Open thread: You know what America needs? More Barack Obama on television
posted at 7:31 pm on March 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
8 p.m. ET across the dial, or try C-SPAN.org if you’re sans TV. Serious question: Why did The One call this presser? Half of it will be esoterica about Geithner’s rescue plan, the other half will be perfunctory outrageous outrage about the AIG bonuses. We can do without more of either. If you’re watching and anxious for annotation entertainment (anno-tainment?), though, there’s an embarrassment of liveblogging riches to choose from. The boss will have something going, as will Ace — with special guest star Iowahawk filling in for Obama’s teleprompter. And in what I think is a first, Greg Gutfeld will be spending his night off sharing his thoughts with Daily Gut readers. Don’t mention Canada in the comments!
While we wait, enjoy the near-epic failure of Organizing for America’s first foray into post-election canvassing. Or laugh along as CNBC cravely caves to leftist criticism by hiring Howard Dean as a contributor and inviting nutroots eminence Arianna Huffington to guest host their morning show. Good work, Jon Stewart.
Update: The TOTUS is ready, baby.
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Don’t look at me. I would like to take credit but frankly it was just a gift of God that has fallen into my lap.
PootyPoot on March 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM
enough oreilly. FBN has a better show
oakpack on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
has the stamina for it long term.
neuquenguy on March 24, 2009 at 9:04 PM
“That’s a Man, Baby.”
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!
d1carter on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Alert: Turner Classic Movie is as I speak showing the Chuck Jones cartoon based on Jean-Claude Kerri.
Classic cinema.
Del Dolemonte on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Do tell!
SouthernGent on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Him and Bush are pretty close in terms of effectiveness so far. Hey, did you know they are cousins. :)
True_King on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
That’s racist. No, really, historically speaking it’s racist.
Y-not on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Press conference two confirms that he is a nitwit and that all his followers are useful idiots.
genso on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
How can the O stand there and blatantly lie???
conmo on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 PM
On what planet?
Troll couldn’t be here during the presser, but pops up with platitudes after it’s over.
Time for me to move on………
tru2tx on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 PM
rplat on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I hate Bob Beckel….Chuck Jones’ Pepe Le’Pew is so much better!
Vntnrse on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Just in time…
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 PM
It’s not a lie if you
believe itare too dumb to know what you’resayingreading.Y-not on March 24, 2009 at 9:16 PM
It looks like TOTUS got a bash… He’s all shiny and proud.
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:16 PM
I’m blatant blue, and it aint that hard
so it has to be easy for him to blatantly lie
blatantblue on March 24, 2009 at 9:16 PM
How can the O stand there and blatantly lie???
conmo on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Practice practice practice
oakpack on March 24, 2009 at 9:16 PM
*bath*
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers told him to.
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Bedtime Story #2 proves we have an amateur in the White House…who doesn’t have a clue what the hell is going on.
d1carter on March 24, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Great leadership.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Yes, 20 trillion dollars of additional debt when the country is totally broke is great leadership.
I’m ordering my Krugerrands tomorrow.
TexasJew on March 24, 2009 at 9:16 PM
He tells his wife he’s leaving her. “Gonna go find him some new ……..1″
She says, “Oh, yeah….if you had 2 more inches you could find some new ………. right here.”
genso on March 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Does anyone think that any of the networks have approached him for a series. Comedy or drama? I am having a hard time believing that people that like him want to see him this much.
Cindy Munford on March 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Easy…he’s a demoCrap.
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Great leadership, said the tool, I mean, troll.
I guess they finally received their talking points.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Negotiate immunity with AP first ;-l
neuquenguy on March 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM
“I like to know what I am talking about before I speak”
Ed looks down.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM
BOR comes out with “He didn’t himself any favors tonight” to Bob Beckel.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
KittyLowrey on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Axlerod on FbN
oakpack on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
That last hit of Window Pane must be making a return engagement.
thomasaur on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
QueerTroll. Bait. Number. Two.Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
OBAMA SUCKS.
