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Subscribe to RSSNewt Gingrich this past week said the following, per NBC's John Boxley, about Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R) not speaking to the press.
"I think she should have a press conference at least as often as President Obama...check how often President Obama has had real press conferences, very very seldom, less than any recent president."
So First Read did check.
First, a note about accessibility. President Obama went through one of the longest primaries in American history. Democrats had about 40 debates, including the three for the presidential general election. That's not including the various question-and-answer sessions at the back of campaign planes. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and most of the others who ran in 2008 were far more vetted and questioned than Sharron Angle, Joe Miller, Christine O'Donnell, or Sarah Palin, for that matter, whom the press had just two-plus months to question before the general election.
Regarding his time in office, President Obama, through Sept. 10, 2010, has held 37 press conferences (16 solo and 21 joint), according to data compiled by Dr. Martha Joynt Kumar, a political science professor at Towson University. Obama has held 67 short question-and-answer sessions, 216 interviews and 820 addresses and remarks.
He has averaged about two press conferences per month. Where does that rank when it comes to "any recent president?"
It's slightly less than former President George W. Bush, who average 2.2 per month over eight years; it's the same as former President Clinton, who also averaged 2.0 per month; and four times as many as former President Reagan, who held just an average of 0.5 per month. In fact, Obama in less than two years, has given just 10 fewer total press conferences than Reagan did in eight years (36 vs. 46).
President George H.W. Bush gave an average of 3.0 per month; Carter just 1.2 a month; Ford 1.3; Nixon 0.6; Johnson 2.2; Kennedy 1.9; Eisenhower 2.0; Truman 3.4; Hoover 5.6; Coolidge 7.8; Wilson 1.7.
The most press conferences by a president -- by far -- was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who held 1,020, or an average of seven per month. Calvin Coolidge, however, had more press conferences on average -- 7.8.
As far as strictly solo press conferences, President Obama has given two fewer than President George W. Bush did in his first four years (15 vs. 17). President Bush gave 33 in his second term. President Clinton gave 44 in his first terms and 18 in his second term. H.W. Bush gave 84 solo in four years. President Reagan gave 27 solo in his first term, and 19 solo in his second. President Carter gave 59.
President Obama has given more interviews to reporters than any of his immediate predecessors through Sept. 10 of their first terms. He's given 216 interviews; President George W. Bush gave 76; President Clinton 82; George H.W. Bush 87. President Obama's addresses and remarks are already more than H.W. Bush (625), but W. Bush (908) and Clinton (837) gave more.
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Fact checked by who? How many of those other presidents refused to take questions like Obama? LOL this article is almost funny if it were not so serious.
Where are Obama's Illinios State records? College transcripts?
David conservacrat
Fact checked by who? How many of those other presidents refused to take questions like Obama? LOL this article is almost funny if it were not so serious
You know what is funny and seriously flawed? You are!!! You're in a media black out. That's what happens when you only watch Glenn Beck's chalkboard on Fake News.
[snip]
"Despite the label of apathy often slapped on young people--and reports that MTV solicited "light," pop culture-based questions for the event--participants in the town hall had pointed policy questions for the President, challenging him on the economy, education, immigration, Don't Ask Don't Tell, race relations and Sudan".
http://www.essence.com/news/obama_watch/barack_obama_town_hall_mtv_bet_cmt.php
Maybe if you stop watching Glenn Beck rewrite the Constitution on his chalkboard; you'd learn something!!!
FYI: even Fake News (Fox) replays clips of the President answering questions. Google it.
Where is Angles, Palin and O'Donnell IQ Records...
Another typical tea bagger who wears the badge of ignorance like a medal of honor!
Tea Baggers don't need NO stinken facts! They'll take a lying serial adulterers word over the truth day and twice on Sunday!
David Conservacrat. Well, shows how uninformed you are. Obama's Illinois records are available to the public just like every other politicians records are. As for college transcripts, are yours available to anyone who wants to see them? Pres Obama graduated from Harvard with honors, one can assume his record is stellar. I say assume because if there was something bad in them, the right would certainly have brought it to our attention.
Funny part of either of these two leftist troll responses is they do not answer to anything as a whole that I have said and they totally ignore team Obama's scripting of the messages they put out vs taking actual questions. When Obama takes an actual question he sounds like an idiot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHv1ENYAulY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oeT2W9ONLU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlGNhAnwp_Y
Any democrat please answer what I asked? You can't have it both ways to protect your candidates.
I do not rely on information from You Tube as proof any more than I get facts from the National Enquirer.
First of all, I did not know that campaigns counted. Secondly if they do, does whining "can't I just finish my waffle?" counted as answering a question.
