In 2008, president Obama was proclaimed the greatest orator of modern times, better than Reagan, better than Churchill, better that them all. The truth is that Obama actually was not a great orator but a great reader of the teleprompter. Churchill obviously did not have a teleprompter. I saw Reagan speak twice in person without a teleprompter and he was spellbinding. Obama goes everywhere with his teleprompter which led on wag to start a website for TOTUS, the Teleprompter of the United States, that was actually leading the government.
Lately, Obama has been flubbing line after line, however. In the LA Times, Andrew Malcom has been listing some of these mistakes. Last week Obama claimed that the US government had built the intercontinental railroad. Of course, Obama meant the transcontinental railroad that was built by private companies, not the government. Over the weekend, Obama slipped at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner and confused the word Jew and janitor. His flub made no sense and he caught himself after he said it. The point, however, is that the old Obama did not make those kinds of errors. It seems that he is getting rattled, not a good quality in a president.
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