re: #155 Escaped Hillbilly

Oh, and whoever dinged the young man for saying Obama uses his teleprompter too much, remember the grade school speech? He does.

That story about Obama using the teleprompter to address a classroom of children, versus just chatting with them as Bush had, was a RW invention. The President and the Secretary of Education did, in fact, do a free-form Q&A/discussion with the the 6th graders. The podium and teleprompters where set up in a seperate classroom, with only members of the press present, for the President to deliver prepared remarks (after finishing with the students).

You can see videos and photos of both events here:
whitehouse.gov
whitehouse.gov