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In my view, if you haven't written the speech yourself, all you are is a theatre-actor, who, as you point out, are the best "orators" around these days. Still, I wouldn't care so much if there were any evidence that Obama is actually attempting to live up to his grand rhetoric, which I don't think he is. Not that that ought to be his responsibility; the legislative branch of the US government has long since abandoned its duties...