Why do some people consider Obama a dynamic speaker?

[hiaasenrocks]

No, I'm not talking about the "articulate" racist label.

I'm simply talking about how much he stammers, and how every sentence he says has at least one "uh" in it.

Yet, I hear people saying he's a "dynamic" speaker. Why? :shrug:

[More Than A Feeling]

1. I've noticed that too.

Weird.

[Bake]

2. He was dynamite at the Democratic Convention (with a prepared text).

What I've seen lately, though, not so much.

Bake

[rinsd]

3. Here

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBs0Ttoet8

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56-m8wx1mwo

[hiaasenrocks]

6. He's reading. n/t

[quinnox]

4. He is good at giving a prepared speech

It is different when he is thinking on his feet in debates, he isn't impressive then.

[BuyingThyme]

5. He's particularly horrible on radio.

I heard him being interviewed on radio about a month back, but missed the introduction. I figured they were doing a codger interview with a retired Dem politician calling from his Florida condo.

[Prophet 451]

7. Low expectations

After six years of President Malaprop, Dan Quayle would look like a powerful speaker.

[cynatnite]

8. They don't know what a dynamic speaker is?

Just a guess.

[Ezlivin]

9. The difference between a prepared speech and extemporaneous speech

Many people are dynamic speakers when working from a prepared text. With the words "out of the way" they can focus on adding emotive content through careful accentuation of certain words or a variance in the cadence.

But the same people often sound "flat" when speaking extemporaneously because they have to focus on several things simultaneously.

[Connie_Corleone]

10. Dynamic speaker is referring to when he gives speeches.

When he's just talking in a conversation or answering questions, his speech is more deliberate because he's thinking about the question.

Some people are able to just spew whatever comes out of their mouths. Some people are more deliberate when answering questions.

[Captain Hilts]

11. Well, he can be. And a certain degree of artlessness makes it seem authentic.

[danalytical]

12. The "uhs" kill me

I think he says "uh" after every 3 words. It annoys me. I like Barrack, but I haven't really seen anything from him that inspires me or really speaks to me. Honestly none of them seem to have that quality.

[sandnsea]

13. some people are objective

and note when crowds spontaneously leap to their feet and scream wildly and say "that man is just like JFK".

And some people aren't so objective. What's new.

[beastieboy]

14. I call him Captain Kirk

[AtomicKitten]

15. Obama incites hope when he speaks.

During this campaign he has tamped down that which made him famous, his 2004 Dem Convention speech in which he delivered a dynamic, hopeful, uplifting message.

[MissB]

16. Well, holy fuck. Compared to Bush, he *is* a dynamic speaker.

Dynamic probably has less to do with his actual speech pattern than his charismatic abilitiy to hold the attention of a room. Jmho.

[LostInAnomie]

29. Compared to Bush, Foghorn Leghorn is a dynamic speaker.

[damntexdem]

17. I dunno. Hard to say. Maybe it's because he's ...

a dynamic speaker.

[Grandrose]

18. How low will they go?

Speech impediment now....if this is all you've got, give up!:rofl:

[The Straight Story]

19. Compared to bush, farting is dynamic speaking

:rofl:

[jaxx]

20. You gotta be there

Obama is part of the dynamics. He is inspiring to listen to, to watch, and to be in the same area with. He invokes an electric charge as he talks. There is a certain cadence to his speech which is Obama speak. So he hesitates and thinks before he speaks...smart move. I don't mind the 'uh's', his responses are less canned than others.

[jean]

21. his cadence and segmentation of sentences distracts (me) from the content of his speeches

[slampoet]

22. How are ANY politicians today considered Dynamic?

I've seen a lot of amazing speakers in my life....

Bishop Desmond Tutu
Ann Richards
Ted Kennedy (in 1980)
Michael Moore
Dr Helen Caldicot
Jessie Jackson Sr.
Allen Ginsberg


And i have seen Obama live too.


But i really can't say that any politician or political activist today is what i would call dynamic.

Sad. It seems like speaking as a form of expression died about 12 years ago.

[karynnj]

23. Listen to the Faneuil Hall speeches John Kerry gave

(on Johnkerry.com) or the speech he gave on the Senate floor about Republican obstructionism last week (on Kerryvision.net).

In the recent speech in 10-15 minutes,
- he throws the obstructionist title off the Democrats onto the Republicans - who have obstructed by filibuster, blocking the house/Senate conferences and by vetoing. He is clear, sites many examples, and even uses humor. Most importantly, he ends up making a plea for a bi-partisan effort to do what is needed for America. He owns the high ground there and schatters the Republican theme planned for the August break. If Democrats follow, it can become "Obstructionist Republicans - in people's minds as well as reality.

[ecstatic]

27. Sorry, Kerry's speeches don't do it for me. nt

[slampoet]

28. Kerry? against someone like Bryant? Teddy Roos?

I think you prove my point.


Buy "Great Speeches of the 20th Century" and tell me that Kerry would belong there.

Sorry, but the only reason you mention Kerry is that he's a household name.

I've seen him speak thrice and wasn't impressed.

He isn't even as good as he was back before he ran for office.

Even Jerry Rubin could talk around him. Kerry is a great statesman but not an inspiring speaker. Even Ralph Nader is a better speak than him. Sorry.

[saltpoint]

24. Now and again C-Span will replay Obama's keynote address to the 04

Boston convention.

That's why he's regarded as a dynamic speaker.

He is one.

[ecstatic]

25. Perhaps it's the content of his speeches, moreso than the delivery? nt

[madokie]

26. I never thought he was either

way too much stammering, not too fast on his feet. methinks

[Beelzebud]

30. Listen to a few of his speeches and get back with us...