[Sub-Driver]

Really?

[Happy Rain]

“Oh yeah? Well uh as soon as um the-the-they put it in my tuh tuh telepromter I'm uh really gonna tell you um off!”

—Obama.

[allmost]

Now why would that be?

[sniper63]

Kinda reminds me of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz......

[allmost]

Independents mock him as well.

[penelopesire]

Obama's pets in the media just now noticing? LOL!

[Zakeet]

It is not nice to mock the Wee Wee

[ari-freedom]

Teddy Roosevelt didn’t need a teleprompter. People need to stop relying on crutches.

[cake_crumb]

"So why, on the campaign trail, has the teleprompter instead become a symbol of ineptitude, mocked repeatedly by Republican candidates?"

How quickly they pretend to forget. Or how frequently they lie. President George Bush, who didn't like teleprompters, was mocked and called synonyms for intellectually unfit by the media and on late night TV for having used one to give a major speech as president once. Of course, he was ALSO mocked when he used written notes while addressing the nation.

TOTUS is not any sort of symbol for the presidency; it's the symbol of Barack Hussein Obama.

[chemicalman]

You don't need teleprompters when speaking to a first grade class.

[arthurus]

So now a teleprompter is a mark of competence and intelligence?

[arthurus]

The teleprompter always makes me wonder whose words he is reading.

[mazda77]

[steveyp]

He had a 5 minute speech about Lincoln, and he used a teleprompter. Lincoln. He’s black. He was in the IL legislature. In Springfield. 5 minutes. He had nothing.

[TexasCajun]

From the Washington Post, Wow!

Rush is right, the left has realized their affirmative action President isn't up to the job!

[wayoverontheright]

So, choosing to not use a teleprompter, if you’re a Republican, is MOCKING the president, who can’t even talk to third graders without using it?

Oratorical skills by definition would exclude the use of a teleprompter. Enunciation skills is what this president possesses, a truly great orator would perhaps use notes to keep on track, but any speech is diminished greatly by having none of it committed to memory.

This whole discussion misses the real reason his speeches should be discounted-he inspires only division among us. He cajoles, he demeans, he talks down to us; in tone and content, he comes across as petulent, angry, and haughty.

No speech that has as its goal to inspire division can rise to the level of great oratory, because no speech that seeks to bring to the surface our most banal urges can possibly take us to a higher plane.

The use of the teleprompter merely symbolizes his ineptitude, his lack of moral authority to lecture us. With his incessant reliance on the word-feeder, Obama becomes the proverbial empty suit, a mere tool of some unknown string-puller.

[Siena Dreaming]

So when’s the last time Barry had a full-on press conference?