And as I had mentioned, President Obama does not seem to need a teleprompter any more than any one else – and there was NO teleprompter at the Q&A, if I may reiterate.

I particularly love the fact that at the CPAC, everybody is bashing the President for using a teleprompter, reading their anger, um, straight from a teleprompter. The humor is getting predictable, and borderline dull.

Really, really silly.

I do not think President Obama got elected solely because of his speaking ability, I believe he got elected because eight years of a President and Administration who decimated this country had people ready for something different. I have had my days of feeling critical towards what the President is doing, but overall, when someone shouts out “How’s that Hopey changey thing workin’ out for ya?” I have to say, so far, so good, thanks for asking.

I’ll catch up with your posts soon, but I have been having the winter sleepies, and seem to be in semi-hibernation these days.

Kel

In my opinion both are worth of satire, neither hinder qualifications. I will say though that for a person attempting to be presidential writing on ones own hand does no favors. It makes you look a bit hokey. But maybe that is her charm.

So you’re not in the “Palin is stupid” camp? You are, after all suggesting a high degree of political savvy and crowd manipulation across multiple mediums.

As for Obama’s teleprompter needs – I certainly don’t think it’s a major issue, though there’s room in it for Doonesbury-esque humor.

Others do have a problem with it though and, if you strip out all the levels of bullshit from both sides over the issue, I think it’s because he got elected to a large degree on the strength of his speaking ability. Needing a teleprompter as much as Obama seems to undermines that “qualification.”

The whole business about bellowing on President Obama using a TelePrompTer, or Palin using her hand for crib notes is just beyond me. EVERY politician, public speaker, ANYONE behind a podium is either consulting their notes, or TelePrompTer, or being silly and writing it on their hand.

President Clinton had the best memory, and often did not need them, and when President Obama was meeting the Republicans and Democrats separately, he did not use any notes, nor a TelePrompTer, for the Q&A, but honestly, besides that, even Bruce Springsteen has had to use a TelePrompTer because he could not remember the lyrics to his own songs, he had sung them so many times.

I am really not getting the shrieking and carrying on about the President using a TelePrompTer, when every public speaker has used them since they were invented, and so Sarah’s hand notes, I agree, are just not worth anything more than a brief chuckle at her basic silliness and her usual hypocrisy.

More important news issues deserve front page attention, both in hardcopy papers and on political blogs. Just my opinion.