downstairs: Craptastic: Obama: Great speaker. Writes most of his own speeches. Uses a teleprompter. Is the first president to be excoriated for using a teleprompter.

Does Obama really write "most" of his speeches? I have a hard time beliving that (speechwriting is VERY time-consuming.)

I could be wrong, not saying you're right or wrong.

I would imagine that like most Presidents in my lifetime, he has at least one speechwriter on staff. He lays out the points he wants to cover, and the general theme, and the writer produces a draft. Obama reads the draft, makes revisions and returns it to the writer. Rinse and repeat until Obama is satisfied that the speech conveys the message and tone that he wants, and is comfortable with the language it contains. He then practices the speech a few times, locates the rough spots, and sends it back for further revision. I would guess that he directs the speech more than writes it. But the end product definitely has his fingerprints all over it. Just like every President for at least the last half century.

downstairs: Craptastic: Obama: Great speaker. Writes most of his own speeches. Uses a teleprompter. Is the first president to be excoriated for using a teleprompter.

Does Obama really write "most" of his speeches? I have a hard time beliving that (speechwriting is VERY time-consuming.)

I could be wrong, not saying you're right or wrong.

From what I understand, he does. He then forwards his ideas to his staff, they edit, and then he has the final say, approving the edits or ignoring them. If you think he just reads without knowing what comes next, you don't understand how the process works. That goes for nearly all people who speak in public.

Vacation Bible School: Isitoveryet: wedding vegetables: Flappyhead: wedding vegetables: I think it should be illegal to let someone else fly or drive you somewhere. all that is is using someone else to transport you places. you should have to walk everywhere, like Jesus did.

I thought Jesus rode a dinosaur.

ah. I guess the right figures that using as much dead-dino juice as humanly possible is as close as they can get to riding around Jesus-style.

Isitoveryet: occasionally, the bible refers to him as cartwheeling about & something about his balls falling out of his skirt.

I always imagined Christ would have more of a Ken-doll under his robes. I'll have to take another look at the Turin Shroud and see if there are any ball-prints.

that was another thing, Jesus grew to dislike when people called him by his last name, he said he always felt like he was in gym class.

/i'll stop now
//maybe.

I heard another issue was he had too many middle names.
One day it's H
Then Motherfarking
then tapdancing...
he never knew who was really calling him and for why

And sometimes his surname was "on a cracker"

It should be illegal? Great, more laws to enforce, expand government, create an agency to police all elections across the country on teleprompter use.

Thrakkerzog: Hahahaha..

This so begs for a photoshop...

Vodka Zombie: Dogberry: FTA: "See, I always believed that when you run for president of the United States, it should be illegal to read off a teleprompter," he said. "Because all you're doing is reading someone else's words to people."

It's amazing, isn't it?

He really hasn't a clue what a teleprompter is or how it works. He doesn't think he can put his OWN WORDS into it (or, have an adult put his words into it for him). This is how stupid conservatives really are. It's hilarious.

It isn't funny at all. This guy has a chance (albiet a small one) to become president.

Vodka Zombie: Dogberry: FTA: "See, I always believed that when you run for president of the United States, it should be illegal to read off a teleprompter," he said. "Because all you're doing is reading someone else's words to people."

It's amazing, isn't it?

He really hasn't a clue what a teleprompter is or how it works. He doesn't think he can put his OWN WORDS into it (or, have an adult put his words into it for him). This is how stupid conservatives really are. It's hilarious.

The implication is that a black man can't be as smart as Obama sounds, that there are intelligent white people pulling all his strings. Every time they talk about stuff like this it comes with a knowing wink and a slight nod.

Lord Jubjub: Lincoln wrote the entirety of the GA on the train to the battlefield. He read it aloud to the audience. Absolutely no different than the teleprompter.

And the envelope was made from the cherry tree that Washington chopped down. Cute stories are not always true.

Have you ever tried writing on a mid-19th century train? It's damn near impossible. (I know - I'm 170 years old, but still cool with this new Internet thingy). He was probably trying hard to keep his lunch down.

Are the republicans doing this on purpose????

