Most politicians use “crib notes” of some kind while giving speeches.
Some bring 3×5 cards listing key points. Others refer to handwritten rough drafts. And some even read from pages on which the entire speech has been printed out.
But Barack Obama and Sarah Palin each have their own unique crib notes technology. The two diagrams below analyze how much each type of technology costs per speech.
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LOL! -Not to mention a small female hand can only fit a few ‘reminder-notes’ whereas a teleprompter can pretty much feed limitless ‘talking points’/speeches/reminders/robot.txt info etcetera. The hapless TOTUS might want to consider inputting phonetics for little corpse-man ‘o’ from now on though.
Oblamebush is such a pathetic ass-hat, he actually sent “Baghdad Bob” Gibbs out to take a swipe at a girl… not to mention America’s next president. Can you imagine Ari Fliescher or Dana Perrino pulling such low-rent, beneath the office, childish churlishness? Of course, it’s just about the Chicago Bone Thug’s speed. O-B-A-M-A + One-Big-Assed-Mistake, America. Without exception, our worst president ever. He knows no shame.
This is totally inaccurate!
Everyone knows by now that Sarah Palin writes notes on her LEFT hand!!!1!
Keywords – six of them- are not comparable to an hour long full speech, completely written out, and read word for word like a machine.
Keywords are not speeches; they are just reminders and the user must put them into articulate meaningful sentences.
Teleprompter speeches require nothing from the reader; no comprehension, no work of putting the keywords into sentences. Nothing. Just read.
That’s all that Obama does. Reads speeches written by someone else. He’s so detached from the content of those words that he’s even read the speech of another speaker by mistake!
He can’t answer questions about ‘his’ policies; he muddles up the content – and the WH then has to issue a hasty rebuttal the next day (eg, no public option which Pelosi countered the next day).
Gibb’s mockery of Palin was juvenile, something an 8 year old might do – but for the WH to act in such a manner, trying to denigrate and smear critics of their policies – was disgraceful.
Gibbs should have written on his hand “Remind president how to pronounce corpsman.”
It’s so funny to hear libtards ridicule Palin for writing crib notes on her hand while Obama can’t even talk to a bunch of 6th graders without a portable podium and two teleprompters. And somehow, they think Palin is stupid while Obama is a “gifted speaker.”
eeeewwww…now I think Obama should wear his teleprompters on his hands.
funny how the MSM and puffyball Gibbs wanna talk about Palin’s little notes, but not the TELEPROMPTERS!! that Obama needs to even speak with children!!!!
Sarah’s cool. Crib notes!! I love it!!!! lets see Obama do his speeches with only crib notes!!!um, that is, i mean uh… Oh!!cadaver, corpse!!
The “notes” Obama uses cost about $200,000++ Records every word he is to say that are written by someone else
.Palin’s notes = cost of a bic marker…outlines(/word) the ideas she wants to be sure and cover.. Get a life Gibbs and Obama and MSM..
Zombie, the fo-NET-ick SPEL-ing and the acrostic are absolutely priceless. But, who is AMY?
Another mistake – there are TWO teleprompters for the big O. That’s why he does that look this way and read 4 lines, now look that way and read 5 lines, now look center and smile; look this way and read 4 lines, now look that way and read 5 lines, now look center and smile; look this way and read 4 lines, now look that way and read 5 lines, now look center and smile. Whoops, I’m getting sea sick.
that the teleprompter people make this an issue tells it all.
go Sarah go
6. Bob:
Gibbs should have written on his hand “Remind president how to pronounce corpsman.”
….it should say tell Obama to stop lying so I don’t have to try to polish a turd.
The karmic slap heard ’round the world!!! Beautiful.
Just something I’d like to point out. I’m not aware of any teleprompter that President Obama used in his interview with Bill O’Reilly or in his address to the Republican House Conference, yet he sounded the same as he always does. Additionally, whenever I’ve heard Sarah Palin speak away from a teleprompter (or her hand written notes) she sounds like a female version of FP Bush. Am I missing something?
I just recall the fine videos of Obama when the cribnote machine, er, I mean teleprompter breaks. Or why he has to prescreen and approve all questions during press meetings. Or why we can’t see his college transcripts….
