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NBC's Shawna Thomas
Cookies from Bethel Bakery in Pennsylvania, provided by the Obama campaign.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Oh, it’s campaign season all right, and nothing is safe from the back-and-forth of the presidential election, not even the cookies at a presidential event.
While on the bus, en route to Carnegie Mellon University here for the president’s final event of his two-day bus tour, the traveling White House press received an email stating, “Waiting for you in the file in Pittsburgh. Cookies from Bethel Bakery of Bethel Park, PA.”
And just like that, Cookiegate was resurrected.
Back in April, before the Pennsylvania primary, when Romney held an event in Bethel Park, PA, he sat down at a picnic table with a tray of the aforementioned cookies in front of him and without taking a bite said, “I’m not sure about these cookies…They don’t look like you made them. Did you make those cookies? You didn’t, did you? No, no. They came from the local 7-Eleven, bakery, or whatever.”
He was making small talk, but local fans of the bakery took to the Internet to express their annoyance. The owner of the bakery went on MSNBC and said he was “shocked and dumbfounded” by the candidate’s comments. (But not so shocked and dumbfounded that he didn’t use the incident to run a special and sell more cookies.)
Almost instantly, the awkward situation was turned into a Democratic talking point about Romney being out-of-touch and a web video featuring Cookie Monster.
And, as promised, waiting for the press in the room where they write their stories and charge their phones was a variety platter of Bethel Bakery cookies bought by the Obama campaign (pictured above at right).
A short, buttery distraction from the far more serious topic of the day: the country’s stagnant employment numbers.
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President Obama know how to lighten the moment and how to appreciate the locals. His openness and warmth means a lot to the thousands who come out to hear him. They know he actually cares about the country - not just about "winning." (shades of Charlie Sheen in Mitt Romney) During his next term we need to make sure we give him a Congress that will work with and not against him.
Obama/Biden 2012
Insanity......................It's about the economy stupid. psmnbc, Odumbo and you need to forget about the idiot cookies and worry about the ignorant administration this POS of a president put together and their moron policies. He knows how to lighten the moment? What a dumba$$.
Cookie-Gate...
Doughnut-Gate...
Wait until Willard gets to Israel - without a doubt we'll have Bagel-Gate on our hands! lol
Deadhead.......................................Libtardspeak=Horseshi!t.
If you voted last time to show you weren't a racist, vote this time to show you're not an idiot.
A taxpayer voting for Odumbo is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
Get a job Libtards/turds.
You know what they say, Jerry.... if you can't talk like a grown up, you're going to have to sit at the kiddies' table and let the REAL adults do the talking. If you're not mature enough to maintain any manner of political discourse without resorting to petty name-calling, then maybe you shouldn't even try to keep up with the discussion at all.
Now Kerry, stop playing with the computer and go back to coloring in your book.
You Can't Fix Stupid. Just ask your mom & dad.
Yeah, those
twothree posts of Jerry's earned him a comfy spot on myignoremobile.Maybe if Obama and his team spent half as much time worrying about the economy as they do nonsense like this, we might not be in the sad economic state we are in.
Ignorantmobile too loaded with the other Libtards that got that way from having an ignoremobile?
Jerry's a test tube baby. He doesn't have a mom and dad. That's why he's so upset.
@ JS in SD...sad state? We've had almost 30 straight months of private sector job growth, war in Iraq is over, health care is on its way to being reformed, no more torture, corporate profits are at record highs, taxes are at record lows, stocks are surging, we are producing more oil than ever, gas prices are falling, no terrorist attacks in US soil, supply route in Afghanistan just reopened, record number of deportations on the border, Iraq WAR is over, Bin Laden is dead.....but yeah the black man is in the White House, so you and Jerry think is a "sad state".
I hate racists. Especially the ignorant ones.
The Obama camp is desperate. They want anything to distract from that jobs report this morning.
@Jerry40yeardemocrat Obviously you have no respect for anything in your decrepit little world, including yourself. So sad.
Run along Jerry - we wouldn't want you to be late to your Klan meeting!
Cookie-Gate...
Doughnut-Gate...
Wait until Willard gets to Israel - without a doubt we'll have Bagel-Gate on our hands! lol
I vote this Best comment of the Day!
@ rob scan...you mean the jobs report that indicates for the 26+ consecutive month, despite GOP obstruction, jobs were created? I don't think they want to hide that.
