How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific Fantasyland

Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by Proof on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:50AM (#16130910)

I was reading your comment thinking to myself, “by these characteristics, a Mathematician would make a great President!” but then I read “must be a good orator” and all hope was lost.

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Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by cmurf on Saturday January 13, 2018 @01:58PM (#16140715)

No I said decent. A president will get a better than decent speech writer [1], but the writer doesn't make policy. The president has to have a distinct, clear opinion about policy, and a good writer makes it convincing and evokes an emotional response in the listener. And then a president makes the delivery.

[1 Barack Obama was a little unique among recent presidents in that he wrote most of his own speeches.

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