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Obama, Teleprompters and Authenticity
President Obama is no longer the premier communicator - which is remarkable as he was elected largely because of his speaking ability. I even named him as #1 in my Top Ten Communicators of 2006. It's not about the words - he does have very good speech writers - it's about the authenticity.
He has slipped for several reasons. First of all he is over exposed - speaking somewhere almost daily:
