From today's Pookie18 FR "Today's Toons" thread:
Posted on 03/04/2008 9:44:32 AM PST by Roberts
An exasperated Barack Obama scurried away Monday from the toughest news conference of his campaign, telling reporters who kept shouting questions that he'd spent enough time on the grill.
"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions," Obama, looking surprised, told shouting reporters as he fled the room. "We're running late."
The Clinton campaign has long complained that Obama gets soft treatment from the press corps. But Monday's exchange was no pillow fight.
The first question was about a private talk an Obama economic adviser had with a Canadian official - reportedly saying that the harshness of Obama's criticisms of the North American Free Trade Agreement was for political show.
Last week, Obama denied an initial media report about the conversation. But after a Canadian government memo surfaced, he acknowledged yesterday there was a conversation.
"When I gave you that information, that was the information that I had at the time," he said. His camp still disputes the memo's account of the discussion.
The questioning then turned to Obama's links to ex-fund-raiser Tony Rezko, who went on trial in Chicago Monday on corruption charges. A reporter asserted Obama hadn't fully answered journalists' questions on Rezko.
Obama insisted he had - during a past news conference with Chicago media. But another persisted that questions remain unanswered, such as ones about fund-raisers Rezko held for him.
Obama replied, "These requests, I think, can just go on forever. ..." He said the "pertinent" information had been provided.
When Obama declared the press conference over, one reporter yelled that he was dodging questions just minutes after claiming he wasn't.
Funny to watch the Dems complain about the media.
And they’ve got nothing to complain about.
Exactly. The only reason he's outside the MSM umbrella at the moment is because of who he is opposing right now. Should he win the nomination he will be back under their loving protection.
CNN 13:53-58 (New International Version)
A Prophet Without Honor
53When Barack Hussein had finished these parables, he moved on from there. 54Coming to his hometown of Chicago, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. 55”Isn’t this the goat herder’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Ann, and aren’t his brothers Teddy, Hugo, Saddam and Fidel? 56Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” 57And they took offense at him.
But Barack Hussein said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor.”
58And he did not answer any questions there because of their lack of faith.
Hussein needs another few years of seasoning in the minors.
Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
Hehehe...time for a little heat and fire. Sounds like he has a tough time with the tough questions...and he “fled”.
The background to Bill Cunningham calling Obama a Chicago-Daley hack politician.
Obama “hopes” he can “change” these questions.....
From today's Pookie18 FR "Today's Toons" thread:
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I'll bet 99.5779% of today's school children would like to tell their teachers that when they take their NCLB tests!!
Truth to be told, if this was a "tough" press conference for Obama, all I can say is he aain't seen nothing yet!!
Wait until Michelle gets a taste of it with the gloves off. Whoa, watch out!
Excellent point.
Fer sure. Isn't that what they said about President Bush and Prime Minister Blair when they went with the security assessments of WMD in Iraq in the lead-up to the war? Now it's "BushLiedPeopleDied!"
Morons.
THE 545 PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR AMERICA ‘S WOES
BY CHARLEY REESE
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine S upreme Court Justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague
This country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton- picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.
No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy
Convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a SPEAKER, who stood up and criticized G.W. BUSH for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party.
She and fellow Democrats, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto.
REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility.
I can’t think of a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exer cise power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ .
There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can
Take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exist disembodied mystical forces like ‘the economy,’ ‘inflation’ or ‘politics’ that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess.
That is naughty! But funny. That said, his mother’s name is Stanley Ann. I am not making this up.
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