TOTUS Trouble: Obama Struggles With Teleprompter at MIT

"We've faced threats to our security..."

October 23, 2009 at 1:28 pm - MSNBC
Dateline: Cambridge, MA
steve   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:32 pm

Thank goodness he’s not chewing gum as well.

Steve   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:36 pm

A gift to all of us from TOTUS at the expense of POTUS.

BJC   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:38 pm

That tele prompter is going down. Obama says so!!!

TyranyWillFail   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:38 pm

THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER every bank in America!!! WAKE UP @–> http://www.infowars.com

Will   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:39 pm

Harr harr harr ack ack ho ho ho .

Fool

medic4   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:39 pm

Nothing new here. Yawn!!!

CommonSense   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:41 pm

This guy is a little child. If it wasn’t so scary it would be very funny.
Any of you Liberals who still think this guy has the answers or ANY answers for that matter are simply insane.

FascismWillFail!   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:45 pm

THESE PEOPLE ARE INTENTIONALLY DESTROYING the DOLLAR!!! BY OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING!!! Wake-Up To Them!!!!!!!!! at http://www.infowars.com

SteveZ71   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:48 pm

What a bumbling idiot…just an empty suit! That is one video I don’t get tired of replaying! LOL

Desiree   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:53 pm

The teleprompters are leading the revolt.

Maximum Overdrive.

kmichaels   October 23rd, 2009 - 1:54 pm

When left to his own words, Obama comes across as rather stupid. Bill Ayers had to write his book for him. Speech writers give him his daily words. Without help he is simply a young inexperienced self-serving marxist.

Todd   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:02 pm

LOL

I hate when I don’t know anything about what my speech is about and the teleprompter has a glitch.
that’s why I Like to get the facts instead of a script, this is not Hollywood Mr. president you should already know your lines / the facts.

Dooley   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:03 pm

Palin had no trouble when her teleprompter malfunctioned at the GOP Convention.
She winged it and did fine.

Karen   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:04 pm

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doogle   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:05 pm

Wind me up,
Pull my string,
Put it on a teleprompter,
And I’ll say anything.

Snydlywhiplash   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:08 pm

CommonSense (isn’t very common)

“Any of you Liberals who still think this guy has the answers or ANY answers for that matter are simply insane.”

The Ultramaroon in Chief doesn’t even know the questions, unless they are placed before him on a screen!

Travis   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:08 pm

Like a puppet without his strings.

Karen   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:10 pm

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Fourier   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:11 pm

Mr. Obama,
A part of what we do at MIT, are proprietary technologies for the defense of the United States of America.
We here, know how uncomfortable it makes you to speak of the US in any positive light or even the notion of defending our great land.
So may we suggest you leave.

Fourier,
Boston MA.

shane2813   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:13 pm

EMPTY SUIT!!! Can’t figure out what to say without help from his handlers. Maybe you should refer to your Little Red Book. The ever shrinking president. How small will he get? MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same ask the empty suit.

father_moray   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:19 pm

“It will have a public option!”…and so will we…:)

BETTER TO: Reformat govt hard drive…Mega-cut bureaucracy and taxes…arrest the unconstitutional criminal czars and those marxist dogs that installed them. The Democrats will be purged. They are just simply bad for business. Never again will they lead. They have betrayed the citizens and the Constitutional. They should leave…now and save us the trouble of throwing them in Gitmo. I heard the Gitmo Formal Dining Room and Plaza will be renamed after Rahm ISchemeSoWell…

Jana   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:19 pm

How many want to bet that we will never see a sketch of Obama verbally bumbling in front of a teleprompter on Saturday Night Live any time soon?

Dont Tread On Me   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:24 pm

He’s so intelligent. So brilliant. Such an eloquent speaker. He doesn’t need the teleprompter. Not at all.

LOL! Obama makes me miss George Bush SOOOO much! GWB could do extemporaneous speeches, at least. He might mangle the language sometimes, but he wasn’t a puppet of the teleprompter.

Disappointed in CA   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:29 pm

Sarah Palin is so much more intelligent than Barack Obama.
She’s classier too.

Andy from Beaverton   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:37 pm

I’m melting! I’m melting! I’m melting! I’m melting!

Obama makes George Bush sound like one of the greatest speakers of all time. Doesn’t Obama read his speeches before he gives them? If he does, maybe that pot and coke from his childhood hurt his memory?

jason   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:40 pm

Is this how change looks?

http://cafepress.com/rightwingstuff

JF   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:46 pm

We’ve faced threats to our security…”
Yeah, you’re the biggest threat we got.

