PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA'S FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE (LIVE THREAD)

November 7, 2008 | self

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

No one has posted this. We need to see what he is going to do to us.

[CaliforniaCon]

He’s done? Now taking questions? So that speech lasted what, two minutes? Geesh!!!

[gridlock]

DON’T BLAME ME. I VOTED FOR McCAIN!

[luckystarmom]

That’s what the internet and Free Republic is for. Also, you need to get TIVO, then you can record things you like, and skip things you don’t like. Isn’t technology wonderful.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"... and then: Joe Biden strode onto the stage."

[TomGuy]

BO starts talking and DOW starts tanking.

It was at 230 when he started. It is now at 145.

[JustaCowgirl]

He is reading notes, he really is awful. Someone give that man his teleprompter.

Oh, but when the newsies finish fawning over him, it will be the Sermon on the Mount.

Sheppie and Chrissy and preparing to swoon.

[magritte]

Thank goodness we don’t have the “Uh Uh Uh” or the “Middle-class family” drinking game going...I’d be blasted by now...magritte

[Williams]

Sure sounds to me like he is punting and asking Bush to do things in the meantime.

[austinaero]

“I hope he knows he’s late on my mortgage payment.”

Yep, he needs to get those checks a flowin’. I know we are all supposed to share the ‘wealth.’ I wonder what else we are going to have to share??

[MrCFdovnh]

First question from the green pumpkin.

[jennyjenny]

Is he bad enough that I would enjoy watching?

[pbear8]

Maybe the short speech is a good sign.

[Beaten Valve]

If I was GWB I wouldn’t lift a finger for this clown.

He based his whole campaign on attacking the Bush Administration, so let make him wait until Jan 20th to put *his* plan in place.

[AppyPappy]

Did Joe stagger?

[Rooivalk]

This the biggest joke of the 21th century How was America so stupid as to elect this chump?

[shadeaud]

another stimulus package.....ahh a one time shot in the arm

[JustaCowgirl]

Now at 120 and dropping like a stone. Who would have believed it.

[Williams]

So far spend spend spend.

[onemiddleamerican]

Dear Leader has a deer-in-headlights expression.

[PapaBear3625]

That “office of the president elect” sign is downright classless.

After the 2000 election, what would have been the media response if Bush started staging "Office of the President-elect" briefings, and generally acting as though his term had already started before Clinton had left office?