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Hey, it's pretty true. Just watch the footage of some of the times his teleprompter has failed. The man has absolutely no idea what to do without it.People make fun of Bush (or even Quayle) for not being good public speakers, but at least you could always tell they had something to say, even if they didn't put it out there as effectively as they could have. Watching Obama without a teleprompter is kind of like watching a fish flopping around on the ground.
I could not disagree with this more. President Obama is an excellent public speaker, as well as an intelligent and well spoken man with excellent ideas ... if only all the partisan grid-lock and bickering that seems to be crushing Washington lately wasn't making it all but impossible to actually get anything of substance accomplished.
I wish people could get past their own personal agendas and actually do what is needed to make things better.
I guess I'm not a Democrat or Republican so much as I am a hopeful idealist ...
I agree that he's a very good public speaker....so long as his teleprompter is running. But there have been several incidents where it cut out for some reason or another, and the power might as well have gone out on Obama as well.
I do a fair amount of semi-public speaking and group running. It doesn't matter how well I've prepared or rehearsed or anything. Unless I"m working from memory, my paperwork being upset in any way is going to give me pause. I'm going to need time to adjust to the change, as well as review my mental notes to make sure I'm not going on and on about the wrong topic. I challenge anyone to be in the same situation and not at least need a mental moment to say "oh crap, not again".
I would like to change my vote to William Henry Harrison, because he had the good graces to die after only 38 or so days in office.Hmmmm As an ardent devotee of facial hair, I thought you would be more into Chester A Arthur.
Hee hee!
That picture is about 7 years old, back in the days when I worked in a record store and could afford to indulge my hirsuteness.
Not too long after that, I had to give up the easy life of getting high and listening to indie rock records all day and get a real job. As a result, my beard hasn't been that glorious in quite a while.
EDIT: Although it is true that 19th-century presidents, for the most part, had bad-ass beards.