Obama's fast brain vs. slow mouth...

Djaughe · May 31st, 2011, 05:09 AM

Nice softball toss for folks to start the week...just before the election it was supported by the media that Obama had the gift for public speaking.

This week: Obama is a horrible public speaker ....he's just so brilliant his mouth can't keep up.

Did the "irony dial" just do a couple of spins on this?

Quote:

Meghan Daum: Obama's fast brain vs. slow mouth
It's not that the president can't speak clearly; he employs the intellectual stammer.

By Meghan Daum May 26, 2011

Apparently, a lot of people consider President Obama to be bumblingly inarticulate. "The guy can't talk his way out of a paper bag!" a reader wrote to me recently. "Sarah Palin is a brilliant speaker. It's the president whose sentences are undiagrammable," said another in response to a column I wrote about Palin. It's not just my readers, nor is it exclusively conservatives, who hold this view. A Google search of "does Obama have a speech impediment" turns up several pages of discussion among the president's supporters and critics alike.Admittedly, the president is given to a lot of pauses, "uhs" and sputtering starts to his sentences. As polished as he often is before large crowds (where the adjective "soaring" is often applied to his speeches), his impromptu speaking frequently calls to mind a doctoral candidate delivering a wobbly dissertation defense.

But consider this: It's not that Obama can't speak clearly. It's that he employs the intellectual stammer. Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can't keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN. If you're a member or a fan of that subset, chances are the president's stammer doesn't bother you; in fact, you might even love him for it (he sounds just like your grad school roommate, especially when he drank too much Scotch and attempted to expound on the Hegelian dialectic!).

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,462327.column

BigRedRage · May 31st, 2011, 06:02 AM

thats why I Pause when im lying too, because im intellectual

Louis · May 31st, 2011, 06:07 AM

Got get him BRR. You might have left out a teleprompter comment though.

desertdawg · May 31st, 2011, 06:42 AM

Obama's a a smart dude and he keeps proving it. And it's looking good for Obama, everytime he pauses another Republican throws their hat in the ring for POTUS. I don't even think the majority of Republicans will vote for the same Republican, while it's all Obama on the the other side.

BigRedRage · June 1st, 2011, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Louis

Got get him BRR. You might have left out a teleprompter comment though.

Spin doctor material is a waste of everyones time.