The President Can't Speak --- He Uses A "Scripted" Teleprompter  --

Every  Where  He  Goes -- For A Speech !

    This writer wrote SEVERAL of the news medias about why this man NEVER looks straight ahead when speaking to an audience.    After two months of no replies from the leftists media all of a sudden the truth comes out --- THE MAN CAN'T SPEAK WITHOUT USING A TELEPROMPTER--- but it took the Drudge Report links to expose the truth.    That's the reason he can't look his audiences straight ahead in the eye --- HE'S TOO BUSY READING.

    One good example was at a "press conference" (?)  when he looked ahead and said --- "yes Judy"---  then when no one spoke he looked ALL AROUND THE ROOM and said "Judy -- where are you?" -- he had NO IDEA who Judy was --- he read her name on the teleprompter!

   He used the teleprompters all during his campaign speeches.    He had to take them EVERYWHERE -- placing them on high poles above the podium, rising out of the ground, and -- yes-- even at a rodeo buried down below his seat in the dirt.    A third grader has more presences of to whom he speaks than the current president of the United States.    It really is not that hard to look people in the eye to express what you mean.   But not this guy -- he FLOUNDERS, and is very slow in replying to a question asked when he really doesn't have an answer -- the teleprompter is GONE !

    The "press conference" was only one phase of the arrogance, and egomania appearance of the visit by the Prime Minister of England Brown when not only were the flags improperly flown, but wasn't even given a RED CARPET welcome.    One has to wonder if the same arrogance will be the president's attitude and aloofness during his visit to the England to meet the Queen?    Will his muscle-armed wife wear her sleeveless dresses in the Queen's presence.    That would be the actions of ill-bred upbringing of displaying no respect for whose presence they are in.   Must be the throwback of the "Illinois corrupt politics" coming into play.

So every time you see him speak --- remember he's only reading something --- that was written for him !

Read the article below --- the go to an article written in London about the Prime [ Minister's visit to the USA ] !

 
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Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter

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Barack Obama is reflected in the teleprompter as he campaigns at the Seagate Convention.
The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.
Photo: AP
President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter.

The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.

Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches in the White House’s stately parlors. They stood next to him on the floor of a manufacturing plant in Indiana as he pitched his economic stimulus plan. They traveled to the Department of Transportation this week and were in the Capitol Rotunda last month when he paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln in six-minute prepared remarks.

Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.

After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches, reports surfaced that he was training to wean himself off of the device while on vacation in Hawaii. But no such luck.

His use of the teleprompter makes work tricky for the television crews and photographers trying to capture an image of the president announcing a new Cabinet secretary or housing plan without a pane of glass blocking his face. And it is a startling sight to see such sleek, modern technology set against the mahogany doors and Bohemian crystal chandeliers in the East Room or the marble columns of the Grand Foyer.

“It’s just something presidents haven’t done,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, a presidential historian who has held court in the White House since December 1975. “It’s jarring to the eye. In a way, it stands in the middle between the audience and the president because his eye is on the teleprompter.”

Just how much of a crutch the teleprompter has become for Obama was on sharp display during his latest commerce secretary announcement. The president spoke from a teleprompter in the ornate Indian Treaty Room for a few minutes. Then Gov. Gary Locke stepped to the podium and pulled out a piece of paper for reference.

The president’s teleprompter also elicited some uncomfortable laughter after he announced Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his choice for Health and Human Services secretary. “Kathy,” Obama said, turning the podium over to Sebelius, who waited at the microphone for an awkward few seconds while the teleprompters were lowered to the floor and the television cameras rolled.

Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements and when repeating the same lines on his economic stimulus plan that he's been saying for months — whereas past presidents have mostly worked off of notes on the podium except during major speeches, such as the State of the Union.

 
 
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