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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: rich_t on March 24, 2009, 06:46:22 PM
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I suspect several of us will be watching this evening. So I figured I'd go ahead and generate a thread for discussion during and after.
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Starts in 12 minutes. Rahm Emanuel will be on Larry King.
Live audio feed for CNN --> http://www.cnn.com/audio/radio/cnntv.html
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I seldom watch Larry King. I might make an exception tonight.
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I suspect several of us will be watching this evening. So I figured I'd go ahead and generate a thread for discussion during and after.
Thanks, rich, sir; and please keep those of us who don't watch television or have one of those television-viewing thingamajigs on our computers, informed about what's being said.
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Thanks, rich, sir; and please keep those of us who don't watch television or have one of those television-viewing thingamajigs on our computers, informed about what's being said.
I'll try frank. Hopefully some folks with better typing skills than I have, will chime in and assist.
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I'll try frank. Hopefully some folks with better typing skills than I have, will chime in and assist.
Usually they do; Wretched Excess did a great job in getting this behavior established here, during the primaries last year.
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(CNN) -- President Obama will call on Americans to look to the future with a "renewed confidence that a better day will come," in his second prime time news conference Tuesday.
Obama, seeking to rally support for his economic plan, will tell the country that his administration has put in place "a comprehensive strategy designed to attack this crisis on all fronts."
"It's a strategy to create jobs, to help responsible homeowners, to restart lending, and to grow our economy over the long term. And we are beginning to see signs of progress," he will say.
The news conference will air live on CNN and CNN.com at 8 p.m. ET.
(MORE) (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/obama.news.conference/index.html)
blah blah blah
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Thanks, rich, sir; and please keep those of us who don't watch television or have one of those television-viewing thingamajigs on our computers, informed about what's being said.
I got the speech right here............prompter sent it to me.
Pass more tax hikes................blah, blah
Scare all those in the financial buisnesses shitless and keep running the country down......blah,blah
We are leaving Iraq.....blah, blah..........we are losing in Afghanistan
We need to talk with Iran.....
Osama is just misunderstood............
Timmy boy is doing a swell job................
Quit listening to Rush.........
The failed economic policies of the past eight years (the ones that were the best of just about anyone)
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How late will Thumpy be??
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blah, blah, blah....................... :banghead:
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He's on. :whatever:
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"We're beginning to see signs of progress." We are??
A closed factory in Pittsburgh... I'm shocked. Coudln't have anything to do with the city's tax policies, could it?
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Refinancing a home at a lower rate is a "tax cut"?
Did he actually just say that?
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He just said that crap sandwich and porkulus saved jobs :thatsright:
Just said 95% will get tax cuts................. :bird: for the $7/carton jackass
blah, blah...............lieing between his teeth on this shit that he helped cause.
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came out on time, with a nice little "pimp limp" swagger going on.
didn't see a prompter, but there might be one on the camera from the way he's staring at it.
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"We're beginning to see signs of progress."
Reminds one of what Herbert Hoover said, in 1930, about turning a corner.
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"the budget is inseparable from the recovery"?
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He thinks he's going to cut the deficit in half in his first term? :gay:
"An efficient healthcare system that controls costs." Get ready to hear the word "no" from your doctor. A lot.
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"Bad AIG! Bad! Bad!"
Will Democrats be returning their campaign contributions from AIG, or are the politicians too big to fail?
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Cut the deficit in halp with even the most pessemistic review..............the CBO :lmao:
Didn't they say it would be even larger
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actual tough question from AP... i'm shocked
must be scripted
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He's such a dumbass and a ****ing socialist
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actual tough question from AP... i'm shocked
must be scripted
I thought it was more like a softball
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Here comes the sacrafice we all need to make
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Sacrifice... this should be good. Obama's going to get into the "punishing" business.
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Has anyone heard an answer yet??
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what a load of shit........................
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Tough budget choices....................what was tough, deciding to bankrupt America in 4 years instead of 2
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Has anyone heard an answer yet??
Not yet. But he sure does talk pretty.
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He sure can tap dance with the best of them.
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Here we go...
Cap and Trade....
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Save the planet... screw the people living on it.
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He has "identified ways to pay for" his $3.8 trillion budget. But he still hasn't given an answer to the question. I guess the middle class won't get their tax cut.
HE NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION!
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Does he realize that 1.3 trillion is less than 9.8 trillion
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Does he realize that 1.3 trillion is less than 9.8 trillion
It seems not.
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Damn... he is setting new records for how high you can pile bullshit.
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Energy, education, health care... blah blah blah.
Democrats won't let us drill our own oil. The NEA controls the schools. And the government is the one standing in the way of people buying their own health insurance.
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Energy, education, health care... blah blah blah.
Democrats won't let us drill our own oil. The NEA controls the schools. And the government is the one standing in the way of people buying their own health insurance.
True, true and true.
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Surprise... the Pentagon was #2 on his list of spending cuts.
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did he just use the word bi-partisan?
He doesn't even understand what that word is supposed to mean.
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Invest in science and technology...........................then cut the Defense budget.
Hey thumpy do you realize the first things cut in defense in R&D???
