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Obama just doesn’t like to be questioned …

Here’s another classic find by one of our readers, “Obama Doesn’t Really Like a Debate” that ties in perfectly with PatRacimora’s cartoon and commentary this morning. Thanks, TM. [STAY TUNED for a great post by Larry Johnson on Obama's thuggery in his treatment of the press. I added a new Category today to capture what is going on: "Obama's Media Censorship." Barack Obama is anti-First Amendment. What a position for a supposed assistant aka very, very part-time professor of lecturer in constitutional law.]

“Look what he pulled on the press who dared to ask him a question. Is this a new tactic…to accuse the press of working for McCain? Wow, finally a reporter doing [his] job. …”

RALSTON: I guess what the American people want to know though Senator, is what is the real difference between you and John McCain. You are running this ad tying him to the industry saying that he has taken all of these contributions, but as you well know there is a story out today about how you supported the Dick Cheney bill and [McCain] opposed it. That bill gave subsidies to the oil and gas companies, John McCain opposed the bill saying those are tax breaks for those companies, Barack Obama favored it.

SEN. OBAMA: Hold on a second Jon, I thought I was talking to you instead of debating John McCain, but I am happy to let you serve as his proxy.

Holy mother.

“Serve as his proxy”? Time was, reporters were paid to ask candidates tough questions. Ralston’s question is entirely legitimate, especially since Obama and the Democrats made Cheney’s energy policy a campaign issue in the first place. If Obama dislikes it so much, why did he vote for it — and why blame it on the one candidate in the race that actually voted against it?

In the rest of the interview, Ralston presses Obama on his policy reversals and asks him how voters can trust him not to shift again for political reasons.

Read the full story.

UPDATE: SEE Memeorandum.com for more blog coverage of this story.

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Comment by pm317 | 2008-08-06 11:43:50

Yep, he jumps on the reporters and this is not the first. I bet his minions later threaten them with no access and other perks.

Comment by NObamaNoHow | 2008-08-06 11:48:54

Well, he is the president, after all. Oh wait, no he’s not.

Comment by valsthewoman | 2008-08-06 12:13:55

MORE BIASED COVERAGE OF POLITICAL SEX SCANDELS IN THE MEDIA. WHEN WILL REPORTING BECOME TRULY FAIR AND BALANCED?
READ THIS:
http://hillaryloyalistnowformccain.com/ … vered.aspx

 
 

Comment by Firefly | 2008-08-06 12:05:41

Yeah. “No room on the plane for you.”

Won’t be long before the official “presidential” airplane is EMPTY - all journalists having been thrown under the bus.

Not to worry, it’s been such a hardship for “The Messiah” to have given his precious time and accommodation on his special plane to the hoi polloi for all these many months anyway.

The riffraff should never have been allowed anywhere near “The One,” after all…

Comment by Morgan | 2008-08-06 12:11:51

Josh Marshall or whoever needs to note this guy down on his Enemy’s List. He’ll get his.

 

Comment by Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose? | 2008-08-06 13:00:41

SEN. OBAMA: Hold on a second Jon, I thought I was talking to you instead of debating John McCain, but I am happy to let you serve as his proxy.

The reporter may as well serve as McCain’s proxy since Senator Prom Queen won’t face Mac in a debate.

 
 

Comment by NO for O | 2008-08-06 12:26:41

So it is OK to shoot the messenger according to the messiah?

 

Comment by tzada | 2008-08-06 12:30:33

Wonder if that light shinning down on his head giving the “halo effect” was on purpose? Some of his cult will swear that it is a divine sign….

Comment by Firefly | 2008-08-06 12:50:15

No need to wonder. The halo effect WAS on purpose.

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:25:31

Firefly — the man should never smile. He looks like a goof ball with that big mouth.

Comment by Wisewoman | 2008-08-07 00:18:27

No he looks like Howdy Doody. Who remembers him?

 
 
 
 

Comment by jerzyernie | 2008-08-07 00:16:17

what a friggin azzhole!

 
 

Comment by steveeboy | 2008-08-06 11:46:32

wow,

yet another deep policy discussion!

Whaaaa!

Obama treated a reporter just like Bill Clinton, McCain, Hillary, and every other politician from time immemorial1

Whaaaaa!

