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I'm not sure I would rip on someone that uses a few crib notes on her hand, when you have the Leader of the Free World using a teleprompter to deliver a speech to 6th graders.. This definitely does not instill confidence.
A quote from the article linked above: "JammieWearing Fool, one of the blogs that helped spread the misleading picture, grudgingly acknowledged in an update that Obama used the teleprompter to speak to reporters, not kids"
Tellingly, there is no actual response about Sarah Palin from her fans.
Gus, Orville Hodge to you too! Cohen dropped, as he should have, but Gus, Scott Lee Cohen is your Jack Ryan, Rod Blagojevich is your Dan Rostenkowski, Dan Walker is your George Ryan, Paul Powell is your Orville Hodge...
Blagojevich versus Palin, still playing out, not sure who wins that contest.
And can anyone ever respond to or defend Palin without invoking a red herring? Does every defense start with "But Obama did..."
Paul P. Wasn't he the guy that dropped dead and they found a closet full of $ in his office. LOL. Actually its nothing to laugh at- I think that was the 60's. Here it is the next century and Illinois just refuses to clean up its act.
Powell, who in his lifetime never earned more than $30,000 a year, left an estate worth more than $2 million—$800,000 of it in bills packed into shoe boxes, briefcases and strongboxes in the closet of his hotel suite in Springfield.
I don't know who said it here the other day, but "only in Illinois." (should be the state motto)
Although there was an bunch of 6th-graders in the room when the President spoke, there were cameras in the room that carried the speech to any adult most anywhere in the world who chose to tune in.
If you want to hear the President ad-lib, watch his recent Q&A with the GOP.
I thought citizen Palin's notes-in-the hand (if real... it looked Photoshopped to me, like Bush's upside-down book)... I thought it was wink-wink adorable and very much in keeping with her charming and disarming village idiot persona.
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As for the teleprompter issue....I was under the impression that all figureheads delivered speeches that are written by other people and they're all prompted SOMEhow (i.e. teleprompter, cue cards, etc.).
Because of this, I'm not inclined to rip on Palin for using her hand (though I do find it amusing and don't support her politically at all). These people are just that....figureheads. It's not their beliefs or platforms that they're talking about, it's that of others. They just do the talking because they're more charismatic and believable than the people who really have the ideas and thoughts. Figureheads....look it up.
That Powell thing IS highly entertaining, though.
Should I give up, or should I just keep chasing pavements....even if it leads nowhere - Adele
What's with these "cash-hoarding" former secretaries of state? Democrat or Republican, they both seem to love shoe boxes, briefcases and bags full of greenbacks. It came out in George Ryan's trial that our former governor never even had a checking account. Cash only, please.
I guess these guys think that's "smart" - no paper trail to follow. Let's call it The Powell Method.
Here's what is true. Obama did bring teleprompters along for his Jan. 19 visit to Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va. They were set up in a classroom where the president made a statement to reporters about expanding his Race to the Top program to improve schools. That happened after he chatted with the sixth-graders in a separate classroom -- with no teleprompters.
There's even a picture of President Obama and Arne Duncan with the students and no teleprompters. I understand that a picture is worth a thousand words and I agree that the picture doesn't look good, but that doesn't mean that the accompanying words in an article should be ignored because a picture looks a certain way.
Originally posted by Scribbler: ...the use of that word as an insult or pejorative is offensive - not satirical.
PRECISELY. But Sarah Palin says otherwise, she thinks it is SATIRICAL. Did you watch the whole clip? Palin has been calling for White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to resign for calling liberal activists "f---ing retarded." When asked by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, why it is OK to for Rush Limbaugh to say "Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards," Palin replied, "He was satirical in that...Rush Limbaugh was using satire."
The skit was not making fun of the "R" word, it was making fun of Palin. Here you have a mother of a special needs child, and her appalling hypocrisy for saying on national TV that the use of the word can sometimes be 'satirical.' THAT, is pathetic. Sarah Palin's appalling hypocrisy on `The R-word'
That billboard was located one exit north of where we used to live when we lived in Minnesota. The CNN story says it was north of Minneapolis, but it's actually about 20 miles north of St. Paul. Biggest business in the area by far is Hallberg Marine, a huge boat dealership.
That fact and fifty cents will get me half a dollar anywhere in the Free World.
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