Obama Press Conference: Open Thread
We'll have clips as they come available. In the meantime:
President Barack Obama, who hopes to use a prime-time press conference tonight to promote both his administration's solutions for the recession and the new budget that he proposes, will call the $3.55-trillion spending plan part of the solution.
"We've put in place a comprehensive strategy designed to attack this crisis on all fronts,'' the president plans to say in his opening remarks at the 8 pm EDT White House news conference. "It's a strategy to create jobs, to help responsible homeowners, to re-start lending, and to grow our economy over the long-term. And we are beginning to see signs of progress.''
Supporters praise the president's budget as ambitious in its initatives, but critics call it another Democratic dose of big-spending -- with a deficit of more than $1 trillion next year, which Obama promises to halve by the end of his term.
"The budget I submitted to Congress will build our economic recovery on a stronger foundation, so that we do not face another crisis like this ten or twenty years from now,'' Obama plans to say, according to the White House.
"We invest in the renewable sources of energy that will lead to new jobs, new businesses, and less dependence on foreign oil,'' the president will say of his budget.
UPDATE:
John Amato:
Chuck Todd thinks Obama is Bush and needs to ask the American people to sacrifice. Obama tells him what is so freaking obvious. They have sacrificed already. Bush told us to just buy something like a lamebrain when the country needed some leadership and he offered none.
Chip Reid has become the Republican mouthpiece.
Bill O'Reilly must be very disappointed that President Obama is trying to explain himself clearly and not giving us quick one-liners.
The article is continued.
"We invest in our schools and our teachers so that our children have the skills they need to compete with any workers in the world,'' Obama plans to say. " We invest in reform that will bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and our government. And in this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term - even under the most pessimistic estimates.
"At the end of the day, the best way to bring our deficit down in the long run is not with a budget that continues the very same policies that have led to a narrow prosperity and massive debt. It's with a budget that leads to broad economic growth by moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest.
"That's what clean energy jobs and businesses will do. That's what a highly-skilled workforce will do,'' Obama plans to say, according to excerpts of his opening remarks released by the White House today. "That's what an efficient health care system that controls costs and entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid will do. That's why this budget is inseparable from this recovery - because it is what lays the foundation for a secure and lasting prosperity.
"We will recover from this recession,'' Obama will say. " But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together; when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other - that's when we succeed.
"That's when we prosper,'' the president plans to say. "And that's what is needed right now. So let us look toward the future with a renewed sense of common purpose, a renewed determination, and most importantly, a renewed confidence that a better day will come.''
You can also watch the livestream at the White House website.
The moral voice of the GOP, the limp d*cked, thrice divorced, drug addicted pedophile, attacks Obama and his wife http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/24/limb...
Listening to Rush call somebody in rage and angry is beyond hypocritical. Funny were it not so pathetic. The he talks about wealth creation. He's made millions spreading hate and lies, he's created nothing but a permanent dent in the seat of his chair.
thank god thiers the history channel as an alternitive to obama 24 7!
teh prezident shood hide in tymes of crysis. Man, I wish he wood just shut upp! Stppoid prezidnt!#
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
yup! yup ! yews right !
YEW is rite! Yew mash!
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
make a point or stfu !
wut did ! say??? Yew ar my hero!@!! Don't have turds in yer mowth about me!!!!
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
show me your ten dollar words !
I ahve pie on my trunk !
tyree, yew maid me cry!! I have two go now, but yew keap figting teh good fite!!!!
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
well dont let the trailor house door hit yah where the good lord split yah!
I was feeling a little guilty for egging you on so had to come back to make amends.
Sometimes (ok, often. Might as well be honest) your posts irritate me, but a difference of opinion is no excuse to make sport of your typing.
Apologies for that!
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
excepted if we all backed the same horse, or thought the same way , or wore the same clothes, what a boreing world it would be!
...you tough ol' SOB!
Next time I'll just argue with you, straight up. I was in the mood for goofing around and went too far into acting like a dick.
