Posted on 03/08/2009 3:51:58 PM PDT by upchuck
President Obama was so concerned that he had appeared to dismiss a question from New York Times reporters about whether he was a socialist that he called the newspaper from the Oval Office to clarify his policies.
"It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question," he told reporters, who had interviewed the president aboard Air Force One on Friday.
Opening the unusual presidential call to reporters by saying that there was "just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter," he said it wasn't he who started the federal government's intervention into the nation's financial system.
"I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement -– the prescription drug plan -- without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word 'socialist' around can’t say the same."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The reporters asked nobama point blank, "Are you a socialist?"
Poor Bambi don’t wanna be misunderstood.
“What about my image as a superstar”?
"Really, you should be asking whether I'm a Marxist."
He thinks that the drug program is "free market values". That's the problem. He thinks that govt. = the market.
He can only delay the inevitable with all his lies, smoke and mirrors shows, and his perpetual campaign to deception. But at the end his daily socialist actions cannot be denied and a majority of real voters will realize that he is a socialist to say the least and possibly a communist.
"But he acknowledged that, as he told Joe the Plumber, he plans to try to spread the wealth around."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/maybe_we_should_schedule_some.html
Weren’t we force fed by the media images of the young and vigorous Obama (stuffing sandbags along a swollen river-after which, volunteers complained he was gumming up their work for a photo op; riding his bike while wearing cool shades, shooting hoops)? Weren’t we also assaulted images of John McCain that insulted our senior citizens? Out of touch, unable to use a Blackberry, stiff (because of war wounds he could not life his arms)?
Since he cannot choose good people to oversee the government (see Geithner, see scandals over his Cabinet appointments) what are we left with as a President? A man who never ran anything in his life. A man with no business experience. A man who was a student and then an academic for much of his life, who whiled away his time as a part-time state senator and part-time academic. Where oh where is the real world experience? Has he ever experienced the responsibilities of working for someone else-not the amorphous voter bloc who in Illinois will vote in Democrats almost by rote, but a boss who demands performance? Has anyone ever held him to any standards of competence? Has anyone ever held him up to any sensible standards of performance? Has he ever had to demand performance of anyone? We are talking a government employee here. A person who was never asked to produce that nasty word-a profit.
Well, profits are what are used to employ people. The alternative is to tax people to shift wealth to others. That is what we are getting.
Since he won’t release his college or law school transcripts, we don’t even know how good of a student he was during his academic “career”. He has shown very little comprehension of the law-and recall, he went to Harvard Law School and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. We were constantly reminded of the sheepskins during the campaign but very few people ever looked beyond these degrees to discover that he actually has a pattern of failing to understand the law -something the media constantly attacked the Bush Administration over (see Barack Obama, Legal Scholar ).
“I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement -– the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word ‘socialist’ around can’t say the same.”
That is flat out pathological with a good dose of pychosis.
OOps. He had to get someone to write him a statement and get the teleprompter into position before he could answer that one.
So, Mr. Pres ent, what was your vote on those two issues you raised when you were a senator?
[i]”It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question,” he told reporters[/i]
They forgot the rest of the quote: “Because by now it should be obvious.”
Hillary Clinton to the Green room please. Paging Hillary Clinton.
What a TOOL!
I was taught to watch peoples behavior rather than listen to what they say.
As a reporter for more than 3 decades, I know politicians don’t call reporters and give them h... unless they are VERY insecure.
Not MY fault! NOT MY FAULT!!!!!
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