Sure, if you happen to be Obama. To be absolutely fair, you had the same romantic relationship with Perot, so he could have gotten away with the same thing.
Tell me, (although we are not in the boiler room, I should have asked this there), how many other presidents got away with assigning questions the night before a press conference?
See, there is this thing called the Internet, and it allows us to see things we never saw before. So, the fact that reporters are contacted before the "press conferences" and told that, yes, indeed, they will be called on, and their question should be a out an assigned topic, is now common knowledge.
I get that one of you does not want to be the only one to stray-you'd never get called on again. But, hey, aren't you all in the same profession? Don't you care, at all, about being sell outs?
I also get the idea of scoops- as in, nobody wants to be scooped. So, how about this: next press conference, you all agree to ignore the assigned question. YOU MAKE UP YOUR OWN. And you hold his feet to the fire, insisting he ANSWER the damn question-which, I hate to tell you, he does not. He talks for twenty minutes, and still cannot order chocolate or vanilla.
Might go a long way toward restoring your lost credibility. Cause, guys? You Re less. Redible with people than used car salesmen.
Which explains your declining viewership, not to mention readership.
The video's are right from the people not made up so you more than likely believe the NYT than actually see what is going on? I guess the National Enquirer was wrong about Edwards?
Also Coons didn't know the 5 protections of the first amendment at all all he could do is give Hugo Black's definition based on a case from 1947. FYI Hugo Black was appointed to the supreme court by FDR and he was in the KKK in the 1920-30's. Since the question was about the Constitution and not a KKK members interpitation Coons was totally wrong.
David - The only one I see here who's trying to "protect candidates" is Newt Gingrich in the article above, and in his case, it seems a case of too little, too late, as "his" candidates have long since been exposed as the airheads they are. As for your questions "Where are Obama's Illinois State records? College transcripts?" - well, gee, these have only been answered a million times in the last few years, but since you apparently weren't paying attention, the answers are, always have been, and always will be:
1. In Illinois.
2. At Occidental Colege in California, at Columbia University, and at Harvard Law School.
Oh, and just for the record, his birth certificate is in Hawaii. Where he was born.
Of course, you wouldn't believe them anyway if you were hand-delivered a certified copy, so what's your point other than to keep some long-since debunked urban legends circulating? Isn't that what all those forwarded e-mails for the extremely gullible that somehow still keep circulating are for?
Jody's point above says it all - if any of your bogus claims were true, why wouldn't the Republican National Committee - or the McCain/Palin campaign - or gee, I don't know, even just one single Republican candidate running in the last two years - have made them public? What are they waiting for?
So if you are so uncertain of who fact checked these numbers, why don't you go do it yourself?
Seems pretty straightfoward to me.
We're getting pretty sick of the spewing. I know I am.
I did and funny thing is we also know what everyone else in the election did in school except for Obama who attended DSoA meetings in Chicago in 1983
Nor can you have it both ways, sir. Had First Read fact-checked and found that it was correct...that President Obama held fewer press conferences than any President in US history, you would have taken it as gospel.
They are all very controlled where Obama selects the questions a day in advance.
Wake me up when Oakland hits 74 so I can rejoice. Finally something exciting happens on Sunday.
You need a score above zero to have an IQ record!
So Newt Man was lying, what were the odds of that? Nearly 100%, based on his track record.
There is a comment further down regarding airheads, and IQ scores for some of the republican ladies. I regard anti american thinking (Obonga, Reid, Plastosi) far worse than if you have less than genius I.Q. I have a very high IQ (air traffic controller, military intel., business owner, but would rate Palin and the rest of the tea party ladies far smarter than I am. I do rate myself much smarter, more atriculate, more in tune with whats going on than Obonga, dingy Harry, or Plastosi.
Long article which when read, proves that Newt was right. Obama has had less Press Confrences than any other President.
But I cannot seem to find anywhere in the article that says that. I wonder why that is? lol
Jeeze Ron Langevin - I was also MI, and a business owner - and you seem pretty stupid to me. Frankusa read the article and came to a conclusion based on something other than numbers, so ditto for him.
I've always found that people that say stuff like 'I have a very high IQ' - don't. And this guy's no exception. First off, how dumb do you have to be to think Pailn is smarter than Obama? Palin couldn't get a job serving the lunch counter at Harvard, let alone teaching Constitutional Law. She'd be like O'Donnel (that other "Tea Party Lady" Ron!) "I'm sorry I don't have my copy of the constitution on me..." Sorry Christine; that's not really any excuse for a Tea Party Candidate, to not know the INCOME TAX Amendment. And one more question, Mr. "VeryHighIQ" - what does the word "atriculate" mean? - Tea partiers crack me up!!
