You are not making too much out of this, because the MSM won't making ANYTHING out of this.  Obama will get a pass as usual.

He is running scared now, and somehow, someway, someone got to him and made him realize that he can't talk without a teleprompter.  He's a baffoon without one!

I am glad someone is bringing this up.

It has always been my contention that Barry would not do townhall meetings because he would fail miserably without his teleprompter.

Plus, remember how the clintons would determine what questions were asked and then they had a few days to prep their answer (a Dem favorite)...of course they did not need a teleprompter.

Without these favorite Dem tools, Obama  most definitely would flounder.

He is not a man of his convictions and is being decieptful - thus, the stammering and flying away from questions straight back to his talking points.

I don't think the MSM moderators at the debates will be able to do anything for Obama. If he can't even get through a stump speech in front of ardent supporters off the cuff, then how in the world will he get past McCain in the debates?

We should be glad to see McCain and Palin in the polls lead. If they're winning now, just wait until Obama trips over his words at debates where a teleprompter is not allowed.

No way.  Thank you for posting this story.  Just more proof that Barry is not fit to hold office.  After watching O'Reilly's interview with Barack, he is just a law professor.  Even Dennis Miller commented that the Dems chose the wrong candidate. 

I would love to see a picture of the teleprompter at the rally.  I'm sure it's a very odd scene.  No wonder he doesn't want to do a townhall style debate with McCain. 

Just wondering - Are teleprompters used at debates? 

When do the strings come out so that his body language can be 'just right'?

Can we start calling him "Pinocchiobama"?

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

I've never heard of a politician using a teleprompter at a rally. Doesn't that negate the casaual, down-home atomoshpere of a rally? Guess he's not the intelligent, eloquent orator the MSM has built him up to be.

In actuality, he's a worse public speaker than President Bush.

Will his handlers insist that he gets to use his teleprompter during the debate?  Sounds to me like Obama's teleprompter could be to him what a pacifier is to an infant....

Let Barry coast along for a couple of weeks not having to think on his feet. The more relaxed he is now with the teleprompter, the more likely he is to really punt it at the debates.

any longer? O'bambi will have someone else to blame if he makes another gaff? I can see the media blaming someone else now for any future mistatements.

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

Here's something I've noticed - like George W. Bush - over time Obama has come across as a bit less articulate and dare I say dumber. The gaffes are piling on, the uhs ums and other pauses are increasing.

It's been postulated that President Bush's decline in speaking on the stump ability over the years is a long-term affect of drug and alcohol use. A perfect catalyst would be stress - and running for/being President are two of the most stressful things I can think of.

And as a recovering alcoholic I can say that every now and then I just blank out on something I normally would never have. Last night for example it took me about 5 minutes to remember the word "compromise" was the word I wanted to use to mean ...well..a  compromise.

For President Bush the long-term results has seem to impair his speech and his wordisms. For the Senator it's apparently been his math and geography.

Is the campaign catalysing the Senator's dormant results of his own drug use? Is he going to only get worse?

It's just more proof that this guy is best marketed as a movie star....no substance without a script. 

I would say that uh, eh, we, we, uh...

That's above my pay grade.

on the face of it I would say that this is not that big a deal, people use cue cards and notes . . . a teleprompter is similar, although it is the actual speech and not some outlines . . .

but yeah, all of these little things about obama which I would like to dismiss all start to pile up and pile up and pile up

Let's face it George W. Bush mangles the English language. There's two things about that, though. First, President Bush has never portrayed himself as a great orator. Secondly, Bush has never said that he'd meet dictators from the Middle East and South America unconditionally.

My blood runs cold thinking about this stammering greenhorn negotiating with Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinijad without conditions. He's arrogant enough to try it, too.

My liberal friends love to wax in teary eyed fashion about what a great orator Barak Obama is. I contend that he's good at reading or presenting a speech, but he is not an orator. A true orator -- be he a backwoods stump speaker or a statesman -- can speak coherently without a teleprompter.

The guy is a flake.

I don't need change. I need dollars.

Obama has never been articulate or a good speaker. He's a good READER. And the teleprompter in the middle of the rodeo arena looked ridiculous.

Obama wasn't the only one reigned in. His campaign kept the media corralled and didn't let them speak to anyone in the crowd. They had to stalk the porta-potty lines to get comments. (per the Rocky Mountain News, not online)

"It's been postulated that President Bush's decline in speaking on the
stump ability over the years is a long-term affect of drug and alcohol
use."

When I was in my twenties, I was sharp as a tack and could pull obscure words out of the air and string together the most wonderful sentences. Now that I'm 43, I sometimes have to sit and think of an everyday noun to add to my sentence. I won't even play Trivial Pursuit because it's too depressing. I will immediately have the anwer in my head, but can't think of the word or name.

I think a lot of the pauses and "uhms" that Bush and Obama use are just that, getting older. Maybe McCain is an exception because he seems to speak just fine. In most instances he appears sharper than the younger Obama.

I am NOT condoning illegality and would urge voters not to indulge in that...

BUT wouldn't it be a hoot if conservative techies were to attend Obama worship rallies with RF jammers? Are teleprompters wireless?

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.