Comments on: Obama’s speaking style

By: Jax

Jax — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:47:31 +0000

I am little disappointed in our President. It appears that his speeches are always accompanied by teleprompters. Without them, it is…..um, um, um…..a hundred times….

By: Mariam Motlhatlhedi

Mariam Motlhatlhedi — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:43:29 +0000

i must apprciate first Obama’s brave fight, and shud urge him to keep the ball rolling, that was a great change he brought, and being the 1st black youth american president i very much the gud lord will carry him thru thick and thin.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:43:17 +0000

Wow – what an excellent article and very accurate observations. Very interesting that you should have written this article more than six months ago and yet, the victory speech was precisely as you described.

By: gasdocpol

gasdocpol — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:14:08 +0000

huntingdonpost

Does anything in the following except from a speech by Obama in Oct 2002 have any meaning for you?

I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.

I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.

By: A handy reference « Deus Lo Vult

A handy reference « Deus Lo Vult — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:15:15 +0000

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By: ninglun

ninglun — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:13:32 +0000

I would have thought an American might think of Billy Graham, and I attended his meetings in 1959 — he was spellbinding. Or you might think of F D Roosevelt, some of whose speeches may be seen is a doco called “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime”; I was quite amazed by his powers as a speaker, to judge from them. Or Martin Luther King. In fact, there have been many great US orators. Hitler ranted.

By: huntingdonpost

huntingdonpost — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:38:43 +0000

Gasdocpol, I have looked for meaning in Obama’s speeches. He almost never says anything and the one time I thought he did it turned out the governor of Massachusetts said it. He actually is eloquent. The speech on race had substance. I will give him that. It is the one time I heard him take a stand. I agreed with some of it, didn’t agree with some of it, but he spoke well and the speech was on the whole very good. When I see him speak on television without a script, when he speaks in a debate, and when he speaks at a rally he is rather bad. In the first two situations, he fumbles his answers. In the latter he says platitudes that are completely vapid. They mean absolutely nothing.

I am with Citizenwells on one thing: Hitler had substance. It was horrendous, but it wasn’t all vapid. It was evil. I don’t think Obama is evil or Hitlerian, though I am getting concerned about certain totalitarian-style elements in his rhetoric. He is starting to buy this messiah-stuff being said about him, in my opinion. As always, we can respectfully disagree.

By: citizenwells

citizenwells — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:43:22 +0000

Go to my blog and read the post(s) regarding the Obama campaign
and Nazi Germany.
By the way, I started out as a math major and was in computer
software and business systems over 30 years.
Logic is a specialty of mine.

By: citizenwells

citizenwells — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:41:22 +0000

By: gasdocpol

gasdocpol — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:35:23 +0000

huntindonpost.

With all due respect, maybe the ums and you knows are the only thing you want to understand in Obama’s speeches.

If you google… obama oct 2002 iraq ….and objectively read his speech you will see that he has identified the relavant factors, given them their proper priorities and arrived at the correct conclusion using information that was available to everyone.

rabbit

I see content in Obama’s speeches not just pretty words.

citizenwells

Omama and Hitler were both superb orators. So your reasoning isas follows:

A is B

C is B

therefore A is C which is a fallocy know as “affirming the consequent”

that is like saying

White is a color
Black is a color
therefore white is black