Michelle Obama suffers from Teleprompter Envy

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There’s one less thing President Obama has over his wife Michelle: mastery of the Teleprompter.

Speech coach Christine Jahnke, author of the new book The Well-Spoken Woman, reveals that she taught the first lady how to use a Teleprompter in advance of her pitch in 2009 to the Olympic Committee in Denmark to pick Chicago for the 2016 Olympics, won by Rio de Janeiro.

“She is obviously a fine speaker,” Jahnke says. “But the Olympic speech was on a Teleprompter, and she was less familiar with that technique.” [Read: Michelle Obama’s Africa Trip Cost More than $424,142.]

Jahnke says Obama rehearsed four times and made time to do so even amid important meetings. “A well-spoken woman takes a speech seriously and prepares,” Jahnke says.

Like no president before, President Obama is a huge fan of the Teleprompter, using it at both formal and social events. So it’s natural for the rest of the family to follow suit.

Obama has mastery of the teleprompter? I think not. I think the teleprompter has mastery of Obama.

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Past July when visiting the United Kingdom the President used his teleprompter while addressing the British Parliament heard after he finished remarks with expected applause “Mister President welcome to the United Kingdom and the City of London but while you are here will you please pay the one million two hundred thousand pounds unpaid and overdue to the City and People of London for automobile user fees owed by your embassy. ” (Boris Johnson, MP and Lord Mayor of London without teleprompter)