Live Thread: Obama Press Conference on Porkulus 8 P.M. EST 2/09/09

Monday, February 9, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

BYO popcorn, beer and barf bags.

[kjam22]

I agree with what someone else said.... I hope he does one of these a week.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

This is embarrassing. It’s like watching the first three episodes of an “American Idol” season.

[pabianice]

Q:" When will youi be able to determine if your plan is working?"

Barry: Step One: restoring 4M jobs. Step Two: When businesses can get credit. When customers want to buy an RV, they can't get a loan. So, normalizing the credit markets is step two. Step Three: Have we stabilized the housing market? If we are successful working with the FDIC we can forstall foreclosure and stabilize the housing market in the long-run. This is an unprecedented crisis and I don't have a crystal ball but once consumers feel their jobs are safe and if we get things right next year we can start seeing some signicant improvement."

[John W]

sign of a cokehead

[Spokane]

It’ll cost a couple hundred thousand for each job. Chump change.

[Marathoner]

The only way I can stomach this is listening to Levin’s commentary in the background on WABC.

[From The Deer Stand]

If this was George W. Bush up there stammering, stuttering, uhhhing, and carrying on with nonsensicle answers the media would be tearing him apart tomorrow. Ain’t gonna happen to The Messiah.

[mewzilla]

What’s with the finger to the nose thing? Is he trying to get a booger?

A signal to whomever's on the other end of his IFB....?

[maggief]

Ed Henry. Where’s Ed? CNN.

[penelopesire]

Thanks. That woman’s question sounded like it was written by Chuck Schumer himself...lol

[hugorand]

If the purpose of this press conference was to turn around public opinion on the stimulus bill - which is currently about the same as it was for the defeated immigration bill - it’s an EPIC fail.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thanks for the great idea. Levin is killing me.

You're welcome . . . and ditto! ;^D

[FreeReign]

The smartest President ever seems like he is about two sigmas below the median. How can this be?

I think you are overestimating the median "smartness" of the American people.

See the Nov. 5th results...

[Wild Irish Rogue]

’ This man is making me miss Bush. That is how damn bad he is. ‘

This may be the singularly worst press conference by a POTUS in US history.

[BlueAngel]

The reporters are oh so respectful to this rambling man.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

the excesses on Wall Styreet led to this crisis and then people couldn't make payroll and laid-off people and that led to this crisis even though consumer spending helped for a while but this is unsustainable and foreugners will no longer lend is money and so the immediate job is to stop the downward spiral blah, blah, blah, blah......

Gee, we didn't have all these troubles until the dems took over Congress in '06. Apparently many have forgotten when all the trouble started! Their change is the kind I can do without!

[Kenny]

Yeah, yet he’s launching law suits to keep profits from products with his image and the change crap

[DoughtyOne]

He is reading the names of the press to call upon.

He doesn’t know them. He doesn’t know where they are.

Notice the reporters are not raising their hands to be picked on.

[azishot]

RV’s...diesel ones get better mileage.

[Wolfstar]

Holy crap! I don’t even want to ask if that’s really what O is saying. (BTW, I’m not watching or listening.)