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The POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter. Um, no he doesn't. Maybe you're thinking of his predecessor?
by _pius 17y ago
The POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter.
Um, no he doesn't. Maybe you're thinking of his predecessor?
- mynameishere 17y agoBush usually worked from notes except for large speeches, like the state of the union address. Obama's reliance on speechwriters via his teleprompter is so significant that even the MSM has commented upon it. It's not a secret. http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter Sarah Palin is an interesting phenomenon, even if she herself is pretty unimportant (in the scheme of things). Consider: Why is the GOP is pushing such a mediocre figure? Why is the entire left in a frenzied and permanent two-minutes-hate concerning her? Don't say, "Oh she was nominated for the VP, blah blah, and she's dumb blah blah". Joseph Biden is the actual VP and he spends his days and nights trying to come up with new and improved oratorical outrages. Yet nobody hates Biden, and everybody hates Palin. And they probably hate me just for pointing it out. It's very strange.
- thras 17y agoIt's surprising what people are impressed by. A lot of people were impressed by Bush's speaking ability -- something that even as a conservative I never understood -- and a lot of people are impressed by Obama's. Personally, I get annoyed by the low information content of everything he says. Completely standard for Presidents since Carter, I know. But I find it bizarre that otherwise intelligent people can stand the information-free drivel Obama's speech-writers have put down just because the same people agree with the emotions behind it. Case in point, his seminal speech on race and Jeremiah Wright. Demand information from your politicians, not emotion, not empathy.
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