I guess the critics feel compelled to have one “nice” thing to say about Barry Soetoro - but I agree with you that nothing could be further from the truth about his speech-giving talents. Barry gave one good speech in 2004 at the Dem National Convention (consider his competition there). That is it. All play acting back then - now we’re seeing the face behind the mask (for those who didn’t figure this out long ago).
A regular contributor to a local radio talk show is a basically conservative professor of Rhetoric at a local university. He continues to insist that Obama is a great speech maker.
Besides not listening to Obama, I can no longer listen to this “expert”, but I did glean from his comments that good rhetoric includes, apparently, being able to present both/all sides of an issue.
Well, Obama has been good at saying nothing in such a convoluted way, that a large number of listeners believe that they are hearing a message that they want to hear.
If that is good “rhetoric”, then give me passionately bad rhetoric from a speaker who has a true message to give, not a three-card monte game of words.