Quote of the day
posted at 10:35 pm on March 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
“What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?
A careful one…
‘At the same time, the rest of us can’t afford to demonize every investor or entrepreneur who seeks to make a profit. That drive is what has always fueled our prosperity, and it is what will ultimately get these banks lending and our economy moving once more,’ he said.
It was a carefully modulated statement, and Obama — relying on a familiar crutch — read it off a flat-screen monitor perched at the back of the East Room.”
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Either a very feminine male or a very butch female, or possibly a pre-op, to which I’m having an Austin Powers moment.
Kini on March 24, 2009 at 11:56 PM
venividivici on March 24, 2009 at 11:56 PM
I skip over the kids in the room childish insults. Not worth responding to.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Man, what a windfall. They don’t even have to write the skits, just replay newsreel, if they can get past the MSM embargo on anything embarrassing to their lord.
neuquenguy on March 24, 2009 at 11:58 PM
This is what you get with a seasoned community organizer…not much.
jukin on March 24, 2009 at 11:58 PM
A teleprompter doesn’t have all the answers.
Kini on March 24, 2009 at 11:58 PM
For the win!
Kini, you’re on tonight :)
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 11:58 PM
That’s one reason why I think he/she is a paid astroturfer. Only someone whose job it is to be here would be such a glutton for punishment.
Daggett on March 24, 2009 at 11:58 PM
“The Presidential Primer”
bloggless on March 24, 2009 at 11:59 PM
I agree, but geez, what a terrible astroturfer. I mean, not one single thing it posts is convincing in any way to anyone with two brain cells to rub together. Whatever it’s being paid, it’s too much.
venividivici on March 25, 2009 at 12:00 AM
fify
Y-not on March 25, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Oh how I wish the leader was powerless. He’s wasted no time, given no one a chance to stop him as yet.
He’s already spent more money than anyone could have predicted. Barack Obama, the son of a visiting Kenyan student and an experimenting college freshman, has now spent more money than any human being in history. And that is only the beginning of the money he intends to waste.
With the force of his office he has forced us into financial ruin. And the world will follow… Then he will remake the world as a paradise for himself and his cronies while the rest of us sulk over the unfairness of nominating John McCain.
It is We the People who are powerless in the wake of this Madman Tyrant.
petunia on March 25, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Second that!
A Jumbo-Tron of a boring Q&A session. Two thumbs down on the Obama and the Teleprompter.
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 12:04 AM
It’s possible. “Under the outSTANDING leadership of Franklin Raines…” Sounds familiar.
ddrintn on March 25, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Well, Acorn just came into a lot of money, so they can be generous.
And whoever they are, you gotta give them credit for hiring the (mentally) handicapped. :D
Daggett on March 25, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Whats next?
Well,the President wants the entire Oval Office wired to
the hilt,
and,it will be his communication centre,something about
AxleRod saying its to improve his ability to reach out to
all Americans!
And if the President is to meet foreign leaders,then,the
Teleprompter will be sent out to meet them,and the President will communicate through the Telprompter,
after all,Hopey|Changey is the President!(Snark!)ahem.
canopfor on March 25, 2009 at 12:05 AM
She seems to have a fascination with socialism, she may indeed be Maxine. “We want to nationalize, uh, I mean…”
HornetSting on March 25, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Too bad the teleprompter didn’t know how to choose presents for Gordon Brown and his family.
I’ll say one thing, though, Sheriff Joe sure does look smart compared to his boss.
Y-not on March 25, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Do not attempt to adjust your television
or monitors,
we control the vertical,horizontal,and your
Teleprompters,
welcome to Obama`s Outer Limits!!!!!!!!(snark!)
canopfor on March 25, 2009 at 12:09 AM
You know we’re screwed economically when we’re taking orders from a guy who didn’t seem to understand the benefits of an interest-bearing checking account until 2005, has owned two stocks in his life (bought and sold in the same year), and has his book royalties buried in tax-exempt bonds while his jacking off kills the stock market.
I love how the guy who didn’t give a damn to charity until about 2006 suddenly starts scolding journalists about charitable giving.
And by the way, paying ever increasing taxes is not altruistic, and it’s not patriotic. The federal government shouldn’t be doing much more than building the interstate highways, administering the federal court system, and defending the borders and coasts. Anything more should be revisited.
Eliminated all the money coming out of Washington, and you get a wonderful side-benefit of eliminating that entire seemy class of Washington lobbyists.
BuckeyeSam on March 25, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Scotchy, scotch, scotch…
The Ugly American on March 25, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Replacing the teleprompter with the widescreen plasma tv should really stop all the jokes.
