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Which presidents were the best public speakers?
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:04 am
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:04 am
Biden has to be the worst in US history. He just sounds awful and is terrible at communicating. I would say either Reagan or Obama. Reagan was the best at communicating a message. Obama, love him or hate him you have to admit he did have charisma.
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Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:06 am to bdavids09
Obama isn’t a great speaker he just has enough confidence to get in front of a crowd.
Trump was awesome as a president talking to the press, attending wh pressers, speaking during covid and all events he was a part of and still rocks it with massive rallies.
Trump was awesome as a president talking to the press, attending wh pressers, speaking during covid and all events he was a part of and still rocks it with massive rallies.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:08 am to bdavids09
Obama for sure. Hated him and his policies, but he was a master orator even when speaking off the cuff.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:10 am to bdavids09
Reagan was tGOAT.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:11 am to bdavids09
Reagan was very very good.
Clinton and Obama were solid.
Clinton and Obama were solid.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:13 am to bdavids09
JFK was good.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:13 am to bdavids09
Obama is top 3 I’ll put Teddy up there also JFK too
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:14 am to bdavids09
The best:
Reagan
Kennedy
Clinton
FDR
Eisenhower
The worst
Biden
Obama
Trump
Bush 2
LBJ
I just rated the recent ones that I know of.
Reagan
Kennedy
Clinton
FDR
Eisenhower
The worst
Biden
Obama
Trump
Bush 2
LBJ
I just rated the recent ones that I know of.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:18 am to bdavids09
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Reagan was the best at communicating a message.
Obama, love him or hate him you have to admit he did have charisma.
The Gipper was #1 Champion Speaker. #2 was JFK.
Bamster was way overrated. REASON:
No one in media or the Uni-party was allowed to lay a glove on him.
It only seemed like he had "charisma" because the obedient Mockingbird Media-Monkeys were ordered to report it.
When a confident Choom-bum Bammy read his teleprompter script, he knew full well he would not be ridiculed OR criticized.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:19 am to bdavids09
Reagen and it really isn't very close.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:20 am to bdavids09
TR, FDR, JFK, RR
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:23 am to bdavids09
I’ve seen enough instances of Obama speaking without hours and hours of rehearsal and the aid of a teleprompter to know he wasn’t that good of a public speaker.
Reagan was a very good speaker (he should be given his acting back ground). JFK was a good speech maker, there isn’t a lot of footage I’ve seen of him off the cuff to know how he was in a more casual environment.
Trump is a very good public speaker but he rambles some and has a problem with facts (he’s a good bullshitter though).
Clinton, once you got past his southern drawl (fake) was a very good speaker with a ton of fake empathy - again unmoored by facts.
I’d say the best in modern era is probably Reagan.
Reagan was a very good speaker (he should be given his acting back ground). JFK was a good speech maker, there isn’t a lot of footage I’ve seen of him off the cuff to know how he was in a more casual environment.
Trump is a very good public speaker but he rambles some and has a problem with facts (he’s a good bullshitter though).
Clinton, once you got past his southern drawl (fake) was a very good speaker with a ton of fake empathy - again unmoored by facts.
I’d say the best in modern era is probably Reagan.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:27 am to bdavids09
Trump was the only one that ever spoke from memory or off the cuff.
The rest of them were reading what someone else wrote for them and acting like they meant it.
The rest of them were reading what someone else wrote for them and acting like they meant it.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:33 am to bdavids09
Quantify the question with those who were actually able to do it without a teleprompter....like Barry Obama
Public reading is not the same as a public speaker, but I digress...
Public reading is not the same as a public speaker, but I digress...
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:34 am to bdavids09
In my lifetime, I’d say Reagan and then Clinton, Obama have been the most gifted, natural public speakers.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:36 am to bdavids09
Y’all even ole Abe Baws?
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:43 am to bdavids09
Obama was a trained public speaker
Reagan being an actor also was a great speaker
Clinton was not half bad
John Kennedy was excellent; excellent command
Nixon was very polished when delivering a speech
W was not a good public speaker
Trump came from a different world, so his public speaking skills were not honed.His biggest problem is that he tends to repeat some of his points as his brain catches up to his mouth. That's nothing more than a person who is not experienced giving a prepared speech
Biden is horrible as President. As a Senator in the 80s and 90s he was not half bad ....not great. I heard a speech he gave in the mid 70s and as a speaker he was not bad at all. Forceful and direct, good command.
Reagan being an actor also was a great speaker
Clinton was not half bad
John Kennedy was excellent; excellent command
Nixon was very polished when delivering a speech
W was not a good public speaker
Trump came from a different world, so his public speaking skills were not honed.His biggest problem is that he tends to repeat some of his points as his brain catches up to his mouth. That's nothing more than a person who is not experienced giving a prepared speech
Biden is horrible as President. As a Senator in the 80s and 90s he was not half bad ....not great. I heard a speech he gave in the mid 70s and as a speaker he was not bad at all. Forceful and direct, good command.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:48 am to bdavids09
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Obama, love him or hate him you have to admit he did have charisma.
Because of his charisma Obama had the ability to get his crowd to wholly buy into whatever he was selling. But more importantly than that he was able to convince large swaths of the country to agree with him when the policies he was telling them about were going to be detrimental to them if they were listening with their head and not their heart. That's a good speaker / salesman no matter how much I disagreed with the guy.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:51 am to bdavids09
Reagan and Clinton. Kennedy was pretty good too.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:53 am to bdavids09
The greatest orator among presidential candidates was Wm. Jennings Bryant.
His style would seem a bit dramatic by today's standards but they were speaking before huge crowds with no video screen.
He was also famous for being heard by people in the back row of outdoor stadiums when microphones did not exist.
There is one recording of him speaking but he was very old and feeble by then.
Reagan was the best in modern times. Obama was good with prepared speeches but he was horrible at extemporaneous responses. Reagan was great at extemp.
His style would seem a bit dramatic by today's standards but they were speaking before huge crowds with no video screen.
He was also famous for being heard by people in the back row of outdoor stadiums when microphones did not exist.
There is one recording of him speaking but he was very old and feeble by then.
Reagan was the best in modern times. Obama was good with prepared speeches but he was horrible at extemporaneous responses. Reagan was great at extemp.
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