Video: TOTUS betrays POTUS; Update: Guardian goofs on the “great orator”
posted at 7:44 pm on April 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
Surely one of the top five dumbest palate cleansers we’ve ever posted, but it’s simply too meme-tastic to leave it buried in Headlines. If he can’t count on TOTUS and he can’t count on his canvassers, surely he can still count on the average American voter, right? Hmmm:
Obama’s lowest approval number comes in response to his federal budget, which includes a substantial deficit. Only 42 percent agree with Obama’s budget while 45 percent disapprove…
In the minds of those surveyed, there’s little distinction between the bank bailouts of the past six months and the aid packages for the auto industry that were granted earlier this year. Only 34 percent of people think the administration is taking the right approach to help an ailing auto industry. A higher number (43 percent) objects to bailouts as an appropriate use of government money.
Newsweek’s naturally downplaying the degree of opposition. Check the crosstabs and you’ll see that there are actually three options on the bailout questions: taking the right approach, inappropriate use of government funds, and “is not doing what is needed to solve the problem.” Support for that last option is in the mid-teens; add it to those who are opposed to bailouts generally and you’re well over 50 percent who think The One’s on the wrong track. Click the image to watch.
Update: Where is the TOTUS here, anyway? I don’t see it at the podium. Is it one of those large-screen deals in the back like he had at the White House presser last week?
Update: A comedy double dip courtesy of, believe it or not, the Guardian. Inside Barry’s mind as the TOTUS goes dark…
pause [I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE] … a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system … pause, close eyes [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF SHIT BACK HOME. HELP]. I think what is also true is that … pause
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Comedy Gold. Will there be an Obama Greatest Hits compilation video? If they add them all up by 2010, it would be a full length feature. And Biden……Whoa.
portlandon on April 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM
TOTUS better watch out or his tax records may just be dug into….
omnipotent on April 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM
The naif-in-chief.
Blackacre on April 3, 2009 at 7:50 PM
TOTUS is going to be nominated for Dear Leader’s Cabinet?
I’m worried that TOTUS might be charged with treason.
rbj on April 3, 2009 at 7:50 PM
i found an amazing quote by hl mencken:
Chiasmos on April 3, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Is this a rogue TOTUS or perhaps they’ve just unionized.
moxie_neanderthal on April 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM
The Milli Vanilli of politics….
Caper29 on April 3, 2009 at 7:53 PM
He never lets us down when he goes off prompter…..
people wanna know why people hit the Ogabe twins so hard….
the newsies are trying to convince me he is Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and JFK and that Michelle is Helen of Troy….
no sale and “keep the change”…
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Totus is miffed because Ogabe brought in 11 back-ups and left the MacBook back in DC….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM
I was hoping this would make the cut………….
……… Getalife? Ummmmmm………. aahhhhhhhhhhh…….. (choke)……. ummmmmm…….. uh…. Getalife?
You can see it on his face………
……… this as@-clown is a fricken joke!
iPod to the Queen of England?
Bow to a Saudi King?
Stumble through questions with the British PM because he could not pick the questions and answers?
TOTALLY gave away United States Sovereignty without anyone firing a shot………
……….. and Mr. “Dear in the Headlights” Teleprompter, when it is not working.
What a fricken joke!
Seven Percent Solution on April 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM
The guy can barely construct a sentence without that thing. Clearly, he’s a genius.
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM
And they thought GWB couldn’t talk
Kini on April 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Posted this earlier. Naturally the trolls came by to remind us how brilliant he is while Bush is an idiot. They can’t ever admit they’ve been suckered by an empty suit who can’t string two sentences together without a writing staff and a TelePrompter.
So pathetic.
JammieWearingFool on April 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Yes. Michael Moore, in the back, with a tight tight plain white t-shirt, upon which TOTUS was projected. This explains why Obama got messed up, the text fell under one of Moore’s, ahem, breasts.
