Obama's Continuing Weakness
by Graham Davies
President Obama is one of the finest AutoCue Athletes that the world has ever seen. But the Q&A session about the economy that he did yesterday shows that he still has a long way to go before he is a great Presentational All-Rounder.
When he presents a carefully calculated and rehearsed text using AutoCue, he looks, sounds....and probably feels...utterly in control. But when he is answering a question in front of a live audience, you can see the certainty leave his eyes instantly, especially when there is a hint of aggression behind the question.
He then tends to speak.....with......pauses.....that are slightly.....too long........that come in.....strange places.........in his sentences. When a politician needs this much thinking time in the middle of a 60 second answer, he looks like a struggler, not a leader.
He needs more coaching. He certainly needs to read the Q&A chapter in The Presentation Coach (published by Capstone on 24 September). There he will see that Q&A can involve techniques which give you even more authority than rehearded delivery of a pre-prepared script.
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HAHAHA Perhaps he also needs coaching in how to handle the BP disaster as well. he was very quick to criticise a so called "British company" until he realised that BP was the sole provider or fuels to the US Army Doh! A Homer Simpson moment I think. And that over 40% of BP's ownership lies in the US!! Ever since his handling of the Gulf Of Mexico disaster, he has lost many of his international fans.
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