Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
Good ridance! I like that guy least of all the candidates. His speeches sound oh-so inspiring; he has some great speech writers after all. But every time I've heard him answer a question he wasn't already prepared for, the man let off as the biggest phony I'd ever seen. Don't go off his inspiring well-written public talks, listen to him in the debates, or when a crowd-goer asks a pop-up question. He gives answers that don't mean anything, never says anything that might risk losing a vote. A slick salesman is all he is, and like a good salesman had lots of the voters fooled.
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Probably because he didn't have his prompter telling him what to say in his earpiece.