Posted on 03/18/2009 7:47:09 AM PDT by bimboeruption
A teleprompt blunder has led to Barack Obama thanking himself in a speech at the White House in a St Patrick's Day celebration.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit too familiar.
It was. He was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.
Mr Cowen stopped, turned to the president and said: "That's your speech."
A laughing Mr Obama returned to the podium to take over but it seems the script had finally been switched and the US president ended up thanking himself for inviting everyone to the party.
Mr Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the "teleprompt president" over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech.
Earlier in the day, the president claimed an Irish ancestry, saying his mother's family could be traced back to Ireland.
He joked to Cowen: "We may be cousins. We haven't sorted that through yet."
Speaking in the Oval Office, he told the Irish premier:"Not all Americans are Irish but all Americans support those who stand on the side of peace and peace will prevail."
The fountains at the White House were dyed green for the day at the request of the First Lady and guests at the cocktail reception drank green sparkling wine from a Californian vineyard.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon from Northern Ireland and Maggie McCarthy, a traditional Irish dancer and musician from Cork, and the vocal group Celtic Thunder all attended.
Mr Obama joked about the free-flowing bar and warned his guests not to wear lampshades on their heads in front of the cameras.
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An "orator", like Cicero or Lincoln, writes his own speeches and delivers his own speeches.
Reading somebody else's words off of a Tele-Prompter merely makes you the equivalent of the "Best Reader" in Mrs. Wilson's Fifth Grade Class.
0 won’t blame himself, he’ll blame that poor teleprompter.
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Of course!
Why, it's all over the front page of the...um...well, it's the lead story on all the....
The Diaper Media is in full cover mode.
The incompetence of the Obama administration is breathtaking!
When teleprompters go bad....next on Oprah!
The zero is the puppet president and the liberals idiots thought that Bush was stupid.
He speaks with a deep, sonorous tone. That’s all he’s got going for him. The rest of his presentation and public speaking skills, frankly, suck.
The problem with lying so much is that you have to dedicate so much brainpower to maintaining the lies, other skills suffer. That’s where the umms and uhhhs come from with Obama - his brain is going 10000 miles an hour making sure he doesn’t contradict a prior lie.
Professional public speakers - those who are not nervous speaking in public - and who tell the truth don’t have that problem. It’s a telltale sign of lying when a public speaker does that.
Apparently the Manchurian candidate is no match for the Manchurian teleprompter.
Obama and his Telepromter....A new comedy series starting next week on on CBS....
If Bush had done this, it would be lead story/front page for a month, with the MSM editorializing that this is proof positive that he’s an imbecile. There will be books written about how the MSM covers up for Biden.
“liberals idiots thought that Bush was stupid.”....
Bush is a rocket scientist compared to the adventures of OBozo and his teleprompter.....
Dumb and Dumber, every day Obama is disproving the theory that a person can only be so stupid. Yea, well OholyO is showing us the true depths of stupidity, and you can’t fix stupid!
Hope! and Change!
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Rush Limbaugh has been doing a bit this week about O being controlled by his teleprompter.....today’s show ought to be hysterical!
Expect more of this in the next four years. He’s a real president in training and a slow learner as well.
Can’t these retards speak without a Teleprompter?
Actually, he did not misspell "potato". The teachers that were with Quayle misspelled it on the glash cards he was using. It was a setup.
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