Posted on 07/03/2016 5:43:48 PM PDT by Hojczyk
WASHINGTON — When President Obama travels to North Carolina and Europe this week, he will press an argument that could define foreign policy in the last six months of his presidency: that Americans and Europeans must not forsake their open, interconnected societies for the nativism and nationalism preached by Donald J. Trump or Britain’s Brexiteers.
Few presidents have put more faith than Mr. Obama in the power of words to persuade audiences to accept a complex idea, whether it is the morality of a just war or the imperfect nature of American society. Yet countering the anti-immigration and anti-free-trade slogans in this election year will require all of his oratorical skills.
In Warsaw, Mr. Obama will sit next to Britain’s lame-duck prime minister, David Cameron, whose political career was ended by his miscalculation over holding the referendum on European Union membership. But first, in Charlotte, N.C., he will campaign with Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who reversed her position on Mr. Obama’s Asian trade deal, formally called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, after many in her party turned sharply against free trade.
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Nonsense. The kenyan isn’t an orator. He’s a bully.
Uh....I...uh...you know....okie doke...and,uh....
Fire up the Teleprompter and all the backups.
The magic negro puppet speaks.
Just add a “God echo” and the LIVs will swoon.
He;s a SNIDE, SNARKY Bully!
Does that mean he needs to use both his his “William Shatner” AND his “storefront church preacher” voices in every venue?
Orate this.....you mooslam, commie bas----!
He has no Oratory skills, he sounds like a 6 year old when he doesn’t have a teleprompter. He makes Antonio Villagarosa look good when it comes to speaking skills.
>>Few presidents have put more faith than Mr. Obama in the power of words to persuade audiences to accept a complex idea
Huh? When has he ever convinced anyone of anything? He talks to his base, who worship him. He promises free stuff and they take the bait. When he talks to the “other side”, he lectures and declares that he will “do it without them” and then issues EOs or has his alphabet agencies change regulatory priorities.
He couldn’t upsell McDonalds french fries to a starving person much less sell a complex idea to people who don’t already want it.
Who has he ever persuaded? They rammed through Obamacare and Stimulus and General Motors bailout and Iran Nuclear deal due to a Milquetoast Congress. He went to England to talk about staying in the EU. He does not have a very good track record.
Finger wagging stompy foot.
“My fellow third world turds”, you better do what I want or no more free stuff for you! Comprende?”
He's a mimic.
It is Trash Trump and The USA tour
Obama wants to build The Tower of Babel to himself
He’ll need HIS TELEPROMPTER you dufai
Larry Sinclair would beg to disagree
Next year he’ll want people pay big bucks to hear his Great Wisdom
If a strawman isn’t in it, he can’t say it.
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