Posted on 09/25/2008 11:15:48 PM PDT by dmanLA
Barack Obama on Thursday criticized lawmakers who are holding up a deal on the $700 billion financial bailout plan, saying they need to clarify their objections so an agreement can be reached that will save the economy from further damage.
The Democratic presidential nominee spoke in a round of television interviews after a White House meeting also attended by Republican presidential rival John McCain. Obama said he left thinking they will reach a deal, but some work still needs to be done.
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"Obama said he left thinking they will reach a deal, but some work still needs to be done."
Work needs to be done and he leaves....
The Senate was a stepping stone on the way to his coronation. It's like he wants to go to Harvard and doesn't want his new friends to know he went to a one-room schoolhouse back home.
Like a wombat...
eats roots and leaves
Obambi thinks that attending one meeting means that he has made an exhaustive effort in the matter and now he can jet off to the campaign trail again. That’s how this celebutante has approached everything in his entire public career — he expects others to do all the real work and he wants to simply jet around making speeches and picking up some glory whenever he can pretend to have accomplished something. Typical.
Please God, tell me the people in this country are not stupid enough to vote for this Obambi guy. Please....
“saying they need to clarify their objections so an agreement can be reached that will save the economy from further damage. The Democratic presidential”
Here is one for you, Mr. 0: Don’t put a provison in the bill giving 20% of $700B (that would be $140B) to your corrupt Marixst ACORN pukes.
OBAMA=ACORN
It would be funny since Obama is trying so hard to equate McCain with Bush, if McCain would run an ad comparing Obama to Bush and how close they are on this bailout. :)
Maybe his phone will ring at 3 AM.
Asshat.
anyways here’s what a real conservative says about bailouts.
A community organizer should really back-off at this point. It’s over his understanding.
Christopher Hitchens made a great point in a recent column--he has a theory that Obama never expected to win the nomination this time, that he thought this would be a good way to get name recognition till NEXT time, when he'd have more senate experience.
I thought about this while recalling the missed opportunities he's had. Obama should be ahead by 20 points, not on the merits but because he could spin this story to his advantage. The lies his campaign have put out show he's really not in charge, and the campaign lacks coordination.
Anyone who can look at him and see anything but someone who is merely the face of the real campaign--the spokesman for his moneymen and handlers and the radicals he thinks are cool--doesn't know much about people, let alone politics.
This incident really makes me think that Obama lacks leadership ability. Not everyone has the ability to lead. He has shown a reluctance to leave the campaign trail to go back to Washington and do the job that he was elected to do as a Senator. Certainly a presidential nominee ought to be in a leadership role in one of the most serious problems we’ve faced in recent years. Taking such a role would show us what he’s made of.
I think his backing away from any role here has shown us what he’s made of. I can’t believe that moderate/independent/undecided voters will compare his actions to McCain’s actions here and conclude that Obama showed any initiative or leadership here.
thanks, very well compiled arguement.
That's certainly what I thought about it all through 2007. I did not believe that he rationally believed he had any real shot at the nomination, but it was a way to push his public image, possibly snag the VP nomination, and set himself up for a run at the Presidency 4 or 8 years later. I don't think too many people gave him a serious chance until late in 2007, but the raging frothing Moonbat left proved to be more decisive than the Clintonistas expected. Add to that some big Clinton lapses such as not taking the caucuses seriously and Obama surprised just about everyone, including himself. But no way in hell is he ready to be POTUS, nor will he ever be ready.
The problem with Obama he has only been a community organizer, a State Senator which he voted 108 times present, can’t use his being a United States Senator much he missed most of the votes in 2 years of his 3 years of Senator. He was to busy campaigning!
Let’s say a town is holding interviews to hire a fireman. The two candidates are in a waiting room when a fire breaks out across the street. One of the candidates bursts out of the room and starts fighting the fire. The other stays in the room and complains “hey! I thought we were going to interview here!”
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