Obama finally lets Fox News ask a question
I watched the Obama/Bill Richardson press conference so you don’t have to.
1) Obama finally called on Fox News for a question. (FNC had been shut out for five press conferences.) Wendell Goler asked about TARP and joked about Bill Richardson’s now-shaved beard. Obama basically said he would trust Hank Paulson not to draw down the second tranche of the bailout billions until he made some official announcement. Ha. Obama also lamented Richardson’s decision to get rid of the beard.
It was “Western” and “rugged,” Obama oozed. As opposed to bitter and clingy?
2) A Hispanic journalist asked Obama for his reaction to criticism from Latino groups that Richardson’s Commerce nomination was a token “consolation prize.” Obama unconvincingly argued that Richardson was the best person for the job, citing his, um, “diplomatic experience” (?) and executive experience as governor. As for Richardson’s knowledge of business and the markets, well, he served on a lot of corporate boards after leaving Washington. Oh, and he was the son of a Citibank exec.
Experience!
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What a coward Obama is. scared of a question.
Foxes in the house bigtime.
I am sorry. What was the reporter expecting? The top two slots were taken. After that, cant do much better than a cabinet appointment, can you?
Not to mention he abandoned Hillary very early on. Nothing matters more than loyalty!
Since when was ethnicity a prerequisite for cabinet positions (or higher) in an administration?
The Democrats’ definition of a diverse cabinet is a group of blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, women, gays, and Handicapped people… all of whom are leftist lawyers.
Ever since ethnicity became a prerequisite for said administration.
I thought he was going to let Fox News ask: “Do you think you’re an incredible President, or a fantastic President?”
So, I guess that means he can see Mexico from his house?
I have to admit, his pick for Commerce Secretary is better than his VP pick.
Heck, I can see Mexico from my house and I live in VA.
You must live in Fairfax County.
It looked almost as ridiculous as when algore grew one. Some people do not look good with beards… Bill Richardson is one of those people.
He let fox news speak? isn’t that heresy punishable by burning him at the stake?
Albemarle is close enough. Fairfax County is too close to the Capitol. Mexico City.
Whoa, the stereotypical Asian woman, doing the hard work…
Nah, just kidding - thank you!
Hey, if he’s been to Wal-Mart, he has Commerce experience with China.
Rupert Murdoch’s check must have finally cleared.
. . . as a token “consolation prize”.
Wendel Goler asks, “President-elect Obama, were you born in the United States of America, and are you constitutionally eligible to serve in the office of President?”
one can dream…
Obama can trust all he wants, Obama is not sworn in so Obama has no say in the matter.
pppfffhhhpppttt to Obama
What would you expect him to say? Why no, I am not actualy eligible?
sigh.
I thought he was about “spreading the wealth around.”
Howdy Albemarle… Henrico County here. And when I can help it, this is as close as I want to be to Fairfax. However, with all of the uncontrolled growth here, I feel like I live in NOVA.
We stopped appointing based on ability long ago… We now have our token BLACK, our token HISPANIC, out token combo GAY/WOMAN, we are missing our token ASIAN and NATIVE AMERICAN… That should be fixed shortly… If not before the 21st of January, sometime before the end of B.HUSSEIN’S first term…
Anything other than “Yes, of course I was and I’ll be releasing my original, long-form birth certificate tomorrow” would be unacceptable. I would expect a non-answer, since the real answer is as you suggest.
Listen up, fools. You will accept what Obama does without question and you will like it!
Press conference over, Obama has left the building.
Fox shut out for only five press conferences? Less than a slap on the hand. Wait till he’s really mad.
And oh - the Wendel Golar similarity should probably go unsaid except for the fact that Obama seems to calculate all his public moves.
“President elect Obama, your recently departed grandmother was quoted as saying that you were born in Kenya, on your grandmothers’ grave, is this correct?”
I have used Citibank when I lived abroad. And I have talked to diplomats several times. I guess that makes me qualified to be SecCommerce. But I won’t shave my beard, no matter what.
Hey, Henrico. I swear this is true.
I went to Wendy’s a couple months ago here in C-ville, and the only one who spoke English was the manager, and he was a bilingual Hispanic from the southwest. They can’t tell me this isn’t intentional.
