James, you ignorant fool! The mere fact that you are dabbling on the idiotic topic of whether or not our president reads a prompt while delivering his speeches simply illustrates the lack of intelligence you yourself posses. Perhaps a dialogue on whether the elephant is a fitting republican symbol would be a more fitting one for you.

First relax, Second Obama reads WORD FOR WORD from the teleprompter, hence the whole LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT head movement he does the ENTIRE SPEECH. Watching him talk is like watching a robot spit out a speech. No he's not that intelligent, people would be less critical f he just memorized most of his speech and glance down at the paper occasionally, it's less obnoxious than him not looking forward EVER. Anyway SNL use to be good when they actually learned their lines, now they just pull an obama every episode.

Did you ever think that Obama isn't reading from a TelePrompTer , but he's actually thinking for himself; That is how real INTELLIGENT AND COMPREHENSIVE people THINK ; really taking the time to make choice decisions before they speak ( did you for get he is under a microscope - FISH BOWL STYLE) REALLY! ; making choice calculated and keen comments without making him self sound rehearsed or acting and playing like he understands or cares , by pretend to speak from his heart. People like him are rare as Our Father and Chief of the Free world: Kennedy and Clinton. But , you wouldn't get that because you understand way to well that all the other world leaders of the past that had to use that devices were sharp witted enough to think without such a thing. IT'S CALLED THINKING . MORON! And furthermore, Obama's not an ACTOR!