One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy Corpsman Christian [sic] Brossard. And lying on a gurney aboard the USNS Comfort, a woman asked Christopher: "Where do you come from? What country? After my operation," she said, "I will pray for that country." And in Creole, Corpsman Brossard responded, "Etazini." The United States of America.
Ugh. The scary thing isn't the gaffe itself, it's the calm way in which he just continues to suck on his pacifier read from his teleprompter. He doesn't stutter, stop, or correct himself, because the teleprompter keeps going. He is so locked in that he has no idea he is pronouncing the word incorrectly. Makes you wonder how often Obama actually knows what he is saying.
If they want to save face, the administration really needs to consider a ban on cameras whenever the teleprompter is present. Either that, or they need to ween Barry off his pacifierteleprompter. The details on the above photo:
This isn’t a press conference, a speech, or even a White House briefing. It’s a committee meeting. As Rich said, people used to poke fun at Reagan’s notecards. Either he needs this much help to get through opening remarks in a normal business meeting, or he’s become a little to attached to the TOTUS … and neither option makes him look very professional.
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:
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.
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?
Midway through his speech on urban and metropolitan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building this afternoon, one of his two small glass prompters came crashing down, hitting the wood floor and crashing in many pieces. It made quite a ruckus.
“Oh, goodness,” a startled President Obama said. “Sorry about that, guys.”
He then proceeded on with his remarks, “To pull our economy back from the brink, including the largest and most sweeping economic recovery plan in our nation's history…”
For the rest of the speech the president relied on the one remaining teleprompter, to his right, and notes on his podium to finish his speech.
Shards of glass remained near the president’s feet for the duration of his speech.
The President’s fandom for his nearly omnipresent prompter has become something of a joke, even to him. In May at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner the President poked fun at himself, declaring that he wanted to “speak from the heart” and “off the cuff.”
Two large teleprompters then rose, with a big smile from the President, and laughs from the White House press corps.
President Obama’s speech at the National Academy of Sciences Monday morning hit a brief snag when Obama got ahead of his script.
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.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns out, he was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given.
Who's retarded now?
