If a Teleprompter Falls in the White House Does It Make a Sound?

“To pull our economy back from the brink, including the largest and most sweeping economic recovery plan in our nation’s history…”
Why does The One even need a teleprompter? He usually just rehashes the same talking points over, and over, and over…

Why does The One even need a teleprompter? He usually just rehashes the same talking points over, and over, and over… Posted by: tjp612 | Jul 13, 2009 5:41:24 PM
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Because without the teleprompter, this would read, “To, uh, pull our, er, economy back from the, uh, brink, including, uh, er, the largest and, er, most, uh, uh, sweeping economic recovery plan in our, uh, nation’s history… hang on now guys, I’ll get it!”

Today’s reminder why Republicans like Newt Gingrich are great on TV for right wing lunatic audience to hoot and holler about but a bad idea to actually let govern.
Think Progress covering an interview for Al Jazerra given by Gingrich
“Al Jazeera’s Avi Lewis told Gingrich, “In the past, you’ve called for the bombing of Iran’s oil refineries.” Gingrich clarified, “I called for sabotage, not bombing. … Fundamental difference.” Gingrich explained that the U.S. should use “covert operations” against Iran’s refineries because they “have only one refinery that produces gasoline in the entire country.” (According to the Energy Information Administration, Iran has nine refineries operated by the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company.)
When Lewis pressed Gingrich on the likely disastrous consequences of “sabotaging” Iran’s oil refineries, the former Speaker responded by claiming his plan was highly “strategic”:
GINGRICH: The only purpose of sabotaging them would be to create a gasoline-led crisis to try to replace the regime. I’m against using tactics that don’t have any strategic meaning.
I think we have a vested interest – the world has a vested interest – in a responsible Iranian government. […]
LEWIS: Which you can precipitate by provoking a gas crisis with black-ops sabotage? [Laughs] That’s the scenario you have suggested here.
GINGRICH: Look, I think that’s one piece out of many.”

There is a joke cartoon out there that shows a secret service agent in the men’s room with Obama at the urinal. The secret service man is asking for a mop to clean up the floor with the teleprompter telling Obama to “Pee. Unzip. Zip. Shake.

I thought these lame teleprompter jokes were already played out. Guess i was wrong.

“Teleprompters should be banned. A president should be able to explain himself in his own words, and if he can’t then he’s not qualified to be president.”
Could you explain why reading off notes is preferable to a teleprompter?

With no teleprompter how will the people pulling his strings tell him what to say?
Barry is dumber than a box of hammers.

So was Obama then looking steadly to his left or his right?

sign from G*d. Stop talking.

TCTimmy suggested, “Hey Jake, please ask the Telemprompter In Chief why his Car Czar who knows nothing about selling cars suddenly resigned” Never fear, Timmy, the new czar also knows nothing about selling cars but he is a good union man, so he’s perfect for the job, since protecting the unions is apparently the top priority of the automobile industry bailout.

TOTUS’ suicide resulted from the guilt of Axelrod’s million lies to the American people. Obama is a deeply dishonest man.

Wow.
Long article to say virtually nothing. This is what has become of the old art of news reporting in the mainstream media.

Let that be a warning to all of you other teleprompters out there – if you stray off the Obama reservation, you’re next!

Even the teleprompter is overworked at the white house…the poor thing overheated…maybe Obama will give the guy a break!
Lets see if Obama can talk with the tele

What does Obama say when his teleprompter breaks; ah, ah, ah..

How poetic is it that the crashing of the TOTUS could symbolize the crashing of this country.

Oh no, the King has no clothes!

Mr. B.O. is going to end up with neck problems. So maybe he should chuck the tele.

Jake for God’s sake aren’t there more major stories to report? Like Obama destroying the county? Shame on you!

gawsh- if the other had gone he would have been as bad as his townhalls (Shudder). To quote dennis miller, he makes George W Bush look like Robin Williams when he speaks without a script.

So let me see if I have this right. The next in line for the presidental line of seccession is Telleprompter #34223

No TOTUS – No Hope, No Change.
(It was all loaded into the teleprompter)
With TOTUS, all you get is ‘um, um, um’ and apologies to other countries for America being such a horrible country since its founding which He promises to correct now.

Gotta talk about something that includes the resident-in-chief — but certainly nothing derogatory. Really – - there are soooo many more important things to report…….. HOWEVER, even the slobbering media can’t find too much good to write about… so go to something inane.

Nvassar,
Could you explain why reading off notes is preferable to a teleprompter?
Certainly, Nvassar, notes are not a word for word script, they are “notes” a series of bullet points as an aid to memory.
Not a replacement for a functional memory.
I would dearly love to see the one accept a debate only to be told as he walks on stage that there will be no teleprompters allowed.
One can dream.

The teleprompter couldn’t take it anymore and committed suicide. Can you blame it?

Wow, Harlowe Thrombey, that was impressive. Now lets see if you can form 2 complete sentences this time.

Which leads us to ask: Does the audience prefer the Obama double-head-swivel, or, now that they’ve seen it once, the Obama head-fixated-to-the-right speech variety?
2nd Q: How many people in the American public assume the Obama-double-head-swivel is just Obama lookin from side to side in the audience, and don’t realize its really the Power of the TOTUS over Obama on display?
3rd Q: How many folks, seeing his prime time speech thought “Hey, he’s broken the Power of the TOTUS, Obama’s the victor over the dominion of the TOTUS, and he’s finally looking AT the camera, so people will feel like he’s actually looking at them! Unfortunately, folks in this catagory simply don’t realize it REALLY was the ultimate TOTUS victory over Obama on display: They thought NO TOTUS when in reality it was The Mega-Daddy-54-inch-TOTUS having come out to play, right UNDER the camera. It captured Obama’s FULL UNDIVIDED attention, something the twin TOTUS’s never quite managed.
4th Q: How many people haven’t ever consciously noticed the Obama-metronome-double-head-swivel-avoid-lookin-at-all-us-out-here, and never dreamed he was relying so exclusively on the TOTUS?
4th Qa: Of that segment, how many never noticed because they’re too busy worshipin’ The One? and,
4th Qb: How many never noticed because they just don’t care and don’t watch The TOTUS And The One Show?
p.s. 5th Q of a sort: Wonder if TOTUS is keepin up ITS blog? and, YES, he has one!
mebbe we should have an online poll.

Take away the teleprompter and BO is an idiot that thinks we have 57 states. (Something the MSM didn’t report on during the election.) As time goes on, BO will be exposed more and more as an empty suit.

Gerhard, don’t let the facts get in the way of your fantasies.
Unemployment is around 9.5% and is projected to reach 13% by the end of the year. China, India and other countries are spoiling to drop the dollar as the international trading currency. Obama’s policies are wrecking the US economy.
Either Obama is a moron, or he’s as smart as you say, and he’s wrecking the US economy on purpose. Which is it?

I do get a laugh out of the way the socialists cannot defend Obama, so they must resort to silly namecalling. The fact is that Obama has yet to show even an scintilla of intellect and his speeches are getting more boring, more predictable and, if you actually pay attention, more laughable.

Hahaha, so funny. The teleprompters are even referred to as living things. How cute. Of course, had this same thing happened with Bush giving a speech (not that he relied on them in the first place to this extreme)the press would be all over the story saying how sad it was that we had such a dunderhead in office who couldn’t give a speech without such crutches. In fact, we’d soon learn how much a smashed teleprompter would cost the taxpayer because of Bush’s stupidity, blah blah blah.

Holy cow, who the hell is running country???? Our commander in chief is shattered!!!!!! Is there a “state funeral planned”? Who will be the new teleprompter in chief? We have a VP, but not a vice teleprompter. Where is the suite case with the red button? Who killed the teleprompter? We need a congressional investigation? Its was the mafia, no it was Castro, no wait it was LB Johnson….oops wrong time period LOL

Wow. Really newsworthy Mr. Tapper. I’m sure your right wing friends are pleased.

Who’s next? This reminds me of Stalin’s Great Terror! And so it begins…..

It’s not funny, but you are supposed to laugh. See. The fact that it’s not funny is the joke. get it? For those under 45 this joke was invented and written and performed every saturday night by WHAT recently seated US senator until he FINALLY Thank God left the show???????? Investigate this for your homework assignment. Hint. It was a “live” show…….

Sean, in all seriousness, have you seen Obama when his teleprompter fails? Seriously! Obama begind babbling and stammering.
All that talk of Obama being a great communicator is just spin. As the saying goes, “never mind the man behind the curtain”

Obama’s rhetoric crashes along with his policies.

Anyone who thinks Obama needs a teleprompter because he can’t speak or think on his own has obviously never seen the Q&A section of his press conferences. The guy was a law professor before this for Pete’s sake. He knows how to talk. And talk and talk and talk.

Borat Obama

i do get a laugh when libs are dismayed that drudge links to various net-spots to which non-libs post remarks. guess the libs get their links to the news [lighthearted and otherwise] from drudge as well.

That’s too funny! Never again do I want to hear another progressive talk about Bush or Palin because this man cannot think or speak without his teleprompter.

Spacecat . …
“Anyone who thinks Obama needs a teleprompter because he can’t speak or think on his own has obviously never seen the Q&A section of his press conferences.”
That’s true Spacecat, and anyone who has seen him interviewed knows the man speaks with great detail and knowledge on any of the issues discussed.

DrMantis, what does Rush Limbaugh have to do with Obama’s teleprompter failing and Obama doesn’t know what to talk about any longer?

“That’s true Spacecat, and anyone who has seen him interviewed knows the man speaks with great detail and knowledge on any of the issues discussed.”
Oh, I see. He’s INTENTIONALLY destroying the country. That’s good to know.
He coddles dictators and our enemies, and tries to ruin our friends.

William, I disagree. I can’t think of ANY US president so dramatically screw up so fast, and whose poll numbers begin such a free-fall so early in his presidency.
Obama is worst that Carter, actually I’m of the opinion that if things continue as they are, Obama is on his way to being one of the worst presidents in US history. Seriously!

I am pro-constitution, pro-life, pro-defense, pro-individual, pro-business, pro-free speech, pro-gun, pro-religion, pro-legal immigration, pro-private health care and pro-Ford. It’s time we stand up and be counted before the “destructor in chief” destroys our country one teleprompter at a time. BHO and his band of thieving, lying, tax cheating, cowardly, liberal thug democraps will lead us into being unsafe, unhealthy, poor and stupid.

Obama said his stimulus is working as intended.
So, the logical question is this: Does Obama intend to destroy the US economy?

Obama absolutely needs to be continuously fed his script – he is jamming the most anti-American policies down the throats of “we the people” – and EVERY WORD has to be carefully prepared – otherwise the truth might slip out – like “my aim is to pay back all my fund raisers”, “I will take care of all the far left groups that want me to be certain to share the wealth”, “I must stay on course to socialism”, “I must do everything possibly to backrupt this country and its selfish people” – something like that might slip out.

