Well his first news conference and he insults the wife of a deceased Prez. First news con and he finds a cow pie to step in.
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Well his first news conference and he insults the wife of a deceased Prez. First news con and he finds a cow pie to step in.
I think his off the cuff humor attempts will be a regular source of gaffes and laughs (at him). He tends to get his wires crossed there.
I agree with you both, above. FWIW, the particulars of the gaffe here, the specifics of the wires being crosssed, are fairly interesting. Fueled by an astrologer, Nancy Reagan had the White House schedule aligned with the stars. Reagan's Chief of Staff, Donald Regan, referred to the resulting scheduling insanity as a "long-established floating seance" in his memoirs.
Actually I think he really got his wires crossed as it was Hillary that pulled from Elanor Rosevelt's power or something by some crazy stuff. I remembe the Nancy thing, but he just got it wrong, imo.
Anyway, its a joke that I would prolly use on the golf course, and I'm sure in liberal circles it is used, but it was just NOT the time to be using it here. The Tube said that he called an appologized. Not sure if thats true.
That particular line was circulating in the news years beefore, when Regan's biography came out and everyone wanted to hear about how batty it was to deal with Nancy. I remembered it (but I have a sticky memory for useless trivia). There were others who had actual seances, notably Lincoln's wife.
What was the gaffe?
THE HORROR! I heard that press briefing (and it was brief) and never would have seen it as particularly insulting.
In retrospect, BO did.
Well, LOL@Bo then.
LOL at this AP article.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...4bsPAD94DFVF00
"95 percent of Americans will get a tax cut..."
What is the LOL for? They way it was written or for BO wanting to cut taxes for the middle class?
People saying that they'd be fine waiting for the tax cut is not the same thing as Obama saying that they'll have to.
But we see what you did there.
BO leaks his private meeting with the Prez. Thanks a lot BO. lol
learn how to link.
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Originally Posted by Fool
lil' help
I am the link.Quote:
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Lemme guess...something to do with Rick?Quote:
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Rick who?
lol, no, I was just providing a multi-purpose link on your behalf
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The AP wrote this because they're already starting to cover up for the fact that he won't cut taxes. One of the things that made Obama great was that he was able to come off as a fiscal conservative & a tax cutter in his campaign by saying all the things ppl want to hear (despite the fact he has nothing in his past to suggest he's either). I know he's not going to lower taxes, I just didn't expect the media coverup to start so soon.
Hell, at least wait til' the honeymoon's over...
I guess you've never heard the term innocent until proven guilty. Why not let the guy actually take office? I heard that when Palin runs in 2012 she's going to pick a moose as her VP candidate. Oh wait, I have no proof for that? Who cares?
Chris, the kid has already declared a 400 point drop in the Dow to be the fault of Obama. He's not waiting for anything except his skin head brethren to rise up and attempt to take over the government.
Here's Ledezma's idea of LOL@BO:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0udzl4lpYcc
That's not fair. Fredo doesn't actually have ideas, he just piggy back's on other peoples ideas like the follower he is. Free thought is not his cup of tea.Quote:
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Wow, 12 random voters. Amazing.
Better the voters than their candidates.
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The interesting bit is that a whole lot of reporters talked about Palin seeing Russia from her house after the Tina Fey skit. I'd be hard pressed to blame anyone for not being informed about that point. Her aggressive defense of proximity to Russia qualifying as foreign policy experience was enough of a joke as it was... Tina Fey wasn't exaggerating a lot, really.
That post shouldn't even have gone in this thread. It's interesting to me how those peeps didn't know who Pelosi is, Reid, who is control of congress, etc, but when it came to who has a pregnant teenage daughter they were all correct.
I think it tells us more of what sticks in a campaign.
The other was how anything the reporter asked that was negative, the peeps thought it was JM or Palin.
I don't know what portion of the electorate they represent, but I bet it larger than we'd like to think. And you could do this on both sides.
That's the key (We've all seen it done that way, including Canadians going after Americans), and it's always funny.Quote:
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I'm wondering how many of you have already bought your Barrack Obama coin. Be honest...
Not me. The only pieces of Obama memorabilia I have are a sticker and a button, both freebies from links I posted here during the campaign.
Depending on what foreign countries I might travel to, it may make sense to buy some Obama gear. Speaking from personal experience, JFK swag will get you a lot of favorable attention in Ireland.
And if Obama's frequently a stupid sounding dumbass and someone make a calendar with all the dumbshit things he says, maybe I'll buy it for my dad like I did with Dubya.
I got the limit of 5, and I'm considering buying more under an alias or having friends buy them for me.
I got his lace undies.
For saying things will change, no more partisan politics, etc, then letting the House Dems write the bill. WTF does he expect from letting Nanci write the bill? No more partisan bickering? Please!
To be fair, that's how it works.Quote:
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Presidents don't write bills.
They do, however, direct how bills should be written -- sometimes in broad terms, sometimes in very specific ways. They have the power of the veto, selective enforcement, and other mechanisms (as Dubya has shown us) to "strongly encourage" what they perceive to be the right behavior to happen. If Congress doesn't want a veto or some other squeeze put on them, they create legislation that lines up with the President's vision.
In the case of appropriations bills, they originate from the House, never the Senate. So yeah, it's squarely in Nancy Pelosi's court. Unfortunately, she's again demonstrated a lack of political jiu-jitsu here, much as she did with the last big bailout bill. It's turned into a fucking free-for-all.
BO could have written this thing up. He could have consulted, but he could have authored the ground work for the bill and brought the change that he campaigned on and was elected to do.
He could have won over a bunch of peeps if he brought change here. He didn't at all, imo. And now he seems to just be out politikan about it to the press instead of going in and telling the Dems to cut out the crap and tell the Repubs we need to do more than cut taxes.
He missed an opportunity here, imo.