Did Larry get a haircut yet?

Comment by pm317 | 2008-08-06 11:52:15

Hillary on O’Reilly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbyWBkf-t4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQnQjV4sovE

If your guy can pull this off without jumping on the reporter on peripheral things like the quality of the question but answer the question, I might consider voting for him. That Ralston was brilliant! Your guy, not so much.. at least not enough to get votes to elect him.

 

Comment by DoroB. | 2008-08-06 11:53:32

Surprise, surprise. Obama voted with big oil, then said he was really against it. What can we expect from the candidate who treats big supporters to meals and remembers their kids’ birthdays? What have you average folks done for Obama lately?

Comment by Havoc | 2008-08-06 12:27:46

If you listen to the answer you’ll hear that Sen Obama voted for the energy bill because it included several energy proposals that he wanted to have passed. It’s called compromise.

Comment by StrawberrybitesBarky | 2008-08-06 12:34:12

Oh yeah, right. Oh my God. You’re funny. See Obamabits do have a sense of humour. Hahahahahah!

 

Comment by candymarl | 2008-08-06 12:36:13

Okay, he’s willing to compromise. That makes him different from any other politician, how?

After all, a certain Senator from NY was vilified for her ability to seek compromise with Republicans. That somehow proved that she was a ‘closet Republican’ all along.

Where’s the change? He’s operating like any other DC politician. Which he and his supporters claimed he would not and does not do.

 

Comment by alexei | 2008-08-06 12:47:27

This is laughable. Look at the Bush/Cheney bill and you will see that it is a big tax subsidy for big oil and nuclear. There is very, very little on the “energy proposals Obama supposedly voted for” and it is called lying to say that is why you voted for such a bill.

This is amazing the lengths that Obama followers twist themselves in knots to justify their master and his flip flops, back tracks, both ways on the issues and outright lies.

Comment by LilRod | 2008-08-06 18:15:52

Sen Obama had opportunities going back to the Il Senate and the US Senate to fight against Yucca..yet he was absent & took no action.

Hillary has been consistent..all the way back to 2002 to voting against Yucca. She was a leader.

Hillary is the true progressive

Obama is the true BSer

 
 

Comment by pm317 | 2008-08-06 13:28:51

What a wonder! He gives up without a fight.

Comment by WIldChild | 2008-08-06 14:02:26

Especially if there’s the specter of falling poll numbers hinted at in the fickle breeze.

 
 

Comment by helen | 2008-08-06 17:06:14

Actually it is called doing what your paid to do.
Why the hell do you think the oil companys gave him money.
He is bought and paid for just like a 50 cent hooker.
He just lies about it all the time.

COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS AND BUBBAS RULE

 
 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:26:49

Doro I guess Obama needs that big mouth so he can speak out of both sides of it.

 

Comment by pasmalltowngirl | 2008-08-06 15:13:33

Pelosi gave her OK for the rest of the Dems to do it.
OB is not the only one bamboozling us.
The rank and file in her(Pelosi) party increasingly are just trying to save their political hides when it comes to gas prices. Behind the scenes she’s encouraging vulnerable Democrats to express their independence if it helps them politically.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12304.html
I am sooo sick of the self-serving, money hungry politicians. Vote them all out.

PUMA

 
 

Comment by candymarl | 2008-08-06 11:58:24

He didn’t answer the question. He voted for the bill.

Instead of admitting that and explaining why he did it he accused the reporter of supporting McCain.

Oh yeah that’s somehow every other politicians fault.

But I thought Obama wasn’t like the other politicians? I thought his way was the “new” way?
Now if he behaves like another other politician it’s okay?

Okie dokie.

Comment by candymarl | 2008-08-06 11:59:29

That should be “any other politician”.

 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-06 12:20:51

Obama talks about that energy bill like he opposed it, too. That’s the craziest part. And he gets that old time religion preacher tone when he speaks. It is what my husband and I call the William Shatner School of Mel-loww Dra-Mahhh. I would love to see an Obama spoof of Choom Gang Obama Sparking a Doobie as he covers Rocket Man and explains why he will cut the space program. Anyway…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR-i4JLvxbI

Obama Being Crazy and Pretending He Voted Against the 2005 Energy Bill

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-06 12:31:37

you’re giving “doobies” a bad name

 
 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-06 12:35:30

He sure sucked up to Nevada here, too. I lived there for a year, and there’s already plenty of windmills along the drive through Barstow to Bakersfield. They have Hoover Dam, too. Nevada already has alternative energy to the extent it’s possible now.

