Am I the only one that noticed that Obama seems to have totally gotten rid

[ET Awful]

of his typical speech habit of lots of ummms and uhhhs?

He sounded so much smoother than I've ever heard.

[Lint Head]

1. I noticed that.

[seabeyond]

2. husband and i were just talking about this. a good thing. nt

[LisaL]

3. I am sure that he practiced a lot.

It's not easy getting rid of habits.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Maybe the time constraint pushed him to be more careful?

[jollyreaper2112]

5. sorta

Must have been shock therapy. I could hear him pause and almost want to say an um and held off. Always killed me how he could be so eloquent with prepared material and stumble as bad as I would if on stage before the world speaking off the top of my head.

[cliffordu]

24. Ah, bullshit.

sorry.

[hamsterjill]

6. Definitely.

And it served him well.

[Malikshah]

7. I think they wired his privates until he removed them from his speech patters-- yep, I noticed

as well. He went to boot camp on his debate presence and it paid off.

That "offensive" response to Willard's assholery is one for the history books!!!

[tarheelsunc]

8. 2008 Barack is back!

[subterranean]

9. I noticed that too.

I made the same comment to my wife when he was answering the first couple of questions.

[jimlup]

10. He put time into this one because he knew it mattered!

THank you Barack!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jennicut]

11. He was very smooth.

And I loved it!

[smackd]

12. I absolutely noticed that, in like the first 5 minutes...

I think it's b/c he was pissed. He's a lot more smooth when he's pissed.

[Charlotte Little]

13. I absolutely noticed...

Tonight he was convicted and confident in ways I don't think I've ever seen him before, including his speech, posture, eye contact and sincerety. He is fighting, fighting like hell...we should all do the same for him.

Obama/Biden 2012

[Charlotte Little]

14. oops...

...I meant sincerity.

[animalcrackers]

15. I am the same way

Not in terms of having the intellect of speaking abilities of Obama, but often when I need to explain a complex issue it takes me a while to chose the correct words and essemble my thoughts. But it seems to drop when I am at easy or angry/passionate.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. He got rid of most but shortened some. Amazing improvement. nt

[graywarrior]

17. Yeah, I noticed that too!

[MFM008]

18. Because he was angry

he rrrrrrreeeeeeeeaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyy doesnt like something about Romney, maybe everything.

[MassedPole]

19. Also helped it was a Town Hall style. Which he does better in.

[LiberalElite]

20. He's mad as hell and he's not gonna ummm uhhh anymore

[Sunlei]

21. smooth, no umms and had a very clear plan. I bet he enjoyed the debate prep and got some rest

[treestar]

22. Yes! They must have dealt with that in coaching

[yodermon]

23. The Uhms and Ah's come when (IMO) he's trying to thread a needle in a responses. I noticed

a *lot* of ums & ahs during his primary debates with Hillary. Also in the 1st debate with Mittens.

I still think he was purposefully slow-playing that debate but ended up overdoing it (or under-doing it lol)