Barack Obama Speech: $285,000
Sarah Palin Speech: $0.79
Seeing zombie Hand it to the Man/Child: Priceless!
Did you know that the reason people who give speeches have a few words on a card, is so that they can feel free to improvise and be spontaneous and so they can then get back on track. Its as simple as that, and the exact opposite of what a teleprompter is for; which is about anything but being spontaneous.
Also, she doesn’t use a card because she’s a woman and often doesn’t have pockets.
I bet you haven’t heard this on your average news?
Hilarious!!
It’s amazing how just two graphics can devastate the Obama camp. Keep up the great work. Please post more pictures of the San Francisco kooks.
Poor Sarah. She even stumbled badly using her palm notes. She ought to go back to using a teleprompter like she did at the Republican Convention.
It has occurred to me more than once that Barack Obama already looks ready for the Disney “Hall of Presidents”. For those unfamiliar with this, “Hall of Presidents” is a stage full of robots that look like they have escaped from Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. They are realistic robots that deliver lines from their famous speeches.
Look left, read 4 lines. Look center, assume pensive expression. Look right, read 4 lines. Look center, point finger. Look left, read 4 lines………….etc.
There is nothing spontaneous or lifelike about Obama. He’s cool to the point of ice cold. Palin is alive in a way Obama just can’t fake.
And btw, I’m so glad to see Zombie here on Pajamas Media. I’ve loved your photo essays over the years!
Conservative Liberal
Here’s Obama without a teleprompter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpLe47G_HGo
As for the Republican meeting, I’m sure you know that he was prepped beforehand and, and, no followup questions were allowed. This enabled Obama to pontificate for ten minutes on each ‘question’ – and the fact that he was misinforming, aka lying, and not answering the questions – could not be challenged.
Obama is, himself, ignorant and shallow. He’s the upfront salesman for the statist agenda of the Backroom Gang of socialists who run him (Emanuel, Jarrett, Axelrod, Pelosi, Reid and we mustn’t forget, Soros). He himself has no interest in policies; he’s a malignant narcissist. He’s all about Himself.
Heck, quite a few jobs are created with TOTUS.
Too, too funny. Sarah Palin is so “green.” Think of all the energy she saved. The “greenies” should love her.
Nice try.
24. ETAB:
As for the Tea party meeting, I’m sure you know that she was prepped beforehand and, and, no live questions were allowed.
nice try..
Most speeches at such a convention do no have questions afterwards/”beforewards” either.
Unfort. she didn’t use them with a speech, but with a q/a period.
Hey, you want your Sacred to have to crib note the TP platform, rock on!
@20 – discreet notecards also solve the problem, but hey, i guess it’s cool at a convention to have the platform of the actual convention in handy crib note form just in case you can’t remember why you are there and what you are talking about.
As I have asked before, which one do you think is brighter? Someone that writes 4 or 5 prompt words on her hand for a 45 minute speech or someone that has to use a teleprompter for a 10 minute speech to kindergarden kids..
Just in case any of you forgot, here’s Palin using a teleprompter during her “I quit” speech:
View here at 1:16 of the full video: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/142175
And then there’s the RNC speech when her teleprompter “broke down” and she soldiered on, which was, of course, compete BS.
Don’t do this to yourselves. It will haunt you at the Pearly Gates.
JOSEPH @ 22:
In case you don’t recall, Sarah’s teleprompter at the GOP convention MALFUNCTIONED, and she kept right on talking without it, smoothly, seamlessly, without a glitch. Nobody even KNEW that the damn thing had failed her halfway through, until afterward, when a campaign staffer mentioned it.
skeeziks- you miss the point. No follow up questions were allowed in the Obama-Republican meeting. Therefore, in contrast to the hard and constant follow up questions of Wallace to Palin, no clarifications of Obama’s answers could take place.
This meant that Obama’s blatant lies, lack of clear answers and diversions, could not be challenged.
Get the difference? No? Try again, let’s make it simple.
Obama – no follow up questions allowed.
Palin – Wallace repeatedly asked follow up questions.
The issue isn’t whether or not Obama or Palin uses a teleprompter but that Obama can’t handle questions without one. The example in the link I provided above, of his – heh – answer to Diane Sawyer’s question about jobs, is revealing.
