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Obama’s New Teleprompter Problem

By pm317 on April 1, 2009 at 10:25 PM in Current Affairs

(bumped up from early afternoon)

Make no mistake. This story is not same old, same old.

You have all seen the little transparent screens on both sides of the podium replaced by a giant TV screen in the back of the room. If you have not, here is Fox News with the evidence:

There is no improvement, however. We still see Obama READING what is on a screen but are spared the tennis head. His eyes are still glued to the screen without any free expression on his face reacting to either the audience or the material on the screen which leads me to believe that he is not all that familiar with what is on the screen but just reading it.

This is worrisome on more levels than one. The dependence on autocue technique may be turning Obama into a Pavlov’s dog by reflexively conditioning him to read anything that is on a screen.

Here is Mac Johnson at Human Events describing Obama’s new problem. Read on, it is hilarious.

Bethesda, Md. — Doctors were said to be treating President Barack Obama at Bethesda Naval Hospital today for exhaustion and possible vocal cord injuries after a freak television accident occurred at the White House Tuesday evening.

According to a statement read by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, President Obama, noted for his near total dependence on the teleprompter when speaking, was leaving a practice session for an upcoming press conference when he happened upon a muted television set near the White House Briefing Room on which someone had activated the “closed captioning” function.

“Apparently, Mr. Obama mistook the captioning for his new flat screen teleprompter and began reading the text aloud,” Gibbs said. Gibbs stated that “what followed was a tragic marathon speaking session that lasted for nearly 14 hours before staff discovered Obama and disconnected the device.”

The President’s accidental filibuster was said to have included a 2-hour episode of “The Biggest Loser,” a much anticipated “Law and Order: Special Victim’s Unit,” the local evening news, and a late night paid infomercial for “natural male enhancement.” The press later described Obama’s reading of the captioning as “eloquent” (New York Times), “historic” (CNN), and “emotionally moving” (Newsweek).

[SNIP]

When asked for an explanation of how such an event could occur to the President of the United States, Gibbs responded, “That’s a good question. We’re investigating now. How anyone could leave the closed captioning on like that is just inexplicable. The White House staff should know better by now.”

You must read the rest of it here. It is hilarious down to the last line.

  • typical.white.person

    This is worrisome on more levels than one. The dependence on autocue technique may be turning Obama into a Pavlov’s dog.

    I’v e always felt Obama was nothing more than a Pavlov’s dog (puppet). I’m surprised you think he’s just now turning into one.

    • pm317

      You need to read the article I linked to understand that comment.

  • http://deleted Buzz Latte

    Well, April Fools b.u.t

    Obama really IS a puppet.

    • pm317

      Actually that article is hilarious because it is hinting at Obama being more than a puppet. The article talks about Obama being reflexively conditioned (just like Pavlov’s dog) to read anything that is on a TV screen like closed captioning. It is hilarious.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Apparently, Obama took a TON of teleprompters with him to the G-20, too. I still don’t get why people think HE is eloquent when he doesn’t speak very well without him, especially compared to someone like, oh, I dunno, HILLARY.

    And he often has a flat affect (except when he is “punch drunk,” laughing inappropriately like on “60 Minutes”). Remember when he was on George Stephenopoulos, and said, “As a Muslim…” and George said, “You mean, as a Christian.” And Obama simply parroted him, not an, “Oh yes, of course that’s what I meant to say…” It was BIZARRE, like watching a robot or something…

    • politicalidentitycrisis

      He is bizarre. No other way to describe this. I’m so glad i didn’t drink the kool aid and didn’t vote for this POS! I’d be kickin’ myself now. Instead, now I want to kick other people (who have a kool aid mustache).

      • Ms.Apprehension

        politicalidentitycrisis–

        Excellent name. Ditto to what you just expressed. POS is exactly what he is. To relieve my stress I go to Barack Obama’s Teleprompter’s Blog. It is hilarious. Check it out. Dying to know who writes it.

    • mary

      Rabble Rouser.

