Obama: I won’t answer questions until after the election
posted at 2:15 pm on November 2, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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A profile in political courage this is not. Given his recent gaffe on redistributionism, though, it’s probably smart. ABC’s Jake Tapper tried to get Obama to talk about his plans for the economic rescue plan, but Obama refused:
JT: What would you tell your Treasury Secretary to do differently with the $700 billion?
BO: We’re on a tarmac.
JT: Why don’t you have a press conference?
BO: I will. On Wednesday.
Remember when the media screeched over Sarah Palin’s lack of press availability after the convention? Neither Obama nor Joe Biden have taken questions from the press in weeks. If Palin’s fortnight of preparation somehow revealed her unreadiness for higher office, what does this say about Barack Obama?
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This guy is such a joke and a loser.
jencab on November 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM
When will buyer’s remorse hit people?
After the coal plants decommissioned or when we run out of candles?
lorien1973 on November 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM
He is TOAST and he knows it.
BuckNutty on November 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM
He is the most arrogant assh*le I have ever seen. When he loses I hope he crying in his wife’s lap.
djohn669 on November 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM
On Wednesday he’ll be an also-ran.
MikeA on November 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM
‘On Wednesday’, after he loses to McCain!
Urban Infidel on November 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM
I don’t have to answer you. I am the Chosen One. Check with the MSM. They can adequately answer your annoying question. Now shoo!
perroviejo on November 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Maybe; if that coal quote can somehow get around and if people care. Which I doubt on both points.
lorien1973 on November 2, 2008 at 1:20 PM
i will almost PAY to see just how he whines & complains on that wed. CONCESSION pres conference …
Buckaroo on November 2, 2008 at 1:20 PM
tapper should have clarified, “so you’re offering me an exclusive on Wednesday?”
toenail on November 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Sorry guys but all this talk I hear about how conservatives are different and we won’t turn on Obama if he’s elected. How we will stand and salute. Sorry. He’s not a liberal. He’s a leftist. They don’t believe in the free press, the rule of law, capitalism, the Constitution, American Exceptionalism, none of it. If we want to oppose people like this we can’t use our rule book. I’m not talking about a version of Bush Derangement Syndrome for the Right. I’m talking about not giving him any honeymoon. Cutting him no slack. Opposing him totally and completely in every way without ever letting up.
D0WNT0WN on November 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM
D0WNT0WN on November 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM
+1
Disturb the Universe on November 2, 2008 at 1:22 PM
It means the Emperor realizes that we’ve all noticed he’s wearing no clothes.
He’s realized he can’t afford any more unscripted performances, otherwise the few who are left voting for him might just stay home; McCain is perched to win. VOTE people!
James OK on November 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Latest IBD/TIPP poll has McCain down 2 with Barry under 47 percent.
8 percent undecided still?
Hmmm…
jjshaka on November 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM
What is he going to do? Kick off all the reporters on his plane? (That are left.)
wise_man on November 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM
what does this say about Barack Obama?
It says he is going to lose. Make it happen, people.
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM
By the way, some of you may be interested to know that I am seeing a very lopsided trend among my law-enforcement frineds, many of who are life-long Dems, some of which are elected Democrats or Democrat appointments, towards not only not voting for Obi-one, but actually voicing strong support for McCain/Palin. At this point the numbers in that community would be running about 10/1 McCain, here in Indiana.
MikeA on November 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Now you ask questions, Mr Tapper? May your name be erased.
clnurnberg on November 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM
dittos!
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Everytime Obama speaks, he reveals more about how he will distroy this country.
So, I have to ask, why would anyone vote for this socialist clown?
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM
WEASEL
weaselweaselweaselweaselweaselweaselweaselweaselweaselweaselweasel
tree hugging sister on November 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Expect him and his surrogates to claim that this is evidence that the US is still a racist country, if Obama is not elected.
wise_man on November 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
I’m glad there’s still some real journalists left.
lodge on November 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
resting his case eh?…..
but his grandmother is so ill and won’t make it to election day. Please Obama…talk to us… what will we do?…. oh no…
C’mon McCain/Palin. Lets smoke this idiot and go home
johnnyU on November 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
No, the ones (That are “Left”) get to stay.
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Hope n change. and candles.
lorien1973 on November 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
What a fracking idiot (imagine how many times I had to rewrite that sentence). We are DOOMED if this joke of a candidate wins. That the press was complicit in all this just makes me MAD in all senses of the word.
OneGyT on November 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Don’t wait until after the election: do it now. Cut him off at the pass. Defeat him on election day. This is our chance. Let’s do it. Let’s roll.
