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Frank Booth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:36 AM Original message |
Anyone else think that hidden within the teleprompter criticism is an implication |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Obama is careful .... |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 06:30 AM Response to Reply #1 |
21. He's not reading from a TelePrompTer when he answers questions and is interviewed on 60 Minutes. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yup. Its all so damn subtle but its right there all the time. |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
3. Because they don't have anything else to get their underoos in a wad AND |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
4. No, you think? |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
5. I suspect there are some racial overtones. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. i suspect you are right |
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Puzzler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Agreed... but the implication is that he can't... |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
7. This TelePromp crit is proof them Pubs are fucked....this is all they got? A Fucking Prompter? OMG |
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empyreanisles (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. Its both tthat and a knock at his perceived strength - Intelligence |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 06:25 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. There IS something wrong with implying his degrees were due to affirmative action |
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empyreanisles (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 06:43 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. RE: Unless all you meant is "there's nothing wrong with affirmative action." |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
9. Let's ponder the irony of cable newsreaders commenting on the 'issue' |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. DUzy |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
10. Sure, but how funny is that when Obama probably has an IQ of 170 while Dubya had 80 on a good day nt |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
12. No. They are idiots who can't wrap their mind around a person |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:35 AM Response to Original message |
14. That might have been true except for the fact that he does even better answering questions without |
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nilram (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
15. Obama is being controlled by others who write his words for him |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
16. Without a doubt |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
17. When Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address he read it from notes on paper. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 05:53 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. He Read It From Notes He Himself Had Written. But The "Teleprompter" Criticism Is Bogus |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 09:30 AM Response to Reply #18 |
34. Yes, I knew he wrote it all by himself on the his way there. |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 06:04 AM Response to Original message |
19. shallow thinking skills ... |
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pot luck (326 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 11:30 AM Response to Reply #19 |
37. Wow. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
23. Absolutely. |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
24. It just burns their asses to know how much smarter this guy is than |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
25. Yup...and it's sickening. My husband said that last night, and he's |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
26. Every skilled African American writer or orator from Phyllis Wheatley on down |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 09:01 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Nice historical perspective! |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
27. Nah, they're just grasping at straws. |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
28. The media are just too stupid to realize that during the days before television |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 08:57 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. No, the M$M is far from stupid. They are being ordered to push this meme, but it won't stick |
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FailureToCommunicate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
30. They mock his intelligence because he's blond! Yup, Harvard Law Review |
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NorthCarolina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
32. It's more basic than that I think. The public sentiment is that Obama is a gifted speaker |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. You make some great points. |
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NorthCarolina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:17 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. The key to their powers of persuasion is repetition |
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Rashel (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
33. Yes. In their little minds he's a Nego, he can't be smart. They'll have to suck it up |
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benld74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
36. AT LEAST HE CAN READ, and not My Pet Goat |
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