Weight of Glory on April 3, 2009 at 7:59 PM
The teleprompter is, or used to be, a military member of the White House Communications Agency. SNAFU’s on the teleprompter can get you fired and there have been a few problems – I remember one of Clinton’s speeches was improperly loaded for a State of the Union address.
But Ogabe has taken TOTUS to such an extreme level – the job of a teleprompter operator must truly require a man with a “sphincter of steel” … to borrow a term from some pundit.
HondaV65 on April 3, 2009 at 8:01 PM
But will Dear Leader line up all of his teleprompters and shoot them?
/sarc, just a tiny bit
Wanderlust on April 3, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I am impressed at Bambi’s ability to not fall prey to altering his inflection as it *ahem* contours around Mik’al Moor’s ample bosom….
well played WoG
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Well , somebody happened to press the reset button..
the_nile on April 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Its like in the Simpson’s Movie when President Schwarzenegger says “I was elected to lead, not to read”. In Obama’s case its the other way around. He was elected to read, not to lead.
Dreadnought223 on April 3, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Just think, Sasha and Mahlia hear this crap every night from their parents…
RealDemocrat on April 3, 2009 at 8:04 PM
And how perfectly appropriate the the Golden Child loses his place with the TOTUS while denigrating the US … again, and while in another country … again.
He’s an embarrassment on so many levels; I guess it’s a bit of a blessing that the MSM is completely in the tank for him; it saves us undue exposure to his true nature.
cruadin on April 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM
But the Europeans Love Him.
Dr Evil on April 3, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Maybe someone with a sense of humor…………..
……….. started to play a Star Trek movie on the teleprompter?
Seven Percent Solution on April 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM
I watched this live this morning and saw TOTUS, my sore tennis neck can confirm. President Mouthfarts didn’t have a good day but I’m sure the French loved him because TOTUS did a nice job of badmouthing America at every turn of his head.
Knucklehead on April 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Under Bush out of control spending was spending our kids into bankruptcy.
Under Obama who is making Bush look thrifty he is saving our kids.
/sarc
This country is insane.
Jamson64 on April 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Think maybe it’s time for Plan B? You know, the Cyrano and Christian thing.
ericdijon on April 3, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Thanks. Although, I should have used “ample”, as you did. That’s just too good of a word not to use.
Weight of Glory on April 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM
I don’t know, but his eyes were definitely tracking something to his left and he looked away to the right then locked again on that something to his left just as the bumbling and flop sweat started..
AUINSC on April 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM
You know you would think that Congress might have clued into those poll numbers before they passed that monstrosity.
INC on April 3, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Nothing but love for the Obamas in this debut on the world stage.
They represented our country proudly.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM
I’d say they represented her’s better….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 8:14 PM
And the recovery going strong back home. Another million or so out of work.
Chuck Schick on April 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Hahahahah…you’re like a dog that hears the can opener, getalife.
Obama can barely speak without the teleprompter, and you’re beaming with pride, of course.
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Yep, that Guardian dig was pure love…
AUINSC on April 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Damn, that’s funny!!! :)
Keemo on April 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Several of my friends are still refusing to admit that this guy is in way over his head. They would rather see this country go down in flames than admit they were wrong.
unbelievable
mantis on April 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Can this guy form a cogent sentence…..ONCE???If nothing Bambi is entertaining…kinda sad is`nt it?
NY Conservative on April 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Did he even have a teleprompter? Where was it?
This was so not what you guys made it out to be.
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I guess we are laughing to keep from crying. I have been around the block a few times, and in my 62 years, this is the worst I have ever seen. This guy is worse than a mere joke; he is as dangerous as any rattle snake dressed in a suit. I do not know for sure what his motives really are, but he makes me wish I were born in 1847, then I would be dead by now.
Pelayo on April 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I love how his lips move while he’s rereading what he’s already said.
Chuck Schick on April 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Yes and when they start rehiring, it’s back to business with regulations as usual.
Adults are in charge.
