He can't take his eyes off the teleprompter for a millisecond

[Tactical Progressive]

Not quite like Martin, huh. Or JFK. Or Bobby. Or even Hillary.

Not even as good as GW as far as that goes.


The guy can't order a hamburger at McDonalds without a teleprompter.

[Occam Bandage]

1. Aww. Sorry your candidate sucks at oration by comparison.

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. ...

:boring: Sucks doesn't it? :rofl:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Oh, Jeezus!

[southern_dem]

13. Well put n/t

[Bicoastal]

3. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. nt

[NightWatcher]

4. sore loser, much?

[KittyWampus]

5. Oh, I think he'd do alright if the electricity went out

[Joe the Revelator]

6. Sorry your candidate lost tonight

:hug:

[stray cat]

7. But he is bringing home the delegates from S. Carolina tonight....

[earthside]

8. Of all the whines I've ever heard ...

... that's about the whiniest.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

9. I've seen him in person at 3 events with no teleprompter and no notes. He nailed it.

This is a new speech.

Want some fries with that whine?

[Hekate]

19. Ditto. The man's an orator. One quibble: It's cheese that goes with whine. rofl

:rofl:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

26. I know, it's a reference to the OP's comment about ordering a hamburger. nt

[Tactical Progressive]

34. I didn't catch that.

Good with the fries!

[Kittycat]

10. Is that the best you can come up with? Really? Even Bill Pales in comparison.

You cannot begin to refute the power behind Obama's speeches. You're just a sore loser trying divert attention.

[Tactical Progressive]

45. If you like preachy speechifying, read directly off a script.

Just how many of those do you think you're gonna want to listen to before you want to hear something real?

[BringBigDogBack]

11. Ive also seen him in person 3 times....

never a prompter.

Nice try. Sour grapes. Yadda yadda

[Mz Pip]

12. You forgot

the :sarcasm:

"Not even as good as GW"

What hallucinogens are you on? I don't think I want any. Comparing Obama to Bushie is truly a bummer.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Unsane]

14. It's a brand new speech, clearly.

And was brilliantly delivered.

[Pirate Smile]

15. LOL - he sucks at giving speeches, huh?

:rofl:

[Tactical Progressive]

44. He's good at reading speeches.

So's GW.

[WillyT]

16. .

[JohnnyLib2]

18. You are off the island.

:thumbsdown:

[liberalmuse]

20. I'll bet at least 50 bucks when I watch the speech, the truth will be...

you're behaving like an embittered loser, and the speech will be fantastic. I mean, don't we ALL win if a Dem gets big numbers? WTF is this pathetic, childish shit I'm seeing on DU? The aim is to get the Repulsive ones out of the White House, isn't it? Obama wasn't even my second choice, and Hillary my last, but I'm happy as hell our candidates can raise enough excitement in the normally apathetic populace to get people to the primaries in larger than normal numbers. What the hell is wrong with some people??? Stop being dumb fucks. There is so much more at stake here than your petty egos. This is our and our children's future, and some people are behaving as if this were the goddamned superbowl.

[EffieBlack]

21. Don't you hate that?

I can't stand it when a politician who knows he's giving a major speech to a nationwide audience that he's never given before and that he certainly didn't have time to memorize, yet wants to make sure he gets it right, prepares carefully and reads it from a teleprompter.

I so much prefer to have my politicians stand up on stage unprepared or give their same old red meat stump speech that they've memorized and given over and over and over until they can give it in their sleep.

:sarcasm:

[milkyway]

22. Whine, whine, whine. Get over it. Bill Clinton's wife lost.

[hedgehog]

23. What teleprompter?

[Historic NY]

24. The thing * can't read from.

[hedgehog]

25. I looked for a teleprompter and didn't see one.

[Tactical Progressive]

31. Obama was looking hard enough at it

for all of us put together.

He holds onto that teleprompter for dear life.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

27. I noticed it too

[Tactical Progressive]

32. How could anyone not.

Same for every one of his speeches, even just concession speeches and victory speeches.

Never an unscripted moment, for Mr Authentic.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

35. sorry but, so did I

[emilyg]

40. Me, too.

[Redstone]

28. Bitter, much? Reaching, much? Obsessed, much?

Redstone

[Tactical Progressive]

30. Uhh, nope. Nope. Nope.

I have no problem Obama winning South Carolina. I've been expecting it from before New Hampshire and Nevada. In fact, I'm actually happy he won there. African Americans deserve to get to vote for Obama and see him win some states.

What disgusts me isn't anything about tonight. It's about the ugly race-baiting that Obama did leading up to South Carolina. There are ramifications beyond Obama's self interest, but those are not something to get into tonight.

This is light criticism. Obama doesn't speak freely well, even giving speeches. Worth noting on the occasion of his fourth, totally scripted, victory/concession speech.

[Tactical Progressive]

29. Oh gosh, here's Hillary. Just talking like a person.

Not like some scripted show-doll.

It is strangely refreshing, especially after another one of Obama's clenched-fist teleprompter readings.
He's like someone who doesn't know how to swim, in deep water, holding onto a life preserver for dear life.

Now, Hillary isn't giving a great speech, she's just communicating. It's like, authentic or something.

[Kucinich4America]

38. I'd rather shove icepicks in both ears

Than listen to Hillary's god-awful "nails scraping on a goddamn chalk board" shouting voice for 4 years.

[Tactical Progressive]

42. Can we hold you to that K4?

I didn't think so.

And I wasn't making a point about speaking voices, they can be taught.

I'm talking about scripting. Constant scripting.

[pettypace]

33. How the fuck is not flame bait

DU moderators, where the fuck are you?

[Tactical Progressive]

36. How is grammatical

or does invectives ok make?

Sorry, but pointing out actual, real world details, even if they don't glorify Obama, isn't flame-bait.

I've noticed this from Iowa, through New Hampshire and Nevada, and now in South Carolina.

The guy can't break his reading concentration for so much as a second. Which is not like any supposedly great orator I've ever seen.

Hillary can get speechwriters to write those very kind of lofty but relatively meaningless speeches, and then read them just as easily.

People would get sick of that pretty soon.

[zulchzulu]

37. Hey genius. Where was the teleprompter?

You are a silly person.

[Tactical Progressive]

39. You ask a ridiculous question like that

and I'm the silly one? Sure thing zz.

The teleprompters - not teleprompter, there are two - are where they always are. WTF?

[Beregond2]

41. Teleprompter...

Be serious. I'm an Edwards man, but Obama's speech was magnificent. You only make yourself look foolish when you can't acknowledge a man's strengths.

[Tactical Progressive]

43. I can acknowledge strengths. Speeking freely isn't one of them.

Seems like you can't acknowledge weaknesses.