We all remember the beating Bush took for being a not so great orator. He made fun of himself on this fact more then once. But Obama is lauded for being such a great speaker….with a teleprompter of course. Remember this event?
Or this one:
And now this one in Europe, reported by The Guardian’s John Crace….with some hilarious commentary:
Nick Robinson: “A question for you both, if I may. The prime minister has repeatedly blamed the United States of America for causing this crisis. France and Germany both blame Britain and America for causing this crisis. Who is right? And isn’t the debate about that at the heart of the debate about what to do now?” Brown immediately swivels to leave Obama in pole position. There is a four-second delay before Obama starts speaking [THANKS FOR NOTHING, GORDY BABY. REMIND ME TO HANG YOU OUT TO DRY ONE DAY.]
Barack Obama: “I, I, would say that, er … pause [I HAVEN'T A CLUE] … if you look at … pause [WHO IS THIS NICK ROBINSON JERK?] … the, the sources of this crisis … pause [JUST KEEP GOING, BUDDY] … the United States certainly has some accounting to do with respect to . . . pause [I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE] … a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system … pause, close eyes [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF SHIT BACK HOME. HELP]. I think what is also true is that … pause [I WANT NICK ROBINSON TO DISAPPEAR] … here in Great Britain … pause [SHIT, GORDY'S THE HOST, DON'T LAND HIM IN IT] … here in continental Europe … pause [DAMN IT, BLAME EVERYONE.] … around the world. We were seeing the same mismatch between the regulatory regimes that were in place and er … pause [I'VE LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT AGAIN] … the highly integrated, er, global capital markets that have emerged … pause [I'M REALLY WINGING IT NOW]. So at this point, I’m less interested in … pause [YOU] … identifying blame than fixing the problem. I think we’ve taken some very aggressive steps in the United States to do so, not just responding to the immediate crisis, ensuring banks are adequately capitalised, er, dealing with the enormous, er … pause [WHY DIDN'T I QUIT WHILE I WAS AHEAD?] … drop-off in demand and contraction that has taken place. More importantly, for the long term, making sure that we’ve got a set of, er, er, regulations that are up to the task, er, and that includes, er, a number that will be discussed at this summit. I think there’s a lot of convergence between all the parties involved about the need, for example, to focus not on the legal form that a particular financial product takes or the institution it emerges from, but rather what’s the risk involved, what’s the function of this product and how do we regulate that adequately, much more effective coordination, er, between countries so we can, er, anticipate the risks that are involved there. Dealing with the, er, problem of derivatives markets, making sure we have set up systems, er, that can reduce some of the risks there. So, I actually think … pause [FANTASTIC. I'VE LOST EVERYONE, INCLUDING MYSELF] … there’s enormous consensus that has emerged in terms of what we need to do now and, er … pause [I'M OUTTA HERE. TIME FOR THE USUAL CLOSING BOLLOCKS] … I’m a great believer in looking forwards than looking backwards.
Another uh, ah, uh answer to a question that didn’t say anything. Almost sounds like a Miss Universe contestant answering the “how would you make the world a better place” question. But lets give him the benefit of the doubt. I mean how was he supposed to know there would be a question about the global economic crisis while attending the global economic conference?
That’s our TOTUS.
UPDATE
Check out this new one…..this guy is an empty suit
uh, er, ah, ah, ahchoo!
The great “O” Dumbo Ears is at it again.
What an embarrassment! This is pathetic! And…people said he was such an eloqunet orator.
Not to mention that Obama simply could have done what he’s been doing all around lately, which is to apologize for the actions of the previous administration, and then assure everyone that “My new administration is taking steps to implement a bold new series of initiatives aimed at reducing the cost of healthcare around the world, rework the fabric of society so as to unite all people to a common goal of greater social consciousness and build a national service corps to ‘allow’ all American citizens and able-bodied young persons to encourage acceptance of responsibility for humanity to banish from the world all semblance of capitalism and its accompanying cacaphony of individualism, replacing it with the ultimate goal of human existence: the sweet, universally harmonious melody of collectivism.
In other words: “It’s Bush’s fault, but now that I won, I’m going to fix everything by giving billions of dollars of future taxpayer funds and pallets loaded with newly minted greenbacks to Pock-ee-stahn for humanitarian aid. Screw the International Red Cross; I’m the one and only true Messiah. Oh, and, um, I’m gonna do all that other stuff, I think.”
Jeff V
Obama steps in it again.
Obama embraces a race-baiter
Hey, you remember Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , the Brazilian president who used the global financial meltdown to demagogue about “white people with blue eyes?”
