Obama Live Press Conference 8:30 ET...8/2/08

08/02/08

[TornadoAlley3]

Obama to speak and then take questions from media. News sources say this conference is due to his loss in the polls:)

[Mercat]

I’ll check in later. I think its to address the latest McCain ads. :-D

[TornadoAlley3]

Flip-flopping explanations? Cry about McCain ads, denounce Ludacris, say he is now for drilling? Uh Uh Uh....?

[TornadoAlley3]

Headlines Today...

Obama Alters Drilling Stance
Obama opposes slavery reparations, apology

[tobyhill]

Suddenly he's for drilling only after he's been on the losing side of the issue. If he tries to claim he was for it before then the one question the MSM should ask him is, why aren't we drilling now?
If he claims Pelosi and Reid run the farm then he can't claim to be a leader.

[Red_Devil 232]

...ah ah ah ah ...um um um um

[nikos1121]

Take some questions...?

“Ah...er....ahhhh....hmmm well...you know... ahhhhh errrr.... ahhhhhh ....”

[TornadoAlley3]

June 20, 2008....http://www.cnn.com

Obama, speaking to Democratic governors in Chicago, Illinois, hit McCain hard for his support of the gas tax “holiday” as well as drilling off the U.S. coasts.

Obama told the 16 governors attending an economic summit at the Chicago History Museum that McCain “has essentially embraced” President Bush’s energy policy.

“When I hear McCain say that he is now in favor of the same oil drilling off the coast that he was opposed to just a week ago, what he doesn’t tell you is that George Bush’s own energy department has said that this would have no impact on consumers until 2030,” he said, “no appreciable impact for the next 22 years. Something they’re not telling consumers.”

At an afternoon news conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Obama continued to lash out at McCain’s oil drilling policy.

“John McCain’s proposal, George Bush’s proposal to drill offshore here in Florida, and other places around the country, would not provide families with any relief, this year, next year, five years from now,” he said. “Believe me, if I thought there was any evidence at all that drilling could save people money who are struggling to fill up their gas tanks by this summer or the next few years, I would consider it, but it won’t.”

[Sooth2222]

At 8:30 on a Saturday morning? His internal polling must be even better than we thought!

[johnny7]

Obama Alters Drilling Stance
Obama opposes slavery reparations, apology

His moonbat base is gonna'go mental if he does. Once you win a primary on far left issues... to backtrack on your positions is the kiss-of-death to a campaign.

[counterpunch]

Way to go Obama!
McCain needed to be spanked for wanting to cut the cost of gasoline for consumers!

[elhombrelibre]

He'll probably give a most memorable speech again filled with lofty and soaring rhetoric. It will be one that no one can quote or even vaguely remember in a few hours, but the media will gush and fawn, like school girls seeing a teen idle. Beyond that he'll explain that those who do not agree with him are bringing up race and pointing out that he is black, right after he's explained how important it is that he is black and the first black man with a real chance to be president. Then, he'll say how disgusting it is that his opponent has chosen to make an issue of his race, and that McCain is running a dirty campaign appealing to bigotry and race. I'm pretty sure it will be something as coherent as that.

[Pinkbell]

It will sound like this press conference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0hU1THjuc&feature=related

[Dahoser]

Maybe they’re trying to get ahead of the President’s radio address for the 10 people who pay attention to it.

[TornadoAlley3]

Senate OKs gulf drilling
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
excerpt from Obama’s website

Following up on recent House passage of a bill to end the ban, the Senate on Tuesday approved a measure to allow oil and gas development in a portion of the Gulf of Mexico's coastal waters.

“This bill is welcome news for the consumers of the United States,” said Rep. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, just before the Senate approved the measure by a bipartisan 71-25 vote.

Obama voted against the bill and said the Republican leadership was being “dishonest” by believing the nation's energy problem could be solved with more drilling.

[shalom aleichem]

His moonbat base will know that Boma is only saying what he must in order to win. They will lay low, as Rev. Wright has done, after he warned us that Boma will have to say things to get elected. It is US who must know that he will revert back to wild-eyed socialism if elected.

[TornadoAlley3]

How many times will he say - “Distractions”, “uhh”, “economy”, “Bush”

[Arrowhead1952]

Take some questions...?

“Ah...er....ahhhh....hmmm well...you know... ahhhhh errrr.... ahhhhhh ....”

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Does that uuh... um... uh ... um.... ah... answer your uuh... um... uh ... um.... ah... question.

[TornadoAlley3]

Maybe he will point his finger and say “Shame on you John McCain”

[igoramus08]

"But we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling — if everybody was just inflating their tires" - http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/hot-air-obama-says-blowing-up-your.html

Hope a reporter asks him, why he has reversed his position on drilling, when 2 days ago The Messiah told everyone that inflating tires would solve the crisis.