It’s all good.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 8:18 PM
The only people who refuse to see this are liberals. Even the Brits are ridiculing him now.
That’s bad.
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM
What do you think of the Brits ridiculing your savior’s speaking abilities?
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM
The adults giving iPods to queens after their wives manhandle them?
Chuck Schick on April 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM
In the first 70 days, President Obama has had the folks at NASA working on technology he first noticed in the move “I Spy”.
He is now testing the teleprompter contact lenses.
jack herman on April 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM
You know, I certainly hope Obama is in over his head. Otherwise, he is a master of his craft, and deliberately driving the country off of a cliff.
Buford Gooch on April 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM
I think you have to have a cogent thought first…in this case, the words clearly reflect the brilliant mind behind them.
AUINSC on April 3, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Oh yeah?
Well pResident G.W. Bush said “freedom is the yearning of the human heart.”
What the hell? The heart doesn’t urine! What a dumb dummy he is! His statement makes no sense.
When I was in college, my Queer Studies Professor said that freedom was a reflection of the homoerotic desires of the oppressed to seize the means of production.
And even though I don’t know what that means, still: Damn you capitalists!
jeff_from_mpls on April 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Empty freaking suit.
WisCon on April 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM
He is either an idiot or so wrapped up in communist thought he knows breathing his feelings would destroy his party….
don’t know which I prefer….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Obama is truly an idiot, who reads, and not very well, only what George Soros writes for him. He’s an embarrassment to America. Bring back Bush! Bring back Bush!
apco on April 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM
His reliance on TOTUS to me is a sign of pure laziness; he will not spend time to recite a speech long enough to use the teleprompter as substitute for three or four index cards. It was named Teleprompter because it merely prompts a speaker. To see this creature give a speech and move his head as if he were watching a tennis match is hilarious, sad, and scary all at the same time.
Pelayo on April 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM
It won’t be long before The Reader of The Free World starts using a backup earpiece so David Axle-Grease can help spoon feed lines.
moxie_neanderthal on April 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM
You truly are stupid.
He embarassed this great country and took every opportunity to so.
Knucklehead on April 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM
How are we going to survive this guys stint in the oval office?
Browncoatone on April 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Quite frankly I’m disappointing.
I feel like I’m living in a third reality. Sometimes I don’t know how you guys and them folks at the HuffPo are processing what you see and hear. This wasn’t a big deal, using a teleprompter is smart tool to use when your doing a speech, Obama isn’t the most eloquent person ever but I can understand completely what he says and yes the “uhms” and “ahhs” are so annoying!
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Really? Not only is it off topic — we’re talking about the POTUS fumbling a question, not deregulation — seriously, that’s all you’ve got? You’ve said that how many times now? Basically, at this point you’re just spamming — AP, I mean, really if this isn’t spam, what is?
LastRick on April 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM
“Quite frankly I’m disappointing. ”
Should be “-dissapointed.”
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM
whatever happens I don’t want to see getalife get kicked or banned… he is hilarious!!
mantis on April 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM
All actors struggle to learn their lines for a daily live show.
moxie_neanderthal on April 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM
If only you can edit your comments after submission…
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Funny, the cons are the only ones thinking they embarrsased our country.
Stupid?
Nah, you just want him to fail and that is not happening in the polls.
Wishful thinking is more like it.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 8:30 PM
I totally disagree. I have nothing against dissent — seriously, I’ve done my share on here — but he’s not even trying. His (?) comments are essentially spam now; compare this, on the other hand, to someone like DTMH who actually tries to present a coherent reason for his Naderite view of things.
LastRick on April 3, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Exactly! Perfect point. The Guardian…Mouthpiece of Conservatives around the World!
AUINSC on April 3, 2009 at 8:33 PM
I like your style though…
“oblivious” + “bulldog tenacious” = “hours of fun”
AUINSC on April 3, 2009 at 8:35 PM
“The only people who refuse to see this are liberals. Even the Brits are ridiculing him now.