      I still remember how Hillary was vilified by the media misogynist “leg thrillers” (and can’t remember if she was on MSNBC or ABC) who insisted that Hillary,during a media interview, had said that Obama was a Muslim! In fact, she had simply repeated the jerk’s own words and said “I don’t believe he’s a muslim”! Well, this statement came back to haunt Hillary.

      And now the clueless Obamabots are trying to excuse The Oblunder’s own robotic eloquence! What a joke!…

      • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

        Oh, I know EXACTLY what you are talking abt, Mary – I remember that well. Just like how they twisted her words around abt the Civil Rights Law. Apparently, those folks don’t know basic Civics abt how a bill becomes a law (like I’ve written before, they didn’t pay attention to their School House Rock!

        Political Identity Crisis, thanks for the laugh – you cracked me up!!

    • Elizabeth

      On the “Muslim” exchange, with all due respect, there was no verbal slip. Obama didn’t admit even for an instant to being a Muslim and the characterization that he was “parroting” George is a bit misleading.

      Stephanopoulos appeared to think that Obama made an accidental misstatement, which he hadn’t, so he offered Obama his correction. Subsequently, Obama clarified what he was saying, and moved on. “My Muslim faith” would have been clearer as “My having a Muslim faith,” but that’s such a common semantic blurring of everyday English it isn’t even worth parsing out further.

      “Let’s not play games,” he said. “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not come.”

      Mr. Stephanopoulos interrupted with, “Christian faith.”

      “My Christian faith,” Mr. Obama said quickly. “Well, what I’m saying is that he hasn’t suggested that I’m a Muslim.”

      • Elizabeth

        The “My Christian faith,” bit Obama repeated after
        Stephanopoulos I would read as reversing George’s mistaken correction and emphasizing that he is NOT a Muslim before before clarifying that the initial comment was intended as a compliment to McCain.

        I’m as disgusted with the president as anyone, but this was nothing more riveting than one of those brief conversational disfluencies we all detour around everyday.

        • WhatNow

          Sure Elizabeth – whateve you say. Here, have some more koolaid, sweetie.

          • http://deleted Buzz Latte

            Another obot rationalization that falls short.

            Seriously, Elizabeth, get a small clue.

        • candymarl

          I saw the video. Obama said ‘My Muslim faith’. George corrected him and then he agreed. Obama doesn’t know what religion he adheres to? Oh come on.

          • http://deleted Buzz Latte

            All over You-Tube folks. Elizabeth is from the planet Koolaideus.

        • JMac

          Elizabeth, thank you for your appeal to reason, but obviously that kind of appeal isn’t going to work at NQ. These people will believe whatever they want to believe, no matter how ridiculous. If they want to believe that Obama “admitted” on national television that he is a Muslim, that’s just what they’re going to believe.

          Never mind that this same crowd also became completely obsessed over the Jeremiah Wright controversy. You know, the one about Obama’s controversial CHRISTIAN church?

          Yes, at NQ, it is possible to simultaneously believe that Obama is an parishioner of the Christian minister Jeremiah Wright, and that he’s a Muslim.

      • I’mFedUp

        He’s a Muslim. PERIOD. Oh, yeah where are those Christmas gifts? The White House dog? ROFLMAO. You people kill me.

        • Abdulla Bulbul Ameer

          All Muslims must stop whatever they’re doing for obligatory prayer five times a day, at dawn, noon, in the afternoon, at sunset, and at nightfall. Obama doesn’t. All Muslims are strictly forbidden from eating pork or drinking alcohol. Obama eats pork has been photographed enjoying a beer in public. Then there’s that nasty business about the cigarettes. There’s a long-standing fatwa that forbids all Muslims from using tobacco products.

          If this dude is a Muslim, he’s got be the slackest Muslim who ever walked the planet.

          http://www.beerconspiracy.com/images/stories/Obama_Beer1.jpg

          • H.D. Rider

            I’ve known a number of Muslims and they were slackers all…eating pork, drinking, and smoking doesn’t mean they aren’t Muslims when push comes to shove.

