The media in India seem shocked that the man they THOUGHT was a “great orator” and “deep thinker” …was actually just reading a prepared text off a gizmo called a teleprompter.
Namaste India! In all likelihood that will be silver-tongued Barack Obama’s opening line when he addresses the Indian parliament next week. But to help him pronounce Hindi words correctly will be a teleprompter which the US president uses ever so often for his hypnotising speeches.
According to parliament sources, a technical team from the US has helped the Lok Sabha secretariat install textbook-sized panes of glass around the podium that will give cues to Obama on his prepared remarks to 780 Indian MPs on the evening of Nov 8.
It will be a 20-minute speech at Parliament House’s Central Hall that has been witness to some historic events, including first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s “tryst with destiny” speech when India became independent.
Obama will make history for more than one reason during the Nov 6-9 visit. This will be the first time a teleprompter will be used in the nearly 100-feet high dome-shaped hall that has portraits of eminent national leaders adorning its walls.
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“We thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address with his continuous eye contact,” an official, who did not wish to be identified because of security restrictions, said.
Obama is known to captivate audiences with his one-liners that sound like extempore and his deep gaze. But few in India know that the US president always carries the teleprompter with him wherever he speaks.
In other Obama-mania media news, I had to laugh this morning when I read that not moments after Obama’s fleet of 900 aircraft and 8,000 support staff (apparently 3,000 of whom were devoted to his teleprompter industrial complex) landed in India, the anointed one had already accomplished what could only be described as the miraculous. He “won” billions in new business contracts.
Apparently merely his awesome presence — his foot touching upon the Indian ground — opened up billion and billions in new business contracts, which the businesses involved had no hand in arranging over the past several years that it usually takes to arrange overseas market deals between two free countries without any government help whatsoever.
That’s right, folks, these contracts were not already struck by businessmen prior to this India trip. Obama made ‘em, en route, I guess. Obama “won” ‘em.
I imagine that soon, the seas will stop rising, as he previously promised when he was reading a speech one other time off a teleprompter.
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