Godspeed TOTUS: The Glow Is Off The Teleprompter

It's always sad to watch a prolific statesmen fall from grace. Today, WH journalists witnessed just such a tragedy as TOTUS 1 plummeted to the ground from above, crashing rather un-statesmen-like at Obama's feet. Now all that's left are some shards of glass and a mix of wire and metal destined to be sold off in the first official State Ebay auction. The remnants briefly lied in state in the WH until the janitor arrived. A moment of silence was observed until Obama realized he still had one teleprompter with which to work.

Godspeed TOTUS, we'll all miss you until you are replaced.

ABC News' Sunlen Miller and Jake Tapper report: If a teleprompter falls in the White House, does it make a sound?

Yes, especially when it’s the President’s teleprompter – or TOTUS as it is often referred to.

Midway through his speech on urban and metropolitan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building this afternoon, one of his two small glass prompters came crashing down, hitting the wood floor and crashing in many pieces. It made quite a ruckus.

“Oh, goodness,” a startled President Obama said. “Sorry about that, guys.”

He then proceeded on with his remarks, “To pull our economy back from the brink, including the largest and most sweeping economic recovery plan in our nation's history…”

For the rest of the speech the president relied on the one remaining teleprompter, to his right, and notes on his podium to finish his speech.

Shards of glass remained near the president’s feet for the duration of his speech.

Comments

[mark l.]

i'm not big on divination, but this is uncanny.

i bet obama was whsipering under his breath:

"Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani"

[tally]

Even the telepromter is sick of Obama.

[ahrcanum]

shattered like America's finances....

[profwalker]

Lay -- not lied.

[seekeronos]

Nuuuuuuuuu! Say it isn't so. Will there be funeral services and a national monument on the Washington Mall for the most noble, venerable, and holy TOTUS that ever was, serving to deliver the most melodious and golden honey-dipped syllables ever to flow from the voice of a mortal man...?

No less is due to such a wondrous piece of machinery. Just like that Micheal Jackson bloke.

[Ran]

Nope. Lied.

Just as when Teleprompter told the Candidate that 95% of Americans would see a net tax cut, and that Gitmo would be closed, and that only Government was the solution to our problems, and that He would end the influence of special interest groups... and especially when Teleprompter told Him to say that He would faithfully protect and defend the Constitution.

[SacTownMan]

A moment of silence please!!!!!

The great Xerxes demands it!

[mark l.]

Obama’s current forecasts envision 3.2 percent growth next year, 4 percent growth in 2011, 4.6 percent growth in 2012 and 4.2 percent growth in 2013.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24899.html#ixzz0LFrVoyUH&C

off the top of my head, I think they came out with a -1.2% growth rate for 2009.
using their numbers-
2008 gdp-14.33 trillion.
2009, 14.158 trillion.
2010, 14.611 trillion.
2011, 15.195 trillion.
2012, 15.895 trillion.
2013, 16.562 trillion.

rather rosy, so let's try a very optimistic 2.0% growth, leaving 2009 projection alone.

2008 gdp-14.33 trillion.
2009, 14.158 trillion.
2010, 14.441 trillion.
2011, 14.730 trillion.
2012, 15.025 trillion.
2013, 15.325 trillion.

the gdp differences account for about 2.75 trillion dollar difference, and allowing the assumption that the obama admin successfully enacts the Krugman standard govt taxation rate of 25%, they have mistated the deficit thru 2013, by 686 billion.

obama is well on pace for 13-14 trillion dollar addition to our debt, within his two terms. it will become the all time standard for how badly ANY party has ever managed the economy.

to be honest, I wouldn't mind two terms of this. it's like watching your enemy stub his toe, everytime he moves.

[Jim Durbin]

Here's tomorrow headlines.

Obama shows off customary coolness, shows concern for janitorial staff during technological disaster."