It was inevitable that the foreign press would eventually catch on to the buffoonish nature of Obama’s non-teleprompted persona. And so it has. The Guardian’s John Crace updates us on what the POTUS is thinking when functioning sans TOTUS.  Here’s an excerpt:

Barack Obama: ”I, I, would say that, er … pause [I HAVEN'T A CLUE] … if you look at … pause [WHO IS THIS NICK ROBINSON JERK?] … the, the sources of this crisis … pause [JUST KEEP GOING, BUDDY] … the United States certainly has some accounting to do with respect to . . . pause [I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE] … a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system …pause, close eyes [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF S**T BACK HOME. HELP]. I think what is also true is that … pause [I WANT NICK ROBINSON TO DISAPPEAR] … here in Great Britain … pause [S**T, GORDY'S THE HOST, DON'T LAND HIM IN IT] … here in continental Europe … pause [DAMN IT, BLAME EVERYONE.] … around the world. We were seeing the same mismatch between the regulatory regimes that were in place and er … pause [I'VE LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT AGAIN] … the highly integrated, er, global capital markets that have emerged … pause [I'M REALLY WINGING IT NOW]. 

You know, this would be *really* funny if it weren’t so sad.  As Crace alludes to (”the World’s Greatest Orator (™all news organisations“)), the news agencies refuse to recognize what an incompetent Obama is without his binky.  But the truth is slowly seeping out, despite the press.  It’s not just that he’s an inept communicator.  It’s that he just can’t think on his feet. And unfortunately, his indecision will undoubtedly be exploited by those who hate us - they will see his weakness and incompetence and prey upon it

(HT: Steyn for the Guardian article)

UPDATE : it comes to my attention that the official teleprompter himself disputes my characterization of the relationship. All I can say is that I trust my VRWC spies more than I trust him.
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Inner workings at www.BaskInTheIncredibleAwesomenessOfMe.gov [redirects whitehouse.gov] show a tempestuous relationship between the POTUS and his binky. During TObama’s meteoric rise to fame and electoral success, it seems there was enough glory for everybody. Team effort. One for all and all for one.

Now they have reached the mountaintop, and it’s down to the daily grind of running the country into the ground (and then it’s nothing but work, work, work all the time - Dread Pirate Roberts). Binky wants his piece of the pie, and deservedly so. After all, he’s been the brains of this outfit, ever since TObama took his little Alinsky show on the road. We in the VRWC have our spies, even in the very heart of the enemy fortress. Our operatives intercepted the following exchange of IM’s between Binky and TObama’s Blackberry. Do not take all this lightly. Many Bothans Fredheads died to bring us this information:

BINKY: Look, the secret’s out anyway. Why do you continue to deny our relationship?
LORDANDMASTER: Are we cross?
BINKY: Don’t play me, boss. I made you.
LORDANDMASTER: LOLZ. You made nothing, babe.

LORDANDMASTER: Dig it.

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Yes, he left the old familiar glass-paneled prompters that helped him recall childhood memories he said he would “never forget,” that helped him talk down to attendants at dirt-floored midwestern appearances, and that allowed him to thank himself for a St. Patrick’s Day invitation. But it wasn’t because he didn’t need them, or because he could be trusted to speak on his own to a room full of reporters and a few thousand people watching on television around the country. Rather, it was because he was upgraded to a full-size plasma screen at the back of the room from which to read his remarks.

Here’s a still from Fox News of Obama reading his speech from the new, Giant TelePrompTer:

Look, you can give him (or his handlers) credit for realizing what a story the glass plates the supposedly-articulate president had become utterly dependent on to make anything remotely resembling a coherent public address. However, you can’t give them credit, as so many are trying to do this morning, for ditching the scripting altogether, any more than you can give a kid credit for no longer cheating on a test because he scrubbed the answers off of his forearm and instead brought them to class on a piece of poster board.

