Obama is turning into a compulsive talker. Blame the cigarettes.

[formerlurker]

Obama is turning into a compulsive talker. Blame the cigarettes.
 
By Stephanie Gutmann World Last updated: July 19th, 2009


By the end of his term the public had become to suspect that Bill Clinton dealt with anxiety and sense of failure with compulsive seduction – by grabbing for a woman, practically any women. Obama may have a different drug. He’s beginning to look like a compulsive talker, like a man who is only comfortable doing one thing: facing audiences, with the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd drowning out the din of unpleasant thoughts in his head.

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On Friday, for instance, in the Wall Street Journal, a veteran Democrat practically begged the president to “talk less and pick your spots more”.

“You are outdoing even Johnson and Mr Clinton with your daily speeches in the capital and around the country,” wrote Ted Van Dyk, who was an assistant to Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. “Applause and adulation are gratifying but the more you talk, the less weight your words will hold.” Van Dyk basically told the president to sit down, read some briefing papers, stick with one subject, do some hard thinking, stop flitting around the world making speeches while the nutcases in congress make a hash out of your plans.

I have a about why Obama talks so much: I’ve long noticed a relationship between smoking and talking.   Both are oral addictions. Smoking takes the place of talking and vice versa. Take a smoker’s cigarette away, he’ll need to talk. Force him to stop talking, he’ll grab for a smoke. Obama has recently been trying to kick.  There have been poignant news stories about him sneaking out back of the White House to catch a few drags.  I’d hate to see anyone smoke more; it’s a very nasty habit. So maybe some chewing gum Nicorette? But focus, Mr President, focus.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/stephaniegutmann/100003885/obama-is-turning-into-a-compulsive-talker-blame-the-cigarettes/

[JohnnyReb]

Obama is "FOCUSED"....................on our money.