Does it really matter in the long run. I remember that when President Obama first came into office. He was getting dissed by the republicans for over communication. It seemed that every time you turned around during those first few months he was telling us just about everything he was doing. Except when he was going to the bathroom or taking a smoke break (that we heard about on the talking head shows). So now they are complaining not enough. I guess they aren't facebook friends with him. I hear from him everyday when I log onto fbook. I can even tell when it's him writing an update or someone else. His writing style can't escape his speaking pattern. So Mr. Newt, you are what like in your 70's now. Get real and grow up man. It seems that the only one talking to much...IS YOU!
Seems about average. Considering the mess inherited from Bush, press conferences are the least of people's concerns. When Pres Obama answers questions, he answers them indepth and then we hear the pundits and the right moan about too professorial. If Pres Obama held more conferences, the right would be yelping about all that air time and probably complaining about more time for the press than job creation. Whatever Pres Obama does will not suit half the people most of the time.
Sureeeeee this is why Obama looks like an idiot when he takes questions and there is absolutely nothing profesional about all of his over generalizations.
His excuses are "its worse than we thought" is an answer from inexperience any way you leftist wish to cut it and "it could be worse" is not an answer to anything.
You proved my point. Nothing Pres Obama says or does will satisfy the likes of David conserva-rat.
He thinks Obama looks like an idiot, But cannot look at records that are and have been public since before Obama won the election, Closing your eyes does not make the fact that the records ARE available go away any more than deciding not attend televised HCR meetings meant Republicans were "SHUT OUT" of them.
It sounds more like he is saying Obama looks like an idiot because he is using those "big" words he doesn't understand and he switchs back to the Glenn Beck comedy hour.
LOL those records are nowhere to be found Bo his college transcripts are sealed and his state visitor records distroyed
David, it's destroyed, and your the only one that looks like an idiot. You hate the President for all the reasons you can contrive. We get it. If you really wanted to debate the political differences between your Conservative views and the Presidents Progressive views, there are plenty of issues you can make complelling arguements about, but your attempt at illegitimizing the President, actually discounts everything you have to say. You can't see anything through your hatred, and there are those that want it that way.
Look in the mirror, the idiot is right there
Ah!! Bush's fault again. Keep runnin' with that through 2012.
That gives Bush far too much credit. It took 30 years of combined effort for the Republican party to destroy our economy.
W had to keep repeating the WMD lie. Ya' know, the more you say it, the more people will believe it!...WMD, WMD, WMD......! Believe me yet? Remove Sadam, spread Democrcy, yada, yada.....blah, blah...Be Afraid!
Then, using the troops as props constantly!
Funny Clitons, Gore, Kerry (insert any ranking democrat name here) all screamed Sadam had wmd's for 12 years infact Clinton had Iraq bombed in
Operation Desert Fox . On December 16, 1998 over WMDs
Mr. conservacrat:
If you are going to spout "facts" with bold print, you should at least present the entire fact so that others can see the whole story. As usual, you pull a snippit to fit your arguement and well, if the rest dont fit...omit.
The actual Desert Fox campaign was not to destroy weapons we had "found and know hes has" per Mr. Bush...it was to destroy the actual, factual, look there they are we can see them with real human eyes ,no disputing the existance and LOCATION....wmd MANUFACTURING AND MAINTAINING FACILITIES.
So for the rest that actually want to know why we bombed Iraq in 98...it wasnt because "Saddam went after my daddy and im mad!!!" it was because we wanted to slow his production and proliferation...which was by the way the stated goal of Operation Desert Fox
"Clinton administration officials said the aim of the mission was to "degrade" Iraq's ability to manufacture and use weapons of mass destruction, not to eliminate it. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked about the distinction while the operation was going on:[5]
The main targets of the bombing included weapons research and development installations, air defense systems, weapon and supply depots, and the barracks and command headquarters of Saddam's elite Republican Guard. Also, one of Saddam's lavish presidential palaces came under attack. Iraqi anti-air batteries, unable to hone in on the American and British jets, began to blanket the sky with near random bursts of flak fire. The air strikes continued unabated however, and cruise missile barrages launched by naval vessels added to the bombs dropped by the planes. By the fourth night, most of the specified targets had been damaged or destroyed and the Operation was deemed a success. U.S. Special Forces members who had been on the ground in northern Iraq to protect Kurdish settlements from retaliation withdrew, and the air strikes ended.
Try sharing the rest with us next time...
Prior if you would like I can bust out a time table to bust your fable
Thank you chilled.
