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Post by Elvado on Nov 6, 2010 11:34:08 GMT -5
of the fact that our President will be the first person ever to require a teleprompter to make an address in the Indian Parliament chamber. Imagine that for all of these years, the folks who made addresses in that chamber scuffled along using notes and their brains without ever having a canned script rolled out for them on the "Idiot Board" (Mondale, not me).
He really does manage to break new ground everywhere he goes.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Nov 6, 2010 11:43:26 GMT -5
of the fact that our President will be the first person ever to require a teleprompter to make an address in the Indian Parliament chamber. Imagine that for all of these years, the folks who made addresses in that chamber scuffled along using notes and their brains without ever having a canned script rolled out for them on the "Idiot Board" (Mondale, not me). He really does manage to break new ground everywhere he goes. This act is played, man. Any new tricks in your bag? |
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Post by Elvado on Nov 6, 2010 11:46:19 GMT -5
of the fact that our President will be the first person ever to require a teleprompter to make an address in the Indian Parliament chamber. Imagine that for all of these years, the folks who made addresses in that chamber scuffled along using notes and their brains without ever having a canned script rolled out for them on the "Idiot Board" (Mondale, not me). He really does manage to break new ground everywhere he goes. This act is played, man. Any new tricks in your bag? No, man. My teleprompter keeps giving me the same material. The master orator needs his screen. It's embarassing. |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Nov 6, 2010 11:51:10 GMT -5
Maybe he could read with his finger like the Merlot Populist. Heaven forbid we created some damn jobs.
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Post by Elvado on Nov 6, 2010 11:54:17 GMT -5
Maybe he could read with his finger like the Merlot Populist. Heaven forbid we created some damn jobs. Well, some Indian guy is running cable for his idiot board. There's a job, probably union too. |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Nov 6, 2010 11:56:11 GMT -5
Why is it significant that "some Indian guy" may be helping him out? Is that what this is about?
You may want to look at what is being done instead of cribbing Free Republic. Obama has y'all lapped on the jobs front. Only job created/saved in the last 2 years by the Merlot Populist was in a tanning salon.
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Post by ksf42001 on Nov 6, 2010 11:57:01 GMT -5
of the fact that our President will be the first person ever to require a teleprompter to make an address in the Indian Parliament chamber. Imagine that for all of these years, the folks who made addresses in that chamber scuffled along using notes and their brains without ever having a canned script rolled out for them on the "Idiot Board" (Mondale, not me). He really does manage to break new ground everywhere he goes. But at least the trip doesn't actually require 34 warships or cost $200 million a day like republicans were yelling about earlier in the week. You'd think they'd realize both numbers were absurd, since the Navy only has 288 "warships" total, and $200 million is more than the war in Afghanistan costs per day. At least they can still complain about an inanimate object over and over again... |
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Post by TC on Nov 6, 2010 12:46:06 GMT -5
I'm more outraged by the $200M a day* spent on Michelle Bachmann's makeup. Is it really necessary to spend that much taxpayer makeup to powder up those crazy eyes?
* I just made those figures up.
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Post by Boz on Nov 6, 2010 13:19:25 GMT -5
Obama has y'all lapped on the jobs front. This must be why he received such a huge vote of confidence last Tuesday. |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Nov 6, 2010 14:14:59 GMT -5
And so says the voting bloc that gave John McCain a vote of confidence in 2008, with the economy hanging in the balance, major financial institutions failing...and the same folks who thought John Kerry did not serve admirably in Vietnam or that Saddam had WMD.
I agree that this was a rebuke of Obama.* I just wish it were for the right reasons. That unemployment does not turn on a dime is basic economics, and the reaction of some to it does not inspire much confidence in their understanding of economics.
*One little discussed factoid about Tuesday involves who the unemployed and relatives of the unemployed voted for.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Nov 6, 2010 15:07:36 GMT -5
of course it wasn't for the right reason. The voting public is made up of idiots. ( w/e call me an elitist, but it's true)
People vote for change because things are bad.
The voting public is not informed. Most people who vote don't know about policies. Most people vote down party lines or based of commercials.
Like here in montgomery county there was a question about a law that passed charging a fee for ambulance services. The fee was to be paid by your insurance company not you and by the government if you don't have insurance. So no one was going to have to pay for this themselves but it would've given our emergency services funds they needed. but people saw the word fee and with out having done the research assumed they'd have to pay for it so it got voted down.
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Post by nychoya3 on Nov 6, 2010 16:59:36 GMT -5
Stop feeding the trolls.
