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Is it my imagination, but in the past weren't reporters picked after raising their hands? Obama seems to have a list he is choosing off of. Wouldn't this suggest that the reporters had to submit their questions ahead of time, time enough to cherry pick and prepare?
Am I wrong on this, did Bush have a predetermined list?
Nobody has the balls to ask him what he is doing so far to hunt down Bin Ladin?
Helen Thomas.."these so called terrorists".
WTF is the Huffington Post doing there asking questions? Skippy said he wouldn't be taking questions at random a few weeks ago. The WH is selecting journalists before pressers that can ask questions and I believe they have to submit the questions beforehand as well. Welcome to 1984.
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It was encouraging to hear that he feels that a nuclear Iran is a destabilizing thing in the middle east, But didn't use the term that many others have used.."unacceptable"
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When I heard the Obamanator say "I inherited this mess" for the 4th time in 20 minutes, I volunteered to do the dishes.
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and I don't necessarily see Obama as a whole lot worse than Bush or McCain. I just see the areas where they suck as different. Wow that says a lot, I think.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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At least you'll get some brownie points from the real Cheif....
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She just laid on the couch and yelled out to me everytime he said it or alluded to it.
Talk about a "CMA" speech!
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Opening speech was exceptional, with all the polish (minus the subtle fatherly aspect) of Reagan and the crisp execution of Clinton, if not better; this guy really knows how to lay in a speech...gotta respect that.
Question answering. Very measured, but his answers go on forever, and when you do that, everyone in the room knows you're making it up as you go along. His response to the Iran question was really weak. You get the sense that he understands the gravity of the situation, and has put some thought to it, but in the end, hasn't come up with a damn thing...welcome to the presidency; no one for the last 30 years has had a real answer to the Iran thing.
It was encouraging to hear that he feels that a nuclear Iran is a destabilizing thing in the middle east, and this is the first time I've heard him mention Israel in any sort of sympathetic mannor. I get the impression that the pentagon has been briefing him and that reality is starting to gain some small ground over leftist ideology.
Keep in mind, I'm very independent, so I don't see things as a Republican or a Democrat. I see the good and bad, and I don't necessarily see Obama as a whole lot worse than Bush or McCain. I just see the areas where they suck as different.
I welcome some of Obama's foreign policy and even some of his domestic policy; and then I cringe on some of his foreign policy as well as his domestic policy...Just like I did under Bush.
Why can't they be reasonable and do things my way??? I'm game. Tell me what part of Obama's domestic and foreign policy you look forward to. Specific policy changes, not just the ambiguous, generic, feel good stuff the masses have been passing around.
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I did put a bid in for him on Gunbroker. The road to socialism has begun! Now that's voting with your wallet, bravo I find myself shopping EBR's (Evil Battle Rifles) as a salute to Obama and Pelosi.
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Watch as Obamassa� goes grey. First at the temples, later all over. I almost feel sorry for the socalist.
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I wouldn't waste my time. He'll NEVER be my president!!!!!
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I'm game. Tell me what part of Obama's domestic and foreign policy you look forward to. Specific policy changes, not just the ambiguous, generic, feel good stuff the masses have been passing around. FB, you and I have gone round and round on this one, but I'll play along. Energy (deja-vu all over again???) with the exception of no domestic drilling and nuclear, I think Obama's energy plan is the first realistic plan to come along in a long time. Bush started the ball rolling with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and then watered it down with the 2007 version. Obama's plan is solid with the exception of nuclear and domestic drilling. Even without those two, his investment in alternative energy resources (non-alternative needs no investment, they work), is excellent. On foreign policy: Negotiating with Iran: For the past 30 years we have taken a hard line with Iran and it has netted us dick. Negotiating can't hurt...really, it can't. Missile shield in Eastern Europe: Stupid waste of resources. Missile shield...good idea. Eastern Europe, against Russia, where MAD has worked for 55 years; big waste of money. Russia gets it, play with us and we'll level you back to the stone ages. Now, spend that money placing a missile shield in Israel, Japan, South Korea and India...now you're talking most bang for the buck. Eastern Europe is the least bang for the buck. Russia knows and respects our Boomers and Bombers.
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Obama's plan is solid with the exception of nuclear and domestic drilling. Even without those two, his investment in alternative energy resources (non-alternative needs no investment, they work), is excellent.
Well you pass on nuclear & domestic drilling as casual exceptions that really are the only proven viable solutions, the rest is theory. Wind, wave, solar, bio-diesel, ethanol, these are all alternative energy that have been paraded, then turned out to be rank with unintended problems and not as efficient as most had hoped. Obama will chose to put the money in the unproven and virtually will ignore what is reliable and proven (nuclear, domestic drilling), and you call that a good energy policy?
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Opening speech was exceptional, with all the polish (minus the subtle fatherly aspect) of Reagan and the crisp execution of Clinton, if not better; this guy really knows how to lay in a speech...gotta respect that.
Just what you'd expect from a used car salesman isn't it?
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[quote=Foxbat]On foreign policy:
Negotiating with Iran: For the past 30 years we have taken a hard line with Iran and it has netted us dick. Negotiating can't hurt...really, it can't. What hard line? Saber rattling. Now if we'd bombed their one refinery or the two oil shipping terminals you could say hardline. Our issues with them would have ended. We wouldn't have even needed to envade just an air and sea blockade nothing in nothing out. Six months max and the world would have known the paper tiger was no more. Hard line you're not fooling anyone with that BS.
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Nah, I didnt watch the circus. I had to watch paint dry. at least the paint didnt BS me or spend my money on stupid crap.
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No energy plan, without increasing short/mid term supply, will be effective. The Dem's have paid lip service to alternative energy for decades, but when the time comes to build it, they don't want it in their backyard. One need only look to Cape Cod and the support the limousine liberals have given the Cape Wind project.
Investing in alternative energy is fine with me, but we've heard this song the last three presidents and worse, this one has no interest in keeping supply up in the interim, until the investments can pan out or be built. The result will be European oil prices in a country that requires cheap transportation to survive. We don't have European ass transit and we're three times as large as Europe, not to mention we are not urban centric like they are. The result will be further economic heartache in order to make a few of Obama's special interest groups happy and what happens if technology isn't there after the investments to keep up with rising demand and decreasing domestic supply? He's betting our future on a horse that's never raced.
We will have to agree to disagree on Iran. I'll bet a case of beer, kissing their arse won't net us any change and his approach will likely weaken our standing in the middle east as these people do not respect weakness, which is what Iran is already perceiving from Obama by their mocking of him this past week.
Missile shields aren't high on my priority list. You may be right, you may not be. I simply haven't given it much thought as a high priority issue.
I have to say if those few items are enough to leave you enthusiastic, I envy the small plate you're concerned with. Obama's policies that have me nervous and concerned, number in the dozens.
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When he starts negotiating with Iran he's going to end up like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
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