Cliff Notes version of Obama press conference in Jordan
1. “Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.”
2. As commander-in-chief, er, rather, when I’m commander-in-chief…
3. The surge I opposed is working.
4. The architect of the surge, Gen. David Petraeus, is going to waste money on electricity projects, so I must be there to stop him.
5. “Ummmmmm.”
6. Now, stop asking me questions and take pictures.
And 7. “Israel is a strong friend of Israel.” (I missed this one, but commenter Jim M. and other readers report that Obama actually said this. Gaffe-tastic!)
The Tour de Farce continues…
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On July 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 am, dj said:
very good, you nailed it.
The t-shirt on this page would be perfect with a white flag attached to the bike.
Nah. We would have him back to the point of waiting to be sworn in as the junior senator, if we make all of those deductions from his experience.
Obambi uses so many uhs and ums is because he has to be so careful not to say anything that doesn’t toe the ultra left liberal line. He has been told to say nothing that would give credit to any of the policies of the present administration even if they were successful. His parsing of his words puts Bill Clinton to shame.
Hilarious!
Rush had an 8 minute montage of Barack’s “ah…” “uh…” “um…’s”
He started it…went to commercial break…and when he got back it was still going. “ah…uh…um”
Hilarious!
Atheling,
Please explain the source of your brilliant insight into the inner workings of the Obama campaign and how he runs his meetings of foreign policy.
I for one do not think it is a bad thing to amass specialists, and a lot of them, ready to answer questions our President may have that demand nuanced and thoughtful answers.
Ultimately the decisions to be made are the President’s alone, but the mere fact that he has a large number of advisors proves nothing except that he wants a lot of input from a lot of people that know what they are talking about.
It certainly doesn’t prove that he huddles all 300 of them in a room on every single issue and just takes a poll. Do ya think just maybe he might have some people that specialize in oh, say, Russia and others that may know more about, I don’t know…maybe the Middle East, and some he will turn to when he specifically has to know something regarding East Africa?
Do ya think maybe?
Barry F.
That’s what I thought … knew that number looked too high …
I listened to the entire babble dabble, he said it period. just out running for fresh tortillas and rush’s show was a hoot. lmao uh, er, um, lol
If you are wondering how much time Congress gets off.
chapoutier,
Please explain the source of your brilliant insight into the inner workings of the Obama campaign and how you know his advisors are people that know what they are talking about.
Hey, Soap. You never did tell me why I owe you “two flats” on another thread.
chapoutier: I am sure each is expert in a different area of world affairs. The fact that Obama needs 300 people who are experts in different areas to “advise” him should concern you. Because thats 300 areas in which obama is clueless.
Ouch sambo, using his own words to slam him on the exact same mind reading is just too funny. Touché
ROFLMAO
Well, that explained that!
Having lots of advisors is not a sign of weakness if he makes the decisions and takes responsibility for them.
Taking time to think about an answer before giving it is a sign of strength.
Obama actually gives thoughtful answers. For example, he said he would listen to Petraeus but not necessarily do exactly what Petraeus wants. That’s exactly what a commander in chief should do, and exactly for the reasons Obama gave (after some uuuuuummmmmmm to get the wording just right).
Or a sign you are clueless and looking real hard on how to spin it to sound pretty in front of the cameras. Did he ever take a public speaking class? I thought those were mandatory in most colleges? I’d love to see the grades from that class, did it have teleprompters in his speech class to help him get through it? The “Israel is a strong friend of Israel” was classic.
Hillary Clinton, after watching Obama’s presser from Jordan on 7/22/08.
I call it an inability to think on his feet. I am holding Obama to exactly the same standards you held bush to. Any sign of a pause or mis-speaking is a clear sign he is a low grade moron.
He doesn’t have a very good record going there. Even in an elementary example, like his church, Obama feigned ignorance to the Black Liberation Ideology espoused there for his 20+ years at Trinity. He made the decision to go there and to stay for over 20 years. Does it only count, when his decision to stick with it was politically expedient but it’s okay to change, once it no longer is?