Thanks for accepting my apology, too.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
no problem!
you seem a more Nick at Nite kinda guy.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I'm quitting all media. TV, internet, EVERYTHING.
We'll miss you.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
sure you will.
Talk about going cold turkey! I'll light a candle and say a prayer for you
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
There's no escape!
wtf was chuck todd getting at with THAT question???
what sacrifices are americans making???
"left and right" - thank you, president obama!
jeeez
listening to that on NPR in my car. I thought the same thing.
I'd love to know who decides who was responsible and who wasn't. What sacrifices is Chuck Todd making besides his dignity?
A question that Todd knew the president would answer pretty much as he did.
Of course the American people have already sacrificed.
95% are getting a tax cut.
I would have liked him to answer about the how the other 5% have not sacrificed and are going to have to if this country is to survive.
It's hard to believe that the "haves" seem to forget that this country will only survive with a thriving middle class.
Obama is now reminding us how the last era of growth was the only era where the middle class actually saw their income decline with that last round of tax cuts for the rich.
Later.
1/2 the population is paying no taxes, and the top 5% is paying nearly 50% of all taxes collected. Wait till OBama's plans are all in place and you sheep start getting taxed like never before. Everyone will be paying through the nose. He will leave this country in much worse shape than ever before. Get ready, you asked for it.
Will you leave America for good?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Dude(?),
I don't have all the numbers with me, but:
The top 5% is paying nearly 50% of all the taxes collected.
GREAT, they should be, I am HUGE proponent of a progressive tax system.
50% not paying any, hmmmm, at LEAST 50% don't have SHIT.
Yes, I asked for it.
now blow me, BJ
Thank you, I was too shy to ask if BJ stood for blow job.
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The fuck I am, I decided to take a toke before responding and you beat me to it!
I guess my post hit a nerve with "BJ".
It was his(?) first post here, a member for a whole 19minutes before that post.
Did they mention C&L on Fox or something????
Oh, like YOU would know. Ha ha.
I had to "quit" years ago, but I can see how fun it would be to "toke and post".
Peace,
Jerry
wait til obama shuts down the tAx havens for the ones that cry about being taxed. wait til we reduce/stop "cheap labor" that shifts hidden taxes on the public so they can increase the profit margin(s) of the rich/corporations.
That's all Chuck Todd has sacrificed, the size of his Starbucks Latte. He's wondering what others are willing to do to help the economy like he is doing.
Drinking game rules.
for your community service!
Just doing my fair share. ;^)
he should have let McCain win.
The GOP created this clusterfuck.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
LOSE THE HULU DEAL. I can't do the stream. And IT'S FUCKING UP MY BROWSER!!!!!!!!!!
WTF???
... to see and hear behind the lectern (NOT the podium) a man who can speak in intelligible sentences and who actually thinks about his answers.
Screw those who say he's too serious, too casual, too prone to laughter, too this and too that ... he could cure cancer tomorrow, and they'd find something to criticize him for.
Hey, Piyush, how did your latest Mr. Rogers speech go?
If Bush had actually got in front of a camera and actually had to answer questions about his policies, we may not be in this hole.
I'm so enraged (sorry, I think that is the correct description of my feelings) when I read comments on "other" blogs, the ones visited and commented on by those who still claim that our president's speaking prowess is a result of a teleprompter.
OK, so who is filling the telempromter with the replies to the questions asked?
Listen to how intelligent our current president is.
Wingers, what do you want, answers like this, or just a blank stare and then a "tap dance" demonstration????????????
I know I should just let that go, and realize "those people" are the kind that would refuse a rope if drowning (and THEY ARE) if the one offering the rope is a Democrat (or maybe for some, is black).
All right, I haven't posted in a while. But just HAD to comment, I am so proud that our country elected this man as our president.
Peace.
President Obama can answer questions off the cuff in intelligent sentences: complete thoughts, appropriate words, correct grammar and diction and pronunciation. How can he possibly have a teleprompter for the ANSWERS? As an English major, I can tell you, it is such a pleasure just to listen to him speak!
I just hope he can get us out of the morass into which Dubya and his GOP Congressional cronies have plunged our entire country.