How did this whole right wing trolling over Obama using a TelePrompter start in the first place? Is there video somewhere of Obama bragging that he does not use one?

shinji3i: meat0918: Obama's a Democrat black, and everything he does is t

I know that man but was there a series of incidents or something? Like did he have a private teleprompter while debating McCain or something? Please lie to me. I just don't want to lose any more faith than I already have in my fellow countrymen by the fact that a large portion of them are against a president using the modern version of holding some note cards in your hand.

No lies will be forthcoming. It is a specious attack on the man's intelligence, and picked up and repeated by the plain and simple folk that get their information from right wing media outlets.

I was going to post this story to facebook for all of my Oklahoma friends to try to show them how dopey he is... but then I realized they would just agree with him... "tellyouwhat them dangle telproppters to easy to tell sumabichin a lie.."

hubiestubert: Arachnophobe: Flappyhead: wedding vegetables: I think it should be illegal to let someone else fly or drive you somewhere. all that is is using someone else to transport you places. you should have to walk everywhere, like Jesus did.

I thought Jesus rode a dinosaur.

That was Harry Dresden.

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Someone give John Constantine his shirt back.

Altitude5280: How did this whole right wing trolling over Obama using a TelePrompter start in the first place? Is there video somewhere of Obama bragging that he does not use one?

They claimed that one video of Obama allegedly stuttering through a speech is proof that Obama can't speak without a teleprompter and therefore Sarah Palin should be president.

Yet, their hero Bush couldn't speak straight WITH a teleprompter.

hubiestubert: Arachnophobe: Flappyhead: wedding vegetables: I think it should be illegal to let someone else fly or drive you somewhere. all that is is using someone else to transport you places. you should have to walk everywhere, like Jesus did.

I thought Jesus rode a dinosaur.

That was Harry Dresden.

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My first Internets award! :D

I'd like to thank the academy, and my parents, and of course... *points at sky* I couldn't have done this without you, Odin!

Altitude5280: How did this whole right wing trolling over Obama using a TelePrompter start in the first place? Is there video somewhere of Obama bragging that he does not use one?

I don't know the real answer, I just always assumed it was one of those "he can't possibly be that eloquent because, well, you know" assumptions by the Thunderping Herd and it was ReallyTrueAndFunny to them. It looks like Rick is pulling deep from the well. Heck, he might even start asking for birf certifacat next week.

It's in the Bible. "Thou shalt not use a teleprompter". In the Gospel according to Derp.

This again?

Don't Troll Me Bro!: This again?

This is not an again, Santorum has had a novel thought. A stupid, stupid thought that he should have kept to himself. Pretty much a summary of his career, that.

I Said: Once again I am not convinced that republicans actually know how a teleprompter works.



"Did little demons get inside and type it? I don't know!"

GoldSpider: I Said: Once again I am not convinced that republicans actually know how a teleprompter works.

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"Did little demons get inside and type it? I don't know!"

Damn, I miss that guy.

namatad: No amount of washing will cleanse her of her sins.

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."

Cripes I can't stop laughing. Is this real? Surely he can't be serious.

theknuckler_33: seventypercent: Listen to Rick Santorum's stump speeches.

Read some of the semi-anonymous comments that get written for stories on various news/political sites.

Listen to some callers to AM talk radio shows (especially local shows).

When in history have this many people been so completely unhinged / deranged?

Berlin, circa 1936?

*ducks*

No need to duck. Do s/Jew/Muslim/g on Mein Kampf and you have the Republican platform.

Altitude5280: How did this whole right wing trolling over Obama using a TelePrompter start in the first place? Is there video somewhere of Obama bragging that he does not use one?

It's a continuation of the bigotry. According to their racist worldview, black people cannot speak well, so Obama has to be aided in order to speak well. So he has to use a teleprompter because 'they all know' that black people can't speak in an effective manner.

It also begs back to the whole 'English should be the national language because that means only white people can be in power' statement. The Republicans are being upended by their own bullshiat. They somehow think it's true and applicable to every situation and refuse to let go of it (or acknowledge when it doesn't work).

proteus_b: Craptastic: Writes most of his own speeches.

well that certainly is a craptastic statement....

Hurr hurr! I made fun of someone's username without providing a contrary argument!

Prove me wrong, scroteus_pee or STFU. Fair enough?

Philip Francis Queeg: Can we make it illegal to appear on stage with your bitter and sad looking family members?

