Marco's Needs a Teleprompter

[Boom_70]

Marco Rubio gave a "major" speech yesterday at The Brookings Institute. It was suppose to be his coming out party but someone forgot to give him all pages of his speech.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7406692n

Lame and not ready for prime time.

Pick up the white courtesy phone Marco.

 

[cjericho]

Why is the apostrophe needed?

 

[SixToe]

Marco's what needs a teleprompter? Brain? Toes? Security detail?

 

[ifilus]

 

[mediaguy]

Looks bad, but thought he handled it well. Good staff to have speech right there at quick reach.

 

[Boom_70]

Why is the apostrophe needed?

It's the Cuban spelling of his first name.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Wow, the next thing you know we'll have a president who has all of his speeches on the teleprompter...

**** happens... Who gives a ****?

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

**** happens... Who gives a ****?

It matters because it was his chance to reveal himself to people who don't have the first ****ing clue who he is. And he **** the bed. Miserably.

"First impressions count, asshole." -- Kathy Bates in Primary Colors

Remember Bobby Jindal's SOTU rebuttal? Haven't heard much from him since, have we?

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Actually, it might have been Emma Thompson who said that in Primary Colors. It's been a while since I've seen it.

 

[Boom_70]

Wow, the next thing you know we'll have a president who has all of his speeches on the teleprompter...

**** happens... Who gives a ****?

I do. It was billed as a major speech. He should have been more prepared.

I would have liked it better if he showed that he could ad lib when he realized that last page was missing.

It was not a good first impression.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Much better idea to do what he did than to try to "ad lib" a foreign policy speech before the Brookings Institute.

I'm not particularly a fan, didn't like the message of the speech much, which essentially sounded like more of the same old prescription of the U.S. trying to play pied piper around a world that doesn't really want it to.

But as far as speeches like that go, most of what I have read has been positive.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

TROLL!!! Just joking...

Obviously not good, but I think most people knew who Rubio was. Maybe I'm wrong... How is this a major speech?

It'll be interesting to see how much coverage this gets.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Much better idea to do what he did than to try to "ad lib" a foreign policy speech before the Brookings Institute.

I'm not particularly a fan, didn't like the message of the speech much, which essentially sounded like more of the same old prescription of the U.S. trying to play pied piper around a world that doesn't really want it to.

But as far as speeches like that go, most of what I have read has been positive.

That's the thing I really don't understand. Only someone not paying attention, I mean straight up not even conscious for the last 6-8 years, would think you could win votes by talking up more worldwide intervention. You hear more clamoring about how even Obama needs to bring home more troops, and these guys want to get more involved? Mind boggling.

 

[Starman]

You hear more clamoring about how even Obama needs to bring home more troops, and these guys want to get more involved? Mind boggling.

You might almost think they were intransigently opposed to every single thing Obama does, every time he draws breath on planet earth, for some far-fetched reason I can't possibly imagine.

Or maybe they just want their countree back, who knows.

 

[Boom_70]

TROLL!!! Just joking...

Obviously not good, but I think most people knew who Rubio was. Maybe I'm wrong... How is this a major speech?

It'll be interesting to see how much coverage this gets.

Hah good one.

To me the fact Rubio could not ad lib shows that he does not have a great grasp of what he was speaking about . Some foreign policy expert probably wrote it for him.

Remember when Palin's teleprompter went out at convention and she did not miss a beat.

 

[Point of Order]

His real "problem" for being VP is that he looks so young.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

TROLL!!! Just joking...

Obviously not good, but I think most people knew who Rubio was. Maybe I'm wrong... How is this a major speech?

It'll be interesting to see how much coverage this gets.

Hah good one.

To me the fact Rubio could not ad lib shows that he does not have a great grasp of what he was speaking about . Some foreign policy expert probably wrote it for him.

Remember when Palin's teleprompter went out at convention and she did not miss a beat.

I'll take Rubio over Palin in a second.

 

[ColdCat]

**** happens... Who gives a ****?

It matters because it was his chance to reveal himself to people who don't have the first ****ing clue who he is. And he **** the bed. Miserably.

"First impressions count, asshole." -- Kathy Bates in Primary Colors

Remember Bobby Jindal's SOTU rebuttal? Haven't heard much from him since, have we?

IIRC Clinton had an absolute disaster of a convention speech in 88 and managed to recover to the tune of two terms in the White House. One bad speech is not the end of a political career and I'm sure we'll hear more from Rubio and Jindahl.

In fact I'd still peg Rubio for a strong VP pick this year given how important it will be for the GOP to win Florida

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

In 1988, there were no Intertubes, and CNN barely existed. Apples and unicorns.

 

[Starman]

Hah good one.

To me the fact Rubio could not ad lib shows that he does not have a great grasp of what he was speaking about . Some foreign policy expert probably wrote it for him.

Remember when Palin's teleprompter went out at convention and she did not miss a beat.

Yammerring incoherent babbling with or without the teleprompter, what's the difference?

And how much brainpower does it take to rattle, "skeeery skeery M.N. taking our countree, we want our countree back" ?