So, without a teleprompter, Obama can’t give a coherent speech. And he can’t answer questions truthfully. Either he breaks down into incoherence (see above) or, he manufactures a narrative that is filled with lies and deviance..which can’t stand up to challenges. That’s why he can’t take open questions that will challenge what he says.
Hey, zombie, I didn’t know you were with pajamas media now…..glad to hear it –they have my greatest respect, and you being with them makes it all the better. : )
Beautiful analysis.
Breaking News: Sharpie just inked Palin to a $2 million, 2-year deal for exclusive use of their pens. In an related matter, the Obama administration just announced that medical insurance covering hand injuries will be eliminated from the health care proposal.
yeah, the repub/obama meeting was a freakin farce. he was there for a “show” not to help the situation. He couldn’t care less about either party. He keeps say the Repubs won’t offer anything consturctive…well, how the hell do you do that if you’re shut out of the meeting the dems are having???
You can make all the dumb excuses you want to, ..we see Obama and he is dumb, awkward and nutty socialistss.
And she does it all in Hi Heels.
Excellent :: ))
Gibb’s palm reads:
1. Extremists
2. Tea Party Kooks
3. Bristol pregnant
4. theLadders.com
Wait…They are missing the “Strawman” in the first drawing. You know, the person who is the “some say” in all of Obama’s speeches…
Seems many here have forgotten Tony Snow’s biting humor.
utopia:
And she does it all in Hi Heels.
That reminds me of a quote about Fred Astair verses Ginger Rogers. “She did all the moves Fred Astair did and she did them wearing high heals, backwards!”
I’ve heard Obama try to speak without a teleprompter. His verbal pauses and broken sentences make George W. Bush almost sound articulate by comparison.
Talk to the hand!
33. ETAB:
“Palin – Wallace repeatedly asked follow up questions.”
You mean like “Will you sit on my lap?” They’re both Fox employees for god sakes. Palin has never been challenged on Fox, which is pretty much the only place she’s willing to appear. Let her sit down with Chris Matthews. Let her take questions from a room full of Democrats. She’s a coward and a fraud. And you’re in too deep to admit it.
“The issue isn’t whether or not Obama or Palin uses a teleprompter but that Obama can’t handle questions without one.”
He kicked your asses in Baltimore without a teleprompter. You know it. So do Republicans and the right wing media who are terrified of him doing it again, which is why they’re balking at another round. Children all of them – bullies who got bitch slapped and now whimper in the corner.
Love it.
Anyone with a brain can see Obama is an empty suit, nothing more. He was elected because of the color of his skin, pure and simple. He’s accomplished NOTHING in his life before winning a senate seat (with the help of the Chicago political machine, one of the most corrupt and criminal in the nation….I know, I live there). He has no experience and no skill in an executive capacity….and it shows. We’re paying the cost now, and will be fore decades to come, for electing the worlds first Affirmative Action President.
That being said, am I against the idea of a black president? Dont be an imbecile! I dont care if the president is black, blue, green or that weird greyish green shade of mucus you get when you’ve got a real back chest cold…..as long as they can do the job!
I think our skeeziks feels a wee bit threatened by Citizen Sarah, don’t you?
Skeez ol’ buddy, if you want us to believe that Palin is the dud you’ve been claiming she is, you might want to reconsider all the venom you’ve been pouring on her. We’ve learned that Lefties attack what they fear most.
I feel safe making such a recommendation, confident that skeeziks and his buddies would never take it. They know that when they offer “advice” to conservatives, it’s intended to bring us to ruin…and so they assume that a conservative who offers to counsel them has the same end in view.
(Irony is by far my favorite nutrient.)
I can’t believe it.
Like with Obamacare, Stupid Sarah has harpooned Obama again.
This is not about clueless, hapless post-American Presidential mouthpiece Gibbs. This is about Obama.
sheeziks:
“Palin has never been challenged on Fox, which is pretty much the only place she’s willing to appear.”
Surely you jest. NONE of the other so-called networks have ever challenged Obama, Gibbs, Pelosi, Reid or any other Democrat on ANYTHING, no matter how ridiculous, scandalous, or outrageous. I will say this, however; when the other so-called networks turn on Obama, and they will, just like they did on Clinton, watch out. There is no fury like a left-winger scorned.
