AOL Hot Seat Poll: Obama’s meeting with conservatives; Update: Correct poll added
posted at 12:39 pm on January 15, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
It turns out to be more extensive than first thought, with several more commentators from the Right in attendance — although not the Big Kahuna, Rush Limbaugh. Charles Krauthammer joked last night that he’s already been brainwashed into believing in Hope and Change. What do you think Obama’s conservative confab means?
Update: Sorry — as it turns out, they can’t generate embed code for older polls. Here’s the link to my poll from yesterday, and in the meantime, enjoy John’s question today.
Update II: OK, AOL generated the code to display the poll I wrote. Have at it, and thanks to AOL’s team for the assist!
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Dickerson’s slate poll is up.
BadgerHawk on January 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Good Politics. The right has such a huge audience and he’ll need cover for a while.
originalpechanga on January 15, 2009 at 12:42 PM
That’s how I read it.
Weight of Glory on January 15, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Click through to poll #2. That’s Ed’s.
BacaDog on January 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM
The conservative punditry, will go out of its way to work with Obama.
the Liberal punditry only care about lying, smearing and ridiculing Bush and GOP politicians.
jp on January 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Sorry — let me see if I can get the code for a specific poll.
Ed Morrissey on January 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM
No big deal. I do not think that it will change people’s minds about the President-elect. As a REAL president, Ronald Reagan once said, “Trust, but verify”.
righty64 on January 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Smoke and mirrors. Tha is what BHO is.
Sweetness0726 on January 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Smoke and mirrors.
ThaThat is what BHO is.Sweetness0726 on January 15, 2009 at 12:46 PM
BO is butt kissing like you wouldn’t believe!
upinak on January 15, 2009 at 12:47 PM
“Conservatives”? Come on.
Bishop on January 15, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Self-reflection!
Now there is a $10 mall-baby phrase for all of us troglodytes. Next thing you know Uncle Sugar will give each and every one of us a black monolith to install in the backyard so we can contemplate how magnificent we are.
Limerick on January 15, 2009 at 12:49 PM
upinak on January 15, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Well, if you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with B.S.
Krauthammer did make fun of the meeting last night.
kingsjester on January 15, 2009 at 12:50 PM
This is MSM garbage, these people are no more Conservtive the Ed and Allah here at HotAir, meaning they are NOT Conservatives. They want the Messiah’s love and blessings, they want to count and be invited to mix with the DC Liberal crowd at parties. The want invites to CNN and MSNBC to hawk thier BS, Dem-Lite so called Conservtisiam.
Want to impress me with REAL outreach? Have Rush, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt and other hard nosed REAL CONSERVTIVES go head to head and totlay humiliate The One.
These people are Faux Conservatives just like most at HotAir.
Mark Garnett on January 15, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Just click to poll #2 – if you cannot manage that, then you probably wont understand the poll question anyway.
HawaiiLwyr on January 15, 2009 at 12:50 PM
The guy is so inexperienced, he’s looking for feasible ideas anywhere he can get them; at least he’s smart enough to at least do a walk-through of all political camps, for good will if naught else.
There is some ‘hope’ that ‘change’ will not be completely a hard left.
michaelo on January 15, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Yes.
MarkTheGreat on January 15, 2009 at 12:52 PM
As the great El Rushbo said once or twice: “Symbolism over substance”. It’s all in the appearance of things. Get used to it, friends.
missouriyankee on January 15, 2009 at 12:54 PM
See how “conservative” Bill Kristol is.
All the people in the party have written articles in praise of Obama’s centrist cabinet. Which is bunk. Obama is a radical leftist. He suckering in the elitists even more. He didn’t need to since they were so horny on him before the dinner.
jencab on January 15, 2009 at 12:54 PM
George Will hosting a pending president at his home is unprofessional on the part of both the “journalists” and Obama.
This reminds me of what a liberal columnist – I think it was Eugene Robinson, but I’m not sure — wrote several years ago about the annual media correspondent’s dinner given by the White House. He paraphrasing said that journalists have no business engaging in events with the people and organizations they are paid to cover as watchdogs on behalf of the public.
Now, for Obama and his press secretary to have invited this group to the White House for dinner would have been totally appropriate. But for the media to mix off-the-record, socially with Obama or his staff is not cool.
BigD on January 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM
It’s smart to get the other side’s opinions, but it doesn’t mean The One will actually do anything the other side suggests. When Dems are in power the Republicans always end up marginalized and powerless.
