Jason

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200...politico/19663

Drew1369

He's famous for his oratory because of the teleprompter

Canaanabolaanan

And because he can pronounce "nuclear." :)

But if this turns out to be one of his bigger drawbacks, I'm cool with it. It would feel more genuine without it, but they all use note cards and more recently, teleprompters. And they all have speech writers. Plus, there's a lot to discuss, and especially in these critical times, you don't want to leave anything out or butcher a point.

So the only way it'd feel truly genuine anyways, is if there were no prepared cards or prompters. And we could assume it wasn't memorized. Personally, I don't believe a memorized speech is any more genuine than reading the same text. Seems minor to me. Use 'em.

Tumbleweed36

If you don't have anything substantive to say or don't have it in your heart, then read someone else's speech on a teleprompter.

simpswr

At least this guy can read what is on the teleprompter . .

Tumbleweed36

Yep, and that makes him intelligent, right?

BTW, my 10 year old grandson can read a teleprompter also, but that doesn't make him Presidential.

One thinks he is talking to his audience as he looks first right, then left, then right, then left, but he is actually just reading from one teleprompter to another. There is one of those on each side for those who can't think on their feet.

Since it doesn't come from the heart but from someone else's speeches, might as well have an aide read it for him. Took this one to speak to make George Bush (who was not good at public speech) look pretty decent. At least he spoke from his heart and not from some written garbage thought up by a liberal George Soros clone that projected it on a teleprompter.

simpswr

You guys realize that Presidents have been doing this for about 50 years??? Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to use them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/us...l?ref=politics

Tumbleweed36

I agree with you that all have used them....However, no one in History has even come close to depending upon them like this joke of a President. He is insecure.

Canaanabolaanan

Eh, he's done enough interviews and debates without them. Again, a minor issue. But that's fine. Of everything going on right now, yeah, teleprompting is a big deal. =D

EnglishPaul

I think you have your bodyparts a bit mistaken. I think you meant he spoke from his foot.