          • candymarl

            The Saudi rulers, also Muslims, tend to abandon their Muslim garb and drink, smoke, and use drugs. But let’s not talk about that.

            • so saddened

              and the 9/11 hijackers made a point to do all these things, so they could appear western. the big zero is big on appearing to be something he’s not. who knows what he is, but darn sure it’s not good.

  • http://deleted Buzz Latte

    Agreed politicalIDcrisis.

  • Diana L. C.

    Dang, I’d really like to hear him give an “emotionally moving” and “eloquent” reading of a South Park episode instead. :-)

  • FrenchNail

    Too bad there was no teleprompter to let him know you DO NOT TOUCH THE QUEEN. That ineducated puppet shaked her hand, Never Done Before!!! And Meeechelle did not curtosy and shoved Prince Philips out of the way for the Official Photo.

    You just want to crawl in a hole….

    I just can’t imagine the Newspaper headings in England tomorrow. And the captions under Meeeechelle photos bared arms again in the evening.

    • JMac

      Too bad there was no teleprompter to let him know you DO NOT TOUCH THE QUEEN. That ineducated puppet shaked her hand, Never Done Before!!! And Meeechelle did not curtosy and shoved Prince Philips out of the way for the Official Photo.

      That’s shook her hand, not “shaked”. That’s curtsy, not “curtosy”. Might want to clean up your own “education” calling out that kettle…

      • BlueTopaz

        And how flawless is your 2nd, 3rd or 4th language?

      • FrenchNail

        FY!!! Try speaking several languages for once and then come back to lecture me.

        • JMac

          FY!!! Try speaking several languages for once and then come back to lecture me.

          Try just getting the English language right, before you go out and garble others…

  • JMac

    I really do find the obsession here over the man’s use of a telemprompter bizarre. So he reads his speeches using an electronic device instead of a stack of papers. So what?

    How do you guys communicate verbally with people far away? Do you pick up the phone, or do you open a window and start shouting?

    • http://deleted Buzz Latte

      How little you expect of your president JMAC.

      Reading a teleprompter and speaking long distance are not analogous.

      Perhaps your own education is in need of more study and synthesis of information.

      • JMac

        How little you expect of your president JMAC.

        What exactly do you expect of your president? Bill Clinton used a teleprompter. So did GWB.

        Reading a teleprompter and speaking long distance are not analogous.

        Ok, so what is the point of the criticism? That Obama should be required to memorize every speech? Because that kind of requirement would be analogous to preferring one shout out a window rather than pick up the frigging phone.

        • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

          I believe the point is that he does not do well communicating all on his own without someone else writing his “words, just words.”

          Btw, Bush and other presidents did NOT use the telepromoter to the extent Obama does. Even Bush only used index cards when speaking in the Rose Garden and all. Bill Clinton once gave the entire SOTU from MEMORY.

          I seriously doubt Obama could ever do that – unless the state of the union was, “uh, um, uh, well LOOK…”

          • trixta

            Obama can’t deliver a good speech on his own because he has no true knowledge about anything that spews from his mouth. His opinions and point of view are all scripted for him — and that’s the way he likes it. He just likes to be given his talking points so that he can get on with his day. If he were curious or cared about the things that he mentions in his speeches, he would be able to speak off the cuff, as it were. But as things stand, he neither knows nor cares to know. Actually, he could be GWB’s twin on that point alone.

            • NoBamaNoWay

              yep.

          • mel in tx

            And don’t forget the other thing he constantly says Amy – “As I’ve Stated previously “.

            I will never forget when the O debated Hillary in Philadelphia. He was horrible, agreed with most everything she said and rambled and mumbled. I actually felt sorry for him he was so awful. He doesn’t have a thought of his own. He needs everyone else to tell him what to say and then he is too darn lazy to read it first as even with the teleprompter there is all these uhhs – etc.

        • meileen

          We would all feel more confident in the man if he had a grasp of the issues and did not rely on a teleprompter. He does not know how to speak without one, and that is not a good sign.