Harlowe Thrombey: Drudge readers are able to do their own reading, conduct their own research, form their own opinions, actually speak without notes, and do NOT need the RNC to tell them what to think or say, HOW can you refer to them as robots?
IN FACT, YOUR SIDE: -> believes that the Saturday Night Life “jokes” were actually the words of Sarah Palin (can’t tell truth from fiction), believes there are 57 States, believes that the USA liberated Auschwitz, believes that Michelle Obama got her $300,000,00+ job (that was abolished when she quit) on merit, believes that Obama is an actual citizen of the USA, believes that it is possible to ‘spend your way into prosperity,” believes that NEVER writing a single piece of legislation equals “experience” in the US Senate, believes that 134 “present” votes is the same as doing an effective job in the Illinois House, believes that it is possible to go to Columbia, and Harvard and get an affirmative action law degree and travel the world without any money, believes that Sotomayor did not say what she said, and that she is not a Left-Wing Hack who also received an affirmative action law degree (third rate, no better than no degree at all which is why she has been overturned more than 60% of the time), and also believes that Obama’s lies don’t matter, and that obtaining 96% of the black vote does not equal racism, . . . . . well, it would appear that YOUR side is the one that is filled with brainless robots.

How many teleprompters have to die because this man cannot utter a coherent sentence on his own?

Wish I could laugh at the humor of the situation. Unfortunately Obama and his minions in the press, in government and the ACORN type mobs that we are now funding with tax money, are rapidly doing irreparable harm to our country. Banana republic replete with a demagogic government – hard to laugh.

It’s always interesting, but not a bit surprising, to watch the stark duplicity between the way the dominant media side show freaks handle a goof up of a liberal vs. one of a conservative. Even if a Conservative doesn’t screw up, it is often spun that way and then harped and harped on incessantly. For America to save itself, it needs to realize that the liberal media is the worst enemy in this nations history.
The newspapers, for example, deserve what’s happening to them; and the bailouts as campaign payoff should stop. If anything, they should be taxed more heavily in a cap and trade arrangement. The newspapers, with rare exceptions, like the Wall Street Journal, are far more toxic to the environment than CO2.

You can always tell when a story is linked on Drudge. The yapping parrot nutballs come out in force. Keep repeating the lines Limbaugh feeds you children. Hit the book of Beck hard. And keep crying over your eventual losses – Alaska is the state of things to come.

Aqualung, well-said!

I can’t say a word. I am so disappointed in the President, the media
and the Democrats. We had a chance and we have failed horribly.

his teleprompter comes crashing down………..how prophetic

What an idiot!!
This guy makes bush sound good. Didn’t think it was possible yet here he is.
Maybe next election we can elect that Bobcat guy from police academy.

Each day Obama occupies the White House is another day he makes Bush look like a genius!

What do the right wing think of their new hero Ricci getting exposed as a fraud ala Joe the Plumber’s helper?
Posted by: Ryan C | Jul 13, 2009 5:49:10 PM
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You have GOT to be kidding. Unless something really bad has come out in the last day or two, Ricci sure hasn’t been exposed as a fraud at all. Not to mention, THE SUPREME COURT RULED IN HIS FAVOR and they had ALL of the pertinent information for that case. Anything beyond that is just one more attempt at distraction by ripping some poor smuck to pieces, who was already treated grossly unfairly, took years to get justice, and in no way deserves to be ripped up by those unhappy with the verdict after the fact. Not to mention, he wasn’t the only one who won with that verdict, there were what, 16 plaintiffs. Are they “all frauds” too? Ricci was found to have been unfairly discriminated against by the Supreme Court, period.
Not to mention that although it was a close decision, ALL NINE of the Justices said Sotomayor acted improperly in having summarily dismissed his case as she did. UNANAMOUS ON THAT ASPECT, AGAINST SOTOMAYOR. Not to mention that during her tenure on the appeals court, Sotamayor’s cases were overturned by the Supreme Court MORE THAN 60% of the time.
You gonna blame that on Ricci personally too?
As to Joe the Plumber. He wasn’t exposed as a fraud at all. It still blows my mind that liberals/Obama fanatics keep trying to spin it this way. Obama showed up in JOE’S driveway, and ASKED Joe if he had a question, take your shot Joe. Joe didn’t go looking for Obama. Joe posed a perfectly legitimate scenario and asked how Obama’s tax plans would affect someone in that scenario. Obama replied he’d be taxed more heavily and rationalized it with “spread the wealth around” and help everyone beneath him.
The media and others who strongly supported Obama, to try to distract from Obama’s honest but badly out of line with typical American values, promptly began to try to tear Joe to shreds personally. WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE QUESTION JOE ASKED OR OBAMA’S ANSWER.
I can’t believe people are still at it.
They went so far as to ILLEGALLY dig into a number of different supposeldy secure databases, just to try to find ANYTHING personally harmful to Joe’s reputation.
About the stupidest claim I’ve heard along these lines is “His name isn’t even Joe!” Excuse me, folks, but there ARE people out there who, their entire lives, use their MIDDLE name rather than their first name.
Close up there was the “He’s not even a plumber!” Except, of course, that WAS his occupation, and it WAS how he was earning his living at the time. Before some one jumps to the “He wasn’t licensed!” number, ya, he wasn’t, and where he was working IT WASN’T REQUIRED LEGALLY. All that was required for Joe to be a plumber was for his BOSS to be licensed, and he was, so Joe was a plumber.
Then people drop down into the fact that there was an outstanding tax lien on him. Ya? So what? He owed some money perhaps, or perhaps the lien was improper and he was in the process of fighting it, who knows, who cares? It has NOTHING to do with the scenario he asked Obama to address. Let alone his right to ask Obama a question.
Ever hear of Timothy Geithner? Joe supposedly owed what, about $5K? Geithner owed more than 30 times that, $150K or $180K so something, AND Geithner had to sign papers annually acknowledging that he owed and had paid those taxes, AND HE GOT PAID EXTRA MONEY TO TOTALLY COVER THE AMOUNT HE OWED EACH YEAR. Or
how about 3/4′s of all of Obama’s appointee’s? Incredible number of them may not have had a lien, but they darned sure were found out to owe a lot MORE in taxes than Joe did. Personally, at least for the more egregious ones, I think they should have been disqualified right then and there. People in high office ought to meet a much HIGHER standard than the general public. How many American’s who have tax problems get to just pay the back taxes without further fines or even worse consequences? Yet these guys did — what happened to no one is above the law?
So Ryan C tries to distract from facts by falsely ripping into two guys who clearly don’t deserve the slander, all because they showed someone Ryan champions in a bad light. Nice.

This could be a crisis. I understand that Obama cannot order a pizza without his teleprompter.

Will this silence the pontificating potus up?! let us HOPE !

When President Obama gives a speech he appears to be watching a tennis match. Constantly looking from side to side for his security blankets. I saw him once deliver a speech and the prompter was on the lectern in front of him. He looked like a bobble headed doll. Looking down at the prompter and up at his audience. But Oh My Gosh President Bush sometimes used index cards.

“The Republicans’ idea is that after investigating Bill Clinton for five years, we shouldn’t investigate the huge, grossly illegal things that were done under the past administration, only because Alberto Gonzales was too much in the back pocket of Cheney to do it while he was still in office.”

Does this mean Biden is President?

I thought things were going to change, this is change? The troopies are heading into a meat grinder, the economic plan is trickle up poverty. I say we are very lost down a very wrong trail, that Civil War II options is becoming more and more attractive every day. The East Coast and West Coast have lost their collective minds, those of us who beleave in Liberty and what our fathers and grand fathers fought and died for need to start building a “life Boat” in the center of this grat land. From Texas to Montana, I think there maybe some intelligent life out there…. Whatta ya think people?
“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrands” T Jefferson

Im not crazy about Obama, but I give the guy credit. At least he tries to give a good speech all the time. Unlike Bush, who could care less.

What I wouldn’t give to hack into that telemprompter just one time. Now THAT would be fun.

Mmmmmmm delicious article tapper! A real piece of “journalism”. I would just like to take this opportunity to remind my republican countrymen that GWB used the teleprompter just as much as Obama. So explain how GWB sounded like such a moron all the time? Honestly though who cares at this point. The economy is crap thanks to GWB, but he hasnt been in office for 6 months so it must be Obama’s fault, amirite?

BUSH DID IT!!!!! NO CHENEY DID IT. QUICK SOMEBODY AT ABC HOW DO WE SPIN IT IN MY FAVOR. HELP ME I’M GOING DOWN …GLUG GLUG GLUG…

suicide……..it was tired of the lies & crookedness it was forced to scroll

The shattered teleprompter is symbolic of what Obama is doing to this nation and the economy! Destroying it!

No one had the decency to administer first aid to the TOTUS! The poor thing just lay there broken, a mere shadow of its former self. By the way, was it the left leaning TOTUS or the right leaning TOTUS? Might be an omen of things to come…..By George, I think it was the left one. Oh-oh.

It sure does my heart good to see so many true-hearted Americans that still care for their country posting here. Pray that God will have mercy and that we will be able to get the liberals out of power in 2010 and 2012 and begin rebuilding and cleaning up the mess they’ve made.

God.. thats right I said God has heard our prayers to save this great nation. keep praying people.

Obama and his teleprompters are fixing to get the big boot out of the White House.

This President is a mediocre, humorless pimple.

I suspect the teleprompter just got tired of having to spew the lies and dealing with the incompetence of it’s master and just decided to end it all in a public blaze of glory…

perhaps Pelosi’s cosmetic surgeon Dr Frankenstien can sew TOTUS back together again

I miss Bush and Cheney.

…. Now I know that the president is at a disadvantage because he must speak publicly so often. He needs some sort of notes for most appearances, but it would be preferable for him to use notes in front of him rather than the prompter for most events.
Posted by: moderate | Jul 13, 2009 9:38:38 PM
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Or have notes, of the type Moderate describes and most experienced speakers use, entered into the teleprompters.
And get rid of the blasted things entirely for Q & A sessions for heck’s sake (along with getting rid of the planted audience members and pre-selected questions!!!). Ditto for those short introductions or announcements where its truly amazing that ANYONE would even consider using notes or a prompter.

Unfortunately the Teleprompter had switched parties from Democrat to Republican.. when it realized the predicament it was in .. it did the only honorable thing and comitted “suicide by floor”. Burial in 3 days, send electronic flowers to its widow – a 42 inch Plasma in the executive office. Its children, a 6″ B&W in the Secret Service lounge and a 16″ color in the Pastry Chef’s office mourn their fathers passing by changing channels continiously.

here’s a dirty trick………….replace TOTUS with the bill of rights and watch obuma stumble as he reads

The TOTUS looks to be glass of color…Was this a hate crime? Call Al Sharpie quick!

Way to try to pass off the president’s illiteracy as okay, ABC. Some things don’t change.
Ron Paul should’ve been our president, not this clown.

Pres.Obama’s now own all this crap after 6 months Pres.Bush 8 months in,— 9/11

How many days at his ranch had Bush already racked up at this point in his infantile presidency? What a freaking loafer that guy was. While republicans like Palin quit, pay off their adulteress, or imagines a 10-day sojourn with a soulmate, President Obama is working his butt off. And all the little babies here can do is whine about it. Why don’t you go back to Free Republic and say what you really feel.