He is such a long winded blow hard who spins endlessly around nothing beyond rhetoric.
This guy actually presumes that he is the everything, and that anything outside of his everything is blatant ignorance, “no” hollow criticism.
Obama is his own echo chamber. His speeches go round and round without specifying a damned thing. When asked a question, he merely repeats his speech (from the teleprompter that just keeps on prompting).
So he claims it breaks his heart that any American child is homeless. But he’ll be damned before he invests more into homeless shelters; rather, at least tolerate The Salvation Army without interference. They are on his expendable list of luxury items that cost more than they are worth. And get that salt in the wound, folks, as your charitable donations become taxed. See that cold stone face of Obama as he denies any relationship between lower charitable contributions and raised taxes on the same.
There was no irony lost as Obama said he was returning to the Clinton IRS Era that taxed $8K from a family of four with an income of $24K.
Anyone who claims to have the monopoly on workable knowledge is a pompous ass. To further deny ANY credibility to others is beyond the realm of rational. In the sum of all fears, the neo-Nazi said that Hitler was not mad so much as stupid, to persist in overwhelming his own nation’s capacity.
And Obama proudly pronounces his determination to be persistent to the end, the very end. Let him end himself.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
He lied again.
genso on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
You really do have a small IQ. Ignorance only explains so much.
Nuts4koi on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
You know…I could almost accept the “I inherited this deficit” argument if he wasn’t trying to increase it! Making it worse eliminates the excuse, man…
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Going hard after the budget.
I bet he pulls a Reagan and rams it thru with 50 votes.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Like I said, my cat could do better than obama. She just got finished licking her ass and now she is hissing at the dog in front of the glass door. Next, she will sleep for another four hours, a total of seventeen and then she can take your questions.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM
I’ll bet he pulls an ostritch out of his ass, getalife. Oh, I mean, he buries his head deeper than an ostritch. Rams it down our throats, yep, that’s how you like it, huh?
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM
We did that years ago with the old Bob Newhart Show. The second show, where it turned out he had a 7 year long bad dream that he lived in Vermont?
Every time someone mentioned his first name (his character was “Dick Loudon”) one took a shot.
If his handyman George Utley (played by the late/great Tom Poston) said “Dick”, it was double dose.
Del Dolemonte on March 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM
I hope you have not waited this long. Been buying physical silver/gold and gun powder propelled lead for about 2 years. This is probably going to get ugly.
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Not a terrible performance, not one of his best either.
I watched Geithner yesterday at the Future of Finance summit and I’ve yet to see any serious criticism from our side.
Instead we have the lefty economists dukin it out over whether it’s socialist enough or too risky for tax payers.
Once again we allow the left to frame the debate because we refuse to engage based on ideological rigidity.
Like this garbage ‘go galt’, except only kinda.
So instead of acknowledging the hyperbole and negotiating, too many pretend they really are ‘going galt’.
Its an extension of the ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’, until we do.
barkolounger on March 24, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Axlerod is doing more uhs than uhbomba does.
oakpack on March 24, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Great leadership?
Aren’t you the one who was kissing his ___ for the uptick in the stock market yesterday? What happened today?
Are you disappointed the middle class isn’t going to get its promised tax cut?
capitalist piglet on March 24, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Going hard after the budget.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Ewww TMI TMI
carbon_footprint on March 24, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Prez Cokehead know exactly what he is doing – instituting communism right under the useful idiots nose.
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 9:20 PM
A true patriot. I wish all Dear Leader did was sit around licking his ass. We’d all be better off.
genso on March 24, 2009 at 9:20 PM
look, all the trolls are here. Where’s drywall? Out drinking with the moose again?
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Toxic = legacy hmmmm
oakpack on March 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Absolutely, genso. I think he does, though, when he’s not with his teleprompter.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Pretty much. He’ll ram it through, but hey he won. It’s what the Republicans wanted, a Dem win, or else they wouldn’t have spent like drunken sailors for 6 years.
True_King on March 24, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Like I said, my cat could do better than obama. She just got finished licking her ass and now she is hissing at the dog in front of the glass door.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Your cat has more executive experience by simply licking her ass than Obama had the day he was elected.