Chuck Schick on March 25, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Who needs to bother with stocks when the University of Chicago is putting $200,000 in your wife’s pocket every year?
Y-not on March 25, 2009 at 12:14 AM
You might as well throw in his obvious misunderstanding of the market (and basic math) with his, now classic, “profit and earnings ratios”. That one little phrase demonstrated his total incompetence in two major fields.
progressoverpeace on March 25, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Now that is “gallows humor”. I don’t know what Obama was talking about gallows humor for the other night. Hell, he’s living out his dream of screwing over the country. He’s laughing all the way to the taxpayer-funded bank.
venividivici on March 25, 2009 at 12:17 AM
There is nothing wrong with your coming life. Do not attempt to adjust your income. My teleprompter and I will control your income. If we wish to make you richer, we will lift up your income. If we wish to make you poorer, we will crush you with taxes. Do not attempt to live your own life. We will control your life. If we wish we can reduce your life to a living Hell, or sharpen it to Heavenly wonderfulness. We will control your ups. We will control your downs. For the next
four eight twelve sixteen twenty twenty four twenty eight thirty twothirty six years, sit quietly and obediently and we will control all that you see, hear and feel. You are about to experience theclawawe andmiserymystery which reaches from the innerdeliriummind to THE OBAMA SOCIALIST NATION UNLIMITED.- The One
MB4 on March 25, 2009 at 12:19 AM
He seriously must have the worst memory in the world. I mean, he says the same things in these speeches, nothing new; and he needs to have it up on a telepromter ora big screen…….seriously?
deidre on March 25, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Nothing is wrong……
MB4 on Mar 24,2009 at 12:19AM.
MB4: Excellent expansion on the theme!
and,nice Artillery groupings!!!haha:)
canopfor on March 25, 2009 at 12:24 AM
See Obama.
See Obama read.
Read, Obama, read.
Y-not on March 25, 2009 at 12:25 AM
“What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?”
A dumb one. Obama is at times eloquent and portrays an image of intelligence but he is not smart. His off the cuff remarks demonstrate that and the fact that he is wrong on almost every issue.
Does a smart guy with political aspirations go to Trinity United and hang out with Bill Ayers? Even if he agrees with them he was an idiot for not seeing the potential problem of associating with them. Does a smart guy vote “present” constantly or not bother to vote at all? Does a smart person deliberately suppress his academic history?
Does a smart person allow his stimulus bill to be written by Nancy Pelosi? Does a smart guy nominate one cabinet pick after another with ethics and tax problems? The list of his screwups is growing by the day. The country needs to face the fact that not only have we elected a green, naive man with no executive experience at the most critical point in recent history, he is also an idiot who knows virtually nothing about the economy or national security. He only knows what the radicals he associated with told him in his formative years.
echosyst on March 25, 2009 at 12:26 AM
More SNL material: Friends of Barry O Meeting
My name is Barry and I am a promptoholic.
Hello Barry
I am in a plasma alternative treatment program but I have my one week chip for my drug of choice the teleprompter.
msmveritas on March 25, 2009 at 12:26 AM
To all libtrolls: we will give up the teleprompter meme the same time you gave up the My Pet Goat meme i.e. never.
Speedwagon82 on March 25, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Pap
I hope we never get attacked, or are befallen by another disaster.
Entelechy on March 25, 2009 at 12:29 AM
I’ve had the good fortune to go to some elite universities, but I never really hung out with anyone who was so clearly an affirmative action admit as Obama. He would have easily been the dumbest person in any of the crowds I hung with.
venividivici on March 25, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Get a toothbrush and scrub the donkey shit out from between your teeth. And then perhaps a couple of boxes of tic-tacs just to abate the stench.
csdeven on March 25, 2009 at 12:31 AM
I’d have him give the address at a Cineplex 20 with The One standing in the back of theater reading off the movie screen.
Caper29 on March 25, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Who needs to bother with stocks when the federal government by way of an earmark gives money to the University of Chicago which puts $200,000 in your wife’s pocket every year?
Y-not on March 25, 2009 at 12:14 AM
FIFY
unseen on March 25, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Do Teleprompters Dream?
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 12:35 AM
ObaMcCarthy’s neck was in traction so they had top come up with a system that did not require him to move his head from side to side.
I wonder if they use preparation H to sooth ObaMcCarthy’s posterior regions after EmanuelBergen removes his hand from his rectum after a long night of working ObaMcCarthy’s mouth? He is a ridiculous wooden headed vacuous commie.
csdeven on March 25, 2009 at 12:36 AM
So if someone attacked our country again, is it a pretty safe bet that we won’t hear from Obama for a while because he needs to know what he is talking about?
deidre on March 25, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Ok can we all agree that Obama’s intelligence has been grossly overrated?
unseen on March 25, 2009 at 12:36 AM
“I’m as angry as anybody about those bonuses that went to some of the very same individuals who brought our financial system to its knees.”