Saving James Bond 007 or A SHATTERED TELEPROMPTER?
If the CIA falls does it make a sound?
Sounds we hear now about the CIA – C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders?
- Doesn’t make sense osama and Qaeda Leaders are in Pakistan supported by many in their intelligence.
- It would mean infiltrating tribal areas. A possible means to do it were elimated once they invaded Iraq.
- Neo cons inspired by a movie? Munich? Mossad shot their targets. The USA tortured their targets in safe environments and some died a few days later.
- The real story is in the renditions, those that tortured and those that disappeared. Its also about the outsourced contractors.
The real story is how the people who create the atmosphere and environment got away with this. President Bush gave himself and neo cons a free pass
and they smirked leaving our CIA intelligence to pay the price, some within the CIA would have been in on it, others disgusted by it.
The real heroes are those within the CIA that stepped forward to help us all understand how it happened.
Osama all 6’4″ of him beat Bush on Bush’s watch. Bush was a small minded shallow man who became President. President Obama is a lot smarter
then Bush. Qaeda Leaders know this.

What!?!… Were was the Secret Service Agent that was assigned to protect Totus!

Demetrius, you said you “would just like to take this opportunity to remind my republican countrymen that GWB used the teleprompter just as much as Obama.” But you are wrong. yes, Bush sometimes used a teleprompter, particularly for long speeches. He did not use it for short presentations, which was one reason he more often mangled words and uttered malapropisms. It is not just Republicans who have noted the president’s UNUSUAL reliance on the device– it has been covered by journalists numerous times, including the NYT, Politico, CNN, Today Show, etc.

Even the TOTUS couldn’t take the lies any more. It had enough decency to commit promptercide when it realized the lies it was spewing forth, even though it had no control over what it said.
Obama is to blame.

Atlas Again, I loved your comment that concluded, “So Ryan C tries to distract from facts by falsely ripping into two guys who clearly don’t deserve the slander, all because they showed someone Ryan champions in a bad light. Nice.” You said it far more forcefully and fully than I did. Well done.

I guess Jake was bored and thought it would be a good idea to start a wingnut thread.

When the Teleprompter breaks does Biden get sworn in as President?

I dream of the day when I can go to a speech and “accidentally” trip over both prompters. I would pay for them of course but I wander what hilarity would ensue…

Lmao, this teleprompter thing was so obviously staged.

Obama said his stimulus is working as intended.
So, the logical question is this: Does Obama intend to destroy the US economy?
Posted by: JustAGuy | Jul 13, 2009 9:33:31 PM
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Several people have commented along these lines. If you haven’t run across it, and I hadn’t until quite recently, look up “cloward-piven strategy” Its well known by those Obama was raised by and associated with throughout his life, as are Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. I’d've never imagined or believed anything along those lines was even possible from anyone who made it to high office, if Obama’s actions didn’t match so blasted incredibly closely. The latest, less than 24 hours in Ghana, and in the middle of what HE claims is the worst recession since the Great Depression (its not, but he’s sure heading it in that direction incredibly quickly), Obama pledged $63 BILLION, that’s with a B, for either Africa or the world’s health crisis.
Um, what about AMERICA???

I’ll bet Bush or Cheney pushed it over.

Uh, the teleprompter is a useful tool and uh it uh is uh extremely uncomfortable when it uh goes out. But as a um graduate of an um Ivy league school I am as prepared to uh lead as uh Teddy Kennedy.

This is the most embarrassing, sorry excuse of a President. The man cannot talk, much less govern.
He has NOT won the U.S. any respect in the World, and certainly not at home.
I am so ashamed of him and his arrogant wife.

If Wall Street Falls does it make a Sound? Hell No! Its us having to bail them!
The Bush and the Republicans should be held accountable until this is cleaned up even if it takes the 2010 and 2012 elections!
Now we hear some of those on Wall Street are positioning themselves as being a part of the solution?
Well then be a part of the solution! Work with President Obama! We better hear some good news from Wall Street
by the latter part of the year! And we what jobs too! Don’t go sending them over seas! To many jobs are overseas already like outsourcing bill collectors who have been harassing us because of Wall Street gone wild under Bush!

I find it funny that the right will try and do all they can to stop the wave of change comming. Wow guys y’all lost and now we have to engage in drastic behavior to try and rescue what is left of our economy or our dignity abroad. So the totus fell big deal it makes a funny oneliner and that’s all. Wake up people and recognize that the intelligent among us come prepared not just to wing it. And that right is what seperates the real winners the inspirational leaders to those who think that you ccan get by just going of the cuff. Or some may call them the real loosers.

This is news for what reason?

Meanwhile, with only one teleprompter left, can our superhero save the world?….does this mean his speech was only half as boring as they usually are? ZzZzZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If the POTUS breaks his TOTUS
the ‘Ums’ and ‘ahs’ begin
No one is listening anyway
That’s why the man got in.

@danita – “Bush did not distinguish himself in any way as a student”
And Obama distinguished himself how? None of his school records have been released to the public. He fought very hard to keep them hidden.

Even as a republican, I will support this man as he is our country’s president. Everybody makes mistakes. Obama is doing the best with the hand he was dealt. The fact that he can make light of it on the fly and get a pass is just par for the course. Teleprompters imo should be for constructing a list of talking points, that the orator can use to communicate details about them.
But not an entire speech.
I prefer the genuine thoughts of the orator, not some pre-prepared party line speech… every president should always be ready for detail oriented questions and answers. And most, including President Obama, succeed when this becomes necessary.
The press loves it, the people love it. So, I’m all for more crashing teleprompters! For all presidents!

I find it funny that the right will try and do all they can to stop the wave of change comming. Wow guys y’all lost and now we have to engage in drastic behavior to try and rescue what is left of our economy or our dignity abroad. So the totus fell big deal it makes a funny oneliner and that’s all. Wake up people and recognize that the intelligent among us come prepared not just to wing it. And that right is what seperates the real winners the inspirational leaders to those who think that you ccan get by just going of the cuff. Or some may call them the real loosers.
Posted by: pete | Jul 13, 2009 11:28:36 PM
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First of all, its not at all just “the right” who are adamantly opposed to Obama’s policies and the direction he’s taking the country. Check out the polls, likely voters now at 53% approve of Obama, 46% disapprove. Ohio AND Virginia now at less than 50% approve of Obama. Those just the “do you like Obama Q’s” — numbers quite a bit WORSE when people are asked if they approve or disapprove of his POLICIES. Or try “direction of the country” realclearpolitics averages several polls, now showing:
Direction of Country
RCP Average
Right Direction 37.8%
Wrong Track 57.0%
Spread -19.2
In other words, the majority DO NOT LIKE WHAT OBAMA IS DOING.
As to the intelligent among us — we actually do our homework, look at the issues from the most non-partisan sources possible, with a smattering from both right AND left sources. We see how ridiculous it is to chant Bush and Cheney did it!
If I asked you HOW Bush and Cheney caused the economic meltdown, would you even have any sort of plausible reply? No. At least not without leaving out the HUGE contributions of Barney Franks, Chris Dodd, Pelosi, etc., and policies going as far back as at least Clinton, among other things.

less than 24 hours in Ghana…Obama pledged $63 BILLION…
Posted by: And Atlas Shrugs Yet Again Jul 13, 2009 11:09:46 PM
Probably more like $163+ billion after all the other goodies are added in the dead of night.
You think 0bama cares? We just crossed over $1 trillion in debt for this year (headed for $2 trillion). This money he just pledged is peanuts to this administration.
Hopefully we appoint a new Ghana Health/Stimulus Czar to keep track of the money. /sarc

I love the closing statement of this ABC news story “Of course, television reporters and anchors never become over-reliant on teleprompters. Never happens. Nope. Never”. Way to take a hit for your creation (Obama). Would ABC have ended the article like this if it was George W? Gee…No media bias here!

“Of course, television reporters and anchors never become over-reliant on teleprompters. Never happens. Nope. Never.”
-Sunlen Miller and Jake Tapper
TV reporters and anchors do not run the USA.
Obamas over use of the prompter only reassures me that he can’t think for himself, let alone the country.

Okay, one of us is dead and we can still smell a rat. We have incontrovertible proof that TOTUS did not jump, BUT WAS PUSHED!!!! He simply knew too much and Rahm called in some associates from Chicago to take care of things. I demand a special prosecutor be appointed now!! I nominate the honorable Justice Phineas J. Whoopee.

This is the stupidest moronic president ever.
What were these voters thinking?

Posted by: danita | Jul 13, 2009 11:13:16 PM
“Bush’s IQ is about the same as obama’s.”
The major difference is that Bush was Cheney’s puppet with not much of a mind of his own.
Bush did not distinguish himself in any way as a student, ducked the Vietnam war, became an alcohol/cocaine cross user and was then propped up by his family and ‘given’ a portfolio of experience in oil and baseball by friends of the Bush family.
And as we know, Bush set a new record for amount of time spend on holiday by a president.
It’s the application of intelligence that makes a difference.
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Obama was a cocaine user too. Also is full of crap. Habitual liar. Undeserved sense of self-importance…it is pretty evident.
Posted by: SoILPatriot | Jul 13, 2009 11:41:45 PM
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Plus:
Obama refuses to release ANY of his grades from high school, Occidental College, Columbia, or Harvard. VERY VERY unusual/odd also that they can’t find ANY authored papers or publications by him from any time period. Not the Harvard Law Review, not even while he was a part-time professor.
Bush VOLUNTEERED for duty in a unit expected to be called into the war shortly, in a position as a pilot, which at the time had a pretty darned high death rate just from flying, let alone flying in combat. Where John Kerry (I was a Vietnam Vet), was drug kicking and screaming and punted his way into an INACTIVE reserve unit, for a duty that would keep him far offshore. Oops, blew that one, the scope got changed, and he not only had to go over, but they sent him upstream. Bush may have set records for time away from the White House, but he was very well known for WORKING extensively with staff from both his ranch and Camp David.
I’m sick to death of hearing the repeated ‘short versions’ that grossly skew reality — and I don’t care WHICH ‘side’ is doing it.

Wow. I love how Drudge is studiously ignoring the stink about Cheney and his super secret anti-terrorist (or whatever) CIA squad in favor of fluff stories like this.
Posted by: Beefsteak | Jul 13, 2009 11:50:52 PM
You mean the supposedly insidious plan to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders?
Glad to see though that Leon Panetta has America’s best interests in mind by canceling a program that goes after al-Qaeda.
Democrats: Keeping America safe by continually being soft on terror.

Wow. I love how Drudge is studiously ignoring the stink about Cheney and his super secret anti-terrorist (or whatever) CIA squad in favor of fluff stories like this.
Even less about Sarah Palins’ self-destruction. Judging by her daffy resignation speech, that’s one woman desperate for a teleprompter.
Posted by: Beefsteak | Jul 13, 2009 11:50:52 PM
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Where’s the beef?!
Um, fact is that Drudge has had quite a number of links up about both.

I think it’s funny how we don’t hear a thing about Rahm Emanuel.

