Obama, The Teleprompter

Reading professionally written lines from a Teleprompter screen with the proper emotion and speech inflections for the moment, I think they call that "acting" sir. The American Spectator picks up the line from here with ...

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According to several Democrat political consultants presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama spent part of his Hawaiian vacation working on weaning himself from a heavy dependence on teleprompters. Even in what are staged as "town hall" events for Obama, remarks are scripted or formatted into bullet points that scroll on teleprompter screens. Obama has had several embarrassing events where the teleprompter either malfunctioned or the screens were not fully visible.

"He just locks down and can't get the words out," says one political consultant. "For such a fine speaker, it's really quite remarkable that he's had issues."

Obama's troubles with unscripted moments contributed to his campaign's refusal to participate in town hall format debates or discussions with Sen. John McCain, who feels much more comfortable in the unscripted moments.

I wonder, can he have a Teleprompter brought in whenever he needs to answer questions with Putin? Who writes the answers on the screen? I doubt the Bear will allow it in the room, what do you think.