That’s bad.
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM”
Did you care when they ridiculed Bush? Did that validate his perceived shortcomings.
One dude wrote one article = Brits?
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Now that’s a nickname. We need to spread that one around.
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 8:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeTr9P7ax4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fapostolicfriendsforum%2Ecom%2Fshowthread%2Ephp%3Fp%3D731498%23post731498&feature=player_embedded
Here are a couple more minutes of the jibber jabber.
His lips move and he says nothing.
seven on April 3, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Like a cat clawing at the aquarium glass.
ericdijon on April 3, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Good point.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Oh JESUS.
After watching the number of times he went “uhmmmmmm” during the press conference with Brown yesterday, pausing again and again to gather his thoughts IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE around 2,000 times or so, this is even worse.
Even IF you ARE reading an inspiring speech to people as a key world leader, you don’t want to SEEM like you are merely READING A SPEECH TO THEM.
They want LEADERSHIP, connection, a feeling you are speaking from your heart.
Obama ruined the atmosphere there losing his place.
Did he even write what he’s reading? If it was written by someone else, hadn’t he communicated to them what he wanted to talk about? Shouldn’t he be familiar with the train of thought?
manofaiki on April 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM
…….. give one example, if you can,
unless a timid, weak, apologetic, bended knee, we’ll pay for everything, “No, you don’t have to send troops to protect your freedom I will send Americans to die for you, while I decrease their funding and ability to win the fight…”, here is another Trillion dollars that the American taxpayer will be saddled for with no oversight or regulation to the Dictators of the world, and while I’m at it, not a single volt of energy will be produced in the United States while I am POTUS……..?
Seven Percent Solution on April 3, 2009 at 8:39 PM
I won’t believe that Barry isn’t a toal idiot until he releases his college transcripts.
We’ve seen G.W. Bush’s as well as John Forbes Kerry’s.
Neither one geniuses.
The Affirmative Action Child-King has no clothes indeed.
omnipotent on April 3, 2009 at 8:39 PM
This explains why his college records are kept under lock & key.
redridinghood on April 3, 2009 at 8:41 PM
It’s more than one article. They’ve also gone after him for his clumsy gift-giving chops.
Did I care when they ridiculed Bush? Why yes, I did. I lived through eight years of relentless criticism of nearly everything he did, here and abroad. And you guys loved it. Now that Obama is the topic, you don’t think so much of their opinion, so I should ask you the same question: Did YOU care when they ridiculed Bush?
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM
My beef is that this clod insists on getting in front of the nation every single day to say some of the most inane things…constantly…it is all political theater. All of the stupid contrived summits for this and that.
It is Orwellian…like a tv that can’t be shut off….just droning on and on in the background.
Big hat no cattle type stuff.
moxie_neanderthal on April 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Hardly…but the Guardian is very left…that they would go after Bush was always expected…no comment necessary. But that they would go after the Saviour of Humanity himself…not a good sign for Messiah at all and it shows that even the international left is having doubts about his non-stop BS, having witnessed this empty suit first hand.
AUINSC on April 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM
…total idiot…..
Oh the irony…
omnipotent on April 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Carter’s regulations? Clinton’s de-regulations? The CRA regulations started this mess. Repeal of Glass-Steagall?
Wethal on April 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM
I’m with ya. It’s nothing more than copy & paste and spam, it’s disruptive and makes me not even want to read here anymore. A good debate with opposing views is fun, but this idiot doesn’t have a coherent thought in his brain.
I don’t think we’re the only ones thinking this way either. I’ve noticed a lot of old familiar faces disappearing everyday. If I want to read crap I can go to KOS or Politico.
Knucklehead on April 3, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Okay let’s be real here folks.
Just like the liberals/ far left did with Bush and recently Palin,
there will be NOTHING you will ever give Obama a positive on. Period. Even if he does something right it will be wrong somehow. He will never be able to speak, produce, or act in the manner you will ever approve.
