Obama thanks his biggest supporters: The press
Barack Obama took time out of his Election Day this morning to thank some of his biggest supporters — the reporters who were lucky enough to keep their seats on his campaign plane.
He would be nothing without them and he knows it. They know it. We all know it.
Via AFP:
Democrat Barack Obama made a rare foray to the press section of his campaign plane early Tuesday — election day — to thank reporters for accompanying him on his grueling 21-month ride.
Also thanking the media for expressions of condolence following the death of his grandmother, Obama acknowledged there had been “sometimes friction” between the campaign and the press.
“But you guys have been gracious and understanding,” he said, following conservative criticism of the press for its coverage of Obama, as his plane prepared to depart after a huge rally in Virginia for Chicago.
“It’s been a good long ride with all of you,” the Illinois senator said. “Whatever happens tomorrow (Tuesday) it’s going to be extraordinary and you guys have shared this process with us.”
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I’ll bet Chris Matthew’s leg is as stiff as a board…
“Whatever happens tomorrow (Tuesday) it’s going to be extraordinary and you guys have helped fabricate my credentials and protect me from those seeking information about my past
shared this process with us.”Whatever happens tomorrow (Tuesday) it’s going to be extraordinary
Very true. The democratic process in this country is a wonder to behold. A peaceful transition of power due to a vote of the people.
I love this country!
(Oh, and GOBAMA.)
May his third child be a masculine child.
and George Clooney is probably doing the doggy humpy-dance on it…
How much did they get paid? I mean being spokemen for the Obama camp must have generated SOME cash for them.
They sure as heck did! And they will continue to do so no matter who wins. If it is Obama, they will be his biggest cheerleaders, as well as his hatchetmen.
If McCain wins they will be unrelenting in their attacks on McCain and especially Gov. Palin.
Shared it?! They’re to blame for it!
Of course he’s thanking them for all the fawning coverage they gave him! You couldn’t have paid for better, more positive, non-investigative coverage!
Somehow I doubt you held this sentiment during/shortly after the 2004 presidential election.
The MSM better enjoy this ride as well, they will never pick our candidates again.
“Friendly press” doesn’t even begin to describe it. More like sycophantic press.
I have to admit, I am curious what it’s going to feel like to tell my children and grandchildren how great this country used to be.
Sorry all – So somebody thinks it’s gonna be peaceful?
My guess – anything but peaceful. If Obama wins, certain sections will riot in “joyous riots” (still destroying property). If Obama loses, there will be riots.
Not exactly peaceful.
“Sharing” is for sissies. Obama and his media minions are definitely sissies.
I can say that because I’m a sisssy, so save the over-reaction you leftards.
As much as I think Chris Matthews is a gasbag, at least he admitted that he was attracted to Obama in so many ways. And he was not talking about Michelle Obama.
If Obama wins, he will be the first marxist us president. The press will figure this out once they do thier damn jobs. True to his marxist roots, Obama many never allow another free election.
THE TROLLS ARE NOT JUST OUR ADVERSARIES, THEY ARE THE ENEMY
Considering the drop in readership with respect to print media, this doesn’t surprise me.
Thinking Americans are tired of this one-sided partisanship from the press, but the less politically-educated will still go off and vote based on the media’s marching orders.
Time to build that bunker in the back yard and hunker down for the next four years.
Ignore the anti-religious bigot.
There may not be another election….
You will be glad to know that I voted to allow gay marriage in California! I am no bigot!
Did you really vote for something so you would be called names???
would = wouldn’t
Somehow I doubt you held this sentiment during/shortly after the 2004 presidential election.
I wasn’t thrilled, to be sure, but I do love the democratic process.
BUT I will tell ya, I certainly didnt whine about Hitler, Stalin, and the AntiChrist. I also didn’t stock up on ammo for my armed bunker, so I would be safe from the oncoming genocide that I believed would take place. I didn’t scream how God would keep me safe during the end times that were surely coming.
That would be Malkin board territory!
Darn right! Money couldn’t have bought the positive, wall-to-wall coverage Obama received from the MSM.
