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Ducking WH Press, Obama Fields Tough Questions on Food, Music, Super Hero Powers
Townhall.com ^ | August 17, 2012 | Guy Benson

Posted on 08/17/2012 7:28:32 PM PDT by Kaslin

Good thing the RNC made clear that their new web ad is not a parody:

"Serious Questions"

"Red or green ?"

"What's your favorite New Mexican food?"

"What's your favorite song to work out to?"

"If you had a super power, what would it be?"

"I just flirted with the President of the United States of America!"
 

Meanwhile:
 

President Obama hasn’t formally taken questions from the White House press corps in more than two months, while on the campaign trail in Iowa yesterday he made time for reporters from People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight. His last news conference was at the G20 in June, when he answered six questions from three reporters on the European debt crisis, the conflict in Syria, and the notion of politics stopping at the water’s edge. The White House press corps has not formally been given the opportunity to ask questions of the president on U.S. soil since his appearance in the Briefing Room on June 8 (when he said “the private sector is doing fine.“) His last formal White House news conference was on March 6.


And:
 

Unemployment rates rose in July from June in almost all U.S. states, including those where the presidential election fight is expected to be fiercest, according to data released on Friday by the Labor Department. Altogether, jobless rates rose in 44 states, dropped in Idaho, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia, and were unchanged in four states in July from June. As the country moves closer to November's election day, voters' attention is squarely focused on the economy and a national jobless rate hovering above 8 percent.


Red or green?

 

Update (LB): MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell grills DWS on the matter:

 

DNC Chair Hammered On Obama Avoiding Tough Questions


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; barackobama; politicalcelebrity; toughquestions; whattoughquestions

1 posted on 08/17/2012 7:28:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Gosh, there was a day when a President had a set and would step up. Obviously those days are gone.


2 posted on 08/17/2012 7:31:53 PM PDT by doc1019 (Given my choices, I will not be voting this time around.)
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To: Kaslin

0bama does not want to use TOTUS.
0bama cannot be trusted to stay on scrip, the “you did’nt build that” is killing 0bama.

The only solution is to hide 0bama inside a bubble


3 posted on 08/17/2012 7:41:38 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Kaslin

Hey DWS, why the hard,forced, unnatural, eye blinks.

Did you get some mayonaise in your eyes??


4 posted on 08/17/2012 7:45:29 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Steven Tyler; doc1019

He has learned from the master, BJ Clinton. How could Clinton face unscripted questions after settling his sexual harassment lawsuit for $890K? He couldn’t, so he didn’t...for years.


5 posted on 08/17/2012 7:46:19 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Steven Tyler

Those were clearly scripted inane questions the talk show hosts were asking Obama—and he had his scripted, inane answers right at the ready in return.


6 posted on 08/17/2012 8:03:39 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Kaslin

His worshipers are such mental giants.


7 posted on 08/17/2012 8:15:22 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Kaslin; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Apparently they are still publishing the Weekly Reader in grade schools.


8 posted on 08/17/2012 8:31:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Only Obama put a dog on the roof of his mouth. Dogs are friends, not food.)
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To: Kaslin

The political party elites and the media elites can always control the noise or the static.

They cannot control the behavior of the unwashed masses.

The support of Chick-fil-A was a line in the sand that UNDERLINES how out of touch the clowns of BOTH political party elites have become.

It saddens me that FAUX conservatives like Mittens and his boy toy Ryan were not standing in line at Chick-fil-A in CONSERVATIVE of support of a business owner’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT to FREEDOM of SPEECH. Mittens and ALL those FAUX conservatives who populate the Republican Party elite did not have the GONADS to show up at Chick-fil-A because they are so blindly stupid to see the Chick-fil-A controversey as about gay marriage. The Chick-fil-A controversey had little to do with gay marriage as it was all about the Freedom of Speech of business ownera to voice opposition to gay marriage or any other controversial subject.

NOBODY cares what Barry thinks about anything. A lot of people care about First Amendment rights and they showed up at Chick-fil-A to prove that point.


9 posted on 08/17/2012 8:51:10 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Kaslin

Boxers or briefs?


10 posted on 08/17/2012 9:02:19 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Clinging to my Bible and my HK.)
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To: Kaslin

The man has no answers.


11 posted on 08/17/2012 9:21:09 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrats: Ticket of Dope and Chains.)
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To: doc1019

But was there EVER a day when the PRESS had a set when a DEMOCRAT is in office???? I don’t think so!


12 posted on 08/18/2012 2:49:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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