SteveZ, I agree with you 100%. However, history shows us that all good leaders were good orators. All we have to do is look at some of our past presidents that most people think about when it come to leadership and their skill at communicating. Lincoln, Franklin, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton (conservatives would probably disagree). Now having said this, I would first say that all good orators may not necessarily be a good leader. But we have all seen what happens when the person we put into office can't put two words together with out screwing something up. I won't say who I'm talking about but his initials are GWB.