Romney is baked goods challenged (among many other things), which reminded of this line from American Pie: "I never did it with baked goods, but you know your uncle Mort, he pets the one-eyed snake 5-6 times a day." Or maybe it's all the fap from the lolz crowd?
JS in SD
Maybe if
ObamaBoehner/McConnell and his team spent half as much time worrying about the economy as they do nonsense like this, we might not be in the sad economic state we are in.Rob Scan
The
ObamaRomney camp is desperate. They want anything to distract from that lie about repealing "Obamneycare" on Day 1.jerry..... if you voted McCain last time because you were racist you'll vote Romney this time because you're racist AND stupid!
Obama/Biden 2012
prejean you are an idiot far left and blind.. 375,000 new unemployment applicants a week in June and 80,000 jobs created and you say jobs were created in June????? 27 million American's unemployed, more than any president since Jimmy Carter, 47% of Americans on food stamps and welfare. 68% higher than when Pres. Bush left office. Hussain giving 800,000 ILLEGALS work permits on top of the millions already unemployed. And you liberal's spin those figures into something POSITIVE??? Get your head out of your AZZZZZES...
Gordanfan24 - when you stop your lies and want to actually post facts - come back. Until then, run along, the GOP morons are waiting for you!
Boy Insanity, your such a wit. Really know how to turn a phrase? I'd rather be Odumbo than LAME.
Jerry40yeardemocrat - but dear you are LAME!
Hey, cookies or doughnuts are possibly a great way for Obama to deflect attention from the fact that he has absolutely no record of accomplishment to run on......people hate his healthcare disaster and the economy is near dead. Gee, but if you libs are able to get him reelected, you can continue to sit at your computers all day writing inane, hateful comments about hios critics....since your hopeless unemployment will continue.
Instead of seeking sanity, why don't you try seeking some f**king manners, because nobody is paying any serious attention to your crude, insulting crap.
spider - try as hard as you can, President Obama IS slowly helping turn this economy back to a positive - unlike Bush who turned an economic upturn upside down. Now you can continue with your divisive lies - as the far right is prone to do - or you can become and adult and admit that the GOP is the problem.
My guess is you'll go with the lies. It's your comfort zone.
Oh and darlin, I've been seeking sanity in the GOP but people like you prove daily none exists.
Have you read YOUR posts lately? Talk about crude and insulting....
And sweetie, I'm employed!
Obama/Biden 2012
Wow, if Romney gets elected, won't it be a tough time for the White House staff?
"You didn't bake these did you"?
"I'm bettin's you 10 grand that you can't get those steps dusted off before the party"
"Could you park Caddy#1 on the first elevator?"
"What were Reagan's favorite movies?"
"If we just knock out the two walls between these three rooms, we could squeeze the whole Choir in here to sing God Bless America. I'm not sure we can get the organ in from the Tabernacle, though."
Cookie jar , I a can say, this government is taking money from the big cookie jar to favor their friends like David Axelrod Obama's campaign manager , who make millions in contract with the White House in the time he was working with the elected president. In order to do that he transfer hist stocks to his son , the same company that lobby for the big Pharma who demand for changes in the Health Care Law that favor their industry. We can't allowed the corruption continue.
NOBAMA 2012
LOL. 80,000 jobs is a joke, you libs lower the bar to the level of incompetence.
oskar - Not a word of truth in your post. Why do you right wingers post lies and think no one will call you on them? Are you truly that ignorant? Oh wait, you are... never mind!
Oh, I guess you had a serious problem with Cheney awarding contracts to Haliburton who still had him on payroll at the time, right?
Obama/Biden 2012
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We all owe Jerry our gratitude for so graphically showing us the hazards of posting while under the influence of crack. Now Jerry has to run along and catch the short bus.
You just gotta love how the liberals drool over everything Obama does...
JK, it draws the baggers here like flies to feces.
Willardo the Weirdo doesn't trust People's Cookie-Dough.
Doh!
Pathetic!
Seeking
thank God I'm not a kool-aid drinker libertard.
From Los Angeles Times, never published in media bias
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-healthcare-pharma4-2009aug04,0,4078424,full.story
oskar (and all the rest of the RWNJs) Can you EVER post something without an insult? E V E R?
I don't know you, have never chatted with you but because I'm a liberal, I'm a LIBERTARD????
Democrat cookies. Made from fresh bull$hit, stale ideas, and somebody else's dough.
Layton
I suggest to take sometime and read some of the comment from your rabid liberal friends, before you judge my comments. The level of respect in this vine is set by the adorable redhead, don't get mad, enjoy the show.
