I don't think I've seen that before

it was probably a list of things to pick up at the supermarket on the way home from the interview

All those ones and zeros lost to better use.

Obama doesn't make any attempt to hide a teleprompter...she pokes fun at him about that...she writes notes to herself on her hand....see the hypocrisy? and being sneaky/deceptive?

They aren't being made because Obama uses a teleprompter. After all, other presidents have used them too, and to good effect. The jokes are mostly about what happens when the teleprompters fail and Obama's left standing there stuttering in surprise. More than others he seems at a loss when that happens, whereas others have picked up where they left off and improvised fairly well. It gives the impression that except for what's on the teleprompters, Obama failed to actually study the speech he was supposed to have prepared. Most will study, even memorize a speech, then use the teleprompters to "prompt" them. Obama seems to use them to "read them", which is a big difference and from whence cometh the jokes.

without saying Obama/Bush.

So the teleprompter jokes aren't about the teleprompter.

a google search couldn't come up with anything funny about teleprompters. Many vegetables have names that are funnier than teleprompter jokes. In fact, I've found that political humor is only funny when a politician mocks him/herself. The rest of them only get a crass obligatory snicker.

We could use some real laughs from this administration. They haven't been much fun. I think Obama and Biden should take up duck hunting together....and take some members from both sides of the aisle along with them. That might be just the ticket.

went into depression.

only funny when a politician mocks him/herself

There was 1 politician in Canada that had something wrong with his mouth (I think he had a stroke) and as a result he talked out of 1 side of his mouth.

An opposition member made a remark about that fact.

The other guy responded...

"At least I don't talk out of both sides of my mouth."

by talking about a teleprompter as the focus of the humour NOT the President.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/obama-teleprompter.html

the old teleprompter simply expired, came loose, fell silently as if in movie slow motion before the stunned eyes of watchers and smashed into many pieces on the hard floor.

As if it was a mere machine, the 47-year-old president displayed no sign of concern or compassion whatsoever for his departed friend. He simply continued his speech with the surviving teleprompter on the other side.

The teleprompter's remains were removed later by janitorial personnel for private burial. An official period of mourning was not announced. Not even a moment of silence. That's the Chicago way.

The deceased Teleprompter is survived by numerous siblings and offspring, all also named Teleprompter.

And was honored in the Chicago way?? That means it's likely to have voted in the presidential election. I wonder if it remained loyal even in death.

so it won't vote again until 2011.

What surprises me is that Obama seems to not practice reading a script in front of somebody before hand. I would think that if he did, the person(s) before whom he practices would have caught and corrected his pronunciation of corpsman as "corpse-man" more than once.

Obama hides the teleprompter.....no one can see them

Palin never poked fun at Obama and his teleprompters.

Palin didn't have notes written on her hand.

Didn't you notice that big-screen teleprompter that suddenly appeared at the back of the room a while back in a televised speech? It was easily read from the podium, but being behind the camera viewpont, it wasn't visible to the home TV audience. To the TV viewer, it made it look like he didn't have a prompter. The problem was he was late again, and while the nets waited on the live speech feed, they panned around the room showing the crowd and it was noticed by some people.

realizing she hadn't washed something from the hand before the interview.

you may be correct

how those few words meshed with her interview response. She'd never have come up with that without a "helping hand". C'mon man...admit it...you got in for the lady.

I don't have that much concern with her writing "Energy" or "Tax" on her palm but the one said to be "Lift American Spirits" really has me honked off. Surely we know that's not something a leader should be doing.

Every speech I gave would try and do that...I wouldn't need a note on my hand. I think that would be your objective also.

You ever said anything good about anyone? That's an objective you could strive for. It's sort of funny the worst you can come up with for Sarah is an ink smudge in the palm of her hand. Let's see, 5 or 6 words inked in a palm, or an entire encylopedia of talking points and speech from teleprompters? Which is worse, if either? I don't think I've ever said anything about Obama and his teleprompters, other than maybe laughing about him using them in a kindergarten class, but maybe not even did that one on forum. Did you notice the reporter was using a teleprompter for his questions? What's the matter, he couldn't just sit down and do an interview off the top of his head?

This is nothing. I do love it's the worst you can come up with. Try harder next time. If there's an consolation for embarassment over this, at least YOU weren't the one who first tried to make something out of nothing over it.

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because we've never been in the same room.

She has a telehand?

Talk to the hand?

I wonder if she wrote them herself?

Like I said...it should stop the teleprompter jokes from her...at least some good might come of it.

I really don't know if the ink on her hands costs more or uses more energy than use of a teleprompter or even scraps of paper. I suppose it could end up costing more if the ink resulted in a dermatological disorder that taxpayers had to shell out to treat. Maybe a teleprompter is safer as well as kinder to the skin. As well, using a teleprompter has the ability to allow a shift of focus more easily if things aren't going your way. Writing on one's hand is making a commitment to an agenda...no changing course in the middle without stuttering and stumbling.

Unless she goes to the washroom and, it all goes down the drain in the sink.

being that it's headline news on huffpo/kos.It's a bad example of someone's photoshop skills.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/did-palin-use-crib-notes_b_452458.html

Being these photos are from huffpo,they of course can't be disputed.

Examine the first and fifth photos,notice the clock position of the text on her palm is different between the two.Angle to her digits and wrist are different also.

A picture of Obama's hand photoshopped to have "Use Teleprompter" inked on it? You just know someone's gonna do it.

and different notes. I can't read anything from the one in the interview. She's obviously not trying to hide anything from camera view, however, unless someone thinks it was just a stupid blunder...and I suspect there are people who suspect just that. Such a waste of time over nothing..

But, they have to say SOMETHING snarky about her. At least she didn't have the whole speech written out on her hand.


Who cares?