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.
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.