Movie star Susan Sarandon compared President Obama to Jesus
President Obama made a surprise visit to the White House press corps Thursday night, but got agitated when he was faced with a substantive question. [...]
“Ahh, see,” he said, “I came down here to visit. See this is what happens. I can’t end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I’m going to get grilled every time I come down here.”
Pressed further by the Politico reporter about his Pentagon nominee, William J. Lynn III, Obama turned more serious, putting his hand on the reporter’s shoulder and staring him in the eye.
“Alright, come on” he said, with obvious irritation in his voice. “We will be having a press conference at which time you can feel free to [ask] questions. Right now, I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself to you guys - that’s all I was trying to do.”
Comment by AKA Pablo on 1/22 @ 8:38 pm #
“Can’t I just eat my waffle?”
Time to put on your big boy pants, Baracky.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 1/22 @ 8:40 pm #
Maybe the pressies are getting over their puppy love, and are moving on to the The Relationship phase.
Comment by Matt on 1/22 @ 8:50 pm #
I do not think this job entails what the One thought it entailed.
Community organizing never required so much answering of substantive questions.
Comment by leigh on 1/22 @ 8:51 pm #
Am I the only one who thinks Teh One’s constant use of “you guys” regardless to whom he is referring sounds like a middle school girl cattering with her friends in front of their lockers?
“You gu-uys! C’mon! GOD!”
Comment by billypaintbrush on 1/22 @ 8:52 pm #
He sounds annoyed. Did they forget the rose petals, already?
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/22 @ 9:00 pm #
“President Obama made a surprise visit to the White House press corps Thursday night”
He is not that stupid is he?
Comment by Seth Williams on 1/22 @ 9:07 pm #
Imagine the gall…the press…asking questions! Of an elected official no less!
Comment by B Moe on 1/22 @ 9:26 pm #
He probably didn’t have Greg Craig with him. How is he supposed to answer questions without Greg Craig there?
Comment by Roland THTG on 1/22 @ 9:34 pm #
I uh, well…Change.
Not now sweety.
Comment by Barry Hussein Rainbowshanks on 1/22 @ 9:41 pm #
A cat may look at a king. The rest of you can kneel and avert your eyes.
Comment by cranky-d on 1/22 @ 9:54 pm #
I assume that was rhetorical.
Comment by George Orwell on 1/22 @ 10:05 pm #
It would seem that he has more consideration for people launching rockets willy-nilly than his loyal press corps. From Gateway Pundit.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2009
Obama Tells Israel: Open Your Borders With Gaza
He’s so smart.
Financial Times reported:
President Barack Obama urged Israel on Thursday to open its borders with Gaza.
The plea came in a speech that signalled the new US administration’s shift from Bush-era policy on the Middle East and the world as a whole. In a high-profile address on his second day in office, just hours after he signed an executive order to close the centre at Guantánamo Bay, Mr Obama proclaimed that the US would “actively and aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians†in the wake of this month’s Gaza war.
“As part of a lasting ceasefire, Gaza’s border crossings should be open to allow the flow of aid and commerce, with an appropriate monitoring regime, with the international and Palestinian Authority participating.â€Â
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/22 @ 10:10 pm #
We will be having a press conference at which time you can feel free to [ask] questions.
Translation: there’s no Teleprompter here.
As part of a lasting ceasefire, Gaza’s border crossings should be open to allow the flow of aid and commerce, with an appropriate monitoring regime, with the international and Palestinian Authority participating.
Translation: Hamas is out of munitions and we need to let them resupply.
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 10:10 pm #
The last meaningful press conference from Bush he spoke for 15-seconds in the Rose Garden and then turned and went back inside the White House. Seems the Reagonomic collapse of the banking system wasn’t something Bush felt the need to answer questions about.
A legacy destroyed.
Comment by keninnorcal on 1/22 @ 10:24 pm #
Actually the last substantive press conference for Bush was probably 7 years ago, when each question didn’t start with a “when did you stop beating your wife” type framing in front of it.
I guess if all you’re used to is a Monica from the press, a “let’s talk about our feelings” approach isn’t going to go over well.
Comment by AKA Pablo on 1/22 @ 10:39 pm #
Does Barry know that Hamas tends to murder Palestinian Authority (read: Fatah) types?
Comment by parsnip on 1/22 @ 10:55 pm #
If Obama is Jesus, he probably has unique insights into the nature of Israel.
Comment by mojo on 1/22 @ 11:34 pm #
I’d go jocular: “Hey, you can ask all ya want, doesn’t mean I’m gonna answer. I gotta have some off-the-record time.” Ha ha. Good old boy. They’d buy it.
