TJ Walker comments on recent articles in the New York Times and Politico.com on Presidents Obama’s use of the teleprompter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/us/politics/06memo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=teleprompter&st=cse

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19663.html

I think the Teleprompter is working for him—the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. I think he can continue to improve, by adding occasional eye contact with people in the audience. But the one thing he shouldn’t do is to stop using it because of a couple of critical stories. The public doesn’t care about the process when they like the results—articulate speech, in contrast to the embarrassment of Bush fumbling around at the lectern.

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