          • TexasMirth

            We would all feel more confident in the man if he had a grasp of the issues and did not rely on a teleprompter. He does not know how to speak without one, and that is not a good sign.

            That really sums it up. He doesn’t seem to have a real grasp of the issues – so, his reading from the teleprompter is like someone listening to language tapes and repeating the sounds they hear without comprehending the meaning. Scary.

        • Diana L. C.

          And also, remember that once the wrong speech was loaded on the teleprompter for Bill, but he was able to give the speech anyway because he actually knew what he was going to say.

          Our point is, perhaps, that The ONE, The Messiah, the POTUS that was selectec by the DNC and the Media is just a marketing brand, a puppet who really doesn’t know what he’s going to say until he reads it.

          Does that answer your question????

        • http://deleted Buzz Latte

          Wrong. To memorize a speech is analogous to having to remember every detail of a conversation you had last week.

          Both acts would require memory. Something apparently Obama burned out in his drug years.

          But, JMAC, you did try…

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    i just knew they would screw this up.how embarasing…

  • tillthen

    Yes, the Telegraph is an eye-opener. The mix is similar to what you see at the NY Post. The Tele is indeed fun.

    This teleprompter thing…he has no shame.

    • http://deleted Buzz Latte

      “The Obamas have loads of class. Too bad it’s low class…” Tell it like it is, Brits!

      Wonderful piece on this embarrassment of Affirmative Action promoted presnitwit and his angry, nasty wife.

  • IndayHill

    That is a hilarious April Fool’s Day piece.
    Seriously, Obama has no confidence in himself. He is just full of air, remember his rhetorics? Empty suit ! That was a huge red flag during the primaries & yet the Obamots believe him. Now for 4 years, the country will be treated to umm, umm, ahh,ahh. Right now, more patting on the back for the international leaders.He is short of intellectual conversation, so touching will suffice.He thinks he is in the Frat animal house.

    • pm317

      Isn’t that article a riot? I could not stop laughing as I narrated it to my husband in the car and then he started laughing. You have to visualize 0bama doing all that as you read the article. “They had to unplug the device to stop him,” ROFLMAO

  • Ferd Berfle

    His eyes are still glued to the screen without any free expression on his face reacting to either the audience or the material on the screen which leads me to believe he is not all that familiar with what is on the screen but just reading it.

    Just another sign of intellectual laziness (a cardinal Bush trait, too) and an apparent inability to focus. I won’t go into this matter any further than to state that I’ve always known that he was no orator and not much of a better reader. Everything he has ever done has been handed to him. He’s never had to sweat the miniscule details, which would force him to actually make an attempt at becoming more than familiar with the subject matter about which he would be speaking. His oft-demonstrated lack of ability to think and speak at the same time on his feet (e.g., his truly wretched presentation in each of the debates) will cause this country great harm in the long run, I’m afraid, as he demonstrably relies too heavily on both the work of others and the gadgetry which he surrounds himself. I was never impressed with him before and am even less as time goes on.

  • ame

    Obama had to get rid of the teleprompter; due to the fact that Rush Limbaugh refers to Obama’s teleprompter as if it is a person. Last week Limbaugh had a list of questions for the teleprompter. Limbaugh said he wanted to debate the teleprompter.

    I can’t help myself; I listen to Rush Limbaugh because he is entertaining.

    • TexasMirth

      I can’t help myself; I listen to Rush Limbaugh because he is entertaining.

      Me, too. And he never uses a teleprompter!

  • Eastan McNeal

    The folks who sell these prompters like to brag about their clients. A little research might give some fun-loving international reporters some ideas. Like this little multi-pedal control. Can you say feed he POTUS some really GOOD lines?

    Wireless Foot Control
    Simply set the WFC in place and you are ready to prompt. The WFC can be run either AC or DC to allow maximum flexibility. Perfect to eliminate cable runs into hard to access areas or for mobility. The ***mhz (*** mhz outside USA), features a 10 channel system to allow multiple units on one system. WFC can be added to any existing system, ..

