![]() “You didn’t see the teleprompter?” Romney replied. Businessman Herman Cain joked last week that he threw the teleprompter off his campaign bus to “get rid of some dead weight.” And when Mitt Romney wrapped up a town hall meeting in Florida this month, a woman approached him and observed: “You did all of this without a teleprompter. Michele Bachmann says she will never use a teleprompter and often proclaims that if she makes it to the White House, she’ll ban them. But this year, the Republican hopefuls are generally just winging it. Since its invention a halfcentury ago, the teleprompter has been used by presidents and presidential candidates, Republicans and Democrats alike, seeking precision and accuracy in their speeches. It’s a sign that you have handlers behind you telling you what to say.” It’s a sign that you can’t speak on your own two feet. “It’s a negative because it’s a sign of inauthenticity. “If you use it now, you’re like Obama,” Davis said. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in his 2008 presidential run and, until this summer, Republican candidate and former ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. “Obama ruined the teleprompter for the rest of the politicians,” said Fred Davis, a media strategist who advised Sen. If Obama can’t give a two-minute speech without a screen telling him what to say, the critique goes, it’s a sign that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and can’t be trusted to do his job. Picking up on a theme that has been rippling through GOP circles for two years, Republican presidential candidates are trying to use President Obama’s reliance on teleprompters to deflate one of his biggest strengths - his oratorical skill. So why, on the campaign trail, has the teleprompter instead become a symbol of ineptitude, mocked repeatedly by Republican candidates? Anyway, in a landscape tending more and more toward totalitarian gray, Tele adds a welcome splash of color.It’s one of the very symbols of the presidency - the ultimate accessory to the ultimate bully pulpit, seemingly trumpeting to all that the words being uttered actually matter. It's the best thing to come along since Fake Steve of "Steve Jobs' Secret Diary" (in fact, has Fake Steve reincarnated as TOTUS?). There is an hilarious new blog, "Barack Obama's Teleprompter's Blog" - "Reflections from the hard drive of the machine that enables the voice of the leader of the free world". ***RE: TOTUS Satire has come, at last, to Obamaland. ![]() Now that I think about it, perhaps they are candidates for Separated at Birth. They are also both equal opportunity eviscerators: men and women, Democrats and Republicans, all varieties have experienced Noonan and Dowd knife jobs. Noonan is every bit as vicious and cruel as la Dowd - ask Hillary or Sarah Palin. Both Nooners and Mo Do are mindless and loopy, but they are also both nasty. She's as insubstantial as Peggy Noonan, only Dowd is venomous where Noonan is merely twee." You're half right. So, in other words, Constitution, what Constitution?ģ/18/09, Balfegor: "This much, I can at least agree with. Blaisdell, which pretty much said states can interfer with the rights of contracts if (we think that) they have a good reason. No one mentioned the contracts clause, but I've seen it come up on other sites- it only applies to states per the language of the Constitution (I doubt the founders ever expected the feds to have enough power that they would even be considering this sort of thing- their mistake), and the Supreme Court effectively wrote it out during the Great Depression in Home Buiding & Loan Assoc. As for ex post facto, the court has held that this constitutional prohibition doesn't apply to regulatory or administrative laws, so there's another out for Congress. Regarding Bills of Attainder: Probably not- these refer to a legislative act declaring one guilty of a crime or punishing without trial- while the government wants us all to treat these folks as criminal, they aren't directly pursuing criminal charges, so it wouldn't fly.
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