The Politics Thread

[mrkint]

Listening to Obama's speech at the Boston ceremony today. Whatever your views on him, you cannae deny he is a superb orator (with good speech writers)

[Prufrock]

#westwing

[superjohnmcginlay]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 80003.html

I like his ideas.

[as]

Listening to Obama's speech at the Boston ceremony today. Whatever your views on him, you cannae deny he is a superb orator (with good speech writers)

So is George Galloway, I didn't realise the ability to speak clearly meant so much to people....!

[mrkint]

it does matter to some.

Either way, im just saying he is a very captivating public speaker.

[as]

it does matter to some.

Either way, im just saying he is a very captivating public speaker.

Anything is an improvement on GWB, I suppose....

I wish Michelle Obama would disappear tho - she makes Sam Cameron look glamorous - I swear she ran in the Grand National last week.

[BWFC_Insane]

Listening to Obama's speech at the Boston ceremony today. Whatever your views on him, you cannae deny he is a superb orator (with good speech writers)

So is George Galloway, I didn't realise the ability to speak clearly meant so much to people....!

Are you seriously trying to compare George Galloway's oratory skills to those of Obama?

Obama is probably one of the great public speakers of the last 50 years. In fact he's so good I often think I'm watching a hollywood film when he's speaking (is that a good or bad thing?).

Galloway, is passionate, I agree with some stuff he says, but lets not get carried away.

[Lord Kangana]

Just for a bit of balance, the man bores the pants off me.

I think George is ace btw. Straight to the point on most things, no fannying about.

[thebish]

Just for a bit of balance, the man bores the pants off me.

I think George is ace btw. Straight to the point on most things, no fannying about.

indeed - obama is too polished to capture my interest.. it is as if every word has been buffed and checked and put through a word-polishing machine...

I tend to be inspired by oratory that (at least seems) to be extempore...

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Galloway is a much better speaker than Obama.

With Obama, you can always see him mechanically going side-to-side with his tow, angled teleprompters. He's usually dreadful off the cuff, too.

I have seen Obama give two, excellent, impassioned speeches this week, however - one on gun control and this one in Boston. Both times I have wondered whether he had somehow sneaked a teleprompter into proceedings.

[Montreal Wanderer]

it does matter to some.

Either way, im just saying he is a very captivating public speaker.

Anything is an improvement on GWB, I suppose....

I wish Michelle Obama would disappear tho - she makes Sam Cameron look glamorous - I swear she ran in the Grand National last week.

She looks okay for a 49 year old to me, and she's more than half my age plus seven.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Have you ever read Michelle Obama's Princeton dissertation, Monty? Look it up, if not.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Have you ever read Michelle Obama's Princeton dissertation, Monty? Look it up, if not.

You mean "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" for her BA in 1985? Come on, PB, I have read too many undergraduate papers. Our fellow poster 'as' thought she was ugly and belonged in the Grand National. I disagreed purely on the basis of looks. Okay, I've read the introduction to her thesis. There is a touching naivety combined with the believe she finally understands things.

These experiences have made it apparent to me that the
path I have chosen to follow by attending Princeton will
likely lead to my further integration and/or assimilation
into a White cultural and social structure that will only
allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becom-
ing a full participant. This realization has presently,
made my goals to actively utilize my resources to benefit
the Black community more desirable.

They split infinitives in Princeton.

Seriously, Jon, is there some reason i should spend a few hours of what remains to me to read the whole thing?

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Goodness me no.

Apologies, this was a bit of a tangent.

[Bruce Rioja]

Listening to Obama's speech at the Boston ceremony today. Whatever your views on him, you cannae deny he is a superb orator (with good speech writers)

So is George Galloway, I didn't realise the ability to speak clearly meant so much to people....!

Bull-shit. George Gall-o-way talks ab-so-lute shite in sta-cca-to!

[as]

Listening to Obama's speech at the Boston ceremony today. Whatever your views on him, you cannae deny he is a superb orator (with good speech writers)

So is George Galloway, I didn't realise the ability to speak clearly meant so much to people....!

Bull-shit. George Gall-o-way talks ab-so-lute shite in sta-cca-to!

I can't stand the bloke, ditto Farage, but they're great 'speakers'.

With brass knobs on etc....

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Let's add Danial Hannan to the list.

[mrkint]

Let's add Danial Hannan to the list.

Aye. good speaker. Very much 'look at me' tho.

I mean, to compare some EU legislation (i forget which) to the Enabling Act...feckin hell.

[Bruce Rioja]

Let's add Danial Hannan to the list.

Yes, let's.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Let's add Danial Hannan to the list.

Yes, let's.

And Kim Jong-un, he's a b rank amateur at speaking but knocks the socks off of Galloway and Obama at looking at things.