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Obama Dodges Reporters' Questions -- again
Fox News Live | 11/25/08

Posted on 11/25/2008 9:22:59 AM PST by pabianice

We are witnessing an astounding performance by The One now on TV. Obama just gave a content-free "economic address" in which he announced that he is "appointing good people to his team" and then naming two.

The real news is that this is being followed by a Twilight Zone press conference in which he has pre-chosen friendly reporters and is calling upon them while refusing to ask for questions from any other reporters present. I have never seen such a shabby performance by a president-elect. He is using the pre-chosen "reporters" (with, presumably, pre-arranged questions) to trumpet his ideas and plans without fear of being challenged.

With the drooling lapdog press in his doggie basket, The One clearly plans to avoid taking any questions for the next four years. I guess Obama's "Fairness Doctrine" means no nasty questions.

Overall, Obama is running on and on about how he is going to solve our economic problems through "new ideas," "rejecting politics," and "working in a bipartisan manner" (which clearly does not involve being actually questioned by reporters).


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To: seekthetruth
I do believe it will be heard and the Constitution will be followed. :)

I would be optimistic if I believed that the majority of justices had any interest in the Constitution.

61 posted on 11/25/2008 10:17:50 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: polymuser

That’s astonishing, his narcissism is limitless!


62 posted on 11/25/2008 10:21:02 AM PST by Lilith Incubus
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To: ScottinVA
Behind the “Office of the President-Elect” podium. What a schlub.

There have been too many fake medallions for this to have been a mistake. Either Obama has a perverse medal fixation, like some tin-pot dictator, or Axelrod does --which is even more frightening, because it would prove that Axelrod is still running the content-free Obama show.

63 posted on 11/25/2008 10:27:08 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: pabianice
Baa-aaa-aaa-ry. Where are you Baa-aaa-aaa-ry? I miss you Baa-aaa-aaa-ry!


64 posted on 11/25/2008 10:30:29 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (All hail the Obamasiah! Kneel before Obamohammad!)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

I agree with you 100%!!! This “man” is an absolute moron. Every morning Axelrod wakes him up, pours his cereal and has the Secret Service take him to the gym. When he gets back he’s told to go play and let the grown-ups work. When he whines that he’s bored they send him out for sandwiches and pie with the strict instructions: “For God’s sake DON’T TALK TO ANYONE!”. Axelrod and company must be petrified that President-Elect Dumb-O will run into another Joe the Plumber.


65 posted on 11/25/2008 10:39:24 AM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: pabianice
This whole thing is reminiscent of the movie "The Candidate" where the lib (Robert Redford) got himself elected to the senate and then had to ask his handler (Peter Boyle) "what do we do now?"

I'm sure when Obama went over his Marxist goals and plans to elite i.e. not quite as nutty, Clintonoid members of the Dem Party, they all had a good laugh and told him to cram them down the nearest garbage receptacle.

Obama is a total naif as regards free-market economics. The damage he'll do in the next four years will take decades to overcome.

66 posted on 11/25/2008 10:53:12 AM PST by driftless2
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To: pabianice

One reason: So he won’t be asked questions about his birth certificate.


67 posted on 11/25/2008 11:21:59 AM PST by bergmeid
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To: bergmeid

Exactly.


68 posted on 11/25/2008 11:22:51 AM PST by Dante3
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To: econjack

Won’t happen. This moron will never be assailed by any element of the Drive-Bys. They elected this stooge and they’ll be damned if they’re going to allow him to fail or have to answer a difficult question. He’s a multiracial a**hole, but he’s THEIR multiracial a**hole, and they will protect him from any criticism. You know it, and I know it. When he f***ks up in the first four years it will be Bush’s fault. I’d even expect this to continue through his second term as well. After all, how could even a Messiah, a Chosen One be capable of undoing the mess he was handed. No, it will take the DemonRats decades of power to enslave us.


69 posted on 11/25/2008 11:49:09 AM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: randita

I predict that Obama, if he actually makes it into the White House, will break mentally when TS really starts hitting TF. He’ll have to be medicated, and his handlers will take over completely.

That’s why he’s hired all old DC hands, who can run things without any input from him. He’s scared - I see it in his face - he’s bitten off more than he can chew or digest. He’s nothing, he’s a fake empty suit, his life is fake, he’s being manipulated by others more powerful than he. And since his handlers know his lies, they can have total control over him. Blackmail isn’t even the word for it, it’s total.

He’s not just a regular “liberal”. He’s a Trojan horse.


70 posted on 11/25/2008 12:11:24 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: albie
Sooner or later BO will wear out his welcome with reporters. They’ll start asking difficult questions when the tanking economy starts to have an affect on THEIR wallets and mortgages and when the first US attack in 7 years happens. Which it will in ‘09.

I, too, was contemplating when the bulk of the mainstream press will get their backs up for being sidelined while the Larry King type boot-lickers get to ask all the pre-approved questions.

Eventually it will gall them to be ignored and they will start to turn. But there was a pattern that I observed during Clinton's terms. The press would get worked up a bit and start to really go after a story. Just when the momentum of the story would start to have an effect on Clinton the press would catch themselves in alarm at what they were doing and immediately draw away from the story.

We'll probably see the same pattern with Obama. As soon as someone at a Manhattan, Georgetown, SF cocktail party says to a reporter "What are you doing to the One?" they will shrink in horror from what they have let themselves become and will immediately turn into docile lapdogs again.

71 posted on 11/25/2008 12:22:36 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: griswold3

This ‘fast tracker’ has no clue what to do.

Correct. He is being managed by the big money that elected him.


72 posted on 11/26/2008 3:27:27 AM PST by chainsaw
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To: Nathan Zachary

I’m sure some of that veneer will be stripped away the next time he hosts the British PM and the joint press conference includes members of the more tenacious foreign media. At least I can dream.


73 posted on 11/26/2008 3:39:18 AM PST by Crolis (Kill your television!)
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