Obama Said:   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:47 pm

The Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is n…ot even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.

Liberals Are Parasites   October 23rd, 2009 - 2:48 pm

This clown hasn’t got a thought in his head without that damn teleprompter does he.

Deek   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:03 pm

There you go—proof this man know pretty much nothing he can’t read off his prompter

Good Alinsky and Wold Government articles at http://twilightfalling.blogspot.com

Puck 30   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:04 pm

This just in:

David Axelrod has just stated the teleprompter is a mouthpiece for Fox News. More on this breaking story on tonight’s ‘Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann’.

Forget gum, can this dope tie his own shoes? LOL!

myleftbrain   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:06 pm

It’s not really tleprompter, in so much that it has a perspective. We just hope real teleprompters, like yours, won’t follow this teleprompter. We’ll use this teleprompter again someday, but with the knowledge that it’s not really a teleprompter.

mick   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:08 pm

Houston, we have a problem!

Red Carolina   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:18 pm

Chicago Slime

mcx10   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:20 pm

TOTUS better watch it. It might be added to the enemies list

BK   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:27 pm

jason October 23rd, 2009 – 2:40 pm
Is this how change looks?

Nope Just more Dope & Strange

It must be quite embarrassing for the leader of the free world to be tethered to a machine in order to make sense of the words coming out of his own mouth…..I yi yi……..

Farse Frent Farry Fonds Fhatfhatfhat Fop   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:38 pm

Is this guy dumb or what?

Impeach the Chairman.

middleclass   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:38 pm

The look on his face…..priceless!!!!!

helen   October 23rd, 2009 - 3:41 pm

This many comments for a telepromter issue w tells me the IQ level in here and also of Breitbart is at a all time low .

Any topic of substance the SIMPLETONS in HERE are like DEER in HEADLIGHTS. but what do you expect these clowns did vote for Bush twice.

pepito cojones   October 23rd, 2009 - 4:02 pm

Is President Doofus still using these stupid things? Can’t he do a speech, JUST ONE FREAKING SPEECH, without a tele-prompter??? What an imbecile…

amused   October 23rd, 2009 - 4:06 pm

Fauxbama, the boy “president”. Nothing but a joke.

RL   October 23rd, 2009 - 4:10 pm

He has never had a real job. He has never run a business. He never served in the military. All he knows is what Val tells him to know and she grew up in the Chi-Town Thugocrecy. Of course Obama can’t give a speech. The people that groomed him for this only did because of the color of his skin. Now we know who the real rac3ists are.

Jana   October 23rd, 2009 - 4:20 pm

Just a natural disdain for a sitting president who has a obvious disdain for this country, and it’s constitution. I go to The Huffington Post and see a whole lot worst believe me, so your comment is a bit of pot calling kettle black helen.

NARCISSITATED, to OUR Detriment...   October 23rd, 2009 - 4:40 pm

This is what happens when parents and grandparents ‘NARCISSITATE” their mediocre offspring and make them think they are oh-so-SPECIAL!!!

NARCISSITATED...   October 23rd, 2009 - 4:41 pm

This is what happens when parents and grandparents ‘NARCISSITATE” their mediocre offspring and make them think they are oh-so-SPECIAL!!!

Jack Ryder   October 23rd, 2009 - 4:42 pm

“I cant read, I cant speak… I’m too busy mopping the floor… with this uhmm broom… I mean pom… I mean mop… sooooo just get in my way… duh.. out of your way.. duh…. Nancy and me… we busy sweeping the walls some one else painted…. er, duh… hope and rain, fired up, ready to mow !!!!! can ya hear me ?” IMBECILE !!!! IMBECILE !!!!!! MORON !!!!! DOPE !!!!!!!

Flyover Resident   October 23rd, 2009 - 5:43 pm

Tha,tha,tha,that’s all folks!

Claire   October 23rd, 2009 - 6:05 pm

Hey, O’bumbler, what was that you read off the teleprompter about the “other side” just doing what they’re told?

Hm? Hm? Hm?

melli50   October 23rd, 2009 - 6:11 pm

The man literally can not think without a teleprompter. We’re so screwed.

Poison Ivy League   October 23rd, 2009 - 6:16 pm

Helen,
Resorting to name-calling shows your intelligence. Baseless assumptions does not a scholar make. Why do you waste your superior brain perusing these websites? I’ll dumb down the question, “Why you apeepin’ at the purty magic screen what on yer ‘puter ‘cipherin’ them con-spir-rce whatnots, huh?” Keep your nose in the air like that and you’ll drown during the next rain.

