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By David N. Bass One of journalists' favorite pastimes during the Bush years was to poke fun at the president's frequently bumbled speech patterns. Bush's less-than-stellar oratorical moments — such as "Is our children learning?" and "They misunderestimate me" — were proof, they said, that he was just plain stupid. Share/Save Read More →

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From Real Clear Politics:  After the wind blows down the teleprompter of Vice President Biden at the Air Force Academy graduation he joked "what am I going to tell the President when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?" Watch The Video Here Share/Save Read More →

Everyone knows President Barack Obama can deliver a great speech, including the president himself, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The paperback version of Reid's book, "The Good Fight," is coming out May 5 with an epilogue called "The Obama Era." Reid said he was impressed when Obama, then a freshman senator from Illinois, delivered a speech about President... 

President Barack Obama flubs his lines…what happened to his trusty teleprompter? h/t/ Hot Air Share/Save Read More →

By John Crace Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking... 

By Michael Rowland About 200 reporters were in the ornate East Room, but there was nothing random about who asked the questions. In a former life as a Canberra political reporter I covered my fair share of prime ministerial press conferences. Whether they were held in sun-dappled Parliament House courtyards or on busy suburban streets, they tended to be relatively casual affairs with lots of give and... 

A teleprompt blunder has led to Barack Obama thanking himself in a speech at the White House in a St Patrick's Day celebration. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit too familiar. Share/Save Read More →

By Mary Kate Cary When I was writing speeches for President Bush #41, we'd start working every Spring on the annual "joke" dinners—the Gridiron Club, the Alfalfa Club, and the White House Correspondents Dinner. Those black- or even white-tie dinners were a Washington ritual, "off the record" despite often being hosted by members of the press, and they required a comedy... 

By Bob Parks Let’s be fair here. If George W. Bush cancelled news conferences with foreign leaders because (of the appearance) he’d need a teleprompter guiding him through responses while the others didn’t, just what would the left be saying about him? Share/Save Read More →