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"Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me."
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Posted on 12/25/2008 3:29:39 PM PST by dascallie

He obviously carries some intense inner rage--was sent the below today--it was published in May...Obama is not the Mr Smoothie he is packaged up to be--as the press pushes him, he is likely to show his true colors.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

"Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me."

(Jim Geraghty reporting)

There's a lot of new, fresh, eye-opening anecdotes in this long article on Obama as a state legislator by Todd Spivak of the Houston Press.

But in light of today's story of Obama's near-physical altercation, this anecdote of Obama's temper is interesting:

It's not quite eight in the morning and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage.

Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political fund-raiser. Now here he is blasting me from hundreds of miles away for a story that just went online but hasn't yet hit local newsstands.

It's the first time I ever heard him yell, and I'm trembling as I set down the phone. I sit frozen at my desk for several minutes, stunned...

In a follow-up report published a couple weeks later, I wrote about these disgruntled black legislators and the central role Senate President Emil Jones played in Obama's revived political life.

The morning after the story was posted online, I arrived early at my new offices. I hadn't taken my coat off when the phone rang. It was Obama.

The article began, "It can be painful to hear Ivy League-bred Barack Obama talk jive."

Obama told me he doesn't speak jive, that he doesn't say the words "homeboy" or "peeps."

It seemed so silly; I thought for sure he was joking. He wasn't.

He said the black legislators I cited in the story were off-base, and that they couldn't have gotten the bills passed without him.

I started to speak, and he shouted me down.

He said he liked the other story I wrote.

I asked if there was anything factually inaccurate about the latest story.

He repeated that his former colleagues couldn't have passed the bills without him.

He asked why I wrote this story, then cut me off when I started to answer.

He said he should have been given a chance to respond.

I told him I had requested an interview through his communications director.

He said I should have called his cell phone.

I reminded him that he had asked me months ago to stop calling his cell phone due to his busier schedule.

He said again that I should have called his cell phone.

Today I no longer have Obama's cell phone number. I submitted two formal requests to interview Obama for this story through his Web site, but have not heard back. I also e-mailed interview requests to three of his top staffers, but none responded.

Maybe he'll call the day after this story runs. I'll get to the office early just in case. And this time I'll have my recorder ready.

Again, my point from the earlier post stands. I don't think Obama is a hothead, or flies off the handle with any degree of frequency. It's entirely possible - nay, likely - that many of us, in Obama's shoes, would want to take a swing at state legislator Rickey Hendon as well.

But the Washington Post did a front page story on McCain's temper, leading with an anecdote of Bob Kerrey breaking up a near-fight between McCain and Sen. Chuck Grassley in 1992. Too bad Bob Kerrey says the account is false, that Grassley and McCain worked out the emotional issue at hand among themselves, and that the Post never contacted him.

In Mendell's book, we find a near mirror-image of that McCain temper anecdote. The book has been in print since last year, and no major media organization has found the story of Obama "ready to throw punches" worth mentioning.

The image of an angry Obama being restrained by others doesn't mesh well with the smooth, calm, confident, always-at-ease, ready-for-the-moment image we're being sold. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Obama's fans in the press want to avert their eyes.

05/21 04:16 PM


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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Preseident-reject Obama


61 posted on 12/25/2008 5:50:03 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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To: Ancient Drive
What have the American people elected?

The first Marxist president?

62 posted on 12/25/2008 5:58:06 PM PST by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: PhilDragoo

bump! bump! bump!


63 posted on 12/25/2008 5:58:46 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: dascallie

64 posted on 12/25/2008 6:03:20 PM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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To: dascallie

Obama wrote an occasional column for the Lakefront Outlook community newspaper

Wonder what he said in those columns?


65 posted on 12/25/2008 6:03:32 PM PST by kalee
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To: Renegade
"I’m 62 and KNOW I could punch his lights out ."

That's why Hussein has been working out. Or is it because Putin is in such good shape Hussein wants to wants to impress his comrade?

yitbos

66 posted on 12/25/2008 6:04:20 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: KellyM37
BO does not like to be criticized or ask impromptu questions not favorable to him. He's an angry man and a complete, assh*le. He is not a good person.

