Obama Loses His Place Using Teleprompter
The TOTUS strikes again, but this time during a speech at the National Academy of Sciences.
Earlier this morning while giving his speech he got ahead of his script and lost track of where he was.
Laying his plan for a President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Obama began to name the members of PCAST listed in his prepared remarks – before realizing he’d already introduced them, earlier in his speech.
“In addition to John – sorry, the – I just noticed I jumped the gun here,” Obama said, pausing for several seconds as he looked at the prompter. “Go ahead. Move it up. I had already introduced all you guys.”
The audience, which gave the president a warm reception, responded with a quiet laugh.
Awww Shucks….
Amateur Hour: Obama Requests Time Slot for May Sweeps and We May Know How to Produce High Approval Ratings for The One
Obama will be giving another press conference next week to mark his 100th day in office. This is another Ego booster for a guy that seems to have an endless supply of narcissism and arrogance.
So Creepy guy has requested a time-slot during May Sweeps prime time. This will yet again delay American Idol and all of his younger voters are getting pretty tired of the TOTUS. This is another PR stunt for him to answer questions regarding his performance over the past 100 days. I think it’s pretty easy to say “it sucked,” although it will turn into another “it’s Bush’s fault,” press conference.
Here were some of the comments on the TV Guide website:
“No! …”
“Definitely get off the TV…”
“He’s such a diva…”
“Again?!?!”
“I voted for, and support President Obama, but this is getting ridiculous.”
Next thing you know we will hear the new Obama National Anthem play in the background when he requests commands to be on air.
Which leads me to what somebody recently figured out regarding these fallacious polls that come out of the DNC’s PR camp (like AP, NBC etc.).
Just read an AP report: the percentage of Americans that think the country is on the right track rose to 48% in March as compared to 40% in February. In light of the unemployment rising, the debacle in foreign affairs etc, I found it unlikely. So I looked into the details of the poll.
73% of the Democrats polled thought we were on the right track
17% of Independents
10% of RepublicansThat made it even more suspicious as to how those numbers could result in a 48% overall right track vote.
So digging deeper, it turns out
36% of those polled were Democrats
18% Republican
26% Independent
18% None claimedIn the 2008 election the spread between Democrats and Republicans was 6.5 percentage points not 18 and independents made up 22% of the vote not 26%.
It appears that there have been similar distortions in the various polls measuring Obama’s approval ratings.
Falling Asleep on the Job, Larry Summers Can’t Keep his Eyes Open
If I were to guess I would assume it was his patterned ”ums” and “uhs” that probably put Lawrence to sleep. This is certainly uncanny since Good Old Larry is Obama’s National Financial Adviser ~ No wonder we are in this mess!
More from the photo gallery of today’s meeting.
Wasn’t Obama supposed to be the great orator? I guess not to Larry. But if you are having trouble sleeping lately, there will be another prime time press conferenceSnooze Fest on Wednesday by “The One” – what a caring president – it saves me from paying an arm and a leg on Ambien.
President Barack Obama will hold his third prime-time news conference on Wednesday, his 100th day in office.
Obama will answer questions from reporters in the East Room beginning at 8 p.m. EDT, the White House said.
Officials insist that holding the news conference on the 100th day of Obama’s presidency has no special significance. But the 100th day has become one of those milestones by which a new president and his accomplishments are judged.
Just another ego-filled day for Obama! Hope the Teleprompter is ready for another close-up!
Obama Refuses to Make Statement on Hostage Crisis (Somali Pirates)
Typical from a true politician – pretend that you care about people and are sensitive but, when it really matters show your true colors.
WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama declined to answer reporters’ questions on Thursday on a hostage crisis off the coast of Somalia, where a U.S. ship captain is being held captive by pirates.
Obama was asked to comment on the situation several times by reporters at a White House event on refinancing for homeowners. Obama, however, stuck closely to the script and replied that he wanted to remain focused on housing.
The President of the United States, who just had several citizens taken hostage (who fortunately turned the situation around) and attacked by Somali pirates, has nothing to say? Not even one utterance in regard to the bravery they showed, or a condemnation of the pirates, or a word of concern about the captain who was still a hostage late last night?
I forgot the President cannot go off script – the Teleprompter had nothing in regards to the Pirate situation…
TOTUS!
Here is the latest on the situation (the story keeps developing…)
After a Navy Vessel appeared on the scene Thursday morning, there is still a stand-off going on in the middle of the ocean due to the captain still being held hostage by the Somali pirates.
A stand-off was continuing on Thursday between a US navy destroyer and pirates holding a US-flagged ship’s captain hostage, amid signs other pirate-held ships were being moved towards the area.
The USS Bainbridge arrived at the scene on Thursday morning to monitor events aboard the pirate-held lifeboat, containing four pirates and Richard Philips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, the first US-flagged ship to be seized by Somali pirates. The lifeboat ran out of fuel shortly after the pirates left the Maersk Alabama with it on Wednesday following a struggle with the vessel’s 20-strong crew of US citizens.
The crew had handed over a pirate they had held hostage in a deal that would have seen Mr Philips returned, but the pirates reneged on the deal and left in a lifeboat with him, only to run out of fuel only a short distance away.
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The position was complicated, according to one western military analyst, by unexplained movement of previously-captured ships towards the area of the stand-off, in the Indian Ocean 350 miles off the coast of Somalia.
The pirates could be seeking “safety in numbers” in the face of the threat of US military intervention.
“There does seem to be movement of other pirated ships towards the area in question,” the analyst said. “There are a myriad of different reasons why one would do that. There’s apparently some co-ordination going on.”
The incident was the first attack in recent years by Somali pirates on a US-flagged vessel with an American crew.
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The US anti-piracy taskforce declined to comment on how it would respond to the hijacking.
Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, said while Washington was focused on the latest incident, “more generally, we think the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy”.
At least Hillary said something! But unfortunately, I cannot be excited about what she said or how she said it – her facts are wrong in regards to Moracco and she decides she should laugh off piracy at the end… Shameful.
Should this incident compare with the liberals’ attempt at calling George Bush insensitive while reading to a group of children during 9/11 or his “lack” of action for Katrina?
Obama has already had a lack of action and response for those people in Kentucky who were killed during the ice storms this year and now we have a guy who can’t make a statement about U.S. citizens taken hostage off the coast of Somalia either.
TOTUS Loses his Place While Giving Speech in France
Obama lost his place while yet again, reading off the teleprompter at the town hall held in Strasbourg, France. Will this guy ever give a speech without his binky?
