Memorable Speakers

I haven't had the opportunity to hear many speeches live. I do watch some speeches on TV though such as when the President talks to the nation. One of the best speakers I have ever had the chance to see was President Bill Clinton. Now he has a bad reputation because of what he did in his personal life, but as a speaker he was incredible. In my opinion what made him great is that he was so charismatic. The viewer actually felt he was talking to them and only them. I had the opportunity of meeting one of his speech writers and he told me that Clinton would look over a speech once and then he wouldn't need it anymore. All it took was one read through and he knew it. I found that very interesting.

One of the worst speakers I have ever heard was in one of my speech classes at DeAnza. I know that it is a speech class and we are all learning but what bothered me about the speech was the speaker's world choice. The only thing I remember about the speech was the speaker said "ya know" about 25 times during a 3-5 minute speech. it was very distracting and I began counting his use of the phrase "ya know" instead of listening to the message of the speech.