President Obama News Conference Now
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The message of the day is “balanced approach.”
I started watching where Obama was finishing his opening remarks by saying defict talks needed to take a “balanced approach.”
Ben Feller as usual gets the first question and cuts right to the heart of it (paraphrase):
“Will you insist that a deal has to include tax increases? Is that a red line for you? and if so how will you get that through Congress? ”
Obama is talking but still hasn’t answered this while I am typing. He has mentioned entitlement cuts though.
I think what Obama is saying is that Republicans will capitulate because they will be embarrassed to keep on defending wealthy corporations and individuals. Seriously. That’s the strategy.
President Obama makes news, by having a news conference.
Less than any other president including Bush.
What a leader
Did Obama just say that there are 100,000 Afghan troops?
(fyi, that can’t read or write…still) assuming that number is even correct.
Is there anything more political than saying you are getting troops out of a country, when you were the guy that put them in there?
Can you really boast about bringing 30,000 people home when you put them there?
Wait, wait, he’s a Dem. He knows what he is doing.
Obama refuses to say if he supports Gay marriage answering a reporters question, “I’m not going to make news on that today”
pussy
i think he sees himself as a liability to it. If he endorsed same sex marriage, he can then be used as an argument against it. Remember, if Obama is for something, all GOP, Fox news and Nascar fans are against it.
obviously he does.
He’s there to talk about the deficit, budget, and tax issues; not social issues.
honestly dude, did you watch ANY of the press conference other than the part where he said he wasnt gonna talk about same sex marriage?
sure did.
He’s bringing troops home that he put there
He wants congress to not be on vacation
his kids do their homework early
He doesn’t want to upset Wall St with this debt thing
Libya is bad. He said so
He would pay his car bill before his mortgage
Congress said it was ok to spend the money and now want to change it
what digby said….
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ceiling-strategery.html
More shovel ready jobs? I thought that was the first and second stimulus. This guy is too much. What a salesman a used car salesman.
Ben Feller’s follow-up article uses some words I never would have thought of to describe Obama’s press conference: “confrontational,” “aggressive,” and “blistering.”
Me, a couple of times I was afraid Obama was going to fall asleep before he finished his sentence.
I guess Feller thought Obama might become inspired to fit the description.
I think Obama did some smart framing – everyone else vs. rich guys with jets, and Republicans are the party of jets and oil execs. He also framed a “do nothing” Congress who couldn’t do their own job. This is smart since Obama is much, much more popular than Congress.
I think that comparing Congress to your teenagers and having your teenagers look better counts as confrontational. You are never going to get the belligerent beefing from Obama that BushCo was good at. The belligerent beefing certainly looked confrontational, but was stupid as hell. Some people like this kind of thing, though.
There was definitely some smart framing done by Obama and what I saw of it made me wish that there were more Dems that would pick up the ball and flood the zone with this stuff.
Nancy Pelosi seems delighted by this framing.
Sorry, he still came off as wishy-washy to me.
More of the PUSSY PULPIT!
Republicans did leave themselves open to Obama’s frame of I’m the daddy, Congress is children when Boehner and McConnell pitched a fit and said the president must intervene.
Skip,
Since female genitalia are a good thing, Obama thanks you for the compliment.
Here’s a transcript where Obama is whipping Congress around:
Heh. He was too busy killing Bin Laden and stuff.
John Boehner on tax cuts, September 2010:
But of course, Obama went ahead and gave Boehner another option; the one he had been hoping for. And so here we are.
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UI, female genitalia is/are/am a good thing!
But I was referring to baby kitties.
I don’t get the whole “got to be on tv and say words” = being a leader, as dv suggests.
The only thing I can derive from that sentiment is dv, along with the other narritive pushers, left and right, has a hard time figuring out what a leader actually does, and lack the understanding that there are completely different ways/styles in doing it.
Do you think that there is even one person in all of Europe who thinks Obama has been helping with the crisis in Greece.
If you pull my left leg it plays jingle bells