The good part is though, should he pull off a win, the same media will be forced to turn on Obama, in order to salvage what’s left of their credibility, when his poll numbers start to drop in the summer of `09 and Americans finally come to realize they’ve been had by Obama’s empty rhetoric and phony campaign promises.
The Obama camp could not have paid for better cheer leaders than the MSM.
huh?
Let me continue this for you…..I’m not a bigot, I’m not a thinking person. I have no idea what the societal ramifications will be for this decision. I actually don’t care…I just want to feel.
I don’t think words have constant meanings, in fact, words can mean anything to anybody at any time.
Just don’t call me a bigot because that word does have meaning.
well it seemed to me that you voted to allow gay marriage so you wouldn’t be called a bigot. Did you really vote for something so you wouldn’t be called names?
This is scarier than Halloween!! Today will tell us a great deal about who inhabits our country. There are several races that will say something about the voters; Obama, Murtha, and others. 9% congressional approval ratings should mean changes in congress’ returning power holders. If not, we are in trouble.
God bless America.
Then we’ll have to follow Thomas Jefferson’s advice:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
On November 4th, 2008 at 10:21 am, watershed said:
Of course not, you root for them, watertroll.
Personally, I think all this talk about the media winning the election for Obama is a slap in the face of the American public. It is implies that they are too ignorant to see through the sensationalism.
#32
Familyman wants to know if we should just all meet up at his house and watch the results there, Film. What say you? I will bring the beer.
When it comes to Obama, I think Captain Kirk expressed it best when he said, “You’re no god to me, mister!”
No, I voted for it because my wife’s best friend is a gay man that wants to marry his partner and she asked me to please support it.
Chuck Schumer just interviewed on Fox News and confirmed the Fairness Doctrine is coming back. So long conservative talk radio. So long freedome of speech.
Got it in one.
To clarifiy, the american public is ignorant because the press refused to do thier damn jobs. Ignorance can be fixed.
am curious as to what the reaction will be by the media if/WHEN McCain is victorious…
Ya really think??
How were you able to see through it but they weren’t?
On November 4th, 2008 at 10:38 am, watershed said:
Naw, I’m sure I’ll be seeing you knocking on my door some midnight after you join the U.S. Brownshirt Security Force (just as well-funded as our military).
Or after the big shrug, when you’ll be sucking feces polluted street puddles for drinking water because all of the productive members of society will be either dead, in hiding, or on strike.
Creep on, little troll, creep on.
On November 4th, 2008 at 10:42 am, gippergirl said:
Gippergirl, see:
http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/
Interesting read…
On November 4th, 2008 at 10:44 am, bluesoc said:
Even in Cuba or North Korea there are people who can separate propaganda from reality.
Because I educated myself. Read history. Take those lessions and apply it to the race today. Look at both with a critical eye. Forget about what the candidates say, because neither one of them can keep thier promises and avoid bankruptcy. Explore thier backgrounds. Because believe me, the MSM is NOT going to do it for you. Ignore the poltical ads or even the debates. Ignore the talking points, thats all propoganda.
When they failed to point out his obvious godlike presence and his incredibly glorious insight in every article and soundbite.
Journalism died in 2008. Evidence? This exchange last Thirsday between Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose on PBS (thanks to Rush):
ROSE: I don’t know what Barack Obama’s worldview is.
BROKAW: No, I don’t, either.
ROSE: I don’t know how he really sees where China is.
BROKAW: We don’t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
ROSE: I don’t really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?
BROKAW: Yeah, it’s an interesting question.
ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.
BROKAW: Two of them! I don’t know what books he’s read.
ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
BROKAW: There’s a lot about him we don’t know.
The don’t know much about him? After all this time? There are tapes of him from 1995, 2001, etc. records from when he was an organizer and lawer for ACORN, and when he worked with Ayers. There is his associations with Wright, Ayers, et. all and NO INVESTIGATION OF IT.
This exchange is perhaps one of the most ludicrous, preposterous conversations I have ever read. Brokaw moderated probably the WORST debate in modern history. What questions were asked in that debate? NOTHING OF VALUE.
Their job is to find out who the candidates are for us with objectivity and professionalism. It makes you want to hurl.
Or after the big shrug, when you’ll be sucking feces polluted street puddles for drinking water because all of the productive members of society will be either dead, in hiding, or on strike.
