Somehow this seems appropriate:
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.
Well, who else should he have thanked? He is The One, after all.
And I agree with this:
Imagine if George W. Bush had such a crutch and pulled a monster gaffe like this. It would be played 24/7 on television until the end of time.
For some strange reason, the networks refuse to release video of this great moment in hilarity.
This reliance on his TelePrompter is just embarrassing.
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.
Who considers him a great orator other than his slobbering media sycophants? Any time the man has to utter more than two sentences off script he becomes The Wizard of Uhhhs.
We know that it would have been shown endlessly had it been George Bush.
I don’t think that’s what happened, and I don’t think Obama made a gaffe. The Irish PM read Obama’s speech, and caught himself after a just a bit. Obama stepped forward and made up what the PM should have said – the gag being that if you take my part, I’ll take your part. Obama was being witty (granting that tastes in humor vary). Although I’m not a fan of Fox News, on this story they give a fair and balanced account.
If I’m not wrong, this is just Obama-opponents being gaffe-hungry.
Note: I haven’t seen the original footage. I wouldn’t mind being shown that I’m wrong, but I’d like to see something conclusive, like the original footage.
Here’s Fox’s account, which seems to capture the humor of Obama’s move.
“www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/18/teleprompter-gone-bad-obama-thanks-irish-pm-repeats-speech/”
I’m reminded of a great Gary Larson cartoon. Couple of scientists standing by a one-way mirror, looking at a bunch of strange people wearing clown suits, pretending to be potted plants, wearing underwear on their head, whatever.
First scientist says to the second: Of course they’re fools, Jameson. But the interesting question is what kind of fools?
Its likely The One(tm) was joking when he started reading, or pretending to read, the PM’s speech. Not that this would have stopped the press if it were Bush.
How about Dan Quayle, who read “potatoe” off of a card:
Figueroa knew how to spell potato, and he wrote it in a legible script on the blackboard when Quayle announced his word for the spelling bee.
Quayle looked at the blackboard, then at his contest card, and gently and quietly told the boy, “You’re close, but you left a little something off. The “e” on the end.
So William, against his better judgment and trying to be polite, added an e’’ and won applause for it from those assembled in the classroom, including Mayor Doug Palmer, Quayle wrote.
The misspelling wasn’t mentioned until the end of the press conference afterward, when one reporter asked Quayle, “How do you spell potato?’’…
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Errr… ISTR that was “potatoes”, which is technically legal in either spelling.
If I uhhhh; pause after every uhhhhh; few words — uhhhh; it perhaps uh, makes me look and uhhhhh; — ,,, sound like I’m ;;–, uh;; thoughtful and ummmm, wise.
If it was a joke BY Obama and not ON obama, it would on a endless loop at CNN. The darth of replays tells me he screwed up.
I don’t think people who oppose his policies will get very far by trying to paint him as an idiot, since he clearly is not, and the media won’t run with that theme like they did with President Bush. And conservatives and Republicans shouldn’t be in a rush to imitate the tactics of Bush-Derangement-Syndrome folks in the first place. If President Obama is wrong on the issues, then that is where the battle should take place. If that seems unfair, that’s because it is; but that’s the way it’s going to be, at least until conservatives control more of the media and the popular culture.