Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 29 January 2006 - Pres Bush on FTN!

Various big media television networks ^ | 29 January 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Txsleuth]

I would definitely say so...and I bet after this weeks meltdown by Clinton and Kerry about the filibuster deal...

there will be a lot of dems in the middle, that will be really pushing him. Not one screech out of him yet.

[Txsleuth]

That woman is a "seminar questioner"...

[EDINVA]

"But wouldn't that make Obama Hillary's plantation house-boy?
"And you KNOW what I'm talking about.."

Best Post of the Week Award!

[Barset]

Excellent post. Thanks.

[Barset]

I'm grabbing all your posts here. Great research. Again, thank you. b.

[potlatch]

BUMP!

[dixiechick2000]

BTTT!

[Carling]

Spot on assessment.

Frist failed in a spectacular manner. Russert seems he could be a booze-soaked idiot and he made the Dr. seem like the lightweight.

A pathetic performance by Dr. Frist.

[MNJohnnie]

I was going to watch that, but got started on a 9-11 special on A&E

I am still enraged by this act of barbarity. We are told by we are suppose to worry about "Why they hate us". They would be wise to make sure we do not start hating them. The world should marvel at GW Bush's restraint and maturity in waging the WOT. I doubt I could have matched it.

[daybreakcoming]

I watched Ollie's show last night also and yes indeed it was great. Our guys give us much to take pride in - they are the best!

[KeyLargo]

Freepers should always refer to Obama by his given Muslim name:

Barack HUSSEIN Obama

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Barack Obama
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Barack Obama
Office: Junior Senator, Illinois
Political party: Democratic
Term of office: January 2005–Present
Preceded by: Peter Fitzgerald
Succeeded by: Incumbent (2011)
Born: August 4, 1961
Honolulu, Hawaii
Died:
Spouse: Michelle Obama

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (born August 4, 1961) is a U.S. Senator from Illinois. He is the first African-American man from the Democratic Party ever to be elected to the United States Senate. He received international media coverage for his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, delivered while he was still an Illinois state senator.

Obama won the open Senate seat while on leave from the University of Chicago Law School. He is the only African-American currently serving in the U.S. Senate, the fifth in U.S. history and the third since Reconstruction. Obama won the election in a landslide, with 70% of the vote to Alan Keyes' 27%. He is junior senator to Richard Durbin, with whom he is reported to have an excellent professional and personal relationship.

Obama is married to Michelle Obama, a Chicago native. They have two daughters: Malia Ann (born 1999) and Natasha (born 2001).

Early life

Barack Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii to Harvard-educated economist Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a native of Kenya, and S. Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas. At the time of Obama's birth, both his parents were students at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Barack initially was given the religion of his father which was Islam but eventually decided to embrace the Christian faith.

Of his years in Hawaii, Obama has written, "The irony is that my decision to work in politics, and to pursue such a career in a big Mainland city, in some sense grows out of my Hawaiian upbringing, and the ideal that Hawaii still represents in my mind."

When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father eventually returned to Kenya, and he saw his son only once more before his death in 1982. Ann Obama married another East-West Center student from Indonesia. In his early childhood while growing up with his mother, Barack used the name 'Barry'. The family then moved to Jakarta,
where Obama's half-sister Maya was born (Obama has other half-siblings from his father's other marriages). When Obama was ten he returned to Hawaii under the care of his grandparents, and later his mother, for the better educational opportunities. He was enrolled in the fifth grade at Punahou School, where he graduated with honors in 1979.

[MNJohnnie]

"But, most importantly to me, I've never seen examples that would lead me to believe that the government would be a good steward of **my** duty to my neighbor and brothers and sisters."


You nailed it. If the Left wants to have this debate, bring it on.

[MNJohnnie]

Never before have I seen a freeper so seemingly delighted at the president not fighting back about lies told about him in the media

Simply amazing to me that the same people who whine endlessly about "Bush elevated Clinton's stature" NOW want Bush to crawl down in the mud and elevate the stature of every single Bush critic by engaging in hand to hand combat with them.

Ever stop for even a heart beat to think, for just a second, that the President HAS A JOB to do? You all want him to act like a Talk Radio host and spend all his time playing smash mouth politics. That may make you feel better, it does NOTHING to move our agenda forward. Bill Clinton did that. Look how that worked out for the Democrats.

I know this is a vain effort since you all have convinced yourself and simply tune out anything that does not blankly conform to your emotional whimsy but here is what another Republican President said to people making the EXACT same complaint about him that you all make week in and week out about President Bush.

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." Abraham Lincoln.

[Peach]

amazing to me that the same people who whine endlessly about "Bush elevated Clinton's stature" NOW want Bush to crawl down in the mud and elevate the stature of every single Bush critic by engaging in hand to hand combat with them.

Strawman argument. I'll wait while you show me where I've said that Bush elevated Clinton's stature.

Your delight at the administration which, until November did not fight back, is astounding. No one has said the president should engage in this and most of us have said Republicans in Congress and/or administration officials (like Scott McClellan whose job it is) should do this.

You can't possibly be this obtuse.

[MNJohnnie]

This week was even tougher then usual to come up with a top ten list. Many deserved mention. Sorry for the delay. Took a tumble on some ice Tuesday night shoveling the driveway and had to spend the morning at the Doctors. Nothing seriously hurt but my pride. :-) Here is this week's Top Ten List.

10. Jack Bull. Another most welcome newcomer. #406. "If Jack Abramoff is the equivalent of a poison pill, I get the feeling Democrats are bragging that they took the pill as a suppository rather than by mouth."

9. hocndoc. 570. Only one comment but it is a dynamite. " But, most importantly to me, I've never seen examples that would lead me to believe that the government would be a good steward of **my** duty to my neighbor and brothers and sisters."