Then, later, talk to the SS about the troublemaker…
Comment by SSG RaTsO - Proud to be ODD! on 1/22 @ 11:39 pm #
Parsnip, do you save a lot of money on haircuts? Seems like that could be the case with the amount of stuff that flies right over your head if it’s a near enough miss.
Comment by Jorsh on 1/22 @ 11:40 pm #
He probably should give the press a bunch of cute nicknames, maybe give them BBQ. And maybe he can put a fake reporter in the pool to lob some softballs.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/22 @ 11:42 pm #
why do that when they already do it for free?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/22 @ 11:43 pm #
josh, your BDS has passed its sell-by date.
Time to stop sitting on your ass screeching about Bush and get to work.
I suspect that you’re going to find out that critcism and performance are two entirely different things.
The hard way.
Comment by Darleen on 1/22 @ 11:45 pm #
Oh my, Obamessiah doesn’t fool everyone so …quick! LOOK OVER THERE!!… GAY PORN COCK OF LIES!!!
sad, Jorsh … it’s only day two and that’s all you got?
sad
Comment by Darleen on 1/22 @ 11:51 pm #
Oh…BTW… “Jorsh”, you might like to pick a name and stick to it - Josh, Lef, Festivus, Smedley
Comment by parsnip on 1/22 @ 11:53 pm #
I know Jesus really was just an imaginary character, Ratso.
Your concern is touching, though.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/22 @ 11:53 pm #
Darleen, he appears to be a troll of the “drop one turd per thread, then run away” variety.
Is that correct?
Comment by Jorsh on 1/22 @ 11:56 pm #
You people sure are touchy. I was simply suggesting some tried and true methods of press management that my Lord and Savior can employ. I guess if you start frothing over what is essentially “no comment until later” anything will get your outrage going, though. You guys are gonna be really pissed when we throw Hannity off the radio and take all your guns, huh?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/22 @ 11:58 pm #
You people sure are touchy.
Get to work, Jorsh.
Utopia ain’t going to build itself, you know.
Criticism. Performance. Not the same thing.
Oh, yeah: Trollhammered.
Comment by Roland THTG on 1/23 @ 12:00 am #
Comment by Jorsh on 1/22 @ 11:56 pm #
………………
You guys are gonna be really pissed when we throw Hannity off the radio and take all your guns, huh?
Yeah, have fun with that.
kthxbye
Comment by Phil on 1/23 @ 12:01 am #
Since Obamessiah’s admin has already endorsed government stimulus based on one’s skin pigment (white construction workers need not apply), erasing the 1st and 2nd Amendments sounds downright moderate. Change!
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/23 @ 12:02 am #
and I was merely suggesting he not waste taxpayer’s money.
Comment by Roland THTG on 1/23 @ 12:04 am #
TICK TICK
Comment by parsnip on 1/23 @ 12:06 am #
Your clock looks to be about 4 years off, Roland.
Even so, 1458 days left in his current term.
Let that sink in.
Aaaah.
Comment by Log Cabin on 1/23 @ 12:10 am #
Perhaps Barry could simply write down the questions and then get his… um… ‘operators’ to compose some answers for him. It’s getting pretty obvious already that he has a very weak grasp of what he supposed to be doing as POTUS.
It seems that the leftards are already wearing out the “Well, Bush was a bigger idiot” card. I doubt it serve them well in the battles ahead. The American public isn’t going to let them hide behind that weak hand for very long. In fact, I think the honeymoon blush is fading right now.
More popcorn!
Comment by Phil on 1/23 @ 12:17 am #
Ummm…you’re fucked too. You just don’t realize it yet. Give it about 6 months or so. Actually, maybe 3. I’d recommend Alka Seltzer.
Say, did you hear economists are forecasting unemployment to be higher at the end of Obamessiah’s first term than it is now?
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-econ19-2009jan19,0,2252476.story
No, you hadn’t heard that? Yeah me neither. But Oprah did tell me she had found God the other day. No, not in a spiritual “found God” sort of way. She literally found him. According to her, he was bowing to Barack Obama.
Comment by Darleen on 1/23 @ 12:20 am #
Jon Favreau is going to have to pull some more of those Starbucks’ all nighters as the POTUS’s “mind reader” speech writer … a few more like the inaugural and Barry can just talk the reporters to sleep.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/23 @ 12:24 am #
might I suggest these lyrics?
Bad news go ‘way!
Call ’round some day
In March or May -
I can’t be bothered now.
he can just change “dancing” to something important sounding…
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/23 @ 12:26 am #
Hey, did y’all hear that the War on Terror is over, according to the WaPo?