Barack Obama plus teleprompter equals Max Headroom.
The Sarah-Is-Stupid meme is dead, people. Even David Broder of the WaPo is coming around with his piece today praising her TP speech and Wallace interview. He says, I quote: “The lady is good.” HuffPo ran a piece yesterday calling Sarah basically a genius for the creative hand notes that got everybody (including the White House) talking about her three-point platform, didn’t it? Crazy like a fox, that Sarah. Energy. Cut Taxes. Lift American Spirits. What’s not to like about that?
The biggest difference between Obama and Sarah? Sarah isn’t obsessed with being seen as an intellectual. She’s not consumed with her own importance. She doesn’t try to talk like a typical politican because she isn’t a typical politician. She’s a normal person.
Thanks PJ and Zombie for the hilarious visual. I think your notes on Sarah’s hand were a bit demeaning (the “me pretty” part) but overall very very funny.
42. skeeziks moho kyber Whatever.
“Love it.”
Skeeziks.
“‘Stop the fight, Ref’ . . . I think you have me confused with Sarah Palin.”
Jan 29, 2010 – 11:13 am
Skeeziks.
“You people are children. You remind me of my granddaughter who yesterday got caught feeding chocolate to Kyber our dog. She knows she’s not supposed to do that. She said, ‘You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.’”
Jan 29, 2010 – 9:05 am
“Love it.”
“Palin has never been challenged on Fox, which is pretty much the only place she’s willing to appear.”
Here we have an admission that the Modern Liberal with the Multiple Personality Option actually watches Fox. Not just the American Idol – Mr. President goes choir singing to save the world, but hardcore Right Wing Take No Prisoners Fox News Sunday.
Do you monitor the Evil Trio of Beck – O’Reilly – Hannity too? And all that intelligent Blonde Power must be wearing down the Dirty Modern Liberal Dog sleazits Kyber. So many ladies gone astray, how could this happen, Modern Liberals are so cool, so cool! Ladies are supposed to be subservient to such coolness. And everybody else too! “You know it”. “You know it”. “You know it”. “You know it”.
I mean, with your Modern Lib cred, you could get a date with Rachel Maddow, complete with a free pass to a showing of the Vagina Monologues!
Maybe Megan Kelly will toss you some eyeliner and then you can pretend to be Prince in a dog suit with “Courage and Intelligence”. Or maybe just Onan the Wannabe Jihadist. With BombWear.
“Let her sit down with Chris Matthews”. No Kyber sleazits, you sit. Sit Kyber sleazits. Sit. Here’s your treat! Lie down. Lie.
Cesspool alert!
“He kicked your asses in Baltimore without a teleprompter.”
Amazing. Amazing, imagine, “without a teleprompter”! Progress! Jobs! Love! All “without a teleprompter”! Amazing.
Shouldn’t that be “licked”? After all, such things are in the Modern Liberal Art of Love Manual for the Sexually Liberated Totally Correct Person person. Wow, what would have happened if the teleprompter was included? Does Kyber sleazits partake?
Hmmm… Interesting. Teabag is right before teleprompter in the Love Manual… Al Gore? No!
“Children all of them – bullies who got bitch slapped and now whimper in the corner.”
Such a Big Daddy mean moho misogynist. Even the Dog Whisperer may have a have a difficult time teaching Kyber sleazits manners. One wonders if Ms. Rachel M. might have better luck with a choke chain and the monologue thing.
“Love it.” “You know it”.
Well, the Pee Wee moho – kochevnik – Shawn Ondeen skeeziks Blovis American Muslim Alice Whatever Twilight Zone Dummy lives in a violent world. What next? Will the funhouse mirror find Windex? Will Van Jones finally acknowledge the Barking Dog Kyber sleazits? Will the Pee Weeist with hand on “Inconvenient Truth” find solace in a movie theater, with Mr. President’s Greatest Teleprompter hits playing?
“You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
Whatever.
I see this is where people with no brains come. And yes, people who praise palin have no brains. Generally called a waste of skin. Palin was good for 1 career, porn. Now she is too old for it.
just wait for 2012 people. Your lives will be shattered if you all think palin has even a slight chance. Not.going.to.happen.
But you all are too stupid to figure that out.
