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Offline bijou

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Democrat anger at Obama overkill
« on: March 21, 2009, 04:37:21 PM »
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WHEN the White House announced last week that President Barack Obama will be returning to the nation’s television screens on Tuesday for a prime-time press conference that will postpone the latest episode of American Idol - the talent show watched by 25m viewers - fans of the programme were quick to respond.

“Stop, please stop, Mr O, we can’t take much more,” one angry viewer wrote on an Idol-related website. “Not again!” complained another. “It’s the same speech he’s been giving for the past year.”

There were dark mutterings that by commandeering evening programming only a few days after he appeared on Jay Leno’s popular late-night chat show, Obama was “just like Fidel Castro [of Cuba] and Hugo Chavez [of Venezuela] - always on camera, always giving speeches and lecturing”.

The barbed response to the prospect of yet another mass-media dose of Obama’s economic prescriptions underlined the dangers the president is facing as he struggles to sell his recovery efforts to a country seething with anger and anxiety over the costs, effectiveness and potential abuse of the government’s trillion-dollar bailout programme.

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The dangers of his reliance on populist appeal were laid bare during his Leno appearance, where the easy questions lobbed up by his comedian host yielded few clues to future policy but caused a rare Obama stumble.

Deprived of the teleprompter that has become his regular travelling companion, Obama answered a question about his ten-pin bowling prowess by saying “it was like the Special Olympics” for disabled athletes. He apologised even before the recorded programme was broadcast and much of the cheerful benefit of his relaxed appearance was overshadowed by the ensuing fuss over his lapse into political incorrectness.

This week Obama takes another risk by monopolising TV screens in place of American Idol. The same programme was bumped by his State of the Union address last month and it was not only Republicans who complained they were seeing too much of their president.

“In the sucky economic climate we’re in now, I like having TV to cheer me up,” said Rose Tyler, a disappointed Idol fan. “He has not made the transition from campaigning to being the actual president,” complained another viewer. “Good time to clean out the sock drawer,” said a third.

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Those aren't the American Idol fans that I knew.
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Re: Democrat anger at Obama overkill
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2009, 05:06:48 PM »
As I said last November, all this creep knows how to do is campaign.  He cannot possible stop campaigning because if he does the whole world will realize the man is dull, unintelligent, and a shell of a real man.  The Zero is also a narcissistic immature attention hog (like most liberal politicians).  God help the soul who comes between him and a camera.
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Re: Democrat anger at Obama overkill
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2009, 05:07:28 PM »
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“He has not made the transition from campaigning to being the actual president,”

May I ask what they expected given his history?
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Re: Democrat anger at Obama overkill
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2009, 08:24:13 PM »
0bama Christ Superstar the road tour. Ugh....
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Re: Democrat anger at Obama overkill
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2009, 08:33:30 PM »
nOT AS SMART AS SOME THOUGHT. Is he? Ever hear the expression "one trick pony"?
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Re: Democrat anger at Obama overkill
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2009, 12:14:51 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on March 21, 2009, 08:24:13 PM
0bama Christ Superstar the road tour. Ugh....

H5 for the analogy.  Though, "Jesus" is two syllables, and "Obama" is three syllables, so the lyrics wouldn't flow the same.
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Re: Democrat anger at Obama overkill
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2009, 12:17:23 PM »
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The dangers of his reliance on populist appeal were laid bare during his Leno appearance, where the easy questions lobbed up by his comedian host yielded few clues to future policy but caused a rare Obama stumble.

 :whatever:
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Re: Democrat anger at Obama overkill
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2009, 04:12:15 PM »
Quote from: Splashdown on March 22, 2009, 12:17:23 PM

 :whatever:

They can only consider it a rare stumble for the past week.  Telly Prompter rarely stumbles, but unfortunately, Telly Prompter was not allowed on the Leno set.
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