The question that flummoxed the great orator

Guardian.co.uk ^ | April 3, 2009 | John Crace

[Scanian]

the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...

[Scanian]

Zer0 mumbles and stumbles without his tele-crutch once again

[jennyjenny]

This is surprising coming from the guardian, is it not? The world is laughing at us.

[Carling]

Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...

The only times the world has seen Obama prior to the G20, TOTUS was running the show. Bush is a more eloquent off-the-cuff speaker than is the Boy King.

[Typical_Whitey]

Well at least some see through the veener....

[Reagan69]

Maybe we, as a country, are just a little too “globally” intertwined and we should become just a little more self-sufficient.

[LottieDah]

Was his mini-promptor (his Blackberry inoperable in Europe?)

[bgill]

Yo, Hussein, same as American dvds, American teleprompters don’t work in England.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Well at least some see through the veener...."

It's a very thin veil...

[Scanian]

I used to have a gray parrot who was a better ad-libber than Zer0.

I think his dependence on the teleprompter shows not only his basic ignorance but also enormous insecurity, which shows up as narcissism. The guy is a shrink’s dream. I keep hoping for Dr. Krauthammer to give his long-distance diagnosis of Barry’s mental condition. But Charles is probably too much of a professional to do it.

[techcor]

ABC’s George Staffahumpalots will give him an A++ for the answer.

[Scanian]

I’m sure he made sure to stock up on a few local tele-crutches before leaving home. He’d be too chicken shit not to.

[DeaconRed]

"Maybe we, as a country"

We are not a country anymore.
We are a Teletry. What is a Teletry? Glad you asked.
A Teletry is a former country now being run by a TELEPROMPTER.

[iopscusa]

Let’s just tell it like it is Obama is a Dumb Azzz!

[Scanian]

Wasn’t he already in London when Steve Doocy caught him using the BB during a Q & A the other day?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“Maybe we, as a country, are just a little too “globally” intertwined and we should become just a little more self-sufficient.”

I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. Militarily AND economically, we need to limit our worldwide entanglements.

[carmody]

He’s not much more articulate than the teenage beauty pageant contestant trying to explain why kids don’t know geography.

[Riodacat]

The rest of the world all hold us responsible for the global financial collapse anyway (and not without justification), so he may as well fess up.
Wait til things really go for a crap later this year and next and see what the rest of the world thinks of us..

[holden]

Right about now 0bambi's handlers are talking to the TelePrompTer execs about a heads-up glasses version Stud-ious Barry Davis could wear. (Borrow a little from Sarah P here.)

Axelrod: Would a cool $10M let it happen within a month? A $5M bonus for being TV-ready in two weeks!

(Hackable) Wireless won't work; it'll have to be fibre optic.

HF

[rbg81]

He’s slipping. He should have just said “Bush” and stopped there.

[Scanian]

It amazes me that British writers—even those writing for commie rags like the Guardian—are more truthful about Zer0 than our “journalists.” But they have less of an emotional investment in the creep than the English, I suppose.