Posted on 11/07/2008 4:55:15 PM PST by chessplayer
Say what you will about President George W. Bush, but I don't recall him ever mocking an elderly widow in his pronouncements. But Barack Obama couldn't get through his first press conference as president-elect without doing just that.
Answering a question from Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times as to the presidents he has consulted during the transition, Obama took a gratuitous jab at Nancy Reagan, who was recently released from the hospital after breaking her pelvis in a fall.
BARACK OBAMA: In terms of speaking to former presidents, I've spoken to all of them that are living, obviously President Clinton--I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any séances.
What he said was mild compared to what Freepers called her when she endorsed McCain.
The buffoonery begins. How many uhhhhs did he say ?
He apologized. Let’s move on.
(Just like we moved on after Trent Lott made that joke about Strom Thurmond.)
This sounds like something that he and Rahm probably had a good laugh about when they planned his jokes for the press conference. I don’t recall such sophmoric A-holes inhabiting the White House before. This is the sort of thing that the teens and arrested development DNC fundamentalists that watch the Jon Stewart Show would find funny - picking on an ailing widow. High Fives all around back at Rahm’s War Room! such cool guys.
Oh, he meant to be malicious. He just hasn't learned that he can't be a prick publicly outside of his former corrupt context.
Listen to Rush on Monday. He'll have all the uhs excerpted out and their duration will run several minutes.
Honestly, I felt like I was living the fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes". It was painful to watch yet none of the pundits or reporters acknowledged anything amiss. I kept thinking someone would say, "the emperor has no clothes", but no one did.
What an asshole.
I’m kinda glad he doesn’t seem to have much of a brain.
If he DID, it would make him REALLY dangerous.
And since when does a President elect hold a Media Press Conference on all the major networks?? He’s detestable.
He is now the President-elect, who, when speaking at a press conference, should not say negative things about a President's widow.
This man is one of the worst public speakers to come along in ages (sans the teleprompter). We’ll all be longing for the Bush speak soon.
Kindly exclude me from we.
There should be a count -EVERY SPEECH- a count of the ummm, uuh,s
That would be the royal “we”.
Some radio station did count the uhs/ums. The total was posted in the thread about the Press Conference. I don’t recall what it was.
In the 36 second clip at the link he said “UH..” about (I only watched once and counted) EIGHT times.
Lynn Sweet was executed this afternoon by firing squad against the Wrigley Building.
I'm not exactly sure to what you are referring. Care to elaborate?
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