Yes He Can: Obama Spoke Without Teleprompter

Prez goes 'prompter-free' at bus tour appearance in Virginia

October 19, 2011 RSS Feed Print

Now it makes headlines when President Obama doesn't use his trademark Teleprompter.

Wrapping up his three-day bus tour of North Carolina and Virginia today, the president stopped at a Chesterfield firehouse to promote his jobs bill. "It is great to be at Fire Station Number 9 with some of Virginia's finest," the president said without the use of his Teleprompter.

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The address came two days after on of his Teleprompter and other event equipment were stolen from a federal truck parked at a Richmond, Virginia hotel.

White House spokesman Jay Carney, however, told the press pool that the size of the small event dictated that the Teleprompter be left behind, not this week's theft.

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The press pooler felt it necessary to note the lack of the speech-reading device the president prefers to use over note cards. Said the pool report: "One detail from Chesterfield firehouse event: POTUS spoke without a Teleprompter." [Flashback to April: Inventor of the Teleprompter Dies.]

The theft led to late night talk show jokes and GOP criticism even revived a blog set up just to chart the president's Teleprompter, titled TOTUS, or Teleprompter of The United States.

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A little reminder for the uninformed. The Dems took over both houses of congress in January 2007. That means the House of Representatives and the Senate. The republicans took over only the House of Representatives in January 2011. For the first two years of this idiot's reign, that is Obama, he had total control of the house, senate and presidency. Look where that has gotten us. The second idiot, Harry Reid, will not even bring the bills that the republicans have written to get this economy growing again to the floor of the senate for a vote. Some, he states, in his opinion "don't make sense" Why not let the Senate decide what makes sense? Mr. Reid is afraid that some of his fellow senators may actually vote for these bills. Let's let the press and the folks think that it is all the republicans fault that nothing has gotten done. It's all politics folks and we are the one's who pay the price. There has been no budget passed for over a 1000 days. He's the same moron that stated while our troops were fighting a war, that the war was lost and the surge didn't work. What have we become? A nation of people that feels no shame having to depend on government aid to survive. Obama is a divider...The great Thomas Sowell stated this in an interview before Obama was elected and he was so right.....What happens when all the producers leave and we have nothing left but the looters? We all better start praying that we can get leaders with some common sense. All these huge pensions that the public sector employees are receiving is going to have to stop. The taxpayers can't sustain this anymore. Going forward, there has to be change. Who has the courage to tell the people the truth? All you fellow senior citizens, do you realize that under Obamacare your payments out of your social security check is going to skyrocket? You better think very carefully who you vote for in November and ask yourself, "is this the hope and change I asked for" Search for the truth before you vote.

Pamela Kirkendall of NV 11:53AM February 25, 2012

Every corrupted and propaganda-spreading Democrat in the entire world should be drop-kicked back to the Andromeda System where they came from, and I mean NOW!!!
The truth is, Davev of MI., Barbara of TN., as well as that screw-ball Obama character, are counting on American citizens to remain stupid and uninformed:
---President Obama says "we can't wait" to take action on jobs. Speaker Boehner told Laura Ingraham, "You know what, we can’t wait. We’ve got 15 bills that have passed the House that would help job creators around our country. They’re called the 'Forgotten 15'; they’re sitting over in the United States Senate." We can't wait for Senate Democrats to pass them.
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?postid=266824
IMO, our beloved country would be sooooooooooo much better off w/o these ugly and lying Democrats! That's for sure and for certain!

Ron Casini of AR 3:40AM November 01, 2011

And the Republikan congress has done what to create jobs???? Remind me again who was in office when the current depression started.
Are lives so small all you have to occupy yourselves with if someone reads from a teleprompter?
Yeah we will be all set if the republikasn take control again.........................................

DaveV of MI 5:11PM October 21, 2011

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