8. eeevil Conservative. Always the life of the party. Evil deserves a nod just for giving us the tin foil hat photo in #734 but also produced these gems. #470. Did you all see this yet? LPC Blasts Anheuser-Busch for Bankrolling Anti-Alito MALDEF#612 probably because he actually believes in upholding the constitution... he knows it is a document...not a living breathing thing.. the libs are so confused...the CONSTITUTION is living and breathing...Roe V Wade is "DECIDED" Law.... The CONSTITUTION is a living breathing thing.....but an unborn child is a glob of cells...... no wonder they are miserable all the time.....twisting you head into mental contortions like that has GOT TO BE PAINFUL! #771. Just a little 411 about HAMAS and "Palestine"... Let's face it...WE KNOW that Arafat just pimped the Pali's out for power and money for his self.....but WE (most US peeps) DON'T realize is that the PALI's KNOW it too...they KNOW that ARAFAT stole their money....but they didn't care if he did...they DO CARE if ANYONE else does..they adored Arafat because he was the master of creating the PALI situation a GLOBAL issue...no one is doing this for many other LEGITIMATE people and nations facing ACTUAL GENOCIDE, etc....

7. TomGuy #606. Excellent insight on Shadegg. GO Shadegg!!!! 259 "I get the impression that it's all a game to Russert et al. The HasBeenMedia is playing the wrong "game"." 224, 292, 129, 337, 507, 551

6. kcvl. Just demolishes Howard Dean by doing the worst possible thing any Conservative can do to a Leftist. Quote them! 50, 74, 92, 113, 117, 122, 131. 134, 148.

5. maggief. Another "admirer" of Herr Dean. 18. Taking a line from Genesis, the first book of the Bible, Dean explained the first question ever asked by anyone was, "Am I my brother's keeper?" "In the Democratic party we don't forget that. #424. Taking a line from Genesis, the first book of the Bible, Dean explained the first question ever asked by anyone was, "Am I my brother's keeper?"Funny, I always thought that the Dems had more in common with the one who really asked the first question in the Bible. Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?" #33 In the Summer of 1989 Kennedy and fellow Senator Chris Dodd were having lunch at famous Washington D.C. restaurant La Brasserie. Kennedy requested the attendance of waitress Carla Gaviglio. According to the Washington Times "When she put in an appearance in their private retreat - 'The Teddy Kennedy Fun Room' - the Massachusetts senator picked her up and heaved her onto a table. The crystal candlesticks and champagne glasses shattered as he grabbed her again and flung her on top of Dodd. "Then Kennedy threw himself on top of the woman. The waitress implored Mr. Kennedy to 'Get off me!' "Another waitress entered to find 'things all tipped over and Kennedy was on top, [the waitress] was in the middle and Dodd was on the bottom.' At that point the sandwich was disassembled." #84 Sooooo many quotable. Just a few. "I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for..." -- Howard Dean "My view of Christianity . is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions." "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks." "We're going to tell all those white boys who run the Republican Party to stay out of our bedrooms." "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here." "Dealing with race is about educating white folks

4. Phsstpok. Strong showing today!. First a nod for giving us the Saturday morning Pre-show thread. Great idea! 390. Remember, in their day the people cited by Crichton as supporting eugenics were the "progressives" and "liberals." They were the radical reformers and, because they were wiser than everyone else, they thought that they were in the right when they pursued their hairbrained theories and tried to play God.#661. Despite the recent attempts of the George Orwell led Democrat party to rewrite history, support for invading Iraq crossed over party lines very strongly. #732 Were there skeptics? Absolutely! But the mood of the country was to "put a boot in their ass." #808. I ascribe the Bush bashing as simply a function of the echo chamber effect of those within the beltway or in the media, regardless of their politics. You hear something often enough you begin to internalize it, even if it goes against what you know to be true, simply because you're tired of fighting against the tide. 1010 "Sad, isn't it? We need to light up 1,000 more nuclear power plants in order to cut down on pollution (and global warming, if such a thing exists), but his party is owned, lock stock and barrel, by the econazi's and he can't say that. He just dances around the edges with stupid and ineffective slogans instead of actually addressing the problem."408, 454, 481, 531, 569, 632, 864, 870, 889, 908, 965, 976, 987, 994, 1022, 1025, 1055.

[Bahbah]

Nothing seriously hurt but my pride.

Very glad to hear that.

[MNJohnnie]

I am sorry you find it so difficult to grasp the concept the President is President of ALL Americans NOT just the Conservative Movement. Your view point is a minority viewpoint. MOST Americans do NOT think like you think. Most Americans do NOT agree with you on most things. YOU want him to act this way, MOST people do not. He has to be President for THEM as well as YOU.

People want a President who is a leader, not one who acts like a radio talk show host. That may make YOU feel good, it does NOT get things done. Once again I see you just choose to tune out any facts that do NOT conform to your own personal emotional whimsy. Really sad.

[Txsleuth]

Why do I picture rodguy enjoying the "fall" story?? LOL

[Bahbah]

I can't imagine. :)

[Peach]

Which part of what I said don't you understand? You cannot be that deliberately obtuse.

Where did I say the president himself needs to or even should be making those arguments? I've said his spokespeople, Scott McClellan, and Republican Senators, etc. should be making the arguments.

And most Americans do not think the way I think? You have no clue how I think since you can't grasp a few simple sentences.

I've never seen a conservative, until you, who thought it was a GOOD thing that lies are left to fester in the American consciousness about an administration's policy. I'll bet there are damned few Americans who think THAT'S a good idea.

Try a little reading comprehension before responding next time.