I would rather listen to a press conference in which the President told the truth, even if that truth was "it's worse than we thought" because at least that is honest and does not mask a hidden agenda. Sometimes the truth hurts and the President, no matter who he/she is cannot fix things in a certain amount of time.
I guess gone are the days when the public, listening to news of that sort would appreciate the soberness of it and buckle down to do what had to be done (e.g. war rationing) than listen to the crazy talk of Bush after the tragedy of 9/11 telling us to go out and shop.
Then come out three years later and blather WMD, WMD. (Where, Where, Where?) What a liar.
Seriously, do people think this is a movie?
How could it not be "worse than we thought" when you uncover trillions in debts hidden by the Bush Administration, Which by the way Republicans add to Obama's deficit because "He" was in control when they were put on the books
if you truely believe congress did not know what was being spent Bo you fail civics 101.
i keep hearing this WMD lie crap. saddam had chem and bio weapons. proven fact. he even used them on his own people. now if you dont consider those WMD then i guess you may have a point. PUT A HAT ON IT AND GO HOME
Lord! We all acknowledge that at one time in history Saddam had WMD. We sold it to him to use against the Iranians. It doesn't last forever. It has a shelf life. We didn't want him to make any fresh batches or be able to use it on our troops, since we reserve the right to preemptively invade other nations. Bush lied about what he was being told by the CIA.
Personally, I’d like to see less of the President. Being on t.v. on nearly a daily basis diminishes his importance and message, I think. He risks becoming commonplace. One day he may have to come out and say something important and people, assuming he’s just out here saying the same old things, won’t pay attention or tune in.
I’d like him to spend some time in the White House – maybe working on solving some problems, or building consensus.
Plus, he rarely has a broadly positive message. He’s usually blaming the past, demeaning half the country, villainizing some group, or dividing the citizens. Maybe if he stayed out of the spotlight, we all wouldn’t be so mad at each other and the country would be a happier place.
If that's the case then they should shut down Fox (who has so far contributed 2.5 million dollars to Republican campaigns) News as well...
You know the network... the one who has every viable candidate for 2012 on the payroll don't ya?
Please Candice... enlighten us as to what positive message the hate merchants over on Fox bring to ALL of the American people and not just the ones who are so self-absorbed in hate it's unlikely they'll ever recover?
See, Feisty. The President of the United States shouldn't be in the same league as Fox news! He's the leader of the country and should be, in my opinion, a step above the fray.
You have to admit, though, he can't make it through a speech without throwing a zinger at some group. His too frequent televised behavior may be having a influence on you. You can't make it through a post without a zinger of your own. :-)
Are you referring to Palin and Huckabee? Good Lord! If those are the viable 2012 candidates, we're all doomed.
Feisty cult of personality much?
Sorry, but the ones that are creating the hatred are not the ones in the White House. One only has to listen to one minute of those like Sarah Paylin, Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, most every person on Faux News, Big Mouth Bachmann and a long list of others whose every word is designed to create anger. You have to add those that are running for office- Angle, O'Donnell, Miller, et al- to see who is fueling the fires. The president has inherited a mess. He didn't create the financial free fall, he didn't start two wars, he didn't even start trying to save the economy, Bush did. He has good reason to blame a bunch of this mess on those who came before him. Especially when people try to blame him for it. I enjoy listening to President Obama speak- it is so refreshing to have a president that is intelligent and sounds that way. He is communicating with the people in order to have a voice of reason amongst those who are constantly screaming hatred directed primarily at him.
Candice, Bartlett, IL
If he stays in the WH then you righties would complain he should be out on the campaign trail.
You just proved Jody's point. Nothing Pres Obama says or does will satisfy you people on the right.
You righties have used all forms of hatred toward this President.
Sorry Candice that dog won't hunt!
Personally, I'm proud to see my President standing up and calling out the non-stop nonsense & lies that from the right!
Biden was right.. he does have steel in his spine and if he weren't standing up against those whose only agenda is to bring down the scary looking dude in the WH I would be highly disappointed!
I've been a Democrat all my life and one of my biggest pet peeves is that in the past our party has no b@lls when it comes to pushing back against the right wing smear machine.
Sorry if leveling the playing field disturbs you...
PS: Your zinger comment was FUNNY though! ;0)
Feisty,
There's a difference between standing up with a backbone of steel for policies you believe in and becoming more a t.v. personality than a leader. For leveling the playing field --- the press secretary and others on his staff can take much of that responsibility. I would rather the President act.... I don't know....presidential? Again, he should be above the riff raff that is talking head news.
Beverly,
I personally would never complain if the President was actually working on behalf of the whole country instead of campaigning! Not just this President. Any President!