Neo on January 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Smoke & mirrors, dog & pony show. That’s all the Narcissist in Chief is doing. Why would he call on a group of NEO-cons, faux cons, RINO cons? Because he doesn’t give a fat damn what real conservatives think or believe. He also knows that talking to the Neos and Rino cons is tatamount to talking to Dimocrats. Granted, Charles K. has an awesome sense of humor, but he’s a NEO con.
Btw, know what a RINO-virus is? It’s a syndrome that strikes the gonads, spine and brain, rendering each system useless.:):)
kooziegirl on January 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM
They are being setup as pawns. Eventually the conservatives will openly criticize his polices , this meetings allows him and the MSM ample room to portray them as undermining the success of his administration and his goal of bipartisanship. Providing them greater room to gloss over any of his real mistakes. Boosting his and the Democrats ability to run over the Republicans in the 2010 midterm elections, not that they aren’t already.
Zaire67 on January 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM
He didn’t meet with conservatives, the two biggest voices of the conservative movement were shut out…El Rushbo and Hannity, love em or hate em, they are the two biggest talk radio shows.
Obama is pulling up his skirt for RINO Lovers, not conservatives, minus Charles Krauthammer, who is the voice of reason and not a rino lover.
HornetSting on January 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM
I’m going to puke. I just heard a radio spot with Obama talking about HBO broadcasting the inaugural and urging citizens to participate in their own celebrations. puke puke puke.
I don’t know if it is wise to refuse to meet with the president elect, however, enough of this wait and see crap. And yeah, I think they are all sell outs.
Blake on January 15, 2009 at 1:04 PM
The only real conservatives are those who host radio talk shows, “write” books with ghost writers, and can yell at Alan Colmes or Chris Matthews with ease.
The rest are just hacks.
YYZ on January 15, 2009 at 1:05 PM
A (half) black man pandering to a bunch of Caucasians.
How funny.
madmonkphotog on January 15, 2009 at 1:06 PM
BTW… TRUE Conservatives won’t be swooned by him, and the reverse of what I just stated wouldn’t have to happen.
Unless you’re McVain.
madmonkphotog on January 15, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Boy, we’ve got some mobys causing mischief here.
At least I hope they’re impostors. If not, well……
SteveMG on January 15, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Obama was doing nothing more than feeding the pundits own need to feel relevant. The man is an slick politician. IMO they may worried about being insignificant in this time of Democratic supremacy so they are willing to pretend that he is interested in what they say. Some people’s ability to delude themselves never suprises me. Obama may also be counting on their reluctance to comment negatively about him because “he was so nice and friendly at Will’s house.”
katiejane on January 15, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Knowing Judas Noonan was there confirms my suspicions. This wasn’t only about destroying the GOP, it was also about destroying Sarah Palin. Not a whole lotta Palin lovers there at Will’s hacienda….
ckdexterhaven on January 15, 2009 at 1:11 PM
For what it’s worth, NRO itself had to cover that Rich Lowry was there. In their Media blog, they wrote, “It has gone largely unreported that Rich Lowry was there.” And I’m thinking — that’s because nobody cares that Rich Lowry was there, or don’t you get that?
BigD on January 15, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Oh yeah, I’m celebrating the end of America as we know it. With a bottle of Jager and an icepick to the head…
/sarc
HornetSting on January 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM
How about a choice #5 – Obama’s just taking a page from the book of Slick Willie, only instead of triangluating, he’s dodecahedrating.
drunyan8315 on January 15, 2009 at 1:14 PM
If I were offered the chance to meet with Obama, I would. It would give me the opportunity to give him the conservative point of view whether it did any good or not. I would have refused a chance to meet with Bill Clinton after he sullied the presidency the way he did. Obama may eventually do something that would cause me to refuse to meet with him but he hasn’t yet.
I don’t think meeting with the other side constitutes selling out by either side. Opportunities to enlighten the other side through discussion should not be rejected lightly.
backwoods conservative on January 15, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Obama using the power of the tingly leg to influence the opposition. If you read the “Left Behind” series at all, you’d see that the Anti-Christ employed similar tactics.
kirkill on January 15, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Watch out…you start throwing around the “Anti-Christ” word, people start freaking out….even if Obama is not the AC, he sure acts like it. When I think of what the AC would look like, though, I visualize Michelle Obama…
BTW, O/T, have you noticed that the “opinion line” of the WH has been shut down…they won’t let us call and tell Bush to free our BP agents. They don’t play fair, do they Kirkill?
