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Offline thundley4

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Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« on: August 08, 2012, 12:09:36 AM »
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White House press secretary Jay Carney says being president restricts President Obama from focusing "entirely on the campaign." Transcript of the exchange at today's press briefing below.

Reporter: At this point, the president has had to attend so many more fundraisers than, say, George W. Bush had during this point in his reelection campaign. Does that impact the president's ability to do his day job?

Jay Carney: Well, it does not. It certainly is part of running for president and running for reelection. But as we've discussed here, it is a simple reality that even as he is a candidate for reelection, he continues to be president of the United States. And the demands of the job restrict his capacity, in some instances, to focus entirely on the campaign. He simply cannot do that. So he, and we, carefully allocate his time, working with the campaign, and when matters of state trump campaign requests for his time, that's a fact that he has to live with and we have to live with because that is his primary responsibility.
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Obama's campaign started in 2007 or earlier and has continued straight through today.  Between golfing and campaigning , it's amazing how much he has been able to screw the country up.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2012, 12:14:30 AM »
I think Jay the Carney has that backward.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2012, 01:15:36 AM »
I think I head that Obama has had more fundraisers than the last 5 incumbent campaigns combined. That can't be right, can it?
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2012, 03:50:29 AM »
Carney talks out his butt more than his face.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2012, 05:17:16 AM »
If this is a restricted campaign, I don't think I'd want to see what they call a full-fledged campaign. Besides, when in his political career has O put his current position ahead of campaigning for the next one?
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« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2012, 05:44:06 AM »
Oh the poor baby....bless his little heart.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2012, 06:40:04 AM »
Isn't this the same pres__ent who has had more fundraisers in 3 1/2 years than ever president since Carter COMBINED???
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2012, 08:13:49 AM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on August 08, 2012, 03:50:29 AM
Carney talks out his butt more than his face.

It has a lot to do with his point of view...

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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2012, 08:22:48 AM »
Jay Carney is a smarmy little douchebag . . . and I'm being nice.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2012, 08:33:01 AM »
More would say that campaigning restricts barack's ability to be President.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2012, 08:42:29 AM »
Quote from: njpines on August 08, 2012, 08:22:48 AM
Jay Carney is a smarmy little douchebag . . . and I'm being nice.

I question whether he's ever been in that close a proximity to a vagina, personally...
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2012, 11:55:06 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on August 08, 2012, 08:13:49 AM
It has a lot to do with his point of view...


Now that is fact. Hi5 ...
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« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2012, 02:21:10 PM »
Quote from: njpines on August 08, 2012, 08:22:48 AM
Jay Carney is a smarmy little douchebag . . . and I'm being nice.

Shouldn't that be smurky little douchebag?
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« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2012, 02:47:23 PM »
Quote from: docstew on August 08, 2012, 02:21:10 PM
Shouldn't that be smurky little douchebag?

smarm·y/ˈsmärmē/
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1: revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness <a tone of smarmy self-satisfaction — New Yorker>
2: of low sleazy taste or quality <smarmy eroticism>
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2012, 02:48:26 PM »
Quote from: docstew on August 08, 2012, 02:21:10 PM
Shouldn't that be smurky little douchebag?

I like smarmy myself.

He looks like a 40-year-old Eddie Haskell, of Leave it to Beaver fame.

At least he doesn't have the decency to wear crooked glasses, like Marlin Fitzwater did. Goofy-looking, but he was a straight shooter:

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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2012, 02:55:36 PM »
Carney and Robert Gibbs -- a pair of smug, self satisfied jerks which is a pretty good reflection of who they work for.

GWB had Dana Perino and the late, great Tony Snow and you can say the same about their reflection of his Administration.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2012, 06:37:13 PM »
I think it was more better when they had "adult" press secretaries.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2012, 07:21:58 PM »
Is there anything that 0bama and his administration won't whine about?
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2012, 11:04:25 PM »
You have to remember that Carney is a guy who couldn't say what the capital of Israel is.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #19 on: August 09, 2012, 08:27:15 AM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on August 08, 2012, 11:04:25 PM
You have to remember that Carney is a guy who couldn't say what the capital of Israel is.

That's because all the maps of Israel in the White House show pre-1967 borders.  :fuelfire:

(Thank God Barry Soetoro didn't bring the maps/geography books from his madrassa days with him, where Israel doesn't even exist.)
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #20 on: August 09, 2012, 09:34:13 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on August 08, 2012, 11:04:25 PM
You have to remember that Carney is a guy who couldn't say what the capital of Israel is.

I almost feel sorry for Carney, it must suck to have to lie your ass off every day to protect 0bama.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #21 on: August 09, 2012, 09:37:16 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on August 09, 2012, 09:34:13 PM
I almost feel sorry for Carney, it must suck to have to lie your ass off every day to protect 0bama.


I don't think he is doing it against his will, so no pity from me.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #22 on: August 09, 2012, 10:06:31 PM »
What a pantsload. Obama has been in Colorado since yesterday, campaigning his ass off on our dime.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #23 on: August 11, 2012, 03:48:24 PM »
Quote from: Big Dog on August 09, 2012, 10:06:31 PM
What a pantsload. Obama has been in Colorado since yesterday, lying his ass off on our dime.

slight fix.
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Re: Carney: Being President "Restricts" Obama's Ability To Campaign
« Reply #24 on: August 13, 2012, 08:07:22 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on August 09, 2012, 10:06:31 PM
What a pantsload. Obama has been in Colorado since yesterday, campaigning his ass off on our dime.

I believe this is what is known in the business as "three metric shit-tons".
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