And we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
Comment by Darleen on 1/23 @ 12:26 am #
Phil
As long as Barry and the Dems go the FDR route in “stimulus”, then yes, the economic downturn will continue just as the Depression was artificially lengthened.
Dust off that misery index, Barry looks to be completing Jimmy Carter’s 2nd term.
Comment by thor on 1/23 @ 12:29 am #
It’ll take some time to reverse the Reagan-Bush-Redumblican’s China First economic policy.
We know that.
Comment by Phil on 1/23 @ 12:31 am #
It is?!? Well that was mighty fast. That Obama guy really does walk on water!
Comment by Phil on 1/23 @ 12:33 am #
The misery index is so 70s. It’s now referred to as the “Watch Us F*ck You In The Ass While The Media Demands You Like It” index. It goes from 1 to 10. Right now, we’re at about a 6.
Comment by Darleen on 1/23 @ 12:50 am #
Yes, because UCLA is known for being all fringy cranky and all.
Comment by parsnip on 1/23 @ 1:18 am #
Haha Phil,
I like how every right wing extremist has become a concern troll for Obama.
Relax, he’s got a good shot at being one of our best presidents, and if not, he’ll never be as bad as Bush.
Comment by Daryl Herbert on 1/23 @ 1:33 am #
I was told there wouldn’t be questions.
Jesus didn’t have to answer questions.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/23 @ 1:53 am #
See this is what happens. But we knew that I’m pretty sure. I do have something to say. You’d think the pezzydent might too. Nope. But I do. And also I miss Jeff.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/23 @ 2:02 am #
I can wait for Baracky to have something to talk about. It must be hard, after a campaign and all, to say stuff what people might hear outside of the context of a campaign. Scary, too. I wish I could help Baracky feel more comfortable and more secure in a leadership position, but I don’t know what it would be. I just want Baracky to know he can speak without feeling judged. We love you man.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 1/23 @ 2:45 am #
BHO, not as bad as GWB! Yeah, go with that for four years. Change you can believe in. Yes we can. Can’t B. Hussein write himself a waiver regarding answering questions from the press?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/23 @ 5:53 am #
Comment by thor on 1/23 @ 12:29 am #
You just keep talking to the voices in your head, ‘mkay, hor?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/23 @ 5:54 am #
Comment by assclown on 1/23 @ 12:36 am #
You just keep on talking to the voices in your head, ‘mkay, shithead?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/23 @ 5:56 am #
“Relax, he’s got a good shot at being one of our best presidents, and if not, he’ll never be as bad as Bush.”
My worry, and I’m serious about this, is that he will be the worst President since Jimmah “Peanuts” Carter, if not worse.
Comment by B Moe on 1/23 @ 6:09 am #
Translation: there’s no Teleprompter here.
His new teleprompter has a name, SPB:
Obama explained each order before he put his pen to them, in some cases reading them in full, and occasionally solicited input from White House counsel Greg Craig to make sure he was describing them correctly.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/22/obama-issues-directives-detainees-interrogation-guantanamo/
If you are a Limbaugh subscriber, he has the audio. He played it on his show yesterday and it was pretty sad.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/23 @ 6:27 am #
Sarandon!,…Sarandon..?, You’re listening to Susan effin’ Sarandon!?…
[spoken in with the same tone of incredulity used by former Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Mora during the "Playoffs? rant]
Who Cares what these plastic, vacuous, phoney, pretentious Hollywood types think…
If they’re so worried about social justice thay should be voluntarily paying 90% of their income to the government; especially in Kawl-ee-forn-ee-yah considering how broke the state is and that regular folks will be getting I.O.U.s instead of tax refunds or assistance checks…
As far as I’m concerned Sarandon, Timmy Robbins, Jessica Alba, Ellen, Oprah, Alec Baldwin, and all te other members of the hate-America-unless-my-guy-is-in-charge crew can just crawl back up under the rocks they normally reside under…
SARANDON?!?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/23 @ 6:28 am #
Wasn’t there a story last week about how Obama’s press conferences are carefully staged, with a pre-determined list of reporters he’ll call on?
ISTR we jokingly compared it to what got the lefties all pissed about Gannon.
“Jorsh” mebbe needs to stop living in the past and focus his outrage on the abuses of the new president.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/23 @ 6:37 am #
“I can’t end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I’m going to get grilled every time I come down here.â€Â
Clearly the press have become a bunch of RAAAAAAAAAAACISTS!!1!1!eleventy!
Hey, at least they didn’t throw shoes at him, right?