TexasJew on March 24, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Careful, either Uberdouche and/or Sissy Matthews might get a h@rd-on, TROLL….
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I am glad to say I missed it.
This is the first president in my life time that I honestly could not listen to.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I love the one who pretends to be one of “us.”
Anyway, since we’re unable to ignore them, I’m outta’ here. They don’t dare show their pimply faces at Ace.
Y-not on March 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Heh. That’s the best kind of lead.
Weight of Glory on March 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Tru dat, TexasJew.
She’s a conservative. She works hard for her bowl of fish.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM
His budget won’t get rammed through with 50 votes “as is”. He’ll have to give up something…Blue Dogs will see to that. Some of them are up for re-election and they like their Senate seat more than they like Obama.
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Why would he, when he has getalife to do that?
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM
We cannot let this lie go unchallenged! Seriously, I got bored I didn’t listen to all the lies but this one is damageing!!! It has to be refuted and strongly enough to reach through to regular people.
Barack Obama will not consider any ideas that come from the other side. That is wrong.
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Just get your talking points from Twinkle Toes/DNC/Daily Kooks/Center for American Regress/People for the Socialist Way/Soros?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Ynot, I keep hearing about ace, ace. With AP going off the deep end over McCain’s fat daughter, maybe I will join you. Been creeping around manly’s site. Pretty fun.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM
I find myself changing the channel as quickly as possible when I hear the “uh, we uh can spend it…” rhetoric.
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM
HornetSting, can your cat do math? Does she understand concepts like supply & demand, the free market or personal freedoms? If so, then she’s overqualified to work in this administration much less to replace our current Dear Leader.
mctowler on March 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM
upstater85, you kill me. I need a screen on my monitor. It’s gonna die on me one of these days.
*Blows iced tea out nose*
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM
The funniest part was when he cried about inherited a $1-$2 trillion debt while defending his budget that increases the debt to $7-$9 trillion.
Dollayo on March 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM
True_King:
Those drunken sailor Republicans are going to look like refugees from an AA meeting compared to Obama and Pelosi and Reid. This guy has asked for more money in 6 weeks than Bush and the GOP asked for in 6 years.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM
COOL BRUTHA in Chief openly lied multiple times tonight…
For instance… How is the BUS DRIVER being limited to only 28% of his income for charitable deductions? (Under current law?) Not so…
He lied… He is a LIAR… He is a narcissistic media-rear sniffing retriever…
Liar Liar Liar
MuscleHead on March 24, 2009 at 9:26 PM
mctowler, she does math in her head, does not use her claws. She understands and fights for her personal freedom and understands the supply and demand concept as she counts her cans of fish in the cabinet. I feel that she has more brains then the lot of them.
She is expensive, however.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Cons are so childish when they are angry.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Well the fun is over. I’m gonna was NCIS courtesy of DVR. ‘Night, all!
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Out taking liberties with the moose. He’ll be in as soon as he climbs down off the step ladder.
Yoop on March 24, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Apparently you have been blind to the hearings on Capitol Hill recently.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 9:28 PM
trolls are just plain stupid, all the time.
Changed the channel to see what the trolls were listening to.
It’s Ronald Reagan Jr., I mean, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. It’s always good to see what the enemy is doing, but this guy is awful.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:28 PM
No surprise MSNBCs coverage is ejaculatory. CNN & Lou Dobbs, surprisingly harsh, mmm.
msmveritas on March 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM
She probably doesn’t have a “Timmay Tax” problem either….
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Obama’s going to make George Bush look like a fiscal conservative.
Chuck Schick on March 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM
getalife:
If you don’t like angry cons, go away.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Have fun with
QueerTroll Bait!Night. Night.