HornetSting on January 15, 2009 at 1:20 PM
I’m also sick of the “intellectually curious” nonsense surrounding Obama. Krauthammer, he who pounds cabbages, and Noonan use this sort of nonsense to pound Palin and elevate Obama (whose academic record at Occidental and Columbia are shrouded in mystery).
BTW, read Michelle ma belle’s senior thesis from her perfect Ivy Princeton days for a good laugh.
clnurnberg on January 15, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Krauthammer is the only one of the bunch with a shred of intellectual honesty and without an exaggerated sense of his own importance. The rest are has-beens (Will), never will bes (Brooks), or pathetic hacks (Noonan). If Bambi really wanted to gauge conservatism he would have invited Ann Coulter and Mark Levin.
Percy_Peabody on January 15, 2009 at 1:22 PM
It stinks, maybe Obama will free Ramos and Compean if Bush doesn’t.
Mike Gallagher did mention it to Bush this week, because while it was probably inappropriate he felt passionately enough about it to forgo niceties.
kirkill on January 15, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Probably good politics all around.
t.ferg on January 15, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Nu-uh, Managed expectations.
Speakup on January 15, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Other – He’s singing to the choir.
1) The “conservative” credentials of those people he dined with are highly suspect.
2) He’s not “wooing” any of them as far as I can tell. Most of them are neck-deep in the tank.
3) Given 1 and 2, I can only imagine that Obama is having a chummy party with beltway fair-weather Republicans to give the flimsiest appearance of post-partisanship. He must also believe that conservatives at large can’t smell a rat and so still listen to Peggy Noonan.
Lehosh on January 15, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Obama has a tremendous fear of failure and is simply attempting to co-opt his opposition . . . it won’t work.
rplat on January 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM
I iz teh stoopid, and can’t click a button. Thanks for the assist, but the comment was more for Ed’s info than yours. I have enough faith in you that I knew you could get to the right poll on your own.
BadgerHawk on January 15, 2009 at 1:42 PM
When is Obama meeting with conservatives?
Don’t tell me people think Brooks and Will are conservatives. Will may be from a gov’t pork side, but not from much else. Brooks is not a conservative from any angle. And even Krauthammer, who is pretty hawkish to be sure, said during the campaign on Brit Hume’s show that raising taxes on the rich was just fine as long as you didn’t go to the 90% rate found during the 60′s.
FYI, every one of these ‘conservatives’ was a big supporter of amnesty.
Clark1 on January 15, 2009 at 1:44 PM
He just wants to get the insight into their reasoning’s on policies so he has some time for his overlords to sculpt counter logic.
Tinfoil/Off.
Itchee Dryback on January 15, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Obama wasn’t interested in conservative opinions. He wanted to see who would move to HIS opinions. Who was willing to work with him? Remember Obama is the one who can work with Hamas, Palestinians, Hugo Chavez, Akmadenijad (?) – all he needed to do was talk with them to bring them to his way of thinking. Obama thought he could do the same with the ‘soft’ conservative journalists and win them over to his side. This is why Rush, Hannity, Levin and other solid conservative thinkers were not included. Obama did not want conservative explanations or to be educated. He wanted to find out who he could win over to his side, who he should give access to going forward (press conferences, interviews, AIr Force One).
jerseyman on January 15, 2009 at 1:46 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again;
” You fool some of the people some of the time
and you jerk the rest off”
George Carlin
thomasaur on January 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Why is it that everyone’s reference point for “true” conservatives are shock jocks who’s main goal is sensationalism, not feasible policy options. The crowd who yell things like “deport ‘em all!” or “bailout the rich” might tell you the kinds of things you want to hear…but to call any of what they propose feasible is just silly.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Unbelievable!!
Go and read Krauthammer on NRO. There’s no joking. He’s serious.
My interpretation of Obama’s behaviour is that he’s looking for 5 terms … once the 22nd (iirc) amendment is repealed.
He won’t behave like a moonbat until he’s absolutely sure of the next election — and his campaign is already going (after all that’s all he’s good at right now).
His only goal in life was to be president and the list of the ones he’s studied (Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, Clinton) give a good indication that he wants to be remembered as well.
I’m really disappointed at the average IQ apparent here … perhaps all the regulars are still asleep.
gh on January 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Yeah, but only half-heartedly.
LimeyGeek on January 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Hmmm. The good news about that dinner is that is enumerates the “Conservatives” that are no longer Conservative. Does anyone think that any one of them isn’t soft and easily swayed by star power? If they don’t have it they want to hang out with it. I would probably loose my appetite with that entire crew. All of them should never be taken seriously again. I would rather hang out with the crew over at the Heritage Foundation. There is some true brainpower. They are the folks that talk of Freedom. I never hear the Dinner Partners ever say it’s name.