The press use to rag on Bush on how he couldn’t talk, but once he was done speaking you know what his position was. Obama can give a great speech and when he is done people still scratch their head and wonder what he just said. The one thing I can say good about the Obama presidency is that the IQ of America is going up because the idiots that voted for him are finally smartening up. So tell me, how is that “Hope and Change” working out for you?

Atlas, I’m gonna have to disagree with u there. Apparently news reporters and anchors DO run the country. I mean, they got 52% of the people to vote for this nonsense, didn’t they?
Posted by: Martin Truther | Jul 14, 2009 12:11:12 AM
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Ok, Martin, I concede. No question you got me on that one!

One single man is responsible for all the problems? Has nothing to do with the malaise of the American worker, the decline of any desire to be educated to fullest, or the greed of the elite…
Might be time for the average American to get off the computer and try to be some what productive in real life.

YAWN….
Can we pay attention to something more important, like the crisis in Honduras?

Too funny. Where will we end up without TOTUS? Obama is a fraud and this is evidenced by each poll, each day.
From a big plus to a pretty good minus in under 6 months? Plus, pushing even more spending as investment flees the US?
Hear me. You will beg for the day he leaves office in under 12 months. The economy, what really matters stupid, will be in shambles.

To the poster who took off on Bush: Can we ever quit blaming Bush and attempt focus on the bungling fool we have in the White House now? Blame, blame, blame, blame. That is all the left can do. The last two years of the Bush admin, we had a DEMOCRAT controlled congress. NOW we have a DEMOCRAT called congress and a DEMOCRAT in the White house. And what do we have – a mess. It’s not Bush’s fault. Everything and anything this president does from here on out is HIS FAULT.

OK, since my comment was removed for apparantly being insensitive to KennyP, let’s try this.
You focus on Cheney and Palin.
Where are you on the spike in deathtoll amongst those serving in the Middle East?
Where are you on the atrocities in Tehran?
Where are you on the threats by North Korea to neighbors?
Where are you on the protection for Eastern Europe Obamma gave away to Putin, while, I might add, praising Putin.
Where are you on the political chaos in Central America,
Where are you on the bogus spending being charged to our children?
Where are you on justices creating law?
Where are you with all of the 30 something, unelected ‘czars’ Obama appoints to run key components of our economy?
Just where are you?
Some advice for you. READ and UNDERSTAND.

“For the rest of the speech the president relied on the one remaining teleprompter, to his right, and notes on his podium to finish his speech.”
Good God! Its 3am and the TOTUS is down… Who will run the country now….

Danita,
I and mnay others had a great feeling at the Innaugural. That glow has faded.
On a scale of 1-10, where are you know vs. where you where then.
I went from an 8 to a 3 and am not optimistic that his plans will work for us. How about you?

@Danita
I wasn’t that keen on Bush, but I hate hearing unfounded smears repeated regardless of who its about, and even more so when it regards a US President.
From Washington Times, re Bush, about both any ‘evasion’ of risk, and proof that he was NOT AWOL:
The Washington Times
Originally published 09:43 p.m., October 10, 2004, updated 12:00 a.m., October 11, 2004
In defense of Lt. Bush
President Bush’s military service is being unjustly vilified. I feel a sense of anger and frustration when I hear that instead of volunteering for Vietnam, Mr. Bush “hid out” flying fighter/interceptor jets in the Air National Guard (ANG) for four years.
As a former Air Force pilot with 6,000 hours of flying time, including more than 3,000 hours in jet fighters, I know that whenever you strapped yourself into a jet fighter and took off, you were in harm’s way. Your life was on the line. …….My 1952 West Point class sent approximately 100 graduates to the Air Force jet pilot training program. We experienced five fatalities (5 percent)……From then until 1968, the year Lt. Bush joined the Air National Guard, we lost 10 more Air Force classmates, a 14 percent fatality rate. One was due to hostile action; eight were due to accidents. In total, we lost 18 classmates (18 percent) during our flying careers.
In contrast, of our 397 West Point classmates commissioned in the Army, 11 were killed in action or died in training accidents during their military careers, which included Korea and Vietnam. This is a fatality rate of 2.77 percent, versus the 18 percent fatality rate of the class of 1952 flyers in the Air Force.
Additionally, during the entire Vietnam conflict, Pentagon records show 3,403,000 military personnel served in Southeast Asia. The United States suffered 58,205 fatalities, a rate of 1.71 percent. Fatality rates varied substantially from unit to unit; nevertheless, over 98 percent of those serving in that conflict returned home.
Comparing these data, it is obvious that Lt. Bush, as a jet fighter/interceptor pilot in the Air National Guard, was more than twice as exposed to fatal danger than he would have been if he had taken his chances on an average tour in Vietnam. Most of his first two Air National Guard years were on active duty for training with the Air Force, undergoing basic training, flight school, survival training, combat-crew training, etc. Because the draft was for two years, he was not avoiding hazardous military duty being an Air National Guard pilot.
During the Vietnam era, guardsmen were required to accumulate 50 points to meet their yearly obligations. After training, Lt. Bush kept flying, racking up hundreds of hours in F-102 jets performing his squadron mission. According to his military records released this year, he earned 253 points in his first year, 340 points the second year, 137 points the third year and 112 points in his fourth year of duty. In other words, Lt. Bush showed up a lot, earning more than four times the required duty points in his first four years.
In Lt. Bush’s fifth year — which included parts of 1972 and 1973 — the Vietnam War was winding down due………When Lt. Bush requested a transfer to the Alabama Air National Guard for employment reasons, his superior officers granted this routine request. “In fact, you were helping them solve their [pilot glut] problem,” said Col. Campenni.
Since Lt. Bush’s Alabama Air National Guard unit did not have F-102s, he stopped flying. From May 1972 to May 1973, he earned 56 points — more than enough to meet his annual requirement. Since he would not be flying, there was obviously no need to take an annual flight physical, which some accuse him of avoiding. Then, from May through July 1973, Lt. Bush accumulated 56 points, enough to meet his minimum requirementsfor 1973/74, before requesting and receiving permission to attend Harvard Business School. It was not unusual for such requests to be granted. He received an honorable discharge after serving five years, four months and five days of his original six-year commitment — although he had accumulated enough points to cover six years of service…….
Brig. Gen. Charles D. Youree, Jr., USAF (Ret.) is former Strategic Air Command chief project officer for the B-1 bomber.

I am becoming very disillusioned about Obama.
He promised change, and change there is. However, it is change worse than what we had.
I know that I was better off 6 months ago then I am now…and it has only been 6 months. The stimulus is not working, nobody read the bill, and now it is being wasted while we, the taxpayers get the ‘other’ bill. And, they have the gall to offer another ‘stimulus’ for teacher raises while we lose our jobs!!!!!
ENOUGH!

Isn’t this an old story?
Totus… unbelievable that the press would give their hero’s crutch a name.
I have no problem with crutches. When I had a broken leg, I used a crutch. People with arthritis use crutches.
I don’t know what’s wrong with Obama, but if he needs a crutch, let him use it. No fair commenting on the lame. Leave the lame alone. That’s what I say.

LOL. If you need any more proof of how lame the Lefties are, and how secretly embarrassed and frustrated they are about Obama, they’re digging up the old (disproved) Bush National Guard story here.
BTW, remember Dan Rather? He’d still have a job if that old saw of a story was true.
Hilarious.

WIth 30 Czars, what is Obama doing in the job he was elected for? Americans, your liberty is being squashed in front of you as we speak, and Rome burns as Obama fiddles. Mother Russia has been reborn under our noses, voted by the American people dumb as stumps.
A day of reckoning is on the horizon.

Obama is foolishly trying to curry favor with Russia. Once could say both the US and Russia have sock puppet presients. Obama hopes this olive branch will gain favor with the Middle East. I very, very seriously doubt it will gain any favor. Remember, other cultures will exploit out weaknesses.
Obama is startingly naive…at the cost of our western allies, and they know it. An olive branch is one thing, selling out your friends to their threats is quite another. Our relations with longstanding allies and trade partners are on the brink. What do you think this means for trade and our economy?

Wow, thanks for the insight Mike. I see you had nothing better to do than post 4 times. More pathetic than Bruce. Anyone with a memory longer than 8 months know that it was Bush that bailed out the banks and AIG and it was the republicans that took the salery cap out of the bill that would have stopped all those bonuses. But then it is the republican way to make a mess and blame the person who had to clean it up. George W and Sarah the Quitter also use a teleprompter and we all know how horrible they are at speaking even with their crutch.
How about you pay attention to what is really going on instead of listening to the hate filler filth on right wing radio. Use your own brain, don’t let Rush tell you what big business wants you to hear.

America foolishly elected the most liberal and inexperienced member of the Senate to the Presidency. Now we have Al Franken, 5 days into his term, voting, yes voting on a Supreme Court justics….
With all the billions devoted to eductation, you would think Americans were smarter than to be duped as they were….
Econoically, and I know something about this, the worst of our economy awaits…

Oh, no! How is the Great Reader supposed to mesmerize us with his well-modulated speaking voice if he can’t read somebody else’s words?

Only a republican would think that secret assasination squads was a good thing.

@echo10 …… Presidential TelePrompter Task Force (PTPTF)…….
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When I hit this, of course I promptly thought of how PTPTF would actually SOUND, especially if said real fast… maybe by Barney Franks no less! (which brings to mind a loony toons cartoon character!)
PTPTF. said with excitement and feeling, (and a little spit to boot)!!!!
ROFLM-you know what-O!
(ok, its late, maybe I’m easily amused. )

Danita,
I know you are wide-eyed with wonder and Obama. A lot of us were.
Do the research. The 2004 Democratic majority ruled on relaxing mortgage lending laws and Bush was suckered into the “ownership economy’. Remember that? It was Barney Frank, Dodd and other that had Fannie and Freddie turn a blind eye to lending. That’s how shows like ‘Flip this House’ came into being. Add to that the influence Goldman Sachs had and has had on administrations to create new lending ‘instruments’ to sell this bad debt overseas. See the stock market today? Up 181pts. Why? because some ‘analyst’ upgraded Goldman Sachs. Guess what will happen in the coming weeks. Keeerrrrassssh…
That’s right, the markets will dive well over 1,000 points to a new low to wipe out more savings if you, me (well not me, I have a strategy), and many others.
Wake up and see how the economy, media and you are being manipulated.

I should add that Goldman Sachs was upgraded at the same time the US budget deficit hit 1 trillion dollars for the first time ever. And, we are expecting a poor earnings season this week.
Rembmer, it was an ‘analyst’ opinion that drove the market for GS and banks. Perhaps you remember how the ‘analysts’ drive the high tech stock bubble with false reports back in 2000?
Funny how these ‘analysts’ never have a name attached.
Beware a suckers rally…all this spring has been a suckers rally really.
Do your homework and read. Jake Tapper is a good one, but he is outunbered by those ‘in the tank’ with the Federal Government and current political stylishness.

