Obama vs. other great orators

Who are some of the great ones?

Martin Luther King?

Bill Clinton?

Winston Churchill?

Does Obama have the potential to join the greats some day? He certainly seems like it.

 

Obama is quite articulate. [ducking]

 

He ain't no Demosthenes.

 

You forgot to mention William Jennings Bryan, who lost three times as the Democratic candidate for president. Though some scholars suggest that the Cowardly Lion in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was based on him.

 

Well, let us not forget former major league outfielder Orator Shaffer, who, incidentally, had exactly 1,000 career hits.

 

Was FDR one? Or was he more of the folksy, relate-to-everyman school of GWB?

 

Actually, both.

He was a great Everyman during the Depression, and he was a great orator during WWII.

 

And let's not forget Bluto Blutarsky

D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!

 

There ought to be separate categories for people who write their own stuff and people who are good at reading good speeches (Reagan, JFK).

 

Obama vs.

 

Fool me once........

 

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