So, pick you up around 8?
I hope we get a thread about McCain. Obama is covered everywhere. Fox has a photo of Obama and Michelle at the voting booth. Whoop-dee-do.
On November 4th, 2008 at 10:42 am, sonofdy said:
Agreed. Americans should bring a class action lawsuit against the MSM, should “O” win, for dereliction and malfeasance.
#49
I don’t care what your political affiliations are, that post was funny.
And you wonder what is happening to your country…
Yes, Obama voters are “uneducated” because they haven’t stocked up on ammo for their endtimes bunkers due to Obama the Stalin-y Hitler-y anti-christ-y candidate, and instead are actually voting for him.
We are through the looking glass, people. Cuckoo!
That’s a bunch of bull. If Obama wins today, and I think he probably will, he has none other to thank than George Bush and gang. This election today is about nothing other than a complete repudiation Bush and what he has done to this country. Bush is leaving this country in shambles.
Remember
BO & MSM:
“He’s ridin’ Dirty!” (tm)
It’s the least he can do for his water carriers….
If he’s elected they’ll gladly keep carrying that leftwing water, too.
I hope the press lose all of their business after this election.I have never seen so much blatant byass.They can go and kiss his backside all the way to the unemployment line.
Mike.musculus!!! – Is that you?? Or the junior musculus? Are you well?
Well, that much is true. Bush has been a horrible disappointment. I wouldn’t trust him to balance my checkbook.
flyoverman that’s becuase they are trying to cover their backsides when Obama turns out to be the Marxist we all know he is and uses his brown shirts to go intimidate everyone.They’ll say we had no idea,ha!Journalism is dead.
BINGO!
He would be nothing without them and he knows it. They know it. We all know it.
Zero would BE nothing if his skin color favored the OTHER side of his family.
Might I remind you that the president doesn’t write laws…Congress does. See what a wonder shambles your democratically controlled congress has left us.
Talked to a lady at my gym this morning… she always volunteers at the polling place in her town and will be doing so this afternoon, so I figured she must be an informed and careful citizen-voter. Then she told me she still didn’t know who she was going to vote for. I give up.
I had a friend tell me the same “I don’t know who I’ll vote for”. My response: I’ll give you the right answers if you want.
Four years into my 24 year career with the Army, I had the honor of serving in the Berlin Brigade. The media has been a propaganda arm of the left for too long, much like how the media in the former East Germany used to portray their government in a positive light and everyone else as evil.
The media has completely blown it for the citizens of our country and we need to find a way to hold them accountable for what may take place. First they forced McCain on us, then they topped it off with the fraud Obama.
I have always been very proud to serve my country and knowing that our country with all of its blemishes is still the greatest country on earth!
Win or lose, with or without McCain, this is the first time in my entire life, I am not very proud my country.
Obama has never won an honest election.He used dirty tricks to get everyone elses names off the ballots.He’s pulled a lot of dirty ones in this election as well,all the while the fawning MSM cover for him.World net daily has a long list of aquaintances Obama has above the ones we already know about and guess what they are all radical Jew hating Muslims. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80008 Like I said they know they can’t use airplanes anymore and so they will destroy us from the inside out.I cannot believe just 7 years after Sept 11 when we were so united we would elect a man that hates our country,thinks he’s God or a king and hates the military.
Conservativesrus: I did tell the lady at the gym that today’s paper (we have the Union Leader which is a great conservative paper), had a couple of really good articles in the editorial section that break down the candidates’ plans for the country and she should read them. I hope she will.
My son is in the Army and I fear what a President Obama would force him to do. Just remember Hitler swooned the crowds as well.Those in charge thought they could control him,until he came to power and we all know history.
We in the army are sworn to the constitution first, not to the president first.
After Senator Obama’s comments, the media representatives fell immediately to their knees, licking the senators shoes and quivering with spontaneous orgasms.
The economy started to take a nosedive when the Dems controlled Congress two years ago. Remember Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac and how the Dems blocked all efforts to reform or at least have an oversight on them? Thank Sen. Dodd, Sen. Obama, and Barney Frank, they received the most amount from these quasi-government financial instituions.