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Tapper has since followed it up with his spokesman saying there won’t be a presser on Wed.
p0s3r on November 2, 2008 at 1:26 PM
If Obama wins, I’m gonna need a Change of Shorts
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 1:26 PM
jjshaka beat me to it. It’s not over folks, we are going to win. Go out and get it done.
MobileVideoEngineer on November 2, 2008 at 1:26 PM
I’ve really grown to hate this guy.
billy on November 2, 2008 at 1:26 PM
And my first and hopefully last contribution to this effort will be to vote against him and for McCain/Palin this tuesday.
wise_man on November 2, 2008 at 1:26 PM
He’s gonna give it to Peggy Joseph.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/31/video-obama-supporter-hails-the-bringer-of-all-good-things/
Texyank on November 2, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Most of us will not. Obama is going down on election day.
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Git ‘er done!
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM
D0WNT0WN on November 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM
+2
flyawaybird on November 2, 2008 at 1:28 PM
He really is the most arrogant candidate I’ve ever seen or heard. He thinks he is so far above everyone else and that we all have a lot of nerve for daring to question him. If he had to put up with the same treatment from the media that McCain/Palin have had to he wouldn’t last a day.
*If* he wins there will be some buyer’s remorse, but you can also bet that he’s going to use that old excuse “it’s Bush’s fault” for as long as he can and that a significant number will buy it hook line and sinker, just as they always have.
Paradox Drive on November 2, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Don’t ask tough questions, or you’ll have the CNSF after you.
(The Civilian National Security Force.)
Tzetzes on November 2, 2008 at 1:28 PM
I have no doubt that if Farts wins, there will be at a minimum, mandatory attendance at weekly lectures by him and Conrade Michelle, or as I like to call her, Screech!
Blake on November 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM
He is just afraid that everybody is going to find out who he really is….
d1carter on November 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Can someone answer this question? What the Hell does SurveyUSA mean?
SouthernGent on November 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM
How does half of the country think it’s okay for this guy to invent a “civilian security force” knowing that he is influenced by the likes of Saul Alinski and Bill Ayers?
Things are going to get worse before they get better.
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM
“wise_man on November 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM”
true dat, but i keep hoping for something more original …
:-)
Buckaroo on November 2, 2008 at 1:30 PM
D0WNT0WN on November 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Absolutely. If his victory had come by legitimately persuading the electorate that his policies and qualifications were superior, I’d disagree. But any victory he attains will be IN SPITE of his policies and qualifications, acquired only by bogus donations, biased media, and corrupt thuggishness.
He deserves nothing but our contempt.
innominatus on November 2, 2008 at 1:30 PM
On Wednesday, if he wins.
4shoes on November 2, 2008 at 1:31 PM
I wonder if Obama will be gracious in defeat or will he spend the next six months sulking like Gore did?
Dreadnought223 on November 2, 2008 at 1:31 PM
I’m pretty sure they meant “fluid.” However, volatile was a poor word to choose – especially for a state filled with bitter, redneck, gun-toting, bible-slinging racists.
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Pennsylvania is very blue on each end of the state, Philly and Pittsburgh.
It’s in between that’s red.
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 1:32 PM
That was just a ruse. She’s fine. Why would he announce on a Monday that she was deathly ill and he was rushing to her bedside on…………..Thursday?
He went to Hawaii to straighten out the Bureau of Vital Statistics people and “seal” his birth records.
IrishEi on November 2, 2008 at 1:32 PM
6 months? It’s been 8 years. He still talks about it.
lorien1973 on November 2, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Well, it wouldn’t kill him to gain a couple of pounds—ask Ahnold.
IrishEi on November 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM
I think it means that they think McCain is gaining on Obama, but they’re not really sure. Or, perhaps they made the ‘volatile’ remark as a caveat for why they will be found wrong after McCain wins.
But polls can’t vote. We can. We get to decide.
James OK on November 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Most of his concession speech will be spent urging the savages not to destroy Chicago.
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Talk to Wednesday, SUCKERS!!!
Elizabetty on November 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM
JT: Umm… Could you answer my question?
BO: Hold on Sweetie, we’ll get to that later. Okay? Buh-bye.
wise_man on November 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Roughly translated: I’m not going to be called a racist on my own telephone.
Vashta.Nerada on November 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Watch how quickly all the dirt starts pouring out when Bambi loses. The Drive-By media will turn on him and rip him to pieces.
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:35 PM
BTW that is a rolling poll, is it not? Three days worth?
Vashta.Nerada on November 2, 2008 at 1:35 PM
We are in for a world of hurt….
Techie on November 2, 2008 at 1:36 PM
It didn’t really work out all that well though. His foot prints are too big to put on a new birth certificate now.
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Questions are racist!