AAAKKKK! Must…..get…out… Before all…..Intelligence is…………….
Morons.
Did I make this comment here and it got nuked? Or did I make it somewhere else? Or did I imagine that I made it?
No matter.
I am outraged at the obviously unfair and incomplete analysis that blatantly favors Palin.
Where is the representation of the costs to wash her hand?
She probably used ecohostile PAPER towels to dry her hands.
Or else she used global-warming intensive washed in hotwater, folded by slave labor towels.
How about some objectivity here?!
In one word: bwaaahaaahaaa! Hilarious, Zombie!
Wow… so Sarah puts out terrible interviews where she can’t name a single magazine she reads, while Obama gives fantastic speeches in a room full of Republicans with no help… and Palin fans want to criticize Obama for being a polished speaker and act like Palin’s incompetence is cute?
Amazing how loonies will rationalize anything. I’m not an Obama fan, but right wing whackos make me laugh.
But Hey! I can see Russia from my house!
Such nonsense. Palin had written/printed notes at the podium for her whole speech. She used the notes on her hand for the after-interviews. Her paper notes are the non-techie equivilent of the teleprompter, so criticism of Obama’s teleprompter usage is hypocritical.
Obama did NOT use a teleprompter when he spoke to the school children but used them for his meeting with reporters afterward. Obama has shown on multiple occasions that he can speak perfectly well without teleprompter or notes, such as when he decimated the Republicans at their recent Q&A session.
“56. J:”
Well, that was….special.
Love the smell of lib fear and desperation!
ETAB,
Everyone has a bad day, including presidents. The point I was making is that the characterization that you and others have made about President Obama doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Otherwise how was he able to respond to every question that was asked of him by the Republican House Conference? The point about follow-up questions is irrelevant at best and disingenuous at worst. President Obama was not just asked one question, he was asked several and he responded to each question in the same articulate manner that he almost always answers questions with. And he did so without a teleprompter. Furthermore his interview with Bill O’Reilly had follow up questions for each of his answers. And he answered those follow up questions in the same thoughtful manner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_753sLQQ8q8
This obsession about teleprompters from the right is just another birther issue. Unless you’re referring to Sarah Palin. Without her teleprompter she sounds like a female version of Bush.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbQwAFobQxQ
“She used the notes on her hand for the after-interviews. Her paper notes are the non-techie equivilent of the teleprompter, so criticism of Obama’s teleprompter usage is hypocritical.”
So, you’re saying, she had her head down and read directly from the paper notes without ever looking away? Because for your worthless analogy to even be close to being accurate, Sarah would have to have done what Barry unfailingly does with his teleprompter/binky: Never take the eyes off the TOTUS screens!
“such as when he decimated the Republicans at their recent Q&A session”
I think this ridiculous point has already been taken apart by the other posters here, but let’s repeat it once more for you: “He didn’t actually answer the questions, and no follow-ups were allowed.”
Of course Obambi sounded natural in this setting…he was petulant, unprofessional, juvenile and completely un-Presidential.
Fail, boy. Try again
“This obsession about teleprompters from the right is just another birther issue. ”
Um…. so you’re saying that the teleprompter doesn’t exist?
Or… you’re saying that Obama was born in Kenya, but we’re not supposed to talk about it?
Is that why they call it a Palm Pilot…?
And in the end they both say nothing.
I think you’ve vastly overstated Gov. Palin’s cost per speech. The average pen will last three months even if you use it all the time. Depending on her schedule, the Governor could churn out her speeches for mere pennies.
Obama was given a check list when he came into office, so far he has failed at all of them, yayayayayayayaya. He’s a empty suit, maybe he’ll move to one of those 7(57 he said in one speech) other states when he is defeated in 2012 that the rest of us American don’t know about! He’s the Manchurian candidate from the 50′s movie.
Long Live The TOTUS!
I respond to this ridiculously inaccurate chart.
http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/2010/02/let-me-be-clear.html
LOL!
Heading to a tea party talk tonight on the Constitution with “Run Sarah, Run!” on my left hand.
We have all been DUPED by SP! It’s all an underhanded [ha-ha] ploy to get us to believe she’s a ‘regular gal’!
At least, Alec Baldwin thinks so:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/sarah-palin-faux-populist_b_455331.html
Jeebuz! Alec needs to stop bogartin’ the good chit!
