A GREAT ORATOR? I DON'T SEE IT... BUT OTHERS DO

Obama is good at delivering a prepared speech with a teleprompter. Without them ..... well, not so much. Pretty poor, actually.

Robert Novak notes:
The bad news for Sen. John McCain was the contrast between his speech in Louisiana and Obama's in Minnesota. Obama is a great orator, and McCain definitely is not. Obama's weakness lies in the details of what he proposes-such as dictating to corporations how to spend their profits-and that is what McCain has to start deconstructing. That is not McCain's style either, but he has to get into it.

McCain (and I think he will now that the Dem's presumptive nominee has been decided) needs to attack the shallow, and vapidness of Obama's rhetoric. Barack does indeed say nothing better than anyone else we've seen in a long time.

His inexperience and lack of understanding on topics shows up almost every time he speaks without the prepared text. He has said a lot of dumb things. But this won't matter to a lot of people. This should be interesting. I really don't know what to expect in the race for President.

McCain is not a strong candidate either in my humble opinion. We'll see.