I think I'll stick with my game managing quarterback analogy in regards to his speaking too. He can't win the game by himself, but he can keep himself in the game so he can pick up the win when the competition doesn't bring it...

If you leave Obi Bar alone with your kids, he may just try to pull this stunt...

I hear a lot of "buyer's remorse" comments in my area from the people that voted for him.

Smooooooth...  He's a good speaker, I'll give him that.  'Course now, he's gonna have to put those words into action.

'Twas the night before elections
 
And all through the town
 
Tempers were flaring
 
Emotions all up and down!
 
 
 
I, in my bath robe
 
With a cat in my lap
 
Had cut off the TV
 
Tired of political crap.
 
 
 
When all of a sudden
 
There arose such a noise
 
I peered out of my window
 
Saw Obama and his boys 
 
 
They had come for my wallet
 
They wanted my pay
 
To give to the others
 
Who had not worked a day!
 
 
 
He snatched up my money
 
And quick as a wink
 
Jumped back on his bandwagon
 
As I gagged from the stink

 
 
He then rallied his henchmen
 
Who were pulling his cart
 
I could tell they were out
 
To tear my country apart!
 
 
 
On Fannie, on Freddie,
 
On Biden and Ayers!
 
On ACORN, On Pelosi-
 
He screamed at the pairs!
 
 
 
They took off for his cause
 
And as he flew out of sight
 
I heard him laugh at the nation

 Who wouldn't stand up and fight!
 
 
 
So I leave you to think

 On this one final note-
 
IF YOU DON'T WANT SOCIALISM

 GET OUT AND VOTE!

Good orator, yes he is. will speeches turn to actions? that is for the future to tell

The best since Kennedy.

Remember the remark about invading Pakistan if necessary to eliminate al Qaeda, later saying, "I did not say that we would immediately go in unilaterally. "What I said was that we have to work with Pakistan's Musharraf."
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” He says he didn't mean it to come across that way.
When asked how we would respond to another major al-Qaeda attack on the U.S., he talked about disaster response. Shortly after he said that WE mis understood HIM.
Heres one about reasons why the U.S. may be struggling in the war in Afghanistan. "Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan" Really? Afghans don't speak Arabic. Oops.
Yesterday Obama calls a Michigan reporter "sweetie" when asked what he would do for the workers at the auto plant he was visiting. When confronted with an unscripted question...he can't reply with a unscripted answer.
Say what you want about Bush and his gaffes, I don't really disagree, but how is it possibile that such a fine speaker like Obama get misunderstood more than Bush? It seems that every other week Obama has to apologize to someone.

This guy is smooth and polished. Just exactly like the belly of a snake. He says nothing. He would make a good soap opera actor, but not president. I wouldn't trust him in a shithouse with a muzzle on.

We had a saying in my part of the world about talent such as his: "He's as smooth as a new baby's as*!"

I just watched this guy at the Ohio debate. He has a glib tongue in a smooth mouth in a neophyte's head.

I would tend to agree with the last poster. I saw the debates tonight and it appeared to me that Barack's showing was more a matter of having a "prepared script" than one of showing "spontaneous oratory". His presentation was poised, but his answers were not as penetrating as Hillary's. Barack comes across as an insurance salesman with a spiel, not as a statesman with a solution.

Obama uses the speech written and spoken by others. Examples are Duval Patrick of Boston and Sen. Edwards of North Carolina. This is not oratory. This is pre-packaged hype and blatant marketing.

Obama certainly is a very good orator, perhaps one of the best talents to come along in some time. I'm not downplaying the ability to inspire, for that's one of the methods leaders use to mobilize people to go to bat for their programs and ideas, but way more is required for the job than high soaring rhetoric about everyone getting along in "post-partisan" America. Certainly I agree that the political environment in Washington is way too toxic, but I just don't think that he's ready to take it on. Too inexperienced, too naive. He does speak well and has some of the tools needed for the job. We shall see...there is a decent chance he may be our next President.

Obama really understands the art of oration. His style is simular to the late Dr. Martin Luther King