Mr. Grupper (pronounced "grouper") is sufficiently in demand (he also records audio books) that he really doesn't need a day job, but he's got one: He's the founder and sole proprietor of Act Professional, a consulting firm that uses acting and improvisational techniques to help businesspeople get better at making presentations and get better at presenting themselves.
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The audience seems placated, but he really doesn't get the crowd going until he starts talking economics.
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He really doesn't understand the innards of business and the sort of importance of operations, of cash earned the old fashion way.
And he really doesn't appreciate having to answer to a higher authority.
"He really doesn't feel well and he's not able to continue, " defence lawyer Luc Leclair told the judge, the Associated Press reported.
He gives speeches, he gives interviews, he says words, but he doesn't really rally people, doesn't create a wave that breaks over the top of the Capitol Dome and drowns the opposition, or even dampens it for a moment.
Down deep, has he decided that he doesn't really care whether we solve the deficit mess on his watch -- that he accepts the liberal notion that it's a problem for 2020, not now?
"I know he has some crazy thoughts where he ... just believes the government is corrupt, and he has all these assumptions on things, that he doesn't really know what he's talking about, " Kuck told investigators.
He likes the craft, the handiwork, doing something he doesn't really understand.
What Limbaugh thinks about immigration -- a subject he doesn't really know very well -- isn't important.
But when I met him, I realized he doesn't really care what people read or write about him.
So that means he doesn't really have the ability to abandon his base, even if he wanted to.
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Murtha now wants to axe big parts of military IO, even though he doesn't really understand the concept himself.
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That's one of the reasons he doesn't really work outside Napa (and he also likes to go home at night).
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He doesn't really control many programs within the Pentagon or the Department of Homeland Security or within the law enforcement establishment.
Karl Rove has been there from the beginning, and the president is in the last days of a second term and he doesn't really need his political guru anymore.
"Everyone says 'oh it's fake, he doesn't really have one leg, or there's no way someone can make that kind of physical transformation', " says Sundquist, who is now a motivational speaker.
But he is such a master at spinning the media that it is quite possible, despite protestations to the contrary, that he doesn't really mind all the negative publicity that the book is generating.
Obama won, and he doesn't really have to keep telling us -- or showing us, via staged campaign-style events like the one Tuesday in which he used police officers as props while he opposed the forced spending cuts.
Warne was a great motivator as a player but, as one of the all-time icons of the game and after leading the Rajasthan Royals to the Indian Premier League (IPL) title last year, he doesn't really believe in coaching.
"I obviously don't want him to walk, but as long as he doesn't see the light of day again, it doesn't really much concern me beyond that, " said Stephen Barton, who suffered wounds on his face, neck and upper torso in the shooting that night.
He feels that the TV version of the documentary really doesn't leave anything out, but he added some draft night material after getting feedback from fans.
He's a guy that just absolutely refuses to let music just speak on the surface, and he always digs down, often into music that really doesn't have much depth, but when he's conducting it, it sounds like it does.
And he references a study that really doesn't do what the Clinton ad says it does.
And to argue that the president when he conveyed his understanding of that definition doesn't really believe his argument, and to contend that he was committing perjury when he told the grand jury that he genuinely believed his interpretation of the definition, that's just speculation about what is in his mind.
Apparently, he's a really rich guy, and they cut him open and he doesn't go to sleep and Terrence Howard is talking about killing him.
But really, doesn't he have an aide who can tell him that the symbol of America is not the bald ego?
"He used to say a downgrade would be a disaster, today he says this downgrade doesn't matter - but he is still warning a further downgrade really would be a disaster, " he said.
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