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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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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How long will the people continue to allow this Harvard Law graduate and supposed genius to get by with ungrammatical sentences like the above? That sentence would have guaranteed me a severe lecture from my seventh grade teacher.
That first one is incredible... no way to hide that kind of hatred.
Yep. His true temperament reared up when he was in the White House and went into some room (I think the kitchen) to get something and say hi to the little people reporters (looking for affirmation to tamp down the demons?) and he became prickly with them because they had the audacity to ask a question vs worship his presence.
Accident, suicide, execution...
No, Obomba, or Barry, you and your administration are torture!
What you are putting this nation through is worse than torture it is death to the American culture and way of life.
What you are proving is that government is indeed the problem. It is the answer to nothing and you are feeding this ravenous beast that will overshadow our states and our people.
Apparently you see your job as knocking down the nation not by a peg or two, but entirely.
When your work is finished the USA will be a third world nation with no borders, and full of the scum of the nations that exist south of our border.
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