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Obama and his teleprompter are big news lately. As Vodka Pundit noted in his weekly summary, the right-o-sphere saw the meteoric rise of a new star, Barack Obama’s Teleprompter’s blog last week. Also last week, an hilarious twitpic by Right Scoop (see photo upper right) made the rounds, even garnering an approving mention by Maja Rushie himself. The Tonight Show special olympics slam only further illuminates the crux of the issue.

Some liberals pretend not to understand what the fuss is about. They pretend not to understand that we are saying Obama can’t make words happen without his binky. Ed Morrissey calls these “totally lost” moments Obamateurisms. With all the noise being made, and even the mainstream press unable to dodge it, I thought I’d put together a little photo essay featuring The One and his Number One to straighten things out. So please, join me for a walk down memory lane in a photo show I call “Binky: A Man and His Brain” … (full size pics below the fold)

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[h/t RottDawg, Jeff Emanuel, and ABG]

Presidential Ass-Hattery of the Day: To Leno, and clearly adrift from binky his TelePrompTer, about his bowling ineptitude : “It’s like Special Olympics.”

Ah, no, Barry. Actually, it’s nothing like Special Olympics. This……

….is like Special Olympics.

They offer dignity to people who legitimately need help. They defend the weak. You defend the lazy, the dishonest, the professionally offended, and the freeloaders. That makes you different from them. Quite a bit different.

What, you may ask, is the big deal over what was clearly an innocent little slip of the tongue? Oh, nothing, really. It does bring a couple of things to mind, though….

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At a meeting with veterans’ groups on Capitol Hill, Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) said:

President Obama listened to the genuine concerns expressed by the veteran service organizations regarding the option of billing service-connected injuries to veterans’ insurance companies

Based on the respect President Obama has for veterans and the principle concerns of our veteran leaders, the president made the decision that combat wounds should not be billed through their insurance policies.

Of course, if President Obama really had all that “respect…for veterans” and for “the principle concerns of our veteran leaders,” wouldn’t he have realized (or had one of those “veteran leaders” tell him) what an outrageously boneheaded idea charging veterans for treatment of wounds suffered in combat was?

I mean, seriously — just say that out loud: “We’re going to try to make $500 million for the government by charging combat wounded for their treatment.” Okay, now think about what you just said — if you even need to. Yep — ridickeless stupid, isn’t it?

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President Obama’s TelePrompTer, which has been challenged to a debate by Rush Limbaugh (neither it nor the Mouth of TelePrompTer, Barack Obama, has responded to date), apparently decided yesterday that St. Paddy’s was best observed with some good, old-fashioned shenanigans.

According to the AP:

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns out, he was…giving word for word the speech that Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.

Cowen stopped and looked back at the president to say, “That’s your speech.”

Obama laughed and returned to the podium to offer what might have been Cowen’s remarks. In doing so, President Obama thanked President Obama for inviting everyone over.

What do you do when you’re a one-legged man and your crutch decides to turn on you? Something tells me this won’t be the last time the tool that allows President Obama to sound the least bit coherent, or like he has a clue what he’s talking about, trips him up and makes him fodder for well-deserved ridicule.

Huge tip of the cap to a fellow RS Contributor for the apropos title. He also asks the question, “How many more pictures like this are they going to allow before they install the video screen in Obama’s podium?”

Who knows? One thing is true, as Rush has also noted: the TelePrompTer can serve as a useful whipping boy for the president’s current foibles and failures — as in, “My TelePrompTer tells me the economy is the worst we’ve seen in years!,” “My TelePrompTer says ratcheting up the deficit by a couple trillion more will solve the current crisis!,” and, my personal favorite, “Even though I have enough votes in Congress to pass Porkulus, the Omnibus, and anything else I want without even acknowledging the Republican minority’s existence, my TelePrompTer tells me I’m supposed to be demonizing them in the most old-politics way imaginable, all in the name of Hope, Change, and post-partisanship!”