You might not know it but actor James Earl Jones – “This is CNN” – has a speech impediment – studdering. The voice of Darth Vader, and countless other movies and documentaries cannot today speak without studdering unless he has a script.

Obama has no such impediment, yet as we’ve seen he cannot truly deliver memorable speeches without such a script. Now there is talk that the White House – on the heals of his less than stellar news conference last week is considering putting a scripting solution at his podium for future news conferences.

“One wouldn’t know it from reading the Washington Post or New York Times, but some inside the White House don’t think that President Barack Obama hit a home run with his first national press conference last week.

“It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech,” says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. “Every president has gone into one of these things knowing that there were some pre-arranged questions or journalists to be called on, but this one was pretty ham-handed.”

To that end, he says, the White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. “It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it,” says the adviser.”

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