Must be because he’s so tired.
Now, what he says isn’t that embarassing, although facing the challenging challenges that we face to our face is not exactly eloquent. It’s more notable that he’s quite obviously lost, looking nervously around to the left and the right with a panicked expression on his face as he tries to find his footing again.
The man cannot make any kind of statement in public without his teleprompter (something I was able to carry off in my freshman year speech class, by the way, along with all of my other classmates). If he doesn’t use it, he looks like a buffoon and apparently, he even has trouble using the teleprompter now, too! Yet somehow he was able to get this reputation as a masterful public speaker. It’s just funny to me, because Obama’s speeches full of soaring rhetoric were the only thing that got him electd. If he loses that image, then he’ll lose any hope of staying in office in 2012. With the monstrous policies he’s forcing down our throats, he’ll need those pretty words. As his speaking ability dips, so will his approval ratings.
Hat Tip: Hot Air
One minor disagreement. His speeches weren’t the ONLY thing that got him elected. Unfortunately, we’re not allowed to mention the other major factor, so I’ll leave it at that.
Shannon in AZ says: He most likely doesn’t practice speeches anymore with the teleprompter so if there is a problem, he’d be more lost than usual. Just looking at realistic logistics. His crutch is gone, he can’t do much without it now. His idiocy for such dependency in the first place.
I’ll say it for you, Brian. Obama was elected because he is half Black. I actually thought racism was mostly gone until this last election cycle. His color was the reason so many stated for voting for him.
Racism and class warfare were the kingpins of this last election cycle. I’m disgusted that racism won and that the upper social class also won.
Daddy says: To be clear, his words were not as you state them. In fact, he said the following:
“they say that, uh, in the face of the challenges that we face..” which really isn’t that bad and does not signal to me that he was lost in Teleprompter land but that he was a speaker trying to get his words out as eloquently as possible.
One more note, it is ludicrous to say that “Racism Won”. Racism didn’t win guys – there a lot more caucasians (like 75%) in the US than any other color. He won because so many people, even (some right wing: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama) republicans were fed up with the lies, arrogance, and shortsightedness of the previous administration.
It’s not funny.
It’s never funny to see people in tangled situations.
And now that Barack Obama has had some difficulties reading the teleprompter (possibly due to stress or anxiety), you’re laughing your ass out. Think, people. Think.
Would you want to be in his position? Being laughed at while he’s doing his job honestly and got lost while reading a speech?
You’re just too harsh on him. That’s too bad.
jon says: Verbasity is no substitute for conciseness. Anyone can be a motor mouth. Motormouthing is not a positive attribute.
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