Anti-Obama people claim that Obama won't debate McCain because he's no good at it.
Can someone explain to me how a Columbia University & Harvard Law School (graduated magna *** laude) graduate is being called a 'poor debater' against someone who BARELY graduated from the Naval Academy?
So far, the only 'reason' I see here in Y!A are:
"He uses a teleprompter" and "..he says 'ahhh' a lot..."
Thoughts?
Joe
Favorite Answer
Because Obama actually takes a minute, assesses the question and speaks to the issue. This might involve some stammering.
The trend pols seem to have been taking recently is to memorize stock talking points and recite them regardless of the fact that they might not fully apply to the question at hand. Bush perfected this. During his campaign and debates he was praised as being "on message" which means he memorized what he had to say, and said it.
Anonymous
People can say what they want, what can you do? This hunting for every detail is totally ridiculous and, fortunately, only an American phenomenon. I mean, for example, where else in the world would a company that wants to be taken seriously censor the academic term "C-U-M Laude" because it resembles the scum-speech? It shows that they accept the dominance of said scum as a natural state and conform to such scum. So it is with the voters, too - they conform with the lowest common denominator, ever dimmer, ever sillier, ever more genocidal and of course ever more scared of the new - just look at this cow before me and her idea of "wit" - "If you want change, cash a dollar." (CASH a dollar? I guess it means something if you're an illiterate incubator.) Trivialize and humiliate any trace of reason. There goes all the answer you need.
Lady of the Rings
Education cannot predict how well you will be able to speak publically, nor does intelligence. I am highly educated and have an IQ level which qualifies me for MENSA (although I never bothered to join). I also have a thing about spelling and grammar (comes with my field of study). However, I stutter quite a bit. Teleprompters don't help this (this is why I don't do karaoke either, lol). Slamming Obama for this may be funny for some folks, but I don't believe his public speaking faux pas has anything to do with his ability to be the leader of this country. His proposed policies, however, might. We need to stick with the issues and quit worrying about his supposed speech impediments.
jafman2000
I do not think he did graduate magna *** laude. Would you mind showing me where it says he did?
All I can find is: Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science.
Anonymous
Unbelievable! Even with magna and Laude, the yahoo censor catches C U M thinking you meant the one that is pronounced like Come That is too funny. Except when you consider the fact that the average obama Voter has NO idea what the Latin version of "With great praise" means