This is the most beutiful chart I’ve ever had the experience to get lost in.
Here’s from my post today about the handy notes: I don’t care if Palin goes Guy Pearce from Memento–this is not an issue Gibbs wants to bring up .
Here comes my inflationarily-devalued 2-cents-worth. There’s a vast difference between usage of colloquialisms (Sarah), fumblemouth (the Misunderestimated Strategerist), and flat-friggin’ illiteracy (“Corpseman”). Face it, Obamites. A very long time ago, someone (Aesop?) came up with the story called “The Emperor Has No Clothes”. Well, we are now witnessing, up-close and between tele-prompter reflectors, a parallel situation. The Clothing Contains No Real Man. Much more recently, but within about the last 40 years or so, one of the Monty Pythons was in a skit where he portrayed Oscar Wilde. He said, and I quote, “The only thing worse than being witty, is NOT being witty.”
Where “W” did “witty” in a manner that often pissed people off, because they thought him a smartass, the ACORN-in-Chief can’t even claim witty.
The very sound of his arrogant voice gives me earmorrhoids, and I bet their treatment won’t be covered on his Health bureaucratic-enrollment-that-requires-more-government-employees-sitting-at-desks-shuffling-paperwork-that-will-have-a-detrimental-effect-on-your-Care Plan.
Of course the Obama supporters want the focus to be on notes on her hand…anything to distract from the reality that she is landing body blows with her criticisms of (to borrow from geddy’s uncle) the ACORN-in-Chief. She is not afraid of him or the Chicago gang, and that’s a beautiful thing. And about beauty, why does he look so bad after one year in office? Yes, it’s a tough job, one that he applied for, are *brilliance* and limitless self-regard not enough? I think we need to add a better make-up artist to the speech-making-machine. Heck, I’d be even willing to pledge some of my higher taxes to funding a “you know” and “uh” editor, along with the make-up artist.
The following is inspired by a quote from Thomas Paine: “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” You see, I honestly believe that there can be no argument that at their mildest, Obama’s Telaprompter’s calumnies still manage to work hand-in-glove with bitter blatherskites. And because of that belief, I’m going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I’m going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that he writes a lot of long statements that mean practically nothing. What’s sneaky is that Obama’s Telaprompter constructs those statements in such a way that it never occurs to his listeners to analyze them. Analysis would almost certainly indicate that slatternly and tasteless, Obama’s Telaprompter’s pronouncements resemble a dilapidated shed. Kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse, proving my claim that my only wonder is, Does Obama’s Telaprompter’s oversized ego demand that he call for a return to that which wasn’t particularly good in the first place? To ask that question another way, where are the people who are willing to stand up and acknowledge that he’s the type of person who would force square pegs into round holes if he got the chance? The most appealing theory has to do with the way that if he is going to worsen an already unstable situation, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, the quest to understand how he can be so xenophobic raises far more questions than it answers. And second, many people respond to his self-pitying jeremiads in much the same way that they respond to television dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything about them. That’s why I insist we restore our righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail over his oligophrenic coterie. Finally, no comments about Obama’s Telaprompter would be complete without mention of some of the utterly impetuous schemes that Obama’s Telaprompter supports. Although there are a plenitude of examples from which to choose, the most impetuous would have to be Obama’s Telaprompter’s proposal to publish blatantly rash rhetoric as “education” for children to learn in school. That’s the sort of thing that keeps me up at night. Regards, Merman
#59. D.P. “But Hey! I can see Russia from my house!” This is fun. Sarah Palin never said this: Tina Fey did, during one of her SNL skits where she impersonated Palin. But the impersonation is damning, isn’t it, because we all know she’s stupid: if she were smart, she’d have a Harvard Law degree she doesn’t use, and do something useful like be a Community Organizer. Instead she was a mayor.
As to who does better in a speech, and whether a teleprompter is better than a few notes, both have stumbled at times, both have done well at others. The striking difference is how the media has reacted. When Palin makes a gaffe, it’s front page headlines. When Obama announces that he’s campaigned in fifty-seven states, somebody lifts the corner of the rug, another wields the broom, and we don’t hear about it any more.