Blacks know that!
The white Greco-Roman paradign of an epistemological examination of reality is a honkey construct!
Stop lynching the black guy with these noose-like question marks!
profitsbeard on November 2, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Yeah, that story just didn’t ring true. You break your hip, they do a replacement and then keep you for therapy. They just don’t send you home.
Blake on November 2, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Candles are part of the ban on global warming.
I’m watching Fox News, an Obama rally. His hope and change is actually a divide and conquer speech. Looking at the crowds of the mindless Obama drones, I cannot help but be fearful.
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 1:36 PM
It certainly is fair. After all, he is an outspoken critic of this administration and if he says that he can do better — but doesn’t — then it’s simply fair game.
“Dissent is patriotic” or so they say on the left.
ShenronEX on November 2, 2008 at 1:37 PM
I believe that’s part of a quote from David Axelrod. Here is the whole quote: “We are in for a world of hurt on November 4 when the voters realize what a fraud Obama is and bounce his skinny ass back to Chicago.”
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:38 PM
It will happen pretty soon after Obama takes office. Obama is a great lawyer — he knows how to manipulate procedural rules to his benefit (e.g., playing in Chicago machine politics, using petition signature challenges to win his State Senate seat, convincing Hillary to go along with Dean’s plan to discount MI and FL) and how to avoid taking a firm position (e.g. voting “present,” not writing anything of substance other than his goofy memoirs in his entire life, weasel double-talk on his policies). Actually, I’m not so sure how great Obama is at those tasks–yes, he is going to be our next President, but he had a HUGE assist from the MSM and the financial crisis, and will probably only beat McCain by a narrow margin.
But at bottom, while those are important tools to help you get elected, they won’t work to save him once he’s in office. Some of his political advisors will probably tell him to triangulate, but there’s a difference between Obama and Clinton: Clinton fundamentally was a centrist. Obama actually IS a leftist radical. And when Pelosi and Reid present him with commie legislation to sign into law, the tug on him will be too great, and he’ll sign off on it. Likewise with his executive policies. People will soon realize he is FAR more left-wing than they signed up for. And then I think he’s going to crater.
Outlander on November 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM
You be a smart guy but I think you might be off on that one. The media doesn’t want him to loose any more than B Hussein Hopey Changey does. I think it’ll be close and they’ll support him through an investigative election review to try to overturn it.
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Early voters should have buyer’s remorse already.
Entelechy on November 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM
That’s a possibility. And we all have our role to play in keeping this world of hurt from coming to us. Vote. Let’s hope that the voter fraud in the battleground states can be caught, and that the legitimate turnout favors McCain and Palin.
wise_man on November 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Obama just said that McCain hasn’t been a Maverick, but rather a sidekick to McCain. It sounded as if he said that McCain has been the “Kato” to his “Green Lantern”. Isn’t it Green Hornet?
amerpundit on November 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM
That he is ahead and doesnt need to answer anything potentially controversial to stay there.
Dash on November 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM
I’m listening to him talk at a rally now. Nonstop attacks on McCain, Bush, Cheney, and then he says Americans are ready for the attacks to stop and warns of all the attacks that will be made against him in the next two days. Who are these idiots that listen to him but do not hear what he says?
ctmom on November 2, 2008 at 1:42 PM
She was on her deathbed. Then she was recovering at home. Then she had a hip replacement. Then she was not expected to make it. Then she was fine. He “rushes” to her side and a week later the Governor (no less) of Hawaii seals his birth records.
IrishEi on November 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Weak.
CP on November 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM
HA! Well damn I’d vote for the Green Lantern. McCain should have advertised that more. Yeah Green Hornet though, find that clip if you can heh.
Dash on November 2, 2008 at 1:44 PM
The media are absolutely complicit in this guy’s current position in the race. If he wins it’s because of them. If he loses narrowly it will have only been close because of them. It is immensely frustrating.
t.ferg on November 2, 2008 at 1:44 PM
The Obamatards at pollster.com are ALREADY claiming the voting is rigged because the polls are closing to McCain’s favor. They really stupid. STUPID!
SouthernGent on November 2, 2008 at 1:44 PM
You wonder why people haven’t seen this yet.
What he’s good at is using Bush and Cheney as the smear engine. What people forget is that we had and still have relatively low unemployment. The Bush tax cuts benefited everyone. And this clown wants change? With his policies that are clearly destructive both to business and to average people.
He keeps saying our side makes stuff up, and he’s some kinda child of God….???
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM
- Bankrupting coal businesses
- “Skyrocketing” energy prices
- Not answering any questions
Early voters missed out a lot already, and it’s only Sunday.
