Posted on 11/06/2010 6:32:52 AM PDT by chickadee
Namaste India! In all likelihood that will be silver-tongued Barack Obama's opening line when he addresses the Indian parliament next week. But to help him pronounce Hindi words correctly will be a teleprompter which the US president uses ever so often for his hypnotising speeches.
According to parliament sources, a technical team from the US has helped the Lok Sabha secretariat install textbook-sized panes of glass around the podium that will give cues to Obama on his prepared remarks to 780 Indian MPs on the evening of Nov 8.
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Indian politicians are known for making impromptu long speeches and perhaps that is why some parliament officials, who did not wish to be named, sounded rather surprised with the idea of a teleprompter for Obama.
"We thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address with his continuous eye contact," an official, who did not wish to be identified because of security restrictions, said.
Obama is known to captivate audiences with his one-liners that sound like extempore and his deep gaze. But few in India know that the US president always carries the teleprompter with him wherever he speaks.
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That's BRILLIANT!
We need to get this to Rush, Beck, and Levin to suggest on air.
But but but....oration is 0bama’s greatest strength
Maybe saying the words, as written, like an actor, is his greatest strength. Kind of interesting, Reagan was an actor turned statesman, Obama is an actor pretending at being a statesman.
There's that pesky old scar again. Maybe Barry suffered brain damage and can't speak without TOTUS.Or think.
Did you catch the rudeness captured in this photo? Obama should be honoring his Indian hosts, instead he’s fauning the big shot white guys. Look at the faces of the Indian dignitaries! This is appalling!
The Indians are discovering that the emperor has no clothes!
Great picture of the embarrassment in chief.
I get the feeling that everyone in the world is laughing at our president.
It could be done as "a house rule" to restore dignity to the House.
I would love to see and hear the debates around this. Announce it two weeks before the SOTU, to get the excitement built up with the talk shows. I predict Goof ball would have to have a simplified SOTU like defensive football teams have to do when they realize their players are too dumb to pick up the playbooks. :-)
They probably think, “what a bunch of homos”.
Reagan could speak of the cuff and without teleprompters, because he didn’t have to hide and lie about his core beliefs.
“CORPSEMAN”
One thing about Obama he is the cure for insomnia.
an indian friend of mine at work told me the other day that indians love obama. why, i don’t know, but they think he’s great. ugh!
Porus, a relatively minor ruler in India at the time, did manage to get his forces to critically wound Alexander the Great, but his kingdom fell, eventually. Alexander, however, impressed by the efforts made until the end, allowed Porus to not only keep his territory, but also maintain additional ones that Alexander had won in what is now Afghanistan, earlier. Alexander’s troops, realising the fact that the battle that nearly cost them their first defeat (and Alexander’s near-death) happened only on the borders of India, and not India proper, revolted and refused to carry the campaign into the country. The bigger, and better-trained Magadha kingdom awaited them.
It's an inhaler, not an inhalator.
What's more, President "I-Know-More-About-Everything-Than-Anybody-Else" doesn't understand much about illness, medicine, and medical treatments. Treating asthma is a wee bit more complicated than just "give the kid an inhaler."
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