O>O>O>O>O>Bama Sure Has A Rough Time Without A Script

From Rush Limbaugh's show the other day regarding The One's ridiculously planned photo op newsconference:

The Messi-Uh Press Conference: "Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh":

"RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 26 first, Mike. I didn't know we'd get to this this early. I asked Cookie to put together a little montage here of all the stuttering around that Obama did in his press conference today and I want you to hear this because -- and we didn't repeat anything here. It goes 46 seconds, and we're doing this because we hear constantly, 'What a great orator and a great communicator! Ohhhh, this man is smooth!' Just listen. This is a great illustration here of what happened when you take the teleprompter and your prepared remarks away from the dude.

OBAMA: Uh, uh, are, uh, uh, uh, um. That's -- that's a bunch -- so -- so let me tick these off. Deh... Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh. So the issue is not a perception that, uh... Weh, weh, let me put it this way. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, We're -- we're trying to -- you know, we've got a bipartisan group here and -- and -- and, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, uh, uh.

"Uh, ah, uh, ah," and everybody talked about what a great orator he is. Today it reached the boiling point with me, with all this pap coverage that he's getting, and all the lies the media telling about this guy and how he's the prime mover behind all these policy changes over there. I'm watching him stutter around outside at this press conference, speaking so slowly, without any energy. He can barely be understood. He's babbling about things I can't even keep up with. I have no idea what he's saying 'cause I don't know what the questions were. But there was nothing dynamic about this press conference today. I think the dynamism left this campaign and this guy a long time ago. He's living off a legacy here, and I think some borrowed time. Let's now go to the audio sound bites. This is this morning in Amman, Jordan. The Messiah is lecturing his disciples in the press on their questions.

OBAMA: With respect to the surge, you know, we don't know what would have happened if the plan that I put forward in January 2000 -- How many questions -- okay. That's a bunch. I'm going to have to get a pen for all these triple questions you guys are -- you know, it-it-it's always a bad practice to see always or never. These are difficult questions. I'm just trying to get to everybody. I'll take the second question first. I've been very clear on that. I -- I was gonna save some of these comments until I -- I actually have these conversations tomorrow. Uh, it wasn't that we were avoiding the issue. I need you to speak up. You were speaking up very loudly when you wanted me to call on you.

RUSH: Now, it's a montage, but this is The Messiah lecturing his disciples how he is to be queried. Now, we goofed up and it's always my fault even when it isn't. We goofed up here. I want to start this from the beginning, and we'll stay in order from here, but this is a montage of The Messiah lecturing his disciples in the media on how he is to be approached the kinds of questions he's to be asked and all of that.

OBAMA: How many questions -- okay. That's a bunch. I'm going to have to get a pen for all these triple questions you guys are -- you know, it-it-it's always a bad practice to see always or never. These are difficult questions. I'm just trying to get to everybody. I'll take the second question first. I've been very clear on that. I -- I was gonna save some of these comments until I -- I actually have these conversations tomorrow. Uh, it wasn't that we were avoiding the issue. I need you to speak up. You were speaking up very loudly when you wanted me to call on you.

RUSH: Yeah, all right. Now, that's how the whole press conference sounded to me. That was not an answer to a question. It was just Obama lecturing the disciples. But that's how the whole thing sounded to me. Not just his tone, and not just his temperament but the fact it didn't make any sense. I'll give you an example. This is a press conference. I don't know if this is in response to a question, 'cause we couldn't hear the questions, they didn't mike enough members of the traveling press core known as the disciples. But he's talking here about the surge.

OBAMA: With respect to the surge, you know, we don't know what would have happened if the plan that I put forward in January 2007 to put more pressure on the Iraqis to arrive at a political reconciliation to begin a phased withdrawal, what would have happened had we pursued that strategy. I am pleased that as a consequence of great effort by our troops -- but also as a consequence of a shift in allegiances among the Sunni tribal leaders as well as the decision of the Sadr militias to stand down -- that we've seen a quelling of the violence. continued

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