BetseyRoss on January 15, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Well this is what they got at the dinner, they just didn’t catch it.
Here
and
Here
right2bright on January 15, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Your high IQ probably made you miss this:
I think Krauthammer got it.
Unless I misunderstood what you meant…
right2bright on January 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM
That’s funny.
BigD on January 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Agree with the analysis, but not the conclusion. There are lots of legitimate conservatives around, but few of them are pundits in the leftist media, like these clowns, with the obvious exception of Charles Krauthammer, for whom I have great respect.
Kudlow is a pathetic partisan Republican gadfly, and nothing more. He has no evident economic principles that he wouldn’t sell for an invite to a State dinner from anyone. Will is just tired and elitist. Brooks is a farce and a liberal. Noonan is beneath contempt. Lowry is a lightweight.
He should have invited Tom Sowell if he wanted to learn something. He didn’t – he just wants good press from the squishes on tv.
Jaibones on January 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM
It was a preemptive attack.
Texas Gal on January 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Let us all know if you get that unicorn you were promised.
chunderroad on January 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM
George Will is an “opinion” journalist, and as such, not really a “reporter”.
George Will hosted Reagan many times while he served as President. Don’t know if he hosted G.H.W Bush 41, Clinton or G.W. Bush 43. Reagan and Will had previously established a friendship.
juanito on January 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM
gh has a point. I think BO will only last one term, unless he can ramp up the Democratic (Chicago) machine and Republicans are apathetic in 2012. We’ll see in 2010.
The 22nd amendment and repeal of natural-born citizen clause are for somebody else. This is a nice little kingdom up for grabs, but Obama was groomed to pave the way. He’s not elite in the way of the people who put him into power.
chunderroad on January 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM
I don’t understand what you are saying…that Krauthammer doesn’t see Obama’s audacity as being a weakness?
Explain what you mean…
right2bright on January 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM
As soon as that “natural born” clause is gone, I’m gunning for the top slot….then by f’ing crikey you’ll all be sorry.
LimeyGeek on January 15, 2009 at 2:29 PM
It’s all for show.
roux on January 15, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Smoke & mirrors, dog & pony show. That’s all the Narcissist in Chief is doing. Why would he call on a group of NEO-cons, faux cons, RINO cons? Because he doesn’t give a fat damn what real conservatives think or believe. He also knows that talking to the Neos and Rino cons is tatamount to talking to Dimocrats. Granted, Charles K. has an awesome sense of humor, but he’s a NEO con.
Btw, know what a RINO-virus is? It’s a syndrome that strikes the gonads, spine and brain, rendering each system useless.:):)
kooziegirl
Kooziegirl, can you teach my wife to talk like you? I’m a faithful husband, but you’re making me commit thought sins.
SKYFOX on January 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM
jerseyman on January 15
You got it.
Gospel Moody on January 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Didn’t any one of these slimes say no to the terms?
Who was invited who didn’t go? Now that’s a story.
JiangxiDad on January 15, 2009 at 3:01 PM
“Keep your friends close… Your enemies even closer.”
Now, let’s all have a reacharound.
franksalterego on January 15, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Once, after a particularly testy press conference, Richard Nixon told the press corps, “From now on, I’ll consult you before I do anything.” He was kidding, of course, but Dan Rather’s eyes got as big as cowpies.
whitetop on January 15, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Conservatives are willing to hope for the best while giving the new guy the benefit of doubt. (He can’t really be a Marxist, you see, because he is an American, and was just elected to the office of President.)
Meanwhile The Obama will use that hope as a lever to move his political opponents.
Skandia Recluse on January 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Rub your hands together first….can’t stand cold palms.
LimeyGeek on January 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Somewhere, near the maverick’s backside, Lindsay Graham is JEALOUS.
He wanted to be the first.
HornetSting on January 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM
My idea:
He’s trying to build a base among conservatives to which he can refer every time the right has a problem with one of his views or actions.
Like so:
“Hey now, I’M the bi-partisan one here and I proved it by meeting with Kristol and those two other guys, now SHUT UP about stem cell research and same-sex marriage. I’m going to provide funding if I want; I’m going to legalize it if I want. YOU’RE just being hateful and evil and bad and wrong and whiny and childish and stupid and bad and racist and bad and racist and childish and . . . oh, did I mention RACIST?”
