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[bionicarm]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3225518
You tell me which is better, the one with a line for a speech written on the palm of her hand or the one that has to read verbatim from the teleprompter?
Come on reef. Every President since Reagan has used a teleprompter for major speeches. You're honestly going to say this wasn't a major faux pas on her part? Could you see her doing this when negotiating an arms treaty with Iran? "Well, there's really some interesting key points I wanted to remember about this treaty, so I wrote a few notes on the inside of my upper thigh. Care if I look? Wink, Wink."

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3225522
Come on reef. Every President since Reagan has used a teleprompter for major speeches. You're honestly going to say this wasn't a major faux pas on her part? Could you see her doing this when negotiating an arms treaty with Iran? "Well, there's really some interesting key points I wanted to remember about this treaty, so I wrote a few notes on the inside of my upper thigh. Care if I look? Wink, Wink."

With Obama listen to his unscripted stuff some times, he fumbles around just as much as W did.
As far as someone writing something on their hand at the last second, who cares? She gave a campaign speech where her own teleprompter failed right out of the gate and she still did well with it. Obama has had to prompt whoever ran his on a couple occasions. I remember hearing a story where Bill Clinton had the wrong speech loaded into the prompter and he was still able to pull it off. Most people only use them for quick references and don't read off them, the prompter operator actually takes ques from the speaker, not the reverse.

 

[srfisher17]

Dan Qualye isn't a great speller--neither am I. He was crucified by the press. Obama mis-pronounces "Corpsman" 3 times, while reading the teleprompter, and its ignored by most of the press. Typical and expected.

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3225522
Come on reef. Every President since Reagan has used a teleprompter for major speeches. You're honestly going to say this wasn't a major faux pas on her part? Could you see her doing this when negotiating an arms treaty with Iran? "Well, there's really some interesting key points I wanted to remember about this treaty, so I wrote a few notes on the inside of my upper thigh. Care if I look? Wink, Wink."

But not to school kids or in press conferences...

 

[uneverno]

Originally Posted by ironeagle2006
http:///forum/post/3224174
Uneverno...
No offense intended iron.
I was being sarcastic and it got lost in translation.
My point was that it's not the public figure that's the problem - the media is.

 

[oscardeuce]

Originally Posted by uneverno
http:///forum/post/3226128
No offense intended iron.
I was being sarcastic and it got lost in translation.
My point was that it's not the public figure that's the problem - the media is.
Very true, the press has not been "free" for at least 3 decades.