I used to like Wendy’s.
at least he didn’t a question ala the ones they sometimes ask at the Super Bowl. For example. Doug Williams the QB for Washington was once asked:
“How long have you been a black quarterback?”
Oh brother
I was in a Burger King in Northern Virginia a few months ago. The crew was entirely Latino and spoke virtually no English. A family of Africans (I think they were either Somali or Ethopian) came in and tried to order.
I watched as it took 15 minutes for the customer and the staff to try and communicate a simple order for 5 people. In the end, after the man finally got his lunch, he had to return to the counter 3 times as the order was not right. At one point I thought they were going to resort to fisticuffs.
Lunch at any fast food joint around here should count as 3 credit hours of a foreign language at the college level.
Thats raaaccciiisssttt
They’ve had plenty of time to make one by now. Wonder what the hold up is?
Remember the Dan Rather “forged papers”? Best I remember, no one got put in jail for that federal offense. So the “not connected to BO workers” should be working worry free on the BC.
masochist
This only proves 1 thing; oBingo didn’t know Wendell Goler is with Fox News.
If I had any relatives working at either of the hospitals in Hawaii during August of 1961 I’d be afraid for their health about now.
As I recall, all of Sarah Palin’s water carriers excused her failure to do more than 3 interviews during the campaign was because no one would be fair to her. Well, how about the network that started the rumor that Obama attended a jihadist madrassa and suggested that him fist-bumping his wife was a “terrorist fist jab?” If Fox is shut out of Obama access (as the NYT has recently been shut out of White House access) they earned it.
Well that didn’t take long. I kinda expected lgm to come in with, “well Palin…”
Boring
Weak, even for you.
Up until recently, all appointments were token white men.
That’s a pretty ignorant comment. Define the liberal version of “recently”.
Hint: If recently doesn’t, at the very least, include Boooooosh’s appointments, you are full of it.
(Re-interpreted) “How will we ever be rid of this burdensome Constitution if we first do not eliminate those who would hold up our actions and criticize them?”
Fixed it for you, Skeptic. Next time, just say what you mean.
Oh, BTW, from the NYT web page (top story):
Rice in India to Ease Tensions
Please do not confuse the Grey Lady’s reluctance to run a story that may promote Bush in a good light as the White House locking out the NYT. Please do not confuse the Grey Lady’s exuberance and total lack of professional distance on all things Obama as the White House locking out the NYT.
Now, if you have something of substance to back up your words, then maybe we can discuss your point. Of course, we have four news agencies, including the Washington Times and Fox, to back up our story.
Why does it have to be a liberal definition of recently? OK, I’ll give you Boooosh’s appointments, so if we look from our first president until then, I would say that is pretty recent. Sorry if I upset your little world there boilermaker, but you’re the one’s that is full of it.
Sure, he picks the black guy from Fox…
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Why do you have to be disingenuous when interpreting history? The fact that you have to reluctantly “give” me Bush’s appointments is a perfect example of the reason I’d like to know what your version of “recently” is defined as.
Dubya’s term is as far back as you are able to Google? Are you seriously that ignorant?
Coming from someone who uses terms like “token whites” to make an absurd argument, I’ll take that as a compliment.
Well, look what we have here: a bunch of crybabies whining about Obama while the economy lost 250,000 jobs in the month of November.
Do you people love this country or do you just love your own stupidity?
What’s “our story?” (I like how you vicariously make it your own.) That Obama was raised terrorist?
You shouldn’t post when you’re inebriated
… you meant.
Wait till our Beloved Leader gets a bunch of Americans needlessly killed with his “soft power” foreign policy. He won’t have a press conference for six months.
Thanks Boilermaker & Dexter:
- this comment came from somebody calling themself “boilermaker”
And Dexter, is it true that people named Dexter typically marry their mother’s because their cousins said no?
Keep it up, you’re on a roll and making a whole lot of sense!
Woohoo!
So now, being a governor, gives you executive experience? Interesting..Very interesting
It’s all about the (D) and the lack of estrogen.
I have no problem with Obama not talking to FNC. The less I hear from Obama, the better I like it.
WOW, who peed in your wheaties today? Did you finaly figure out your lord and master obama is a fraud?
