[Steve_Seattle]

Those two videos are priceless. I still don’t agree with the myth of the golden-tongued Obama. He’s apparently given one or two good speeches, but so did Bush. And I never saw Bush or Palin as tongue-tied as Obama was in that second video.

[Madame Dufarge]

At one point in the video he says "Hold on, I can't hear myself," as if he had a receiver in his ear.

I've always suspected that was the case, and the teleprompter replaced it, being more fail-safe.