I was thinking exactly the same thing yesterday, listening to Obama’s delusional ramblings:
Without the use of the teleprompter, his speech can be described only as “halting.” It was impossible to count the number of times he seized up, able to deaden the silence with only a drawn-out “uh,” “um” or “ahhh.”
The White House dutifully scrubbed all the halts and stutters from the official transcript, and it was impossible to count them in real time. But a sample of his incoherent word salad found him stuttering about every 15 words, which comes to more than 330 “uh-um-ahhs” in a single appearance.
This is not the same soaring speaker who inspired so many in 2008. This is a broken-down man who has lost the only gift he ever had.
Unfortunately, there is no more 2/3rd of the Congress to act on this than there is for impeachment in the Senate.
I’d also note that I don’t think he ever had a gift for extemporaneous speaking. He was always Candidate, and then President Teleprompter.
[Update a while later]
A Democrat says that Obama’s fecklessness could drag us into a nuclear war.
“The White House dutifully scrubbed all the halts and stutters from the official transcript”
It seems odd that they make that sound like some sort of coverup, rather than the way every transcript is always recorded by every group for every purpose.
And, no, talking poorly and saying some things that are wrong does not make for an impeachable incapacity.
If that was the bar, every President would be incapable.
(Which I admit has some appeal, but plainly is not the bar the 25th Amendment was trying to raise.)
I gather the idea is that Obama is allegedly worse than he was a few years ago. Sounds like whistling past the graveyard myself. He’d have to really fall apart before succession would be taken seriously. And he only has to last a year.