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Obama switches off his teleprompter - TheHill.com
When Obama is "off teleprompter" we get quotes like "If you own a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
What else could possibly go wrong?
Not using a teleprompter lets Obama be more spontaneous on the stump. Since making the shift, the president at times has ad-libbed remarks while playing off his supporters’ reactions, something that had been difficult with a teleprompter.
“It’s become a crutch,” Tobe Berkovitz, a professor of communications at Boston University who specializes in political communications, said in describing Obama’s use of the teleprompter.
When Obama is "off teleprompter" we get quotes like "If you own a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
What else could possibly go wrong?