Then why not repeal the Community Reinvestment Act…….?
Seven Percent Solution on March 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM
It’s a little much when someone try’s to inject intelligence into a debate./S
heshtesh on March 25, 2009 at 12:36 AM
I mean a wide screnn TV? come on…..this guy is an idiot.
unseen on March 25, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Allah’s been the big holdout on that.
progressoverpeace on March 25, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Slublog hit the mark.
Entelechy on March 25, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Better not let Matthew Broderick hack into TOTUS. I have a feeling that TOTUS doesn’t play tic-tac-toe…
Gohawgs on March 25, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Comment from Slublog’s masterpiece
Entelechy on March 25, 2009 at 12:40 AM
If he allowed real questions:
Could you comment on the Czech govt being the latest domino to fall, and do you think your administration would also get a vote of “No Confidence” if one were taken today?
econavenger on March 25, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Its 3:00AM,
a crisis in the Straight of Hormuz is unfolding,
but there is a more dire and serious crisis in
the making,
in order to coordinate a proper response,the
Preidents Teleprompter,must be found!
America`s only hope,is to recover the Teleprompter
as soon as possible,
American Navy Personnel hangs in the balance!!!!!!!!
(Snark).
canopfor on March 25, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Man, that is a great picture! BHO beat SNL to the comedy with that! He just swiped a great prop from one of their skits!
Does he have any clue how stupid that makes him look? Funny thing is, he and his ilk make fun of Bush!
Pot meet kettle…
av8tr on March 25, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Killing the Earth by using energy-sucking plasma TV’s is no joking matter!
SouthernGent on March 25, 2009 at 12:47 AM
A really scary ghost of Noonan!
SouthernGent on March 25, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Nobody would notice because he never really answers the questions anyway.
FloatingRock on March 25, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Let’s all raise a glass for the TOTUS.
It sure earned the gravy tonight.
Hawkins1701 on March 25, 2009 at 12:56 AM
I’m looking forward to the day when Ogabe’s handlers just prop a cardboard cut-out of him up on stage and play his speech over the White House PA system.
Why have the actual President up there when all he does is read a prepared script and obfuscate on every question? The man is no leader.
Bishop on March 25, 2009 at 12:57 AM
A Jumbo-Tron of a boring Q&A session. Two thumbs down on the Obama and the Teleprompter.
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Perhaps a little song and dance routine would help?
heshtesh on March 25, 2009 at 1:03 AM
So, wait a second….is this the same press conference that Bill Schneider was talking about when he said “The president appears very comfortable discussing complex issues and often performs well in these press conferences. It is no doubt reassuring to many Americans.
And take note: He is responding without a teleprompter.”?
taboo on March 25, 2009 at 1:04 AM
OMG: You’re promoting KIDNAPPING TOPUS!!!!!!
Curses I say!
Chewy the Lab on March 25, 2009 at 1:08 AM
Ooops!
TOTUS
Chewy the Lab on March 25, 2009 at 1:10 AM
FWIW, the San Francisco Chronicle has posted the AP story on its website at SFGate.com.
One of the “most recommended comments” refers to the article as a “hit piece.”
Really.
warbaby on March 25, 2009 at 1:20 AM
Yeah………… I get that a lot.
Seven Percent Solution on March 25, 2009 at 1:43 AM
The TOTUS talk got to him. All the comments about his looking right and left but never straight ahead while speaking made it vital that this be a Jumbo-tron moment.
Mason on March 25, 2009 at 1:48 AM
And he looked just as ridiculous trying NOT to look like he wasn’t reading from a script. His eyes continued to shift to read the text. AND you could tell when he lost his place.
What a vacuous fool.
csdeven on March 25, 2009 at 1:58 AM
Somebody needs to make a Chris Cocker vid of Letterman whining about poor Obama getting picked on for his crutch.
What a pussy. I used to watch him when his act wasn’t soooooo tired (i.e. the 80s).
rockhead on March 25, 2009 at 2:13 AM
Where was TOTUS tonight? Was that his stand in prompter?
Kjeil on March 25, 2009 at 2:13 AM
That was racist…. and funny. Perhaps Obama will redeem himself with an Amos and Andy routine.
Right_of_Attila on March 25, 2009 at 2:23 AM
That was racist…. and funny. Perhaps Obama will redeem himself with an Amos and Andy routine.
