Obama Speech Starts Speech With One Minuate Delay Due to Teleprompter

We have this strange incident -- the latest of many strange incidents -- on Friday, August 5th 2011, when Obama, about to give a speech, stood staring for a full minute while evidently waiting for the Teleprompter to switch on. Under such circumstances, the normal politician will joke, will tell a yarn or two, tease the audience, do anything but what Obama did: stare off into space after announcing, "We're waiting." Pharaoh hath spoken.