Original sentence: "  By June of 2009, Obama was making public appearances without the teleprompter." But his use of teleprompters has come under fire from critics.According to Michael Gerson of the Washington Post, President Obama is known as the "teleprompter president" due to his use of the machine while giving speeches.Gerson observed that "Obama can be ambitiously eloquent (with the teleprompter)" but "without it, he tends to be soberly professorial.Obama has been described as "the most eloquent political speaker of our time