A few weeks ago I just started noticing it which I probably should have picked up on earlier.  He doesn't do it as much during his teleprompter speeches but does it a shitload of times during Q&A sessions.  I can't bear to even listen to him during these Q&A sessions because I just here uhhhhhhhhhhh and ummmmmmm every other word sometimes.  You would think they would have a speech coach work with him more to get these annoying habits out of his speech.  The first thing most people learn for public speaking is to not use fillers/try to avoid them at all cost.   Someone please give him some speaking lessons..........

this guy should teach him:

In my public speaking class i was taught the same thing about not using fillers.
People were so ready to jump on Bush for the these things but you don't hear them now, and when they do say something it all comes back to Bush all over again.. see above.

Yea, Bush was terrible also. I guess we can't get a President recently that can actually speak decently without the aid of a teleprompter.

I've always thought it was dumb to criticize people for using a teleprompter. Many of the people who criticize Obama for doing it are avid supporters of Reagan, who used teleprompters all the time. And he didn't write any of his own speeches.

President Obama does say Ummm a lot. Slick Willy could string a sentence along quite quickly. I noticed that Obama  is better at implementing grammar than Bush. i also noticed that he doesn't go on if a particular word or idea fleets from his mind. Nonetheless yeah, it is pretty annoying though - because it takes him a while to say anything.

at least bush was funny

filler words :p we all go through them sometimes. I had a "well uh" phase myself

lol no.

thats because he is a bumbling idiot.

he doesnt have any charisma, and he made all his mistakes during the campaign because the teleprompter wasn't on.