I have no doubt skeeziks or whoever will announce I’m biased or something, but really: did Sarah Palin say that she can’t speak to the locals in Vienna because she doesn’t speak Austrian? No, that too was Obama. Again, it made the news for a couple of days, but you’re still repeating Tina Fey’s line from more than a year ago. Yeah right.
Its the content of the speech, stupid!! Sarah is a gem! Unfortunately, Obamanation sounds like an old fashioned radio announcer, but without clear, precise, fair or honest messages! His speeches have been almost all filled with mendacity and a full half of them are filled with flip-flops for previous speeches. With Sara you get what she is, not a phoney word from her mouth. Go Sara!! Go Conservatives! Go Republicans! God bless America!
I’m OK with a president who reads from a teleprompter for important speeches.
What I’m not OK with is teleprompters at a press conference!
Many people here seem to have missed when President Obama answered questions from Republican congress people without notes or a teleprompter. I don’t think ex-govenor Palin would even think about doing that with Democratic legislators. For that matter, most Republicans would not attempt that.
Yes, because the Beauty Queen from Alaska who is a career politician is just so connected to the average person.
Oh, and isn’t it terrible having an educated president… I mean a Harvard degree? I am so glad out last President didn’t have one of those… oh wait.
Look, if people want to pretend that being ignorant is a virtue to feel better about themselves, that is their issue… but Sarah Palin with her political career and book deals is no more “common man” than either the last oil baron family President or the current President.
If you want to pretend your Ice Princess is one of the commoners, feel free to live in that fantasy… but making fun of people for having an education is just petty jealousy. I am not a fan of Obama, but the guy did pull himself up from some humble roots.
He wasn’t a beauty pageant princess.
“Oh, and isn’t it terrible having an educated president”
Allow me to retort:
–”Corpse-man”
–”57 States”
–”Austrians speaking Austrian”
–Seeing fallen heroes in one of his audiences
–Asthmatics using “breatalyzers”
–Decreasing our dependance on foreign oil through judicious use of tire guages
Yeah…him real smart. And yeah…that Harvard law degree sure did him a lot of good. How many cases did he argue? How many scholarly works did he write? Can we pretty please get a gander at his college transcripts? Because until we can see something that proves his intellect is superior, he’s just another Affirmative Action dumbass that got by on his race; cuz homeboy ain’t showing me (or apparently most of the rest of America) jack-squat in terms of intellect.
Oh, and as to Sarah’s supposed elite-ness, can you please elucidate? Being a beauty-queen contestant isn’t a sign of elite-ness inasmuch as it’s a sign of your misplaced, toffee-nosed derision. I used to date a beauty queen, and she came from a very common, middle-classed home.
Take your little-boy leftoid condecension somewhere else bub. You’re not impressing anyone here.
Ah, Zombie. Precious living national treasure.
He may have a degree, but he’s got no education. Or I could reword it this way. He’s educated beyond his intelligence.
Every time Obama does the look left and talk/look right and talk thing, I wonder: Does he not have anyone in his entourage willing to tell him it is not polite to talk during a tennis match?
The funny thing to me is that she crossed out “budget cuts” and wrote “tax cuts” instead. I’m trying to imagine the mental process that went into that decision. Budget cuts don’t play as well to the tea party crowd so that’s one explanation, but how is it that she didn’t know what she was going to talk about before she wrote it on her hand? If I was paid a hundred thousand dollars (as has been reported in the news) to give a speech, I would have prepared in advance.
I’m with #85. Amen, vanderleun.
Zombie that was some funny s***. I laughed my ass off when I saw Soros and Rahm in there.
What a freakshow we have in this administration. The whole damn thing is a big production, you nailed it!
America needs a leader, not a reader. ABO 2012.
Let’s get one thing STRAIGHT! Palin is NOT an ‘ELITIST’.
Case in point:
Scary Barry could [somehow] easily afford the legal fees to HIDE his real birth certificate and other pertinent information as to who he IS [funded by whom is still a big '?'].
On the other hand, once Palin was thrust into the spotlight after the 2008 campaign, she was fast becoming PERSONALLY bankrupted over B.S. lawsuits that were not just affecting her finances personally but also costing Alaska in a fiscally detrimental manner.