Or, ignorance on an issue. Eight (8) minutes of that forty (40) minute speech was glottal stops. That’s one-eighth (1/18) of his speech. Sounds more like a weakness in thought and/or articulation.
Perhaps you are looking for warm fuzzies from your candidate. But, I look for one with some command of the facts that can talk to someone, besides other elitists.
Yes. God forbid that he actually listen to a seasoned military commander before he makes a military decision, based on his extensive experience as a community organizer, that could have dire consequences for us at home and abroad. I would try to count his time in the Senate for you but, in all fairness, between the Congressional recesses and his record of “not voting”, he would be in the negative even more.
I listened to Rush and could not believe what I was hearing from bho. My gosh, this is beyond belief coming out of the mouth of a human much less the dem. candidate for president. Makes you wonder what the press was thinking with this ‘can’t get a thought together and make a complete sentence’ from bho.
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He hasn’t taken responsibility for anything! How many different excuses did he use on the Rev Wright issue?
or he doesn’t know the material, or he doesn’t have any principles guiding his answer, or he’s full of BS.
Isreal may be their own best friend, but I fear they are their own worst enemy…
Freudian slip?
Yeah, right.
A CIC without military experience deciding what’s best over a decorated General who’s actually in battle conditions.
No, not problem there.
Clearly, Obama supporters think they’re electing a dictator, and not a president.
Would the GOP please just run ads of Obama’s own words? Video please.
Not to overlook the great points you made but that is one fifth (20%) of his speak.
But I’m sure LGM with his great math abilities will beat me correcting that!
The scary thing is that, if this man is elected president, he’ll be negotiating with our enemies – and allies.
It will not be a good time for America.
Just reading lgm’s posts, it looks as if he’s even having a hard time arguing this one. Dedicated as he may be, it looks like he’s grasping at straws now.
As for all the comments from chapoutier, I’m sorry, I know our CiC has to have advisers, but I will not vote for nor do I want an idiot in office that needs THAT many advisers. I’d prefer a CiC just a wee bit more self confident and competent sending myself and my brothers to fight for our country.
It must be fuzzy math rubbing off on me from trying to communicate with lgm.
If a battlefield commander with more insight, executive experience and proven results than General Petraeus had said that, then maybe it could be considered “thoughtful.”
For a “community activist” from the south side of Chicago to say that about a battlefield General who has implemented a winning strategy, is absurd.
Perhaps as absurd as General Petraeus listening to Obama, but not necessarily buying the exact arugula that Obama wanted him to.
(I was trying to think of an Obama specialty with more “gravitas” than arugula, but I couldn’t.)
The PS of lgm srayed coffee on two more flat panels.
Thats why Obama’s against teacher merit raises…LGM wouldn’t have any extra money to send him.
Oh! Sorry.
All hail the supreme commander, ruler of the 57 states, Uuuuuuuuhhhbama!
Kneel peasant or we’ll take away your food rations!
May he rule for all 10 years of his 2 4 year terms!!!
All hail Obama the great (pbuh)
Hey, do you guys have something against making mistakes ? Watch this and note who’s the ‘advisor’ and who’s the ‘C’ student.
lgm — since when is 40 years ago (when GW was in college) “these days”. Back in the 60’s, lots of people got C’s. I know, I was one of them. That’s before PC took over and the average GPA became an A-. Hey, Kerry had a lower GPA than GW and I’m sure you spent months during 2004 telling anyone who would listen how much “smarter” Kerry was than Bush.
For someone like Obama, who was on the affirmative action express during the 80’s, anything less than a 4.0 would have been akin to failure.
Your website has a picture of you and I’d guess you to be thirtyish. Hard to tell for sure with that scrawny beard that libtards like to sport. That means you went to college about the same time Clinton started getting lip service from Monica. So I’m sure you know all about grade inflation.
repeal the 22 Amendmen
Hey, gribble, I am simply holding Obama to the same standard as they held bush to. That is fair isn’t it?
I dunno, you should ask your buddy lgm every time he links a guy with an (R) next to his name making a verbal slip up the same question.
