Obama needs teleprompter to deliver snarky response to Romney

Toby Harnden:

Speaking at an event in Fairfax, Virginia, a relaxed and confident President Barack Obama had plenty of witty retorts and quotable sound bites to aim at his challenger Mitt Romney.

The problem was that they came a day and a half after he had been demolished by Romney during the first presidential debate in Denver and were scripted and delivered with the aid of a pair of teleprompters flanking the stage.

‘Now, my opponent, you know, has been trying to do a two-step and reposition and got an extreme makeover,’ Obama, speaking against a backdrop of 150 women of shapes sizes and ethnicities gathered on a stage at George Mason University, said to chuckles.

He mocked Romney for using the example of Sesame Street’s Big Bird, shown on PBS television, as something that did not need to be publicly funded by borrowing money from China.

‘When he was asked what he'd actually do to cut spending and reduce the deficit, his big example was to go after public television,’ Obama said, laughing.

‘So for all all you moms and kids out there, don't worry - somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird, rounding him up.’ There were roars of laughter and shouts of ‘Big Bird’ from the crowd.

Obama added: ‘Elmo's got to watch out, too. Governor Romney plans to let Wall Street run wild again, but he's going to bring down the hammer on "Sesame Street”. It makes perfect sense.’
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What the episode demonstrated is just how dependent Obama is on the teleprompter crutch and how right Bill Mahr was during the debate about him needing one.  In fact one guy did an interview with Obama supporters outside the arena asking them if they thought he should be able to use one at a debate and they all said yes.

It also shows that Obama has no serious plan to cut anything other than defense spending.