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After weeks of criticism for being so dependent upon his teleprompter, President Obama threw the Teleprompter of the United States (TOTUS) under the bus and braved last night's press conference without his trusty remote controller.
Obama still had a crutch, he read his opening statement from a massive TV monitor from the back of the room.
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In an Associated Press "analysis" piece, Ron Fournier, wrote that the giant "teleprompter" telegraphs Obama's caution:
What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?
A careful one.
President Barack Obama took no chances in his second prime-time news conference, reading a prepared statement in which he took both sides of the AIG bonus brouhaha and asked an anxious nation for its patience.
[. . .]
It was a carefully modulated statement, and Obama -- relying on a familiar crutch -- read it off a flat-screen monitor perched at the back of the East Room.
A careful one.
President Barack Obama took no chances in his second prime-time news conference, reading a prepared statement in which he took both sides of the AIG bonus brouhaha and asked an anxious nation for its patience.
[. . .]
It was a carefully modulated statement, and Obama -- relying on a familiar crutch -- read it off a flat-screen monitor perched at the back of the East Room.
I disagree. Obama's dependence upon TOTUS is based on fear rather than caution. When his remote controllers can't tell him what to say via TOTUS, things often do not go well.
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