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[[Image:Democrat Obama during the Pledge.jpg|325px|thumb|right|Obama on the campaign trail, stands with folded hands while [[Bill Richardson]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] honor the flag while placing their hands over their heart during the [[National Anthem]].]]
Obama almost always reads from prepared text on a [[teleprompter]] and rarely allows tough questions.<ref>After is considered to be one debate against [[Hillary Clinton]] in Philadelphia, of the Obama campaign announced that the questions were too difficult and that Obama would not agree to future debates with her.</ref> Indeedgreatest public speakers of all time, when unable to refer to prepared notes though he often fails miserably at articulating his positions and is caught tripping over his own feet, not as displayed in the Saddleback Forumgood as Ronald Reagan. He has made several gaffes revealing his ignorance or disdain about [[America]] and [[American History Lectures|American history]]:
:Obama displayed ignorance about the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]] when he said, "Throughout our history, America's confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, '''from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor''', to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world."<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/07/obama_ignorance_watch_1.asp</ref>