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To: DMaA who wrote (296948)	3/18/2009 11:15:25 AM
From: DMaA	10 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793840

Obama In St Patrick's Day Teleprompt Blunder 12:26pm UK, Wednesday March 18, 2009 A teleprompt blunder has led to Barack Obama thanking himself in a speech at the White House in a St Patrick's Day celebration. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit too familiar. It was. He was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just read from the same teleprompter. Mr Cowen stopped, turned to the president and said: "That's your speech." A laughing Mr Obama returned to the podium to take over but it seems the script had finally been switched and the US president ended up thanking himself for inviting everyone to the party. Mr Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the "teleprompt president" over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech. news.sky.com

To: DMaA who wrote (296948)	3/19/2009 2:02:55 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	5 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793840

I notice Rush is pusing the meme. He never says Obama said. It's always Obama's teleprompter said. Rush's memes are usually apt at several levels, like Drive-by Media. He means both the initial insult and all the implications. Obama is a hollow figure. If it can be done by verbal deftness, he's brilliant at it. But if it requires decisive action and hard choices... Well, I haven't seen any. Have you? Does Obama seriously believe he can pursue everything he desires all at once, without tradeoffs and without running into a wall? By the midterms, the Republicans will look like models of fiscal propriety, just by contrast.