[BartSimpson]

stratos wrote:

Every President made gaffs, put their foot in their mouths, or were just bad at public speaking. With that said and after the latest speech by Obama's speech writers should be fired. I would like for a president to some day look down at his sheets of paper look into the camera and say "you know what, I'm going to use my own words" the tear up the sheets of paper and speak. That's when you will tell if the president actually knows what the hell he or she is talking about.

Reagan did fine with extemporaneous speaking and so did Clinton. Bush and Obama are similar in the fact that Obama can't speak well without a TelePrompter and Bush can't speak well at all.

[stratos]

BartSimpson wrote:

stratos wrote:

Every President made gaffs, put their foot in their mouths, or were just bad at public speaking. With that said and after the latest speech by Obama's speech writers should be fired. I would like for a president to some day look down at his sheets of paper look into the camera and say "you know what, I'm going to use my own words" the tear up the sheets of paper and speak. That's when you will tell if the president actually knows what the hell he or she is talking about.

Reagan did fine with extemporaneous speaking and so did Clinton. Bush and Obama are similar in the fact that Obama can't speak well without a TelePrompter and Bush can't speak well at all.

True, my mind was going back to Carter and his trip to Mexico when he mentioned mantazumas(SP?) revenge at the dinner table with the President of Mexico. Also of Ford and his being a klutz tripping down plane stairs all the time. Not sure on Nixon speech ability but from the film footage he seemed to do a decent job.

[bootlegga]

stratos wrote:

Every President made gaffs, put their foot in their mouths, or were just bad at public speaking. With that said and after the latest speech by Obama's speech writers should be fired. I would like for a president to some day look down at his sheets of paper look into the camera and say "you know what, I'm going to use my own words" the tear up the sheets of paper and speak. That's when you will tell if the president actually knows what the hell he or she is talking about.

There are no sheets to rip up anymore, it's all on the teleprompter beside the camera...but i get what you mean.

[Psudo]

bootlegga wrote:

Last I checked, they didn't hand out J.D. magna cum laude just anyone, most certainly not to people with C+ averages (you know, like the last US president had while studying at Harvard).

What grades did you get at Harvard?

These arguments for and against Obama are not any different than the ones used for and against Bush. Then as now they are irrelevant.

stratos wrote:

Every President made gaffs

This.