Monday, January 25, 2010

1/25/10: Another Teleprompter Fail

Farcical.
Photo: The Lonely Conservative

This. Is. Mind. Boggling.

The President of the United States of America needed two teleprompters to speak to a group of 6th graders.

Source: The Lonely Conservative
I'm not convinced he NEEDED the teleprompter to speak with kids. It is possible the teleprompters were used to impress the kids - a possibility that would mean Obama's arrogance is beyond the scope of anyone's imagination and the President of the United States is nothing more than a prop comic without a punchline.

UPDATE: The Weekly Standard is reporting that the teleprompter was used for Obama's remarks to the press, following his remarks to the students. Two questions about that:
  1. Was the teleprompter in the room with the kids? Or was the teleprompter set up after the kids left the room? In other words, did the president need to show the kids how cool he was with his teleprompter and speaker system? Arrogance is never out of the question with this guy.
  2. Isn't it wrong to hide behind the pretense of speaking to children when you are really just using their classroom as a prop for prepared remarks about an education program?