Posted on 03/06/2009 6:49:34 PM PST by Michael Eden
Imagine this dilemma: you are a completely incompetent boob whose solitary talent in all the world is reading a script out loud. If you try to actually speak on your own, using your own words and presenting your own ideas, people would be able to tell that you are really an imbecile.
How on earth could you possibly become the President of the United States?
Just like this:
Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter By CAROL E. LEE | 3/5/09For purpose of clarity, I supplied the link to the video.AP Photo: Barack Obama is reflected in the teleprompter as he campaigns at the Seagate Convention. The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.
President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter.
The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.
Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches in the White House’s stately parlors. They stood next to him on the floor of a manufacturing plant in Indiana as he pitched his economic stimulus plan. They traveled to the Department of Transportation this week and were in the Capitol Rotunda last month when he paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln in six-minute prepared remarks.
Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.
After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches, reports surfaced that he was training to wean himself off of the device while on vacation in Hawaii. But no such luck.
His use of the teleprompter makes work tricky for the television crews and photographers trying to capture an image of the president announcing a new Cabinet secretary or housing plan without a pane of glass blocking his face. And it is a startling sight to see such sleek, modern technology set against the mahogany doors and Bohemian crystal chandeliers in the East Room or the marble columns of the Grand Foyer.
“It’s just something presidents haven’t done,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, a presidential historian who has held court in the White House since December 1975. “It’s jarring to the eye. In a way, it stands in the middle between the audience and the president because his eye is on the teleprompter.”
Just how much of a crutch the teleprompter has become for Obama was on sharp display during his latest commerce secretary announcement. The president spoke from a teleprompter in the ornate Indian Treaty Room for a few minutes. Then Gov. Gary Locke stepped to the podium and pulled out a piece of paper for reference.
The president’s teleprompter also elicited some uncomfortable laughter after he announced Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his choice for Health and Human Services secretary. “Kathy,” Obama said, turning the podium over to Sebelius, who waited at the microphone for an awkward few seconds while the teleprompters were lowered to the floor and the television cameras rolled.
Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements and when repeating the same lines on his economic stimulus plan that he's been saying for months — whereas past presidents have mostly worked off of notes on the podium except during major speeches, such as the State of the Union.
We have in this technological age created a device that can enable even a nearly complete idiot to get elected to the very highest office in the world.
And maybe that's why the media adore him so much. They too are empty-headed fools whose sole talents are reading the news off a teleprompter. Thus they ooh and ah over his every speech as though he were actually the greatest rhetorician in the history of human civilization.
But if we can't quickly figure out how to do a brain and a character transplant on this guy - and all the fools who voted for him - we will sadly be in for the Great Depression.
I wish I could have infiltrated a townhall meeting and asked him to state the Pledge of Allegiance. Seriously, I would have wanted to see the look on his face and also to see if he could do it.
...Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot? WHO is writing his speeches?
I'll give you a taste:
I - uh - pledge allegiance - uh - to the - um - flag of the - uh, uhh, the United States of America. And to the -um - the um - the People's Republic for - uh - which it stands: one nation, under - um - under me - that is, um - under messiah, indivisible under socialism, with - um, uh - redistribution, and - uh, justice for liberals.
No no no, you should have added 14 more uh’s and 12 more um’s. ;o)
Parrots and Puppets need Teleprompters to keep Their Lies Consistant!
Coke Heads with Fried Brains need Teleprompters for the same reason!
What he says is bad enough.
But it doesn't really matter what he says, because he's the kind of guy who says ten different things so he can later say, "As I've said," while doing something else.
David Brooks wrote a mea culpa piece in which he says he's been “forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/opinion/03brooks.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
I haven't been the least bit surprised. I saw Obama with crystal clarity when the Jeremiah Wright sermons came out.
Obama ums and uhs faster than I can type without that massive teleprompter system of his.
Good grief!
There is a whole thread devoted to poking fun at this teleprompting commie asshat. Click on the picture to join in on the fun!
Didn’t he do that for someone in thet 55 state he visited?
That was great!
I especially like the “pick your nose” post.
What is the big picture about Obama he that he is spending most of his time and resources most of which we are paying for to put down dissent aimed at him, he has no clue that a President is supposed to be our leader, a person of respect towards other countries, an individual that represents all that is good from America.
Obama practices none of those qualities.
All he is interested in is extending his homestead upon the Whitehouse, that is what he is, he is a squatter, he is misusing executive privileges to police America that knows what a sham he is.
He hates everything about America, he was raised to hate America, Obama is one of those Pit Bulls that’s been put up for adoption and America felt sorry for him thus they accepted him into their households.
The sad fact is this dog has been abused and trained to turn on anyone and will not let go. These animals cannot be rehabilitated unfortunately.
He became president mostly because the fourth estate transmogrified itself into the fifth column enemy of We The People, refusing to vett this kenyan klown in his affirmative action rush to black empowerment. The media have sold their collective putrifacted souls to socialism and are doing all they can to help this Marxist messiah succeed in bring to pass his vision of a modern socialist state in a world reeling from economic collapse, etc. That combination is bringing to paSS the end of a once promising Constitutional Republic. See, the democrap aprty ahs been telling us for devades that the Constitution is an evolving contract. They now have the power —with so many stupid voters and ACORN operatives — to make it a reality by protecting this abrogation of the contract established to bring an ultimate affirmative action hire. He will be the last freely elected president of Ameirka.
I take exception with the notion of Hussein being such a great communicator. Most of what he says is rather pedestrian tautology. How many memorable phrases as he turned that will endure? None that I can think of.
That crazed teleprompter tennis match with the continuous volley that he seems to be watching every time he gives a speech is REALLY getting old.
“I wish I could have infiltrated a townhall meeting and asked him to state the Pledge of Allegiance. Seriously, I would have wanted to see the look on his face and also to see if he could do it.”
Now that is something I would love to see too. Wouldn’t we all?
Did he? I wish I would have seen it. I’ll google it now.
You are probably correct in objective sense, but relying on that as somehow definitive will be a mistake. His appeal is entirely emotional and intuitive. As such, logic and proportion have no place and that level of consciousness is never appealed to. His supporters have no need of such insight and would reject it if offered.
I personally have to look away now. I can’t even bear to watch his image, even if it is incidental, as it was in Greta’s show this evening. I simply had to hear Dick Morris’ analysis, but while he did so, FOX played some stock footage of the current president. It was painful to watch. For me. For his adulatory masses, it would have been catnip. That kind of devotion is dangerous, far more dangerous than if the president were actually saying something of intellectual merit with any kind of philsophical consistency. He could tell them anything and they would accept it.
This is a very dangerous time. I’m probably the 787 billionth person to say that.
>He hates everything about America, he was raised to hate America, Obama is one of those Pit Bulls that’s been
>put up for adoption and America felt sorry for him thus they accepted him into their households.
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>The sad fact is this dog has been abused and trained to turn on anyone and will not let go. These animals
>cannot be rehabilitated unfortunately.
That’s the sad truth. As it is, America’s not going to learn until both the baby and the grandparents get mauled by
his “wonderful universal health-care” system. By then, it just might be too late.
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