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:27:45

candymarl — Obama sounds more like Bush everyday.

 
 
 

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-08-06 11:47:31

I seriously think my brain stops functioning when Obama talks now- all I hear is gobbledygook.

Comment by imustprotest | 2008-08-06 11:57:46

I’m glad you said that, I thought it was just me! He talks in circles and rarely makes his point. His words are like spam, my brain starts to just dump them!

Comment by CheatedFLVoter | 2008-08-06 12:31:43

That was how I felt about John Kerry, too. He can talk for an hour and never say a thing. You forget what it was they were talking about anyway, so what the heck.

 

Comment by pasmalltowngirl | 2008-08-06 15:11:10

He talks just like my nephew when he is high on heroin.

 
 

Comment by JML | 2008-08-06 12:55:02

You too? Seriously, I was playing that clip and then opened another tab about a minute in and went on with my internetting. I really cannot keep interested in him at all. He was still talking but my brain sorta shut him out.

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:30:02

JML I really do try to listen but my brain tunes him out because he makes no sense.

We are in for change — what kind of change God only knows. NO THANKS

Comment by Mickey | 2008-08-06 14:21:24

OH THANK GOD I THOUHGHT IT WAS JUST ME…

 
 
 

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-08-06 17:47:21

roseeriter, If I was Charlie Brown he sounds like the “waw waw wa” of the teacher talking.

At this point BO is nothing BUT predictable.

The igit makes a Rolex jealous.

 
 

Comment by PGraber | 2008-08-06 11:51:53

Barack Hussein Obama is so self-absorbed, he just cannot believe anybody would question him.

Comment by imustprotest | 2008-08-06 11:59:03

That is why I really think he has NPD. It’s a classic sign.

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-06 12:34:35

Yes, yes, yes I totally agree he seems appalled that anyone would question him? He reacts like a woman (school marm) instead of a hetero male.

it’s embarrassing coming from someone that’s supposed to be “the ONE”

the ball-less

 
 

Comment by csuzeq | 2008-08-06 12:22:22

Why would one question King of the World???

Oh, oops. I forgot! There is no King of the World except in Obama’s deranged mind.

Obama-Legend in his own mind. (nightmare in my mind)

New election year terminology add-NIMM

Comment by CheatedFLVoter | 2008-08-06 12:37:13

“King of the World”, that’s probably next on his agenda. He seems to consider politics like a game. He likes running for an office and winning, but when he gets there he wants to move on to the next contest. Well, there isn’t much left after president of the US. “King of the World” may be the next step.

 
 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:32:43

A new poll came out which states that 48% of people are tired of seeing Obama’s face. Arrogant people like him just don’t get that though. They think we need to see him 24/7. I feel like we already had an Obama failed Presidency and are ready for something new.

 
 

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-06 11:52:21

To paraphrase Shakespeare…chuckle….in american slang…
” Will Noone Rid Us Of This Lyin Sack O’ Shit ?…..”
Good Post Susan….Obama using typical FASCIST Behavior….I’m not surprised….

 
 

Comment by Hope | 2008-08-06 11:56:57

That’s right. Obama’s contempt for those ‘beneath him’ shows; including to those reporters who dare ask a question he doesn’t find suitable. His attitude surely won’t sway undecided voters in his favor.

 

Comment by Patricia | 2008-08-06 11:57:38

Then you should endorse John McCain and get four more years of the same.

Comment by candymarl | 2008-08-06 12:03:42

He voted for Cheney’s energy bill. Might kinda signal we’d get four more years of the same with Obama too. McCain voted against the bill.

Let’s not forget FISA.

Obama’s reversals on off-shore drilling and gun control.

But let’s not talk about that.

 

Comment by MrMike | 2008-08-06 12:05:45

Then you should endorse John McCain and get four more years of the same.