They will not if the MSM has anything to do with it.
Obama voters are childish, petulant, anti-American, and have contributed to the demise of this great nation.
Case in point: Watershat.
Sonofdy is correct. His allegiance is to the Constiitution and we ALL need to remind our military of that.
Old war story. I loved Richard Nixon, but the night before he announced his resignation from the Presidency, the young junior officers of my battalion met privately to discuss Nixon’s growing mental instability.
We all agreed that if we got an order that violated our oath to the Constitution we would refuse to obey it and further to inform our subordinates it was an illegal order and direct them not to follow it.
We kept the faith. So will those who have followed us and so will your son.
If it comes to that, it will be an individual choice to make. I know where I stand, but I would have to give my guys a chance to choose.
I understand what you are saying and i have no doubt that you are not a bigot. However no on prop 8 is going to enable lawsuits against schools, churches, any good organization that does not agree with this position. I would vote no on 8 if this was a purely civil rights vote, but it is not. This is a vote for endless future litigation, suppression of people’s rights to free expression and very well could be harmfull to children. I would rather not have the state Constitution address this issue, but the original vote was stolen from the people to begin with. California has proven itself to be anti-democratic in this regard.
A white man with B.O.’s resume would’ve NEVER reached the nomination. We have a press corp more steeped into CREATING history than reporting it.
James Greenidge
Jamaica, Queens, NY
Who wants to bet that Waterbed would hate this country if The Annointed One didn’t win? You’re right. Sucker bet.
My son said over his dead body would he ever put a U.N. hat on and do the dirty deeds of Obama.
Obama’s going to miss the limelight. He might actually have to vote in the senate come jan. If he doesn’t, he might not be reelected.
Byebama.
Barry took them for a ride, alright. Soon, he may be doing the same to us!
“…gracious and understanding…”
Sure, if by “gracious” he means “fawning” and by “understanding” he means “worshipful.”
Tom Brokaw actually admitted to Charlie Rose during an interview last week that “we don’t know much about Obama…”
Nice job NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, etc. etc.
I wonder how BHOs dominant liberal media pals are gonna treat him once his phony birth certificate cover-up blows up in his face? It’s going to make Watergate look like a sophomoric fraternity prank. Can’t wait…..
I do agree, but you must acknowledge Lou Dobb’s heroism on his journalistic integrity on the Communist News Network.
Lou Dobbs is a bright spot in our disfunctional media….Go Lou, keep up the great work!
rooster: agreed, but Dobbs will be off that network as soon as The One is sworn in (if he is indeed sworn in).
A free-thinker has no place in a socialist-transitioning-to-Marxist government.
SoCal #1 —
Only his leg?
What the Media isn’t reporting.
http://monicamemo.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/showtime.html
Right. That would explain why hardly a single republican wants anything to do with Bush. That explains why Bush did not appear at a single rally to support Bush. That would explain why even McCain calls it 8 years of failure.
By their own judgement, the MSM hasn’t fulfilled the function which justifies the 1st Admendment protection they enjoy. They have instead lied and hidden the truths they are supposed to expose — in hopes an Obie/Dumbo admin will kill the New Media. They think people will default back to them ifthe New Media is outlawed. Shows that “journalist” is a job who’s only requirement is drawing breath.
People needing to win at any cost — even at the cost of the integrity of the system of laws from which their authority descends, once that system fails from scofflawism, will not stop at the New Media.
WARNING: OT (sorry)
Joy:
No, it is I: mike. Dad’s name is Martin.
Dad’s condition is unchanged from last comment on MM’s site: combines score 4: in other words, his body mildly responds to pain stim, but everything else is shut down.
My job has kept me busy, I have yet to get to finish a leave I’ve put in for. The longest unbroken leave I’ve been able to enjoy has been 51h22m… and yes, I time them. (not hard, just start a timer on my watch…). Last time was Kunsan AFB, Korea, but I’m bouncing again in 7hrs. I’ve stopped in to enjoy time among “friends” (don’t mean scare-quotes, but “virtual friends” isn’t accurate, either…).
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Well, duuuhhhh!
All bow down to Dear Leader. The media has said so.
#5. Now that is fuuunnnnyyy! Even the visual.