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More oratory plaudits for Obama: The praise just keeps coming. BBC News wonders if president-elect Barack Obama is “the greatest orator of his generation,” and polls rhetoric experts and speechwriters on this point. “I believe Barack Obama embodies, more than any other politician, the ideals of American eloquence,” Ekaterina Haskins, professor of rhetoric at the University of Iowa, tells the BBC.