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Chuck:
Truer words were never spoken.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
You with your Hotair blogin’
And you skeptics always contemplatin’
How my coronation you’d like to start rearrangin’
When that’s not what you really should do
When heaven has found you
Can’t you see
That it’s all wrapped up in the Messiah that’s Me
So follow Me
Come on, tax payers
Follow Me
I’m Obama the Piper
And I’ll show you where Hope and Change is at
Come on, tax payers
Can’t you see
I’m Obama the Piper
Trust in Me
Tax payers
Don’t be worried about payin’ big bucks to help Me move and grove
Hey, tax payers
What do you think I’m tryin’ to prove
It ain’t true
That My Michelle would like to punch and rob your kids and you
It’s just in your mind
And that’s all that’s trickin’ you
So behind all My celebrities step in line
Come on, tax payers
Pony them big bucks up for Me
Come on, tax payers
Trust in My Teleprompter and Me
Come on, tax payers
Can’t you see
Come on, tax payers
Follow Me
MB4 on March 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
He won’t. He craves attention. Even if it’s bad.
kingsjester on March 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
I don’t listen to the talking heads that are never right to form an opinion.
It’s intellectual laziness.
Like listening to rush or Fox News.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
We try to keep up ;) You’re just too much for us to handle.
Thank you, and your cat might be worth the cost by the end of the year…
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Oh hell, it’s olby. I thought it was rachel maddow.
He’s starting to look like a skunk.
I can’t take this.
Yes, my cat can do turbo tax. she doesn’t know if she can take the pay cut though.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Sorry, you talking about intellectual laziness is rich.
msmveritas on March 24, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit has an interesting pic/graph up on deficits, Bush’s and Obama’s.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM
That’s because he’s a RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM
I told you in another thread that getalife is an automatic-comment-generator, sin soul and brain, just machine.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Do you listen to the voices in your head, getalife. If you stick your head up further, you can listen to them in stereo.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Blackberry Shuffle video
SCOOPTHIScarlos on March 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Obamamamamamanomics in 20 words or less:
It’s not my fault.
So Im going to make it much worse.
And then that wont be my fault either.
Chuck Schick on March 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM
I can not believe getalife is yakking about intellectual laziness. And oh yeah, Fox news. ohhhh faux news boo hiss bad.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Hey, world. It will take me two days to figure out what to say, even in response to my own words and documented proposals.
Obama sucks. Given two days, two weeks, two months, two years, he still doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
North Korea tests nuclear missiles that provoke Japanese response that provokes China’s response instigating an Asian war in the China Sea with Russia taking advantage of the crisis to screw Eastern Europe and the MidEast. China absconds with American vessels ordered by our Commander in Chief to stand down while Obama is taking days to decide what to do, what to say. He can not be reached, but has his message machine state that he is “present”. Hillary is frantically pushing her “reset” button to no avail.
What a weenie. No compassion, either, as Obama has only antipathy. If you are not part of his solution, you are most definitely part of the problem. BLAME THE CRITICS for your own errors, fool.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 9:34 PM
More BO should be a stimulus to deodorant sales…
Mister Ghost on March 24, 2009 at 9:35 PM
I think getalife is slipping, he’s becoming predictable.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Really, I thought she was just someone forced into early retirement in the golden years of Clinton…
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Have Teleprompter Will Travel reads the card of the man.
A knave without a thought of his own in what he’s turning into a bankrupt land.
His umm, ah, oh, loose mouth heeds the calling of a Soros wind.
A man without a clue of his own is the man called Obamadin.
Obamadin, Obamadin, Where do you roam?
Obamadin, Obamadin, Just be sure to never leave your teleprompter at home.
He travels on to campaign whenever he feels he must
His yearning for power is his guiding lust
There are legends that themselves do spin
Of the Ventriloquist’s dummy
Of the man called Obamadin
Obamadin, Obamadin, Where do you roam?
Obamadin, Obamadin, Just be sure to never leave your teleprompter at home.
MB4 on March 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Yes, he doesn’t want someone knowledgeable to try to pin him down on any problems and specific questions.
INC on March 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Didnt watch,cant stand the sight of him. Im guessing I didnt miss much. Oh ya,I forgot to ask- was TOTUS there?
canditaylor68 on March 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM
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