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Saw those videos way back then too, fully agreed on how weird the transformation was.
Playing dumb for his base, perhaps. Gives that homely feel.
Now they elected the real deal. Ugh.
Thomas Jefferson was also a terrible speaker. Still...
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8623$1:
John F. Kennedy
161 - Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere.
April 29, 1962
Ladies and gentlemen:
I want to welcome you to the White House. Mr. Lester Pearson informed me that a Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!
I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
By today's media standards in which political leaders are measured not by their ability but by their performance on television Thomas Jefferson would never have been much at all.
Benjamin Disraeli would've been laughed out of leadership in the British Parliament because his odd appearance would've all but silenced that genius.
Not that Trump is up there with those men, not at all. But he clearly has proven abilities that he brings to the job and he's not one of these typical talking heads who says a lot of things and does none of them.
Obama made shitloads of promises. Aside from his failed healthcare scheme what wondrous miracle did he bring forth in eight years? Name one without looking it up on Google.
Now tell me what Trump has done in the past month...even if it pissed you off.
See? Even if you hate the guy for not sounding 'right' or acting 'right' the fact of the matter is the SOB gets shit done. Like it or not, he does what he says he will do.
How often can you say that of any poltician?