The Teleprompter Jesus couldn't allow the message to deviate, nor be expected to respond to unvetted opposition questions. Think of the squeals of hysterical outrage if Rove had done this for Chimpy McHalliburton? He's a fake
President Obama has promised to change the way the government does business, but in at least one respect he is taking a page from the Bush playbook, stocking his town hall Thursday with supporters whose soft -- though far from planted -- questions provided openings to discuss his preferred message of the day.
Obama has said, "I think it's important to engage your critics ... because not only will you occasionally change their mind but, more importantly, sometimes they will change your mind," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs recounted to The Post's Lois Romano in an interview Wednesday.
But while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 2008.
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Gawd, It's Martin Luther King hooked on electronics.
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taking a page from the Bush playbook
Frank G, it seems the WaPo is asserting that, in fact, Dubya's people DID do this. I don't recall it. In this case do I trust my memory or the WaPo's connection to reality?
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These sheeple knew they were media administration "plants" and were probably rewarded handsomely for their deeds. They are little more than shameless, leftest, tools of the Obama state.
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The Democrats have got the dog and pony show down pat. You have to have a fake front when the top woman in congress is from the gueer captial of the world, the top male in congress is from the gambling capital of the world, and the oval office occupant is from the shake down capital of the world.
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Verlaine, to my knowledge W's staff did not do this, or we'd still be hearing about it. Looks to me like WaPo defensiveness over the lameness of their messiah: "see? they did it too!1!!..or something"
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Cause a question for the President is a f***ing valuable thing, you just dont give it away for nothing.
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I recall Bush's team would pick very friendly venues and keep pesky non-supporters out. They'd have tickets for the event and distribute the tickets to supporters. No tickee, no entry. I don't recall them using campaign backers as plants for questions, though if everyone in the hall is a supporter, that's hardly needed.
I should note that the whole idea of having a friendly venue packed with supporters is not a new idea in politics, nor is it new to use tickets to a 'free' event to ensure a welcome reception.
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I seem to recall during the Republican primary some of the 'debate' questioners were outriger Democratic Operatives.
An update on the heated special election in the NY-20 congressional district, the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand. A new Siena College poll out today has Democrat Scott Murphy up four points heading into the final weekend of campaigning.
Perhaps in an effort to take advantage of this momentum, the Democratic National Committee is running an ad on Albany-area TV touting this week's endorsement of Murphy by President Obama. "In the worst recession in a generation, upstate New Yorkers deserve someone with the right skills to represent them in Washington. That's why President Obama is supporting Scott Murphy for Congress," an announcer says in the ad that will run through Monday. "[I]n Congress, he'll work with President Obama to spur investment and create jobs right here at home."
Mark Gersh, NCEC Director in Washington, DC and CBS News consultant, puts the contest and the region in perspective this way: "Historically upstate New York has favored Republican congressional districts.... [But] as of now, Republicans control only two seats north of New York City. Democrats have enjoyed enormous success in upstate and suburban New York since 2006. In those last two elections, John Hall (19th district), Kirsten Gillibrand (20th district), Mike Arcuri (24th district), Dan Maffei (25th district) and Eric Massa (29th district) have captured Republican seats.
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Yeah, vote democrat. They have been so successful in bankrupting you thus far.
You are lost on how Providence is applied, and yours is all over and spent. FDR was not woth a years worth of protection of this country, and Obama and Pelosi are not worth a breath.
WAKE UP OR DIE>
LAST WARNING AMERICA.
Socialist ARE FKTARDS., And YOU are Fool. Be the ball you want ME TO PUNT.
Laura Rozen reports: Clinton wanted Netanyahu to kick Uzi Arad out of their meeting:
[W]hen Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Netanyahu at the King David Hotel earlier this month, such was the concern that a certain former Mossad analyst who now serves as Netanyahu's security advisor may pose a counterintelligence problem that, after conferring with an aide, Clinton suggested to Netanyahu that they reduce the number of people in the room.
... Arad has been unable to get a U.S. visa for the past two years, he has suggested, because he was identified in a 2005 indictment (though not by name) as one of the Israelis who met with then-Pentagon Iran specialist Larry Franklin. Franklin pled guilty in 2005 on charges related to unauthorized disclosure of national-security information to people not authorized to receive it, including officials with the Israeli government.
Clinton's suggestion was made, sources say, in the hopes that Netanyahu would get the message and excuse Arad from the meeting. What happened instead, sources report, was that Netanyahu dismissed from the meeting Israeli ambassador to Washington Sallai Meridor, who has since announced his resignation. (An account of the meeting previously published on ForeignPolicy.com revealed that Clinton seemed remarkably constrained and tight-lipped during it.)
U.S. officials knowledgeable about the meeting declined to comment about the incident but did not deny that Arad's presence at the meeting was a concern to the U.S. delegation.
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Didn't Hillary try to get Jonathan Pollard (convicted and sentenced to life Israeli spy) pardoned during her Senate campaign?
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you mean when she needed NY Jew votes? Like when the pardons came in for poll group "victims", the New Square Hasidic Juice? Jeebus, aren't you the cynical one!
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"Arad has been denied a U.S. visa under section 212 3(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This gives consular officers and the Justice Department authority to bar people who may seek 'to violate any law of the United States relating to espionage or sabotage' from entering the country."
Obviously some say Arad is cool as the other side of the pillow and should be welcomed to highly classified meetings with the US DoS. Others suggest, because of his sketchy past, he should just be marginialized but still be able to participate in the vapor. Still others believe he should rot in a prison cell; same as his fellow commrades that have stolen highly classified intelligence from the the US. Then again, some believe lying spies that pretend to be friends deserve a much harsher form of justice. You make the call.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
