The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113198   Message #2403877
Posted By: GUEST,DV
02-Aug-08 - 04:54 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Obama and Folk Performance
Subject: RE: Folklore: Obama and Folk Performance
I agree, he doesn't speak in the preacher style or a lawyer's summation style, though he does, at times, make use of some of those styles' rhetorical devices.

He comes across, and very much so to me, as having an academic style, of engaging an audience on a purely intellectual level. After 8 years of Dumbya, as I said above, the difference is quite striking.