Layton - it's all they have. They are promoting an empty suit in Romney. The first word out of their mouths is libtards - they don't know any better. Next is kool aid; followed quickly by communist, socialist, Kenyan, marxist, etc. Their level of incompetence is staggering and they actually believe they make points by the words they use. It's the level you have to be at to be a Republican and buy into the idiotcy of the far right.
Their other favorite accusation is that we're all unemployed and living off the government. Most of us have full-time jobs and work hard so we can play hard. They don't have the capacity to understand that fact.
It is very nice to have you on board. Just ignore the righties - they have little to offer but will do it at the top of their voices.
Obama/Biden 2012
Al,
You must be the Obama fan club president!
Layton,
We only are following the prime example set by one of the most prolific posters on here...and they are a liberal. Name calling seems to be in their blood...so perhaps turnabout is fair play?
How could Mitt become GOP nominee with no chance of winning in November?
Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles ... in the bizarro world of GOP
Pig,
No chance?? Perhaps you have been living under a rock... Romney has an excellent chance of winning the White House. It was the Democrats' arrogance that led them to an embarrassing defeat in 2010, and I'm sure that same arrogance will reel it's ugly head between now and November.
Thanks, SS :-)
I would certainly hope that on an annoymous post you could actually be yourself. I fully intend to be myself and I rather enjoy Feisty's comments. The fact that they get so under your skin is something you should look into. Not me. I enjoy all of the comments when they actually provide information. But to denegrate me by calling me names without ever having the pleasure of a discussion, you're kicking off from the goal line rather than at the 20.
Willard the Weird doesn't like people, doesn't like people's cookies, and people don't like him either, and voters will lick him in November.
Layton,
I see you suffer from the same condition that Feisty suffers from...you can't even see that you insult people. In your previous post, you reference RWNJs.... And I'm supposed to not take offense? It seems overwhelming that if you are from the left, you can insult, but god forbid if you are from the right and insult, then YOU get upset. Perhaps you need to look at yourself.
seeking learn how to write, it should read: President Obama knows how to.......
Bad grammar, where you born hear? I can play the same game.
You girl, are smiting with love. Romney 2012. correct the error made in 2008.
Concern Citizen
In case you missed my reply to your comment on a previous thread.
The msm is an abbreviation for the term, the mainstream media. MSN stands for Microsoft Network, which is Microsoft's web portal. MSNBC is Microsoft National Broadcasting Company, the cable and internet version of NBC.
When I said the msm is biased in favor of the right-wing, I was referring to all the usual broadcast TV channels, and their websites. That is generally what is referred to as the msm.
Get it now?
Amy - you replay is FAR above Concern's comprehension level. But a good reply nonetheless.
And Concern, it's here not hear! Please girl - try to keep up!
And SS it not replay but reply. See how fun this game is. OMG how frigging childish.
I cannot help myself ....
Should read, bad grammar, were you born here. And what on earth does this mean???
Layton - Concern posts a lot of drivel. You remember her tirade yesterday where she lambasted Obama for everything from his mother dying young to his father leaving them. Some of these people have issues.
As I often say, seeking sanity in the GOP but as you will see here, none to be found!~
ksw62118 jumps on anything and everything I post. It's his goal in life. Apparently he doesn't have much of one.
Again, good to have you on board!
@SS Nope just don't like rudeness. My neighbor's 4 year old has better manners and communication skills without calling people stupid, idiotic and some of your other gems of brilliant speech. At least when he forgets and calls people stupid he gets put in time out.
Citizen,
All you'll have in November of 2012 is cookies to eat and I hope they are from 7-11 for you. Obama/Biden will win in a landslide.
William.................You would be so hilarious if you weren't so pathetic.
Oh yeah, and you better get a job by November Libtard.
William - Concern is a pathetic hater of everything Obama. You should have read her TRULY insane and vapid post yesterday. She is missing more than a few screws. We try to ignore her babbling. She's incoherent most of the time.
Jerry40yeardemocrat - you were NEVER a democrat in your entire life.
It is good to see the President lighten the mood a little - after two weeks of non-stop idiotcy from the GOP. And, the people love it. Of course, that makes him human and the GOP just can't have any of that - especially since their mechanical man Romney is such a nothing.
Concern - actually the error was made about 9 months before you were born. Just sayin...
Obama/Biden 2012
Don't mind Jerry. He's just a typical racist, test tube baby.
