When Obama waits for the facts

The American Thinker ^ | August 01, 2009 | Richard Baehr

[Scanian]

Sometimes President Obama knows enough to refrain from speaking when he does not have the facts at his command. Witness these words:

"It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak," Obama said testily. "All right?"

He said these words when he tried to respond to an earlier media frenzy raised by his Administration's approval of large bonuses for employees at AIG, a firm rescued by the Federal government in 2008 with a bailout of over $150 billion. When pressed as to why it had taken several days for the Administration to express any outrage over the bonuses paid to employees of a company that had, in effect, failed, and then been bailed out of their self inflicted misery by taxpayers.

In his most recent press conference, President Obama got himself in some trouble when he accused the Cambridge, Massachusetts police force of having behaved stupidly by arresting his friend, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates. The comment, which was delivered in a very passionate, energized fashion, followed Obama's admission that Gates was a friend, and that he did not know the real facts and circumstances of what happened at Gates' house. When Obama's poll numbers started dropping very rapidly after his press conference comment became a huge media story, and his health care agenda became background noise for a few days, Obama tried to defuse the story by saying he had not calibrated his words well, and that his comments had added fuel to the controversy. This is as close to an apology you will ever get from this President as to his own behavior.

[Bahbah]

He knows so much that isn’t so.

[Quiller]

When faced with a credible challenge, a bully will temporize and stall for time while he tries to think of a way to come out looking good.

When in a situation where he will be shielded from retribution, or when the victim cannot retaliate, a bully will act against a victim to show his power.

0 is a bully. Against AIG, he needed to slow down, because he knew the corp. was big enough to have political friends.

Against a single cop, or a police force, it's not likely there would much political clout to contend with(0 didn't count on the nation-wide reaction), and besides, 0 is used to being able to call on the race issue with impunity.

[freeangel]

Oh, please. Isn’t rewriting history and destroying the Constitution enough? Now somebody wants him to have facts, too?

[spokeshave]

"It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak," Obama said testily.

And Bush waited 20 mins on 9-11

[Vaduz]

Sometimes President Obama knows enough to refrain from speaking when he does not have the facts.That didn’t work to well on the Gate’s and police issue.

[bestintxas]

My experience is that the initial reaction or response is usually the one that best underscores that person’s belief or background.

Zer0 gave us his first honest moment since becoming President.

He is racist.

[freekitty]

Since when has Obama cared about the facts of anything? He is a fraud and it’s going to come back to bite him in the butt.

[SunkenCiv]

"It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak," Obama said testily. "All right?" He said these words when he tried to respond to an earlier media frenzy raised by his Administration's approval of large bonuses for employees at AIG... a company that had, in effect, failed, and then been bailed out of their self inflicted misery by taxpayers. In his most recent press conference, President Obama got himself in some trouble when he accused the Cambridge, Massachusetts police force of having behaved stupidly by arresting his friend, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates.