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Obama Presser

by BooMan
Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 02:03:49 PM EST

Watch Obama dispatch the press and explain who is in charge of the change we need.

Compare and contrast with Bush.

Obama Presser | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Damn he's good. I still haven't quite formed the neural connections that allow me to listen to him and see the president (well, almost) of the United States. Aren't presidents supposed to be inarticulate and stupidly aggressive at all times?

I think some of the news readers have a similar problem. Do you notice how they'll report what Obama's saying and then kind of "Oh, and President Bush said..."

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 03:52:46 PM EST

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It is going to be very interesting this next four years watching the media try and deal with an intelligent and substantive President. One who has a depth of thinking they are not used to questioning. And I cannot begin to imagine what a difficult adjustment it will be for them when they are forced outside of their comfortable box of conventional wisdom talking points and news-speak platitudes on which they have relied for the last eight years when dealing with our illiterate, mentally and verbally dysfunctional President Bush.

Many of them will likely come out of a few press conferences looking like fools. And to me that would be very sweet justice indeed.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio on Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 05:35:59 PM EST

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Ed Henry asked him like six questions at once. This is what the media is going to do. They were lapdogs under Bush, but now they have a Democrat to destroy. Next time they will ask seven questions, then eight, then nine at once, until one day he forgets to answer one. Then they will say SEE, AHAHA HE'S NOT THAT SMART!!! And Drudge will put up a triple red siren under a headline saying the same.

by liberaljournal on Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 08:57:49 PM EST
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Make that platitude comment for the last sixteen years. They were doing it right off the bat to Clinton. Obama has read the script, and he is going to edit it.

Knut

by Knut Wicksell (b_didnn@hotmail.ca) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 09:36:23 AM EST
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Good Lord, he is a piece of work. A GOOD piece of work.

I just cannot see how anyone, even Republicans, can watch him and not be impressed. After he said 'the change will come from me' with that tone, can there be any doubt who the boss will be? You hear that tone and supposed Hillary issues fade away.

You just get the feeling that he won't take crap from anyone. I would love to be a fly on the wall when the generals try to bully him. We keep hearing about the moles that Bush/Chaney are 'imbedding' in the government. I think Obama can deal with them, and quickly too, if they get in his way policy-wise.

America might have done good, and maybe REAL good!

nalbar

by nalbar (nalbarsatgmaildotcom) on Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 07:20:23 PM EST

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Who?

by wilderness wench on Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 02:24:51 PM EST

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Dubya.

by BooMan on Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 02:27:03 PM EST
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My sister bought me a desk top calendar last year where each day had one of Dubya's remarks....flipping through that again today and then listening to Obama is almost surreal. I would read outloud one of W's remarks then try to imagine Obama saying it and it simply doesn't compute...most gibberish doesn't though.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 02:39:01 PM EST

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What until you see the changes that Volcker reccommends. I lived,barely, through his scorched earth Fed chairmanship.

by The Voice In The Wilderness on Wed Nov 26th, 2008 at 02:43:03 PM EST

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