You might actually illustrate my point about the risk of becoming commonplace, Beverly. I've read your posts for awhile. Your views are well known so I tend to gloss over you. One day, someday, you'll write something profound and thoughtful and I'll miss it! That will be too bad for me. See what I mean?
Candice, Bartlett, IL
Beverly,
I personally would never complain if the President was actually working on behalf of the whole country instead of campaigning! Not just this President. Any President!
You might actually illustrate my point about the risk of becoming commonplace, Beverly. I've read your posts for awhile. Your views are well known so I tend to gloss over you. One day, someday, you'll write something profound and thoughtful and I'll miss it! That will be too bad for me. See what I mean?
Honey, What do think correcting GOPTP lies is; if not working for the country.
How do you gloss over what I post and response at the same tie? This is more proof the righties will lie about anything!!!!
Well since NO other President in history has been bombarded 24/7 with NO other agenda by the hate merchants than for him to fail...
I guess I have to stick with my original comment about being PROUD of my President!
Let's face it... if he were to not say anything the talking point de jour would be he's a door mat!
There is a certain element of the population who HATE this President for various reasons and sadly there is NO pleasing them!
As my late grandmother used to say 'he could stand on his head and spit nickles and the haters would b!tch that it wasn't dimes'... lol
Have a Nice Evening Candice - it sure was a beautiful day here in the outskirts of Chi-Town! ;0)
True, to be presidential he needs to find the middle- a balance. There will be some who will never happy. Maybe after the mid terms, he'll find the center.
(It was beautiful - enjoy the rest of it, Feisty).
Let's hope Angle doesn't win in Las Vegas ..already the Asian and Latino and Canadian reservations are being cancelled as i speak ...She is bad for business in Las Vegas
We thrive on tourists and this psychopath insults them ...
WE welcome the Asian and Latino and Canadian visitors with open arms in Las Vegas .
Keep the americans out of vegas viva la Obama
Obama's statements have done well with Vegas, especially the way he backed tourism to Vegas---one of his press conferences I gather.
Well, she does have a shot if Republicans succeed in their despicable effort to suppress voting by running ads encouraging Latinos to NOT vote. Of all the Conservative schemes to steal elections this is one of the worst. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130715322
David Conservacrat- You keep saying that the president sounds "like an idiot" when he answers questions. I have watched all the press conferences and interviews the president has given and I have never thought he sounded the way you do. He sometimes gives lengthy answers due to the complexity of the subject, but he never sounds like an idiot. Perhaps it is the way you go into listening? You obviously don't like the president, so you obviously can't listen with an open mind. You only want to find fault so you will never be happy with what is said or done. I far prefer a president who sounds like he has an education over one who can't say more than a sentence or two without mispronouncing or just making up new words. I have no desire to ever have an uneducated person sitting in the highest office in the land. You can disagree with his policies but you cannot honestly say that he ever sounds "like an idiot". We have seen idiot- not only in office but in those running for president and vice president. 
Really, Montana? Because, in my experience, the man talks for twenty minutes, and NEVER answers the damn question.
We must be listening to two different presidents. I am listening to Obama. You must be watching reruns of Clinton's press conferences.
True, Clinton occasionally lied. I'll give you that. It was about something so monumentally unimportant that he never should have been asked the question, but at least he answered it, if untruthfully.
Obama? He couldn't give you a straight answer if the question was chocolate or vanilla. He start on what he inherited, how complicAted the process was, how people needed to understand the process, a segue into the struggles he faced, how the republicans said "no" to everything he proposed, and then, would call on the next reporter.
Obama talks, yes. But he does not answer.
Then you aren't able to listen with an open mind. Yours must be closed because of your politics. But then- a bunch of people voted for Bush for a 2nd term even though he proved he was not the man for the job during the first term. Are you one of them?
Ah yes Obama is the greatest speaker ever.....just like Jimmy Carter was the greatest president of the last 50 years LMAO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOQA8S3i4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjDveIZ5-g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG56B2et4M8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-AKcH3eC8
Montana, I listen.
I do not worship.
Ther is a difference.
The man blathers on, and never once answers a question.
He did it during the debates.
He got away with it.
He does it during press conferences.
He gets away with it, in the media, but no longer with the electorate.
You are the one not listening. You are worshipping.
There is a difference.
If you are not understanding the "big" words it does not mean he is babbling;)
Obama's words are not to big at all but clearly you must think there are 57 states, breathalyzers are used by kids with breathing disorders and that lying about the health care bill is ok.
Dave" That's some weak a$$ stuff you're citing. Grow up, be a man, and find something real to b!tch about, 'cause right now you ain't nothin but a b!tch.
