Obama: Rodeo King

Who needs Barack to enunciate what politics will look like after he changes the way Washington does business?

It appears Barack Obama's teleprompter is hitting the campaign trail.

Who needs Barack when we can all just read it for ourselves?

The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide the fact he delivers speeches off the device, though normally he doesn't use one at standard campaign rallies and town hall events.

The man who wants to change the way Washington does business doesn't trust himself to speak for himself. He wants the technology there to support him - even if he's standing in cow dung.

But the Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both his Colorado events Monday — making for a particularly peculiar scene in Pueblo, where the prompter was set up in the middle of what is normally a rodeo ring.

There's a plan for making Barack seem less a member of the Ivy League Elite and more like everyday working folk!

No Malfunction

A friend warned me yesterday not to expect too much from Sarah Palin's speech. "She's never done a speech from a teleprompter before," he shared. I wasn't worried - this woman is an uncannily talented politician. But who would have expected this?

Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the RNC, people following the
speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.

Why would she be quite that cocky?

According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued
scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the
speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech.
The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani's speech, explaining his
significant deviations from his speech.

Did anyone notice a blink of discomfort or confusion?

Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without
the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech. Contrast this
to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left
stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was
resolved.

Just one more reason to be impressed.