re: Who is the best orator of all time?

Posted by TigerintheNO

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:17 pm to BatonrougeCajun

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Vin Scully

good one +1

Posted by celltech1981

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:17 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

Ron Paul was pretty good.

Posted by HarryBalzack

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:17 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

William Jennings Bryan

Posted by stillplayswithcars

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:19 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

MLK
Billy Graham
Churchill

Honorable Mention:
Kennedy
Reagan

Posted by kywildcatfanone

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:19 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

Winston Churchill
Teddy Roosevelt
Billy Graham

Posted by Tigris

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:22 pm to tiggerthetooth

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Stalin

No, he was an awful orator but held on to Russia by other means. Lenin was a much better speaker and unfortunately created the conditions that let Stalin take over.

Churchill is at the top of my list.

After that (no order) Hitler, Caesar, MLK, Socrates, Gandhi Lincoln.

Posted by Bullfrog

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:23 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

Linda Lovelace

And it’s not even close.

This post was edited on 3/11/18 at 7:24 pm

Posted by stillplayswithcars

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:27 pm to kywildcatfanone

quote:
Teddy Roosevelt

Agree, he should be on the list.

Posted by jcolsut91

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:36 pm to Tyga Woods

"If if if if if if if if" - Barrack Obama.

Posted by TigerFanInSouthland

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:40 pm to jcolsut91

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"If if if if if if if if" - Barrack Obama.

Dude was garbage without a teleprompter in front of him. He didn’t write any of his speeches, I guarantee it.

This post was edited on 3/11/18 at 7:40 pm

Posted by RougeDawg

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:42 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

Hard to argue with the results Hitler got. It is amazing to me that he basically talked Germany into another World War not too long after the WWI defeat.

Posted by tigerpimpbot

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:47 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

Mel Tillis

Posted by mikelbr

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:57 pm to Ross

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Morgan Freeman’s voice is like a nice caramel gets layered on top of a soothing story

Take a listen to the late Paul Winfield. He was a successful actor you've seen in movies but his narration of City Confidential series brought a layer to his career he didn't even envision.
City Confidential Episode

short YouTube intro of a city confidential episode

This post was edited on 3/11/18 at 7:59 pm

Posted by TigerFanInSouthland

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 7:59 pm to RougeDawg

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Hard to argue with the results Hitler got. It is amazing to me that he basically talked Germany into another World War not too long after the WWI defeat.

That’s a pretty good way to look at it. But if you think about it, Germany was ripe for something like that to happen after Versailles.

It wouldn’t surprise me if France did the same thing had they lost in the First World War if Germany didn’t take over the country.

Posted by CelticDog

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 8:10 pm to airfernando

The guys who made up that god impregnated a virgin were tops.

Posted by Ric Flair

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 8:14 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

How does Huey P. Long compare? From my viewing of video, he seems overly animated with somewhat overdone hand motions. But that might have just been the style back in the day.

Posted by La man66

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 8:22 pm to TigerFanInSouthland

John wayne

Posted by Jcorye1

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Posted on 3/11/18 at 8:25 pm to Tyga Woods

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I didn’t care for him as the President, but Obama could probably talk me into just about anything. Cool as shite. Too bad he was a liberal

I thought both he and Bush sounded like buffoons. Obama has a William Shattner pause to his voice, and once you get the timing down my God it's annoying.