Well, you’ll be happy to know that our president gave him two thumbs up and offered this praise. He’s loco for Lula!
“This is my man, right here. I love this guy.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/03/obama-embraces-a-race-baiter/
The media, the Demon and the criminals (think ACORN) bamboozled too many Americans to vote for a totally frickin’ moron.
Check out this new one…..this guy is an empty suit
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…….uh ! wha?! Oh sorry I think I feel asleep during that video.
Guess he didn’t get the Pentagon and SOS memo for those G20 questions.
There are no terrorists … just “overseas contingency operations”.
There is no more terrorism… just “man-caused disasters”.
Weren’t these faux pas to be avoided by a discreet “voice in his ear” when TOTUS is basking at the hotel hot tub during these moments??
I hope Nick Robinson is ready for the sh*t storm about to come his way from the Left.
Holy Crap! I just felt that I read the longest run-on sentence! Yeeks!
Here’s the youtube of that Guardian interview. The comments on AT indicate that there might be something funny going on with the viewing count, and apparently the sound may have been turned off – not sure about that. I checked it at 1:35 PDT and the count was at 575. It’s now 3:08, and the count is up to 632. Check it out…make those number climb!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeTr9P7ax4
So they moved the teleprompter app to a screen in the podium. Note that he looks down at the podium far more than he looks at the reporter from the Times of India. If he were searching for what to say from memory, he’d be looking up… but clearly he is looking at a live feed being typed out for him by aides behind the scenes.
Oh well, Jenn banned me again…we all know how righty’s can’t take it when someone disagrees with them-they’d rather muzzle them like nazis
Wow you losers got nothing if you actually have to parrot Rush with the teleprompter crap. Ah…the last 7 Presidents used them and if Bush had used one a bit more often we wouldn’t remember him as the moron he is.
I still say most third grade students know more about the U.S., the world, and how the economy works than O’Dumbo. A man who has never held a job or ran a business of any kind thinks he’s a leader. I’m going to love watching him crawl to the Euro weenies when he figures out he’s failed on Korea, Russia, Chavez and now even the terrorists are really planning to take out a large U.S. city. No way he has the brains or balls to face them. Watching him trample the constitution makes me wonder what the heck Harvard teaches. It’s not law of sure.
Watching O’Dumbo with the two teleprompters was like watching a Korean Ping Pong match.
(liberaldude, they aren’t banning you, they’re banning stupidity). How will it work for the lefties to accuse GWB of being a big spender when the current budget is ’4 times’ larger than any of GWB’s. You lefty fools are losing one crutch at a time, soon you will be crawling on your belly like a snake to peek up O’Dumbo’s pant legs. Well some of you are already.
I thought O’bumdum was rather harsh on the poor girl for being proud of her PM…nothing like a humiliating experience in front of the entire G20 conference just because he wanted to catch a laugh at that innocent girl’s expense, eh? What a jerk, really, but that’s what depreciable people like O’bumdum are, right?
Oh yes, and I keep hearing the O’bumdum supporters exclaim how “thoughtful” and “deliberate” he is when he doesn’t answer questions right away. It doesn’t mean that he doesn’t know the answer, they say, OH NO! He just needs to make sure he truly says the right thing and isn’t rash in answering too quickly! (Right.) And, how does that translate out when he’s asked a slightly important question like, “Mr. President, we have a nuclear missile headed this way. What do you want to do?”
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem.”
~Ronald Reagan, 1981
O’Dumbo warns the bankers he is the only thing between the pitchforks and them. Bad news for O’Dumbo, the only thing between the pitchforks and O’Dumbo is a word. Someone will speak that word and 20Million + will show in D.C. and see how many times he can swim out of the sewage pond before he sinks. Fitting punishment for a tu**.
@liberaldude,
You’re not likely to be banned, canned, or get your hide tanned as long as you “play nice.” All of the moderators and most of the posters here are more interested in intelligent discussions than in engaging in flame wars or textual fisticuffs.
By the way, you’re going to find that the moderators here are very politically astute, well educated (and well spoken), and can think for themselves; they don’t need Rush to provide “talking points.”
Welcome to Flopping Aces.
Jeff V
This douchebag can’t make a sentence without Totus. He is stripping himself each time he speaks. The idiot has no clothes.
And geo11, you don’t have an original thought-or comment because you’re really only a parrot for the right.
Unable to use facts to counter anything that geo11 had to say, liberaldude engages in invective and name calling.
Wow, that’s original.
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