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Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter
By CAROL E. LEE | 3/5/09 3:22 PM EST Text Size:
The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.
Photo: AP
President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter.
The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.
Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches in the White House’s stately parlors. They stood next to him on the floor of a manufacturing plant in Indiana as he pitched his economic stimulus plan. They traveled to the Department of Transportation this week and were in the Capitol Rotunda last month when he paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln in six-minute prepared remarks.
Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.
After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches, reports surfaced that he was training to wean himself off of the device while on vacation in Hawaii. But no such luck.
His use of the teleprompter makes work tricky for the television crews and photographers trying to capture an image of the president announcing a new Cabinet secretary or housing plan without a pane of glass blocking his face. And it is a startling sight to see such sleek, modern technology set against the mahogany doors and Bohemian crystal chandeliers in the East Room or the marble columns of the Grand Foyer.
Just how much of a crutch the teleprompter has become for Obama was on sharp display during his latest commerce secretary announcement. The president spoke from a teleprompter in the ornate Indian Treaty Room for a few minutes. Then Gov. Gary Locke stepped to the podium and pulled out a piece of paper for reference.
The president’s teleprompter also elicited some uncomfortable laughter after he announced Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his choice for Health and Human Services secretary. “Kathy,” Obama said, turning the podium over to Sebelius, who waited at the microphone for an awkward few seconds while the teleprompters were lowered to the floor and the television cameras rolled.
Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements and when repeating the same lines on his economic stimulus plan that he's been saying for months — whereas past presidents have mostly worked off of notes on the podium except during major speeches, such as the State of the Union.
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Just when you think it cant get worse. . . . . .
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Doesn't matter, the president doesn't have a say in anything.
He is merely there to sell political messages and agendas to the public.
The spokesperson of the government, at the most.
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Doesn't matter, the president doesn't have a say in anything.
He is merely there to sell political messages and agendas to the public.
The spokesperson of the government, at the most.
You mean, the spokesperson of the administration and the cabinet that he hand-picked himself?
You really think if Romney or McCain or someone else were in office right now, that this exact same kind of reckless spending would be going on?
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You mean, the spokesperson of the administration and the cabinet that he hand-picked himself?
You really think if Romney or McCain or someone else were in office right now, that this exact same kind of reckless spending would be going on?
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youre sounding like a whinney little bitch
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youre sounding like a whinney little bitch
This just goes to show the ways in which the masses are manipulated.
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Bush may not have been a great orator, but I'd take his genuineness over Obama's BS. This guy is a disgrace to the nation. He is not even legally allowed to be president as her WAS born in Kenya. I can't believe that he wasn't compelled by the courts to furnish a copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate. This guys is a charleton (sp?). It is understandable why the left fell for him as he is charismatic but he is an empty suit (when it comes to morals, ethics and wisdom). Thank you left for destroying our great country and marching us towards socialism/communism.
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This just goes to show the ways in which the masses are manipulated.
OR....
youre just being a whinney little bitch
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Before the election no one wanted to believe me when I said he was a fraud!!
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Bush may not have been a great orator, but I'd take his genuineness over Obama's BS. This guy is a disgrace to the nation. He is not even legally allowed to be president as her WAS born in Kenya. I can't believe that he wasn't compelled by the courts to furnish a copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate. This guys is a charleton (sp?). It is understandable why the left fell for him as he is charismatic but he is an empty suit (when it comes to morals, ethics and wisdom). Thank you left for destroying our great country and marching us towards socialism/communism.
Obama owns your mind. What is left over from the meltdown.
Bush couldn't even read a teleprompter. And anyone thinking he was a genius... well let's say that is a testament to their own intellect or rather, lack of, right there.
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The fact that you voted for him (provided your old enough) is a testament to your intellect.....good job, you f**ked again!
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Any other excuse from the mental midget to justify his insecurities and Obama obsession?
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Any other excuse from the mental midget to justify his insecurities and Obama obsession?
When one person single handidly wages a war on wealth, the stock market, 2nd amendment, etc, damn right people are going to be obssessed.
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As opposed to the last idiot who was waging war on another sovereign country, the US economy, the US Constitution, American citizens rights, and the justice system?
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According to Schiff and Celente: obama is Bush the 3rd, but worse!
Same things you complain about, but worse!
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I must have missed all your whining and complaining about Bush.
If they are that much alike surely those posts from you exist? Or is this just a case of sour grapes?
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I must have missed all your whining and complaining about Bush.
If they are that much alike surely those posts from you exist? Or is this just a case of sour grapes?
Bush was a reckless spendthrift, but Obama is worse, way worse.
You have not defended even one of these reckless policies of his, for obvious reasons.
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Bush was a reckless spendthrift, but Obama is worse, way worse.
You have not defended even one of these reckless policies of his, for obvious reasons.
So where are your posts complaining about Bush?
Which policy? As stated I wait and see the outcome and actual effects of policies before whining about them.
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So where are your posts complaining about Bush?
Which policy? As stated I wait and see the outcome and actual effects of policies before whining about them.
Lets see, jobless is going to increase, the market crashes every day by his every word. What moere do you want?
BTW - did you read about his insulting the GB PM yesterday????
Even the Brits are saying he is a disaster and a classless fool.
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Lets see, jobless is going to increase, the market crashes every day by his every word. What moere do you want?
BTW - did you read about his insulting the GB PM yesterday????
Even the Brits are saying he is a disaster and a classless fool.
Fortunately for me the medical field is pretty much recession proof. So I have no worries about being jobless.
All the more for the silly Repub governors to accept the stim money. Combat the cost of unemployment (alledgedly).
Hell, Bush insulted Americans daily. So why would I care what opinions the Brits have of our prez?