I hope Americans never suffer another Bush. It was a ghastly 8 years listening to him
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
Every time Obama speaks off the cuff or by way of teleprompter is shows how hugely we suffered under Bush.
to have an eloquent president speaking for your nation.
btw, he has a great smile.
Yes Calgarygal he does. It makes me smile.
he's ours, you can't have him.
:)
You can buy a HOPE t-shirt, if you like! It's a great design.
;)
And yes, REFRESHING as all get out. My "relief buzz" still hasn't gone away. It is nice that our public face to the world is a reasonable, thoughtful, eloquent one. This is not to say that we shouldn't stay on his ass, just as he himself has asked us to do. But the notion that he can possibly be reached by those with a difference of opinion or some advice that he might not want to hear is, to say the least, quite a change from the last 8 years.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
I thank God every nite that enough Americans voted for Barack Obama. Thank God we have been delivered from the hands of the incompetent, ingnorant and closed-minded republican schmucks!! Thank God!
:)
"Hey, Piyush..."
I don't have much use for Jindal but this quote does strike me as pretty similar to all those wingnuts referring to Barack Hussein Obama. They're both examples of focusing on ethnicity or heritage or sexual orientation to say something negative about a person.
I'd like to think that we're better than that and that when we speak of an inclusive society we're not just paying lip service to the idea. Things like the above do make me wonder though.
If a man says his name is Bobby, it's Bobby.
However, I doubt that BID was going for "racist". Can't go quite that far with you.
With President Obama, we KNOW what they were doing. It was plain as day. I really don't think BID was going after Jindal (quivering like a dork in a suit that looks like he borrowed it from his dad) for his race. Just imho, of course.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
...try going after the reason he picked the name "Bobby" for himself. He says he picked it because he was a huge fan of the character "Bobby" on The Brady Bunch.
That's really sad! Can you imagine being so insecure, so self-negating as to submerge your own identity in that of a fictional character from a '60s sitcom?
AIG Finally Discloses Who Got The $$$; Obama Vows to Try to Block Bonuses
By Susie Madrak Monday Mar 16, 2009 11:00am
Mon, 03/16/2009 - 13:56 — Truth_Critic
I've noticed a correlation between the Citicorp and Travelers ins. partnership and have wondered if AIG has similar financial allies and or, for the same purpose that Citi/Travelers envisioned the need for such partnership?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup
In ending, I would not paint all AIG employees as bad, I'm sure many were just part of the rat race trying to make a living. The leaders must be held accountable as they call the shots. We need to get the former employees to fess up, but then again they're probably afraid to break some confidentiality agreement or something. Like I said the other day, I think AIG is the glue holding our worlds money system together by insuring defaults? They go down and all the zombie banks go down and we will be working until were 85. All the retirees nest eggs gone... If the right legislation is passed, we might be able to right this rig?
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Cool.
Fox News Live Stream . . .
critics of spending is Physician, heal thyself.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
conference room is overwhelming isn't it?
it kinda bugs me
Helen's there.
I wonder if she'll get to ask a question.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
is the sanctimonious schmuck that took such umbrage over Robert Gibbs comments about Cheney.He's a hard wired GOP Talking points puppet.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
anarchist come out of the woods. :-P
Study the symptoms not the virus...
...Actually there is no such study but I really feel it's true. It's calming. He speaks confidently. and the lowness of his voice makes me say "Oh..its all good. It'll get done."
I think his audio book might reduce my blood pressure.
Same experience here.
Hulu is a joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp.
Gawd, what a combo that is.
ouch! that rocked,, "i like to know what im talking about before i speak..."
That was a damn good fucking zinger.
my mother got a big chuckle out of that one.
Now sit down and STFU Ed.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Now sit down and STFU Ed.
I thought you were talking about your mother. LOLOLOLOLOOL
That was a great one. I bet that reporter's wee wee shrunk after that one. Oh who am I kidding, he has no shame and is as smooth as a Ken doll (I hear from Foley).
You Americans don't deserve him.