Danita,
Doing business in 130 countries, meeting and traveling around the world, and investing overseas I believe does, in fact, allow me to assert what it going on globally in commerce.
All these fronts Obama is pushing?
Attempting to do everything will succeed in accomplishing nothing. Obama knows that his time is limited before the wheels fall off. That is why he implores urgency.
Gotta sign it NOW!! or things will fall apart !! Don’t bother to read it !!
People are wising up. Obama is failing, even faster that some expected.
A shooting star if you will.
The Dow will test 5,000 in the next 12 months. Down 40% and taking your 401k with it. Plus, taxes are going up with your health benefits taxed as income, cap & trade energy tax (for what?), and a possible VAT that will tax every stage of production.
I see the mortage deduction tax credit on the table by 2012. Hope your paid up.
Hopefully you will wise up too.

Mike . ..
Your opinions on the world economy are I am sure as brilliant as any other expert’s. And we know what that’s worth.
What are you investing in?

Danita,
Investments?
Gold (bullion and GLD ETF)
Short S&P (SH)
Family Dollar (FDO)
to name just a few. Sign of the times due to the rough times wa are upon, and devaluation of the dollar. Also investing in China.
With the forthcoming tax policy changes from the Federal government and devaluation and murky outlook for the ocnsumer economy domestically, many investors are seeking more fertile investments in Asia. China for example overtook the US the last quarter in auto sales. Yes, its true. Plus the overseas investment climate is much more favorable than the US right now. Obama favors measures approaching protectionism such as the ase with him going after the Swiss for UBS accounts. investors sense the direction the administration is taking and are reacting to it to place thier money in more profiitable places.

Mike . .. .
So basically you’re saying the United States has had its glory years and those are over … .

Only a republican would think that secret assasination squads was a good thing.
Posted by: Glen | Jul 14, 2009 2:02:39 AM
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Really? I seriously doubt that. By the way, during the campaign, Obama kept boasting that HE knew how to get Osama Bin Ladin, dead or alive, and would do it no matter what it took – even if he was in Pakistan or another sovereign nation unfriendly to us. Wonder what he meant by that?

Atlas . .
“during the campaign, Obama kept boasting that HE knew how to get Osama Bin Ladin”
You’ve got that wrong. It was McCain who stated emphatically in one of the television debates . . .. “I know how to get Bin Laden”, “I know how to fix the economy” . . .”I know how to do that” . .
It was one of his weakest moments.

Danita,
Glory years over? Not at all. Repaat, not at all.
It is just that there are mistakes happening which may never be undone (national healthcare like the UK where it sucks) and a loss of standing in the world due to our spending as emerging countries overtake us. This is worst case. However, the Healthcare overhaul, I believe will fail. And unless the economy rapidly improves by this time next year, the Dems will lose the majority. Check and balance. America adjusts.
America has hit a rough patch and the reaction to it was more knee-jerk, but lets face it, it is a hard solution to get it right. Obama tried, but I think he had bad advice from Geithner.
AMERICAS BEST DAYS ARE STILL AHEAD

Bahahahahaha oh my..this would be so funny if, you know, the guy ever DID speak from his heart. Break one teleprompter you get a laugh. Break two teleprompters, you get a lame duck.

Danita,
The future of wealth in the US? Thanks for the softball :)
The future of wealth in the US must be compartmentalized:
Technology:
Health and Biotech, that is if the Federal Government doesn’t take it over
Factory and energy automation
Water treatment technology
Food science technolgy
Pharma: Life saving medications
Legal:
IP surrounding new inventiones and process and corresponding treatiese
Legal protection of inventions
Energy management:
though this is compeitive. Forget biofuel, this is about hydrogen and cell technology
Finance:
Instruments that got us into trouble in the first place but more refined and suitalbe for emerging economies. Only 1 in 60 in India has a credit card but with a savings rate upwards of 30%. As the std of living grows, so will the obligations.
Entertainment and tourism
So far as my crystal ball reads… :)

Mike . .. .
You actually think there are going to be enough jobs created in those sectors to employ the United States?

Mike . …
the other thing I notice about just about all of those sectors you post is that they are sectors that require high levels of education and expertise . .. many of them SCIENCE oriented . … just like President Obama is pushing . . .

Danita,
The bogus argument we hear currently is Cap & Trade. I was at a mining customer last month who is already in the planning stages of moving the operation to Africa. So, how does moving the operation from the US to another country reduce climate change? It does not.
What cap + trade is, is a way to tax purportedly to reduce demand. While it may in the very short term do so, it alwo reduces US jobs, commerce, community support through taxes, state and Federal tax revenue, and US exports affecting GDP.
So, such a plan punishes small communities and governement equally. To what end? Once the operation moves offshore under less stringent but more affordable conditions, how does this help the planet?
Also note that Cap + Trade is a regressive tax. Taxes those who pay to heat their home. Passes on increased costs for those that are subsidized for heat to the taxpayer. Passes on the same taxes for every good manufactured in the US to the consumer, further reducing exports.
The plan is all wrong. It has not been thought out. It is simply a way to impose a tax in the hope of clear skies.

Just now looking where the Recovery and Reinvestment monies are targeted. . .
Tax Relief: $288 Billion
State and Local Relief: $144 Billion
Infrastructure & Science: $111 Billion
Support Programs: $81 Billion
Health Care: $59 Billion
Education & Training: $53 Billion
Energy: $43 Billion

Danita,
Science must but ‘pushed’. Both parents came to this country with a 6th and 8th grade education. I attended an urban public school (tough), and paid my own way to a 2 community college degree through my employer by working nights, schooling days. This is true, every word.
By any measure, I have done extremely well.
Don’t want to hear lectures that it can’t be done. I will not have it. Anything less than I did is cop out.
I never knew entitlements and accomodation and I am the better for it. In fact I accomodate other family members less fortunate.

Danita,
Gosh, you must work for ABC to keep up this thread, Your number appear below. However, only 10% of the ‘stimulus’ has been doled out. When asked why, a spokesman said that ‘the government is sluggish and inefficient’. Can’t wait then till they run healthcare eh/.
Find me the private sector jobs in those numbers. Looks more like state and local assistance, and subsidies, not JOBS.
Waste of money to buy votes. That is why most of the money will not be doled out until next year, an election year. Obama is holding out this money to grease politicians. However, his numbers are plummeting faster than he thought.
Nice try though.
Tax Relief: $288 Billion
State and Local Relief: $144 Billion
Infrastructure & Science: $111 Billion
Support Programs: $81 Billion
Health Care: $59 Billion
Education & Training: $53 Billion
Energy: $43 Billion

Danita,
Your turn.
Tell me why Cap & Trade is good.
I will wait for an answer.

You wrote:
A lot of the money going into education is going beyond the small increase in student loans . . . and is being invested to upgrade schools to contemporary technology. I think this will help for the high tech industries your are describing as playing a crucial role in the future of United States commerce.
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Doubt it. Never saw a computer until college and I ended up designing and bulding computer networks for 4, very large school districts.
Technology investment was not around, yet I did the network for venture capital, state and municipal office. Did the network for a dominent videoconferencing company and now do networks for global 100 in industry worldwide. Never saw a computer in high school. Didn’t know what they looked like or ever heard of them.
Invest in the fundamentals. Forget the technology that is aged in 3yrs.
Computer can’t help a kid that can’t figure it out on their own. Books, process and exercise are the tools, not expensive tech toys paid by the taxpayer. Don’t give me the learning jive either, what with all the online help and ‘intuitive’ interfaces put on software. Software today assumes everyone is an idiot. Besides, find me one kid that does not know how to send an SMS or an email and I will eat my hat, regardless of the ‘investment’ in school technolgy.

That was after 8 years of the Bush/Cheney regime who left office with somewhere around a 30% approval rating, and the country’s national debt doubled from $5 TRILLION to $10 TRILLION.
The current President faces a global economic crisis called the largest since the great depression.
Obviously, he should be able to snap his fingers and fix this.
Surely if those good, clean, honest Republicans were in office they could fix the economic crisis with one snap of their blessed fingers.
They sure did a good job of providing ‘smaller government’ last time they promised it under Bush and Cheney .. .. didn’t they?
Posted by: danita | Jul 14, 2009 2:03:02 AM
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5.7 Trillion to 10.0 Trillion, but then, what’s 700 Billion dollars between friends? Its sorta funny to be emphasizing the debt increase during the Bush years, when in 6 months Obama has already quadrupled the deficit AND increased the debt the same amount it took Bush 3 YEARS to do.
Besides, during that same time period, 2000 to 2008, our gross domestic product skyrocketed. The amount of debt stayed within historical levels relative to our growth.
That’s now radically altered, the debt has another 2 TRILLION added in 6 months, while our GDP is contracting rather than expanding. The debt is important, although the publicly held debt more than total debt – and a far better measure is the public debt to GDP ratio.
You are right about one thing – Obama does keep claiming this is the worst recession since the Great Depression. As I’ve pointed out to you repeatedly, that patently FALSE. Or heck, with the past month job report, by now it may be at least in terms of unemployment tho not interest rates. I don’t know for sure where it falls in comparison now, but it certainly wasn’t the worst since the great depression for MONTHS that Obama & others kept trumpeting that scare mongering claim. If he doesn’t change his policies and fix the stimulus awfully quick, he’ll sure make this into the worst tho.
To compare gov. growth under Bush/Cheney to what Obama is already doing is laughable too.

“You are right about one thing – Obama does keep claiming this is the worst recession since the Great Depression. As I’ve pointed out to you repeatedly, that patently FALSE. Or heck, with the past month job report, by now it may be at least in terms of unemployment tho not interest rates.”
Atlas . . .you go right ahead and tell the hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs that this isn’t a serious economic crisis. And what other era do you think saw this huge a crash?
If it isn’t the second biggest crisis, it’s right up there!!! Get real.
You argue for political reasons not to make sense, or bring light to the situation.

And Atlas Shrugs Yet Again,
Just to balance the numbers
Energy = 25% (Cap & Trade)
Healthcare = 25%
Banking = Unk
Others = Unk
2 items represent 50% of our economy. We do very little mfg anymore.
Posted by: Mike | Jul 14, 2009 2:44:28 AM
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Yes, that’s where we’ll likely be if Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine has its way.
God I hope cap and trade doesn’t make it thru the senate, but I’m not holding my breath. Ditto on health. Obama has already announced that he wants immigration done THIS YEAR too, and he’s all for full amnesty. That’s one I haven’t really looked into in depth, but if its like these others have been it’ll be another 1,500 page unread abomination chock full of goodies for every Democrat out there.

A piece of equipment breaks, it’s reported. . . and . . .what? Everybody just keeps typing the usual partisan chatter. Sigh. Yeah, we get it. Tough.

They let me out Trajan . .. . but I’m off for now. See you later.

Obama’s Jump the shark moment.

