DebateGate
General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Xavier_Onassis on June 08, 2016, 01:49:51 PM
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The word is out about Trump.
The teabaggers must be saying, "The force is weak with this one."
Why did Trump badmouth teleprompters? Because the Teabaggers badmouthed them.
The teleprompter is of course, a very useful way for a speaker to deliver precisely the speech he wants to deliver, without overshooting the time limits.
What happens when a speaker tries to memorize a stump speech? We had a great example of that when Marco Rubio kept repeating the same dumb phrase about Obama and Christie called him on it. And everyone remembers Rubio's grab for his water bottle better than anything he said.
Leadership requires excellence. Effective speaking is a serious and important part of leadership.
A teleprompter is a tool for achieving excellence, just as a good set of socket wrenches are the sign of a good mechanic, If you see a mechanic trying to get it done with pliers or vise-grips, consider taking the car to someone else.
The teleprompter screen also can deflect bullets.
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Does a good mechanic use his own tools?
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A good mechanic buys his own tools.
A good speaker would have them provided by the party or the country, I imagine. A good mechanic rarely forges his own socket set and ratchet.
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What policies of the Obama administration are President Obama's own ideas?
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I do not actually care. What matters is that the country is governed as well as possible. Considering that our President has had to deal with the most obstructionist of dicks ever, he has done a pretty good job.
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I can't tell that President Obama cares either.
Of all the presidents of my lifetime, none of them seem so much to have been just phoning it in and riding the current.
Wasn't he firmly in favor of the Defense of Marriage act?
Back when he was getting elected.
Wind changes and the weathervane changes.
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What happens when a speaker tries to memorize a stump speech? We had a great example of that when Marco Rubio kept repeating the same dumb phrase about Obama and Christie called him on it.
Your example is wrong and it is certainly not "great"!
Senator Rubio was not making a speech and could not have used a teleprompter in a live debate.
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ouch! ;)