Thu January 03, 2013 6:05 pm
mray10 wrote:Stip wrote:refresh my memory about the Barry Sorrento thing?
I get the Hussein thing. It's foreign sounding and it'll play to certain hostile nativist elements. The teleprompter jokes always seemed kinda pointless. What major political speaker won't use teleprompters?
Lincoln was a truly great speaker because he read his speeches off paper, not some dandy teleprompter!
Yeah, I've never understood that one, either.
Thu January 03, 2013 6:30 pm
shinkdew wrote:mray10 wrote:Stip wrote:refresh my memory about the Barry Sorrento thing?
I get the Hussein thing. It's foreign sounding and it'll play to certain hostile nativist elements. The teleprompter jokes always seemed kinda pointless. What major political speaker won't use teleprompters?
Lincoln was a truly great speaker because he read his speeches off paper, not some dandy teleprompter!
Yeah, I've never understood that one, either.
It's not that he reads speeches off the teleprompter. It's that when he doesn't have the teleprompter he uhhh, uhhh sounds uhhh, uhhhhh like uhhhh not very uhhhh intelligent. To be honest it's kind of amazing he's a lawyer. His verbal and negotiation skills are both terrible, things most lawyers excel at.
Thu January 03, 2013 8:23 pm
shinkdew wrote:mray10 wrote:Stip wrote:refresh my memory about the Barry Sorrento thing?
I get the Hussein thing. It's foreign sounding and it'll play to certain hostile nativist elements. The teleprompter jokes always seemed kinda pointless. What major political speaker won't use teleprompters?
Lincoln was a truly great speaker because he read his speeches off paper, not some dandy teleprompter!
Yeah, I've never understood that one, either.
It's not that he reads speeches off the teleprompter. It's that when he doesn't have the teleprompter he uhhh, uhhh sounds uhhh, uhhhhh like uhhhh not very uhhhh intelligent. To be honest it's kind of amazing he's a lawyer. His verbal and negotiation skills are both terrible, things most lawyers excel at.
Thu January 03, 2013 9:47 pm
shinkdew wrote:mray10 wrote:Stip wrote:refresh my memory about the Barry Sorrento thing?
I get the Hussein thing. It's foreign sounding and it'll play to certain hostile nativist elements. The teleprompter jokes always seemed kinda pointless. What major political speaker won't use teleprompters?
Lincoln was a truly great speaker because he read his speeches off paper, not some dandy teleprompter!
Yeah, I've never understood that one, either.
It's not that he reads speeches off the teleprompter. It's that when he doesn't have the teleprompter he uhhh, uhhh sounds uhhh, uhhhhh like uhhhh not very uhhhh intelligent. To be honest it's kind of amazing he's a lawyer. His verbal and negotiation skills are both terrible, things most lawyers excel at.
Fri January 04, 2013 10:00 pm
Fri January 04, 2013 10:10 pm
Rob wrote:Yea, it seems that gaffes matter more than policy sometimes, so I don't blame Obama for being careful without a teleprompter. And it seems to me that the teleprompter jokes often imply that he's not intelligent, which is ridiculous. It's fine if you think his ideology sucks or if you think he's doing a bad job, but he's certainly an intelligent person.
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Tue April 02, 2013 10:27 am
dimejinky99 wrote:He signed off on a carte Blanche for Monsanto the other day.
That's pretty fuckin scary and has barely been covered at all
Tue April 02, 2013 4:47 pm
dimejinky99 wrote:He signed off on a carte Blanche for Monsanto the other day.
That's pretty fuckin scary and has barely been covered at all
Tue April 02, 2013 5:34 pm
Tue April 02, 2013 7:07 pm
dimejinky99 wrote:It was legislation saying that Monsanto didn't have to state their products had GM food in them. Apparently he made a statement previously saying ever American should know what's in their food and especially if GM food was involved. Typical.
Thu April 04, 2013 1:11 am
dimejinky99 wrote:It was legislation saying that Monsanto didn't have to state their products had GM food in them. Apparently he made a statement previously saying ever American should know what's in their food and especially if GM food was involved. Typical.
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