Kornrow   October 23rd, 2009 - 6:21 pm

The pompter was working fine—but it retrieved English script instead of Bonobo–’wherein lies the rrrub’!

frankly   October 23rd, 2009 - 6:56 pm

Thank you TOTUS! Keep showing them who’s the real boss.

Lotus   October 23rd, 2009 - 7:04 pm

He’s a Borg…and resistance is futile.

Nattylite   October 23rd, 2009 - 7:15 pm

I really admire people who come here and name call and insult. Remarkably, Helen is proof of what a simpleton really is. The grade school grammar is most impressive. It should not be ‘the IQ level in here and also of Breitbart is at a all time low .’ It should be the IQ level in here and also of Breitbart is at ‘an’all time low. Probably should have stayed in school beyond the sixth grade.

if   October 23rd, 2009 - 7:44 pm

What a flamin jack arse!!

Pinnochiobama   October 23rd, 2009 - 7:52 pm

I AM a REAL BOY!
I AM A REAL BOY!

Neal   October 23rd, 2009 - 8:05 pm

Granny, Rev. Wright, Poland, the Czech Republic, Van Jones, and Greg Craig had better make room under that bus.

Twitterpated   October 23rd, 2009 - 8:10 pm

Q: What’s the difference between Obama’s cabinet and a penitentiary?

A: One’s full of tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society. The other is for prisoners.

-

Q: What’s the difference between a large pizza and the typical Obama backer?

A: The pizza can feed a family of four.

Liberals have asked us to give Obama time. Would…25 to life be appropriate??

mikeeha   October 23rd, 2009 - 8:22 pm

I think he just “wee weed” himself

this man has no soul   October 23rd, 2009 - 8:59 pm

he probably requires a teleprompter to say hi to michelle and the kids.

Dokken   October 23rd, 2009 - 9:18 pm

It really saddens me that our country has fallen this far – every day it’s another revelation about Obama or Biden or his Maoist cabinet members or his NAMBLA-supporting safe schools czar or some other horror coming out of this White House.
Can you imagine if Palin had done this? My God, it would be six months nonstop of the Liberal media replaying the video.

Terry   October 23rd, 2009 - 9:50 pm

Share in prosperity and crisis? One word – “bailout.” What a lying scumbag.

Red Carolina   October 23rd, 2009 - 10:02 pm

you know there is a simple way of working around this kind of thing — it’s called HUMILITY!! If he wasn’t such a pompous a**, and if he actually knew what the he** he was saying (and maybe didn’t make so many damned teleprompter speeches, cause nobody wants to hear him anymore), the entire world could forgive him for being less than perfect. HE is the one is a cocky “I won” jack a** and his slimy Chicago pals and the pathetic liberal media billed him as a god-like — HE’S ERKLE!! There should be a new reality show, Erkle Gets Elected.

Boardpecking   October 23rd, 2009 - 10:21 pm

Is it just me? Sometimes I don’t know what the heck Obama’s talking about.

Dave   October 23rd, 2009 - 11:12 pm

Barack Obama- Mastering the art of saying nothing perfectly.

Emudude   October 23rd, 2009 - 11:15 pm

Obama and Congress are purposely trying to kill the Dollar. They need to Kill the Dollar before December and the Copenhagen Climate Change Meeting. Then he will Sell Out the USA to the UN. Soros’ and Obama’s Crowning Achievement.

sevensteps   October 23rd, 2009 - 11:34 pm

So many lies about Obama, trouble is, most of them are true!

Questions you should be asking about health care? Read http://livingfortruth.wordpress.com/

BJC   October 24th, 2009 - 12:00 am

Please go to http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/56023 and view video. It is Congressman (D)Michigan,Rep Bart Stupak–He says he has 40 like minded Democrats that will join (R) to go against bill. Then go to http://www.gradegov.com and grade him and it will allow you to send a message to Stupak. We need to encourage him to follow through. Please everyone do this, it is very important.

