Jobs Speech - First Impression

Not really commenting on content here, just the delivery... Very good delivery.  Hasn't been this good in a while.  Very confident - very on point and sounds very presidential. 

I know some of you hate to hear that, but he's improved his speaking for this important speech.  He's holding the audience and that's what he had to to do.

Comments

[Gossip Girl]

He reminded me of a car salesman who is pressuring the customer to hurry up and buy the car now! Do it today! Hurry up! You can be driving away in a new car today!

Anytime someone says we have to do something with my money now, I make it a point to take time to read the contract.

So how about it Congress, let's take the time to read the bill this time before you pass it. The devil is in the details and I will bet anything this administration doesn't want us to know the details before passing the bill.

[me too]

amen gossip girl!

[Robnelp]

I guess the teleprompter was working tonight, I heard some audio of a speech he made a few days ago when the teleprompter was out and and he sounded like a bumbling idiot.

But really who cares what he looked or sounded like?

That's the problem with the guy, he cares more about giving us the impression he's doing something, instead of doing something we will all be impressed by...

Long on style, short on substance.
...Yeah, we really need more of that now don't we?

Its certainly nothing to admire or be impressed by.

The guy is a joke of a president and a failure as a leader. Unfortunately for all of us, he's the best example of the old analogous saying "Nero fiddles while Rome burns" seen since Nero himself.

[dot]

Well, he ought to sound good... the taxpayers are paying a pretty penny for the Speaking Coach:
Washington Times
" The White House is spending tens of thousands of dollars on a public relations firm headed by Democratic image maker Michael Sheehan – once dubbed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as an “extraordinary media coach” who helped her master the teleprompter.

Mr. Sheehan’s firm, Sheehan Associates, could receive more than $100,000 under a current contract and has been providing occasional speech and consulting services to the White House since 2009, federal purchasing records show.

Although Mr. Sheehan has a reputation of helping politicians look good speaking in public, neither his firm nor its White House client has anything to say about the contracting arrangement. Sheehan Associates failed to respond to telephone and email inquiries about the hiring arrangement this week and last, as did the White House press office.
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However, Mr. Carney said at the time that Mr. Nussbaum was able to “provide unique services where no other person can fulfill the contract requirements” and the White House needed extra speechwriting help. He said Mr. Nussbaum wrote up to six “important and substantial” speeches each month.

According to a 2010 payroll report, the White House employs seven speechwriters earning a combined $624,200. The team is led by Jonathan E. Favreau, the director of speechwriting, who earns $172,200, according to the report, which was released by the White House. Two other senior presidential speechwriters are paid $100,000 each. A pair of presidential speechwriters are paid $75,000 each, and a speechwriter and speechwriting assistant earn $60,000 and $42,000, respectively."