...he's going back to his "roots"...street talk, babble, "wanna buy a watch"....routine
Posted on 07/17/2012 8:49:21 AM PDT by kristinn
President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter.
At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.
The difference is dramatic. Instead of turning in his characteristic manner from right to left and back again, reading from the two sloping, clear-plastic planes of his teleprompter, Obama has glanced down at pages in a binder on his podium.
Team Obama thinks the switch, or partial switch — the president is not giving up the teleprompter entirely — will help him better connect with voters.
Critics have mocked Obama’s routine use of the teleprompter, including in speeches to schoolchildren. And the new use of written notes appears intended to trade away the smooth, distant demeanor of teleprompter rhetoric for a little more immediacy and vigor. A senior administration official acknowledged the shift in the president’s style, saying Obama is speaking “more extemporaneously.”
But the senior official said the lack of teleprompters has “less to do with image and more to do with upping the tempo” at campaign events, while creating more unscripted moments.
Not using a teleprompter lets Obama be more spontaneous on the stump. Since making the shift, the president at times has ad-libbed remarks while playing off his supporters’ reactions, something that had been difficult with a teleprompter.
“It’s become a crutch,” Tobe Berkovitz, a professor of communications at Boston University who specializes in political communications, said in describing Obama’s use of the teleprompter.
“It seemed as though he couldn’t go anywhere without them, and it made him seem unconfident and robotic in dealing with real people out there,” Berkovitz said.
Until recently, Obama was rarely seen without the two transparent panels at his side...
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...he's going back to his "roots"...street talk, babble, "wanna buy a watch"....routine
We’ll know when he does?
..."I forgot what Social Security card I used"...."somebody pay my rent"...."what does a BC look like anyway?"...."anybody seen Moochell, she's gotta cash this for me"...."can I get you coffee?"
I’ve noticed lately that he’s sounding more like Hugo Chavaz.
I'm still thinking about his "If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Nothing inspires me quite like a president who says that during election season.
““It seemed as though he couldn’t go anywhere without them, and it made him seem unconfident and robotic in dealing with real people out there,” Berkovitz said.”
Ya think? Obama hasn’t had an original thought since he popped out of ole Stanley.
‘Resist we much!’
Why am I picturing the commercial where the mop stalks the woman who has switched to a different brand, only in this case it’s a teleprompter peering after Barrack?
Come back! Why won’t you love me, Obama?
The man can’t think on his feet. You see it all the time.
Washington never did that in 1792. Lincoln never did that in 1864. FDR never did that in 1936. Truman never did that in 1948.
If only JFK's ghostwriter were still around to add another chapter to the book Profiles in Courage.
He either has some new technology that allows him to be coached OR he doesn’t give a damn anymore. My guess is the latter. His asinine remarks about business owners is the evidence.
Recently didn’t he switch the teleprompter off while speaking to a group of “soccer moms” and said “You didn’ have that baby ~ somebody else did”.
I'd go protest his liberal @$$, but have to work this afternoon. Believe it or not, moveon.org is protesting his visit here today. I guess he is not liberal enough for them.
Love it because now we get words of ‘wisdom’ like this: “If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
You left out the ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah......
We’ve made a note to stay at home in Lakeway today. There’s no way I’d want to be in that traffic, and I don’t won’t to see his face, period.
The B.O. “Uh” count with David Letterman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThEAO0lt4Dw
I had a feeling he was starting to go off prompter more lately, given his increasingly ridiculous statements (”you got a business? you didn’t make that, someone else did!...etc.).
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