Lodwick, it is really worse than that counter in that little clip indicated. Somewhere there is a transcript of him saying um and uh for close to eight minutes if I remember right. Guy's a freakin' moron.
The transcript is made up, and the tape is an edited version compiling all his uh's into one 8 minute piece from a variety of speeches.
The uh's and um's are from ONE speech in Amman, Jordan, according to the guy who posted it. I don't know because I wasn't there but I have seen some transcripts and have seen some videos which were supposed to be live where he did a lot of stammering and stuttering. At any rate, the guy who posted it said that it was from that one speech and that of the total speech over seven minutes of it was uh's and um's. Doesn't make Obama look all that bright.
Edit: When I posted this I was thinking of a different video I saw earlier today. It has the uh's and um's from the speech he made in Jordan, not this one on this thread.
of the total speech over seven minutes of it was uh's and um's
Say from a one hour speech, that's not much.
Perhaps, but IMO strains credulity and I have no idea who the guy who posted it is. And I heard a similar excerpt on a talk show and they were clear that it was a compilation.
Doesn't pass the smell test. Unless you got unedited video to prove it's veracity, I say it's BS.
And isn't it absolutely ludicrous to badmouth Obie for his speaking skills when we've had the loquacious and eloquent Dubya spouting inspirational and poetic paeans.
Oh yeah it is. Compare an Obama speech to a JFK speech and see how many uh's and um's JFK says in TWO hours compared to Obama in 1 minute. Obama would still win by a landslide. I doubt JFK would even say one.