So anyone who prepares a speech is pathetic? Surely you can invent something better than that to pretend to be outraged over. Answer me this. What do you think is more important for a president to do? 1. To be able to remember verbatim large amounts of text, or 2. To coherently and accurately convey the intentions and policies of the government Maybe remembering large amounts of text isn't his forte. Personally that isn't a quality i look for in a political leader. It simple doesn't matter. You may as well have come on here whining about how he, the president of all people, can't juggle or ride a unicycle and then pretended to be outraged like it some kind of unbelievable farce that someone who can't is allowed to be president or like it in any way effects his ability to do the job. Afterall, even clowns can juggle!!!!!
If #2 is all that matters, why don't all world leaders just use twitter? Stox, your ignorance is showing... again. If the ability to juggle is a quality you look for in a political leader, you may be the only person on the planet who has that value. The ability to communicate clearly in an unscripted setting has been a requirement of leadership since time began. Perhaps Helvetti's argument about the high quality of Indian labor holds some merit, after all, they have made political speeches in their halls of government for centuries without the help of a teleprompter, a feat Obama seems to be unable to match. Perhaps he should have just written them a letter to be read aloud by any other muppet that can read the written word.
As a perverted Atheist, I take great offense! When you are speaking your own words, you don't need to memorize the text. I used to lecture for five hours a day. I didn't need a teleprompter. Why? Because I was speaking my own words. Now, if I was just some ignorant tool, spewing out the words and ideas of other people, then I would need a teleprompter.
@ stox: "Remembering text" is not the issue. Public speaking is about knowing the topic and being able to communicate coherently. Obama is simply not able to do that. IMHO Obama is very close to being a tard right off the short bus. It reminds me of Rocky 2: that scene were Rocky is trying to do that commercial... (never mind)
Bakai his job title isn't "public speaker". If he is good at it, that's convenient, if he isn't, it doesn't matter, so long as when he does speak it's clear and coherent. This is government, not a tallent competition. It's actually quite pathetic that of all the stuff he is responsible for you partisan droids have to focus on this insignificant, and very common, use of a prompt when speaking publicly. You seem to not understand at all what his job entails and what skills are important.
4% unemployment, double digit economic growth, elimination of the deficit, reduction in the federal debt, crack down on cronie capitalism and corruption, closing of the trade deficit, expansion of the middle class, control of the borders and immigration. By which standard would you have us measure him? If you like Obama, we better stick with the teleprompter, because he is an abject failure by every other measure. At least with the teleprompter discussion, detractors have to admit he knows how to read.
Unemployment is down, the deficit is reduced, they are good things. But yeah, judge him on those things, whether that be praise or criticism, they are exactly the standards by which he should be measured. Not his ability to remember pages of text. You know it's almost as if you are starting to get it.
As Obama is just mouthing words written by his handlers, can't we at least replace him with a more attractive spokesmodel? Why do we need him?
Well it is an "administration", not too dissimilar to the "cabinet" we have in Britain. Like i said, expecting a single person to do it all is unreasonable and unrealistic.
Obama's role seems limited to reading from the teleprompter and staring off into the distance. Barack Obama is the Ashlee Simpson of world leaders.
His role is bigger than that. You may not like him, or agree with his policies, but your arguments against him are frankly fatuous. If you need an outlet for tribal urges pick a football team, politics is frankly too important for trivialities. You do realise that your "arguments" in this thread invalidate any future criticisms you have of his policies, right? After all, he just reads, it's the handlers that formulate policy, right? We will see how that works out for you.
He is a mouthpiece for evil; that is no defense. He is just as guilty as the people whom he represents and they are just as guilty as he. Consider it a case of joint and several liability.
You know what's really funny. I was at the Hall of Presidents on Liberty Island at Disney World this summer. When the animatronic version of Obama began to speak I yelled out to my wife "HEY LOOK BEHIND US - HE'S READING OFF THE TELEPROMPTER". Everyone in there turned around and then burst into laughter. Obama is a reader, not a speaker. Ever heard him speak off the cuff? He has more ums and ahs, than "like a valley girl" teenager. Hes almost incomprehensible.
ROTFLMAO. Politics is all about trivialities. Nothing is too trivial, including dabbling in witchcraft as a teen. On the universal scale of triviality, Obama's inability to deliver an unscripted speech rates higher than most of the crap that passes for relevant in a normal election cycle.
You sure all this isn't going over your head obumanation? Might i suggest americas got talent, that may be more your level.
Are you implying the people who put the words in Obama's mouth are not adults? You might be on to something. They were unable to figure out the White House phone system for a week after moving in...