Ruth’s comments (Jul 14) are just about on track with so many people’s frustration with this administration, (If you can call it that!) What I see is so many Democratic Obama “PUPPETS!” Are they afraid to find their own personal voice, and use them to challenge all or some of Obama’s “wishes?” They seem so tongue-tied, to me! Democrats were voted into their Senate & Congressional seats, to use the voice of their constituents. I cannot believe that ALL Dem’s are happy about the circus that Obama’s Admin has become, and the spectacle that Obama has made of this country, and its people! I do not doubt, though, that this man has this country’s well-being at heart. He seems to be more concerned about how the rest of the world thinks about us (Iran, Russia, Africa!) I would like to know how much of this mess we can blame the Mrs with. Remember her comment about “hating” this country! I do hope all Obama supporters keep his lack of Executive experience in mind BEFORE voting for any candidate again. Lest, it be best that you just stay away from the polls, and help everyone else out, instead! This is such a huge mess!! I fear his antics will destroy this country that I love so much!! God Bless Us All!

To And Atlas Shrugs Yet Again
Do we drag China down? Probably not and here is why?
China is balking at buying newly issued Treasuries. At worst they will lose on the $1B they spent thus far.
Chinas auto output exceeded that of the US in the recent quarter, with a huge demand. China is poised to produce more autos than the US.
The growth rate in China is astonishing, same with Inida and other developing countries.
Should we hit a rut, China is liquid, not in debt like the US. China can attract capital to sustain.
There are other reasons, but I think China is just fine.

You know, for someone who everyone claims, “Is so smart,” I think it is amusing how desperately Obama relies on teleprompts and such. Seems his wife does too! Why would someone “so smart,” demand that their college Thesis’ be sealed? Strange. They don’t even want the subject matter or title of their papers revealed. Were they that politically controversial? Can’t this man just walk up to a podium, and speak from information absorbed to the brain, or must he be scripted every time he speaks in public?? Sad, isn’t it? I would take George W. back in a minute now, if I could!!

“Why all the outrage about government spending? I didn’t hear you people complaining when GW Bush burned through that massive surplus Clinton left him…”
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Some people were complaining, actually quite a lot were. If I recall correctly, one side of the public that it was too much spending and too much deficit.
The other side, including the democrats in congress, screaming bloody murder at every budget Bush submitted about how he was cutting spending for education (he wasn’t at all, he INCREASED it), cutting spending for this other segment, and that other segment, and on and on. I’m not sure, but I think that House and Senate versions generally wound up being larger than Bush submitted, due to the Repubs giving in or going along, and the Dems pushing hard for increases pretty much across the board.

…There are other reasons, but I think China is just fine.
Posted by: Mike | Jul 14, 2009 4:34:07 AM
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Hum, I was thinking that China had way more than a B into us, but certainly could be wrong there.
Thanks Mike!
(who is dead on the money re Cap & Tax)

Sometimes odd minor events mark a critical symbolic turning point in a presidency. Perhaps this incident will be like Carter’s killer bunny rabbit.

Like the Wizard of Oz. He cannot perform without his teles. And the press still swoon over how articulate and smooth a talker he is…really? Ever hear him talk without a teleprompter? He stumbles and jumbles just like Bush did (but Bush was bashed for it, Barry gets a pass).

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”…

Does this mean that Biden’s teleprompter is president now?

Will there be a state funeral for TOTUS? Will there be a procession complete with a flag draped coffin, caisson and riderless horse with a boot reversed in the stirrup, and will TOTUS lie in repose in the Capitol Rotunda for public viewing? It’s only fair, given that the American people have lost a great and effective leader. Knowing Obama, this will be some show – he will spare no expense.

The real joke is that Politcal Punch wastes keystrokes writing about this.
Of all the problems facing this country, and needs for true reporting, Political Punch chooses to write political fluff.
What ever happened to actual reporting on events that have importance?

Sorry William, that was supposed to be to M.Summer

Its all self-interest and power and the hell with America!

Are you people kidding me. Laying this mess at the feet of a President who has been in office less than 6 months.This mess did not start on his watch it started because of the greed of corporate America and an administration that refused to put any regulations controlling them.God bless him for even wanting to take this mess on who among us would want to some how find a solution for all these problems all at the same time.Some of his plans will not work or will work slower than we want them to but he has been aggressive and has tried to right the ship.He works non stop and he is visible and accountable to the American people.Mistakes will be made but he is learning on the job and is providing a new sense of pride in American leadership around the world and at home which was desperately needed after 8 years of George Bush.Those on the right who sat silent while Bush ran a surplus into a huge deficit started a war he had no business starting at the tune of a billion dollars a day.Sat back and watched corporate America and wall street get rich on the backs of the middle class and watched millions lose their health care have lost their voice and their standing in our Nation and should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for the hypocrisy of their behavior and rhetoric.

He continued the bailout (and cubed it) started under Bush and a Democratic House and Senate and he put in charge the same people who were involved with this credit mess that were there under Bush. So yes Virginia, it’s Obama’s mess now.

Osama was never caught by Bush/Cheney and the Republicans. Bush was never respected by anyone on the world stage.
President Obama needs help from our allies in the middle east Egypt and Saudi Arabia and bring aboard Syria and Jordon. Doesn’t Syria want to talk to President Obama?
Pakistan just went on the offensive against our foes. Pakistan said the Taliban leader was ready to talk to President Obama and Allies?
Perhaps India can work with Pakistan?
Even Gadahn would see the hand writing on the wall. Hes been silent lately

A “community Organizer” is president..hmm. Wonder why things are getting worse instead of better? I hear Mrs. Palin is available, maybe someone should get her b4 this gets worse.

The teleprompter shattered of shame to carry continues lies on its screen.

Obama is NOT a reporter. I would expect a president to be able to maintain a train of thought and speak fluently with help from TOTUS (though I love his
blog).
Ummmmmm Uhhhhhhh That is not presidential. I guess he needs the help.

Guys, try to be more accurate. TOTUS is not referring to the teleprompter. TOTUS is referring to Obama not a teleprompter. HE is TOTUS, as he is just a teleprompter posing as a human president.

What? No one has blamed Bush or Cheney yet for destroying the TOTUS?

Why don’t they use a video projector and we read the same message? That will save him from reading.

This just in all, public statements/ press conferences/ or speechifiying by the President have been postponed.

The Huffington Post in not a credible news source. Plus, everytime I hear A. Huffingotn I feel the need to hire a greek translator.

What a non-story, but this is ABC. Barry always uses 2 tele-promoters just for this reason. His handlers can’t let him get off target, too much of his real agenda could get out and his adoring fans just might see who he is. Can’t have that now can we.

This is your headline, huh Matt?

@dan royle, Actually this mess did start on his watch. He and Biden both were in the Senate. You people DO NOT GET it do you? THE DEMOCRATS and THE REPUBLICANS created this mess! The Politicians in DC created this mess. NONE OF THEM give a crap about you or me! Until we all stop bickering with each other and wake up, they will keep making a mess. But, NO, they keep us busy pointing fingers at each other while they screw up everthing.

WILLIAM, even the Clinton’s agree this economic mess is of the democrat’s making!

You can count on ABC news to deliver the truth. They are the ones who said our pressident pervert was just checking the stairs instead of oogling a 16 yr old girls rear.

RK2: Rush doesn’t need a prompter ‘cos he makes up half the stuff he says whole cloth. Easiest way to fill a timeslot, really, pulling stuff out of… the air.

Malia and Sasha can do the reading..

Hey,,,, better than the earlier version of “Hello,,,, ummm, ahhhh,, everybody. I,,,, ahhhh just,,,,,,,,,,,,,ummmmm,,,, want to,,,,,,, ahhhhhhh,,,,,, say,,,,,,, ahhhhhh,,,,,,,,,,,,, how good,,,,,,,,,,, ummmmmmmmm,,,,,, it is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, to see,,,,,,,,,,,,, ahhhhhhh,,,,,,,,, you all”.

IF PEOPLE ARE MAKING UP EVERYTHING THEY SAY, THEY NEED A TELEPROMPTER. OBAMA IS A TOTAL FRAUD AND EVERYONE IS BEGINNING TO REALIZE THE NIGHTMARE. HIS BOSS PUTIN IS HAPPY! HE DOESN’T NEED A TELEPROMPTER!

If only they allow TOTUS in examinations and job interviews…

Funny how I saw recently where Rush Limbaugh’s show is listed by an independent company as 99.1% accurate over the last 20 yrs. I don’t think you can call that making things up out of whole cloth. I am not the biggest Rush fan, but someone on here is asserting he is using drugs. That is called slander. Matter of fact, he is healthier than ever having recently lost about 60 lbs. Some of you people are just bizarre and cruel.

Hey, Stephie fan, you are wrong about Huffington vs. Drudge. But, for the sake of argument, I would submit that if Huffington does cover more ground, it’s because she has so many snakes, cockroaches, rats and other assorted dirt-dwellers, including herself.

Rocket Man,
You just don’t get it, this is not a Repub/Demo issue. That is what they want you to think, but it is a power/corruption issue. Among Obama’s largest contributers are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citi Group and GE. So you still think that only Repubs have anything to do with Wall Street? In the Bush years it was war and oil with a marriage between business and governemnt in Haliburton. You lefties screamed like stuck pigs. Now it is green and health care with a marriage between business and government with GE and you lefties are ok with that, since it supports your agenda. IT IS THE SAME CORPORATE WELFARE. Wall Street was there in the Bush years to profit and they will be here during Obama to profit, they could care less how or where it comes from. Keep thinking in terms of demo/repub, while the corrupt, power-hungry, dishonest political operatives from BOTH parties ruin us.

To Miller and Tapper:
Reliance on a prompter for oval-office and other more formal and potentially lengthy speeches is one thing. No problem using a prompter. But this man can’t even introduce a cabinet appointment without using one! He is incapable of compiling a spoken paragraph on his own!!

Yes, and we know for a fact that Obama did a whole lotta drugs in his day, because he admitted it and of course, the press said nothing, while he puffed away on a banned cigarette – from his executive privilege private reserve.

@DW Griffith: Just for clarification a “Banana Republic is a pejorative term for a country that is politically unstable, dependent on limited agriculture (e.g. bananas), and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and corrupt clique.[1] It is most commonly used for countries in Central America and Africa such as El Salvador, Belize, Grenada, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Ethiopia and South Africa. In some cases, these nations have kept the government structures that were modeled after the colonial Spanish ruling clique, with a small, largely leisure class on the top, and a large, poorly educated and poorly paid working class of peons, though it might have the (fake) trappings of modernity (such as styling itself a republic with a president etc.)”
Not that I’m a Rush fan, far from it; however, before you make weak attempts to call somebody a racist please understand their talking points.
Currently our government is quickly steering this great nation towards either a Banana or Weimher republic all the while the mass population is too busy arguing over the colors of the walls in the White House. The sooner that you clowns realize that you’re just mouthpieces for the ruling class (politicians – both R and D) and grown a mind and opinions that are your own we will be able to correct this potential grave mistake.

It seems like everything is starting to fall just like the falling poll numbers for Obama.

Quoting: “Of course, television reporters and anchors never become over-reliant on teleprompters.” These people are, what they call in England, “News Readers”, there is no actual reporting going on when an anchor verbalizes. Only reading written propaganda.

I’m starting to become more and more aware that Obama is more scripted than we would be led to believe.

The TOTUS gave all it could. As for the reader, he’s still the same old snake oil salesman who will tell you anything you want. Just give him your $ and freedom and he’ll make magic happen.

