He can READ a speech. He is incapable of rational thought without a teleprompter or huge amounts of memorization, which I don't believe he is capable of any longer, since I suspect he is suffering from an indisclosed illness.

He. Is. Not. A. Good. Speaker. He stutters, stammers, uhs, you knows, I means. This a good speaker does not make. He can read and turn his head from side to side. Period.

His speeches BEFORE he was elected were about the "intangibles" of "Hope & Change".

His speeches NOW after he was elected are about the "tangibles" of the "Economy" and "World Leadership".

Obama has had a terrible experience in the last 4 years with the Economy and World Leadership.

Romney has had a successful experience in the last 4 decades with the Economy and World Leadership (international business and the Olympics).

Even a great "communicator" will stumble if the substance of what you are communicating is based on nothing!

He can only READ four words at a time--that is why he stops every four words for the prompter to be reloaded.

Articulate? Absolutely not.

Sounds like they are poll-testing excuses for why he will lose the election.
Expect to hear this soon:
''He didn't weave together an emotive narrative to explain the greatness of his accomplishments.''

Romney can initiate the worst Obama stammer fest ever if when O brings up the 47% at the debate he says:

"the idea that I don't care about 47% of the country is ludicrous. I have been fortunate enough to be able to give millions of dollars to charities that support people in need. I have put my money where the Democrat party's mouth is."

He was touted as a great thinker with oratory genius. We described him as a guy who could read a speech. No 20-20 revisionism here, but I never thought he was a good speech reader either. The sing-song cadence and the fake voice from the diaphragm all sounded too contrived for me. So yes, he is definitely overrated.

Clinton could give a good speech too, but there was no substance to his words. W wasn't the greatest orator, but when he spoke he said something of substance.
O is like Clinton - all words, no substance, no follow up, all vapor.

I can't stand listening to Obama speak. He has a pronounced whistle and he stammers, even when he is using a teleprompter. His words are meaningless and his style is one of arrogance and derision. Not only that, I dislike him with a passion and wouldn't cross the street to meet him.

Amen #8 & 9. I never thought he was much of a speaker since his speeches were nothing but boilerplate platitudes empty of any real substance. Some phrases might sound good but don't really mean a damned thing. Hillary and Bill are the same...rinestone speakers...not the real thing.

To ax the question is to answer it......(was that racist?)

I usually reach for the remote!

The few times I heard him, he sounded like one of those black preachers you used to see on TV.

Remember Reverend Ike?

Duh...Speaking from the heart (no matter how misguided it is) and "Reading" a speech prepared by 'smart people' are entirely different things. The consistent use of a teleprompter is a crutch not to keep him from saying something stupid but to keep him from umm'ing and Ah'ing his way to no point.

Uh, yes, uh, he is definitely, uh, overrated as, uh, a speaker.

A good example of a politician who gives a speech so devoid of substance that when it's over one cannot remember or quote anything that he said. And everybody says what a dynamite speech that was, and then goes home and has a beer and talks about the latest scores.

Platitudes and boiler plate. Means nothing, says nothing, all delivered with a great TV voice. Nothing in there that could ever be disputed, just---nothing at all....