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Since it was mentioned in another thread about the Derp King, if you look at this picture, the daughter standing next to his wife (you can see her better in the close-up in the upper left corner) is the crying daughter with the jacked up dress and doll. The other daughter, the one who looks like Santorum in drag, is the older daughter from the same "crying daughter" picture.

cman: Oh, and another thing.

WTF happened to this country?

When did someone like this with limited intelligence could be considered a Presidential runner?

I know right! Fark, we seem to be in the middle of a Monty Python flick.

Any Pie Left: "Wah, I'm not as good at public speaking as others, it's not fair, wah". "Make them hobble themselves so I can compete, wah"

-Sounds pretty Republican to me.

I believe Mr. Vonnegut had a short story where people were literally hobbled by laws. How'd that work out for them?

I would put a tax on all people who stand in water


/Gumby would totally kick Santorum's ass in a debate

FUGK Santorum and his freaky Jesus Freaky BS. I'm tired of hearing about it.
I wanna talk about this hot brunette I got my eyes on. Is there a tag for that? Is there a tag for the love-lust lorn where we might share our stories or offer up the poontang advice?
NO, there is NOT.
No where to go when the luster has worn and you wanna talk about your horn and what your horn means.
Ack
finally the GOP clown car has driven me to distraction so, about that gal,, she's got aqua blue eyes and we be goin to dinner, ya I asked her. Fugk Ya.
sorry- hot chick horny rant over.

Flappyhead: wedding vegetables: I think it should be illegal to let someone else fly or drive you somewhere. all that is is using someone else to transport you places. you should have to walk everywhere, like Jesus did.

I thought Jesus rode a dinosaur.

I heard he rode his brother's ass.

PsiChick: I have to say that this entire debacle has one good point: I now know why there's clear plexiglass panes surrounding candidates during speeches.

/No, really, I thought they just kept the stage lights from getting too hot or something.

If it makes you feel better, I'd thought they were really small bulletproof guards.

Arachnophobe: Flappyhead: wedding vegetables: I think it should be illegal to let someone else fly or drive you somewhere. all that is is using someone else to transport you places. you should have to walk everywhere, like Jesus did.

I thought Jesus rode a dinosaur.

That was Harry Dresden.

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Hey, give some credit to Butters - he drummed.

Wyalt Derp: It's in the Bible. "Thou shalt not use a teleprompter". In the Gospel according to Derp.

I would like to read this Book, sir. It would no doubt explain so much...

FormlessOne: Arachnophobe: Flappyhead: wedding vegetables: I think it should be illegal to let someone else fly or drive you somewhere. all that is is using someone else to transport you places. you should have to walk everywhere, like Jesus did.

I thought Jesus rode a dinosaur.

That was Harry Dresden.

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Hey, give some credit to Butters - he drummed.

POLKA NEVER DIES!

suziequzie: FormlessOne: Arachnophobe: Flappyhead: wedding vegetables: I think it should be illegal to let someone else fly or drive you somewhere. all that is is using someone else to transport you places. you should have to walk everywhere, like Jesus did.

I thought Jesus rode a dinosaur.

That was Harry Dresden.

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Hey, give some credit to Butters - he drummed.

POLKA NEVER DIES!

"Polka will never die!" :) I love Butters.

Canton: Wyalt Derp: It's in the Bible. "Thou shalt not use a teleprompter". In the Gospel according to Derp.

I would like to read this Book, sir. It would no doubt explain so much...

Start with "The Boomer Bible".

Starry Heavens: I'd thought they were really small bulletproof guards.

Me too.

BMulligan: Starry Heavens: I'd thought they were really small bulletproof guards.

Me too.

Because snipers are unable to move laterally.

I don't have a problem with this. I'd actually like my politicians knowing what the hell they are talking about for once and you should too.

Not that they'll stand beside a single thing they're saying mind you...

FormlessOne: suziequzie: FormlessOne: Arachnophobe: Flappyhead: wedding vegetables: I think it should be illegal to let someone else fly or drive you somewhere. all that is is using someone else to transport you places. you should have to walk everywhere, like Jesus did.

I thought Jesus rode a dinosaur.

That was Harry Dresden.

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Hey, give some credit to Butters - he drummed.

POLKA NEVER DIES!

"Polka will never die!" :) I love Butters.

I loved the part in "Ghost Story" where Bob says he's better at magical theory than Harry.