Bam! WaPo: Obama’s Presser Was “Uhhh Terrible” “Seemed Dazed & Confused”

Straight from the Washington Post; the left-leaning media bastion of the belt-way, I bring you this scathing indictment of Obama’s propensity to fill dead air with “uhh’s”.

“‘Uhhh,’ the president’s ‘uhhh’ press conference was ‘uhhh’ terrible”.

'Great Orator' Ha! The Messi-Uh's soaring rhetoric consistently drowns in a sea of uh's.

If you are president of the United States and you don’t have anything to say, don’t have a press conference to say it. If you’re the president of the United States and by Thursday it’s widely believed you’ve had one of the worst weeks of your presidency, take Friday off, and specifically avoid having a press conference.

Anytime you are president and you’re speaking in public at an ill-timed press conference after a bad week, try to have something to say, and do a good job in saying it. I watched the whole thing, but it’s not easy to think of one useful thing that he had to say. And what he said, he said very poorly. Was it just me, or did the president seem a little dazed and confused? [Choom reference lol? -Ed.] He should have had a cup of coffee before the press conference.

And one more thing that’s a pet peeve. The president says “uhhh” too much. When I was a cable television news extra during the ‘90s and early 2000s, you learn early to purge your presentation of “uhhh.” Saying “uhhh” suggests uncertainty and is distracting. (And in my case, when it was accompanied by a Southern accent, it was even worse.) I don’t know what the president had in mind, but his own meandering, stuttering performance could not have done him any good with any audience. What was he, uhhh, thinking?

Perhaps the president and others are huddled in an after-action review meeting in the Oval Office right now. It appears no one at The White House wants to give the president bad news or an honest critique of his performance. Somebody should print this post and slide it under the Oval Office door immediately.