Obama stumbles without his notes
In the speech, Obama says: “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about… It — it — it would cost about the same as what we would spend… It… Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us… (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to… It… It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about — hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”
That is why, Limbaugh said, he doesn’t believe Obama “will do as many of these town hall meetings with McCain as his camp is saying. … If this were George Bush that you were listening to, this would have been commented on since it happened. You would have had people all over the country saying, ‘Gosh, can’t we get a guy that can talk? Can’t we get a guy who can put two thoughts together?”
“This is the worst example of it, but I have noticed this and I have seen this throughout these town hall debate situations,” Limbaugh said.
Limbaugh noted Obama’s explanation that he couldn’t hear himself.
“By the way, when he makes his remark about the audience being loud and distracting, we didn’t edit any of the audience out. The audience was not making a sound because the audience is as perplexed as you will be,” Limbaugh said.
“Nobody was saying a word. There was no cheering; there was no fainting. There was just disbelief. I have warned you people several times, you get this guy away from the teleprompter and the David Axelrod-written speeches. This guy doesn’t even write his own speeches. Mario Cuomo and Malcolm X write these, but the bottom line is, you get this guy away from them, and I don’t care, he blames it on lack of sleep. Hey, get used to it, man, you want to be president. Remember that phone call that’s going to ring at 3:00 in the morning? It’s going to be Hillary saying, ‘Have you seen Bill?’ And he’ll say, ‘Yeah, the last time I saw him was in the Oval Office and I couldn’t get rid of him so I came up to bed.’ This is the guy who wan