Careful? Or just not knowledgeable?
I know very well how the headlines would have read had George Bush needed to come prepared with a huge teleprompter for every press conference.
Bush brings security blanket to press conference.
President unable to answer questions without crutch.
Is Bush dumber than a TV set?
Obama’s reliance on a teleprompter at every event where he wants to at least sound coherent is becoming household knowledge. Especially since the reporters at the news conferences are noticing enough to actually make it a main part of their stories:
What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?A careful one.
President Barack Obama took no chances in his second prime-time news conference, reading a prepared statement in which he took both sides of the AIG bonus brouhaha and asked an anxious nation for its patience.
Careful? Or just not in command of the knowledge necessary to speak on the matter off the cuff? Or is it both?
