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NYT: White House advisors totally surprised by Obama-Clinton press conference
Hot Air ^ | DECEMBER 10, 2010 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 12/10/2010 6:46:45 PM PST by RobinMasters

Oh, I’ll bet they were. Say what you will about Axe, Gibbsy, and the rest of the crew, but I’d like to think they have the basic political common sense to avoid photo ops where the president has to skip out after a minute or two to go eat gingerbread cookies.

I’d like to think The One had the same basic political common sense, but … we learn something new every day, don’t we?

The leader of the free world and the ex-leader wandered a deserted hallway, past the offices of the senior advisers, only to discover the door to the press corps briefing room locked.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: baghdadbobgibbs; bombandbomber; clinton; failedpresidency; handoff; obama; savingobama; savingpvtobama; wikileaks
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To: GlockThe Vote

Because mommy says so!


101 posted on 12/10/2010 9:15:19 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Cobra64

Even spell check wouldn’t have saved them.


102 posted on 12/10/2010 9:16:49 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WOW


103 posted on 12/10/2010 9:17:44 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just figured it out.

He’s going for the unemployment package.

99 weeks as an unemployed President? C’mon, how sweet is that!


104 posted on 12/10/2010 9:18:49 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

This entire week has been surreal.


105 posted on 12/10/2010 9:18:58 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: rbg81
Who is president, again? What year is it?

Zer0 playing second fiddle to Bubba!

CLINTON-99sm

106 posted on 12/10/2010 9:21:21 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: I still care

Not to disparage your Mom, but maybe her memory is fading. Clinton left a total disgrace, the allegation of rape against Juanita Broaddrick, the Paul Jones and Kathleen Willey allegations of sexual assault, the embarrassment of impeachment, the loss of his law license, all the corruption in his administration, the semen stained rug in the oval office being ripped up and replaced by Bush, the list is endless...

The MSM has done it’s usual PR campaign to try and resurrect this insuferable turd, but he remains in the minds of most American, the man who disgraced the Presidency unlike no-one before or after him. He’s still the brunt of dirty email jokes. Comedians still make fun of his adolescent sexual behaviour.

Your Mom needs to go online and refresh her memory. Bill Clinton goes down in history as the President who was having sex in the oval office with the blimp who was young enough to be his daughter, the President who was shuving cigars up his blimp’s Boy Howdy.

It’s been a while, but I’m reminded of the great line Deb Weiss write to describe the Rapists. “This is a soul so small God Himself cannot perceive it without a magnifying glass.”

Have your Mom read the whole article by Deb Weiss - “ A Bloated Irrelvancy “

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/549679/posts


107 posted on 12/10/2010 9:21:30 PM PST by Beatthedrum
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To: FTJM
It’s unbelievable. It’s as if Obama abdicated his power to a former president. When I heard the reporter say Mr. President to Clinton behind that podium, it was surreal.

Exactly...because that is just what Bo did. Stunning display for both of them....I never, ever, felt our country was in so much trouble after seeing this...not to mention how the International community is going to take this. Something is coming down ..that's a surity! Can you imagine the foreign leaders trying to determine who exactly is President? Mindboggling stuff going on...we'll see the waves from this roll now.

108 posted on 12/10/2010 9:24:13 PM PST by caww
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To: Gene Eric

99 weeks = 23 months
that would be November 2012
yep,sounds like he is going to claim his unemployment “benefits”
so what is the unemployment payout for a $569k/year job?
(The president earns a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 non-taxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment)
Although....
as an executive, doesn’t that make him ineligible to collect unemployment?


109 posted on 12/10/2010 9:25:31 PM PST by Optimist
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To: Revolting cat!; STARWISE; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

Thanks STARWISE for that ping! Thanks Revolting cat! Must be there was an opening in the Kenyan government.


110 posted on 12/10/2010 9:26:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow.

But really- the more you think about it- it was extremely unusual behavior.

Don’t you wonder what the adults (there have to be a dozen or so) in the Democrat Party are doing/saying/thinking about how to deal with this man? Especially after this performance.


111 posted on 12/10/2010 9:27:11 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Windflier

> “If there’s one thing you can say about Bill Clinton, it’s that he’s a master at the game of politics. He’s a complete natural, and as shrewd as they come.”

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You mean “a complete SOCIOPATH?”
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112 posted on 12/10/2010 9:28:49 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: RobinMasters

I was astounded then, even more incredulous now. I knewthe one was stupid,but this stupid? Even Icouldn’t have predicted this stunt, never in a million years. He may as well resign tomorrow, nothing he has to say from this moment forward will EVER e taken seriously. I bet Gibss packs his own bags before the New Year. I mean,how do you begin to defend that? Or continue to carry water for the guy?????


113 posted on 12/10/2010 9:29:30 PM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: Optimist

Are you saying he’s ineligible?


114 posted on 12/10/2010 9:30:20 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: SueRae

DID Gibbs announce last question (like 0 said he would) or did BC just keep going til he was decided he was done?


115 posted on 12/10/2010 9:31:17 PM PST by Optimist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are setting up for Hillary. I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire BC thing wasn’t a set up for her to return. I have never known Hillary or that rapist Bill to miss an opportunity and you know they don’t care about rules.


116 posted on 12/10/2010 9:32:21 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Beatthedrum

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> “Biden is a moron, but he’s not the repulsive narcissist this clown is.”

.
Have you forgotten the senate judiciary committee hearings for Clarence Thomas?

The man is vile to the core.


117 posted on 12/10/2010 9:34:34 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: mojitojoe; onyx; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; SE Mom; seekthetruth; ...

Flash back to 2008 — Hillary/-0 debate in SC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD9F1t9GQzA

We know they’re both scheming, cunning radicals, but ya
think Bill Clinton has forgotten this stuff, or the way the
-0 gang intimated he was racist?

BillyJeff’s gloating tonight, probably got him a stogey,
and relishing and replaying in his mind his performance today.

And look at that attack dog, Hillary .. whew!

It was breathtaking .. historic. The first half-black president bizarrely actually handing off the potus bully pulpit to ‘the first black president.’ And he just blithely sauntered off to Queenie’s side for a party.

I think Clinton sold him a bill of goods and schmoozed
him into this instant presser. I bet BHO is steaming tonight. My head is still reeling.


118 posted on 12/10/2010 9:35:44 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Gene Eric

>Are you saying he’s ineligible?

don’t know - just asking
I know that the OWNERS of companies cannot claim unemployment
I guess since he isn’t actually an owner he could, but then quitting brings its own issues on collecting unemployment.

Now if you are referring to his eligibility to be President.... maybe he will finally admit he isnt actually eligible .. he will therefore be fired and will file for unemployment ...

:-)


119 posted on 12/10/2010 9:36:07 PM PST by Optimist
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To: Optimist
right from the start 0 set the agenda:
a) Bill was going to make a few brief remarks
b) and possibly take a few questions
c) while he takes off for an event

Fair enough. I didn't watch the video, so I'm relying on the reports of others who did. Your account of the incident is the first I've seen that describes it that way. Everyone else who's commented after watching, has said that Clinton seemed surprised by Obama's sudden departure.

One poster who watched several different videos on YouTube commented that in one, you can see Gibbs rise from his chair after Obama gives him a 'look', and appears puzzled and alarmed at what's happening.

Doesn't sound like they planned it that way to me.

120 posted on 12/10/2010 9:42:39 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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