With Obama it’s all about the visual. How long till he changes his sign to read, “Multi-Cultural Office of the President-Elect”?
Something tells me “Ilovemycountry” isn’t refering to musical genre.
No disputing the facts, just personal attacks. Typical. But, sad.
Ask him why one of the people listed as an Elector for him is…
a dead person.
Electoral College scam: Where dead people vote
Gone from the dictionary is the word “merit”. Political correctness is the new standard. I am sadly losing my belief in the concept of America, despite my military service, American roots, etc. If only Canadian weather were a bit warmer……
teleprompters can’t display answers to adhoc questions….
Obama unconvincingly argued that Richardson was the best person for the job, citing his, um, “diplomatic experience” (?) and executive experience as governor.
“Executive experience as (a) governor” - good enough for the left, not good enough for the right.
PALIN/ROMNEY 2012!!
Now they just need a left-handed transsexual Eskimo dwarf in a wheelchair to fill the quota card.
The don’t call the dwarfs any longer. They are “Little People.”
Didn’t you get the memo from the “Office of the President-Elect?”
I’ll bet the ‘Taxpayer’ has to pay for Richardson’s tanning bed from now on.
He normally has to tell people he’s Hispanic. With his last name and light skin it isn’t obvious.
The Hispanics must be feeling pretty paranoid right about now. Just think, they’ve got a half white and half black President. I don’t see any Hispanic blood in there. Didn’t anybody tell them?
Well Traveler49 think of it this way. We could model the Mexican government and its cabinent and see how diversified it is. How many gringos, asians, blacks, cubans, canadians are represented in there. Why is the US gov’t the only one to diversify in color and sex but not in opinion? Obama probably saw the black Goler and figured he was a safe bed to ask a question there. Its all calculated.
On anohter note I was wondering what Hillary would do if she was fired from her position of Secretary of State in a couple of years. She would have lost that position and the senate seat as well,I was wondering if she thought of that situation?
Why do I get the visual of the weasel in the old Foghorn Leghorn cartoons? (1:54 in)
Would his “diplomatic experience” be “hey, my state borders Mexico! Heck, it even has the word ‘Mexico’ in the name of my state!”?
Just to recap: executive experience as governor of a state (Alaska) bordering another country (Russia, Canada) is laughable, but executive experience as governor of a state (New Mexico) bordering another country (Mexico) is true “diplomatic” street cred.
I just want to know how Richardson ever got another job after his stint as the bumbling night watchman of the Dept. of Energy resulted in nuclear secrets getting stolen from Los Alamos.
Chap, this is laughable. They were “taken”, like “first come, first served”?
C’mon! Commerce Secretary? There is no more commerce! Or as our new Latino Sec. of Commerce might say: “Commerce? We don’t need no steenking commerce.”
Yecch. I still think That One is light in the loafers…
Funny, even before Obamalamadingdong was a household name, a friend who’s retired from “those shadowy places in gubmint” told me about this. But unlike FOX, in describing the madrassa, he used the words “hard core.”
No, as in Obama can’t really offer him the presidency or the vice presidency, now can he? After that it seems cabinet positions are the next best thing, so I can’t understand why anyone would say its a consolation.
If you want to get into ranking the respective cabinet postions then fine, but I would consider them all generall on par.
Oh, brother.
Why wouldn’t Obama have picked Richardson as his running mate? He broke ties w/his buddies the Clintons to support Obama. Instead he picks Biden, who spent a lot of time during his (lame) campaign mouthing off about what a lightweight Obama was. (My theory is that Biden is far less of a threat to Obama’s “image” than a person of substance such as Bill Richardson would be.)
Obama could have offered Richardson SoS, which Richardson wanted, esp. since he has far more diplomatic experience than Hillary’s imagination permits her.
It continues to amaze me what constitutes “experience” for job when one Democrat wants one for another Democrat. Nothing could illustrate this better than Kennedy in New York and Franken in Minnisota.
These same people could find “NOTHING” that would qualify Palin for anything but “mother”, and to many she had failed in this “job”. She nor her daughter ABORTED”. A total failure and the principle reason she was so viciously attacked.
PC is Thought Control
LEE