YAWN....................................Libtardspeak.
YAWN....................................Libtardspeak is so predictable..
Jerry - in other words - you've got nothin! Doesn't surprise any of us!
Obama/Biden 2012
Insane................... when we want your opinion, we will tell you what it is. Then maybe someone will give a sh!t about it.
Jerry.... temper, temper. Little boy is beside himself I see!
That's not temper, it's pity. But Libtards have problems with concepts such as these. Or any others.
Jerry .... You're truly running out of insults aren't you? I guess we reached the depths of your creativity ... poor little Jerry!
Better watch out Sanity or Jerry will hit you with the dreaded yawn..................libtardspeak insult. I hear that one is next to impossible to recover from.
Al - I think I'm up for it. Jerry's not nearly as tough as he thinks!
For those of you who have'nt figured it out yet, Jerry(Hillary Voter in 2008)is The One & Only from NY, of Multiple personalities(different handles on the Vine).
Now Jerry, run along back into the Bunker & comeout again in 2016, when the American Economy is Healed & Hillary, Just Might(and i say that gingerly) Run for POTUS .
You Betcha!
Occupy SoggyBottom!
The average age of the posters on this thread seems to be somewhee between 8 - 13, both sides.
Beam me up, Scotty. No intelligent life here!
Sigh...Don't you people have anything better to report about? Who gives a @!$%# about anybody in the world ordering cookies. Why don't you start halfway living up to the potential that the power of the press, which president Kennedy emphasized, and start bringing some truth to light by grilling these elite, lying, disgusting, demon-filled people who are ruining our world? Useless pussy-ass press puppets...@!$%#ing worthless.
Nice to pour a little salt in Romney's wounds.
Hey a**hole! Just shut up and eat the cookies a local bakery is giving you!
What an ungracious idiot.
Give Romney a break, between his 4 years at Harvard and his time in France dodging the Vietnam war, his taste in baked goods is more for croissants and croquembouche.
I don't want a king eho knows what a doughnut is.
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" would be Romney's quote as the revolution begins if by some miracle (or Supreme Court decision,) he inhabits the White House.
Hilarious. It's true - all that time dodging the war in France gave him uppity standards for baked goods.
Open your eyes please and use the power of the press granted to you to do reveal truth of something useful.
Mittsi - what a dope. Doesn't he know his magic pull-ups will protect him from evil cookies?
Bonjour Michel, glad you liked my post. I dig your photo.
I've stopped making fun of the magic underwear because I was feeling a little hypocritical as my Jewish brethren wear tzit-tzit as a reminder of the 613 commandments.
I'm glad the Repubelickin Party is accepting of the Mormon religion as it shows their tolerance for all religions including Islam. Who'd of thunk it?
The first palatable economic stimulus plan from the President. Congratulations on this achievement.
I see the librals are looking for a place to run to to post. MSNBC threw them a bone. Obviously the economy, jobs, border security, world affairs, etc... are taboo subjects at liberal events.
proudamericanveteran - oh you must not know how to make your way through the different sites. We were posting at most of them. Have someone teach you how to work the computer.
You have a profound understanding of the libtard/turd mentality. Have you studied them long? Beware of kool-aid stains. There are a couple of extreme subjects posting, one in reply to you. Beware, she thinks she is a crafty one, but alas, dumb as a rock.
Jerry - only people I know who talk about kool aid is the ignorant right wingers - like you! And, you seem to talk about nothing else. Must be part of your indoctrination!
Poor Insanity. When God called brains, she thought he said rain, and ran for cover.
Now You Just Can't Fix Stupid. Just ask her parents.
Jerry40yeardemocrat - oh you really didn't want to go there. When God said brains you thought he said trains and asked for a very slow one.... as evidenced by your pathetic posts.
My guess is you were found under a cabbage leaf?
Jerry those were jokes we were telling in middle school back in the late 1950's.
You been living under a rock for 40 years? Sounds like it.
Disgracefulamericanveteran, all those subjects you mentioned- the Democrats and Obama administration have actually worked to improve while all the Grand Obstructionist Teabagger Party does is repeat talking points with ZERO specific plans of action.
It's America, u have the right to express your dumb ideas.
Romney and his crummy cookie criticism and inability to identify a doughnut set him apart from American citizens. He is full of crepes and insults flambe.
