You know' (grin), there's actually a method to her madness in using that 'you know' opening.
There was some 'expert' (Psychologist?) on TV (maybe O'Reilly?) who said she does that on purpose. In using that phrase it puts the speaker in the position of power. That you are supposed to know what the person is saying is a fact and if you 'don't know' it you're less informed, educated, etc, i.e.: a dummy. So the listener thinks, rationalizes; 'yeah, I know it' - even though the person doesn't.
Then again the expert could have been nuts. Like Freud said, "Sometimes A Cigar Is Only A Cigar." :-)
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