Only thing weak around here is claiming the democrats are smart and then blame Bush 4 years after the fact while spending 1.5 trillion a year than we have!
conservab!tch: Bush left office in 2009. The economic timebomb his party created, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, could have been defused during his eight year term. Instead he ran up the debt off budget, and let the bomb go off.
It will take the assumption of debt to make the repairs necessary to go forward. "Starving the beast" was the agenda for which the election of 2000 was stolen. Blaming it on spending for "entitlements" was always going to be the scapegoat argument.
David Con:
Even ultra conservatives know that the 1.5 trillion deficit in 2009 belonged to Bush...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11094
Pretty impressive really that Obama knocked 200 billion off the 2010 deficit even though he has still has to pay for the unfunded wars, Medicaid Part D, and tax cuts.
http://wsbradio.com/blogs/jamie_dupree/2010/10/fy-2010-deficit.html
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=1457
So, no worries, Bush still holds the record.
obama is the master of the moto " If you can't dazzel them with your brilliance, baffel them with your bullsh--!"
ted seems to have been baffled by the spelling of english words and FAUX NEWS.
"BAFFEL"..............really?
"dazzel"......................really?
Look, it the spelling police!
Paul, you really are hung up on that aren't you?
it's.......the spelling police. I could see your problem if you were fluent in five other languages and English is your sixth rather than your first and only.
If you can't speak and write your own language with a high degree of accuracy, it is unlikely that you have the mental equipment necessary to bring anything enlightening to a political discussion. Much like not knowing the difference between evidence and proof.
That was for your benefit! (and you fell for it)
I knew you couldn't resist the chance to be holyer-than-thou. Keep it up, it makes the rest of us look so much more mature.
Just being consistent. And it wasn't for my benefit, dunce. It would appear that you are no longer "acting" stupid, you have just proven yourself to be.
Did you research Emad Salem? Or are you afraid to know?
I use to think you were in your twenties, now I know for sure; you're twelve.
Again with the name calling...reference post #6.15
Yes, I am only twelve, and three times smarter than you. And as a two year old, even then I could see that 9/11 was clearly an inside job.
Can you prove that? I don't think there has ever been a subpeona empowered investigation to prove your assertion. No matter what you BELIEVE you can't prove it!
I can only prove it if we have the investigation. So you're on board for that now, correct?
So, you're a good speller, you just can't do math? huh...
I don't think you read my final post in our last conversation, but that doesn't surprise me. You just wait to type.
October 12, 1998 DoB. My math is fine, b!tch.
holyer...........really? #6.15
I grow weary of your childishness.
I'm sure that last one taxed your brain, so keep fighting the "good" fight and be sure to check everyone's spelling. I know how inportant that is to you.
Calling someone childish is no less name calling than dense or stupid. I am sure life is indeed tiring when you have to work so hard to keep up.
"inportant"...............really?
What last comment of yours in what thread did I apparently miss? Emad Salem?
Wow, you fell for it again! I'm starting to think less of you than I already did.
I said you were acting childish. I remember someone saying that saying someone was "acting" a certain way wasn't the same as actually calling them a name...Oh yea, that was you...remember? To which I said symantics and you, of course, didn't acknowledge that. Look it up, it's a good word.
I'm not falling for anything. But you, dimwit, have misspelled "symantics" about four times now. I let a lot of your stupidity go by, I'm not here to correct all your errors. Look it up...indeed.
Sticks and stones!
Pathetic. And truly UN-American.
Awww...Paul, it's ok, I'm sure you'll find someone else to criticize, call names, bully, etc.
When you have something of substance to add to any conversation, let me know. If all you are is spellcheck, I doubt anyone cares.
Semantics indeed.
Still no response to Emad Salem and the '93 bombing.
no joe, no bo, nj
Obama? He couldn't give you a straight answer if the question was chocolate or vanilla.
Shouldn't you be knocking on door pleading your case? Or could it be there aren't any houses or doors to knock on. Thanks to Bush there are many foreclosures so you're forced to stay home and bytch on FR?
Bev tell us why Chicago and Detroit are slum towns please? They have been ran by democrats how long? Why is it that gas is 45 cents cheaper just across the state line? Why are your taxes so high and get so little in return? All of this is LOCAL government as well.
Now Beverly,
You dont "really think" the forclosure mess is a product of the previous administration now do you. Are you interested in some non-partisan facts that will expose where the real accontability resides? You will not like the true facts, but I will be happy to provide the education if you have the time to read a 20 page report and learn the truth.
Independent - Beverly doesn't like the truth. She just makes stuff up on her own. No Joe reminded me of this the other night.
