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Originally Posted by Ger.Man
I'm happy Obama won but I didn't like his speech at all.
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Also I believe he's overrated as a speaker as he seems lost without a teleprompter. I wasn't fully convinced of his performances at the debates. If you look at his speech today you can see that his view always moves from one teleprompter to another, he never looks straight forward. I realize that it's not easy to speak freely under such circumstances but McCain did much better in my opinion.
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I saw a different speach. Two different speaches, really - McCain fumbled and stumbled a bit, which was a tired man at the end of a long run speaking with elegance - but having a bit of trouble because he was reading from his notes.
Obama also carried notes to his podium. He did not seem to need them. The scanning of the crowd was not a man looking at a teleprompter but a master orator speaking to a great crowd of people. His not looking rigidly forward was because he was communicating an amazing thing to everyone in a beautiful manner - not being a talking head looking at the camera with the red light shining above it. He spoke in a way that gave me true hope for you Yanks, and ever since W and his brother stole the show in Florida in 2000 I have not had that feeling.
Congratulations on pulling away from the brink, America. Now help that man do what needs to be done.