I haven't watched enough of Obama's speeches to notice, but I did hear them saying on CNN that he works with his speech writers to write his own speeches, so possibly most of what he wants to say is in his head or he can remember what he wrote, so he doesn't need to look at the prompter as much.
When speakers are really good at delivering speeches the audience shouldn't notice them glancing at their notes anyway. But that's another reason they use those glass prompter boards - it looks as though the speaker is looking through it, not at it.
Unfortunately, George Bush never seemed to get the hang of it. It always looked like he was reading his speech, rather than talking it. And then you have to wonder how he still managed to make all those incredible gaffes. |
