What a natural orator Barack Obama is?

I know I have blogged before about Barack Obama's oratory when his teleprompter breaks or he has to answer a question without a script, but some interesting breaking news has reminded me. First of all, here are some examples of Obama's oratorical skills:


Broken teleprompter causes outbreak of stuttering



Yes or No Mr Obama, be straight with us



How many states are there in the US?



The Barack Obama "ah" count



By way of contrast I read that

"Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.

According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani's speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.

Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.

Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved."

That's the difference between image and substance.