LOL, really? Michelle phones in T-shirt contests and pithy cliff notes versions of Obama’s speeches, and lgm is the one grabbing at straws?
Time to go back to the drawing board, gang. You’re going to have to come up with something more compelling than “OMG he said ‘ummmm’!!!111″ if you want to beat this guy.
That is stupid to say. How many people work in the State Department? How many people does that agency hire to be experts in every country, every region, every issue? Does that mean Condi’s “clueless” about every issue? No. It means that very often, in order to make intelligent decisions, she needs the input of people whose sole job is to know an issue inside and out, who have studied that issue to the exclusion of all others so that Condi is truly getting the best advise.
I really can’t believe how some here are spinning this. Sad, really.
All we need to do is have him open his mouth, and his wife, as often as possible. The rest will take care of itself as America sees through the rhetoric to see the empty suit.
Oh and if you would go out and be a spokesman for him that would be a plus. We need more huggybear’s out there
spreading the virusI mean spreading the truth, yeah that’s it.FYI
glottal stop: A speech sound produced by a momentary complete closure of the glottis, followed by an explosive release.
glottis: The opening between the vocal cords at the upper part of the larynx.
Exactly, and as a US Senator why doesn’t he ask the experts in command to I dunno do their job and provide him with the information he seeks? Seems more appropriate than hiring 300 of his liberal Marxist chums to fill his ears with praises.
Yes, I know. The truth saddens most liberals. As more is discovered about Obama, I expect you will be more and more disappointed in him.
Actually, the more that is discovered about him, the happier we are. That’s because Obama will be the next President. And if you guys just took the time to hit ‘news.google.com’ and see what’s happening (instead of putting yourself in deep denial), you’ll see the respect he’s earning.
He just got the PM of Iraq to agree with him that the US should get out of Iraq soon. Now I know that it wasn’t reported here, but it actually did happen.
So why not be fair and surface, look at what the rest of the world is seeing and evaluate from real info instead of some weak right wing spin.
No. What is sad is that somehow some people on this board thinks it is wrong for a potential president to have a stableful of advisors to inform his decisions.
Are you referring to the State Department employees? Well, I am sure that the non-political hires will stay on. Oh wait. Sorry, over the last 8 years the notion of a non-political employee has pretty much been thrown out the window.
But in any case, I doubt the State Department is too terribly willing to further Obama’s campaign.
Amazing that you too seem to “just know” that he has surrounded himself with a bunch of yes-men.
And does that include Colin Powell? Cause ya know he has been apparently whispering sweet nothings into Obama’s ear as well.
This is a liberal lie. Like most of Obamas “platform”, lies, distortions and promises he can’t follow through on. You would know that if you looked beyond the hype.
Well to me it shows he doesn’t have a clue unless someone, “informs” him.
…..this really doesn’t matter much in the big picture because his stutterin’ and stammerin’ is ignored by the MSM. I my opinion BHO is by no stretch a grand orator, he is merely a good reader(actor). Take his notes or teleprompter and he is lost……and they have the “prairie oysters” to mock the POTUS for his speech.
I propose a new name for BHO: Da’barry Hussein Obama, only spelled Duh’barry.
Um, eh, huh, da, duh “dats all folks”.
JohnnyNJ
Just heard a MSM news reporter who glowed over The Obamessiah’s news conference … the clips they played were all editted so that there was not a single uhhhh or ummmm or any other utterance that sounded like the live broadcast I heard earlier today …
Translation:
What about Ali al-Dabbagh, you know the guy you had all that faith in when he was trying to spin Malaki’s OWN WORDS ON TAPE, when he said the Iraqis were working toward a deadline that would call for U.S. combat forces to be out of Iraq by the end of 2010, at most eight months after Obama’s timetable?
More lies?
BrianNY said (#123):
Obama expressed respect for Petraeus and his views. Obama also said that the President makes decisions. Unlike Bush, Obama will take responsibility for his decisions. Unlike Petraeus, the President has to think about more than the military situation in Iraq. He has to balance.
sambo said (#125):
Obama is for merit pay: Obama Repeats Call for Merit Pay in Front of Powerful Teachers Union.
