What would Obama have done if his teleprompter was down?

Question

Sarah Palin's was, and wasn't she still brilliant winging her speech? What think you?

http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/3/3/sarah_palin_winged_her_speech_because_of_broken_teleprompter/

Answer 1

Oh please...teleprompters? Is this important?  But if you're going to throw that out there be sure to include the part where she still had a text Version of the speech under her nose and she simply read off that until the TP caught up.  She "winged" nothing.  

Answer 2

I don't think that is true. I was watching on CNN and you could see the words on the teleprompter from one of their points of view throughout the speech. It did seem at times that the speech would continue to scroll while the crowd was cheering but the prompter never went out entirely. If the prompter went out on Obama he would have just pulled out the speech that he wrote himself.

Answer 3

"uhh uhh uhh... we need change... uhh uhh uhh... they are just ignorant...uhh uhh uhh..."  I can't WAIT to see Obama's debate!  Obama's gonig to look like a Jerry Springer audience member.  

Answer 4

He probably would have pulled an Ashley Simpson, and danced off the stage.  

Answer 5

He passed the bar, he was a professor, whats the big deal they talk all the time, and without a prompter at all.

Palin was fine, but not brilliant, and I'm sure she knew her speech, the woman isn't stupid, but neither is Obama.

This expectations game is silly, no one gets to be at that level by being bad at communications, which Palen majored in at college.

Except maybe Bush, I never could figure that one out.

Answer 6

I dunno...But hopefully he wouldn't resort to jokes about pitbulls and lipstick while people die in Iraq

Answer 7

it reminds me of the snl skit when will ferrel was playing a news castor and the tele went down and he ate the weather man....funny!!

Answer 8

Was that why she was so terrible? Obama is at least intelligent enough to deliver a great speech.

Answer 9

I didn't even know that happened during her speech, I'm impressed.

Answer 10

we don't have to wonder.

(paraphrasing)

"ah, um, ah, i think, un , that, um, there are others, um, that is above my paygrade."

Answer 11

"Uummmm, uh . . . Well . . .uummm . . . "

Answer 12

Haven't we seen how poorly Obama performs without a teleprompter?

Thought so.

Answer 13

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…

Answer 14

lol i gotta love the first answer from that idoit. BIG THUMBS DOWN.

she did awesome and all obama would have left the crowd with is a lot of uuhhmmm, eeerrrrr, eeeehhhhh, my teleprompter is down i dont know what to say.  

Answer 15

For your information, Obama wrote his own speech.  So teleprompter or no teleprompter he would still be able to speak from his heart; unlike Palin, who somehow reminds me of one of the pod people.

Answer 16

Right, they clearly showed her teleprompter.

Obama can hold on his own, he always does.

Palin would continue to bash Obama to try to conceal the fact no one knows who she is.

Answer 17

she was horrible you see her reading straight off it she is a mess mccain is the same way lol you would never know obama have one.oh the fact she had her card in plain view was tacky

Answer 18

Teleprompters are only for very old men who cannot memorize their speeches.

Answer 19

hmmm they kept showing her teleprompter and it seemed to be working just fine and had all the lines she was saying.

more lies by the GOP.

Answer 20

I love her to pieces. Obama would have done what he always does with no teleprompter, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh,.

Answer 21

"uhhhhhhh ummmmm"  

Answer 22

OMG, he would be stuttering like the babbling fool he is....He would have gone into melt down mode.

Answer 23

Over 37 million people watched Palin last night, and she gave a brillant speech that everyone can connect too. If obama was without his teleprompter, or it was broken, it would be all the Uh OH, stutter, stutter, stutter. If he stopped telling lies he might do better.

Answer 24

Hehehe

I guess, it was brillant if  - you go for that kind of sarcastic approach to the leading the nation.

But, let me get this straight, are you saying Sarah Palinis an excellent choice for Second in Command because she can speak well?????  You are a riot.

Even conservative Ben Stein finds McCain choice for VP "Shockingly Unprepared to Lead"

Follow the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OevzQ9XGd...

Answer 25

He would have stuttered and stammered his way through and said nothing.

Wait.

He does that WITH a teleprompter.

Veteran news anchors are astonished at how well she did with a teleprompter that was blacking out the top 2 lines. They say it's just about the worst thing that can happen...

Answer 26

i have to disagree, i went to his rally in NJ at the meadowlands, and there was NO teleprompter. so he would have held his own since he wrote his own speech.

Answer 27

You didnt see the Que cards on the podium. Everyone has a backup plan.

Answer 28

Not true.  The teleprompter worked fine.  The excuse was dreamed up by the McCain camp, to explain why Palin sounded so dopey.

Answer 29

Hmmm probaly what any other politician would do, keep telling us what we want to hear while avoiding the truth as much as they can

Answer 30

who cares.

doesn't' matter if they are holding a piece of freaking paper or footnotes cards.......just get to the d**n point which NEITHER party can seem to do.

Answer 31

~~~She was incredibly brilliant~~~~ Obama, under the same circumstances would have ahh -ed his way out!