Obama gets ahead of prompter
President Obama’s speech at the National Academy of Sciences Monday morning hit a brief snag when Obama got ahead of his script.
Laying his plan for a President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Obama began to name the members of PCAST listed in his prepared remarks – before realizing he’d already introduced them, earlier in his speech.
“In addition to John – sorry, the – I just noticed I jumped the gun here,” Obama said, pausing for several seconds as he looked at the prompter. “Go ahead. Move it up. I had already introduced all you guys.”
The audience, which gave the president a warm reception, responded with a quiet laugh.
Sure would be nice to have a President that could speak from his notes or memory without a teleprompter...
I had no idea he used a teleprompter. That makes me sad and a little less hopeful.
ReplyDeleteWe use to have them, they even use to write their own material. Those days are probably gone forever.
ReplyDeleteThat is so true....
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