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Obama Thanks Himself, Irish PM Repeats Speech in Teleprompter Meltdown
FoxNews.com ^ | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | AP

Posted on 03/18/2009 4:17:26 AM PDT by TexasCajun

WASHINGTON -- Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns out, he was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given.

Cowen was set to speak twice at the White House on Tuesday night because there were two different parties going on at the executive mansion. No matter -- he would give the same speech to the two different audiences.

But Cowen was 20 seconds into his second address when it dawned on him that he was giving word for word the speech that Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; gaffe; obamah; oops; stpatricksday; teleprompter
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To: TexasCajun
Look at the ahole’s face in that pic.

He needed a good a$$ kicking along the line somewhere that he never got.

21 posted on 03/18/2009 4:50:18 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (The Stimulus Package: Preamble to the Democrat's new Declaration of In Dependence)
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To: CheneyChick

See my post 21.


22 posted on 03/18/2009 4:51:34 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (The Stimulus Package: Preamble to the Democrat's new Declaration of In Dependence)
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To: TexasCajun

23 posted on 03/18/2009 4:53:40 AM PDT by maggief
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To: TexasCajun
The day should always begin with a hearty laugh. This is funny. . . and yet sadly embarrassing. Our beloved Country has become the laughing stock on the world stage thanks to this charlatan called POTUS and the (supposed) 52% of the populace that put him in the WH.

This will be the longest four years of my life. . . .
24 posted on 03/18/2009 4:56:28 AM PDT by stentorian conservative (FUBO!!)
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To: TexasCajun

WTF? Are these guys friggin robots?

(make that PUPPETS)


25 posted on 03/18/2009 4:57:31 AM PDT by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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To: TexasCajun

This piece is written horribly. Am I wrong in surmising that Obama read the irish Prime Minister’s speach and apparently did not catch the fact that he was thanking himself for inviting himself (apparently to play with himself)?


26 posted on 03/18/2009 5:01:09 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: TexasCajun

So some dude at the White House is finally getting back at Hussein for his arrogance!! And apparently made him read the Irish Pm Speech while the Irish Pm read Obama’s!! Someone is OUT of a job this morning at 1600 Pennsy Ave!


27 posted on 03/18/2009 5:05:33 AM PDT by browniexyz
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To: TexasCajun

Rush is hysterical when he says “the teleprompter told Obama to say.....”!!!! SO DAMN TRUE!!! It’s a CRUTCH that will harm him by making him WEAK.


28 posted on 03/18/2009 5:09:28 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: TexasCajun

Man....the Irish don’t in for “good looks” in their leaders, do they???


29 posted on 03/18/2009 5:10:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: TexasCajun

Man, every picture of him has his nose in the air.


30 posted on 03/18/2009 5:10:09 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: TexasCajun

what a schmuck


31 posted on 03/18/2009 5:10:36 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: TexasCajun; All

Rush Limbaugh is so precient (sp.?). Monday he begins ragging Obama about the teleprompter “telling him” to sound optimistic. Now comedy becomes reality, when a teleprompter begins wielding unchecked power to put words in the mouths of elected officials from around the world.

Now we just need to find a way to get the right words plugged into it. “i.e. Tax Cuts, I resign POTUS to become NBA coach,...”


32 posted on 03/18/2009 5:10:39 AM PDT by johncocktoasten (Obama/Biden '08, in and of itself, A Bridge To Nowhere)
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To: CheneyChick

perpetual smirk


33 posted on 03/18/2009 5:10:50 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: MortMan

“Horribly written?”

Couldn’t be any plainer, I think...”Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns out, he was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given.”

What’s confusing about that?


34 posted on 03/18/2009 5:11:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: xcamel
We seriously need a cartoon with soros, marx and lennin furiously typing on multiple computers feeding into the teleprompter..

telemessage

Here is one that's close. Click on the picture for more.

35 posted on 03/18/2009 5:15:07 AM PDT by Nateman (You know you are doing the right thing when liberals scream.)
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To: TexasCajun

Zero always has that narcissistic snotty smile on his face.

Thank you Klown Kollege of America for annointing this incompetent boob for lead us to utter ruin.


36 posted on 03/18/2009 5:15:59 AM PDT by OpusatFR (We can give up any pretense of having a government for and by the people after Coronation Day.)
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To: TexasCajun

37 posted on 03/18/2009 5:16:59 AM PDT by McGruff (Obama's throwing Geithner under da bus)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Whose speach was it? Was Cohen reading Obama’s speach, or had Obama read Cohen’s?

The sense of it I got was that Obama read Cohen’s, but it isn’t clearly stated. Implication is a poor substitute for clarity.


38 posted on 03/18/2009 5:19:55 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: MortMan

“Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was ... repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given.”


39 posted on 03/18/2009 5:21:14 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: browniexyz

Teleprompter operations will be a new cabinet level position.

I want to see SNL, Rush or someone do an interview of the teleprompter with the answers being flashed on the teleprompter.


40 posted on 03/18/2009 5:21:18 AM PDT by listenhillary (Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
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