No Joe - I never acknowledged your insight and your comment. Thanks for both. I truly enjoy your posts.
Too little or too much
Many of these same people would be cryin' if they felt Obama was having too many press conferences so I would take this with a grain of salt. They will never be satisfied until the white house becomes white again.
Did they count backyard meetings as press conferences? Where did "216 interviews and 820 addresses and remarks." possibly come from? Unless they started counting from the beginning of the campaign, maybe? Those 2 categories alone would take 34 months at one per day.
Great line about this in the LA Times today which pertains to this.
Life always looks better in the rearview mirror, and politics is no exception as former President Bill Clinton repeatedly demonstrates.
Point made. He looks better now when compared to Barack but he had major flaws when in office.
It all boils down to the fact that the Righties don't want a black man in the White House. Period. So no matter what he does or how smart he is they will find everything wrong with what he does. Would they feel better with goober head Michael Steele in that position? Probably not!
Oh darn, you found us out. Guess we will have to orchestrate a woman being elected president and say anything negative about her so you can make even more bigoted and inflammatory statements.
There are many who will believe everything Fox News and the party they represent say no questions asked, so why waste time checking facts?
I'm glad to see smart and thoughtful posters on this site.
One of the headlines says the GOP is worried. They should be. We're worried they could take over -- "take back" whatever the h*ll that means other than they are just whipped into a frenzy about "losing". This is a two party system that the Repubteaparters want to follow their leaders and keep it to one. Great. That would be real helpful. Increase the 2% at the expense of the rest of us. Deregulate everything until there is nothing left.
Oh, wait, they already did that.
All we're trying to do is rely on our 1st Amendment solutions and I guess that scares them.
But then again, it's never about the argument at hand be it the economy, or taxes, or press conferences, or the lack of press conferences.
It's about their never-ending Culture Wars (a phrase coined by Jerry Falwell...eewww). Their Culture Wars extend to everything that Freedom has granted them. The irony is that liberals are the ones who have protected their right to rant since day one.
This Administration and lap dog media have lost all touch with reality and truth
THEY NEED TO omit "conferences" with hand picked audiences and pre approved questions
Madison. I think you have your Parties mixed up. And your priorities.
Run, Angle, Run. See O'Donnell Run. Rand rant. Rant Rand Rant. Prevaricate!! Prevaricate!
I have never seen such a bunch of babies/bullies in politics in my life.
It's always best to ignore Madison at least until the med cart has finishing making it's rounds.... lol
lol lol feisty :)
"righteous indignation" is their speciality.
Obama has borrowed 3 trillion dollars in under 2 years and over 800 Billion was on a failed stimulus
David is such a b!tch, he wouldn't know a fact if it kicked him in his snatch.
Spoken like a true Liberal. When yoiu have no aurguments, insult! Well done!
you kidding? i think all David knows is ad hominem. Find the strawman-bama, David. In Fox we trust!
i realize im a bit late, but some bloody good trolls here. at least i hope they're trolls and not really that ignorant.
Dont you have to use fact to fact check? a real press conference is not him standing in front of people and introducing his newest czar or appointment...
How many real press conferences have there beem...you know the kind where he lets the press ask him questions?
Stimulus: otherwise known as the American Recovery and Investment Act which was about $787 billion dollars created anywhere from 1.4 to 3.3 million jobs (that otherwise would not have existed.) This is the consistent estimate by nonpartisan economists.
The exact effect of such complex economic factors is difficult to measure, and unemployment has fluctuated a couple of points, but is steadily going down. I pass by ARIA projects on my way to work every day. The fact that I still have work in Las Vegas is testimony to the efforts of the Democrats trying to stabilize our country and stop the hemorrhage that the Republicans slashed into our economy.
When TP'ers can begin to back their ravings with numbers, figures--maybe they will capture our attention. When they come up with ideas instead of screaming "lame street media" and other nonsense, maybe we'll be able to build dialog again. Until then all we can do is call them out when their own Congress members take the big fat checks and their request letters for said "bailout" while shouting No No No from the floor of Congress.
