That was not the point the poster was taking you up on TradCat. You said Obama couldn't order lunch without a teleprompter, the poster responded by citing the Baltimore Q&A, the video to which is posted earlier in this thread. That video disproves you point in grand fashion. I don't understand this teleprompter thing because it is so self-evidently nonsense and for people to insist on using it just shows their limitations.

She really didn't. Have you watched the whole speech TradCat or have you just read the reviews of it? Because the reviews were good and I was sure it would be a decent speech. So I watched it. It is absolutely terrible, even on its own terms. Here it is:


Most striking of all: her tone. It is patronising and condescending beyond belief. That's when she's not using her sarcastic teenager voice, which is so grating it's painful. I tell you, it would take 5 minutes of a national campaign before this would turn voters off in their droves (which is exactly what happened on the campaign). It is also clear from the emphasises she puts on certain words and the flow of the speech that she really does not understand a word that she is saying.

Anyway, if you want to speak up for this moron, be my guest. Anyone that sees a future in her is so misguided it's not true.

That's exactly right. Apart from a few extreme religious issues, these are two capitalist parties, running a country that dominates world politics and runs its own affairs and the affairs of many other countries for the self-interest of America. Any differences are superficial.

A doctor writes about a patient , one among many:

Frankly I'm starting to think the US deserve what they've got. And Democrat politicians are a law onto themselves! No cohesion on display whatsoever and without cohesion the US is ungovernable.

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BTW I was at a medical conference a couple of weeks ago where the most prominent speaker was a US consultant describing the benefits and side effects of specific drugs for a particular purpose. Again and again he'd mention a drug - usually a recent enough breakthrough - and he'd say that he hasn't had an opportunity to see it in action as the insurers won't pay for it. That is not a position we have here. Ok we have to pay the first €120 a month for a family and that is very hard for those with permanent illness but after that we get what we need no questions asked as far as I can tell.

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American politics dropped about 50 IQ points overnight with the announcement by Sarah Palin that she's interested in 2012

Right her IQ would be nowhere near that of Joey the clown Biden.
Btw where are they hiden Biden I guess he is probably busy with
Al Gore inventing something spectacular like the internet.

. . . and she is still making a farce of everything.

Critics mock Palin's 'helping hand' at Tea Party speech

Sierra looks like you,ve made a farce of yourself
by posting a video that has already been posted
on this thread at least twice.

You are right. That is the current position.

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She didn't use her hand for her speech--she read it, like most people who are speaking for more than just a few minutes tend to do. Give up on the teleprompter. Most people in public life use them.

Instead, she used the hand notes for the Q&A, for the love of god. Which means she knew the Qs ahead of time, and she couldn't even trust herself to remember the basics. (Stephen Colbert the other night: "Note to self: buy milk, pick up dry cleaning, write core beliefs on hand.")

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When giving presentations we use slides and notes to ensure we get our point across. In fact for two decades now any professional who is not well prepared and rehearsed for a presentation lets himself/herself down big time in front of the audience who attend. A teleprompter is simply a tool to ensure the free flow of ideas and those who think otherwise have probably never been in the position of coherently presenting ideas and facts to a crowd. The Q and A demonstrated clearly that Obama has the intellect to thoroughly grasp a wide variety of governmental policies and the ability to make mincemeat of Republican memes. But then most of us already knew that lack of intelligence was never likely to be a problem for a man who was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year, and president of the journal in his second year and who graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude.

Now it wouldn't surprise me if some on here come back with that other republican meme on affirmative action - probably lifted straight from college dropout Limbaugh who doesn't appear to believe any black person can achieve anything without a significant helping hand. But that is simply not true and that is a fact that has been confirmed by Harvard college lecturers.

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