PRUDEN: A crucial week for Obama's teleprompter - Washington Times »
Posted By RTHTGakaRoland 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political OpinionThis is a big week for the president's teleprompter. He's first taking it across the Potomac for a speech urging schoolchildren to wash their hands, study hard and stay in school.
Good advice for everyone, no doubt, and maybe the advice will stimulate the sale of soap to people who really need it. Politicians particularly should take to heart a presidential admonition to keep their hands clean. Who can argue with that? Democrats everywhere are looking for places where the applause will be at least polite,
Congress is back in town after a month on the Western front, and still befuddled and a little shellshocked from taking fire from angry constituents. Nobody wants what the president is selling, insofar as anybody can figure out exactly what he's selling. The magic elixir may be the president himself, and lately nobody's buying that, either.
Rarely have Americans spoken up with such bold energy and ferocious power, organized by amateurs in the grass roots disdainful of both parties, and the fright was more than enough to make congressmen wet their pants, many of them twice.
But Wednesday night, the children's hour will be over, and the president's real audience - the American public - will be eager to take Mr. Obama's measure. This will be a crucial test of the teleprompter.Mr. Obama has so far offered soft rhetoric instead of hard reality, and that was all right for the campaign. He was only feeding what he discovered was an insatiable appetite for pretty words delivered with easy charm and synthetic grace. Reality, alas, finally intrudes. This time there's no one to apologize to, no one left to charm with buttered eloquence, no one left to applaud polished hackery.
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Tasine3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Pruden's last 2 sentences say it all: "Mr. Obama was educated at Yale Law School, but a professor at Grinder Switch A could have told him that no matter how tempted he may be, a lawyer never insults the jury. The jury gets the last word. "
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bubba23 months, 2 weeks ago
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This stuff about Obama and a "teleprompter" is total and complete BULLSH!T.
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Bush couldn't utter a coherent sentence WITH a teleprompter, let alone without one. He was one of the WORST presidents at public speaking and didn't make sense most of the time.
This is just MORE proof of your mindeless, RACIST hate of Obama.
I can only feel sorry for you because you are such self-righteous hypocrites.-
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stephen-johnson3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Funny how we have to rush to pass a health care "reform" bill that won't take effect until 2013.
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The choice of a 2013 start date is interesting - under the dream scenario, the health care "reforms" would have been enacted already, and the public wouldn't feel the effects of those "reforms" until after the 2012 election. If the "reforms" are so helpful, why not enact them now and let Obama run on them in 2012? The answer is simple - the "reforms" suck, and Obama knows it.
Fortunately, so does everyone else now.-
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spoondaddy3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Ok then why is he pushing for reform? Is he trying to destroy America? does he secretly want us all to suffer so he can laugh at all the chumps who voted for him.
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I'm not asking you to agree with me I just wish you people would think for yourselves and not just recycle hate.
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Dionys3 months, 2 weeks ago
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What sad, little, angry children you are. Obama does just fine without a teleprompter. A thousand times better than Bush WITH a teleprompter. Just because he actually thinks from time to time about what he's going to say instead of spewing ridiculous things and then sticking to them doesn't mean you have any room to criticize.
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stephen-johnson3 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Just because he actually thinks from time to time about what he's going to say instead of spewing ridiculous things "
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You mean the thought Obama put into criticizing the Cambridge PD for the Gates incident? He certainly knew all the facts about the case - he just got wee-weed up a little. -
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chevydog3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Dionys -- An interesting editorial. Perhaps things look different in Washington than they do out here. That may explain some of it.
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I'm not really anxious to knock Prez O; he is after all the only Prez we have. I don't think he's a Marxist, socialist, racist, or that he roasts babies on the White House lawn. At worst, he's a White Sox-ist (criminal to some, but not to me). But, and I forget the exact wording of the article, reality intrudes. Candidate O during the election didn't really do anything different than any normal politician would do. That is he said what he needed to say to get elected. I didn't vote for him; partly becuse we have some philosophical differences and partly because I thought he lacked experience in dealing with Congress. Got called many things by many different people--not by you that I remember. "Right wing racist" may have been one of the nicer ones. You always have to cultivate a thick skin on media like Propeller; but that one hurt some. Though conservtive, I don't really consider myself right wing; nor do I consider myself racist. I will admit to not being very familiiar with the black community. My experience with dealing with racism is mostly based on dealing with various Asian ethnic groups and with international adoption.
Anyway, now Prez O is hittting a rough patch. Part of that seems to be due to --surprise!-- lack of experience in dealing with Congress. He managed to get away with it for the stimulus plan. But now it looks like most of his problem is that his own party members seem diposed to say stuff that gets him in hot water. He either doesn't care or doesn't know how to stop this. And also sometimes he has a hard time defending what they're doing. Can't sy that i have any solution, even if I were more politically oriented than I am.
Of course there are always hard core party-oriented zealots who will object to what any sitting Prez does. All recent guys who have been Prez have been inflicted with those--regretfully, it comes with the territory. But is is possible to voice the thought that what we've done is to throw a decent guy of questionable swimming ability into some very deep water? And what we're seeing is either learning or failure to learn? If we're seeing the first, maybe time will solve the problem. But if we're seeing the second, maybe the only thing to do is to hang on.
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CRYMTYPHON3 months, 2 weeks ago
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It is a mere poison-pen letter saying
'Hey Barry hope this week's speeches bomb' .
Why post such drivel?
Why do neo-con Americans talk about Mr. Barrack
Obama more often than do his supporters?
Like fans of some boy-band,
it is the anti-obama obsessed that
post the content-free articles;
they make up the nicknames,
the rumours,
the fake relationships,
the imaginary words and goals.
Obama is ... a diety to them;
and they, - his rebellious devils.
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