President-elect Obama News Conference--Live Thread

12/11/08

[TornadoAlley3]

Fox news, other news channel, presser coming up.

[weegee]

LOL

[penelopesire]

Thanks for starting the thread TA!

PING TO ZERO’S PRESSER! Starting in a few minutes.

[MrB]

Wasn’t Lancelot Link a chimpanzee?

Are you being racist?

/oversensitive perpetually offended libspeak

[cvq3842]

I think, frankly, that Obama may be creating a problem when thre could possibly not be one. At this point, I am perfectly willing to believe that neither Obama nor his team offered money for their pick to get the Senate seat. But I do NOT believe that the Obama team did not communicate any preference to Blago, especially given the fact that the Senate is teetering on the brink of a filibuster-proof majority.

I also don’t believe Axelrod misspoke, or that the local news outlet was making up stories out of whole cloth, when they said there was a meeting or other communication between Obama and Blago on this issue.

Obama’s denial of having any communications on this issue strains credulity and raises many more questions than it answers. If he did have discussions and input, but but no money was ever offered, why not just say that? Or maybe Blago raised the issue of money - however indirectly or obliquely - and Obam though it was easier merely deny any contact than to open the door to further questions about the nature of any discusions.

Anyway, it appears that we may be back to the Clinton years of parsing words.

[advertising guy]

he will be as vague as possible......lawyers are watchin from both sides.....this speech will have 20 pounds of....ahh’s and mmmmmm’s and soooooooooooooooooo’s.

[the invisib1e hand]

just for the record, presidents-elect don't usually hold press conferences and have Saturday radio addresses, do they? I just don't rememeber. I know they don't have official seals and such.

Obama's like a kid dressing up as his father. The first crisis will find him either sucking his thumb in the fetal position underneath his desk, or declaring martial law.

[NoGrayZone]

Could someone please type in what barry states. I’m at work and cant listen (but I can sneak onto FR).

Thank you!!!

[TornadoAlley3]

I would faint dead if he said that:)

[cvq3842]

LOL! I remember that show!

You do realize, of course, that ANY reference to primates when discussing Obama will be seen as racism - especuially by the lefties who called Bush a “chimp” for the last eight years.

Must be fun to be a liberal - no logic required!

[weegee]

“Let me get back to working for the American people, investigations into bribes for political office never fed a starving child.” < /fake but accurate >

[Obadiah]

Suckers bet. The MSM will ask about the White House dog selection. If, on the off-hand chance they do broach the subject, it will strictly be gently lobbed softballs.

[weegee]

You can get the full set of Lancelot Link on 2 DVDs. They will do wonders.

I was in a deep funk one week and put on the first episode. It cheered me up a bit.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Got a link? Thanks.

[penelopesire]

Ok..but I am very slow and don’t always get the exact quotes very fast...lol

We need a ‘Freeper court-reporter’ for these threads!! I would pony up to hire one for the next 4 years of Zero’s pressers...lol

[TornadoAlley3]

It is always the dumb cover up that snags ‘em, instead of just being honest, politicos lie about the little things that would not matter to investigation and get caught in the lie.

[weegee]

Re-read it again carefully.

[cvq3842]

Thanks!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/live.html?chanId=5&openAIR=true

[NoGrayZone]

Thanks penelope!!! I too am sucky at remembering exact quotes, lol, nor do I type fast enough!!!

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Thanks.

I meant to the story posted in #17.