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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: DixieBelle on April 22, 2008, 11:22:33 AM
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Barack Obama got cranky with a reporter today when asked a question at a diner about Jimmy Carter meeting with Hamas.
As Sen. Hillary Clinton was preparing to campaign here today, Sen. Barack Obama was meeting with voters at a diner and apparently pretty hungry. "Why can't I just eat my waffle?" he said, when asked a foreign policy question by a reporter at the Glider Diner.
What's the big deal? Why is this news? Because, as Jay Newton-Small at Time's Swampland explains, Obama hasn't given a press conference in 10 days and the reporters had no other opportunity to ask him.
Journalists in general don’t relish asking politicians questions in awkward situations, like on a golf course or over a waffle. But sometimes our hands are forced: Obama hasn’t given a press conference in 10 days and the questions, some of them -- like Hamas -- rather important, are starting to build up. If he wins the nomination he'll be running again John McCain, whose philosophy is to give the press total access to the point of saturation; Obama might consider holding avails with a little more regularity. Then, maybe, reporters would let him to eat in peace.
Like Kevin Drum says, this is baffling.
Obama just doesn't give the press much access, sometimes shutting them down for weeks at a time. Why? Does this make sense to anyone else as a campaign strategy? I'm baffled by it.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/4/22/0143/90714
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Obama just doesn't give the press much access, sometimes shutting them down for weeks at a time. Why?
Because it takes him that long to memorize his fancy prose???
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Obama just doesn't give the press much access, sometimes shutting them down for weeks at a time. Why?
Because it takes him that long to memorize his fancy prose???
It does take a while to get his "story straight". Besides, talking to mere mortal reporters is beneath him. :whatever:
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It does take a while to get his "story straight". Besides, talking to mere mortal reporters is beneath him. :whatever:
And when he does talk candidly and off the cuff, usually something frighteningly communist/anti-American/elitist comes out.
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It does take a while to get his "story straight". Besides, talking to mere mortal reporters is beneath him. :whatever:
And when he does talk candidly and off the cuff, usually something frighteningly communist/anti-American/elitist comes out.
He and his handlers are just hoping us peasants are too dumb to notice. :whatever:
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It does take a while to get his "story straight". Besides, talking to mere mortal reporters is beneath him. :whatever:
And when he does talk candidly and off the cuff, usually something frighteningly communist/anti-American/elitist comes out.
His handlers have shut him down. And they almost shut his wife, thereza 2.0, down (but not quite).
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It does take a while to get his "story straight". Besides, talking to mere mortal reporters is beneath him. :whatever:
And when he does talk candidly and off the cuff, usually something frighteningly communist/anti-American/elitist comes out.
He and his handlers are just hoping us peasants are too dumb to notice. :whatever:
How funny we both pointed to his handlers at the same time (I took longer to compose mine). Great minds and all that...
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It does take a while to get his "story straight". Besides, talking to mere mortal reporters is beneath him. :whatever:
And when he does talk candidly and off the cuff, usually something frighteningly communist/anti-American/elitist comes out.
He and his handlers are just hoping us peasants are too dumb to notice. :whatever:
How funny we both pointed to his handlers at the same time (I took longer to compose mine). Great minds and all that...
Now that's just scary....
:-)
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What's the big deal? Why is this news? Because, as Jay Newton-Small at Time's Swampland explains, Obama hasn't given a press conference in 10 days and the reporters had no other opportunity to ask him.
this is a big deal to the beat reporters that follow him around the country 24 hours a day . . . and it certainly isn't the way to ingratiate yourself to the media.
sooner of later, the MSM will turn on you if you are inaccessible for too long.
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Video goodness here - http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/04/22/foreign-policy-vs-waffles-no-contest.php
He's so Presidential!!!! :whatever: :thatsright:
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Fast forward: Obama is the President. It's 3am and the White House phone rings:
"Mr. President, Iran has just launched a full scale nuclear attack on Israel."
Obama: "Leave me alone - I haven't had my morning waffles yet!"
Jimmy Carter 2.0 living in the White House.
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The Magic Negro has hoof and mouth disease when he does not have a canned script.