I hope Palin runs for president and cleans this mess up.

RobertC:
“I am surprised he didnt have a panic attack and knee jerk start raising taxes.”
HA! There probably was a minute of panic but he switched to the backup and his notes so the country was safe. Otherwise there would have been a prolonged uhuhuhuhuhuh as he core dumped.
And why is he apologizing for gravity?

“Favreau is a sexist jerk who should have been fired by Obama immediately, but, no, Obama hired him to work in the White House.”
Do you expect anything more from The One? And he (Favreau) gets paid $170,000+/yr. to do so, one of the highest paid staffers in WH.

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Can we expect to see a televised State funeral?

Previous Presidents tended to only use a teleprompter for the State of the Union Address… and understandably… seeing how it is a speech that spans an hour or more.
Could you imagine President Obama at ground Zero – 9/14/01…
“I hear you. And soon… could you raise that teleprompter up just a little bit? …thank you. And soon those that knocked down these buildings will hear from you. In the form of an invitation to a tea time friendly chat.”

During Obama’s presidential campaign there was an incident where the teleprompters failed completely. The video was briefly out there but never lasted. BO was ‘lost’. He went into what I call ‘ghetto mode’ and started ad libbing like a inner city rapper. I SAW IT! Probably won’t find it now. I must say, however, that when they’re working, he sure can deliver the message.

Maybe it’s an omen! Does it mean 7 years bad luck?

wes; Seldom does a post have me laughing out loud. Very funny.

wes.. will the other TOTUS need suicide assistance?

It’s tat finger pointin’ tat worries me.. tats rude!

Good thing W never used a teleprompter. We always heard everything straight from his brain to his mouth.
Bwahahaha

I love how a simple story about something irreverant and funny can turn into liberal/Obama bashing by right wing #######. But I guess you have to look for something to bitch about…right? I mean we’re 7 months into his first year and he STILL hasn’t fixed the economy? Lets crucify him. (For all you conservatives out there that was a joke)

Are all you rightes really this stupid? Guess what – THEY ALL READ THEIR SPEECHES! Do you really think that George Bush ever gave a speech that wasn’t prepared by his speechwriting staff? He used a notebook on the podium to read his speeches instead of a prompter. Obama prefers a promter. Who cares??

Make fun of Bush: Get a tv deal.
Make fun of Obama: Get branded a racist and banned from press conferences.
Seriously? Its surprising how many freedoms we’ve lost in just 7 months… and those who were complaining about loss of freedom 4 years ago are, apparently, loving every minute.
Same could be said for the deficit… where are the complainers about the rising deficit under Bush now?

I love how innocent observations about the President of the US and his reliance on an electronic crutch get turned into vile, hate-filled rage, spewed forth by filthy, un-American, LIBeral “activists.” This corrosive bile, being secreted by our National-Socialist Leftists, is in danger of destroying our great country…
Voter Of The United States

We are laughing at you Obama!

It means at least seven years of higher taxes, becka.

If a Teleprompter Falls in the White House Does It Make a Sound?
It doesn’t, but Obama does: “uhhhhhhhh, um, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Hold on now, uhhhhhhhhhhh, um, uh, um, uhhhh….”

LOL you republicans are hopeless.
Obama 2012!!!!!

Thick, presumably bullet-resistant teleprompter glass does not shatter so easily.
Remember when Michael Musakey “fainted” last year while giving a speech before the Federalist Society, in the wake of his authorization of a report sharply critical of DOJ “torture memo” authors? He stammered and slurred his words and collapsed. Just fainting?
The thought occurs that a silent burst from a microwave radiation “directed energy weapon” could cause such podium anomalies.
But such things only happen in Washington spy novels — right, Jake?
So investigate no further.

What I want to know is who is the real voice behind the teleprompter. Is it Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Georg Soros, ACORN, or ??????

Wow, I am blown away that so many of you rightest are posting on this “left wing, liberal” site. Wouldn’t you be more comfortable over on FOX? Is it no wonder that every public figure speaks from a script? Look what is happening to Judge Sotomayor, one off the cuff comment 7 years ago and she is being crusified over it.

Oh come on, Bush had a distinct advantage on the phone versus live speech. And don’t think that W wasn’t scripted…the one time that he had spoken off the cuff was the time he was yelling at the Mid-Eastern leaders after the 9/11 attacks. And I am most certain that there was booze involved:

===one off the cuff comment 7 years ago and she is being crusified over it.
Posted by: donfree | Jul 14, 2009 11:21:22 AM===
Which off-the-cuff remark are you referring to?

===IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!! ===
Are you sure? Might have been Cheney. Anyone check for scatter shot? BB gun?

Why are all you republicans worried about your taxes. Do you all make over 250K? The republican party doesn’t know what is good for them.

Wow, I am blown away that so many of you rightest are posting on this “left wing, liberal” site. Wouldn’t you be more comfortable over on FOX? Is it no wonder that every public figure speaks from a script? Look what is happening to Judge Sotomayor, one off the cuff comment 7 years ago and she is being crusified over it.
Posted by: donfree | Jul 14, 2009 11:21:22 AM
We “Rightest” feel the need to get our news from “All Sides” of the issue. We are not the robots, “Diddo heads”, we are accused of being.
It is the Leftest Liberals that are mind numbed and only read the news from “their side” so as to feel better about themselves in knowing that they are not alone in their Lunacy!

Oh Golly a dummy without his ventriloquist,how will that work out over the long haul?

I can’t take a single person seriously who thinks Bush is better as a president than Obama. How could someone think someone that stupid should be running our country?

Jake feels the need to help Obama out at the end of his article by making the point that reporters and anchors need prompters too. Thanks for having Obama’s back- you’re a good soldier. But with his total reliance on prompters, the President has become a reporter too. It’s impossible to know who’s writing the script for him to deliver…

Its Cheney’s fault.If it weren’t for him Obama would be able to speak entire sentences on his own

===Posted by: scrivener | Jul 14, 2009 11:51:18 AM===
It’s going to disappear again. No links allowed.

“Teleprompter breaks. President is speechless!”
Folks did you notice the little hiccup in the tape this column showed recently of the President looking at the young woman at the G8 meeting? I keep wondering what was cut from that tape.
ABC, I wish you wouldn’t think this stuff is helping. Why are you trying to take on the role of apologist for the President…….any President. That really isn’t your job.
The President was ogling the girl. He’s a man isn’t he? One hopes so.
And he has been extremely dependent upon his Teleprompters as he lacked experience when he came into office. After 6 months he can wing it a bit, but your jollying us along isn’t going to make a difference. What can make a difference is for people to see this President wing it on his own.
In fact, you are insulting him by implying he needs your help!

Why are all you republicans worried about your taxes. Do you all make over 250K?
This remark is the reason there should be an IQ test to vote! No my dear, we don’t ALL make over $250,00, and soon no one will! Every person in the US will feel the same misery with the obamanition’s socialist crap. You will pay more taxes because of Crap & Tax, the so called universal healthcare, because the government runs the car industry and because business is being punished, causing them to raise their prices on goods & services. And that is only the beginning. If you had any savvy, you would know that even welfare recepients like yourself will be paying taxes with this fascist in the White House.

to Ann, the president does not “run the country.” The president’s job is to act as chief executive of the government. State and society are two distinct concepts, or at least they have been. With this teleprompter-reading empty suit, a lemming Dem Party, and a sycophantic media flock, we see an effort to blur the distinction.

Y’all really gotta get over this right/left thing! It’s just cover. They are ALL the same! It’s like wrestling, when there’s a microphone around they cuss each other and tell everybody how the “other party” is going down, but behind the curtain they are having dinner and discussing how they can get the crowd riled up! STOP FALLING FOR IT! IT’S ABOUT LIBERTY NOT PARTY AFFILIATION!
Neither so called party is true to the principals that attracted you to that party!
LIBERTY FREEDOM LIBERTY FREEDOM LIBERTY FREEDOM!

I hope you obama-lovers can live without electricity, money, gas and food. If you think obama is trying to “save” the economy by stealing money from “rich” people and giving it to the poor, go back to the 6th grade and re-read your Robin Hood book. This too (obama’s hope & change) is a fairy tale. Have you ever been employed by a POOR person?? HMMM?????
Obama and his socialist/nazi/communist friends (read dems) are trying to DESTROY the economy so we all have to “rely” on the government for everything. Sound familiar? Try Russia in the 1920′s. If you obama-lovers are “educated” (college degrees, etc.) you’d better take off your sunglasses and learn TRUE history because it’s about to repeat itself, right here in the U.S.
Learn to grow your own food, learn to KILL animals for meat. Learn to survive WITHOUT government and without money because that is where we’re headed unless we get a whole pile of good Conservatives back in power.
“Hope & Change”
(Hope you have something to eat because all you have is a little Change in your pocket)
Pull your head out, open your eyes and realize that SOCIALISM & COMMUNISM does not work! It didn’t work for Russia (USSR), Nazi Germany (Nazi’s are not right-wingers; read your dictionary), is not working in N. Korea & China, is not working in Europe and will NOT work in the U.S.
Wake Up!

===Obama may end up being as bad or worse, but to say you think that already shows that you are not basing your opinion on the actual documented facts.
Posted by: jhw539 | Jul 14, 2009 12:06:33 PM===
I beg to disagree, grasshopper. I could start a list here. Do you think they’ll leave it up if I do?

Did anyone else notice that the “depth” of his comments seemed to improve from that point on?… although some might say they became more “one-sided.”
Perhaps the two teleprompters need more rest. Maybe the left on one day and the right on the next. After all, unlike the President, they don’t have the press helping to prop them up.

We need true good CONSERVATIVES now. NOT necessarily Republicans….Many of us need to learn the difference and a more about political philosophy and the effects of uninformed votes. When the people fear the government we have tyranny, when the government fears the people we have LIBERTY. They work for us!

A bobble head empty suit loses half of his lifeline to his reality and the world is all a twitter over it. I am positively giddy with excitement over the upcoming policies taking effect. The continuing job losses, pain and suffering will be music to my ears. Stupid people learn slowly but learning can be enhanced for the dim if augmented with blinding white hot pain coupled with mind numbing poverty and a degradation of all that America has enjoyed for decades due to the foolish voting habits of clueless twits who couldn’t think their way out of a paper sack.

So, what’s the deal? You guys spend most of your time doling out venom on internet comment blogs such as this? Still grousing over losing the election and being marginalized? Really?

So Sunlen and Jake, cute joke about reporters never relying on teleprompters. But, doesn’t that mean Obama, like reporters, are just of avergae intelligence? Don’t you need to recant some of your earlier reported data on Obama?

Jake / ABC News investigative unit:
Those links, re: “directed energy weapon” were garbled.
Again,
Did the glass shatter before or after it it the floor?
If it did hit the floor intact, would thick safety glass have shattered as it did?
Did some invisible force beam hit that glass, causing this incident?
If so, what are the ramifications?
Click “scrivener” below:

the man cant function with out the teleprompter. hes an empty suit, always has been. thanks to all you ignorant folks who voted for him. deficit up, unemployment up, taxes up, economy in the tank (not to mention weak on defense). hows all that hope and change workin for ya?

