Actually, What I said was I am just like the vast majority of American voters who are going to get their information from mainstream media etc...and Obama has said nothing to me that has given me the desire to go read his manifesto. That's his problem, not mine.
My decision has since been made who I'm not going to vote for, and a prepared speech is completely meaningless for me at this stage. Would he have made this prepared speech had this issue not arisen? A speech most likely prepared by someone else, or someone else most likely had a part in writing it, so it's completely without merit as far as I'm concerned. I don't need to hear it, I've heard enough of politicians spin, and this has just proven that he is no different. He's just a politician trying to get his arse out of the fire.