Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter

Politico ^ | 3-5-09 | CAROL E. LEE

[DMZFrank]

I take exception with the notion of Hussein being such a great communicator. Most of what he says is rather pedestrian tautology. How many memorable phrases as he turned that will endure? None that I can think of.

That crazed teleprompter tennis match that he seems to be watching every time he gives a speech is REALLY getting old.

[1066AD]

Exactly.

[txroadkill]

How many memorable phrases [h]as he turned that will endure?

• "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --Campaign event for a group of extremely wealthy supporters in San Francisco

 

• "That's not the man I knew."- Referring to rev. Wright

 

• "He's just a guy who lives in my neighborhood." referring to William Ayers, an un-repentant terrorist whose living room Obama launched his political career in

 

• "The answer to that question is above my pay grade"- Answer to "When does life begin" asked by Rick Warren at the Saddleback Debate

 

• "Let me introduce to you the next President -uh...ummm- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden."

 

• "Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon."--referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008

 

• "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008

 

• "How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida

 

• "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

 

• "Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers

 

• "I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon

 

• "Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter at a diner in Pennsylvania

 

• "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

 

• "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --referring to a tornado in Kansas that killed 12 people

I'll remember a few of these.




 

 

[death2tyrants]

“Could it be that crap is actually coming true?”

Seems like it, especially after seening the video ‘How Obama Got Elected’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8

[CheneyChick]

I like it!

[Just mythoughts]

We have elected a prompter reader... no wonder the media loves this guy. They all know that anyone of them could be in his place, he is one of them but has the perfect image of diversity.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“There’s got to be a way to jam those things. Ultra-violet rays or ultrasonics... something.

Not that I am suggesting anything, mind...”

“Modifying” his canned speeches would be great fun.

Phrases like “ A wise economist once said “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”” would be fun to slip into his speeches.

[Bob]

which came first? Obama discovered the teleprompter or Obama’s oratary skills?

Bingo! His using a teleprompter makes it appear as if he has oratory skills as he reads prepared text. If his 'oratory skills' were as great as is claimed, the loss of the teleprompter wouldn't have reduced him to a rambling puddle of jello, barely able to articulate an intelligible sentence.

How he was able to get through the debates without his teleprompter is beyond my comprehension. I suppose he had to do a lot of practicing to pull that off.

[mwilli20]

Here’s a couple more:

“... you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalizer, or an inhalator, not a breathalizer ...”

“... what they’ll say is ‘Well it cost too much money’, but, you know what? it would cost ab’t, it, it would cost about the same as what we would spend ... it o-over the course of ten years it would cost what it would cost us ... it, it, hmm alright ok ... It would cost us about the same as it would cost ... for about ... hold on one second, I can’t hear myself...”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc

[kanawa]

Sarah never needed no girlie-man telepromter.

[kanawa]

He planned on calling the President of Canada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp9KpbWjT-o

[kanawa]

“It’s a great pleasure to be here in Iowa”

Speaking to a news conference during his trip to Ottawa, Canada

[ILikeBourbon]

I fold.

[Wolfstar]

LOL at seeing all those quotes together like that. I shouldn’t laugh, but the irony of the first affirmative action president being such a dolt is too rich.

[Wolfstar]

Seems like it, especially after seening the video ‘How Obama Got Elected’

We would all do well to bear in mind that the dead-center, top-of-the-bell-curve average IQ is 100, and that the IQ of half the population falls below 100. If it were possible to acquire sufficient data to plot on a bell curve, I'd wager that the majority of Obama voters are in the half of the population with IQ's below 100.

[DMZFrank]

Thanks for this excellent compilation of some of Hussein’s best musings. I’ll keep them on file.

[Nateman]

There is a whole thread devoted to poking fun at this teleprompting commie asshat. Click on the picture to join in on the fun!