So, the whole, President Barack Obama is a fantastic orator bit is crashing in with the reality that it's more like, President Barack Obama does a mighty fine job of reading prepared bits, but if the teleprompter fails he's in deep doodoo.
Carol E. Lee points out on Politico today (hat tip Drudge), that President Obama relies on his little glass panel to an unprecedented degree.
She also mentions the trouble photographers are having finding an angle to get a good shot of #44 while keeping the telltale glass panels out of the shot.
Somehow I think if #43 had required a teleprompter at every single engagement, we would have seen every picture of W. with the prompter in the frame. What does it say about a man who needs a prompter even when he's repeating rote campaign rhetoric? It says to me his short term memory is completely shot, and he knows his thoughts don't flow from one to the next as they should.
What exactly is he pretending not to smoke now, anyway?
(what's the latest, is he or isn't he a smoker?)
Maybe that explains his shoddy treatment of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He forgot he was coming over for a visit, and did everything at the last minute, plus he didn't want to the traditional joint press conference cause he knew that he'd come across as a stammering ninny compared even to the charisma challenged Brown.
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I vote we let the man smoke. It might even help.
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