Apparently, the President is terrified of the notion that he might speak before a group of sixth graders without his beloved teleprompter.  Last week, he hauled the technological wonder to a classroom at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va.  It was set up, and the speech went off without a hitch.

If only Dan Quayle had such a device, it might have helped him spell potato.

I know that if I were faced with a group of curious 11-year-olds, I wouldn’t dare speak to them without a machine to keep me on point.

I mean, the questions they’d ask would likely be togher than anything coming from NBC news, so I’d need some kind of coach, right?

- Robert Laurie