Times are changing, and hopefully it's not too late.
Bush "stole" the first election, and I'm really not sure what happened in the 2nd.
I guess it was the theory "we're at war so we shouldn't change now".
Boy, does that just scream for "perpetual war". Actually we have it, the "war on terror".
Anyway. I understand your comment. However, I believe that it's always been in the "numbers of the electorate" that Republicans will never win major elections if PEOPLE WOULD JUST GET OUT AND VOTE.
Obama is a very special individual. He inspired many "hopeless" people to give it one more (or their first) try.
THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!
As long as the policies of this administration (which I think are the right ones) work (a little luck would help too maybe), and things turn around economically for the better............
I think Republicans will not win the White House, the House or Senate majorities, and support of a majority of Americans........
IN A LONG F'ING TIME......
And that would be a great way to live out the next 20 years or so of my life.
Peace.
No one asks where are we going to get the money for all this deficit spending. Wish I could hear it live, but I'm still at work and that is a thing to be grateful for today.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
will boost our economy, thereby creating more wealth, and with infrastructure building, wealth that lasts, not Wall Street GARBAGE wealth.
Dear God, were $11+ trillion in the hole, what ROI do you think were going to get? By the time Obama leaves office we will be nearly $20 trillion in debt with $60 to $100 trillion in long term obligations.
Look at Obama's infrastructure plan, almost all of his objectives won't yield any kind of return for a decade or better. There is not a single piece in Obama's plan that goes to helping our industrial productive capacity.
We are the largest debtor nation in the world and the vast bulk of business is service based. The GDP is a sham, a measure of destruction not wealth. The GDP cares not if the factory in Kentucky is GM or Toyota, Katrina was counted as an economic boom and did not factor any of the losses.
You and a number of others are in for one ugly rude awakening when this bird don't fly.
Remember this, "Where are you going to get that money?" by Pete Stark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xa5A5yW21I
Where did that question go?
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
As are we....
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I didn't know it was FOX, but I tried CBS and it didn't work very well...
LOL
"it took a couple of days because i like to know what i'm talking about before i speak."
take that.
they forget that this guy hit the ground running and what a gigantic mess he's been saddled with,and how quickly the media has been to criticize his every fucking move.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
THAT was her journalistic moment to shine?
Rather than ask him about the myriad policy decisions that are going down, she asks what role race has played? None until the moment you asked that question. Way to keep racism alive!!!
What a stupid stupid question. How could he answer that: "yes race is a problem, a lot of world leaders won't work with me?"
SPPFFFFTTTTT! to her.
Moonie guy... Washington Times...
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Obama - "It's a valid question" = "You get your first question at a Presidential press conference and this is what you have? What a fucked up thing to ask.
All over???? Hey get back here and answer my question big guy!!
what a way to wind it up. round it up.
thank you.
"persistence"
thank you.
"In 1879, after spending $40,000, and performing 1,200 experiments, he succeeded. He made a light bulb using carbonized filaments from cotton thread. Carbonized thread is ordinary cotton sewing thread that has been burned to an ash. The light bulb burned for two days. The electric light took the greatest amount of time and required the most complicated experiments of all his experiments."
Study the symptoms not the virus...
What's with David Gregory and his "Obama used a teleprompter for his prepared statement"? I keep hearing about the "teleprompter" issue with Obama. Can someone please tell me why it is "notable" that Obama uses a teleprompter for his statements? I thought it's normal and customary to use one.
Great minds... :)
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
... so to not-so-great minds. But I'm sure we're the former. :-)
It is normal. The idiots like David Gregory are trying and I emphasize "trying", to cut Obama down any way they can. The thing that is very telling is that this is all Gregory has. The teleprompter. LOL
Does Gregory speak off-the-cuff during is reports, or does he use a teleprompter, too?
"prepared" questions off a bunch of papers on the table in front of him on MTP every Sunday. It'd pro'lly be a better show if he just read everything he said from a teleprompter!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Like Bush never used a teleprompter?