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Post by EasyEd on Nov 6, 2010 18:16:42 GMT -5
of course it wasn't for the right reason. The voting public is made up of idiots. ( w/e call me an elitist, but it's true) People vote for change because things are bad. The voting public is not informed. Most people who vote don't know about policies. Most people vote down party lines or based of commercials. Like here in montgomery county there was a question about a law that passed charging a fee for ambulance services. The fee was to be paid by your insurance company not you and by the government if you don't have insurance. So no one was going to have to pay for this themselves but it would've given our emergency services funds they needed. but people saw the word fee and with out having done the research assumed they'd have to pay for it so it got voted down. Just who do you think is going to pay the premiums and the taxes to the insurance companies and the government? The tooth fairy? On your bigger point that the public is stupid, I agree. Reached that conclusion when Obama was elected, along with the Democratic congress. |
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Post by kchoya on Nov 7, 2010 13:55:33 GMT -5
Why is it significant that "some Indian guy" may be helping him out? Is that what this is about? You may want to look at what is being done instead of cribbing Free Republic. Obama has y'all lapped on the jobs front. Only job created/saved in the last 2 years by the Merlot Populist was in a tanning salon. Y'all? Really? |
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Post by hilltopper2000 on Nov 8, 2010 14:16:09 GMT -5
Somebody actually needs to explain this teleprompter thing to me. My understanding is it just provided the text of the speech. So instead of looking down at your notes, you can look at the audience. Why is this a problem? Surely, presidents have never given major addresses extemporaneously. Don't we want our leaders to choose their words carefully when addressing other countries' parliaments? Can anyone honestly question Obama's intellect? His academic record and outstanding writing long before he was in the public eye would clearly make him super elite in this respect. So what is this really about?
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Post by kchoya on Nov 8, 2010 14:30:19 GMT -5
Somebody actually needs to explain this teleprompter thing to me. My understanding is it just provided the text of the speech. So instead of looking down at your notes, you can look at the audience. Why is this a problem? Surely, presidents have never given major addresses extemporaneously. Don't we want our leaders to choose their words carefully when addressing other countries' parliaments? Can anyone honestly question Obama's intellect? His academic record and outstanding writing long before he was in the public eye would clearly make him super elite in this respect. So what is this really about? It's because he can't order a pizza without reading from a teleprompter. It's because he uses it for every single public utterance he makes. It's because he probably couldn't give a heartfelt talk about what he really believes without reading off a screen. It's also about allowing Elvado to stay on the President's case. |
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Post by Elvado on Nov 8, 2010 14:31:32 GMT -5
Somebody actually needs to explain this teleprompter thing to me. My understanding is it just provided the text of the speech. So instead of looking down at your notes, you can look at the audience. Why is this a problem? Surely, presidents have never given major addresses extemporaneously. Don't we want our leaders to choose their words carefully when addressing other countries' parliaments? Can anyone honestly question Obama's intellect? His academic record and outstanding writing long before he was in the public eye would clearly make him super elite in this respect. So what is this really about? You've seen his academic record? You've read his "outstanding writing"? If you mean his two autobiogarphies, I'll differ as to their quality. As for the teleprompter issue, it makes one question his "super elite" intellect when he takes it to press conferences, to public events with grade school children, in fact he takes it damn near everywhere. One has to wonder whether he took it down to one knee when he proposed... |
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Post by hilltopper2000 on Nov 8, 2010 15:45:44 GMT -5
His first book is very well written. I think you would be hard pressed to find another politician who could write such a book without the assistance of a ghost writer. I know that he was on Harvard Law Review (before the advent of write-on??). And I have a good number of friends (rock-ribbed conservatives, by the way) who had Obama as a professor in law school and described him as incredibly bright and engaging.
In the modern era where every utterance of the President is dissected and analyzed over and over again, I think it prudent to keep him scripted. In any event, I don't remember him having trouble wiping the floor with McCain during the debates. Did he use a teleprompter there too? Let's be honest. This is pretty juvenile criticism.
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Post by Elvado on Nov 8, 2010 15:53:50 GMT -5
do you actually remember him wiping the floor with McCain or were you simply getting a thrill up your leg like Chris Matthews? as for his books, it is hard to believe a politician wrote them without a ghost writer. His academic record remains a complete mystery (why would that be?).
As for him being forever scripted, I find it odd for such a genius to be so dependent upon his teleprompter. But he is transcendent, magical, omnisicient and omnipotent, so what do I know?
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Post by Boz on Nov 8, 2010 15:54:19 GMT -5
Let's be honest. This is pretty juvenile criticism. Nuh-uh!! You're pretty juvenile!!  |
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