    I took that from an actual ad. Since we don’t condone this type of fun, I took the liberty of blacking out some frequencies.

    • oowawa

      I love the “wireless foot control”–kind of like a “wah-wah” pedal! Imagine controlling the President of the United States by tapping your foot! I love this line:”Simply set the WFC in place and you are ready to prompt.” WOOOO-HOOOOO! Not to mention, YEEEEE-HAAAA! Of course, it won’t be long before the new Honda brain-wave interface is miniaturized to the point where the Teleprompt will be transmitted directly to the President’s lips, eliminating the middleman completely.

      • Baba Rum Raisin

        >>> Imagine controlling the President of the United States by tapping your foot!

        Worked for Nancy, didn’t it?

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    Thanks, I needed that! It was the funniest thing I’ve read in months. I laughed until tears were streaming and my sides hurt. Crackberry….hahahahahaha

    • pm317

      Thank you!! This was the reaction I was expecting all along.

    • Eastan McNeal

      I think pm317 has shown us that even us serious NQ’ers can have more fun than a falcon at a ferret farm, even if some of us (me me me) are not all that familiar with what is on the screen but just reading it.

  • Eastan McNeal

    Nobody else is talking and, since this is a rare open night for me, here goes.

    The press spotted this peculiar prompter thingy early, but then dropped it. Consider this:

    (CNN) — September 15, 2008 – It appears Barack Obama’s teleprompter is hitting the campaign trail.

    The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide the fact he delivers speeches off the device, though normally he doesn’t use one at standard campaign rallies and town hall events.

    But the Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both his Colorado events Monday — making for a particularly peculiar scene in Pueblo, where the prompter was set up in the middle of what is normally a rodeo ring.

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/15/obamas-teleprompter-hits-the-trail/

    OT. Do you give a royal descendant of those who supplied slaves to the U.S. a slave-made device? Maybe it can be used as a portable teleprompter. Or maybe it is a spy device. Mzero could use some fashion hints from the daughter of the queen mother.

    Newspaper report that staff in some of its Chinese iPod factories work long hours for low pay and in “slave” conditions.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5079590.stm

    • pm317

      The teleprompter thing bugged me all through the early primary and the GE. I don’t think it got picked up even on the blogs much. I remember urging Uppity to write posts mocking media hype about his oratorical ecstasies and how fake they were (I was not writing for blogs yet then).

      • Thinker

        We talked about his addiction to the teleprompter A LOT on here and other sites.

        Once again, the mainstream media is willfully blind.

  • http://www.MoneyPhilosophy.com Jonny Money

    All of the modern Presidents have made their speeches off of teleprompters. The only difference between Obama and Dubya on that account is that Obama can actually read his.

    • Eastan McNeal

      Not true. Prompters were only used for special addresses in the past. Today the pretender is actually getting lines fed to him to give to reporters in response to questions. That has never been done before. Every time he is without the prompters he is slower than he is with them. Ronnie could shuck and Bill could gee. GHW could ‘get back to you’ and GW could stumble over his I’m not sure’s. But they tried to use their own minds when we asked them.

      A waste is a terrible thing to mind and I don’t know who much longer we can tend to this toxic dump of a pretender.

      • Slim Tyranny

        You’re lying. He doesn’t use the teleprompter to answer questions.

      • http://www.MoneyPhilosophy.com Jonny Money

        Untrue. Obama does not use a teleprompter for his town halls and he does not use one when answering questions. He uses a teleprompter when he gives speeches just like Reagan, Clinton, and the Bushes did.

        This attack of Obama’s use of something that all modern Presidents used just looks desperate and silly.

    • pm317

      So Bush is your yardstick.. no wonder..

      And without teleprompters, 0bama is worse than Bush.

      Take a look:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyW9e5QdWxk

    • Eastan McNeal

      Johhnnyy

      uh.. bu t but but leme i’a

      pm317. Sorry. Have to do this.

      It started here. He started there. John boy, this is for you:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNxLgqIicc

      Did I not say we have fun here?

