Barack H. Obama is the greatest orator of the 21st century.

[lastlib]

Exhibit A:

Case closed.

"Cynicism is the recourse of cowards."--Barack Obama
Who else could deliver a line like that?

[aka-chmeee]

1. Nah, I don't dislike Barack Obama,

but I cannot listen to him speak. He has a very strange cadence.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Strongly disagree.

[Polybius]

18. So who's better this century?

Just curious why you strongly disagree.

[hunter]

3. Obama and Biden are two great U.S.A. Presidents of the 21st century.

Mark that in your history books.

[Polybius]

17. Obama is a much, much better speaker though

He's a generational politician and has level 10 charisma.

[hamsterjill]

4. That speech was amazing!

He is so good at those situations. I miss the eloquence.

[jcgoldie]

5. I'll buy it

Only one I’ve seen in his class as an orator in my lifetime was Mario.

[leftstreet]

6. Wish he'd go talk to Manchin and Sinema n/t

[FakeNoose]

7. Obama starts speaking at around 16:50

... and it is worth a listen.

[Elessar Zappa]

8. He's up there for sure.

Great speaker.

[panader0]

9. I was watching Obama, who I had barely heard of, when he gave the keynote address

for John Kerry in 2004. I watched a few minutes and then called my kids, 12 and 13
to come watch. I told them "Someday this guy will be our President."

[rampartc]

10. is there any competition?

there were many great orators in the 20th century

william jennings bryan, fdr, huey long, churchill, hitler, jfk, dr king, even reagan

but in the 21st oratory seems to have been replaced by word salad as practiced by trump and sarah palin.

[Revanchist]

11. We still have 75 years

I'm not saying he isn't a good speaker but there's plenty of time for new ones to arise, heck they probably haven't even been born yet.

[JI7]

16. Reagan was overrated and would not appeal to the changing demographics in the US

[rampartc]

20. he never appealed to me

do you think that reagan's head in a bottle could beat trump in a regressive primary?

[Polybius]

19. Kim Il-sung and Castro too

I'd say Bill Clinton was a fantastic orator as well.

[Scurrilous]

12. K&R

[XRubicon]

13. Exhibit B:

...and C:

[UTUSN]

14. Fine, but can we compare parallels in centuries - 21st vs 20th

Going back in hundreds, in 1921 FDR hadn't been heard that much...

[Tribetime]

15. I agree 100% 👍

[Cuthbert Allgood]

21. He's great, no arguments. But he's not the best of this century by any stretch.

First of all, we have 80 more years to go.

Secondly, Michelle Obama is better than he is as the first example.

[lastlib]

22. He may be surpassed in the next 80 years, who knows?

He's the greatest so far, tho.

Michelle is an outstanding speaker, and I love listening to her, but I think Barack's rhetorical skills are as good as they come.

Who else can compete with him? Certainly no one on the repuglikan side. Hillary is great as well, but I don't see her as quite the orator that Barack is.