I know you probably an expert in all aspects of your profession: working the fryer, counting change and putting exactly two pickles on each burger at your local McD’s, but in other places, complex issues demand expert knowledge and specialization.
Smart people know where to go to seek the answers they need. Idiots do not. And then we get situations where certain parties are surprised at the level of Sunni/Shia violence in the wake of certain invasions, even though such a result was entirely predictable to experts of the region.
chapoutier:
I know that is what you want to believe, so go ahead. Most liberals live in thier own fantacy world anyway. Like I said, school is out on this issue and the media has bought the Obama lie. It “seems” (the word the NYT used to discribe thier view of the translation in other words, not for sure) that a mistranslation happened.
Oh and Bush & Co. did very, very well without anyone informing them. “We’ll be greeted as liberators”, “The war won’t last 6 months, maybe 6 weeks” and ‘The best thing to come out of Iraq would be oil at $20 a barrel” are some of their better quotes.
Like Obama did for his decision to attend a black liberation theology church for 22 years? Or his decision to associate with weather underground members? Or his decision to not support the surge?
What were you guys calling him last year? General betray us?
Absolutely, Obama is clueless on what it takes to win a war against Muslim extremists and (assuming he wins first) when he attempts to move mass amounts of troops out in 2009 during his first year to make the deadline the terrorists will turn Iraq into their new playground and the naive Malaki will be begging (assuming he isn’t assassinated before he gets the chance to beg) for our help again to finish the job we should have been staying to finish in the first place.
The generals on the ground have the better position to plan a timetable they plan on scaling back on the troops. I trust those generals, not some community organizer and Marxist tool running for President making promises out his rear.
#14, I’m with you! I never thought I’d miss Hillary, and I disagree with her on most everything, and I can’t stand the thought of seeing Bubba in the White House again, but at least she’s an intelligent, articulate adult.
Oh well, once we’ve all seen the Light and bowed down in the voting booth, Obama will have 8-10 years and 57-58 states over which to refine his incoherent maunderings.
Kids playing war games on their playstations understand more about waging war than Obama …
Obamas plan for Iraq leaves 50,000 plus in iraq and no combat troops to support them if it hits the fan. Obamas plan means a 3rd Iraq war, or abandoning 50,000 us troops to capture, torture and death.
1/5 of his speech he’s a mumbling, stumbling idiot. For someone so all knowing and condescending he’s such jerk.
I don’t care what grades he received. He’s no great thinker.
I don’t know when I’ve seen someone in public life as devoid of substance as Obama. He makes Paris Hilton and Britney Spears look like Golda Meier and Margaret Thatcher. Uhhhhhhhhhhh. Beavis and Butthead, Cheech and Chong have more gravitas than he does.
Everytime I hear or read someone saying what a great, charismatic speaker Obama is, I laugh hysterically, then I cry. He’s NOT providing a speech in the classic sense, he’s READING a story to the crowd. Lots of people can read, few can present a speech and even fewer (Abe Lincoln) can write their own.
Could it be that so many people are amazed because he doesn’t sound like he’s from the ghetto? Why is that surprising? He was raised as a middle-class white person.
And McCain isn’t any better. Speech and debate are a lost art.
Rent “The Great Debaters” for a truly inspiring story and to see great speaking in action.
You know, I really wonder if we have some people here from obamas internet “truth squad”.
HEY LIBERALS, I PLAN TO TREAT OBAMA THE SAME WAY YOU TREATED BUSH IF HE WINS.
I plan to expose every flaw, every single mis-spoken word and ever mistake as proof that the guy is a complete and utter idiot, because I know you will do that with McCain if he wins.
I am wondering if our dollar is under attack for our postion in Iraq. This is a stradegy that we used against the British to contain them in the 50’s. Bush and group have essentially forgotten that the dollar is a problem. It is the origin of much of the financial termoil that we now face. The weak dollar benefits only a small group of people. Consider the thought that we are at economic war with someone, likely the European Union. From http://www.lsu-unofficial.com.