      • pm317

        Oh, yes. the great Flineo! But you see, Flineo is too deep for these people; they don’t want to think for themselves on their own; they want to be inspired to think before they think if at all they do. What appeals to them is much more superficial.

        • Eastan McNeal

          I wrote Chicago Politics. Flineo did me a great favor putting together a video with it.

          I missed a great phrase above by presidents. Jimmy Carter: Heck, I don’t know.

          I wrote many songs. One I used to think was a love song I now wonder if may have been one written by a man thinking a woman would just follow a star. I love the melody, but if the words have meaning more than love then I must have been thinking about a future man who would take a woman’s soul by his wonderfully prompted song to the people.

          Woh! That was a bunch of stuff. Here. Listen to a song that I wrote when I was young, for a woman to sing to a masked man.

          http://www.attic.net/moremusic/SongMaker.mp3

          • pm317

            I wrote Chicago Politics.

            Wow, I didn’t know that. Nice work. I looked at some of your older posts — excellent writing. The one with the title “I miss her” made me choke up. We invest so much emotion on politicians/strangers but do they know we do? May be.

            • Eastan McNeal

              I do not often use my political contacts. Hillary read that one. I did not tell her that I cried when I wrote it. It was not just words.

              We will survive.

          • pm317

            I like the song..

  • mel in tx

    Wow that is great Eastan. You are very talented and I enjoy reading your articles and posts.

    If only we had Hillary….

  • Slim Tyranny

    Oh yes, because Hillary has all her speeches memorized, and never uses a teleprompter, typed speech or notecards.

    You people are all clowns, you know that, right? When EVERY politician gives prepared remarks, they read them somehow. The teleprompter is simply a choice of one approach over another.

    The real reason you attack Obama for this is because it’s the classic Rovian smear job: take an opponent’s strength and attack it as if it were really a weakness. ONLY the wingnuts on the right and the sore losers on the left pretend to care about this.

    Between attacking Barack Obama for speech delivery and Michelle Obama for her appearance, No Quarter really is at the bottom of the barrel.

    Sorry Hillary Clinton didn’t win the nomination — maybe it’s time, though, that you grow up and quit being a bunch of whiny, immature cranks.

    [this comment will no doubt be deleted --- after all, why hear from anyone outside your bitter little circle?]

    • pm317

      Oh, give me a break. Go buy a little sense of humor.

      • Slim Tyranny

        If the commentary was really about being funny (like the teleprompter’s blog — that is actually funny), then I’d give you a break. However, read these comments (and read the comments on any given posting about Michelle Obama’s physical appearance and/or attire).

        This is NOT good-natured ribbing. This is pathetic, vicious, small-minded nonsense, peppered with conspiracy theory absurdities like “Obama is a secret Muslim” or “Obama was born in Kenya.” The so-called “analysis” really wants to pretend that the use of a teleprompter is “troubling” and “disturbing.”

        I think you guys lost any good-natured sense of humor when Hillary lost; since then, it’s pure mean-spirited anger.

        • pm317

          It is not pure mean-spirited anger — it is well justified anger. Many don’t like the fawning and the slobbering love that people like you and the media are showering on the Obamas. They should be held to a high standard and you guys are not doing that. Things are falling apart all around you and you’re here to wail against us. It should make you worried when 0bama cannot even string coherent sentences off the cuff either on policy or on light banter (like welcoming a dignitary). We were never sold on the hype of 0bama and the anger that our well deserving candidate got cheated will continue. Injustice is one emotion that will leave a deep scar on human psyche.

          BTW, if you think teleprompter’s blog is all fun, you’re missing the point by a mile and more.

          • http://www.MoneyPhilosophy.com Jonny Money

            The claim that Obama cannot “string coherent sentences off the cuff” is pure BS. I’ve heard him speak many many times off the cuff and he speaks very well. Remember the 20+ debates? How about the recent town halls? What about his hour long press conference where he answered 14 questions (very well I might add.) I love the way he speaks “off the cuff” – he actually seems to put real thought into his answers instead of just giving the old political step-around (sure he does do that sometimes too, but much less often than most politicians.)

