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Check out last week’s post on the health care debate – sounds as if Team Obama worked pretty hard to elevate the issue, making it more lofty than the mundane and quibbled over details of the actual bill. Enough of this back and forth, so he made a speech! Whatever you think of his actual policy, it’s hard to argue that he isn’t the most compelling Presidential speaker in recent history – well, of my lifetime, anyway. He’s so effortless and relaxed, making something that was meticulously rehearsed seem improvised.
This, again, is not a blog or post about politics, per se. It’s about public speaking. There are other places to debate policy and ideology.
So, that being said, to be slightly cynical about all this, however, I still don’t think this health care issue lends itself to great speeches. (more…)