I think that he is just not the best public speaker, and with the way the media tends to present things out of context, he is largely just misunderstood.

OOOH!!! So, that's why the PT's don't make any sense and we have to fabricate and spin half the stuff that's in it to make it work plot-wise. Nobody, not the actors, not the special effects guys, understood him. Got it.

No wonder we don't get his 'vision.' He just wasn't able to completely convey it properly due to the inability to speak eloquently. This would be why the dialogue sucks, too. We just didn't read Lucas' mind...haha.

I'm curious, have you made any films yourself?

This is one of the most fallacious arguments around. Since you haven't made a film yourself (I really doubt you have), do you have capacity to claim the PT's are great movies? Don't think so. We are on even battlefield here. People criticize politicians, etc. all the time, and have any of them held office? So they don't have the right to do so? Of course, they do. So you're little claim of, "If you haven't made a movie, you don't have the right to criticize it" falls in deaf ears.