I don’t know if you caught Obama’s talk with House Republicans earlier, if not you missed an amusing back and forth. That is, if you enjoy watching a grown man lie through his teeth. But this was the funniest part.
Not an ideologue? Really?
Really?!?!
Update: You can read Politico’s take on the exchange, or find other links at memeorandum. You can watch the entire exchange here. He didn’t directly answer the questions he was asked and went on the political attack, blamed Bush a little more and forgot his party controlled Congress after 2006.
When Breitbart produces the “James O’Keefe Story,” he MUST get Michael Cera to play O’Keefe.
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How did the Republicans keep from laughing out loud? Maybe they didn’t realize that he was trying to be funny. N
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Too bad you guys don’t know squat about policy, otherwise you’d have noticed that Obama destroyed their arguments/talking points. Watching Hensarling get taken apart was particularly amusing.
But please, continue fretting that he’s a Bolshevik. You’re almost as amusing.
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I know it seems old, but if his lips are moving he is lying. I say this because I truly wonder if this man is clinically deranged. I have never known anyone that can lie continuously with everything he says. Not opinion, out and out lie. I wish someone who is qualified would comment on his sanity or lack thereof.
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How’s that man can’t talk without a teleprompter meme going? The big winner was all Americans who want a government in which the leaders have respect for each other’s ideas and get things accomplished. Of course, those of you with Rush Limbaugh’s
Comment edited by admin. Keep it up and you’ll be banned from using my bandwidth to spread your BS.
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It would be a pleasure to be banned by you, ***hole.
Done!
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Observation from a conservative in a blue state. Comments welcome!
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One of the things that Obama modeled here is how to talk to people we disagree with. When Pence stood up and asked his idiotic question, Obama didn’t respond, “Are you really that stupid?”. I would have loved it if he did. But there’s a reason he didn’t, and I think we all know what that reason is. He wasn’t trying to convince Mike Pence of anything (could you imagine?). He was demonstrating to the audience that his methods of thinking were better. That he was better.
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Earth to sashal. Wake up!
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As a life long Democrat,who has been mad at Obama for a solid year,I gotta tell you guys something…he kicked your keisters today. I’m going to bed tonight with a smile on my face for the first time in a long,long time. Damn this was a good day!
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“kicked your keisters”? Oh yeah, right. Let just see what the outcome of November is. LOL! Get a grip woman.
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Folks, forget about ‘kicking keisters’ or where the message came from (a guy the proprietor here hates). The point is, we can talk with each other. We’re all Americans. We really don’t disagree on all that much. Good ideas are welcome. Let’s kill off the gotcha and the 24-hour-news cycle and get things done, the things we need to get done to keep making this the best damn country in the world.
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Also, good on the GOP for greenlighting the TV on this. Not something the Dems have had the courage to do, that’s for sure.
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Barack Obama is very very good at presentation; gifted. It’s a big plus for a politician to be able to do that, no matter what the ideology and positions on issues. I applaud both sides for getting the dialogue out in the open, and to the extent that Barack again showed excellent oratory skills as a debater, he is to be praised for that. It’s a welcome change.
It’s the other parts of effective leadership that I worry about. Prioritizing, focusing, listening, encouraging, knowing how to effect organizational change and ensure effective execution. These are life skills, and I fear that he is just now becoming attuned to that. No reason that he would have had to in his earlier gigs, The man sits atop the largest bureaucracy in the world, and I don’t see organizational leadership as being especially strong among his inner circle, either — very little experience outside government.
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Wow….looks like I missed a particularly vile and nasty Bowles movement earlier.
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Terry – yes. We are at the ‘deeds-not-words’ stage now. But it’s encouraging to see 2010 kick off with a lot of vigor in the political process, from Scott Brown’s election to this engagement between Obama and the GOP caucus. We need that kind of energy going forward.
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Oh….and for the petulant little trolls that keep showing up, I guess I was watching a different meeting Friday. What I heard was a thin-skinned man-child whining “waaah! You mean old meanies keep calling my redistributive policies ‘Bolshevik!’”.
Must hurt to know that the rest of the country is waking up to what a con-man is in the White house now.
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yes, you did watch the different show then everybody else, the show the brilliance of R.Ailes and his ilk induced susessfully in your head and which has no bearing to reality
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What color is the sky in your world? When your camp has lost the ‘Obama Girl’ and Chris Matthews (who forgot our president was black for an hour or so) is asking tough questions of Howard Dean and Penis Dick Grayson….pretty safe to say things aren’t going your way.
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