Hmm, who went republican with Telco immunity in the FISA bill? Who wants to limit late term abortion? Who decided that keeping U S troops in Iraq is a good thing? Who want to allow his Wall Street cronies to get their hands on your Social Security account?

Comment by d4hillary | 2008-08-06 15:57:02

Who came out of the gate with 112 million? I sensed this long ago.

 
 

Comment by pm317 | 2008-08-06 12:09:02

No, we want Hillary back while there is still a chance. We want a winner.

Comment by Havoc | 2008-08-06 12:29:25

you mean whinner

Comment by candymarl | 2008-08-06 12:41:08

Are you sure your comment isn’t racist? I think whiner is a code word for racism.

Is that a phallic symbol I see?

Alert the media!

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-06 12:52:34

 

Comment by bemused | 2008-08-06 16:07:10

I think this troll is dissing horses. It’s a new _ism.

 
 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-06 12:41:36

I always get a kick out of smartypants who can’t spell “whine” as opposed to “wine” and “win.” Like some women say they want to be “whined and dined,” and others are accused of “whining” when they’re really “winning.”

 
 

Comment by JML | 2008-08-06 12:57:23

Word. HILLARY ‘08!

 
 

Comment by pm317 | 2008-08-06 12:11:49

Judging by the money Princess Obama gets from the financial community, social security privatization is a distinct possibility. THAT would be four more years of Bush.

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-06 12:27:09

Obama’s economic adviser Jason Furman is in favor of privatizing social security. It sure sounds like the tax hike on investments - but wait! if you make less than 50K by the time Obama’s done with you, you don’t pay taxes (just like now.) Sounds like a ponzi scheme to me, and it’s in line with other policies of Obama’s.

Comment by NomNomNom | 2008-08-06 14:28:10

His advisor Jeffrey Liebman does too, (Liebman-MacGuineas-Samwick bill)
http//www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/70xx/doc7041/02-08-LMS_Proposal.pdf

 
 
 

Comment by hank48188 | 2008-08-06 12:21:59

Obama could vever get my vote, and I ALWAYS VOTE. The DEMS stole my vote and gave it to Obama, the DEMS don’t believe in DEMOCRACY or the value of the vote, they just FIXED the process to get THEIR DESIRED RESULT. I voted STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN yesterday in the Michiganistan Primary, will do the same in Nov.

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:35:05

patricia — only Obama could make me leave the Democratic Party after 44 years — he could harness that hot air and power Cleveland.

 

Comment by Heather | 2008-08-06 14:05:47

Yes, see, that’s just an Obama talking point: equating McCain with Bush. Yes they overlap a lot, but actually McCain is very distinct from Bush in his approach and in the policies he’s fought for over the years. It doesn’t help Obama’s cause much to make untrue accusations.

 
 

Comment by Jake | 2008-08-06 12:00:17

He’s such a tool.

 

Comment by Andy | 2008-08-06 12:03:46

There is an excellent short commentary by Jennifer Rubin on this worth reading:

“THOU SHALL NOT CHALLENGE”
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/19451

This is an interesting paragraph of it:

Second, notice his formulation that “the American people aren’t interested” in the tit-for-tat. To what was he referring? His own vote in favor of the Bush-Cheney bill. It really is a glaring problem in his whole New Politics formulation and his answer is weak (I tried to strip out the bad stuff) since he ultimately voted yes and has criticized McCain for doing the bidding of Bush/Cheney and the oil companies. It is easy to understand why he hopes the American people are uninterested. So add to the Thou Shalt Not’s: don’t question Obama’s own previous actions. Only his words (the latest version and not last week’s) can be discussed.

(Emphasis mine)

Comment by MrMike | 2008-08-06 12:07:50

well he meant to vote Present on dick Cheney’s energy bill but hit the wrong button. Just like he has been hitting the wrong button with real Democrats.

