Words Of Glass

President Obama is trying to kick the cigarette habit. It seems he also needs to kick the teleprompter habit, as Politico reports:

Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.

After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches, reports surfaced that he was training to wean himself off of the device while on vacation in Hawaii. But no such luck.

In TV news, good anchors never use the prompter as a crutch. They know when to go to the script, and they know the stories well enough to wing it. I think President Obama's good enough to do the same -- yes he can!

But honestly, do the rest of us really mind? To the contrary, I think we're just glad to have a chief executive who doesn't mangle the English language, and if that takes an electronic device, so be it.