LOL they added anouther 20 to 50 billion on top of the 787 billion and the VAST majority of those jobs has come and gone so how ever you want to put it it was epic fail
Conway is Just another Labor Party Socialist PUPPET for Obama!! I hope their administration keeps playing the race card.. as its a losing battle.. The Entitlement socialist still believe you can keep taxing the the productive and makers in this society.. while giving too the takers.. those who add NOTHING.. and who will continue too drain the system and stay dependent, as the govt wants them too be.. Open your eyes.. This is the agenda of the left wing socialist democrats.. that being obama, pelosi, and all their kind.. What is true Social Justice?? I say give everyone a great education 1-12.. after that your on your own too pursue your dream.. or lack their of.. By encouraging dependence as is the democrats credo.. cradle too grave entitlements.. that is the poison pill that will be the end of the REPUBLIC !! ITS CALLED PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.. 60% of America PAYS NO INCOME TAX.. BUT the same 60% MILK THE SYSTEM FOR EVERYTHING THEY CAN.. Its time the pathetic and worthless majority democrats.. learn that the blueprint of america was never one where you can work and milk the system.. Who ever heard of 99 weeks of unemployment.. that is a socialist tactic too make you complacent or lazy and dependent.. Who ever heard of a tax rebate when you pay not one dollar in income tax.. who ever heard of free housing and food stamps??? Everyone needs help from time too time.. but this obama society has turned into a whats in it for me.. you owe me.. and an entitlement philosophy from the takers.. Unless you can add or be a positive influence and pay your way.. you deserve NOTHING.. Disband the Public unions.. as we refuse too pay for their excess.. I am not a wall street guy, so I dont know what excess is.. I have seen wall streets excess.. but I have also seen the PATHETIC EXCESS OF UNIONS.. AND THOSE WHO MILK THE ENTITLEMENT SYSTEM.. NO MORE.. WE DEMAND SMALLER GOV'T.. WE DEMAND THAT ENTITLEMENTS END NOW.. WE DEMAND UNIONS STOP HOLDING THE TAX PAYER HOSTAGE WITH YOUR EXCESSIVE AND OBSCENE CONTRACTS AND PENSIONS.. THIS MID TERMS WILL BE A WAKE UP CALL TOO ALL THOSE TAKERS!! WE SAY NO YOU CANT.. CARRY YOUR OWN WATER, SOCIALIST SWINE ~!~
Facts- what a wonderful idea!
Several of the above posters apparently only believe what they see on "Fair and Balanced" Fox News! Apparently all other news outlets are dubious.
Dubya and Uncle Dick never let facts get in the way - just like the people who think the deficit is "evil" - we didn't think so when GHB strted two unfunded wars on dubious information and expanded Medicare coverage without funds!
And then there's Newt! I wouldn't believe him if he said day was light and night is dark!
The wiki leaks doc dump is showing Weapons of Mass Destruction? You mean that Hussein had poison gas? Capable of killing thousands of people? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack
Barry Soetoro is an idiot without a teleprompter. America has soundly rejected the narrative and has seen the naked emperor. Libs, you blew your shot. It's over. Better luck next time.
"Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and most of the others who ran in 2008 were far more vetted and questioned than Sharron Angle, Joe Miller, Christine O'Donnell, or Sarah Palin, for that matter, whom the press had just two-plus months to question before the general election." REALLY! Why is it that we never heard why Barack Obama is not licensed to practice law in Illionios, or more about the extensive drug use during his college days that He mentioned in his book, or his association with William Ayers(who dedicated a book to the killer of Bobby Kennedy)the domestic terrorist from the 60's, let alone the radical cleric Rev. Wright. When do we see the college transcripts from the brightest guy in the room? Sarah Palin was vetted, gee we knew 24 hours after she was named as a running mate that her husband had been arrested fro DUI 21 years earlier! If the media had done their job Obama would never had made it past the primary and we wouldn't be stuck with an empty suit in the White House, someone who makes Jimmy Carter look good. When the media gets off their butts and does their jobs, rather then be cheer leaders, we might actually get out of the mess we now are faced with! Quit making excuses.
Just looking back a bit. The Dems are not so pleased that they got pinned with
the WMD under Idiot George. That rankles them a lot. Now, the 5th Horseman
of the American Collapse has come along and charmed them all but they got hit
with the unemployment problem and that makes them sleepless at nights. They
are now running from him and his SHOVEL. Remember that shovel that promised
us millions of jobs? That's the one he's waving on his ride across America.
If you suffer from insomnia, listen to Obama is so boring and repetitive, the same blah!, blah!,
I 'd like to know what Oblaba did with that shovel. Did he hide it? Or did he
commit a crime with it? I wonder. Perhaps the police should investigate.
Perhaps he buried a body somewhere in or around Illiinois. What'd I tell you
Rahm has disappeared. Perhaps Oblaba used his shovel to bury him somewhere
to keep him from revealing where the other bodies are buried. Strange I don't
hear much more about the shovel or Emanuael for that matter. Something's fishy
here. Why didn't Oblaba didn't use a spade or a fork or trowel or something like
that? i think I know why. A Shovel picks up more dirt than a spade or fork and
that is what Oblaba has given the American people a lot of dutty.,