Sweetpea   October 24th, 2009 - 12:58 am

LMAO!! That was priceless!

tkh   October 24th, 2009 - 2:02 am

And they say that late night comedians have nothing to make fun of? I think TOTUS works for Fox News.

james   October 24th, 2009 - 2:09 am

G. soros wound el presidente too tight. or the mancherian candidate might be a robot,and the batteries were shorting out?…jus sayin

james   October 24th, 2009 - 2:14 am

george soros might have wound up el presidente too tight. or the mancherian candidates batteries shorted out for a second….jus sayin

To Emudude   October 24th, 2009 - 2:33 am

Emudude wrote, “They need to Kill the Dollar before December and the Copenhagen Climate Change Meeting. Then he will Sell Out the USA to the UN. Soros’ and Obama’s Crowning Achievement.”

In WHAT WAY does selling out the USA “aid” or “benefit” Soros or Obama or anybody? IF USA ever “goes under,” so goes the rest of the world! Anyone who doubts that is insane.

saintpeeter   October 24th, 2009 - 10:36 am

Oh yeah, he’s so eloquent and brilliant…….

Lloyd Christmas   October 24th, 2009 - 11:43 am

Would you people leave our president alone!! He is the smartest man to ever lead our country…for those interconnective….our country…to seek…our country and to destroy and that…that seek…there are threats to our prosperity and you right wingers are the…that seek…and the…and you are the reason why! You prosperity seeking rednecks are the interconnective reasons why we are our country and that!!

Lloyd

Superpower   October 24th, 2009 - 12:43 pm

Yet another amazing display of Obama’s mad oratorical skills. Where did they find this genius?

Indy   October 24th, 2009 - 5:16 pm

Well Helen, maybe you should spend more time over at Hufpo, DU, or even the KOS. At least here there is factual evidence via video or the written word to support and formulate an opinion. Over at the trio what amounts to a political debate is a liberal calling a conservative a poopy head.With evidence that clearly supports most of the comments, all you have going for you is critiquing the chosen vocabulary. How unimpressive.

RedCarolina   October 24th, 2009 - 7:00 pm

i watched this speech — he spent the first 10 minutes name dropping and the next 10 minutes bragging that HE DONATED STIMULUS MONEY…….TO GREEN RESEARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then took a jab at “naysayers” on global warming. he’s a fraud – i don’t even think MIT fell for it

louis   October 24th, 2009 - 11:18 pm

http://citizen-pledge.blogspot.com

he must’ve had something heavy on his mind…..

duxx   October 25th, 2009 - 9:02 am

PBO “struggled” with TOTUS?

Who won?

Rufus Levin   October 25th, 2009 - 10:29 am

The teleprompter was sabbataged by Halliburton at the request of Bush, Cheney, Rove and company. Fox News is behind the whole thing. Ohhhhh. The sky is falling. Someone run and tell the Queen Pelosi.

This Congress and Phoney Man Child in the White House with his lil rascals family is the biggest most ridiculus circus that has ever existed in America. It is like a recurring set of Amos and Andy episodes. Emmanuel and Axelrod are play actors in whiteface makeup. Clean out this crappola and give us a government…anyone. Bush is looking better every day.

cs   October 25th, 2009 - 12:13 pm

Huh? The communication directress Anita Dunn did not provide him with a cheat sheet aside from TOTUS? Sigh! She really has to go!

His policy czars are pulling his strings. The more reason all of them should be ousted.

Marvin   October 25th, 2009 - 1:29 pm

He’s so smart, it just looks like he’s stupid to us ordinary folk. Why, we just can’t comprehend his level of intelligence. What looks like pure stupidity to us, is actually shear genius at work. Wow, I think I just peed myself.

looking closely   October 25th, 2009 - 9:24 pm

Being an MIT alum myself, I have to wonder if Obama got “hacked”.

Diane   October 26th, 2009 - 1:20 pm

That sounded like my cat when she pukes up a hairball!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm Not a President, but I Play One on TV   October 26th, 2009 - 3:17 pm

Hey, that’s “Nobel Laureate Teleprompter” to you, buddy.

Obama’s had much worse verbal stumbles than this, and quite a few. The media and the late night comedians seem oblivious to it.

I guess “Rahm the F-bomb” has them terrified of the racist label, or of having tehir access to the WHite House locked out. The Chicago Way, Baby!

WeAreNotStupid   October 27th, 2009 - 12:39 am

I can rub my tummy and my head at the same time

TIM   October 27th, 2009 - 11:02 am

VOTE 2010 to STOP this BABBLING SOCIALIST and his ANTI-AMERICAN agenda. A real LAME DUCK.

ctmom   November 1st, 2009 - 6:40 pm

Wow. He is so brilliant. No wonder Corzine wants him to campaign for him.

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