The US Dollar was up today and oil fell below $128 bbl … that’s now right at a $20 drop in oil prices since President Bush cancelled the drilling ban executive order last week …
And that’s both your right and duty as an American citizen. It’s called free speech.
And do not be afraid to do so, your phone won’t be tapped and nobody will question your patriotism.
Bull, LGM has already questioned the pariotism of anyone who opposes obama and obama voted for the wiretapping.
If that isn’t a flip flop I don’t know what is. First you lambast us for poking at Obama’s “Israel is a strong friend of Israel.” then you say it is a our Constitutional right and duty to do what you previously yelled at us for doing?
I’m confused, which one is it? Is the Obamessiah off limits to criticism or is he like every other human being on the planet and fair game to use our Constitutional rights to expose his cluelessness and general ignorance?
And why gribble, does the great god obama hide from the press? Why do we only see edited and scripted video? What is Obama hiding?
No problem with criticism at all. I read with great relish (!) the recent post on his use of gherkins in tuna salad. We argued that one down at the Moose Lodge for days.
You did, however miss out on the agreement between Obama and the Iraqi government about the rapid end of the war. And you missed out on Bush’s “Time Horizon” plan and John McCain’s “I can end the war sooner” plan. Small details, I know, but some are interested.
You got me there. He’s traveling abroad with the 3 anchors from the 3 big networks and a ton of journalists. That story leads the news every night, is on the front pages of most newspapers and is practically on all the cable news talk shows. Do you think he should have more coverage ?
Maybe they can pre-empt American Idol for a week or two.
Just looked at the video. Note, the soldiers are all wearing different patches. They are heavily over-represented by black soldiers. What does this mean? If they are not from the same units then they were either hand picked obama supporters or soldiers who wanted to go see obama. What we have here is the soldiers who see through obamas fraud have been deliberately excluded. Can I prove it? no. But thats what my 14 years in tells me. Michelle, can we find out who picked the soldiers that obama met?
None of which have had unscripted interviews with him. Even msnbc is complaining about it. Give me a second and I will get the video of that.
here it is, on the bottom of the article. Links directly to hardball.
Oh I didn’t miss it I just laughed its general stupidity and total ignorance of the facts. See #152
You mean those same three pandering liberal marxist’s we’ve been making light of for days here? Sweeeet. Did you know MSN put up a poll yesterday on their site asking if the general public thought the media had a liberal bias? When I last saw it, there were 200,000 votes and it was at 80% “Yes, there is a liberal bias.” No wonder it’s not on their front page today.
From msnbc. We maybe looking at stated video from Iraq.
stated = staged.
On July 22nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm, lgm said:
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,! Good one, lgm, very funny! Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha! I’ll have to remember that one (snicker, snicker) so I can share it with my co-workers! Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!
Whoooooops!
Who dropped a gribble? Someone better clean it up!
alaskangrizzly
Since ground clearance is getting critical on the BO campaign do you have any idea when BO is getting bigger tires put on the bus … so many bodies under the bus now there is no room left for adding more …
Paul-Cincy says:
That is my feeling exactly, also. He is an absolutely horrible speaker and he has no substance–a pop icon. He reminds me of a popular high school dope running for class president with a suit on. He is in way over his head.
No wonder his camp is being insanely controlling with interviews and press coverage. You never know what this uneducated high school kid is going to say. If polls stay about the same–tied–or get worse for Obama before the Dem convention, I bet Hillary steps in. Didn’t she only “suspend” her campaign?
Gribble says:
The reason troops can pull out is because of the surge that Republicans supported. Obama and fellow socialists wanted to give up and lose. Now he wants to take credit for the success he tried to thwart. Typical loser.
I like how he is playing what Mark Steyn terms the “shell game.”
Pretend that you didn’t support military force in one region (in this case, Iraq) because it “should have been” used in another country that was the “real” threat (say Afghanistan or Iran, whatever). Of course, Obama would not support military force ANYWHERE; it is just a ruse.
