Posted on 04/30/2009 2:42:40 PM PDT by Gordon Greene
President Obama said his prime-time press conference on Day 100 of his presidency was intended as a "look forward to ... all of the hundreds of days to follow," but it turned into more of a look back in anger, complete with finger-pointing.
Throughout his hourlong session in the White House East Room on Wednesday, the candidate who vowed a new post-partisan Washington, free from the rancorous bickering that often grinds the city to gridlock, ripped Republicans as the members of a do-nothing party of no.
He began at the top, calling his predecessor, the former head of the Republican Party, a torturer.
"Waterboarding was torture," he said, making no exception for post-Sept. 11 circumstances and giving no credence to claims that the "enhanced interrogation techniques" authorized by George W. Bush saved Americans lives.
"We could have gotten this information in other ways," Mr. Obama said, without adding that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was waterboarded 183 times before he divulged plans of a massive attack planned against Los Angeles.
The cerebral president, who most recently shook hands with America-hater Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and plans talks with nuke-happy Iranian leaders, was content to muse philosophically: "Could we have gotten that same information without resorting to these techniques?"
(Still, he did steal Mr. Bush's daily mantra that his first obligation is to keep the American people safe: "That's the responsibility I wake up with and it's the responsibility I go to sleep with.)
But on the arbitrary day of presidential measurement, Mr. Obama often appeared to still be running for office. In one breath, he said: "I do think that, to my Republican friends, I want them to realize that me reaching out to them has been genuine."
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Egads!!!
Anger? Go to Drudge right now and look at Obama’s picture in the left column. I swear he’s got angel wings!!!!!!!!!
Kind of pathetic to blame the minority for you failings isn’t it?
It never ceases to amaze me how this asshat was elected President. With their smug sense of superiority these people want to lead us to ruin while leaving the Blame Bush for everything excuse available.
I guess a few more thousand Americans need to die in order for the sheep in this country wake up from their fantasy land.
you=your meaning Obama’s
How long will the people continue to let Obama get by with the blame Bush bullcrap.
Anyone have a picture of this? Please post it.
“How long will the people continue to let Obama get by with the blame Bush bullcrap.”
The media? At least 4 years ...
Finally people are starting to recognize that Nobama does in fact have serious anger issues. He did not sit in Wrtoght’s church listening to “God Da&% America” sermons for 20 years because he was a happy person.
We will see more and more of this anger come to the forefront as time passes. Especially when he starts to get called on his Bush blaming and threowing people under the bus.
Ever notice the big anger telltale sign....everything he says is “I, I, I, or as I said before”. He constantly needs to be reminded by others of his “greatness” or by these “I have a gift, Harry” types of comments to keep his anger under some control. He will eventually lose this control and then we will see the “real Obama” come out.
Sadly, the sheep won’t wake up even when (not if) more Americans are murdered. They will only blame Republicans and President Bush. Some people never learn.
Being Democrat means never having to say you’re sorry.
Remember how President Clinton handled attacks.
Maybe it’s time for a Republican to come out and say that the democrat controlled congress of which BO was a member, created this budget over the last 2 years since they came into power. Once again, the lies are becoming truth to the public because no one will step up and tell the truth.
You lie, Obortion Obama, you don't really care about everyone's safety!
At least you cannot steal this quote:
"Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists."
~~George W. Bush
We’re all worried about swine flu or whatever it’s called but Barry seems to have Mad Rat Disease.
The sheeple and their media feeders will accept this BS until the next post-mortem terrorist attack commission learns we did not "connect the dots" from detained islamists. At that point, the folks will string up the Kenyan by his "enchanted" ears.
Say what you will about Mr. Bush. He was far from perfect, he made mistakes (especially in trying to treat Dhimmicrat-Statists as adults). But Mr. Bush is a decent Christian man who did the best he could under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. And he maintained a professional demeanor respectful of the office he held.
And after 9/11, whenever there was even the slightest suggestion (not necessarily from Mr. Bush himself) that the Clinton administration had fallen asleep at the switch, often none other than gosh-shucks-I'm-just-a-lovable-rapist Bubba himself would get self-righteously indignant and run to a sympathetic media sycophant to swear that 'NO ONE was more determined in fighting terrorism' than Monica...err...Bubba.
So, in following the tradition of thin-skinnedness, the sociopathic boy-child narcissist reserves his phony anger for an administration that averted several serious plots in the 7 years that followed, but cannot bring himself to admit that just MAYBE Bush did something right during his two terms.
Obama, I have no respect for you and never will. You're nothing but a punk with a mighty big chip on your scrawny, girly lack-of-a-shoulder. I hope you're miserable and deep down you wish you had never run for office. Funny how you reserve hostility for people that YOU personally disagree with. That smacks of immaturity, something we don't need in a leader during these challenging times. If there was an atom of decency in you, you'd resign and stop trying to decapitate the head of Uncle Sam.
Sadly, I don't think it would matter. Dear Leader in Korea was still Dear Leader when his folks were eating tree bark to survive. Obamaniacs are just as committed.
I was naive enough to believe that a country that voted for Ronald Reagan would never vote for the anti-Reagan. I believe that the country has changed in a fundamental way, and not for the better.
Obama is guilty of saying one thing and doing something entirely different over and over again. He’ll brag about saving money while running up the biggest deficit in history. He’ll talk about his “pork free” porkulus bill and then it’s loaded with it. Just over and over again...
You’ll note:
” “I do think that, to my Republican friends, I want them to realize that me reaching out to them has been genuine.”
There hasn’t been any reaching out. And if there is, it’s been but a token.
Fall off a cliff, Obama. And take your lemmings with you.
“Obama looks back in anger”
Our boy is heading for a stroke. Bet his resting heartbeat is about 125. I give it six months tops before the pressure blows and his eyeballs pop out and roll around the floor.
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