1. Robert

   Has anyone dia­grammed the (unscripted)words of Joe Biden or Obama? With­out a teleprompter,Obama can’t manage a com­plete sen­tence.

   Oct 6th, 2008

2. Bobby

   Robert,

   a/ I agree with you in one sense, and Kitty Burns Florey does, too: it’s some­thing of a cheap shot to dia­gram someone’s spoken sen­tences, and we’d all prob­a­bly come out look­ing just as bad as Palin did if some­one tried it with our words.

   b/ I don’t agree, how­ever, about Obama and Biden’s off-the-cuff speak­ing abil­i­ties. I know this a favorite talk­ing point for McCain sup­port­ers, but I have to wonder where they all were when he gave his four-​part inter­view to Bill O’Reilly. I think it’s fair to say that that inter­view was ten times more hos­tile than any­thing Sarah Palin has come close to. And Obama gave good sub­stan­tive answers and man­aged more than a few com­plete sen­tences despite O’Reilly’s con­stant inter­rup­tions.

   Oct 6th, 2008

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