Hey, I’d just like someone who knows how to balance their personal bank account, has run a business or at least been involved in a business and knows their way around an actual JOB, is mature enough to not over-spend on their credit and act like a grown-up who is proud of their country amongst other grown-ups from other grown-ups.
Is that too friggin’ much to ask for?
If that is all they can find fault with, I’d say that Sarah is in excellent shape!! Actually, is a few crib notes something to make an issue of??? I think not.
If Ex-President G.W. Bush used a telepromter, I never knew it. I really like comments 90 and 91. I also like the roadside signs of Mr. G.W. Bush asking, “Do you miss me yet?” I love it.
@#76 Geddy’s Uncle: “Misunderestimated Strategerist”
As neologisms go, “misunderestimated” was not bad, and very apt in GWB’s case. “Strategerist” on the other hand was a bit awkward, especially in context. A mixed bag, kind of like GWB himself.
@#83 DP: “Beauty Queen from Alaska who is a career politician”
Having held two elective offices makes her a career politician?
“Book Deals”
ONE “book deal”, and that was in self-defense. It’s nice that she writes well, though perhaps less lyrically than “former” terrorist Bill Ayers (“Dreams from my Father”).
@#88 Paul: “she crossed out “budget cuts” and wrote “tax cuts” instead”
That bothered me also. It suggests inadequate concern for inflationary deficits (typical of many if not most politicians). Both the budget AND taxes are problems (related of course).
@#90 LeighB: “ABO 2012″
Who or what is “ABO”? (Besides American Board of Otolaryngology?)
“Who or what is “ABO”?”
Oh, never mind: “Anyone But Obama”.
Most of these posters are idiots. You do realize that even Ms. Palin used a teleprompter, as did McCain, and Bush, and Clinton, and Other bush, and even Reagen. The problem with Sarah Palin, is that this was a off the head Q&A session that she read those from. She should have been familiar with her talking points. Obama was able to stand in front of the GOP House member without speech notes or a prompter and was able to field every question they asked him. He killed them in that. So, before you go trying to compare apples and oranges here, learn to think a bit first, and for God’s sake quit repeating Fox’s talking points.
Dave, you got it, Anyone But Obama. (the other ABO is a very good group)
What’s funny about this is that he handed every Republican contender who faced him at the retreat his hat and a##, one after the other, with no teleprompter. You see what you want to see. Republicans are on record saying what a mistake it was to face him live where his natural debating and speaking skills would skewer them:
Tom Cole — former head of the NRCC, congressman from Oklahoma — said, “He scored many points. He did really well.” Barack Obama, for an hour and a half, was able to refute every single Republican talking point used against him on the major issues of the day. In essence, it was almost like a debate where he was front and center for the majority of it. … One Republican said to me, off the record, behind closed doors: “It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.”
Yeah, but look out for Sarah Palin and her Dr Seuss syntax. Idiots.
Stupid people like stupid people- News at 11.
Idiots want someone who can represent them.. they will never accept an intellectual superior, they will never admit they are complete idiots, and they will listen to people that tell them what they want to hear.
They will ignore any of their own shortcomings while loudly criticizing those same flaws in others.
In short, they are morons. Enjoy following beauty princesses selling you “folksy” charm and religious leaders manipulating you while doing meth off male hustlers. Some people would rather be victims and sheep than have to take responsibility for their own lives.
Yeah, cos Sarah Palin’s speeches aren’t televised.
It’s disturbing the criterion our ADHD society uses to judge intellegence. Tell me what’s more stupid: stumbling over a word now and again GW style or saying “The only way to reduce the deficit is by socializing medicine.”
I’ll take “misunderestimated” any day of the week (and twice on a Sunday) over an idiot who proposes a new government health care system based on a financially defunct existing government program, and sells it as a cost-cutting measure. Obama’s incorent babbling without TOTUS (we give him a . . . uh . . . uh . . . breathalyzer), corpse-man, and 57 states gaffes are petty, but what’s frightening is his fundamental misunderstanding of the simplest concepts of good government and common sense.
Maybe Obama’s the genius. He’s correctly assessed the American intelligence that laps up the stupidest things he (or Gibbs) says like a dog drinking antifreeze.
“Big announcement from Herman Cain today. He’s leaving the Tea Party and joining the T&A party.” –Jay Leno