I wonder if he reads it while he's in the sack with Mitch.
Posted on 03/09/2009 9:26:45 PM PDT by pissant
President Obama was so concerned that he may have mishandled a question from New York Times reporters about whether he was a socialist, that he called the paper to clarify his position. The president initially answered the question aboard Air Force One saying, "Let's take a look at the budget, the answer would be no."
The president explained he wanted a return to the tax rates of the 1990s by giving a tax-cut to 95 percent of workers. But the president may have felt that was too dismissive, and called the Times from the Oval Office explaining: "It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question... it wasn't under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. it wasn't on my watch."
Asked whose watch he was talking about he said: "I just think it's clear by the time we got here, there already had been an enormous infusion of taxpayer money into the financial system."
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“Asked whose watch he was talking about he said: “I just think it’s clear by the time we got here, there already had been an enormous infusion of taxpayer money into the financial system.”
Yeah, and you voted for it Odumbo.
Methinks he doth protest too much!
Whether or not he is a socialist is the wrong question.
He punishes successful behavior and rewards failures.
What you call this is not relevant, the affects are devataing either way.
This guy is so inexperienced. He’s pathetic. And a socialist.
His memory must be shot, which would explain why he doesn’t leave the bedroom without the teleprompter.
Or communist.
Are you sure he doesn't use the teleprompter in the bedroom? Maybe he is afraid of saying the wrong thing to Michele!
Interviewer: “President Obama, are you a Socialist?”
Obama: “Hah, that’s funny. I am definitely not a Socialist.”
Interviewer: “Then are you a Communist?”
Obama: “No Comment.”
“And finally, the son of President Obama’s pick to head the National Intelligence Council has some choice words for his father’s critics. Charles Freeman writes on The Washington Note blog that the appointment of his father Chas Freeman, “is being challenged these days by a small cabal of folks... putting aside my natural instinct as a son to want to punch some of these guys in the face for some of the things they are saying about my father, for heaven’s sake, I’m more deeply angry about the lack of guile some of these people have. They are low-lives. And if you’re among them and by chance read this: I still want to punch you in the face. You deserve it, you schmucks.”
Hey sonny, if you’re reading this, Im calling you as big a lying prck as that crooked sack of crap of an old man of yours. Email me and we’ll arrange a meeting and you can punch me in the face. Once. I’ll risk being able to survive it. Then it’ll be my turn...OK Skippy? And I will probably have a “lack of guile” too...
A lack of guile would be a good thing...wouldn't it? Christ said to Nataniel: "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile."
Guile is deceitfulness or cunning. Nevertheless, if you're looking for someone to punch in the nose... I'm here.
I wonder if he reads it while he's in the sack with Mitch.
(it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. it wasn’t on my watch.”)
I truly hate politicians who set up strawmen and destroy them. Nobody was talking about buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t George Bush who wants to raise taxes on businesses and on the wealthy during a recession. It wasn’t George Bush who is spending over a trillion dollars on the unproductive, raising the capital gains tax, talking of removing the charitable and mortgage deductions, etc...
As bad as things are going for citizens of this great country its nothing compared to being the knucklehead in the whitehouse waking up in the morning to the nightmare which is all his.His label is that of socialist and its going to stick and stick real good.
“Methinks he doth protest too much!”
-My thoughts exactly!!! Did you hear the audio? What the hell is the president of the United States calling a reporter for? A reporter? What a numbskull. Doesn’t he realize that he just put the issue front and center? It reminds me of Fritz Hollins saying “I do not believe that Ted Kennedy had sex with that dead girl.”
In politics, denial is admission. What an idiot we have for a president.
The guy makes a valid point. Most of the Republicans in office stopped being small-government conservatives. They helped to expand the role of gov’t. I’m even more angry with the GOP. Obama is a Democrat, that’s why he’s expanding gov’t. But, what’s the Republican’s excuse?
I like President Bush and voted for him both times. But he, McCain, and others helped to expand gov’t, and they supported the bailout, too. If Republicans continue to behave like Dems, they will continue to lose. I hope they’ve learned their lesson now.
I’m listening to CNN tonight instead of Fox News. The tone is not so lovey dovey anymore. It’s all about Obama’s problems.
Yeah. And obviously it hasn't ENDED under your watch either, Comrade Potato Head.
Anderson Cooper is floating republican ideas and the usual african american Obama shills, are walking back their Messiah comments to the outer margin of reasonability. It seems that everybody is trying to save their credibility now that the smell of incompetence is in the air.
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