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politicians holding speeches

Curious about this. I can count on one hand the politicians I truly admire/respect, including the world leaders (among the ones I am familiar with, and I am familiar with a few). Why do you think politicians are getting better with speeches? All I see are useless, meaningless, confusing soup of words that they blabber (with few exceptions)

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I have held speeches. They required lots of preparation but they were still terrible. Holding good speeches is really hard. Especially for politicians, who must be careful not to say anything factually incorrect, insult anyone or otherwise embarrass themselves ("Please clap").

Suppose you are a politician bankrolled by the oil industry and you're invited to speak at a climate change conference. How do you ensure that your speak neither upset the climate change activists or your rich donors? Not easy.

And even the ones typically highly regarded lie. See Obama's comment on the wage gap from the state of the union a few years back. I doubt it was incompetence, but probably a calculated lie.

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