Ryan Gandy on January 15, 2009 at 3:11 PM
The only reservation with a reacharound with Obama is, he’d prob’ly have his hand in my back pocket.
franksalterego on January 15, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Bonus shocker!
LimeyGeek on January 15, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Exactly. Obama wasn’t there to listen, he was there for appearances–to get the P.R. as the magnanimous “post-partisan” (which for some odd reason people think of as virtuous), and to see if he could cast his “rock star” spell on any of them. Apparently, he could.
DrMagnolias on January 15, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Krauthammer wasn’t being sarcastic. He made it clear that he approves of audacity, keeping the expansion of executive power that Bush acquired post-911.
On Obama and war powers:
The revisionism has started. All the liberals who railed against the Bush and Cheney administration for usurping powers and augmenting the powers of the presidency and stretching it’s limits all of a sudden are discovering the virtues of a strong executive in wartime when a Democrat is about to enter the office of the presidency.
So it is hypocrisy squared, but I think, actually, it is a good thing, because we do need a strong executive. And I think in retrospect history is going to judge the Bush administration well on how it did.
It stretched the limits of law, the existing law, in order to enable the fighting of an enemy about whom we were almost blind after 9/11, successfully kept us safe for seven years, and instituted procedures, including interrogation and detentions, eavesdropping and other elements, which have kept us safe and which will be the tools which, if Obama is smart, he will not dispose of and will keep, because he’s going to need them in the war on terror.
01/15 09:56 AM
I am saying the message was clear, you applauded it, saying “Krauthammer gets it,” and expansion of government is never a conservative libertarian principle.
chunderroad on January 15, 2009 at 3:31 PM
#5.Fox in sheep’s clothing.
christene on January 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM
right2bright on January 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Had to go back and read the NRO excerpt a third time.
Obviously that paragraph is a bit tongue-in-cheek but I’m not sure whether your interpretation (based on following posts) is correct. I think both Krauthammer and Kudlow are trying to point out the Obama is deadly serious and not someone to treat casually.
Texas Gal on January 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM
That’s an optimistic view. Both Krauthammer and Kudlow give the impression that they think Obama is smarter than that. Preemptive is certainly correct.
Jaibones on January 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Sowell hates him. Moreover, he’s old and probably would not have accepted the invitation under the conditions. Krauthammer is less principled (a good thing).
gh on January 15, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Like they need any more reasons to be mad about the boy. BO is such a flirt.
argos on January 15, 2009 at 3:52 PM
I wonder if Obama knew that Krauthammer is a psychiatrist?
Texas Gal on January 15, 2009 at 4:05 PM
The correct poll answer is “none of the above.” These individuals are not representative of the right.
Valiant on January 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM
I think you need some help…
Audacity was a sarcastic remark
See, he is calling them hypocrites…the revisionists, the liberals.
He is saying the liberals are hyp. squared…then he talks about how Bush will be seen as strong.
Then he finished up saying Obama should do what Bush had done…and that
Sorry, can’t get much plainer than that, he was stating that Obama and his followers will have to become (and have started) hypocrites, and that they will have to accept that Bush was a strong leader with guiding principles that they can’t dispose of.
You’re welcome…class is dismissed for the day…but I have to give you a D for comprehension, and a B for research.
As I stated Krauthammer gets it, you just missed it.
right2bright on January 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Interesting questions to the poll, shows you just don’t get it, ed. The dinner said nothing about barry, he’s going to do whatever he wants, he doesn’t need those people. What it said is that so called “conservative” pundits are playing that role in the political class game. They are not with us conservative Americans, ultimately they are with the self annointed ruling elite.
peacenprosperity on January 15, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Blowing smoke up our butts was not an option. Neither was undermining the “conservatives” that are acceptable in th emedia so as to marginalize the rest of us.
The Opinionator on January 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
It most certainly was not, and I provided the follow-up and quoted it in full and in bold for emphasis. You cannot, it seems, discern between sarcasm and self-deprecation.
So? That doesn’t mean anything. We’ve all known Democrats are more interested in power than ethics.
He hopes that people will change their minds about Bush in the future. See, he is a believer in hope and change, except that Bush and Obama are exactly alike… the audacity of Krauthammer.
Like I said, let me know how that unicorn works out for you.
chunderroad on January 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Obama is a left-liberal Democrat with socialist leanings trying to neuter conservatism.
Will(et al) has offered the olive branch.
We’ll see.
