Obama uses teleprompters during a speech to 6th graders. Seriously. We all know that Obama’s extreme dependence on teleprompters has been the source of many jokes and a great deal of concern for the American people who are on this roller-coaster ride that he’s taking us all on. Still, did he REALLY need two teleprompters to read a five-minute speech to a bunch of 6-graders? Apparently, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. No wonder it costs so much every time he steps out in the public.
As can be seen in the video below and in this and many other photos, the President read his brief few words to about 30 6th grade students at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia. Apparently, this is part of his attempt to be more ‘popularist’ and part of his latest campaign mission to relate to the common people of America. He and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan bored spoke to the students about the President’s multi-billion dollar ‘Race to the Top’ program that is intended to provide incentives for students to succeed in education.
Apparently, he needed his two teleprompters to make his comments to the students.
As with most things, when there is an on-going joke about Obama and his teleprompter, there is more truth than fiction to the joke. Remember when he set up teleprompters at the State Fair in Iowa during the campaign. Embarrassing. Lucky for him, the main stream media neglected to give the down-low on his teleprompter dependence during the election or people might have thought a little differently of him. As it is, few people know unless they pay close attention.
So much for his great oratory skills. He just read really well.
You can watch Obama using teleprompters during a speech to 6th graders in the video below.
Obama Uses Teleprompters During Speech To 6th Graders (Video)
January 24th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
This idiot is in a classroom with microphones, a podium, and a teleprompter? He just can’t get over himself, can he?
January 24th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Oh Good Grief! Of all the idiotic things this man has done, this takes the cake!
January 24th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Isn’t that just embarrassing!!! Can’t he speak off the cuff AT ALL without all the ummm … ahh…. uhhh… ?
OMG – it’s terrible!
January 24th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
beth you know as well as me, that if he just spoke off the cuff you all would be complaining about that too. you guys are suffering wounded narcissim that he got voted into the white house. its really that simple. there is nothing he can do to ever gain acceptance from your lot. he knows it. I know it. and why don’t you just admit it. your whole goal is to ruin his, and our presidency. pure arrogance, and not on his part, as we the people elected him, not you or your guy for a change. but you refuse to accept his election.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:44 am
“as we the people elected him …”
we are the people too brian …
and … um … hold on i have to wait for the teleprompter …
oh yeah …
we think he is an idiot for using a teleprompter for 6 year olds
January 25th, 2010 at 4:33 am
Just in case he had to spell potato!!!
January 25th, 2010 at 4:37 am
“there is nothing he can do to ever gain acceptance from your lot.”
And there’s nothing he does that recieves condemnation from yours.
Which is scarier?
January 25th, 2010 at 5:56 am
This “Race to the Top” is actually a race to the “Progressive” agenda; rewriting the history text books, a One World Government agenda, the Global Warming Save the Planet propoganda, the FDR, Carter, Clinton, Obama=Good while Reagan and Bush=Bad, Founding Fathers were White racists, Islam is a “Religion of Peace” but Judaism and Christianity has a history of war and oppression and intolerance, blah, blah, blah. The Dem/Obama education agenda is the reason every parent should enroll their children in private schools.
January 25th, 2010 at 7:02 am
yours is much scarier, obviously.
January 25th, 2010 at 8:07 am
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January 25th, 2010 at 8:48 am
We were at Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, FL on 9/11/01 when President GW Bush spoke to the USA about the al Qaeda attack of that day.
He did not use teleprompters.
His speech was effective.
We sat about ten feet from President Bush.
January 25th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Why is he taking up valuable class time? We have wasted a whole year listening to his drivel on health care. Mr Obama stay out our schools, your wasting their time
January 25th, 2010 at 10:50 am
As usual, this information is FALSE. The people the President is talking to are not sixth graders – they are REPORTERS. Once again, you are spouting propaganda! Once again, people are falling for it – hook, line and sinker! There is a black man in the white house! OMG! Let’s just spread lies! Let’s just make him fail! Who cares that this country would be better off if his policies succeeded…there’s a black man in the white house! He has to fail! WTF! What’s wrong with you people? THIS STORY IS FALSE! Grow up!
January 25th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Then listen to the actual content of the speech.
He states in one big huge run-on sentence (a no-no for sixth graders if I remember correctly), starting at 1 minute, 28 seconds:
“I’m announcing our intention to make a major new investment, more than one-point-three billion dollars, in this year’s budget to continue the “race to the top” and this support will not only reaffirm our commitment to states engaged in serious reform, it will also expand the “race to the top” competition to include local school districts that are also committed to change; so innovative districts like the one in Texas whose reform efforts are being stymied by state decision makers will soon have the chance to earn funding to help them pursue those reforms”
Prompter notwithstanding, he’s a windbag.
January 25th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Flyingmonkey in post #7:
“And there’s nothing he does that receives condemnation from yours.”
Very well said, ^5!
January 25th, 2010 at 11:13 am
“As usual, this information is FALSE. The people the President is talking to are not sixth graders – they are REPORTERS.”
So I heard was the official explanation from the White House where the truth is hard to come by.
KB, have you asked yourself why Obama was giving a press conference in a sixth grade classroom? With a podium, microphones, teleprompters, etc…
And please drop the racist angle. It’s getting old and it’s just not working any more.
January 25th, 2010 at 11:21 am
You gotta admit, even a 5 minute speech to reporters requiring a teleprompter is pretty ridiculous.
January 25th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Just another lie:
http://www.sphere.com/the-point/article/what-the-obama-school-teleprompter-photos-really-show/19330300?icid=main|main|dl1|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fthe-point%2Farticle%2Fwhat-the-obama-school-teleprompter-photos-really-show%2F19330300
January 25th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Still, isn’t it a bit deceptive to have “Obama Uses Teleprompters During Speech To 6th Graders (Video)” instead of: “Obama Uses Teleprompters During Press Conference.” I guess that is the nature of propaganda…just “get it out there” whether true or not!
January 25th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
“Still, isn’t it a bit deceptive to have “Obama Uses Teleprompters During Speech To 6th Graders (Video)” instead of: “Obama Uses Teleprompters During Press Conference.”
I agree it is Steve. We should be above propaganda. But he still needs to lose the teleprompter.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
However Steve, as I’m popping back and forth between sites I happened to be reading an article at Free Republic titled:
James Carville lies about Ronald Reagan bashing Jimmy Carter in his SOTU.
They printed the transcript of the SOTU address by Reagan and he never mentioned Carter. Maybe it’s just the way things are done these days.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Why don’t you empty headed morons on the right get a life and focus on the issues. At least the man can read. The moron who got us into this mess (two wars, depression economy, failing banks. educational mind drain) that you right wingers so richly deserved couldn’t read a comic strip! We need to get back to the efforts of putting America first! You less than human types make me sick!
January 25th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Apparently, you teabagging Republicans need your lies.
Can’t you just tell the truth for once? I know it’s not in your inbred nature to be honest, but you could at least try.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Seriously, can no one see that this is NOT a 6th grade class?? My 6th grader had an “Our circle book” in Kindergarten. He is in a kindergarten or preschool class in the video. I guess some people just need to find something negative in everything that President Obama does.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
The folks who are calling foul are right. The caption of the photos (easily found on other sites) indicate that Obama spoke (sans teleprompters) with 6th graders, and THEN spoke to the media in (as Kris rightly deduced) a kindergarten classroom. I’m no fan of Obama, but seriously, we need to be careful about honest reporting.