I saw so many people on Facebook watching this video on "SocialCam" that I wanted to see it for myself. (SocialCam is some sort of app that you have to allow to access your Facebook stuff, and I didn't want to do that, so I went over to YouTube and typed in the name of the video. There it was!)

Since the thumbnail was a picture of President Obama, I figured it was going to be something he actually said that was totally incorrect, or that the majority of Americans would totally disagree with but was a clear statement of his position on some issue or another.

But what it was was a compilation. It was short little bits of him misspeaking, of him not reading his teleprompter, or the teleprompter malfunctioning, or him seeming to be at a total loss for words. Most of them were a couple seconds long, of him going "Ummm, ahh..." for a slightly uncomfortable length of time. It puts these clips back to back for a 53 second video.

What it is obviously trying to do is paint a picture of a president who is sort of stupid. If you did this with GW, I wonder what it would have looked like. He was an ample source of material for Leno and the other guys for 8 years. I'd have to guess that they could have done a bit more than 53 seconds for GW.

What it did for me was say that they could only find 53 seconds, less than a minute, of awkward speech moments for Obama in 4 years. It doesn't seem like that much. What's that? About 13 seconds a year?

I have also heard enough of this president to know that he's a man who chooses his words carefully usually. So it doesn't surprise me in the least that he occasionally thinks before he answers something, trying to come up with the right words. I'd imagine that they don't show the answers he gives after these uncomfortable moments (which in context might not seem all that uncomfortable either) because the answers just might make people see what he really stands for, not what they want us to THINK he stands for. And that might make them think, "you know what? This guy actually is thinking the same sorts of things I'm thinking!" It might be eye opening.

Instead, his political enemies want us all to keep our eyes closed about what really matters. Make Obama look silly. Make him look dumb. Make him look un-American if possible. Make him look anti-religion. Pro-Muslim. Whatever works. Whatever can tap into the irrational hatred that some people seem to have for him. Give them a "reason" for that hatred. Make them feel better about not voting for Obama because he's black, instead they're not voting about him because he uses a teleprompter and sometimes looks dumb while trying to frame a response in his head to a legitimate question.

It's time for everyone to look at his ANSWERS to those questions. Not to look at the uncomfortable pauses where he's thinking about how to say that answer.

If you don't like the content of those answers, then you have a legit reason for not voting for him. Me, what I've heard, the answers seem better to me than what I've heard from the other side.

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