Obama Without a Teleprompter

Posted: Jun 10, 2008 11:59 AM
When Barack Obama doesn't have a teleprompter he's prone to giving some disastrous explanations for his decisions.

Yesterday, Obama signaled he may "defer" his tax-hiking economic proposals because he knew it could hurt the economy. This is the intro and his own statement from a segment on CNBC yesterday:
Today, Obama was asked about his "vetter" Jim Johnson.
ABC News' Sunlen Miller asked  Obama how he could "rail against Countrywide Financial Corp as an example of insiders and today's economy while your VP search is headed by someone who got questionable loans from Countrywide?"

Obama's answer?
It didn't matter because Johnson wasn't getting paid and vetting is a "discreet task."

"These aren’t folks who are working for me," Obama said. "They're not people you know who I have assigned to a job in a future administration and, you know, ultimately my assumption is that, you know, this is a discreet task that they're going to performing for me over the next two months."

That's an interesting standard. I suppose Rev. Wright, Ayers, Dohn, Rezko, etc didn't matter because he wasn't paying them either?!?

Update: Video from Obama's presser w/ Johnson question.