the pauses cared me a couple months ago... then i listened to his speech when it became apparent he was the presumptive nominee... WOW, no looking down, nothing... impressive!
the mccain quirks are smarmy like bush quirks and smirks... weird, old, technologically illiterate, out of touch with society, more in touch with "the old ways" of running a country, just weird... again, i dont care about what HE KNOWS... he has cabinet, he has a congress, he has the population of the GREAT US OF A to steer him... we simply need him to be a bearer of olive branches and hope for the future of the world... since we are no longer an island that is autonomous... we are a world that must learn to live together. -- tony Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:52 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > He really is a magnificent speaker. >>> >>> Only for prepared speeches - if he's going off the cuff he's got more >>> of a verbal pause problem than I do! >> >> The far right is getting pretty desperate. > > I think the critique, mine in particular, is more at these people that > are fawning over how great of a speaker he is and how his ability to > deliver a prepared speech makes him more qualified to be a good > President. For all we know the man may not understand half of what > he's saying. > > If you really want to know what someone thinks, wait for an open > mic... just ask Jesse Jackson! > > And don't get me wrong, verbal pauses are not the sign of a lack of > intelligence! They can be indicative of any number of things, from > searching for the right way to phrase something (whether it be because > of the audience or the subject matter) to buying time because there's > nothing coming into the gray matter. > > They just sound out of place for someone who is supposed to be a master > orator. > > On the other side of the coin, I watched a McCain press conference a > few weeks ago and he had this weird quirk where he would flash this > completely fake smile about every 4 minutes. Creeped me out! > > Hatton > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264579 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
