Live Thread: POTUS to speak to country at 1730 ZULU concerning S&P downgrade

08 AUG 11 | dcbryan1

[DCBryan1]

CNBC just broke in and told the audience that the President has requested airtime and will speak to the nation at 1300hrs EST (12 noon central, 10 AM PST) on the US national debt downgrade.

Developing...

[Mad Dawgg]

Typical of Obama, he is late... AGAIN!

[no-to-illegals]

opps ... teleprompter speech delayed thirty minutes. Must have had to feed zer0 another lemon flavored ice cream cone.

[newzjunkey]

Obama remarks delayed until 13:30hrs EST.

He's always late. Set-up is under a portrait of Abe Lincoln.

Live stream C-SPAN

C-SPAN says he'll talk about the Afghanistan crash as well.

[Deo volente]

The MSM is running full speed with the “blame the Tea party” crap. It’s incredible, really.

[shield]

I’m not watching the jackarse anyway. It is a waste of time besides it is much more amusing to read the comments here at FR on this thread. My rule is ALWAYS stay away from freaks, flakes, liars etc.....the list is too long to list... ;o)

[CitizenM]

POS is running late. Big surprise!

Zero is simply too late for everything, including problem solving. And has he ever been on time for any TV appearance?

And this damn blame it on inheriting a debt thing...I ask, hasn't every President inherited a debt? Don't recall any of them bellyaching so much for so long about it. I think even George Washington had the war debt to deal with if I am not mistaken.

[Keith in Iowa]

https://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/100612989715103744

@markknoller - Mark Knoller

Pres. Obama’s statement delayed till 130pm. Hope S&P doesn’t grade on fiscal punctuality. Could mean another downgrade.

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Kind of snarky - and atypical of a media lapdog.

[papertyger]

they need to rewrite the speech. Rush just gave it before Obama could...blameblameblame

[Red_Devil 232]

Colored People’s Time - a stereotype of African Americans and Hispanics as frequently being late.

[kristinn]

EDT. We’re on Daylight Savings Time. Most folks just use ET for Eastern Time as it eliminates room for error.

[newzjunkey]

[Roccus]

You posted that, I didn’t.

};^)

[LdSentinal]

Mark Knoller called the Tea Party, "teabaggers."

He's just another CBS Obama toadie.

[MNJohnnie]

Rassmuusen polled on that. 57% disagree with this attempt to blame the Tea Party. This tactic is going to bite Democrats right on the butt in 2012. Americans expect leadership, not non-stop whining, from their Presidents

[americanophile]

They've been doing it all weekend. Axelfraud called it the 'Tea Party downgrade', then John Skerry. Hussein will be the next; it's called The Big Lie, and that's what liberals do.

"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." - Adolf Hitler

[silentreignofheroes]

http://www.wmac-am.com/

On until 2 CST here.

[Deo volente]

Dow down 364 points now.

[newzjunkey]

EDT. Yes, you’re right. I was just copying from the thread title. (seriously)

[Mad Dawgg]

"they need to rewrite the speech. Rush just gave it before Obama could...blameblameblame

Yeah I bet they have internal polling showing the "Its the Tea Party's Fault" meme isn't gaining traction so they are going with a new tactic.

I am betting "Kill the Messenger" and then a "Rodney King" will be the route they take.

[John W]

Looks like it could be over 400 down by the time they get him upright.