Right_of_Attila on March 25, 2009 at 2:23 AM
I for one eagerly wait.
heshtesh on March 25, 2009 at 2:37 AM
…. made it vital that this be a Jumbo-tron moment.
Mason on March 25, 2009 at 1:48 AM
TOTUS meet JOTUS…… TOTUS, put down that knife ….
tigerlily on March 25, 2009 at 2:44 AM
What does this remind you of.
Emperor Palpatine – George Soros – uncanny resemblance
Dark Vader – Barack Obama – racist? Read on.
Grand Moff Tarkin – Rohm Emmanuel – skinny guy w/sharp elbows, yeah it’s a match.
Greedo – Eric Holder – shifty, mousy, kinda cowardly.
Jabba the Hutt – David Axelrod – good with talking points
The whole cabinet could fill the who’s who of Star Wars villains.
Anyone wanna add a character?
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 2:54 AM
Was trying to fit in Hillary with a character but all i could come up with is Chamberlin,go figure.
heshtesh on March 25, 2009 at 3:04 AM
heshtesh on March 25, 2009 at 3:04 AM
Boba Fett – no one know who’s behind the mask, or the pantsuit.
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 3:12 AM
One of the machines with a jaw type apparatus that looks like a big backhoe – Michelle Obama
MB4 on March 25, 2009 at 3:14 AM
Ok, I don’t know where to go with this, but I strangely want to learn more.
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 3:15 AM
heshtesh,
“Was trying to fit in Hillary with a character but ”
Hillary most definitely has a character butt!
exhelodrvr on March 25, 2009 at 3:48 AM
Kini,
Put rollers on TOTUS and give him a voice, and he could be C3PO.
exhelodrvr on March 25, 2009 at 3:51 AM
BTW, related to the QOTD, nobody seems to have caught one of The Precedent’s funnier off-teleprompter riffs. In response to the question about charitable deductions, the idiot messiah tried to give a little example of his real point:
In that sense, what it would do is it would equalize. When I give $100, I’d get the same amount of deduction as when some, a bus driver who’s making $50,000 a year, or $40,000 a year, gives that same $100. Right now, he gets 28 percent, he gets to write off 28 percent. I get to write off 39 percent. I don’t think that’s fair.
It’s interesting how the moron takes something very simple and easy – all people get tax deductions, at their brackets in the natural way, for charitable donations – and, yet, now the tax brackets are “unfair”. Even giving the moron the progressive tax brackets he so obssesses over, he’s still not satisfied. So, following the stellar reasoning, here, if we let him raise the top tax rate to 90%, he would argue that the charitable tax deduction is even MORE UNFAIR for the low earner in relation to the high earner – which was the central point he framed his twisted notion of “fairness” upon. If he raises the top tax rate, then the charitable deduction becomes more unfair. Interesting how that works.
Following The Precedent’s logic a little further yields: If he lowered the top bracket to the same as the low earner’s bracket, then the charitable deduction would be FAIR, in Idiotmessiahville.
It’s also interesting how the charities, themselves, never came into his discussion. It was all about “The Federal Government”. This issue is going to be huge, I think, because his attitude about it says so much and reveals his true self. He uses an argument on the unfairness of the progressive tax structure to support denying charitable deductions. The guy is just a total fruitcake.
progressoverpeace on March 25, 2009 at 4:01 AM
EXCELLENT!!!
Fruit has nothing to do with it. He’s Nuts!
He is trying to level the socialist playing field by playing into a traditional conservative outreach, charity.
It’s like saying there was no regulations when there were.
Good point though.
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 4:19 AM
Good point. Someone should get this to Rusbo or someone with a big speaker phone.
MB4 on March 25, 2009 at 4:21 AM
All kind of like if a restaurant overcharged you by twofold then you should pay twofold the tip.
MB4 on March 25, 2009 at 4:25 AM
Exactly. I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard him say it. The Precedent steals the argument for the fairness of a flat tax, but perverts it into some strange form to try and argue against the relative fairness of private charitable contributions in a non-flat tax system, all in a bid to kill off non-governmental charities. Just unreal.
progressoverpeace on March 25, 2009 at 4:36 AM
Taxing Charities.
Huh!
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 4:45 AM
Big time. And it is such a despicable position that I can hardly find words for it. The Precedent is, essentially, holding private charities hostage, as he works towards killing them off, entirely. Utterly despicable. But that’s what a drive for revenge looks like. It ain’t pretty.