Troops will be sent to Afghanistan, and liberals will whine and say it is a lost cause and we should be out. . .because North Korea is the real threat. If we ever take on North Korea, then Iran is the real threat. If we decide to bomb Iran, we should not do that because we should be Afghanistan or concentrating on North Korea.
Oh well, that is the childish shell game of Democrats. They NEVER support any force used against an enemy, and Obama will be no different. He is trying to take credit for the success of Republicans and the Surge.
He could go outside his hotel room in Israel later on and get the tires off the construction vehicle that Palestinian terrorist Ghassan Abu Teir was in trying to murder people with earlier today before an Israeli civilian shot him to death.
Those tires out to last him a little longer, then he may need to switch to monster truck tires.
Gabe
Actually he used the San Fran Nan approach … he tried to say that the fact that the Iraqi politicians got some of the benchmarks done and Mookie calling off his militias were the main reasons for the successes … then offered as a passing afterthought that our troops were a part …
without the surge by the troops none of the other things would have happened …
the changes came because the local sheiks and such finally realized we were going to quit running AQ out and then leaving so they could come back …
once they saw our commitment to staying the course they came around and that in turn gave the Iraqi government the confidence to get serious about passing some of the needed legislation …
Andrea Mitchel says Obama’s interviews are fake because they aren’t with MSM reporters. Then all McCain’s campaign is fake because he spends most of it town hall type interactions with supporters.
And that “mistranslation” stuff is wrong too. The Iraqi government has re-affirmed that they want a full pullout in 2010.
sonofdy said (#163):
Never. Sometimes I repeat back your phrases like “hate America”. Sometimes I say you don’t understand what America is about (like due process). I’m sure you think you love America even if you don’t understand what it is.
LGM LGM LGM
Then what did he say? Do you have the actual quote (and please, no Huffington Post).
Government spending for Iraqi electricity is a necessary, LGM. It gets over 120 degrees and they need air conditioning.
I know that many liberals oppose this technology (though they don’t seem to mind it themselves).
What a stupid, short-sighted remark. Your CC education is baring full frontal here, LGM.
#182 …
It is already shown that the Iraqia have more stable electricity now than before the war … most of the electrical generating plants were totally in disrepair … and I don’t mean just from the bombing at the beginning of the war … most of the iraqis had no electricity at all …
the same can be said for their basically non-existent water and sewer systems …
That’s all lgm’s remarks.
The America he thinks he lives in is a fantasy of his mind. The rest of us live under the Constitution, the one that gives the right of freedom of religion and the right to bear arms. Two things he adamantly opposes… unless you’re Muslim, then he loves you.
From some of the troops I know on the ground over there the surge has greatly improved security and stability to the Iraqi people. Basic services are coming on line, violence is down, and convoy duty has become almost boring. Too bad the Obamessiah will be touted by the swooning MSM of healing this fractured nation by just walking on the ground of the old kingdoms of Mesopotamia and Babylon instead of the credit going to General Petraus and the troops on the ground that implemented his brilliant counter-insurgency strategy.
No matter how deep the MSM is in the tank for their anointed one the more his own unrehearsed comments will expose him for the totally clueless empty suit he is. The only good thing to come out of this election cycle will be the complete and total exposure of the MSM and their liberal bias.
I would be interested in seeing that, lgm. Do you have a link to it?
After Obama is in office for 100 days, he’ll be asked what it’s been like, and he’ll sigh, and then make some complaint which I can’t predict exactly but it will blame others in some specific way, and then sigh again. April, 2009. Mark my words.
Sorry, but I missed the apologies from the trolls who wrote that BHO didn’t really say something that stupid.
Straight_Talk_Luigi said (#182):
The press conference transcript is here.
Barry F. said (#187):
How about Iraqi leader meets Obama, calls for U.S. troops out by end of 2010
Damnit–who is going to start selling those t-shirts?
We have some Dimwitocrats here and I want to wear one around them. Hell, I’ll even buy for for lgm.
I seem to remember that the Shia neighborhoods had open ditches for sewers.
The troops greeted Obama as a hero. Their enthusiasm was obvious and clearly unforced.
Bush and McCain may not realize it, but we have a new president.