[PhiKapMom]

I've never heard any folks I know from Harvard talking about "whompin" members of Congress with a stick if they don't support his health care bill like Barack did.

Neither have I. He doesn't come across as someone that is articulate unless he is reading from a teleprompter.

[aruanan]

Neither have I. He doesn't come across as someone that is articulate unless he is reading from a teleprompter.

True. I've always wondered about people characterizing him as a good speaker. I think it's really just relief that they hear a Dan Rather kind of voice instead of an Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. And I haven't seen a single time that he hasn't come across as an insufferable prick.