I only wish his speech writers would carefully review this interview. Note the President speaks in very short sentences with peculiar upward inflection of his voice at the end of some sentences. This is charming in MHO but ignored as one of his verbal characteristics by his speech writers who more often than not write a speech to be read by a MLA professor.
I wish Laura or someone would start on one of his "verbal whiskers." That is he interjects "uhh" far too often. He obviously is a person who thinks before he speaks and I believe this "uhh" is sort of a filler of estimated speech time before he can complete an answer. Overcoming something like this is very tough and the person doing so would have to be close to the President. Ordinarily "verbal whiskers" are fiercely defended by the speaker and his supporters.
Unlike many in public office no one will ever accuse the President of psychopathic fluency. Mention no names but you can make an educated guess or two.
It is a incredibly perfect term for those who can walk backwards and forwards and sideways all at the same time, impressive at first, very, very manipulative and rapidfire...its just that later, upon review, open to many different interpretations. A safe verbal game, if tricky,
one played by people afraid of taking a stand.
John kerry does it all the time, seems like a amateur tho.
bill klinton...a master psychopathic babbler. Which is why the press corp for the most part, woefully undereducated and overly endowed with ego, were and are so easily sucked up into the klinton nightmare.