Dictated to a secretary using a noiseless portable black Remington typewriter constructed so the keyboard was less distracting to the master-orator one exhibited in the first glass case of the show Churchill's speeches were prepared for delivery in verse form.
By contrast, Americans were told that Obama was a great orator, a brilliant intellect, the harbinger of a post-racial America, a master facilitator of bipartisanship, and a global statesman for the new century.