TOTUS strikes again..... (parties, county, state, supporter)
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There are currently at least two threads on here spreading a lie (that is apparently spreading through the right wing blogosphere faster than lightning) that President Obama used a teleprompter to talk to 6th graders.
They show this picture and caption:
[***] It amazes me how quickly these lies become "truth" to some people. I remember one of my co-workers coming into the office proclaiming that Obama wanted to outlaw backyard gardens. I asked her about it, and she said she read it on the Internet, but called Jim Demint's office (I live in South Carolina), who confirmed it as truth. Of course, that was another lie. The 1st President to have a vegetable garden in HIS backyard at the White House had no intention of "outlawing backyard gardens."
I have serious doubts about our ability as a nation to even have a proper discussion about politics when so much of the conversation is based on lies and horrible misrepresentations. I'm sure it's gone both ways. I'm sure someone can point to some lie or exaggeration that was spread about President Bush. My point is, I guess, don't believe every stupid thing you see on the Internet.
Oh boy, stick around. Read old archived threads. This forum is a dumping ground for right wing blogosphere lies, fears and hate. You'll laugh you'll cry, and your serious doubts will only become an admission of a grim reality.
Bush was in the middle of reading when he got the news. He read for a couple of mnutes more, as to not alarm the children (the leftist love alarming children) and then he got up.
The left can try to make a story out of this but it is ONLY the left that swallows it. Nothing you try is going to help hussein obama from looking like a joke.
More than a couple minutes. Watch the real time video. It is available on YouTube. I believe is was something like seven plus minutes.
Bush didn't want to alarm the children and chose to risk american lives instead! Great presidential priorities!
Well, we can start with the folks at the Weekly Standard:
"The only reason I bring this barely relevant history up is to show what a stud of a law student Barack Obama was. He graduated Harvard magna *** laude. This was one honor you unquestionably had to earn. It's a very impressive feat. Back in Obama's days at Harvard, more than 50 percent of the class graduated *** laude, a fact that made graduating "with honors" a meaningless accomplishment. But graduating magna was a different kettle of fish. Barack Obama graduated right near the top of his law school class."
More than a couple minutes. Watch the real time video. It is available on YouTube. I believe is was something like seven plus minutes.
Bush didn't want to alarm the children and chose to risk american lives instead! Great presidential priorities!
Risk american lives how? Would any less americans have died on 9/11 during those 7 minutes if Bush ran out of the room like a chicken with his head cut off? What purpose would that have served, really?
How did 7 minutes make ANY difference? Please tell me how. Could he himself have stopped any of the attacks in those 7 minutes? Do you give him (or any president) that much credit or power that they are able to single-handedly shoot down terrorists out of the skies with bolts of lightening shooting out of their fingertips?
Please, that is an old partisan joke to say that those 7 minutes would have made any difference.
I wonder why we have to rely on assumptions and Obamas handlers wouldn't release the actual transcripts?
Yes indeed this is how lies spread.
Accuse me of hijacking if you will (and you probably will), but have we seen Sarah Palin's transcripts? I'd like to see all five of them. Has anyone clamored for Biden's? What about McCain's? I know on Wikipedia it says McC graduated near the bottom of his class, but have we seen the transcripts? Provide links if so. Some of the RW rants on about the constitution, but nowhere in the constitution does it say a president must release his/her transcripts.
I'll bet Dan Quayle wishes he had had a teleprompter when he appeared before a grade school class and misspelled potato. It could have changed the course of history.
uhmm
the school provided him with the material
Dan Quayle's 'Potatoe' Incident – 1992
A minor slip-up by Vice President Dan Quayle hatched a frenzy and a long-running joke. Quayle led a spelling bee for sixth-grade students while visiting an elementary school in New Jersey in 1992. Working from an inaccurate flash card prepared by a teacher, he corrected William Figueroa, 12, when the child spelled "potato" on the blackboard – making the boy add an unnecessary "e" at the word's end.
Quayle would never hear the end of it. The media assault for this goof was truly relentless. The young Figueroa crystallized the effects of this incident on Quayle's public image when he said that it "showed that the rumors about the vice president are true – that he's an idiot."
not much worse that the current POTUS saying 57 states, or the previous POTUS not being able to pronounce nuclear
This just goes to show that the worst thing Obama haters can say about him is "teleprompter". If using a teleprompter is the worst thing Obama does, then we're in great shape.
This just goes to show that the worst thing Obama haters can say about him is "teleprompter". If using a teleprompter is the worst thing Obama does, then we're in great shape.
Keep dreaming, that's probably his best accomplishment in office thus far. He has mastered the art of teleprompter usage.
Keep dreaming, that's probably his best accomplishment in office thus far. He has mastered the art of teleprompter usage.
Yay! Way to go Barry! *claps hands*
Well if he mastered it, then what's the problem? Why would it be an issue??? I guess when little girls are sitting around in their little frilly dresses at their tea parties they just need to come up with something to gossip about, so it's the teleprompter, even though President Obama has mastered the use of the teleprompter so it's not a real issue.
You know they're desperate when "teleprompter" is their biggest argument and whining point.
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You know they're desperate when "teleprompter" is their biggest argument and whining point.
