January 16th, 2017 → 5:41 am @ Lea // No Comments

“And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” – Hamlet

Opining on the end of the Obama presidency, author Ann Wroe wrote in The World in 2017 about Obama’s speech patterns and his excessive use of pauses.  Apparently, people have written entire dissertations on the length and number of Obama’s pauses – who knew?  It’s an interesting essay on his thoughtfulness, but also his sometimes damning hesitation.