Obama Appears as Max Headroom in Iowa Video Teleconference While Spotlight Zooms in on Santorum

 

Tuesday night while GOP Presidential Primary Candidate Rick Santorum captivated the imaginations of Conservatives nationwide, the White House counter-acted in an odd way, to say the least, by revealing a much older looking President Obama to their own base of supporters scattered throughout the State of Iowa using a new video teleconferencing tool that many including conservative  talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh, equated with 1980’s pop-culture star Max HeadRoom.

“I’m telling you, I don’t know how this happened folks", Limbaugh told his audience on Tuesday.  "They added 25 years to his appearance. He looked like the character Max Headroom out there. Barack Obama looked like a space alien. He looked like he was 75 years old.”.

Seated before a computer camera backstage at the Aragon Ball Room in Chicago, Obama spoke to grassroots volunteers gathered at more than 1,160 locations around the country using a custom “skype – like software program developed by Adobe systems Inc for his campaign.Obama To Iowa Dems: "More Optimistic" About "Change" Than in 2008

Although Obama urged his supporters to maintain the same sense of determination and energy they had four years ago, that was not the impression he communicated nonverbally. As Rush said, he looked old and tired, giving the impression he would rather be doing anything but being there giving a calculated pep talk immersed in campaign rhetoric and nostalgia.

Rumors have been circulating on the blogs and the new media for some time that Obama had become isolated in the White House and unwilling to talk to members of Congress or anyone else for that matter.

I know that all presidents age before our eyes during their tour of duty. Bush and Clinton, did as well although they never looked as strange and as old as Obama did on a night the attention was clearly focused on the Republicans.

 
The weirdness portrayed by the web broadcast amid static and sporadic audio interruptions was in starc contrast to the exuberance and genuine heart felt emotion displayed by Rick Santorum, who flawlessly addressed his supporters without a teleprompter and appeared to genuinely speak from his heart. It was no secret that Santorum who had come out of nowhere in the polls emerged as the big victor despite receiving 8 less votes than Romney after a curious delay in which efforts were made to find votes that were termed "missing" .

During Obama’s “Star Trek style” presentation, CBS news reported that there was no cheering or chanting or clapping for the president’s message that appeared to be “beamed” from an extra terrestrial command center in outer space to more than 200 caucus locations throughout Iowa. Seeing that Iowa was treated like another planet by the mainstream media this month anyway, the analogy seems appropriate here.

You know…”these alien life forms we’ve talked to (when we absolutely had no choice) actually believe in God, go to church, and think marriage should be between a man and a woman like that nut job Rick Santorum does”

Obama’s battleground state director Mitch Stewart,   who has been using the platform to hold several national online training sessions told participants last month that “this  is relatively new technology and there are some bumps we’re working through” ABC: A Nostalgic Obama Uses Webcast to Rally His Iowa Roots

Boy you’ve got that right Mitch!

But before signing off lets hear a few words from the mastermind himself who paved the way long before President Obama transmitted his revolutionary new image to supporters stranded on the far away and peculiar Planet of Iowa.



Max HeadRoom