Can you imagine the OUTRAGE!…
He’s better get used to this. Just because the media acted like his personal propaganda arm during the election doesn’t mean they can afford to keep doing so. They have businesses to run, man! The beast must be fed; and it won’t always eat the gauzy feel-good-about-ourselves-for-electing-a-black-man stories. That’ll fly on HuffPo, DU, and Kos maybe, but the rest need to have actual questions answered from time to time…
All Presidents get barraged by the press, whenever they appear. They aren’t O!s personal “Tiger Beat” fan club. The press has a responsibility, especially in this one party era, to ask the hard questions of O! ‘cuz we know the Democrats on Capitol Hill won’t!
People didn’t necessarily vote for Obama as much as they voted against Bush’s party during the last election. I’m pretty sure many in the press realize this. And in this time of declining circulation ecognize that if they wan’t to remain conomically viable, they must be able to sell to all ideological persuasions; and not be a one-trick-pony like NBC…
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/23 @ 6:40 am #
Rob,
You are correct, sir! They decide who will get to ask questions a priori…
I wonder how long this will last..?
Some of the wire services are already starting to grumble…
Comment by Carin on 1/23 @ 7:02 am #
h, see,†he said, “I came down here to visit. See this is what happens. I can’t end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I’m going to get grilled every time I come down here.â€Â
Clue to Obama - they are not supposed to be your friends. You are not supposed to be “visiting” with them.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/23 @ 7:06 am #
…and you ARE supposed to be “grilled”.
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 7:07 am #
Don’t force me to beat your ass again, thor, you ancient mental toaster oven running on a car battery.
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 7:10 am #
You broken clock, you.
You guys are gonna be really happy when you finally burn the Constitution and take all our stuff, huh?
Comment by TheGeezer on 1/23 @ 7:14 am #
Carin, most of us know the press is not supposed to be a president’s friend. But they are, as evidenced by their slavish coverage of the campaign. Now the press wants a payoff: insider track to breaking news from the very top. But most of us also know what that means when the result would be exposure of silly world view and all.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/23 @ 7:21 am #
See this is what happens. I can’t end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I’m going to get grilled every time I come down here.
“Nice garment I have here. Be a shame if you weren’t allowed to touch its hem any more, wouldn’t it?”
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 7:25 am #
Close strike after “happy”.
Why do I waste my time…
Comment by thor on 1/23 @ 7:26 am #
Security is going to force you to zip up and exit the stall door with your hands where they can see ‘um, you Craiganomics butt monkey.
Obama announced a strong dollar policy yesterday. Look at the humping the greenback is putting on the major currencies. The dollar went down 40% against the Euro during the Bush years, as you know.
Comment by SDN on 1/23 @ 7:32 am #
JHoward, they’ll be even happier when the response makes Mumbai look like a tavern brawl.
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 7:40 am #
He did?! With all sonorous mellifluousness?! Sweet mother of…of… Jeremiah! Did The Dollar respond favorably to this, as I believe you would put it, Socialist manifesto?
Did The Dollar go right out in tails and spats and procure for itself under O!bama what it could not under Bush — who also pronounced it hale and vigorous — namely a steak sandwich, coffee, and the horse to carry it home on?
You’re hilarious, you moronically faithful partisan Debt-O-Crat trash-hauler. Go re-ring Nagin’s school bus’s thousand frozen cylinder bores; go shine Dingy Harry’s aging shit-kickers with your tresses; go wallpaper Frank’s sin bin in red-flocked shamelessness.
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 7:51 am #
I see. And was that its response to the M3, inflation, Fed policy, historical cycles under a fiat dollar, public sentiment, the trade deficit, government debt, the lost gold standard, or some combination?
Einstein. Finanshul Jeeneus. Prescient elm disease. You enjoy taking these routine beatings more than I do administering them. Just saying.
Comment by Benedick on 1/23 @ 7:54 am #
Actually, although there are a number of signs already that Obama’s pledge of transparency is garbage, I don’t fault the guy for seeking an informal meet-and-greet with the WH press corps.
Comment by Carin on 1/23 @ 7:56 am #
Uhm, that former lobbyist Obama’s got in the White House worked for Raytheon … which is turns out is a part of the Military-industrial complex
I learned that from
AN ALL CAPS SCREAMING HEADLINE ON HUFFPOdoing a google search on “Raytheon.”Comment by Carin on 1/23 @ 8:02 am #
I don’t fault him, this is merely a rather revealing vignette. He expect the media to be his buddies. He’d prolly like to invite a few for to shoot hoops.
I kinda like what followed Obama’s “Alright, come on” comment:
The media isn’t supposed to be in the pocket of the President.
