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British Press Growing Bored with Obama

I wrote yesterday about how the British press was openly mocking the oratory skillz of President Obama.

Today, the British press isn’t so much mocking Obama, as just getting sick (and bored) with him.

If the British press is able to be so honest about Obama’s decidedly pathetic oratory skills (especially without his teleprompter), why can’t the US press notice the same thing that is painfully obvious to everybody else?

From the Telegraph:

His speeches have long under-delivered, usually leaving a faintly empty sensation in this listener even though I welcomed, moderately, his victory last year as offering the possibility of a fresh start and a boost to confidence.

Yet, we are told that he is a great orator and in one way he certainly is. He does have a preternatural calm in the spotlight and a mastery of the cadences we associate with the notable speakers in US history – such as JFK and MLK. But beyond that, am I alone in finding him increasingly to be something of a bore?

His performance at the first press conference in London with Gordon Brown featured moments in which he sparkled – his riff on loving the Queen was a high-point. But most of the serious answers that I listened to were interminable, windy and not very impressive. At points there were pauses so long that it appeared he had simply lost his train of thought.

All those uhs and uhms and duhs that litter every single sentence that spills forth from BHO’s piehole will do that to you.

Discussion

8 comments for “British Press Growing Bored with Obama”

  1. Yawn..more meaningless chatter from Old Europe. Did you catch this?:

    I’ve said before that one of the great strengths of the United States is, although as I mentioned we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

    Full Wingut Meltdown commences in 10, 9, 8….

    Posted by Pat | April 6, 2009, 4:20 pm
  2. Back from visiting your fake lesbian daughter, I see.

    Posted by Sam | April 6, 2009, 4:49 pm
  3. There is no POTUS without TOTUS.

    Posted by No2Liberals | April 6, 2009, 11:02 pm
  4. B-HO sure is jumpy.
    We used to call this phenomenon, Nervous In The Service.
    Not this guy, he won’t even produce his Selective Service registration.

    Posted by No2Liberals | April 8, 2009, 5:49 am
  5. Anyone who has actually studied American History know our Founding Fathers did NOT consider the US to be A Christian nation. In fact, in a 1797 treaty it states: The United States of America is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.” AND It is no more a Christain nation than it is a Jewish or Muslim one.”

    Today, the selfish & totaly inconsiderate Christians put their BS on our money and in our pledge with no consideration for the rights of Eighty Million members of religion other than Christian or for the well over Twenty Million Americans who do non believe in any of the more than 20,000
    gods the naive and mentally weak have invented thus far.

    Posted by Neil C Reihbardt | June 11, 2009, 10:31 pm
  6. Further, this Agnostic Atheist Activist says: For MORE MEANINGLESS CHATTER than any sane person can take, read anything
    a Kool Aid Drinking Obot says.

    Anyone who would vote Oduma, a lying, dishonest, racist, elitist con man who uses NLP on his audience, whose proven he has very poor judgement skills and no integrity, is not informed, rational or intelligent enough for me to waste my time reading their ignorant drivel.

    Posted by Neil C Reihbardt | June 12, 2009, 1:38 am
  7. Additionally, this Agnostic Atheist Activist says: For MUCH MORE MEANINGLESS CHATTER than most sane people can take, read what Kool Aid Drinking Obots say.

    Anyone who would vote Oduma, a lying, dishonest, racist, elitist con man who uses NLP on his audience, whose proven he has very poor judgement skills and no integrity, is not informed, rational or intelligent enough for me to waste my time reading their ignorant drivel.

    Posted by Neil C Reihbardt | June 12, 2009, 1:49 am

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