Do you realize that is where the best and brightest are..............****nuts :bird:
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These are staged questions
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I'm not watching the ass because his face makes me sick to my stomach....but....watch the poll numbers and the stock market tomorrow. I predict a down time.
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These are staged questions
Sure looks like it.
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Invest in science and technology...........................then cut the Defense budget.
Hey thumpy do you realize the first things cut in defense in R&D???
Do you realize that is where the best and brightest are..............****nuts :bird:
He'll have jobs for the engineers and scientists on the road crews building his new "infrastructure".
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I'm not watching the ass because his face makes me sick to my stomach....but....watch the poll numbers and the stock market tomorrow. I predict a down time.
Stock market for sure. Especially over his cap and trade arguments.
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Sure looks like it.
I didn't think so until the Mexican chick
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Now that asshole is talking about vet treatment.
Hey dick lick, wasn't it your folks that tried to sneak in vets having to pay for treatment with private insurance?
What a complete and utter asswipe.
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Well on this about cost overruns and such for the military....................does that mean we can cut all the DUMBASS goverment programs out there.
Apparant to what critics..................$40 billion...............not fattening Defense contractors.........DUMBASS.......
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I didn't think so until the Mexican chick
Hell, he called on a reporter, then immediately asked if the reporter was there.
Sure looks like scripted questions to me.
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Well on this about cost overruns and such for the military....................does that mean we can cut all the DUMBASS goverment programs out there.
Apparant to what critics..................$40 billion...............not fattening Defense contractors.........DUMBASS.......
Like 40 billion is much compared to the 9.8 trillion in spending this jerkwad is planning?
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Still dodging the question on how he is going to reduce health care costs.
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What and idiot.................screws up preplanned questions
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Hell, he called on a reporter, then immediately asked if the reporter was there.
Sure looks like scripted questions to me.
Of course it's scripted. If it wasn't scripted, the teleprompter would be useless to the ass. The ass would have to answer "on the fly", and we KNOW that can't happen.
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THE US GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUSINESS IN MEDDLING WITH PRIVATE HEALTH CARE YOU ARROGANT EGOTISTICAL ASS.
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Damn Schade is disguised as Major and just kicked Thumpy in the nuts :lmao:
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Name-dropping little weenie. Gordon Brown and Kevin Rudd aren't far from O'Prompter on the political scale.
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The dollar is Extraordinarily strong right now?
WTF????
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I'm going to dub him Thumpy O'Prompter. :-)
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He ran from that global currrency question like his hair was on fire.
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A bus driver makes $50,000 a year in Obama's world? Holy shit, where can I find me a bus?
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He ran from that global currrency question like his hair was on fire.
well he can't come right out and say he supports it. Even though I suspect he is.
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A bus driver makes $50,000 a year in Obama's world? Holy shit, where can I find me a bus?
A bus driver probably can if they work in NYC or LA.
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These questions are definitely staged. That 1-in-50 homeless children statistic was proven to be a lie a month ago.
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What a ****ing Socialist
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These questions are definitely staged. That 1-in-50 homeless children statistic was proven to be a lie a month ago.
Naw... they include kids that live in trailer parks too.
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The dollar is Extraordinarily strong right now?
WTF????
Compared to the New Guinea Coconut Frond.
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What a nontruthful assbag
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<sigh>
It's gonna be a looong 4 years with this idiot ruining the show.
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What a nontruthful assbag
You must be a faster typer than I am, always getting ahead of me in expressing one's real sentiments.
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The dollar is Extraordinarily strong right now?
WTF????
I'd love to see a reporter nail him with the statistical fact that the dollar has dropped 3% in value against the Euro just since Jan. 20th, 2009.
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"The status quo is unsustainable" means "The Israelis will have to surrender to the Islamic hordes".
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"The status quo is unsustainable" means "The Israelis will have to surrender to the Islamic hordes".
Will never happen. Evren if we make the huge mistake of abandoning them.
They will, without doubt, go down fighting.
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That was pathetic. I would honestly rather have watched 'American Idol', and I have never watched that show.
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Oh boy, here comes CNN post-conference analysis.
"Spoke for 150 minutes" and all CNN can do is express that "this isn't George W. Bush".
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Will never happen. Evren if we make the huge mistake of abandoning them.
They will, without doubt, go down fighting.
I predict that the day the US officially repudiates and abandons Israel... there will be several mushroom clouds in the ME.
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I'll try to find and post the transcript of tonight's press conference tomorrow, for those that were unable to watch it this evening.
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Has anyone heard an answer yet??
no question answered
I cracked up every time he said "I won't lie to you" when everything he said before and after WAS a lie to us
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I'll try to find and post the transcript of tonight's press conference tomorrow, for those that were unable to watch it this evening.
Here is a transcript (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032403036.html?hpid=topnews) of tonight's whatever it was.
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came out on time, with a nice little "pimp limp" swagger going on.
didn't see a prompter, but there might be one on the camera from the way he's staring at it.
huge TV on the back wall (left side of picture)
(http://www.drudgereport.com/tele.jpg)
if you watched his eyes you could see them going left to right
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It was 57 minutes in length.
His speech was 6 minutes long.