God was speaking and He is happy with The Imposter a/k/a The Chosen One!!!!

I want Bush back please.

Telepromters, cue cards, ear pieces, all aides … shouldn’t be allowed by any president. They ought to wing it, just like the real presidents did before the age of the Federal Reserve (when American people owned the currency). I think only idiots use devices when giving a speech. OBAMA IS AN IDIOT

If real presidents didn’t use aids, then why is there a copy of one of the most famous speeches by a president, The Gettysburg Address, located in the Lincoln bedroom in the White House. All the teleprompter does is take the speech and put it in a location so the person speaking can look at the crowd the whole time they are speaking, instead of having to look down on a podium.

R.I.P. TOTUS

Dave;
Uh, Lincoln wrote it (himself) and then memorized it.
POTOTUS is capable of neither.

Er…uhh…duh!
Thank you, Mr. President.

Notice almost no comments from anyone other than rightwing lunies?

Who assasinated the TOTUS???
I’m sure the dems will immediately launch a fact-finding mission.

No, these jokes are NOT lame,they are right on the money. We have listened to you left-wingnuts make fun of the way Bush spoke and then listened to you brag about what a wonderful speaker Obama is. Now that everyone can see the real truth that BO can’t even tie his shoes without his teleprompter, we are going to give you a good taste of your own medicine. When BO doesn’t have his teleprompter, he fumbles around misserably. All he can say is “well ah, uhm, da, ah, it’s Bush’s fault.” BO makes Bush look like a great speaker. Oh yeah, now that people are finally taking a hard look at what he is doing, his pole numbers are dropping fast amongst independents and even democrats.

Odufus strikes again! Apparently the Schwartz wasn’t with him.

We need a Teleprompter Czar

Dr Atomic says “Notice almost no comments from anyone other than rightwing lunies?”
The left is always silent when their gods turn out to ordinary crooked pol’s.
Have a nice day in lala land

When he won I said there are 2 Obama’s the educated Harvard Grad and the egotistical inexperienced boob and I wasn’t sure who would show up in the White House! well unfortunately we got the BOOB!!!!!!!

All I can say, you guys are soooooo jealous of Obama. He’s graceful, he’s funny, he’s super-smart, you’re not.

I’ve always wondered how a teleprompter worked. I wish we had things like that when we had to give lectures when I was in school.

Oh dear! He had to finish the speech with just one teleprompter?! Oh, say it isn’t so!

Hell Yeah! Hold the Republicans accountable in 2010 and 2012 and 2014!
Bush and the Republicans need to be held accountable I say for putting us in a mess on the economy and for Iraq.
Now some Republicans what a clean slate so they can run in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
The American People don’t get a clean slate until the Republican mess is taken care of on the economy, all our troops are home from Iraq and Afghanistan. If Bush and his Republican supporters didn’t drag us into Iraq resources concentrated on getting Osama would have happened and we would have been out of Afghanistan by now.

“All I can say, you guys are soooooo jealous of Obama. He’s graceful, he’s funny, he’s super-smart, you’re not.”
Well in response to this ignorance let me fill you in on something. First, might I correct you on the “Obama”, though he does not command my respect on a intellectual point of view I will respect him enough to call him “President Obama”, or “Mr. President”. He has been elected to this title and deserves that much. On the rest of your comments; his grace has not been there, the continuation of slurred ums followed by stammers is a sign of President Obama’s inability to grasp the concepts that he is preaching.
He continually demonstrates a failure to bring much more then charisma to the table and in an age where the American public cares more about reality television then its countries welfare, I guess that is all it takes.I will concede to your humor comment, though it’s how he handles himself not through jokes.
Lastly, your own inability to have anything to say other then commenting on his personality rather then his practices has decreased the IQ on this page. It has effectively invalidated your points and it is easily noticeable that you follow him as a sheep follows a herder.
As far as this actual article is concerned, it makes me happy to see this. The media that was lead on a leash by this administration is seeming to turn slowly and I can’t wait to see how it will be by the end of his term. Hopefully it won’t be to late for our constitution and our capitalistic ideals!

Obama would be a good TV newscaster. He reads a mean teleprompter. He just is not qualified to be POTUS. He has no knowledge of economics or how things work in the real world. He is a just a product of the insular socialist bubble in Chicago where everyone things taxing and spending is the answer to everything.

You right-wingers have nothing to offer, all you do is belittle yourselves when you make fun of the President. There is so much hate on the right, it’s scary. Reminds me of the political atmosphere in 1963. I just hope history doesn’t repeat it’s-self.

Poor teleprompter! It committed suicide because of the constant lies and distortions it had to display for Obama. It was too much. How many jobs will be “created or saved” when the White House obtains a new teleprompter?

ERASERHEAD ….. A BIG “HERE, HERE!” ………. NO ONE COULD HAVE SAID IT BETTER!
Add one more REPUBLICAN BELIEF to your list:
“PAYING UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION TO UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS IS BAD WELFARE POLICY… BUT PAYING $27.3 MILLION A MONTH TO THE ‘SONS OF IRAQ’ MEMBERS FOR 3 YEARS IS GOOD POLICY”
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What symbolism: the king has no teleprompter. How will we ever cope with this tragic event?

Amy B, BHO also is the most narcissistic man I have ever seen. Look it up!

what kind of a response is “oh, goodness” – what a weak, effeminate response. This is our Commander in Chief and he says “oh, goodness” – EGADS.
Now I know the type of response from a real man instead of a NOW-in-Chief liberal pantywaist.
hearing his weak and meek “oh, goodness” repeated on the radio today made me gag and fear for our country – hmmm N. Korea nukes San Fran and the Presidential response – “oh, goodness”.
Makes me tremble!!

Looks like Obama needs a Teleprompter Czar.

RK said “You right-wingers have nothing to offer, all you do is belittle yourselves when you make fun of the President. There is so much hate on the right, it’s scary. Reminds me of the political atmosphere in 1963. I just hope history doesn’t repeat it’s-self.”
Yeah RK there’s no hate on the left, Bush wasn’t belittled and made fun of by the left and neither was Reagan. Unlike Obama they could take it.

Pathetic, absolutely pathetic…

Worse than Carter!

I believe there was another Obama Tele-Prompter incident last week.
Apparently, there was a teleprompter attached to the back of a 16 year old Brazilian Girl that Barrakk was triin’ to read – squinting even…

How can he stand there with a straight face and feed the American People such Lies!! He needs the teleprompter to remember who to blame for his economic disaster. Who’s buying his blame Bush mantra? I’m not. He was in the U.S. Congress for two years prior to becoming President and voted for every budget!! His only gripe then was that we didn’t spend enough.. Impeach this light weight amature.

So let me get this straight… It’s ok to hate on President Obama because he is intelligent enough to read a teleprompter. President Bush, incapable of reading a damn thing, was better?

The Dufus in chief is trying to stimulate the economy. You guys never heard of the broken teleprompter theory of economics?

People will continue to blame Bush… even when this Usurper ruins our Country. Boy I hope America wakes up and fast.

Wow It took all day to get the “I love the “O”man crowd out. Didn’t you get the email from Rham & Soros?
It’s the “neo-cons” it’s “Bush bla,bla bla”. Bush is gone love him or hate him. BO’s got the job now.
Lets triple down on the deficit, lets kill the private sector, after all, anyone who needs a job the government will give you a check (for a while).
The trouble with socialism is that you always run out of other peoples money.
But hey “O” mans supporters are always looking for a free ride on someone that actually makes a living on their own.

And I thought I was through raising my kids!

So let me get this straight… It’s ok to hate on President Obama because he is intelligent enough to read a teleprompter. President Bush, incapable of reading a damn thing, was better?
Posted by: seriously?
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Let me set this straight for you. You don’t have to be intelligent to reads the teleprompter, just looked at olberman, matthews, maddow, sanchez, etc.
So you say Bush can’t read, that’s new to the rest of us. You got any proof or it’s just one of the typical libs smear job

I regret to inform you that the president is mentally impaired due to his youthful drug abuse. NIH studies have shown conclusively that the abuser’s maturity is stopped right in its tracks at the age of the abuse. We have a juvenile delinquent as a president, trying to be popular. Hence, all the give away programs. Now, he is contemplating paying mortgage payments for deadbeats, and still letting the “owners” live in the homes. Talk about a sophomore class president idea. Obama needs to be out, and fast.

Obama would be wise to pay closer attention to the presence of the Almighty in our human existence. In my experience, it is the “Still, Small Voice” that one should abide by to avoid the Great Big Whoop-arse Voice that will and does result when the Still, Small Voice is ignored.

New crapola on Barry “new lies for old” Obama: The white house staff is putting “pressure” on Senator John Kyl of Arizona because he isn’t drinking the Kool-Aid that the stimulus is working. White House is threatening to take away Federal programs from the state. They handled it just like high school punk sophomores. They went and told the Governor of Arizona to remind Kyl he could be held responsible for losing all that Federal money if he didn’t shut down his talk about rescinding the stimulus programs. WE DO HAVE A JUVENILE DELINQUENT FOR PRESIDENT! That youthful drug abuse that Barry did arrested his maturity at about fourteen or fifteen years old. That he is a juvenile delinquent makes it so easy for him to lie, with or without a teleprompter.

“Seriously?” wrote:
“So let me get this straight… It’s ok to hate on President Obama because he is intelligent enough to read a teleprompter. President Bush, incapable of reading a damn thing, was better?”
Are you kidding me??? Did you vote for the “experience free candidate” Obama because you were voting against Bush and his ilk??? Is THAT what you based your criteria for selection of the leader of the greatest nation in the world on?
What the heck did you do!? You are a dam fool. You voted in a Socialist!!!! Hows that workin’ out for ya?

This is on the Huffington Post
WATCH: Olbermann Slams Palin’s Op-Ed: “The ‘Op’ Could Have Stood For Facts Optional”
Olbermann Rocks!

Could it be that the Big One was trying to Smite He-Who-Would-Be-King?
Notice that the teleprompter fell right when Obama got to his prevarication about the purpose of the “stimulus” bill.
Coincidence? Or something else????

I can’t believe someone referenced for us all to read an article on HUFFPO…Yeah right. More handlers.

Lets forget Politics for a moment
Giving respect to Drudge
Front Page of Drudge
- Six end simulated Mars mission isolation; 105-day confinement…
Question who will be the First Internet Reporter in Space? Drudge or Huffington? or both :-D
This idea is free of charge and perhaps everyone can lobby for David Blaine to do some cards tricks in space like on Spaceship 2? He would do want no other Magician has done before perform in Space.
On Front Page on Drudge
Monkey Moves Robot Using Mind Control…
Amazing story we can see the future coming.

Tapper’s blog looks like a battlefield all right. Can’t believe everyones still throwing punches.

The teleprompter couldn’t think of anymore lies to give to the President, so it committed sucide.

And all this time I thought TOTUS stood for Tool of the United States!

What happened to the minority? Thrown away like the trash huh?