Just another angry liberal

Obama unplugged. He's a gifted speaker as long as he has a teleprompter. He's not a gifted debater. And Dean Barnett picks up this:

The results weren't just interesting because they revealed Obama as a markedly inferior speaker without the Teleprompter. Obama's supporters have had ample notice that the scripted Obama is far more effective than the spontaneous one. The extremely articulate and passionate Obama that makes all the speeches has yet to show up at any of the debates. For such a gifted and energetic speaker, he is an oddly tongue-tied and indifferent debater.

What was especially noteworthy about his Virginia speech were the diversions Obama took from the prepared text. Because of Obama's improvised moments, this speech was different than the usual fare he offers. We didn't get the normal dosages of post-partisanship or even "elevation." Virtually every time Obama deviated from the text, he expressed the partisan anger that has so poisoned the Democratic party. His spontaneous comments eschewed the conciliatory and optimistic tone that has made the Obama campaign such a phenomenon. It looked like the spirit of John Edwards or Howard Dean had possessed Obama every time he vamped. While Paul Krugman probably loved it, this different Obama was a far less attractive one.

This explains a lot. Obama's a phony--nasty under the veneer of charm. He's not really used to tackling an exchange of ideas. Recall he didn't stand out in the courtroom when he practiced law. And now we know how he could stand to hang around the hard Left for so long in Chicago, because he agreed with them. He practically makes Hillary look honest by comparison. At least her persona matches her politics--dictatorial.

The perfect job for Obama is an old school TV anchorman--just look and sound good and read what you're given.

That graceless, grudging remark to Hillary at a debate--you're likable enough--that was the real Barack Obama--just another angry liberal.

UPDATE: Bryan, HotAir on Obama's speech tonight, which I also watched: "He’s not disguising his hard leftism anymore." He thinks he has the nomination in hand, and he probably does. And Obama's in Madison, a very liberal city--still a nuclear-free zone after all these years. Oh, and they banned the pledge of allegiance there recently for a while. Barack should feel right at home.

UPDATE: Obama's sparse record. Steve Sailer:

Can anybody find anything else he published?

If not, we're faced with a puzzle. Here we have the president of the Harvard Law Review, who was later employed as a Lecturer at the U. of Chicago Law School for eight years. Yet he has apparently never published a law journal article.

HT The Corner.