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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns out, he was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given.

Cowen was set to speak twice at the White House on Tuesday night because there were two different parties going on at the executive mansion. No matter — he would give the same speech to the two different audiences.

But Cowen was 20 seconds into his second address when it dawned on him that he was giving word for word the speech that Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.

Cowen stopped and looked back at the president to say, "That's your speech."

Obama laughed and returned to the podium to offer what might have been Cowen's remarks. In doing so, President Obama thanked President Obama for inviting everyone over.



public speaking crutch

[dailykos]no! bush is dumb! bush is dumb, damn it! every speech he gave was via mind meld from puppet master and evil incarnate vp cheney. obama is smart and reads teleprompters like the celebrity-in-chief we've all been waiting for. his inability to stray from the prepared speech crutch of the teleprompter is exactly the change we believe in.[/dailykos]
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