The teleprompter thing started to die once the entire field of Republican candidates was winnowed down to the single non-crazy one who was perfectly happy to use a teleprompter.
I thought they all used teleprompters. Who doesn't?
Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Hermann Cain. Rick Santorum wanted to ban them. Etc.
All with predictable results. This isn't to say they never used teleprompters in their life; just that when they were running for the nomination, it was a useful cudgel to bash Obama and implicitly Mitt. That's why they were known as pretty gaffe-prone candidates.
Re:Gitmo Is Killing Me
by ThrowawyAcctLOL on Monday April 15, 2013 @06:31AM
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Seriously? Obama's ego really does give appear to be at the upper, Blair/Sarkozy end of the big-politician scale. I could consider an argument that appearances are deceiving here; but no-one with two eyes could look at Obama's personal background and career to date and fail to see how it might, at least, leave someone else with the impression that Obama's unusually prone to feel the world as revolving around him.
> (p.s. I think you may have misread the GP, who meant that McCain would not have gotten their vote instead of Obama.)
Yes, I did misread it, thank you.
I realize that the view of Obama as a tremendous narcissist has become a right-wing meme, but it seems so odd (kind of like the related view that he's a know-nothing who can't speak without a teleprompter, though that one seems to have died down since the election). I'm curious: how did the narcissism meme get started, and what evidence is cited for it, other than that major politicians tend to have major egos?
I'm not trying to make a political point. I don't follow the sources on this and would like someone to explain to me how the people who believe this came to believe it and what arguments they advance for it.
(p.s. I think you may have misread the GP, who meant that McCain would not have gotten their vote instead of Obama.)