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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts)Tue Mar-18-08 01:33 PMOriginal messageObama didn't write the speech, and he uses a Teleprompter Okay, now that I have your attention.People here are either in a silly state or sadly uneducated about politics.Obama (like other major players) doesn't write his speeches. A POLITICAL TEAM crafts the speech. Parts of it are POLL TESTED to see if the desired effect is achieved. People trained in the art of propaganda work on it. Political hacks are on the team. Yes, the speech is crafted from the basis of his thoughts. But any eloquence, any brilliance is the intellectual product of the hacks and the team. This is how it always is.(How do I know? I worked as a speechwriter in Washington for a major player -- a household name. But everyone should understand the process after watching Bush's team craft his utterances, or even by watching West Wing.)Further: Obama uses a TELEPROMPTER! He reads the speech from the Teleprompter. His delivery is also crafted -- honed in many sessions with the team.Further: I would wager that this speech has been in the box for some time now. I'd bet my best cat that team Obama knew he would need to deliver this speech at this particular juncture when things got hot, and wrote most of it quite some time ago. A skeptical person might even think that team Obama was happy to have the Wright opportunity to do it.And so to be all goo-gooey about him as some sort of god and savior is really silly. Really naive. Really anti-democratic, even. Americans must have no kings, no man-gods. Not even Elvis.Obama's just a man who can read a speech well. The rest -- the vision, the leadership, the unity -- has to be taken on faith. Just like the divinity of Jesus. Don't be bamboozled, hornswoggled or foolish.And no, I'm not a Hillary supporter. Just a realist.
Obama is terrible without prepared material.