Comment by Larry Johnson | 2008-08-06 12:19:54

 
 
 

Comment by pm317 | 2008-08-06 12:07:05

Susan, princess Obama need not answer any question and it is getting him into trouble more and more. Obama’s campaign has created a very positive image of him with more than full support from the media. Still, the public is not completely sold on him — because (IMO) there are too many unanswered questions about his bio and not enough evidence in terms of his accomplishments, his record. It is like everybody surrounding him and he himself are telling America, “take our word for it, he is amazing. You don’t worry your pretty little head with all details. ”

This relates to your other blogs on dual citizenship and such. Take a look at the picture below — I think it was Obama’s ‘06 trip to Africa, perhaps campaigning for his cousin Odinga (the speech transcripts are not available, I hear as usual). Historians on the board — have there been other presidents or presidential candidates who were closely related to some other foreign country campaigning for a candidate from that country in their elections? {I have a feeling Article II goes much beyond the citizenship issue. It requires one to have deep roots and unequivocal allegiance in this country — appearance and all for that number one position.}

http://www.canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/obama-family-13.jpeg

 

Comment by Sassy | 2008-08-06 12:07:57

This is the old “tighten the cheeks on the seat and ride it out”!
We will need, and get a “proxy” president if the “O” makes it into office!
He blahs and hums until everyone decides to give up on an answer…UNLIKE the legitimate candidate, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON!!!!

 

Comment by RepublicanChick | 2008-08-06 12:08:29

Obama needs to forget the Presidency. Next stop: Anger Management Classes.

Comment by imustprotest | 2008-08-06 12:10:18

Obama does seem angry all the time. Passive agressive too.

Comment by Heather | 2008-08-06 14:12:09

Yes and you know why?

Because his white side is locked in a life-or-death struggle with his black side. They obviously hate each other, which is why he can’t celebrate — or even recognize — the rather large amount of racial harmony we actually enjoy in this country nor the accomplishments his predecessors in the black (and white) communities have made. He has to pick at it and open old wounds because his personal wounds are raw.

Comment by bemused | 2008-08-06 16:13:57

Yes! It’s just like that old Star Trek episode (how did that work out, anyway?)of the mirror twins who were black and white.

Seriously, it is obvious he hates the white part, just a few pages of his “Dreams” book is enough to get that. But then his story about his dad being like a king, and him the prince, I suspect he really did construct that in his childhood and then discovered the truth–what a comedown. Seems it would make him very cynical about his black side/black people too.

Course, he’s still got the Arab ancestors.

 
 
 
 

Comment by Puget Sound Island Girl | 2008-08-06 12:11:18

Obama is a bozo. A very, thin-skinned bozo. What a wuss!

Comment by College Educated for Hillary | 2008-08-06 12:17:42

Bozo was a liar(he recently passsed away). When I was small I was in the audience of his T.V. Show with my sister and cousin. He promised both my sister and me a Kissy Doll. We never got them.

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-08-06 12:39:42

Comment by College Educated for Hillary | 2008-08-06 15:45:37

It’s funny the things you remember for more than 40 years.

 
 
 
 

Comment by Andy | 2008-08-06 12:11:18

What was all the laugh about? Was he a bit high?

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:43:28

andy — while he tries to shut Jon Ralston up. See him smile — course his eyes are swollen and he looks 20 years older but smile he does in his demented way that doesn’t make him look convivial. You can see that he’s thinking you reporters are boobs who will have to be destroyed when I get to the big White House.

Comment by basil | 2008-08-06 15:36:13

He looks like Alfred E. Neumann.

Comment by LilRod | 2008-08-06 18:30:57

LOL..true..he has the ears for suuuuurrre

 
 
 
 

Comment by rickrickrick | 2008-08-06 12:17:40

Now Obama is warming up to Nuclear Energy. Typical OBama. Move to what is right and justify the new position by claiming he needs to learn more about it. He is a spineless weasel and the McCain campaign has tapped into the core of Obama. His weaknesses, and faults are going to trip him up. Obama has had one position that he has not changed since June and that is his opposition to the Iraq War. That was easy at the time since he wasn’t running for office.

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:47:30

rickrickrick — I think The Obama Campaign reads No Quarter because they have taken our comments and made these brilliant ads. Thank you McCain.

 
 

Comment by Linda | 2008-08-06 12:19:38

This answers many questions.

The infamous Dick Cheney pushed Energy Bill? AGAIN, Obama voted FOR THESE MAJOR CORPORATE SPECIAL INTEREST GIVEAWAYS. Hillary Clinton, AGAIN, OPPOSED IT, but so did John McCain.

