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2009-06-24 Home Front: Politix

That was no press conference! It was a @#$%^&* scripted infomercial!

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Posted by Mike 2009-06-24 10:18|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The owl flies at midnight. Comment (n-1)^v

Posted by mojo 2009-06-24 11:13|| 2009-06-24 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 F150 C2H5OH repeat comment(x-1)

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-06-24 11:26|| 2009-06-24 11:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Bush was able to give up alcohol cold turkey, Obama can't get beyond 95% cured. Could you imagine the reaction if GWB would have said that he has an occasional beer?

Posted by Penguin 2009-06-24 11:35|| 2009-06-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 BP for Barry. The media serve em up and he'll hit em out.
I wonder who he's bumming smokes offa?

Posted by tu3031 2009-06-24 12:27|| 2009-06-24 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, but when the batting average is lower than the Royals and the Nielson rating is 'Leslie'...

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-06-24 12:50|| 2009-06-24 12:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Dana's just pissed because he wasn't picked to ask The One a planted question.

Posted by ed 2009-06-24 12:52|| 2009-06-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 As if to compensate for the prepackaged Huffington Post question, Obama went quickly to Fox News for a predictably hostile question from Major Garrett. "In your opening remarks, sir, you said about Iran that you were appalled and outraged," Garrett said. "What took you so long?

"I don't think that's accurate," Obama volleyed testily, calling his toughening statements on Iran "entirely consistent."

The host of "The Obama Show" dispatched with similar ease a challenge from CBS's Chip Reid, asking whether his hardening line on Iran was inspired by John McCain. "What do you think?" Obama replied with a big grin. That brought the house down. And the studio audience laughed again when ABC's Jake Tapper tried to get Obama to answer another reporter's question that he had dodged. "Are you the ombudsman for the White House press corps?" the president cracked.

The laughter had barely subsided when the host made another joke about Tapper's reference to Obama's "Spock-like language about the logic of the health-care plan."

"The reference to Spock, is that a crack on my ears?" the president asked.

Hostile question? Sounds to me like Major Garrett is the only one of the bunch who takes his job as a reporter seriously. And notice how 0 avoids any tough questions by mocking them and cracking jokes in lieu of a real answer.

If there's one thing he's mastered as a politician, it's the three Ds:

Deny
Deflect
Distort

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-06-24 13:19|| 2009-06-24 13:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Saw a video yesterday of the ONE at a bill signing in the Rose Garden. He walked up to the table doing the "Chicken Strut" like he was back in the "Hood". The backwards ball cap crowd must have loved it.

I've often contended that the ball cap is on correct, the head is on backwards.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-06-24 14:00|| 2009-06-24 14:00|| Front Page Top

#9 "Chicken Strut" during the campaign... not so much. Things is different now.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-06-24 14:16|| 2009-06-24 14:16|| Front Page Top

#10 A backwards, or sideways ball cap is saying FUCK YOU and should NOT be tolerated

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-06-24 15:24|| 2009-06-24 15:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Even Zambian monkeys do a better job on their president than our press corps does.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-06-24 15:33|| 2009-06-24 15:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Spock? Just like Spock, you DO NOT BELONG IN THE BIG CHAIR!

Posted by OldSpook 2009-06-24 23:26|| 2009-06-24 23:26|| Front Page Top

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