Posted on 02/16/2008 6:37:19 AM PST by vietvet67
You nailed it!
Good answer. I think you got it.
The ability to read a teleprompter while saying nothing well.
Obama gives a good speech while saying absolutely nothing. The stupid sheople are falling for this charlatan
Maybe he plans on making himself the world leader. Just a thought.
Answer: just change the title a bit: "What Makes Obama a Feel Good Speaker?"
Cultists are susceptible to short snorts, constantly repeated.
I’d like to hear your Fisher Beer Speech, but only if you’ll close with the theme from “Summer Place.”
Nope. But it sets him up in an unassailable rhetorical position. Since he refuses to define anything, if you question him on anything you are defined yourself as being "Against Change". Wanting to NOT "Heal the nation". and "not" Repair this world. You want to continue "the divisiveness". and not "Bring America together".
His speech writers are some of the best demagogues around. McCain better hope he can get Obama out from behind his TelePrompter or he is going to have real trouble with this one.
Nope. But it sets him up in an unassailable rhetorical position. Since he refuses to define anything, if you question him on anything you are defined yourself as being "Against Change". Wanting to NOT "Heal the nation". and "not" Repair this world. You want to continue "the divisiveness". and not "Bring America together".
His speech writers are some of the best demagogues around. McCain better hope he can get Obama out from behind his TelePrompter or he is going to have real trouble with this one.
Not so much good, as powerful! He could whip a crowd into a frenzy.
Regards,
GtG
Two great articles about Obamas speeches *UPDATED*
http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/02/14/two-great-articles-about-obamas-speeches/
There was an editorial by Jay Ambrose the Orange County Register about this very topic.
It compares the Obama effect to that of orators like William Jennings Bryan, and ends with this:
Will many give thought to the content of his speeches after the moments exhilaration has passed? Will they then ask themselves, as one prominent figure in Bryans time asked later of a Bryan speech that had initially electrified him, What did he say, anyhow?
Or might they do as the Republican Ira Smith did after being blown away by Bryan, namely sit down and dispassionately read the speech the next day? Smith, the Bryan biography reports, found he disagreed with almost all of it.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/bryan-smith-speech-1980732-convention-kazin
Rampant idiocy in the audience?
I think BO stinks. He’s about as interesting as Al Gore.
It is an art. The basic sound has to be there, then the rhythm, and the rest can be grafted on. Got to have good sound first, just as in music.
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