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Obama's Becoming a Windbag

Obama's European speeches fail to impress one listener

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 6, 2009 4:37 AM CDT

(Newser) – President Obama's European speeches are starting to sound repetitious and long-winded to Iain Martin of the Daily Telegraph. His London speech had flashes of brilliance but was too often "interminable, windy and not very impressive," Martin grumbles, and the president hammed it up in Prague yesterday with oh-puhlease lines like: "This Golden City, which is both ancient and youthful, stands as a living monument to your unconquerable spirit."

Obama not only goes on for too long, Martin complains, his rhetoric always seems to lead back to himself. "The Obamas have handled their trip well and in their public appearances have been a credit to their country," Martin writes. "But I'll wager that within a year or so he'll be marked down as a windbag."

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PresidentObama delivers his speech in Prague yesterday. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

President Obama and his wife, Michelle, greet the crowd prior to his speech in front of the Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, yesterday. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

President Barack Obama addresses a crowd in Prague yesterday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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His speeches have long under-delivered, usually leaving a faintly empty sensation even though I welcomed, moderately, his victory last year as offering the possibility of a fresh start and a boost to confidence. - Iain Martin

The crowd in Prague was huge, and initially wildly enthusiastic, but what he served up was not any more impressive than his damp squib in Berlin last year. Is there a computer which churns this stuff out for him? - Iain Martin

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prowlerzee

May 9, 2009 1:43 AM CDT

"...this President's stamina.." ??? Haha! Brand Obama takes just as many vacations as Dumbya, whines just like Dumbya when questioned too vigorously, and blames his own weasly inability to quit smoking (as he promised his wife he would) on how TIRING it was to campaign!

prowlerzee

May 9, 2009 1:39 AM CDT

Hey, radnip, if your own ears love sloganeering, maybe it's your brain you need to examine? Haha....try counting the number of stutters and uh-uh-uhhhs the next time Brand Obama is forced off-script!

prowlerzee

May 9, 2009 1:37 AM CDT

Nuts in NY, wow...I'm impressed. Not many of the Hopium Huffers are reality-based enough to admit that Uh-uh-uhbama speechified, and it was always excruciatingly dull. Yeah, the chimp was excruciating, too, but how people missed that Obama was YET another propped up puppet moron is beyond me. How do you like Brand Obama's continuation of Bush's war on terrists, with a bigger budget than Bush's and his exoneration of those who spyied on Americans and of those who approved and promoted torture? Paul, deal with it....both Clintons are adored around the world.

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