BO MD?

I'm not that much into the speech delivery side of politics. What counts are good ideas, not whether the candidate can deliver them in a resonant voice.

Still, we've had a surprising number of candidates lately who are really bad at it. Gore, Kerry, Hillary, Lieberman and our Prez, to name a few. Occasionally, we get a guy who's good at it, like Bill Clinton, of course.

That said, I've never gotten why people say Obama has such a good voice. Maybe I'm immune to the rhetoric, or tone-deaf to the feeling, but he sounds pinched to me, with a halting delivery. In fact, the closest politician I can remember with a similiar speaking style was Michael Dukakis.