Posted on 12/11/2010 1:20:32 PM PST by Innovative
Obama and Clinton wrapped up their private meeting in the Oval Office. Clinton wanted to publicly endorse the tax package. Obama is welcoming all the help he can get.
So the two presidents headed straight for the famous briefing room with no warning.
Except they couldn't get in.
The door was locked because press staff members were at their holiday party in the Executive Mansion.
Obama and Clinton went back up a hall and found a press aide at her desk. "Do you know how to open up the briefing room?" Obama asked.
Press secretary Robert Gibbs heard the voices outside his office, walked out and saw the two presidents.
"What are you guys up to?" Gibbs recalled saying.
"We're looking for some reporters," the presidents told Gibbs.
So the White House press staff scrambled, summoning all available media to the briefing room and setting up a live feed for the networks in minutes. The presidents stood waiting, behind a closed door, until Gibbs stalled long enough to let correspondents take their spots.
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Do you remember all the pictures when Bush was trying to leave the UN meeting and couldn't get out -- it was front page news by the MSM.
Can you imagine the press coverage, if it had been President Bush trying to get into the briefing room and couldn't get in?
Bubba’s back. The impeached lying weasel and the incompetent Marxist weasel. Two peas in a pod. Barack Obama’s ‘’presidency-by-committee’’ continues. Good God, the two of these jackwagons haven’t an ounce of shame between them. Bill the media whore and Barack the Bozo.
Is Barry a free agent now or will they be sending him back down to the minors?
of course it was self indulgent because reelection was his prime objective. But, that raises the question: "What is Obama's prime objective?"
This presentdency is becoming one biiig, saaaad, horrible joke!
Thank you Hussein for showing your teeeth!
I thought I’d never see the day. Imagine the country’s first black president saving Obama.
It was really nice to see both of America’s “first black presidents” together at the podium.
It’s good to see that the democRats keep a “spare president” in case the current one goes flat.
Isn’t it though? The abject incompetence, amateurishness and just plain stupidity of Barack Obama and his eight-grade quality people are just what you said, a horrible joke. And the jokes on us. Can you see two more years of this? I can’t. This guy has got to go.
I saw another round on that presser, this time from a wider angle. The astonishment of Gibbs was noticeable when Obama bugged out. He was just as stunned as anyone and tried to conceal what must have been the most embarrassing handoff in history. I’m waiting for Gibbs to resign, how can you possibly cover for a guy who does something like that? Even an arrogant yes man like Gibbs has to be fed up.
Gibbs has risen to the pinnacle of his incompetence. Where was he prior? Nowhere much. So, there’s nowhere to go but down for him, and he’s there to the bitter end as White House Press Secretary.
The reality is, Obama and Clinton cut him out of the loop, and Gibbs won’t acknowledge the egg on his face. I have no sympathy for Gibbs, he’s been a smug and smarmy little clingon, but what was Obama thinking? Was he stoned out of his gourd?
Great quip.
Common you guys, that stuff’s not what I come here for!!
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