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Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk (Obama jokes about "gallows humor")
Politico ^ | March 22, 2009 | Craig Gordon

Posted on 03/22/2009 4:20:01 PM PDT by RDTF

President Barack Obama said he believes the global financial system remains at risk of implosion with the failure of Citigroup or AIG, touching off “an even more destructive recession and potentially depression.”

His remarks came in a “60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by an incredulous Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world’s economy.

“You're sitting here. And you're— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, "I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money—” How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asks at one point.

“Are you punch drunk?” Kroft says.

“No, no. There's gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama says, with a laugh.

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To: All

Re: Guantanamo:

Obama “I finally agree with Dick Cheney, not surprisingly”

“After all these years, how many terrorists have actually been brought to justice? It hasn’t made it safer”


141 posted on 03/22/2009 5:15:20 PM PDT by RDTF ("I'm pretty sure this is a 2 man job once the shooting starts")
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To: Seven plus One

It’s the entitlement and egoism that comes from being pampered by affirmative action through his whole life. He’s half black and can pronounce “arugula” so they give him a Harvard degree. And with a few secret handshakes he is escorted on red carpets by George Soros and the CFR Illuminati into the halls of power. He’s giggling because he is a sociopath with anti-white resentments and is laughing at the American people as he craps on the country, destroys the economy, and builds a totalitarian Big government society.


142 posted on 03/22/2009 5:15:41 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Humble Servant
Ignominy is my destiny of choice for him.

Amen. Wise.

143 posted on 03/22/2009 5:15:48 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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To: All

High unemployment, deficits in the trillions, taxpayer-funded bonuses to AIG execs, bailouts of Wall Street, GM & Chrysler...What a side-splitting, knee slappin, laugh riot!


144 posted on 03/22/2009 5:16:11 PM PDT by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: ronnie raygun

Obama laughed at every question! Not just the economy. When he did not laugh he was smirking.Interviewer was very serious.


145 posted on 03/22/2009 5:16:37 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: RDTF

Is it me or is he bombing in this interview?


146 posted on 03/22/2009 5:17:27 PM PDT by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: SunkenCiv

“There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama says, with a laugh.


Again, it’s all about him. So what if he belittles the problems of Americans, people who have lost their jobs, homes, etc.? Making jokes about people’s suffering and hardship gets him through the day.


147 posted on 03/22/2009 5:17:44 PM PDT by kenth (Obama - One Big Ass Mistake, America)
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To: CharlotteVRWC
"is it on youtube.com yet?"

I think the full show will be on the 60 Minutes website after it airs on the West Coast tonight.

148 posted on 03/22/2009 5:17:54 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (will work for bailout bonus.... Twitter: maddawggmorgan)
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To: RDTF
“Are you punch drunk?” Kroft says.

I bet that pi**ed Bozo off but he had to hold it together in order not to look any dumber in more insensitive then he did already.

149 posted on 03/22/2009 5:17:55 PM PDT by calex59
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To: RDTF
Sigmund Freud in his 1927 essay Humour (Der Humor) puts forth the following theory of the gallows humor: "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure".
150 posted on 03/22/2009 5:18:54 PM PDT by A message (3 years 9 months 29 days)
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To: TornadoAlley3

what’s the consensus from those that watching/are watching it??? Was Kroft generally soft on him or was the punch drunk comment, and any other comment, really a sign the media is turning on him??


151 posted on 03/22/2009 5:20:11 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
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To: TornadoAlley3

They elected “Homey the Clown” to the White House. “Hey Libs, your President is wearing clown shoes!”


152 posted on 03/22/2009 5:20:18 PM PDT by Snappy1MarineMom (Don't Blame me I voted for Keyes.)
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To: SunkenCiv

...”alittle gallows humor. How about this? Mr. President, HANG YOURSELF INSTEAD OF THE REPUBLIC!!!


153 posted on 03/22/2009 5:20:23 PM PDT by gargoyle (It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority,/ snip. S. Adams.)
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
Hello,

...We're finally on our own...

MOgirl

154 posted on 03/22/2009 5:20:26 PM PDT by MOgirl
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To: TornadoAlley3

Has the dumb**** actually jumped the shark in less than 100 days.


155 posted on 03/22/2009 5:21:02 PM PDT by A message (3 years 9 months 29 days)
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To: RDTF
He must be a *waterhead*: a term he used on Leno to describe a would-be White House dog (which Wikipedia lists as being urban slang for *retard*. It was another big fumble he made on Leno that wasn't picked up by the media.
156 posted on 03/22/2009 5:21:28 PM PDT by Miss Behave (OBAMA LIED, THE DOLLAR DIED.)
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To: spacejunkie01

Kroft seemed serious and it was an appropriate response to how Obama was lightly communicating.


157 posted on 03/22/2009 5:22:00 PM PDT by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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To: spacejunkie01
Kroft was just serious, Obama was a dope.
158 posted on 03/22/2009 5:22:08 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

My vote is for narcissism coupled with his third world radical view.
Bottom line: whitey has it coming. And he’s the deliverer of the revenge to the Republic.

Which he will cripple in short order. If he is unopposed.


159 posted on 03/22/2009 5:22:09 PM PDT by romanesq
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
I'm sitting here thinking if you put a wig on Steve Kroft you get.

Am I a bad person?

160 posted on 03/22/2009 5:22:10 PM PDT by McGruff
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