What Obama was doing was a common enough practice in the United States (though one might expect better from an orator of his ability); it was not so in India, where such a technique is, indeed, regarded as reprehensible.
Lo que Obama hacía era un uso bastante común en los Estados Unidos (si bien se podía esperar algo mejor de un orador tan brillante); no así en la India, donde semejante técnica está considerada, de hecho, reprensible.