Randy
williars on January 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
That is not saying that Obama is a centrist any more than Bush was; they are both narcissistic ideologues (one being a globalist, and the other a neocon) with daddy issues.
chunderroad on January 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Based on Kurtz’ piece in the WaPo (in headlines above)even the idiots at the Huffington Post know that Obama dining with Conservative pundits was just for show. so much for anyone thinking that Obama actually cares what Republicans think.
katiejane on January 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Other (none of the first options apply).
Just for you Hornet – see link.
Entelechy on January 15, 2009 at 6:47 PM
That’s why only “Other” could apply.
Entelechy on January 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Those who were invited, by George Will, to dine with Obama are all elitist RINOS. They do not appear to possess one iota of kinship with mainstream conservative Republicans.
Their secrecy pact is insulting.
We need younger and smarter conservative Republicans to replace this arrogant and self-important clique.
sinsing on January 15, 2009 at 7:03 PM
I voted, ‘other’. It was a mere picture, and propaganda opportunity.
DannoJyd on January 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM
The people he is meeting are not real conservatives.
If he wants a meeting with real conservative leaders in the media he should invite Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Prager and Sean Hannity, not the checkered pants middle of the roader fake cons he is meeting with.
Borislav on January 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM
right2bright, Thank you for engaging with unicorn boy about Krauthammer. *rollseyes I faced the same type of attitude when I tried to bring these quotes up on a message board. I wanted other’s opinions of whether he was joking or what. They just called CK names and spoke among themselves, ignoring me. I think you are 100% correct and I don’t think CK meant O’s audacity or the hypocrisy is a good thing. O’s ability to be a blatant hypocrite just happens to work out good for the safety of our country in this instance.
Thanks again, r2b. It would have been nice to have spoken with you earlier.
Texas Gal, Thanks for that tidbit. I did not know CK is a psychiatrist.
Mmm hmmm!
Elektra on January 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Obama doesn’t give a damn about conservative thought or principles. He is a dedicated far left idealogue who believes in the almighty big government and its intrusion in the lives of the hapless people under the thumbs of this big government. He comes no where close in believing in individual effort, freedom, etc. He had that dinner to get the squishy “used to be conservatives but who have lost their way” pundits to drool all over him like Chris Matthews does. Barf.
karenhasfreedom on January 16, 2009 at 1:21 AM
From coke and mirrors…………..
Benjamin9 on January 16, 2009 at 5:52 AM
First of all, sweetie, having sex with your father is illegal in most states. Quit giving liberals excuses for abortion.
You’re either an idiot or
rightnot2bright’s sockpuppet. Here’s what Krauthammer wrote:“So it is hypocrisy squared, but I think, actually, it is a good thing, because we do need a strong executive. And I think in retrospect history is going to judge the Bush administration well on how it did.” Translation. “It’s hypocrisy on the part of the Left, but it will enable Obastard to reenact something like Somalia or Bosnia, and we can all lick his ass while he does it.”
Or this: “[Bush] instituted procedures, including interrogation and detentions, eavesdropping and other elements, which have kept us safe and which will be the tools which, if Obama is smart, he will not dispose of and will keep, because he’s going to need them in the war on terror.” Translation: “Obastard can use techniques usually derided by the Left in order to screw our allies and threaten his opponents at home. Cool.”
Finally: “…you see that since his election he has kind of reached out to people that may not be ideological allies, to Rick Warren, the pastor who will be at his inaugural, to John McCain, whom he has treated with a lot of dignity and respect (!), and to a bunch of right wing columnists last night, in part, because I think he is a guy who is intellectually curious and wants to exchange ideas, but also in part he wants to co-opt the vast right wing conspiracy.” Translation: “I’ll lick his black ass if I have to in order to get an interview every year or so. Also, I’m officially a moron because I believe his sugared words yet ignore his voting record.”
chunderroad on January 16, 2009 at 6:15 AM
Baloney. We didn’t need the President to have all this new power to defeat the terrorists. Jefferson laid out the correct model in the Barbary Wars.
What we’ve done here is open the door for a dictatorship and tyranny. Now the Democrats will show us what an overpowered President can do with the wrong agenda.
fossten on January 16, 2009 at 7:14 AM
So, because I interpret CK’s words differently, I am an inbred retard, an idiot, or a sockpuppet? Ok, since we are being so open to interpretations, I think you’re a moron and a troll.
Krauthammer doesn’t do interviews, btw, and I am almost positive he doesn’t aspire to ‘lick ass’.
Elektra on January 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM
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