            • Ferd Berfle

              I’ve heard him speak many many times off the cuff and he speaks very well.

              LMAO. He couldn’t put a string of two words together without an er, ah, or um and without creating a fracture in the language, a logicla fallacy, or an international incident.

              English must be your third or fourth language, huh?

              • http://www.MoneyPhilosophy.com Jonny Money

                It’s my only language.

                Saying “uh” and “ah” is not the same thing as not speaking well. Many people use “uh” and “ah” quite frequently. Including JFK. Seriously take a listen to JFK speaking. He used them far more often than Obama does.

                There’s nothing wrong with it. If anything it’s a sign that he’s actually THINKING of what to say next instead of just spitting out rehearsed answers. What you see as a negative is actually a positive thing.

    • http://www.MoneyPhilosophy.com Jonny Money

      You are right on. I find it bizarre that this site has turned from a Hillary Clinton supporting site to a full on Rush Limbaughesque smear fest filled with insane baseless attacks on the President.

      It’s like the people here have absolutely no concern about anything that really matters (policies) but instead it’s some sort of soap opera to them and for whatever silly reason they’ve chosen Barack Obama as their “bad guy.”

      It’s incredibly childish.

      • Ferd Berfle

        Look, child, you and your Kool-Aide slurping fellow travelers are the ones who had no concern for anything that mattered when you foisted your incompetent, ill-mannered, and unfit boob on the rest of us.

        If you don’t like what we have to say, get your obamabot arse off to HuffnPuffPo or some other site devoted to the worship of your False Messiah. You truly are a moron and need to be around your own kind as much as possible, if not for your sake, then at least to spare us your sophomoric blather. We aren’t buying what you’re selling.

        • http://www.MoneyPhilosophy.com Jonny Money

          Thank you for making my point. Calling Barack Obama “ill-mannered” and an “unfit boob” is just laughably silly. You are crazy.

          • Ferd Berfle

            The finger was so well-mannered, wasn’t it, Goob?

            Hahaha. You’re about 12, aren’t you. I’ll just bet your Mom is calling you up from the basement so you can have your weekly bath.

            LMAO of the idiot troll.

  • mel in tx

    Slim – there is a “Slim” chance Obama will ever have a clue. The people who post on this blog have know exactly what he is about ever since the primaries.
    And as far as bashing Michelle – spare me – you obots said alot worse about Hillary and Sarah.

    Obama is in over his head and doesn’t have a clue.
    He relies on other people to tell him what to say.

  • mel in tx

    As Eastan said earlier – now he can’t even answer questions without a teleprompter. It is pathetic.

    • http://www.MoneyPhilosophy.com Jonny Money

      Except that’s NOT TRUE. Don’t facts matter anymore? Obama DOES NOT USE A TELEPROMPTER WHEN ANSWERING QUESTIONS. He does not use one in interviews. He only uses a ‘prompter when giving a speech. Just like all other politicians. Do you think other politicians have their speeches memorized? For God’s sake this is so insane it’s breathtaking.

  • Rob

    Where’s the “whitey” tape???

    • Ferd Berfle

      Up your rectal orifice right beside your woefully inadequate head.

    • http://www.MoneyPhilosophy.com Jonny Money

      HAHAHA! I almost forgot about that. I read this site back then too. How funny was that. They really thought there was some time where Michelle Obama said “whitey” in a derogatory way and that it would be released all over the news.

      Folks: I think it’s important when thinking back to how laughably ridiculous that was and how incredibly wrong it was. Think back at that and wonder if you are making the same mistakes now.

      It’s OK to learn from your mistakes and to grow as people.

      • Ferd Berfle

        It’s OK to learn from your mistakes and to grow as people.

        When are you going to learn from yours, Goob? That One isn’t going to make your car or mortgage payment and he certainly doesn’t care about a burger-flipper like you, anyway.

        You should take your own advice, simpleton, and learn from the stupidity you have foisted on us. And while you’re taking the lesson in, shut your flapping, uninteresting maw.