Posted on Feb 8, 2016
Why these Obama voters are backing Donald Trump - CNNPolitics.com
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Farmington, New Hampshire (CNN)Eight years after they drew inspiration from Barack Obama's insurgent campaign, some of the very voters who helped elect the first African-American president are standing behind a candidate whose image and message are strikingly different: Donald Trump.
Obama campaigned on themes of hope and change; Trump declared in his June announcement speech that the American Dream was dead. Obama called on the country to shed racial divisions; some of Trump's biggest applause lines are his pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border and ban Muslim immigration. Obama is a gifted orator with a cool and intellectual demeanor; Trump is an improviser with a knack for dramatic flair.
Obama campaigned on themes of hope and change; Trump declared in his June announcement speech that the American Dream was dead. Obama called on the country to shed racial divisions; some of Trump's biggest applause lines are his pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border and ban Muslim immigration. Obama is a gifted orator with a cool and intellectual demeanor; Trump is an improviser with a knack for dramatic flair.
Why these Obama voters are backing Donald Trump - CNNPolitics.com
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"Obama is a gifted orator with a cool and intellectual demeanor" Unless, of course, his teleprompter is broken. Then he stammers and stutters like a parrot with Tourettes. I watched part of the speech he gave over the weekend and I had to turn it off. "if, if, if, if, if,....." spit it out man.
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How sad that anyone would consider President Obama a gifted orator. I understand. Really I do. Oration is a dormant if not dead art. There hasn't been a gifted orator around since Reagan and he was an anomaly in his time. Trump has a certain flare, stylized, and somewhat entertaining until it wears thin. However,it is reasonable to expect that he could bring change as Obama promised but never delivered. Only time will tell if it's change we would wa
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