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Obama Dines With Conservative Columnists
new york times ^ | January 13, 2009, 10:28 pm | Helene Cooper

Posted on 01/14/2009 7:13:38 AM PST by kellynla

Edited on 01/14/2009 8:13:46 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

President-elect Barack Obama arrived at a dinner party on Tuesday night in Chevy Chase, Md. (Photo: Charles Dharapak/Associated Press) WASHINGTON

(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhoinauguration; conservatives; krauthammer; kristol; obama
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To: kellynla

Not surprising, and not even original. Clinton did the same thing when he took office - tried to buddy up to the Conservative Punditry - had them to the White House for lunch. It’s strictly a PR move for Obigula. Look at what a nice man I am! I’ll even talk to the evil White Right-Wing media.

Of course, someone should tell him it didn’t help Clinton, either. Rush put him down so effectively there was a Republican Congress in two years and Dr. K beat him up every week in his column for every boneheaded move the Sleezeball in Chief did.


21 posted on 01/14/2009 7:24:56 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: eleni121
William Kristol and David Brooks -— conservatives? LOL

Of course! It's all a matter of where you are standing in the political spectrum - and the NYT is way over on the left, so almost anyone, except left wing bomb throwers, looks conservative to them.

Hey, they compare Bush to the leader of the former "National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party".

In other words, they think Hitler, the leader of a socialist workers' party, was a conservative!

That tells you just how far left they are.

22 posted on 01/14/2009 7:25:12 AM PST by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: kellynla

I’d love to get Dr. Krauthammer’s psychiatric report on Barry.


23 posted on 01/14/2009 7:25:25 AM PST by COUNTrecount (http://obamaclock.org/)
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To: Harold Hill

Rush was in the audience at the White House for the Freedom Awards. You can clearly see him in the video released by the WH. Doubt he met with the great exalted One, the messiah.

What is distressing is the story coming out that Obama pre-designates which reporters will ask him questions at press conferences. If you are not in favor, you will not be called on. Not a good sign, IMO.


24 posted on 01/14/2009 7:25:38 AM PST by CedarDave (Under Obama, yesterday's pork-laden earmarks have become tomorrow's economic stimulus projects)
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To: roses of sharon

Disagree- if he asked me for advice or my opinion, I would give it to him straight up. And I would keep the discussion to politics, not personalities, even though I might not care for his personality.


25 posted on 01/14/2009 7:26:54 AM PST by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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To: LIConFem

We don’t think so.

It’s the rohrschach blot absorbing.


26 posted on 01/14/2009 7:27:01 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: kellynla

More schmooz the newz.


27 posted on 01/14/2009 7:29:25 AM PST by sarasota
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To: kellynla

Which one of these neocon rinos is the conservative?


28 posted on 01/14/2009 7:30:01 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kellynla

I’ll play devil’s advocate for a moment.

Some of our presidents understood the importance of schmoozing the opposition press. If you listen to the LBJ tapes, it sometimes seems like that’s all he did. Reagan was the great communicator. I think one of the current Bush’s biggest failures was that he did not do this. If you want to be an effective president, this is what you have to do. That and get your loyal people in key positions.

0bama has clearly read some history, and has given some thought as to what makes presidents effective and what not to do. So I won’t ding him for this. Hell, I’d do the same thing.


29 posted on 01/14/2009 7:30:04 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: COUNTrecount

I don’t think CON MAN falls within psychological parameters.


30 posted on 01/14/2009 7:31:19 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: CedarDave
What is distressing is the story coming out that Obama pre-designates which reporters will ask him questions at press conferences.

Not only WHICH reporters, but even more distressing, WHAT THE CONTENT OF THEIR QUESTION will be.

31 posted on 01/14/2009 7:33:59 AM PST by They'reGone2000 (<--- Forwarding address: Galt's Gulch)
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To: CedarDave

Will the journalists be wearing Team Obama t-shirts so he can recognize them during pressers?


32 posted on 01/14/2009 7:34:59 AM PST by sarasota
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To: kellynla
Dinner with the boot lickers..
WOuld appreciate a list of all participants..
They should treated like and named boot lickers..

A hard rain will fall "someday".. soon I hope..

33 posted on 01/14/2009 7:36:27 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: ecomcon

Next thing you know, Bush and McCain are “Conservatives”.


I know what you mean...when the Cold War ended some of these formerly so called conservatives showed their true colors and they aren’t conservative.


34 posted on 01/14/2009 7:40:19 AM PST by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! + In this sign Conquer! +)
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To: sarasota

You can’t get more “inside the beltway” than a Chevy Chase dinner party for the President Select hosted by four entrenched RINOs.


35 posted on 01/14/2009 7:40:24 AM PST by Loyolas Mattman (Sarah Palin: America's Governor)
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To: Cacique

Neither is their fellow neocon, Krauthamer.


36 posted on 01/14/2009 7:41:32 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: Harold Hill

If Rush was part of the conversation - then what’s left...just everything.

Seriously I cannot imagine he was....


37 posted on 01/14/2009 7:42:43 AM PST by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! + In this sign Conquer! +)
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To: Wil H

“Of course! It’s all a matter of where you are standing in the political spectrum “

Exactly.


38 posted on 01/14/2009 7:42:46 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: kellynla

Mmm, I guess I got the wrong impression from the title of the article. I thought it said that he dined with conservative columnists, but it was actually Bill Kristol.


39 posted on 01/14/2009 7:43:05 AM PST by epow
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To: oblomov

(My “straight up” to Hussein.)

I will laugh at every stumble you make, applaud your mistakes and cheer your enemies. I want you to spend the next four years cowering in a corner while our economy crashes and burns and our enemies kick your arse. I want you to leave office a broken man. And I want every disloyal “American” who voted for you to share your pain. You all poisoned the well for the last eight years, and I want you to choke on it now. *No* bipartisanship, *no *compromise, *no* surrender *

I will create doubt about you in every conversation. I will question your judgment. Support your opponents. Ridicule your errors. Mitigate your successes with suggestion of unintended consequences. Refuse to praise your work. Challenge your advocates when they advocate; I will not let them own the conversation.

I will give you the same respect you gave last President of the United States, our missions in two war theaters, and our military.


40 posted on 01/14/2009 7:43:24 AM PST by roses of sharon ("No socialist system can be established without a political police.", Churchill -1945)
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