Comment by Darleen on 1/23 @ 8:14 am #
you ancient mental toaster oven running on a car battery.
Cylons aren’t that stooopid, JHoward. Walthor Mitty is just a run-of-the-mill, failed-to-launch, 5 percenter with a ‘puter and delusions.
Comment by thor on 1/23 @ 8:22 am #
Oh jeez, a gold standard nutter, eh. The Euro didn’t start until 1999, jeenus, and Bush re-nominated Greenspan and then nominated Bernanke, and created those budget deficits by cutting taxes (revenue) and increasing spending (war) and championed those huge trade imbalances with his flea trade policies.
Stay tied to your whipping post.
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 8:37 am #
That’s all you got, isn’t it? I hand you the makings of an entire perspective plotted against time and still, true to form (and in lock-step with Darleen’s very observation of thorness nanoseconds earlier) you grab your drawers, wipe the sewer that is your mononostril with the back of one of O!bama’s exekutive orders outlawing naughty, ante up with all the stained ruble fragments you smuggled home in your boyfriend’s underwear, convincingly prove the very point made against you with a perfect triple back-nelson and auto-mindlock, and flounce out, a weak-tea partisan snark trailing behind you like the shattered prom-queen hopes and changey-dreams you yet shelter from the fierce storms of Earth-type reality.
Gaa. If this is all the better the head leftroll can muster, I’m sure I’ve got better things to do. We all do.
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 8:43 am #
Which is to say, thor-boi, that civilian tax revenues go roughly to paying administration, corporate taxes, such as they are, constitute enough to pay for the military, and the rest of the expenditures — past, present, and yes, future — goes on our collective tab, courtesy of monopoly money.
Make sure you want to start with that crap about taxes before you start with that crap about taxes. Start with
Collective. Monopoly money. Get it? And we laughed and laughed and laughed.
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 8:45 am #
Preview, please. And later, please — I’m arguing with phone poles again…
Comment by thor on 1/23 @ 8:45 am #
You’ve been smash-faced. Face it, JHo. Bush had plenty of control over Fed policy, tax policy, trade policy, monetary policy and overall economic policy. He fucked up.
And I don’t pound the guy unless he deserves it. Sure, he handled himself and the office with some dignity in-light of the personal attacks leveled against him, but a magic financial policy jeebus he was not. Own up to his failings, be a man for a change, you pleated-skirt-wearing, pom-pom-ing tit-bouncing cheerleading, Go-Team! girly.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/23 @ 9:02 am #
“Gaa. If this is all the better the head leftroll can muster, I’m sure I’ve got better things to do. We all do.”
Please don’t stop, J.
It’s fun watching hor get facepalmed with his own shit.
Very amusing.
Comment by JHoward on 1/23 @ 9:38 am #
How, thor? Lay it on me.
Comment by MarkD on 1/23 @ 9:58 am #
Thor must not remember which party won control of both House and Senate in 2006. That Bush guy, he’s such an idiot, he made the opposition do whatever he wanted. If Bush has the brain of a chipmunk, what does that say for the other guys?
Who do they blame now?
What about that weak dollar? It makes imports more expensive, which helps domestic producers and exporters. I thought that would be something the Dems were for, not against. I think it’s a pain, because I want to buy some imported stuff, but if I have to pay 20 percent more, it’s not a big deal.
Comment by bigbooner on 1/23 @ 10:41 am #
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Comment by Matt on 1/22 @ 8:50 pm #
I do not think this job entails what the One thought it entailed.
Community organizing never required so much answering of substantive questions.
And yet he never answered the question. I see a pattern.
Comment by McGehee on 1/23 @ 3:17 pm #
“Bush and that Karl Rove guy, they manipulated us into voting for Baracky!”
Comment by ginsocal on 1/23 @ 3:35 pm #
It has become manifestly clear that O! does NOT like spontaneous questions. There’s a very good reason for that, one our leftard friends here are going through great pains to not recognize. As for it being “Bush’s economy,” that canard has long been disproven. By themselves, presidents simply don’t have the ability to significantly affect the economy one way or the other, although O! is going to give it the old (trillion dollar) college try. He’ll have help from the kneel-and-bob wankers in Congress.
As for FDR and the Depression, only an idiot would claim anything he did helped it. Yup, those were some mighty fine policies-got the unemployment rate down to, what? 17%? What a tool. Go read “The Forgotten Man (Shlaes). Come back and try to defend that douchebeg then, eh?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/23 @ 6:46 pm #
I’ll give the FDR administration credit on the bank holiday and FDIC. It did stop bank-runs and it did stabilize that. And the CCC did a lot of good in states like Michigan, replanting forests that had been clearcut.