Posted on 02/25/2010 7:51:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans had been hesitant to accept President Obama's invitation to participate in Thursday's White House health-care summit. Their hesitance turned out to be justified.
An equal number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers assembled around a table at Blair House, and each had a chance to speak during the seven-hour televised talkathon. But members of the opposition party may not have fully understood that they were stepping into Prof. Obama's classroom, and that they were to be treated like his undisciplined pupils.
Obama controlled the microphone and the clock, and he used both skillfully to limit the Republicans' time, to rebut their arguments and to always have the last word.
Among the first to have his knuckles rapped was Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). The 2008 Republican presidential nominee accused his former rival of "unsavory" dealmaking, of breaking his promise to put health-care negotiations on C-SPAN, of supporting a 2,400-page bill, of giving favors to lobbyists and special interests. He directed Obama to "go back to the beginning" with health-care reform.
"Let me just make this point, John," the president said when the tirade ended. "We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over." Teacher directed student to drop the "talking points" and "focus on the issues of how we actually get a bill done."
It's a safe bet that no minds were changed in that room Thursday, and it's not entirely clear that Obama was even trying to forge a compromise. Though advertised as a consensus-building opportunity, the summit served more as a moment for the president to tell Republicans, with the cameras rolling, why they're wrong and he's right.(continued)
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This piece was probably written by the White House press office and sent to the Washington Post a week ago. Obviously they didn’t watch the same 7 hour debacle for Obama that the rest of us watched.
It said Dana Milbank. Same thing as a Barf Alert.
I must’ve missed something because, to me, the article sounded critical of Obama behaving “like a professor.” But, maybe that’s just the way I read it. His behavior was so arrogant and obnoxious. They’d better not give in to him.
That was one of the funniest exchanges. McCain reminds Obama of his campaign promises, and Obama’s answer is “we aren’t campaigning anymore” — meaning I suppose that he just lied to get elected and John should know better.
Right. I was waiting for one of our congressmen to call him Barry. What a blowhard the Kenyan is.
Wow. The WaPo ain’t doing its homework.
If they’ve been paying any attention at all to the country’s negative assessment of brack obama, the last thing his WaPo team should be doing is potraying him as a professor.
John’s reply to Obama’s statement was funny, but much funnier would have been “Well, Barack, I was planning on KEEPING my campaign promises”
WaPo cracks me up.....lmao, libtard rag apologist and sympathizers...
Ever notice how the MSM always portrays Democrat presidents as genius's, way smarter that anybody else in the room. But G.W. Bush was always the dumb frat boy. Reagan was dull and slept through meeting. McCain and Dole were the angry ex-military men. etc.
You're right...I suppose I can give Obama the props for flat out admitting he's a liar and it's still no one is making an issue of it.
It was written by official Obama ass-kisser Dana Milbank, no wonder.
Don't you know that put RINO McCain's shorts in a knot!
Oh Dana, can you please wipe the shit off your nose now? You are right, we are not worthy of trodding the same soil as the One. When the student is ready, the teacher will enter and all that jolly crap. The pubbies are probably dragging their knuckles on the floor of their caves and wondering what to do.
Rahm will service you well later tonight, Dana.
I thought McCain should have responded, "By the look of your poll numbers, the American people seem to be having second thoughts.
I saw plenty of these arrogant self assured idiots in lecture halls in grad school. Tuned them out then, and still tuning them out now. I just wish the pubbies would have schooled Obama a bit. Cantor did the best job of those I saw, causing Obama to quickly decide to break for lunch.
Professor Obama has not yet recognized that he’s not in a classroom and this isn’t just a game.
He was that and more all day (as usual) only this time I think everyone will recognize what an arrogant, petty, hateful, stupid little man he is.
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