I sent Rush an email about it, but I figure he must have gotten thousands about this press conference. I’m sure Steve Forbes, or someone, will pick up on it eventually.
progressoverpeace on March 25, 2009 at 5:07 AM
Beats strategery.
sethstorm on March 25, 2009 at 5:19 AM
One who has the press in his pocket. If the answers to the questions were written out ahead of time then why bother have a press confrence? You could tell that he knew what the questions were going to be before they were asked and had a special list of reporter’s names to call on to ask a question. This is more like some type of government propaganda event that you would see in a country like Zimbabway or Iran. This is all just a big show. Stop the video at 10 seconds. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Dollayo on March 25, 2009 at 5:20 AM
To disseminate information and to answer questions. The teleprompter is prepared so that he doesn’t have folks from Murdoch’s kind misinterpreting him.
sethstorm on March 25, 2009 at 5:24 AM
LOL. The TelePrompter is prepared so that The Precedent doesn’t reveal what a dunce he is. But that doesn’t always work out … “OAR-ee-on” …
The guy’s a friggin’ moron.
progressoverpeace on March 25, 2009 at 5:32 AM
I know what will be on my next Tea Party sign – thanks!
citrus on March 25, 2009 at 5:53 AM
welcome to Obama`s Outer Limits!!!!!!!!(snark!)
canopfor on March 25, 2009
I was thinking Twilight Zone, but I’m probably older than you.
SKYFOX on March 25, 2009 at 6:35 AM
I think people have it wrong with OPTUS (Official Presidential Teleprompter United States). The President doesn’t bring OPTUS to all his affairs, meetings and press conferences, OPTUS brings Mr. Obama to those meetings. The USA didn’t elect Mr. Obama, it elected OPTUS and its sidekicked.
eaglewingz08 on March 25, 2009 at 6:45 AM
NO BLIND EYES.
Obama has low reading comprehension and refuses to do his homework. He’s the sort of student who says that the teacher didn’t make an assignment to excuse his incomplete work. Members of Congress provide Obama their alternative plans in print, yet he persists in denying the truth.
Obama can’t admit his own faults because he refuses to see himself as he is; he is still stuck in the juvenile mode feigning to represent omniscience and omnipotence. There’s no pleasure in being subjugated to the messianic role when personal sacrifice is required FROM THE ONE. Much grander to simply live high on the Pennsylvania Street Mt. Olympus hog hiding behind white marble columns. Obama wishes he were Thor, son of the leader of souls Odin. Instead, he’s just an illegitimate Goblin King, impotent to bless, potent to curse so long as his flock permits.
Impeach Obama, Pelosi and Reid and retract legislated corruption of our Constitutional government. Citizens demand that elected officials fulfill their CONSTITUTIONAL job description, not permit their own greedy whims to amass the pirated fortunes of corruption laying waste the population and the nation in legislated bankruptcy.
maverick muse on March 25, 2009 at 7:27 AM
Question : Is there only one TOTUS or are there others? If only one, the labor relations board needs to be contacted as I am confident work rules are being violated. Is there a line item in the budget to cover TOTI’s overtime? If there are more than one, are they represented by a union?
Fuquay Steve on March 25, 2009 at 7:28 AM
ave.
maverick muse on March 25, 2009 at 7:30 AM
ave.
maverick muse on March 25, 2009 at 7:31 AM
Do Teleprompters Dream?
Kini on March 25, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Great; another fan of Philip K. Dick (Do androids dream of electric sheep?)
Do they dream of a perfect socialist society run by them to keep these silly humans in line?
mad scientist on March 25, 2009 at 7:35 AM
Anyone ever seen Anchorman?
Wouldn’t that be funny if that happened to Obama?
Pcoop on March 25, 2009 at 7:38 AM
OT: New bumber sticker I saw on Monday:
Change is Good!
Hide your change or Obama will tax it!
My bumper sticker design:
Change:
That’s all we’ll have left after Obama is done with us.
mad scientist on March 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM
funny you guys get so worked up because of the teleprompter. did any of you realize that for the most part, he spoke extemporaneously? since the unscripted answers were just as intelligent as the scripted remarks, this whole concept is bizarre.
so explain me, how can he give a ‘scholarly explanation’ without the teleprompter, if he can’t talk on his own?
sesquipedalian on March 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM
I heard that when TOTUS and Chuck Norris are in the same room, the magnetic field is slightly altered.
Fuquay Steve on March 25, 2009 at 7:42 AM
TOTUS – Teleprompter of the United States or a reference to Obama and the Tool of the United States?
Ares on March 25, 2009 at 7:47 AM
Isn’t this like taking your CliffsNotes on Moby Dick for an English Lit test?
No?
Ok then.
Limerick on March 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM
It was the stunt double.
todler on March 25, 2009 at 8:00 AM
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