In the more than eighty years the Parliament House in India has existed, not once has a teleprompter found its way into the honorable halls. That’s about to change, because Barack Obama is coming to town. And we all know he can’t deliver a speech without his handy TOTUS.

Yes, really, the president is so incapable of conversing without a teleprompter that he’s breaking nearly a century of precedent and bringing his gaudy electronic system into India’s parliament building. So unprecedented is this embarrassment that, via Allahpundit, local media is explaining to viewers what a teleprompter is.

Just when it appeared The One couldn’t get more embarrassing…

A teleprompter will be in use for the first time in the Central Hall of Parliament when US President Barack Obama addresses MPs on November eight…

Obama will take the help of a teleprompter to deliver his address to the 780-odd members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, sources said…

Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual–not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.

Teleprompters are textbook-sized panes of glass holding the prepared remarks of the speaker and which rests on top of a tall, narrow pole and flank his podium during speeches.

Apparently paper and notes, combined with some memorization, is too low-tech for President Wonderful. So he’ll drag the electronic binky into parliament. Like I said, absolutely embarrassing.