Posted on 05/26/2011 6:10:28 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Apparently, a lot of people consider President Obama to be bumblingly inarticulate. "The guy can't talk his way out of a paper bag!" a reader wrote to me recently. "Sarah Palin is a brilliant speaker. It's the president whose sentences are undiagrammable," said another in response to a column I wrote about Palin. It's not just my readers, nor is it exclusively conservatives, who hold this view. A Google search of "does Obama have a speech impediment" turns up several pages of discussion among the president's supporters and critics alike.Admittedly, the president is given to a lot of pauses, "uhs" and sputtering starts to his sentences. As polished as he often is before large crowds (where the adjective "soaring" is often applied to his speeches), his impromptu speaking frequently calls to mind a doctoral candidate delivering a wobbly dissertation defense.
But consider this: It's not that Obama can't speak clearly. It's that he employs the intellectual stammer. Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can't keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN. If you're a member or a fan of that subset, chances are the president's stammer doesn't bother you; in fact, you might even love him for it (he sounds just like your grad school roommate, especially when he drank too much Scotch and attempted to expound on the Hegelian dialectic!).
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Good example of the Media carrying water for Obummer.
Meghan needs several more h00ps to jump through defending Bam Bam. Don’t these “writers” realize how utterly ridiculous they appear to be.
Yep! She wore out another pair of knee pads on that article.
Gah! That’s the crap my dad used to say about him. “He has to dumb down the way he thinks so average people can understand.”
I almost puked.
Sorry, I miss ya Dad, but you were such a blind liberal.
Exhibit A of a media dog slobbering pathetically at the mere sight of its master, Obama.
Aw geez....... I have never seen so many excuses for this guy..... it’s increasingly becoming clear that zippy is as dumb as rocks (sorry in advance to insulting rocks) and they are grasping at any thing they can to declare his “brillance” he stammers because he hasn’t a clue what to say if it is not written down for him on a teleprompter, note card or paper.... BY SOMEONE ELSE!!!!! there is plenty of documented evidence that he cannot think on his feet.... he is a fraud on every level........I gotta stop now... my head hurts....
LOL, the only answer is her tongue is firmly implanted in her cheek. This drips with sarcasm. Scanning some of her other articles, she seems to always be sarcastic and funny in what she writes.
John Semmens didn’t write this?
Actually Meghan, it’s the other way around. His speech is deliberately slow so his brain can catch up, and dang, that does take a while, if it happens at all.
Finally, an explanation for those missing college transcripts: his brain moves so fast, even his GPA can’t keep up!
Ridiculous apologetics for Obama’s inability to speak without a teleprompter.
So, he is SO smart, the English language is inadequate to express his ideas...
that’s the current excuse.
Well, then, let’s see those transcripts and standardized test scores...
or are those “inadequate” to measure his intellect?
I think I found the right words and it could have saved some ink. My edit of her article: “Obama is so smart that he is stupid.”
I get it. Obama isn’t stupid - we are!
When he reads words that others write for him, he sounds brilliant! When he speaks for himself, he sounds like a stammering fool.
Conclusion: He's brilliant!
The media's shameless love affair and lip lock with the president has not abated.
“Apparently, a lot of people consider President Obama to be bumblingly inarticulate.”
Yep.
And thus far, NO ONE has dissuaded me from that viewpoint.
I understand completely.
I have to do the same thing when I post.
Doh!
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