Senate 213 29-Jul Agreed to Conference Report H. R. 6; Energy Policy Act of 2005
Vote Counts: YEAs 74
NAYs 26

Obama (D-IL), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Nay

And the media is complicit, aiding in covering up facts and important truths to the public interest, because they see Barry benefiting and aiding them, ie control the internet so the networks stop losing to free press and democracy on the internets. Ask why Obama switched on FISA, too?

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00213

Comment by JoseyJ | 2008-08-06 16:09:42

Yes - the media is finally getting around to exposing Obama voted for Cheney’s energy bill.
The corporate media rules!

 
 

Comment by Faustina | 2008-08-06 12:23:09

Ah, ah, ah, er, ah, “Hold on a second Jon, I thought I was talking to you instead of debating John McCain, but I am happy to let you serve as his proxy.”

Blah, blah, blah….

“More importantly, I love debating…you…on your show.”

Is this political speak here at the end what all Obama’s fellow Senators like so much about their Chosen One? He must remind them alot of themselves.

The most interesting thing about this segment for me was…if I heard correctly… a little slip of the tongue by Obama when I thought he said, “Deposed” rather than “opposed”.

What could he have on his mind?

 

Comment by hank48188 | 2008-08-06 12:26:46

McCain should have a Ad about Obama vote on the 2005 DICK CHENEY ENERGY BILL. Obama has a lot of nerve to say McCain is in the pocket of big oil, McCain voted against DICK’S Bill, so did Hillary. Obama did get that $269,900 from the employees of Exelon and it was pay-back time.

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-06 13:48:40

hank48118 — It appears that McCain’s campaign reads our comments — Watch for that ad to appear soon.

Comment by Heather | 2008-08-06 14:20:18

And the one with a famous movie dimwit reading ‘We are the ones we’ve been waiting for’ and ‘words? just words?’ Now THAT I would love to see.

 
 
 

Comment by katmandu | 2008-08-06 12:29:39

Hillary is tanned, rested and ready. At least I can infer this from a story a Washington Post reporter did on Bill Clinton’s marathon through Africa on behalf of his foundation. Noting that Clinton is still the same frenetic inexhaustible person, the reporter notes this exchange:

When I interviewed Clinton a night earlier, I broke the ice by saying I was trying to decide who had come closer to killing me — him or his wife, with her brutal campaign schedule. (She once made a 24-hour trip to California and back without pausing for a nap.)

Clinton laughed and responded that their personal trainer, a tough German athlete, had observed that “she’s actually stronger than she was when the campaign started, you know, physically.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503544_2.html

Oh, and for those who think Bill is a racist, listen to some of the itinerary:

At the same time, it was impossible to dwell too much on such logistical problems as lack of power or Internet access — even though not having either meant being unable to work — while looking out the window at the dust-covered mothers along the roadside in Rwanda, the crumbling, bullet-ridden walls sheltering families in Monrovia, the children crawling on piles of burning garbage in Dakar. Who were we to complain when, during one leg of the trip in Rwanda that involved helicopter rides out to the countryside, we did not have access to water for most of the day?

And he makes these trips even though he’s not running for anything.

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-06 12:48:11

sniff, sniff, miss him, miss her!

 
 

Comment by Leisa | 2008-08-06 12:31:50

Is that reporter’s name Jon or Matt?? I thought Obama called him by both names… once before he accused him of being Jmac by proxy, then at the end, I thought he said “see ya, Matt” or was that Man?

Obama seemed to be seething though his laughs and smiles. Yeah, he’ll see this reporter again, under his bus…

 

Comment by chuck | 2008-08-06 12:33:50

you people are insane.

this is a fraction of the sort of treatment the current administration gives the press.

Obama is certainly no saint, but he is FAAARRR better than the current admin. I think anyone who criticises obama, but not bush, is a partisan fool!

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-06 12:36:58

I think anyone who can’t tell the difference between John McCain and GWB is a “partisan fool.”

 

Comment by Leisa | 2008-08-06 12:37:09

Name calling really helps you seem so level headed and clear about issues… ;)

Comment by Leisa | 2008-08-06 12:40:20

BTW, Obama’s similarities to Bush in the area of dealing with being questioned is a big issue. That is one reason why many consider that Obama would be Bush III.