Entelechy on November 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Yeah, that’s why I fell for Peloski’s line about the new congress being more partisaned. Liberals are empty-suited attack machines.
A local candidate for Congress, Larry Kissell running against Robin Hayes actually has a yard sign that says…
STOP BUSH / HAYES
VOTE KISSELL
As if they were running mates?
I say in the future, no holds bared and ignore the pleas for civility.
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:47 PM
He will be bitter and angry, and will say things that in actuality foment riots, though they will be couched in terms that keep him from being legally responsible for inciting to riot.
My hope is that Tuesday’s defeat is so crushing that it kills any notion of a “future” for this anti-American rat.
If, God forbid, people are stupid enough to elect this arrogant jerk, buyer’s remorse will be instantaneous…at least among white people and those of all races who “hoped” he somehow wouldn’t be the Marxist enemy of our nation he has made it clear he is.
MrScribbler on November 2, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Not me. I voted for that guy and that girl. You know the ones that will bring 4 more years the the same old Bush policies.
Uh, he just brought up the 250K… tax, no robbing, extortion policy
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Doesn’t matter. He’s had the unmarried 48 year old comic book store owner vote sewed up for months.
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:49 PM
I’m wondering why Hawaii’s governor (a Republican who spoke at the RNCC praising Palin) would seal his birth certificate, except simply to follow the law.
jazz_piano on November 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM
“STOP BUSH / HAYES
VOTE KISSELL”
was out canvassing on a local ballot issue yesterday. across the street was a donk candidate for state rep. — his poster had himself, duh1 and greasy joe on one side and his opponent, John, and Saracuda on the other side — as if the natioal tickets would be caucusing with them before votes!!
/eyeroll
Buckaroo on November 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Do we have a complete list of his accomplishments?
- Bankrupting coal businesses
- “Skyrocketing” energy prices
- Not answering any questions
- Raising taxes on anyone making more than 70k
- Lowering taxes on the people who don’t pay taxes
- Gutting defense spending and canceling missile defense just as Iran is getting nukes and missiles
- Meeting with terrorists unconditionally
And for a good laugh, Biden is out claiming that they will want to heal the nation when they are elected, and that they will be bipartisan. Hee hee – they’ll hire all the conservatives such as Powell and Buckley’s son – all the other ‘conservative’ pundits who trashed McCain and endorsed Obama and call this ‘reaching out to the right.” Lawl.
wise_man on November 2, 2008 at 1:53 PM
She was on her deathbed. Then she was recovering at home. Then she had a hip replacement. Then she was not expected to make it. Then she was fine. He “rushes” to her side and a week later the Governor (no less) of Hawaii seals his birth records.
IrishEi on November 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Having had an 87 year old grandfather undergo a hip replacement, let me tell you that it was a VERY touch-and-go situation. I do not blame Obama for his return to HI and will give him the benefit of the doubt on that.
To be honest, I think the more likely reason the birth certificate was covered up was maybe to conceal something ELSE embarrassing about the birth. Perhaps one or both parents were underaged? There’s no way Obama can keep the lid on his birth certificate forever. If he took office and then a year later, documents providing that Obama was born in Kenya or somewhere else came out, it would be an epic scandal and I honestly do not think Obama could survive it. The American people and the Press REALLY do not like being lied to, and Obama has stated several times on the record that he was born in America.
Outlander on November 2, 2008 at 1:53 PM
It’s back up to 250K again?
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Spread the wealth, he says.
He just say, bottom up economics. Take from the rich and give to the underserving. This will increasing spending, he says.
But of course, all that unemployment his policies will cause will quickly lead screeching halt to any growth, or spending
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 1:53 PM
“jazz_piano on November 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM”
funny thing there — my governor actually respects the law, so yeah that’s why she did it …
Buckaroo on November 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Pussy.
Cardiganfox on November 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM
I can’t believe my tax dollars go to NPR. Yesterday, I heard some Obama lovin’ reporter in Arizona saying it is only you and your conscience in the voting booth…McCain will never know if you don’t vote for him… you have to ask if you can live with yourself the next four years… blah blah blah.
Blake on November 2, 2008 at 1:55 PM
I don’t know what I think about the nationality theory. I believe his wacky ideas on the issues are enough to beat him. But, I think if it were true, these bastards are smug enough to think they could get him in office and sell the American People on his real nationality later.
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 1:56 PM
The only poll that had it right in the last elections – 2 apart.
Entelechy on November 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Yes–why I am paying for NPR and PBS (and ACORN and Planned Parenthood)? Make these media outlets compete like everyone else–it’s not as if they don’t have advertisers funding them.
jazz_piano on November 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM
How about this: McCain will win handily in spite of them?
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 1:58 PM
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