2012-10-11, 10:25 AM
Flonne Wrote:I get that feeling. You can tell when he's reading lines and when he's actually saying things he wrote; when he's just reading a prepared speech he has very short pauses in most sentences, when he is doing a speech he himself prepared, there are no pauses at all, the flow of the speech is very smooth.
As would ANYONE in real life.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the sentiments that Romney won the first debate stylistically, as Obama didn't seem totally with it, but to judge someone's presidency on 45 minutes of them speaking is just laughable. I'd love to place many of those making such judgments in the same place, debating like that after running the country for four years, and see how they fare.
Just bear that in mind when viewing a debate. Yes, they're useful to determine candidate policies, but you need to look at an entire incumbent's record when making educated decisions. And after all, I know many a self-described introvert here on the interwebs who would rather die than speak publicly before 40 million people, and yet they're still some of the smartest people I know.