Politicians Who Can Talk

The thing we--

(And I’m using the Liberal We here)

The thing we need to remember in 2018

And especially in 2020

Is that we need politicians

Who know how to talk

Let me explain

Remember how we mocked the current President

On the campaign trail
Because he was such a poor speaker

And he never did the smart thing

The smart thing being--

Using a teleprompter?

Well, I think we might have been wrong about that

Obviously, like half the planet

I’ve been wondering
Where exactly everything went wrong

Last year

And smarter people than me

Will come up with better reasons

But I think one thing we need to keep an eye on

Is how people talk now

I don’t know about you

But I can’t handle listening to local news anymore

Because the newscaster “voices”

Drive me insane

It’s this presentational way of speaking

That just comes across as fake

So fake

And I can’t believe a thing I’m hearing

It occurred to me recently

That while I have many, many issues

About what the President is saying

He does sound like he’s speaking truthfully

Even when he’s clearly not

Because he’s not reading

Off a teleprompter

He’s not reading at all

And even though he probably should

It makes him sound more believable

Whoever we run against him

(Assuming it comes to that)

Has to know how to do something

That, sadly, Hillary Clinton couldn’t do

And that’s speak off the cuff

In a casual way

That still sounds authoritative

Actually, that’s not fair

Clinton could do that

It’s just that everyone was telling her

It was unwise

Here we all were

Running around

Trying to figure out

Why nobody trusted her

And then we hand her a script

A SCRIPT
And have her deliver it over and over again

Sounding like a robot the entire time

Wondering why people thought she was stiff

And untrustworthy

She said at one point

That a President has to watch what they say

And I get that

But maybe right now

In the age we’re living in

A President has to be able to watch what they say

In the moment

As if they’ve been on camera

For most of their life

Because we’ve all grown up

Watching people

Who knew they were on camera

Who could edit themselves

In the moment

And I think we need politicians

Who can do the same