Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Hand Jive
Umm, I'm having a little trouble figuring out why Palin is considered silly for scribbling a few notes on her hand to jog her memory, when the Preshizzle apparently can't stitch two words together in a crowded room without a teleprompter. Besides, it's all pretty hypocritical; we know what Obama does when the teleprompter's not working...
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The question is, why'd she have to write on her hand and surreptitiously glance at it like a test-taking 4th grader trying not to get caught by the teacher? It's damn embarrassing. She should have used an index card if she needed to refer back to her main points. Even a teleprompter (gasp!) would've been more dignified.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, let me ask how many teleprompters Obama used when he verbally destroyed the House Republicans on their own turf? That was all off the cuff, and he straight up handed them their asses. Even Fox had to cut away early because of the bloodletting.
I give the general run of congressmen no credit whatsoever for mental dexterity in debate, which means that Obama had only to meet a rather low threshold to begin with. And did he "verbally destroy" them? Not having witnessed the conversation, I can't say, but wouldn't be surprised, since the twin health care bills contain so much that is vague and slippery that one could make almost any point without fear of being definitively contradicted.
ReplyDeleteIf it was that bad why didn't he call for a corpse-man or two, if only to handle the blood?
ReplyDeleteKeep on reaching, Kinbote. Eventually your irrational hatred will burn itself out.
ReplyDeleteHmm, upon reflection.
ReplyDeleteProbably should have made that "corpseman" before someone thinks I can't spell "corps".
BarryO Blather hasn't uttered an "off the cuff" remark in decades. Lifelong community activists/ politicians (Jesse Jackson & John Kerry come to mind) don't do anything off script. Catch their REAL ideas on an open mike & see what off the cuff will really get you.
ReplyDeleteAs I say, I didn't watch the meeting with the House Republicans, but I did see that even the liberal news media didn't say anything but that the meeting was "tense but civil"; nothing to suggest that the President "verbally destroyed" them, or even came close. I've also read some of Obama's comments from the meeting, and they strike me as being, for the most part, pure demagoguery. He came to the meeting to score brownie points with his base, and I'm sure he did just fine, in that respect.
ReplyDeleteNo politician who intends to make an effective speech does so without reminders of some kind. The last thing any public speaker wants is to forget a point he or she wanted to make, and to freeze up before the audience. Frankly, if Palin had used note cards instead of writing on her palm, the press still would have vilified her as being too dumb to speak without notes... completely forgetting how pathetically dependent Obama is on teleprompters.
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