Isn't it nice to not have such an incompetent tool in the White house?

good lord.

How DARE you give me the rolly-eye emoticon! Just the sight of that emoticon sends me into an uncrontrollable rage! YYYAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

<begins smashing everything in the apartment>

<hands Kicky a beer and the remote> settle down there cowboy.

<takes remote and immediately calms down enough to down the entire beer in one gulp> Oh, thank god. Good TV...Nice TV....

my preciousssssssss...

Ha!

That emoticon! I'll kill everything in this apartment! HEEEEYAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

<goes to cabinet and arm-swipes entire collection of novelty beer cans all over the living room and begins stomping them in a mad frenzy.>

<Suddenly the television comes on and there is Obama speaking at his news conference. He stops in mid-scream and is calm again.>

I mean, come on, just look at this guy take questions. He is so not an incompetent tool!

Those novelty beer cans that you just stomped will be collectors' items one day. (No kidding, I had a landlord for a while who collected shaving cream, beer bottles, baseball cards, and I forget what else. Dining room full of special glass cases..)

poor little rats.

Kicky, in answer to your question...

It is indeed a striking contrast - from shallow and vague to thoughtful and focused; from endless repetition of asinine bromides to actual attempts at intelligent replies. I always thought Bush was an incredibly silly and ignorant man, and I marveled at how the American people could have bought his plastic cowboy act to the tune of TWO terms as the most powerful man in the free world.

But truth be told, I am also marveling that the American people had what it took to get this man into office - a principled, contemplative (self-identified as) Black man like Obama.

I look at the TV and I am reminded that things can, indeed, change. Gives me hope.....

Couldn't agree more. Especially this part:



YES!

The right is now engaged in an attempt to play down Obamas speaking skills. They wish to intercept his obvious talents at communication by the "Teleprompter" as a constant companion ploy. I saw no teleprompter this evening. He was patient, demanding, skillfully didactic, and mildly working a small joke.

It really is nice having a leader with a triple digit IQ. I feel that I havent wasted my time in my own education, I dont have to listen down to presidential speeches.

It really is quite striking. Christ, I wish Obama could have debated Bush. Just once.

Cycloptichorn

Letterman had a bit on Obama's use of teleprompters and contrasting him with a teleprompter and Bush without one - it's in HuffPo as a video today.

During his press conference tonight, he answered one reporter who asked why it took him so long to respond to something (I missed the beginning of the question) with the following: "It took a couple days for my response because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak."

And there we see a perfect illustration of the difference between them.

The American People elected Bush....Twice. Five minutes of pondering that thought aught to be effective in washing away the warm fuzzies.

I cannot imagine anyone playing down his speaking skills. Nor Bill Clinton's, for that matter.

ahh. roger baits the trap with troll treats...