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Originally Posted by AGDee
I have made the comment "He's such a great orator" and it's not related to his race, it's a fact. Clinton and Reagan were also great orators. GW was horrendous. It got to the point that I could barely listen to him and his Bushisms. Obama has a way of inspiring me and giving me hope about our future, something I haven't been able to say since 9/11.
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It's an opinion. I am not the only person who doesn't like Obama's speech style.
More importantly, this isn't about whether some people were talking about race when they said it. Clinton and Reagan were noted orators but their oratory skills were not as emphasized and celebrated as Obama's have been. There weren't long discussions about how Clinton and Reagan were "so articulate" or "speak so well." Instead, the emphasis was on motivating the masses with the assumption that someone with the education and/or expertise of Clinton or Reagan
would be articulate and speak well. People weren't particularly shocked.
Lastly, Obama was accused of elitism, which is funny because almost every (if not, every) POTUS has been of the elite class. Obama is a POTUS with a more modest background than most but a class-race double standard is at play. These dynamics won't end after this afternoon. Things will go back to "normal" by tomorrow morning after the excitement and alternate-reality of this goes away.