And what exactly is the point they're trying to make when they point that out? The man just gave detailed answers to questions on a range of topics for 50 minutes without the aid of any "teleprompter", so what point are they trying to make exactly?
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
an attempt to compare him to reagan, who would memorize statements for the most part
but reagan was an actor, who was used to memorizing dialogue
most prepared statements are done by use of a script
so sick of this non issue
I think they're setting the stage to bring in... "He must be receiving his words from the Iranian Ayatollahs, direct, after all, his middle name is Hussein."
far left loon >.<
Limbaugh and the noisy Right have been fabricating an "issue" out of Obama's seeming frequent use of a teleprompter.
So as soon as the confab was over (watching NBC), NBC first turned to David Gregory (MtP) for his thoughts.
First one out of the box: noticing Obama's use of a teleprompter.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Yup. that's it. First thing out of the box. Idiots. And David Gregory should be on Fox News. He fucked up MTP.
The stupid smirk
The bobbing head
The pathetic attempts at cleverness
The patronizing
The endless, pointless sentences
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
NOT!
:)
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
When it was over.. Sheppard Smith refused to acknowledge that among the press people Obama called on... (French PRESS OMG THOSE FRENCH!!- Ebony, Politico, and one other... That Sheppard mentioned).. He failed to acknowledge that Obama called on FOX news reporter Major Dork.. Who of course asked Obama if he believed in a GLOBAL Currency... (of course with BHO's face on it and the engraving of "In OBAMA we Trust! May PEACE be upon him for Eternity" slathered around it)
And of course.. the Fox bots stated that there was a whole lot of "softballs"... tossed at Obama...
Which to anyone who just watched it .. is total bullshit..
More like tons of HOMERUNS hit...
...Like "children living under bridges" and explaining "the wisdom of seeking nationalization over non-banking financial institutions"?
You mean "softballs" like that?
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
softballs like, if he believed in a GLOBAL Currency...
maybe that was for glen beck's crowd...
when obama starts calling on a male hooker, they might have something to talk about
they really shouldnt go there....really
Didden't Major Jenkins have a hotmilitarystud4u.com profile.. giving 2 for 1's on Wendsdays?
I am pretty sure Barack called on him...
lol
Lord, I am glad I didn't see that. I would have been grinding my teeth into powder.
The man takes on all questions. Even when he being evasive (DUUUH! Politician Doin' Politics Alert!!!), he isn't dismissive or flippant. He takes it on.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
I couldn't help but notice the issues that were most important to the Right-wingers Obama called on:
"Major Garret" of Fox asked Obama (at the end of his three part question, of which Obama covered all three) about the possibility of "a one world currency"???
Then the tool from the Mooney Times asked about the "moral struggle" with funding stem-cell research. Fortunately, Obama brought up the "morality" of "discarding" the embryos vs not finding cures for millions who suffer.
These people live on a different planet.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Isn't it nice to have a president instead of a poser?
I noticed he didn't have a bulge on his back, underneath his jacket.
asshats
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Anyone notice Obama's devastating comeback to Ed Henry's whiney "Why didn't you come out and say you were outraged about AIG earlier?" He said, "Because I wanted to be sure I knew what I was talking about!" Wonder if Henry will ever get another question. He surely doesn't deserve to be treated as a credible news person.
Well here's my meaculpa. I thought it was Chuck Todd. So it was Henry that he grand slammed into the cheap seats eh. That was a great line and nothing hurts these fake news reporters worse than the truth!
In the middle of President Obama giving a long and detailed response on some issue, an image suddenly crossed my mind: Palin standing there trying to answer these questions with even the slightest hint of pulling off an even passable sophisticated answer that didn't sound like Miss South Carolina.
"And som-ah... and the Iraq..."
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Chuck---sacrifice your lame ass career as a "political" commentator by resigning now and help clean up our national dialogue. Need a job? The GOP could always use a few more self important lying hacks to help broadcast their propaganda. At least then you wouldn't have to pretend that you were objective.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Who let him out from behind his little political John Madden electoral votes map..???
MSNBC must be really hard up for help these days.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
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