We were up at our Tahoe place from Thursday evening until Sunday evening so I missed the President’s appearance before the Republican retreat in Baltimore. However, I heard all about it today from various sources. Most of the sources, except of course Fox Noise, observed that the President completely dismantled them, to the point that Fox Noise cut off the last 20 minutes. In vernacular more to the point, he kicked ass, and about two questions in, they knew it.
Anyway, I was fascinated to see what happened so I dialed it up on the Internet and watched the whole thing. Here is the HuffPo article, which has the video of the whole thing after the perfunctory introductions. I realize it is a lot to ask all of you to take the hour to watch this, but if you want to see why the Right fears and hates Obama you should watch it. No teleprompters, no notes, brilliant repartee, an amazing command of the facts, a splash of righteous indignation, true humor, and a killer smile. It was very reminiscent of “Prime Minister’s Question Time” in Great Britain, though I think Obama out-performed the Prime Ministers I have seen over the years.
There are Republicans now speaking off the record who are admitting that letting cameras roll was an unmitigated disaster. They apparently thought that without a teleprompter and in a 140 to 1 setting, Obama was sweet meat for them to devour, but instead, he gnaws their collective leg with amazing effect – he’s too cool to devour them, even though he probably could have. I LOVE THIS GUY.
As I said, take the time to watch this, and ask yourself whether you can think of any American politician alive today could have turned in such a performance. A couple of dead guys (FDR and JFK) might have been able to pull it off, but FDR probably would not have been unable to restrain himself and thus have gone too far, and JFK did not have near the smarts that Obama has.
Peace out
~ Tom
3 comments:
It would be nice to see this as a regular monthly or at least quarterly event. Obama did well, even though he dodged answering any pointed questions that showed the stark differences in the policy divide of big government take over of America vs. free enterprise leadership, by saying "They were just being political" or something to that effect. Events like this are good for America.
The Obamasiah just shot down regular "Question Time" with the Republicans. That is too bad. He and the nation are worse off for his timidity. If he was regularlly challenged on his wacky socialist huge government high tax ideas, maybe he would move to the center as Bubba did and save his presidency. Some might say that Bubba raised taxes, but he was not in the middle of the worst jobless recession in recent memory. The good news is that there is an increasing possibility that he will soon be faced with a Republican (one can only hope that it is a Conservative Republican) congress.
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