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Obama listens at health summit, but mostly hears from himself (233 minutes Dems, 114 Pubbies)
Wash Times ^ | 2/25/10 | Joe Curl

Posted on 02/25/2010 6:23:12 PM PST by pissant

President Obama pledged to "listen" at the outset of his much-ballyhooed bipartisan health care summit on Thursday. Turns out he meant he'd be listening to his own voice.

By the end of the televised event, Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes - nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 Republicans. The 21 Democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes, giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes, according to a "talk clock" kept by GOP aides.

From the beginning, no one could agree on anything, even how much time each side had used. When a miffed Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, pointed out early on that Democrats had controlled 52 minutes to Republicans' 24, Mr. Obama jumped in to dispute even that.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: brashrambler; dirtytrickbho; kenyanking; larrysinclairslover; nobc; notransparency; obama; obamacare; obamalies; plightofthebloviator; treason
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1 posted on 02/25/2010 6:23:12 PM PST by pissant
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233 minutes? That’s a lot of dead air for a TV show.


2 posted on 02/25/2010 6:25:17 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I'd rather watch and listen to this guy...


3 posted on 02/25/2010 6:28:14 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes


24 minutes of which consisted of uh's,
16 minutes of uhm's, and
42 minutes of stammering pauses.
4 posted on 02/25/2010 6:29:35 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: pissant

The article mispoke when it said ObaMao had been a professor. He was never a professor: He was a lecturer, and that for only a brief period.


5 posted on 02/25/2010 6:31:05 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It was great ....I think that it won’t be long before the dems start eating their own starting with the prez


6 posted on 02/25/2010 6:31:17 PM PST by databoss
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To: ought-six
They insulted the Real McCoy....


7 posted on 02/25/2010 6:32:38 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Obama is The Won he has been waiting for.


8 posted on 02/25/2010 6:33:17 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (BOOM! Taste my nightstick! Sarah, making Shatner sound Shakespearean.)
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You folks, should tune in to the History or Military cable channels and watch Hitler, Mussolini, Castro, Chavez dominate with their ego driven speeches. Sound familar???Birds of a feather flock together!!! Americans, you decide where POTUS Obama fits???


9 posted on 02/25/2010 6:35:15 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: ought-six

More like a substitute teacher...the type who just tells the class to sit and read quietly. THAT was his level of “instruction.”


10 posted on 02/25/2010 6:35:24 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (BOOM! Taste my nightstick! Sarah, making Shatner sound Shakespearean.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Gives new meaning to the phrase “interminable droning.”


11 posted on 02/25/2010 6:36:44 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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As I have stated here before, people have no idea what the economic freight-train is bringing down the track. Federal revenue is off 30%, and state revenue off 12.7%. The impact is coming and obamugabe is moving the throttle to full speed ahead. Theft of industries, smearing those in the private sector that oppose a belligerent fool drunk with power and stupidity telling them, we are going to decide your healthcare needs. A tyrant with a teleprompter and a tie, minimal knowledge outside the organizing of community illiterates, and a deep-seated hatred of any challenge to his authority, is going to hijack another industry. This meeting should be about tax-cuts that will stimulate the private sector to create jobs. Instead, it is about the hijacking of more private businesses, stripping more taxes from the private sector, and the soon to follow job losses. The community of illiterates and the healthcare welfare crowd will not convert, but will follow a fool off a cliff.


12 posted on 02/25/2010 6:37:32 PM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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Obowmao sucks. Whoda thunk it. Film at 11.


13 posted on 02/25/2010 6:41:10 PM PST by JusPasenThru (Why won't those knuckle-dragging tea-bagging right-wing bastards just negotiate with me?)
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They had a year to convince each other and couldn’t do it. It really was a ShamWOW.


14 posted on 02/25/2010 6:43:47 PM PST by bronxville
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I gave up on it after Reid interrupted Coburn and accused him of a "filibuster".

We don't want to tax The King's attention span with anything substantive or that can't be boiled down into a simple soundbite.

15 posted on 02/25/2010 6:44:02 PM PST by Cu Roi
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To: TomGuy

16 posted on 02/25/2010 6:44:38 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: FlingWingFlyer

17 posted on 02/25/2010 6:45:28 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: TomGuy

18 posted on 02/25/2010 6:46:12 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: pissant
Kids today have no clue what that is and never saw a station end its broadcast day by playing the Star Spangled Banner with the Flag waving


19 posted on 02/25/2010 6:47:54 PM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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The shows were better back then too


20 posted on 02/25/2010 6:49:27 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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