Obama uses teleprompters when giving speech to elementary school students
Bookworm on Jan 25 2010 at 9:20 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
I’m rushing around a bit this morning (kids are off school, housekeepers coming, fitness class, etc.), but I just had to stop for a minute and share with you this amazing photograph of Barack Obama, in an elementary school classroom, surrounded by teleprompters. It seems to me to be the most perfect symbol of the sham behind all that pre-election talk about his intelligence, his Messiah-ship, his connection to the world and to youth, etc. This man is an empty suit.
It’s also irrelevant to me if other presidents used teleprompters before 3rd graders. As I said, this photograph isn’t some exposé — we all know he’s dependent on those little screens — it’s just a symbol of the man’s basic emptiness, something carefully hidden from the voters in the year leading up to Election Day 2008.
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I preferred a president who sat down among the kindergartners and read them a book about a goat.
An inept and self-absorbed man, elevated to the presidency by a combination of mendacity, guilt and vague hopes, has been told over and over again that his personality and ideology are giving people fits. He is now at the great crossroads of his life where he can decide to take his critics seriously and do those things that can change their perceptions and increase his likelihood of success.
Will he do it?
No, he won’t. Not because there’s a possibility that he actually might be willing to try some changey, but because he cannot possibly know how to change his nature or suddenly acquire all those virtues that his relatives and mentors spent years carefully excising from his soul.
What we will see instead is a doubling of the cheap manipulations, and the strong-arm attitude and tactics that have marked his administration so far. He’s like the spurned guy who’s been told to bug off by the pretty girl, yet believes that if he can “just talk to her” one more time she’ll come around. Eventually one more time becomes cornering her in some dark place and forcing himself upon her.
Obama’s problem is that his posse of enablers, the Whore Media, is beginning to see that it’s not so hip to hang with Mr. Cool. As he keeps harrassing that pretty girl, its members don’t want to be seen as accessories.
Middle school government rules: When you’ve lost the sixth grade, you’ve lost everything.
Question is, “Is he smarter than a 5th grader?”
To be fair though, he was there to undermine the sovereignty of the several States in regards to education. You don’t want to muck up a power grab like that by letting 11 year olds think freely and ask questions.
Charles — agreed.
Check out this jaw-dropping exchange as reported by Commentary:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/category/contentions
Rep. Marion Berry, yet another retiring Democrat, gave an interview to Jane Fullerton of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. According to Fullerton:
I don’t suppose it matters much from a symbolic perspective, but factually the telepromptor was not there for a talk with elementary school students but for a presser:
http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2010/01/good-catch-jwf.html
True, Richard, but it was a 900-word statement given in a small classroom. Wouldn’t this be a job for index cards? It’s not like TOTUS would fade into the bulletin board and not be noticed by the people sitting two feet away.
Of course, when he works without TOTUS you get comments like the one about Magic Johnson’s infectious enthusiasm, so perhaps it is best if he takes it everywhere with him. (I didn’t see it in the video.)
Obama will use anybody for a photo op. School classrooms or US coffins coming back from overseas, doesn’t seem to matter to him much.
That’s actually a worse symbol..
I pegged the Obama as an Empty Suit a year ago, and thought his administration would be about betrayal — either of the U.S. or of his deluded followers –and now I am starting to concur with Nat Hentoff’s assessment that he is the most dangerous and destructive man to ever hold the office of President.
I have to re-highlight what gcp31 brought up in #4:
> The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’
That overwhelming narcissism and arrogance is exactly why Obama is incapable of changing course after the lessons of Virginia, New Jersey, and Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Charles Martel’s analogy above about the clueless guy endlessly harassing the girl highlights it – Obama is clueless because he *cannot* get it! He would have to discard his entire universe, which is centered around himself. An impossibility.
We shall be entertained with more Obama gaffes and more stumblings and bumblings throughout 2010, as a result. The Education Of The American Voter concerning the far-left politics of Obama/Pelosi/Reid is not yet complete. And that’s a very good thing.
>>He’s like the spurned guy who’s been told to bug off by the pretty girl, yet believes that if he can “just talk to her” one more time she’ll come around.>>
I’ve mentioned my foster daughter… She has lousy taste in men. She keeps bringing home guys just like this (above). And they gradually go from being totally charming to totally controlling. She seems to zero in on them like magnetic north.
>>Eventually one more time becomes cornering her in some dark place and forcing himself upon her.>>
So far, she’s seen the risk before it has come to this ( but we always worry about it, you can bet). And as we’ve gone along, it seems to take less and less time before she picks up on the trait. If we could only get to the point where she can see it from the very start – so that it never becomes a start! Part of the problem is that she’s getting older – and so do the young men she dates. After a certain point, you have to ask “why isn’t he married”? You _know_ that there has to be a reason … !
Oh sure! All Obama has to do is take a teeny weeny time out from his busy day serving (up) the American people and bring his teleprompter to give a talk among his peers and all you can do is pile on, pile on, pile on. Why can’t you just leave him alone? (sob!).
SueK in #10 says (or asks why?):
> If we could only get to the point where she can see it from the very start – so that it never becomes a start!
Sue, likely you already know the reason why she can’t see it from the very start: That controlling behavior is an intrinsic part of these guys, and it is an intrinsic part of what attracts her. Think of it as “sexual psychology”. I think our sexual psychology gets wired a certain way early on – during the teenage years – and it’s very difficult to unprogram yourself, once set.
I’d say that you can intellectually realize that each successor relationship is simply not going to work. But she can’t do anything about that sexual sizzle she feels when she’s interacting with the controlling guys; nor that sexual dud-splat she experiences when interacting with the guys who are *not* controlling.
We seem to change only when the “pain” of continuing on gets too high. Perhaps the pain of loneliness, or the pain of the frustration of the endless sequence of failed dates and relationships… hopefully it will eventually arrive for her, and she’ll change on a deep enough level that this controlling aspect of these guys actually becomes a turn-off.
“…nor that sexual dud-splat she experiences…”
Dang, Devx, there’s a reason why I always look forward to what you have to say.
I know you’re right, Mike, but it’s still frustrating. She says she wants to get married and have kids, but who she picks says that’s baloney. She picks _dates_, not partners and _fathers_.
The reason she came to live with us was due to her broken relationship with her mother – who was very controlling. Big surprise, eh? It was us or the streets. We’ve had our ups and downs and for the most part, she seems to be maturing and getting her feet on the ground – but there are still areas where I’d just like to tear my hair out…and her choice of men (boys would be a better word) is one of them!!