Just a machine

President Barack Obama certainly has a way with words.

Throughout the election season, his speeches were played over and over, holding our ears hostage to his message of “hope.” His devout crowd enveloped his podium, usually overdressed in the Obama wardrobe, which seems to be the greatest fad since Crocs.

But since he’s taken office, the president seems to have lost some footing. Last week’s Jay Leno flop demonstrated his failing communication skills.
Obama compared his bowling abilities to those demonstrated in the Special Olympics.

Whoops.

While I certainly don’t believe Obama’s statement displayed class, I can’t exactly renounce him for it; I don’t believe he said it intending to insult the mentally handicapped community.

The left-leaning media, in typical fashion, wasn’t quick to pick up on Obama’s mistake. The New York Times didn’t even mention his fluke in their first story about the Leno appearance. Yet former President George W. Bush had his every word scrutinized by the media. I’ll be the first to admit Bush wasn’t the best speaker, but that shouldn’t put him any more at the mercy of a critical media than our current president.

I would be a fool to claim that this mess-up erases the impact of Obama’s speeches. But I think Americans have been fooled for awhile.

Barack Obama, as the Leno mess-up helps to prove, has a very intense relationship with someone other than his wife Michelle: his teleprompter.

Using a teleprompter is not unusual these days. But using it for every single speaking engagement and making errors when it’s taken away is a pattern that should be stopped.

Obama’s teleprompter dependence has not gone unnoticed by all. Though the leftist media continues to praise his oration skills, people are starting to catch on. His teleprompter even has its own blog now, though I’m not sure how often it will update.

That thing has to get tired after doing all of Obama’s thinking for him.

Bush used a teleprompter, too. So did Clinton. But neither was continually heralded as a speaking god by the press. And neither had such a quality that continually helped them save face.  

How can our country continue to exude so much worship toward Obama’s speeches? How can his “inspiring” communication skills be regarded as anything but phony? We’ve seen what happens when he’s without a teleprompter.

Our leader shouldn’t be running the country by a script. If that’s what America needed, we’d elect someone off Broadway.

If we all got past the front Obama’s been putting on for months and began judging him on his policies, we would be a little better off. You can’t be the next Great Communicator if you can’t communicate without the complete and utter dependence on a machine.

Maybe America should realize that our president is little more than a machine himself. Or maybe we should impeach Obama’s teleprompter and make our President build a reputation based on what he was elected to do: fix the country.