I think you're right. But how long will it take for the public to see this?

67 posted on 12/25/2008 6:05:47 PM PST by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: daylilly
"Is today’s story about something that happened today, December 25, or something that happened when this article was published?"

I remember when this story was first reported last spring. It was during the primaries, and there had been some editorials questioning O's "toughness" and ability to be aggressive. Sure enough this story was slipped into the media. IIRC, O was even questioned about it and gave some kind of casual answer about how a legislator sometimes has to fight for what's right, and his sycophants lapped it right up. It was just a(nother) play for the consumption of gullible idiots.

68 posted on 12/25/2008 6:06:02 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Pooty would tear The Fool to pieces!

Putin is KBG trained and appears to still keep himself in good shape. He would tear not only Barry 0 to shreds, he would do the same for 99.9% of the DC beltway bandito bunch, including the media, if the revived cold war were to ever come down to physical hostilities between the two governemts' top level personnel.

Of course that will never happen in the real world. But if it could take place in an alternate universe, in a Barry vs Putin matchup I would be undecided on who to root for. Would we be any worse off under a Putin-run government than one run by Barry, Harry and Nancy?

Maybe, well make that probably, but I still have my doubts about where Barry's true allegiance lies.

69 posted on 12/25/2008 6:18:38 PM PST by epow (He came to earth to die on a cruel cross, yet He created the hill it stood upon.)
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To: shield
The american people get what they wanted.
70 posted on 12/25/2008 6:20:01 PM PST by arosea
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To: arosea

good you’ve come around this Christmas Day! Bet you didn’t know about your favorite’s intimidation and thin skin. Stick around , stay quiet for a while, and you’ll get a well-sourced education that can’t be found elsewhere. After all, the truth is what the American people want, right?


71 posted on 12/25/2008 6:31:15 PM PST by gusopol3
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To: Keith in Iowa
The Emperor has no clothes.

Having no clothes, or being the south end of a northbound horse is not a disqualification for the office of President. Not being a natural born citizen is.

72 posted on 12/25/2008 6:32:21 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: al baby; Renegade
You might get a visit talking like that

I doubt it.
73 posted on 12/25/2008 6:34:19 PM PST by mkjessup (Last time Jesus dropped by, He ended up crucified. THIS time (chuckle) it's going to be DIFFERENT.)
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To: mkjessup; al baby; Renegade
I think those laws only apply to legitimate occupiers of the office. ;-)

I'd demand a peek at the birth certificate...

74 posted on 12/25/2008 6:37:17 PM PST by an amused spectator (I am Joe, too - I'm talkin' to you, VBM: The Volkischer Beobachter Media)
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To: Star Traveler

That’s easy! It’s on the island where Elvis and JFK are living in secret.


75 posted on 12/25/2008 6:47:45 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: arosea

Are they in for one big ole’ surprise. They all thought they got one thing when in fact they’ll know soon how screwed they are. We knew we were screwed from the get-go. He’s nothin’ like the media whores presented him to be and on top of that...he ain’t even legal to be president. Barry is a first grader promoted to a senior in college.


76 posted on 12/25/2008 6:51:15 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: mkjessup

To tell you the truth I don’t give a damn if I’m paid a visit . Might make national news .


77 posted on 12/25/2008 6:54:45 PM PST by Renegade (You go tell my buddies)
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To: Renegade

Just remember that Ruby Ridge took place under the watch of Bush I.


78 posted on 12/25/2008 6:58:29 PM PST by mkjessup (Last time Jesus dropped by, He ended up crucified. THIS time (chuckle) it's going to be DIFFERENT.)
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To: Ancient Drive

mist


79 posted on 12/25/2008 7:44:39 PM PST by Atchafalaya (When you're in the basin, that's the best)
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To: Ancient Drive

I posted too soon, my answer:
cotton candy


80 posted on 12/25/2008 7:48:32 PM PST by Atchafalaya (When you're in the basin, that's the best)
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