Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

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Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter


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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> 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.
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?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.
 

Doc Mercer

EOG Master
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

and the best part?

He is Articulate and can read which puts him 2 up on Bush 43
 

DonkStomper

EOG Enthusiast
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

and the best part?

He is Articulate and can read which puts him 2 up on Bush 43

I'm not a Bush fan, but he does have a degree from
Yale, and an MBA from Harvard. Somehow
I think that is miles above what you have accomplished education-wise.

So, why don't you just go ahead and admit that what you wrote above
is yet another blatant lie on your part now, hmmmm?
 

Doc Mercer

EOG Master
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

Wow

an MBA??

He sure put that knowledge to use running this country !!!

:+textinb3:+textinb3:+textinb3:+textinb3:+textinb3:+textinb3
 

Doc Mercer

EOG Master
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

I graduated from College

Sold out the 1/2 of my company in my late 30s and don't have to work

Plenty of free time to make the lives of those in forums who root for the
destruction of this country very uncomfortable
 

DonkStomper

EOG Enthusiast
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

I graduated from College

Sold out the 1/2 of my company in my late 30s and don't have to work

Plenty of free time to make the lives of those in forums who root for the
destruction of this country very uncomfortable

Um.... great use of your time, posting 20-30 empty threads on here
every day.

Oh, by the way. You are lying when you say that people are rooting
for the destruction of this country. But, you can go ahead and keep
misquoting your friend Rush on that matter, I know you have a love
crush on him.
 

Doc Mercer

EOG Master
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

Limbaugh is and so is Rick Santorum along with Hannity and most of the Hitler Youth members who are employed at Ailes Nazi gathering at Fox News

Fuck Jim Cramer ... I hope that bastard loses everything for the bullshit con
game he runs on the tube


I've had it with the Right ... they hate this country and Maddow said it best:

THIS COUNTRY GOES UNDER RUSH ... REMEMBER ... THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT
YOU WANTED TO SEE HAPPEN
 

DonkStomper

EOG Enthusiast
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

Limbaugh is and so is Rick Santorum along with Hannity and most of the Hitler Youth members who are employed at Ailes Nazi gathering at Fox News

Fuck Jim Cramer ... I hope that bastard loses everything for the bullshit con
game he runs on the tube


I've had it with the Right ... they hate this country and Maddow said it best:

THIS COUNTRY GOES UNDER RUSH ... REMEMBER ... THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT
YOU WANTED TO SEE HAPPEN

Fiscal conservatives just want the bloated fiscal corruption
($4 trillion debt) out of the federal government.

But, you just keep blathering your mantra of lies.

Nothing to see here, run along now...

:cocktail
 

Doc Mercer

EOG Master
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

"Fiscal Conservatives"

:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO
 
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

Yah, everybody know that Harvard Law, Magna Cum Laude often equates to "dope." Haha. . .It's going to be a long four years in the frozen tundra. . .
 
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

SCREENING OBAMA

One wouldn't know it from reading the Washington Post or New York Times, but some inside the White House don't think that President Barack Obama hit a home run with his first national press conference last week.

"It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech," says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. "Every president has gone into one of these things knowing that there were some pre-arranged questions or journalists to be called on, but this one was pretty ham-handed."

To that end, he says, the White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. "It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it," says the adviser.

:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO

The screen would indicate whom to call on, seat placement for journalists, pass along notes or points to hit, and so forth, says the adviser.

Using a screen is nothing new for Obama; almost nothing he said in supposedly unscripted townhall events during the presidential campaign was unscripted, down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions. Teleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.

"It would be the same idea with the podium," says the adviser.

Obama had a teleprompter set up for his remarks last week, before taking questions, but the White House couldn't use the teleprompter for anything but the remarks, because the journalists were so close to the screens. Further complicating matters, teleprompter copy can't be easily updated in real time, in a setting like a White House press conference.
 

BCTTWR

EOG Dedicated
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

Funny stuff Joe. Keep them coming.
 

Doc Mercer

EOG Master
Re: Obama's Security Blanket: The TelePrompter - Can't go Anywhere Without it

Love it

Bush couldn't even read a child's book


:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO
 
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