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Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk (Obama jokes about "gallows humor")
Politico ^ | March 22, 2009 | Craig Gordon

Posted on 03/22/2009 4:20:01 PM PDT by RDTF

President Barack Obama said he believes the global financial system remains at risk of implosion with the failure of Citigroup or AIG, touching off “an even more destructive recession and potentially depression.”

His remarks came in a “60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by an incredulous Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world’s economy.

“You're sitting here. And you're— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, "I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money—” How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asks at one point.

“Are you punch drunk?” Kroft says.

“No, no. There's gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama says, with a laugh.

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To: RDTF

The Audacity of Dope.


381 posted on 03/22/2009 8:56:27 PM PDT by scott7278 (Obama, Klaatu barada nikto!)
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To: RoseofTexas

You can take the Suit out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the Suit.


382 posted on 03/22/2009 8:56:54 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda arm.)
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To: Cicero

Pop

Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken

In, sprinkled with ashes,

Pop switches channels, takes another

Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks

What to do with me, a green young man

Who fails to consider the

Flim and flam of the world, since

Things have been easy for me;

I stare hard at his face, a stare

That deflects off his brow;

I’m sure he’s unaware of his

Dark, watery eyes, that

Glance in different directions,

And his slow, unwelcome twitches,

Fail to pass.

I listen, nod,

Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,

Beige T-shirt, yelling,

Yelling in his ears, that hang

With heavy lobes, but he’s still telling

His joke, so I ask why

He’s so unhappy, to which he replies . . .

But I don’t care anymore, cause

He took too damn long, and from

Under my seat, I pull out the

Mirror I’ve been saving; I’m laughing,

Laughing loud, the blood rushing from

his face

To mine, as he grows small,

A spot in my brain, something

That may be squeezed out, like a

Watermelon seed between

Two fingers.

Pop takes another shot, neat,

Points out the same amber

Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine,

and

Makes me smell his smell, coming

From me; he switches channels, recites

an old poem

He wrote before his mother died,

Stands, shouts, and asks

For a hug, as I shink*, my

Arms barely reaching around

His thick, oily neck, and his broad back;

‘cause

I see my face, framed within

Pop’s black-framed glasses

And know he’s laughing too. *

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/mar/29/barackobama.uselections2008


383 posted on 03/22/2009 8:57:24 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

Gosh, do you suppose he could be a sociopath? I do. He certainly hates whites.

I didn’t see this but in my mind’s eye I can see his attitude. He is a smartalec.

I managed to be able to watch a clip of Gibbs popping off the other day before he became tongue tied over honest adn reasonable questions about who knew what and when about AIG.

The issue now on AIG is manifold and it has little to do with AIG. I wonder if anyone with any kind of public position is going to point out that the issues now are:

1. Has the president lied about what he knew and when?
2. Has the congress violated the Constitution?


384 posted on 03/22/2009 8:58:04 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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To: Revolting cat!

and nothing, nobody can stop him
_________
If he really thinks that he is delusional!


385 posted on 03/22/2009 9:00:06 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: Windcatcher

Dang!! I should have used spell check....MEANT GHETTO....hehehhe


386 posted on 03/22/2009 9:00:28 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: genetic homophobe

And he knows exactly how. And he will.
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Not without a fight he won’t. His own party will turn on him sooner or later. He can’t fight us all.


387 posted on 03/22/2009 9:01:49 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: RDTF
Do we have an Obama and or Biden Gaffe ping?? If so, put me on it.. if not.. someone start it! ;)
388 posted on 03/22/2009 9:02:05 PM PDT by cdnerds (Now part of the conservative underground,)
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To: RoseofTexas
"gallows humor"

will a noose get small enough to choke his pencilneck ?

389 posted on 03/22/2009 9:04:21 PM PDT by KTM rider (the War On Terror has been superceeded by the War On Capitalism)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

For one smart ass to be offended by another, the other, as in ZERO, has to be popping off and giving a lot of body language and other non-verbal signals themself.

I won’t watch ZERO or even listen to him, I have trouble reading what he says because he is so full of S..t. So, I can only conjecture about how he behaved on 60 min (Something else I won’t watch)but in my conjecture... I think this will be poorly received.

Most of America doesn’t like smart asses and people who are without jobs, worrying about jobs and losses and costs and all that...should get pretty PISSED by someone who finds inappropriate humor in their painful condition.


390 posted on 03/22/2009 9:04:40 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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To: RDTF

The guy dosn’t have to worry about money. No matter how bad things get, he still gets his wagu beef and his Wednesday evening parties. He runs on the taxpayer’s dime, he dosn’t care where they get it, he’s got his.


391 posted on 03/22/2009 9:05:48 PM PDT by McGavin999 (How's that change old Hopey Dope promised you working out?)
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To: Paladin2

What is SEG?


392 posted on 03/22/2009 9:05:52 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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To: Irish Eyes

We can stop Obama from packing the Supreme Court, but ONLY if we flip Congress next year.

That is crucial.

We MUST do it, and the way things are unraveling for O right now, we just may have a chance.


393 posted on 03/22/2009 9:06:14 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: RoseofTexas
thats OK it was a freudian slip

Get -O

get it ?

394 posted on 03/22/2009 9:06:20 PM PDT by KTM rider (the War On Terror has been superceeded by the War On Capitalism)
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To: GBA

I have to say in all honesty I would rather deal with dumber than dirt Biden, rather than the unmitigated evil of Obama. Biden is dumber than dirt as I already mentioned and I think if he to take over as president that he is a buffoon & a joke, and by & large he would be a figurehead president with a largely fractured demoRAT base that would be extremely PO’s over the removal of Obooombi. Which would be good for our side!!!


395 posted on 03/22/2009 9:08:32 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: rabscuttle385
And McCain isn't?

Thank you for explaining why you helped to put a Marxist in the Oval Office, Obama Girl.


396 posted on 03/22/2009 9:10:52 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Parley Baer

“It is quite obvious he is not running the show.”

I’ve often wondered how often he reports in to George Soros.


397 posted on 03/22/2009 9:11:42 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I feel much better since I gave up hope.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Well there is that morning telcon that the Marxists run. I have no doubt that the WH and Soros are in on the details, if not on the call itself.


398 posted on 03/22/2009 9:12:48 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda arm.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda; LucyT; maggief; STARWISE; Candor7; Calpernia; Fred Nerks; null and void; ...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=550_1210277599

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This was scrubbed from the internet. You Tube took it down every single time someone put it up. Watch closely. This video is grainy, it’s the only one I could find. He has tight jeans on and is showing the girls on the plane.


399 posted on 03/22/2009 9:18:52 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: driftdiver

“impeachment would be good too”

Not good enough, as he needs to leave. Clinton was impeached but he never WENT AWAY!


400 posted on 03/22/2009 9:21:34 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I feel much better since I gave up hope.)
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