Obama’s Teleprompter Woes cause Late Nite ribbing by Leno

Its good that he goes on talk shows!

Why is it good?

We see that he didn't read his own bill that he signed, giving the bonuses back to AIG, and that he didn't know about it because his own Treasury Sec didn't tell him, after the T-Sec had the clause inserted, re-writing Dodd's original bill.

That is not a man who need to go on Leno. That is a man who needs to roll up his sleeves and cut out the Wednesday parties and get to work, reading his own bills, for the first thing on the agenda.

From Media ignore Bush Treasury Department role in last year's AIG bailouts, notwithstanding bonus packages :

In a letter to Geithner sent with the explanation of the bonuses, AIG's [CEO Edward] Liddy said that he, too, had found the bonuses "distasteful." But he said contracts for them were negotiated long before he was asked by the government to take over the troubled insurer in September.

Since that time, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve have pledged up to $180 billion in aid to AIG, giving the government a nearly 80% stake in the company. That aid includes loans from the Fed and $40 billion in purchases of the company's stock out of the $700 billion financial rescue plan passed by Congress last year.

Company executives who receive money from the financial rescue plan are subject to compensation limits after legislation was signed into law in February.

Liddy told Geithner the bonuses were negotiated in early 2008 and "outside counsel has advised that these are legal, binding obligations of AIG, and there are serious legal, as well as business, consequences for not paying."