So then you have to ask yourself, what is the point? It seems like a waste of time to have these type of post. There is so much more going on. A palate cleanser should be that, something has nothing to do with what is already the main topic of discussion here, hating on Obama.
Let’s talk about how devastating it is that Battle Star Galactica is over and I have nothing to look forward to watching on TV tonight? All the poor people around the globe that are now deprived of their Friday night Sci-Fi channel excellence and now only have to look forward to Stargate reruns and movies about badly CGed giant ants or environmental disasters that seem to only destroy New York or San Fransisco? What about that?! Where is the outrage and embarrassment there?!
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 8:50 PM
RACIST!
heh
jgapinoy on April 3, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Americans are lining up against his budget 50-43. Americans like Obama, just hate the things he does as president. Running up the debt 2 to 1 over Bush is not going to be a poll winner for you guys. Ask the GOP.
Chuck Schick on April 3, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Actually, it is.
His approval index hit a new low today: 3 points, meaning almost as many people disapprove as approve of him and what he’s doing.
Obama approval index history
Jenfidel on April 3, 2009 at 8:52 PM
BSG was a potentially great show that was doomed by Moore’s inability to refrain from making it a “from the headlines” weekly Donk screed….
I own all the seasons and the mini because it was well crafted.
So was Triumph of the Will.
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Yes, they know how to lose elections.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM
because Bush “wasting billions” was the end of the world so let’s waste TRILLIONS and they’ll love us.
//moonbat
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 8:54 PM
We’ve lost 1 of the last three, three of the last five, three of the last six, and three of the last eight….
check your math chum.
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Which is why I hate to say it, comment moderation has its place. (Or you can go the route Glenn Reynolds does, have no comments; that works well too.) I wouldn’t go so far as to say that people are leaving b/c of the getalifes and DTMHs. I’m just saying, if you look into the thread and see “getalife”, you basically know that thread will get threadjacked. Similarly, when I visit Politico, it’s a waste of time to read the comments, which means I’m spending less time there = less revenue.
LastRick on April 3, 2009 at 8:55 PM
The author of Rich Dad Poor Dad said you have to spend money to make money. The returns on those trillions is going to be off the chain!
:)
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Yes, just like that…only without the Giant Puppet heads…and threats of physical violence and assassination fantasies…and non-stop accusations of his opening death camps and smearing of his children and questions about their parenthood..yeah, other than that, same thing. Great Point!
AUINSC on April 3, 2009 at 8:56 PM
You lost the last two.
Three strikes and you are out.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 8:56 PM
I won’t bother asking why you’re following their playbook because you’ll get confused.
Cartoons are in a few hours. Enjoy.
Chuck Schick on April 3, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Bush was a democrat?
Who knew?
You guys lost from 1980-1992(when we fooled ourselves into thinking *ah Ivan’s gone what the hell why not a dope smoking draft dodging fool?*
pity your theory doesn’t hold water or your moron militia would be gone.
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Proof that adults are in charge.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 9:00 PM
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 9:00 PM
2006 and 2008.
Your losing streak will continue.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 9:04 PM
1994-2006 then….I would say check and mate but in your case I will say Mo and Ron….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Careful comparing Michelle “who shall not be insulted” to Patrick Ewing is a bannable offense….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Look carefully, the man literally moves his lips while he silently rereads to his lost place on the TOTUS text:
“The United States certainly shares its…
(jerks his head toward TOTUS)
(long pause)
(mouths a few words up to “shares”, finds where he got lost)
“…shares blame for what has happened.”
I never credited George Bush for being a competent speaker but he was nowhere near as utterly inarticulate as this Muppet.
Abraham Lincoln, my ass…
Crusty on April 3, 2009 at 9:07 PM
You know, now that I think of it, maybe getalife is Allahpundit. And this is how he drives up traffic. Seriously, maybe that would explain why getalife is still around at this point.
LastRick on April 3, 2009 at 9:09 PM
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