...Because nobody cares about who ate whose cookies. President Kennedy on the duties of the press:
Mitt is a douche, this is the man that will be talking to world officials..and he has difficulty w/ his mouth in front of us..the common folk. We don not have electable officials.
h t t p: / / w w w . youtube.com/watch?v=VY1y_4iZXis
So are cookies now approved for consumption by the official arbiters of life and health? I was worried that there was a provision on the Affordable?? Health Care Act that imposed a penalty (or something) on them or a mandate that States reduce the per person consumption to reduce the growing Cookie Crisis.
I've seen several great stories by you people, so stick to those.
Three words.... Bye Bye OBummer!
Wow, slow news day... how petty.
And no, I don't support Romney.
Thank you President Obama and your Administration for saving the U S A & World Economy from the ignorant destruction of the GOP, Repuglicans from 2000 - 2008! Those GOP, Repuglicans took the ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY OVER THE CLIFF and down to their worshipped hero Satan and his Klan.
Under the professional LEADERSHIP of your Administration, and WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM THE GOP, REPUGLICANS, our economy has gone from a downward spiral to an upward climb, a very difficult climb, to restore our economy and put our fellow citizens on a path to recovery.
If the GOP, Repuglicans would have excercised their FIDUCIARY DUTY and assisted with economic recovery we would be further along in our economic recovery, BUT THE GOP, REPUGLICANS JUST SAID NO! The GOP, REPUGLICANS much prefer to cause more economic hardship for the citizens of the U S A & WORLD!
Fellow AMERICANS, in 2012, to restore the vitality of this country, to restore justice and fairness for ALL AMERICANS WE MUST, Reelect President Obama, elect Senators that will provide the President a super majority in the Senate and elect Representatives in the House of Representatives that REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS.
We can not allow the GOP, Repuglicans to purchase the election and establish an AUTOCRACY, which is akin to a DICTATORSHIP!
Reversible Mittens is just a walking gaffe with a board shoved up its arse - he is socially inept when he is not hanging out with his 1% buddies
AND BY THE WAY, as of January 2013 our National Debt will be 17 TRILLION DOLLARS
REAGAN, H W BUSH & G W BUSH accumulated 14 TRILLION DOLLARS OF THE NATIONAL DEBT!
CLINTON & OBAMA accumulated 3 TRILLION DOLLARS OF THE NATIONAL DEBT!
So FAR & AWAY the GOP, Repuglicans have been the ECONOMIC VILLIANS!
DEMOCRATS for DEMOCRACY in 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FALSE
Hey "concerned"....you need to do a fact check.
OBAMA AND TEAM - You can throw all your colored smoke bomb you want. America is still going to focus on the economy that you have made it WORST (6 TRILLION DEBT). You won't get my ASIAN family, relatives and friends VOTE. Hope you stop dividing MY COUNTRY that is a CAN DO ANYTHING COUNTRY.
If you think all those millionaires and billionaires are donating hundreds of millions of dollars to convince you to vote for a republican are thinking about the American people you are dumber than you sound.
You know as well as I do that it is the republicans with their main goal defeating President Obama and if America failed also well that is a bonus for the republicans as they will blame it on our President.
The republicans cheer at a bad jobs report as the jobs, jobs, jobs they promised when they were elected in 2010 have yet to appear. But if we vote for them again they promise this time tax cuts will create jobs. What a con and all paid for the rich to get permanent tax cuts.
Are the tax cuts for the 1% more important than jobs and the American economy?
They are if you vote for a republican.
I posted following comment on other reports by MSNBC business and CNBC - sure doesn't apply to idiot MSNBC - must be those good feelings running down their legs ALA Chrissy-boy Matthews:
Maybe Lefty CNBC & MSNBC - business division - and MSN is changing after reading all the comments posted - likely 80% against Stinky B.O. the last month or so on their articles. Even MSN on-line polls show the truth. Same comment for yahoo website.
Contrast in famous quotes:
Famous Founder:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. " --Thomas Jefferson
Famous Community Organizer:
"I kept playing basketball, attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily, and tried drugs enthusiastically." ~ Barack Hussein Obama (Dreams From My Father)
Franko - yes, President Obama has a past but has grown up and accomplished a great deal. College at Columbia and Harvard; Constitutional Law Professor at UofC; attorney; state senator and Senator for Illinois; then President.
He outgrew his youthful indiscretions - too bad you've failed to grow up or accomplish anything!
Obama/Biden 2012
I don't see where the prez has grown up in any way. He is so arrogant! I'm HOPING FOR A CHANGE. Let's give him a permanant vacation.