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VIDEO: Obama's Teleprompter Crashes, Breaks During Speech
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 13, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

Posted on 07/13/2009 3:56:00 PM PDT by ianschwartz

Midway through his speech on urban and metropolitan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building this afternoon, one of his two small glass prompters came crashing down, hitting the wood floor and crashing in many pieces. It made quite a ruckus.

“Oh, goodness,” a startled President Obama said. “Sorry about that, guys.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; itsdeadjim; prompticide; teleprompter; totus
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To: ianschwartz

Was his speech cancelled?


21 posted on 07/13/2009 4:05:21 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: ianschwartz

Hilarious!


22 posted on 07/13/2009 4:05:57 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: ianschwartz
coitus interruptus?

Deepest apologies................

23 posted on 07/13/2009 4:06:29 PM PDT by EggsAckley (There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
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To: ianschwartz

24 posted on 07/13/2009 4:06:33 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: savedbygrace

An honester prompter might of just had enough.


25 posted on 07/13/2009 4:07:20 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Obama is not my president until we see his birth certificate. A real one.)
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To: ianschwartz; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; BP2; ...
Obama's Teleprompter Crashes, Breaks During Speech

Pinging just because...

26 posted on 07/13/2009 4:07:36 PM PDT by LucyT ("I used to look forward to Christmas but now I look forward to karma.")
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To: IrishPennant

I think it was Ike’s ghost.


27 posted on 07/13/2009 4:07:41 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: AGreatPer

“An honester prompter might of just had enough.”

Yeah, I don’t think it fell, I think it passed out...


28 posted on 07/13/2009 4:08:38 PM PDT by jessduntno ("We have elected the King of the POst TUrtleS.")
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To: ianschwartz
Vertiginous Verbage Vomitus!
29 posted on 07/13/2009 4:10:47 PM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: presently no screen name

Ike and Ron having a little haha moment.


30 posted on 07/13/2009 4:12:06 PM PDT by IrishPennant (RLT = Radical Left Terrorism...feel it????)
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To: jessduntno

“TOTUS was assassinated! With a silencer” NEAR MISS!


31 posted on 07/13/2009 4:12:59 PM PDT by outhousepatrol
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To: ianschwartz
one of his two small glass prompters came crashing down

Good thing it wasn't both of them - they'd have had to transfer power to Biden.


32 posted on 07/13/2009 4:13:02 PM PDT by ProfoundMan (RightyPics.com)
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To: ianschwartz

Rest In Pieces TOTUS.


33 posted on 07/13/2009 4:13:19 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Stop meddling in the affairs of countries and individuals Obama!)
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To: ianschwartz

What PROMPTED it to fall?


34 posted on 07/13/2009 4:14:07 PM PDT by Pylon (You are gonna spend 20 dollars every month on paper towels anyway)
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To: ladyvet

LOL!


35 posted on 07/13/2009 4:14:19 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: ianschwartz
Teleprompter
36 posted on 07/13/2009 4:14:38 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: ianschwartz

37 posted on 07/13/2009 4:16:40 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If you cannot be a good example you can serve as horrible warning - like Obama.)
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To: windcliff

ping


38 posted on 07/13/2009 4:16:44 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: ianschwartz
So, did he end up just looking in one direction for the rest of the speech?

What a poseur.

39 posted on 07/13/2009 4:17:21 PM PDT by ggrrrrr23456
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To: ianschwartz; All

God did it!!!!


40 posted on 07/13/2009 4:17:42 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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