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... Read full story »

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