Teleprompting Obama

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[Polybius]

Obama has had several embarrassing events where the teleprompter either malfunctioned or the screens were not fully visible.

What a bummer during an international crisis.

[goldstategop]

Reagan could speak long before teleprompters were around. He had a self confidence and directness people found appealing. Obama by contrast, its akward and stutters when he isn't reliant on technology. The Democrats have attributed Reagan's successor to his being a good actor. Well Obama can't even act much less than to tell the public what he really thinks. Reagan was never afraid to say it with conviction!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[pepperhead]

He didn’t impress Penn & Teller much either.....

Bleep You, Frank!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wySaC_z12GY

[Polybius]

Obama has had several embarrassing events where the teleprompter either malfunctioned or the screens were not fully visible. "He just locks down and can't get the words out," says one political consultant. "For such a fine speaker, ....

He is not a speaker. He is merely a reader of other people's words.

By that standard, we are all Shakespeare.

[supercat]

If Obama is scared to have a discussion with McCain, how can he possibly meet with world leaders like Chavez, Putin, or al-Assad?

For real debates, each candidate should be allowed to select some people who will ask the other candidate questions. They should be encouraged to select people who will ask hard questions and be tenacious, but not vicious or discourteous. As you note, if the President can't stand up to that, he won't stand up to the country's enemies.

[exhaustguy]

“I’ve heard Obama-lama-ding-dong speak both with and without the Magic Teleprompter, and he comes across like a bag of bricks. What am I missing?”

I think it has something to do with white guilt and the perception that now our boy has moved off the reservation and isn’t it nice to see him be so eloquent.

I was listening to a lecture on Frederick Douglas who studied the famous writings and speeches of the past (in a battered used book he was not supposed to have). After his escape, he was a forceful articulate speaker, but the abolitionists at the time wanted him to represent the typical “darkie” of the South in speech and mannerisms. He would have nothing of it. I got to think such wooly headed thinking applies to Obama as well (he is a black man so I would not expect to hear him speak well - so even if he is marginally good with a teleprompter, it is like he is the 2nd coming because of low expectations).

I am surprised that an individual with Obama’s training (Ivy league Liberal Arts (Political Science) and Law degrees) is not a better extemporaneous public speaker. I mean I would have thought he would have debated in High School and college given his chosen major. He should have had a bunch of rhetoric classes as well.

[GOP Poet]

yep. Totally agree.

[nmh]

A “fine speaker”?

LOL!

He's a whiny baby. When he gets excited he sound like a shrill street punk.

[Names Ash Housewares]

I would hope they at least call him on it in an ad.
It would really be devastating to show Obama saying that, and challenge him to the town meetings in an ad on TV. Either way Obama loses. He looks like a coward, or he has to face the American people without the teleprompter.

[stainlessbanner]

IIRC, his speechwriters are borrowing generously from other speeches. [utube]

[JennysCool]

it makes me mad on his behalf

Well said, and me too!

[ari-freedom]

[dr_lew]

I've heard Obama-lama-ding-dong speak both with and without the Magic Teleprompter, and he comes across like a bag of bricks. What am I missing?

... the Kool-Aid, I guess. I just heard some clips that Mark Levin was playing tonight, and Obama's speaking style is abysmal. All he does is fish for hot buttons to excite the crowd, but in the clip, he wasn't getting them! For example, he was talking about "winnin'", as in "I don't have anything against winnin'." This was supposed to draw a cheer, but it didn't. He had to reiterate to get a lukewarm response. This was all part of the "McCain doesn't know what he's up against" bit. It was really dismal. I get cold sweats thinking that this mope could be elected president.

[A message]

"For such a fine speaker, it's really quite remarkable that he's had issues."

Puleeze, I'm so tired of hearing this crap that he a great speaker. The guy is an empty suit two bit shuckster and when he is free of the puppet strings we see the real Obama. Awkward, inept and totally out of his league.

[Bobalu]

McCain has had lots of practice speaking in the Senate, and he has honed these skills in countless town hall type meetings...practice makes perfect.

You would think that a trained trial lawyer could speak in public without a script...but somehow Obama can’t...it’s odd.

[Shelayne]

I agree with you! Obama’s delivery is basically flat and sometimes he ends a statement with his pitch rising, as if he's asking a question. Listen to him say,

“I don't want them punished with a baby!” and it comes out like, “I don't want them punished with a baby?”

Without the teleprompter, though, it's almost excruciating to listen to him. I just want it to stop.

Lord, have mercy on us!

[Son House]

Shivers Matthews

[rlmorel]

[poobear]

“He just locks down and can’t get the words out,”

The poor Dems. It’s if they are describing a bad first date!

[rlmorel]

Ann Coulter summarized this best in her book “Slander”.

We hear it and see it over and over and over again. It has been a constant recurring theme with liberals since WWII.

Republicans are “stupid”.

And when they are not “stupid”, they are “evil”.

All Democrats are “cerebral” and “nuanced”.

They trot out candidates like Adalai Stevenson, Bill Clinton, Bill Bradley and Barack Obama and proclaim them to be intellectual, thinking mans candidates. Policy “wonks”?

Dwight Eisenhower? Dimwit.

Richard Nixon: Evil

Barry Goldwater? Stupid and Evil.

Ronald Reagan? Stupid and Evil.

George H. W. Bush? Stupid.

George W. Bush? Stupid and Evil.

Need I go on? It is pathetic. I agree with your assessment of him. I think he rather DOES enjoy being “misunderestimated”...:)

Note: Two malapropisms he is responsible for have now nearly become mainstream, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them become entries in the dictionary...”misunderestimate” and “strategery”.