He took 13 questions taking approximately 4 minutes each.
What a waste of time. B.O.R.I.N.G.
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anyone else notice that he was yellow ?
the guys in the booth tried to fix it and edged him a little toward green.
and not it was not my TV because the insides of his giant ears were pink and everything else in the room was normal
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It was 57 minutes in length.
His speech was 6 minutes long.
He took 13 questions taking approximately 4 minutes each.
What a waste of time. B.O.R.I.N.G.
none of which answered the question posed and nearly all of which wound up with education, energy, healthcare or 95% being in the answer.
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anyone else notice that he was yellow ?
the guys in the booth tried to fix it and edged him a little toward green.
and not it was not my TV because the insides of his giant ears were pink and everything else in the room was normal
As I briefly look at the man-child, because I can't stand him, all I see is his purple lips and dumbo ears.
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I'll try to find and post the transcript of tonight's press conference tomorrow, for those that were unable to watch it this evening.
It wasn't that I was unable to watch it, I just don't have a strong enough stomach for all the crap that's involved.
Instead, I started reading Mark Levin's new book. So far, it's excellent!
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From Michelle Malkin...
8:01pm Eastern. POTUS/TOTUS on economic crisis: “It took many failures to lead us here.â€
And you will be victims of many more!
Obama touts the tax cuts he signed into law. ($13/week that won’t buy you earrings worth Michelle Obama’s time.)
Obama assails the “illusion of prosperity,†while he adds to the illusion.
Assails borrow and spend, while espousing more borrowing and spending.
Re. AIG bonuses: “I’m as angry as anybody.â€
(But Geithner is doing a heckuva job, and I’m not letting him go!)
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8:07pm Eastern. AP’s Jennifer Loven gets first question…why pushing for new government authority of financial institutions? “I think there’s going to be strong support for this authority.†AP: “Why should people trust govt to buy up toxic assets?â€
BO basically says: Because they will.
Refers to IndyMac as a success story. Hello?
Talks about the “tools†he needs.
Tools = power/control.
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8:15pm Eastern. Jake Tapper gets a question. Right now, Senate Dems are writing a budget not including middle class tax cut, cap and trade, and other measures. Will you sign a budget if it does not contain tax cut and cap and trade?
I expect health care reform, blah blah. “I am confident that the budget we put forward will have principles in place. Middle class tax cut will be there for next two years. Cap-n-trade - the broader principle is that we have to move to a new energy era.â€
Refuses to talk more about it, since he hasn’t read it.
Basically, he’ll sign it.
(MORE) (http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/24/potus-and-totus-meet-the-press/)
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QUESTION Chip Reid: Thank you, Mr. President.
At both of your town hall meetings in California last week, you said, quote, â€I didn’t run for president to pass on our problems to the next generation.â€
But under your budget, the debt will increase $7 trillion over the next 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office says $9.3 trillion. And today on Capitol Hill, some Republicans called your budget, with all the spending on health care, education and environment, the most irresponsible budget in American history.
Isn’t that kind of debt exactly what you were talking about when you said passing on our problems to the next generation?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: First of all, I suspect that some of those Republican critics have a short memory, because as I recall, I’m inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit, annual deficit, from them.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/obama_bush_debt.jpg)
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/dishonest-obama-blames-bush-and-gop-for.html
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An empty suit....clearly read his prepared script and knew the questions in advance.
Bush would tear him to pieces in a real non-scripted debate.
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An empty suit....clearly read his prepared script and knew the questions in advance.
Bush would tear him to pieces in a real non-scripted debate.
I was thinking about this today and I think Obama is less than an empty suit. He's a complete wraith. He was totally created by the media and without media feedback machines aka telepromptors, he ceases to exist. He is nothing other than an echo of leftist media talking to itself.
It is amazing to me just how not real Obama is. I mean, it is hard to exactly quantify not realness because how does one thing that is not real have more or less reality than another thing that is not real but I would say of all the not real things I can thing of, ie. unicorns, Santa Clause, Palmer Eldritch, Barak Obama, etc. Barak Obama has the least substance of all these unreal things. Which is an amazing accomplishment when one considers anything that is unreal has zero substance so it is almost a paradox but not quite. It is something that can seem to be discussed even though there is no word for it because it doesn't exist. Obama is the Big Less-Than-Zero.
That is probably why he has the teleprompters at the far left and right because it means he is seldom directly facing the camera and has he shakes his head back and forth it creates the illusion that he there. He become at least a vague blur like Bob Arctor in A Scanner Darkly.
Far from being the first "black" president, Obama is the first nonexistent person to ever be elected president.
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Obama's viewership declines (http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/03/obam-press-conference-ratings.html)
Most TV shows start strong in the ratings, then decline as their novelty wears off.
Apparently that trend also holds true for the president's primetime telecasts.
According to the national Nielsen ratings, Barack Obama's Tuesday-night press conference lost viewers compared with his two most recent heavily covered evening events.
The news special drew 40.4 million viewers -- down 18% from from his Feb. 9 press conference, and down 23% from his Feb. 24 address to Congress. The numbers are the combined viewership from 11 cable and broadcast networks that carried the event.