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Outsider hired for Obama speeches
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/3/outsider-hired-for-obama-speeches/?cache ^

Posted on 05/04/2011 6:08:26 PM PDT by kcvl

On top of the more than half a million dollars it spends on speechwriters, the White House is using tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a public relations firm headed by Democratic image maker Michael Sheehan — once dubbed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as an “extraordinary media coach” who helped her master the teleprompter.

Mr. Sheehan’s firm, Sheehan Associates, could receive more than $100,000 under a current contract and has been providing occasional speech and consulting services to the White House since 2009, federal purchasing records show.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hillaryclinton; michaelsheehan; obamaspeeches; sheehanassociates; speechwriter; taxdollarsatwork; totus

1 posted on 05/04/2011 6:08:28 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Payoff for Cindy


2 posted on 05/04/2011 6:10:03 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: al baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI


3 posted on 05/04/2011 6:11:27 PM PDT by tumblindice (Don't confuse me with the facts)
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4 posted on 05/04/2011 6:13:18 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: al baby

The Sheehan effect refers to Michael Sheehan, the media-training guru who has served as the speech coach at every Democratic convention since 1988, laboring in a windowless room beneath the stage to tune up speakers before their podium turns, and has worked on countless campaigns. Among Sheehan’s most prominent clients have been Bill and Hillary Clinton, and also the current president—whom Sheehan prepped for his star-making 2004 convention keynote and last year’s nomination acceptance as well as his televised debates with John McCain. (At one point Sheehan told Obama that their goal was to make McCain come across like Mr. Wilson from “Dennis the Menace.”)

5 posted on 05/04/2011 6:17:30 PM PDT by kcvl
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6 posted on 05/04/2011 6:17:51 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: al baby

I see a red x in a box. I am getting very sleepy.


7 posted on 05/04/2011 6:26:30 PM PDT by tumblindice (Don't confuse me with the facts)
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To: tumblindice

OK, there it is. There’s really nothing like seeing busy dung beetles and the president rolling their dung about.
Hmmmmmmmmmm?


8 posted on 05/04/2011 6:29:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (Don't confuse me with the facts)
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To: tumblindice

Ah, I see others consider our septic tank bottom dwelling president as the Dung-Beetle-in-Chief.

Wonder what Jamie (the mythbuster who was - I believe - a SEAL in an earlier life) thinks of the low-rent piece of excrement standing in front of him.)

Perhaps thoughts like “this - thing - couldn’t lead a hungry dog to food...”


9 posted on 05/04/2011 7:12:45 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: kcvl

With the staged pictures at the podium after the speech, and the announcement of speech and teleprompter coaches, Barry’s Presidency sounds and looks more and more like the plot from “The King’s Speech”.


10 posted on 05/04/2011 7:35:08 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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