Obama has obviously not read his Confucius:

” ‘Simple and slow in speech’ becomes almost a refrain in the teachings of Confucius. For instance, in 12.3, he says, ‘The person of true goodness is restrained in speech.’ Throughout the text he repeatedly cautions his followers not to mistake eloquence for substance, as in 1.3: ‘The Master said–artful words and a pleasing countenance have little, indeed, to do with true goodness.’ …