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posted at 10:00 pm on March 28, 2009 by Allahpundit
“I think it’s important to engage your critics … because not only will you occasionally change their mind but, more importantly, sometimes they will change your mind.”
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The Wall on March 28, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Maybe he doesn’t want any questions to start out with ‘Hey, scumbag’
RalphyBoy on March 28, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Didn’t some liberal the other day whine about the echo chamber?
Does it apply to presidential town halls as well?
lorien1973 on March 28, 2009 at 10:04 PM
erm…..when Bush was accused of “setting the stage” it was the end of the world to the newsies….”just saying”…
sven10077 on March 28, 2009 at 10:04 PM
assumes you have a mind…
winston on March 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM
A mind is a terrible thing to waste….
Or, the new Obama motto, re: the stimulus et al.,…a waste is a terrible thing to mind.
coldwarrior on March 28, 2009 at 10:10 PM
With the full rectal exam Joe the Plumber took by the media, these “critics” get nary a passing glance. Funny how that happens.
msmveritas on March 28, 2009 at 10:10 PM
That’s not change. That’s more of the same.
EconomicNeocon on March 28, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Come on, it says right there the questions were “far from planted”. I can only assume they were lovingly sewn, or perhaps carefully cultivated, but certainly not planted. That would be wrong. I mean, can they help it if he has so many
worshippers, ersycophants, um,disciplesrandomly selected interested citizens?trubble on March 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Maybe he doesn’t want any questions to start out with ‘Yo, asshole’
RalphyBoy on March 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM
How
peopledrones still follow this tool is beyond me.madmonkphotog on March 28, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Team Hopey/Changey,
stacking,and planting!
Say it ain’t so Joe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
canopfor on March 28, 2009 at 10:13 PM
President Obama’s idea of “engaging [his] critics” was clearly on display in the discussions leading to the “stimulus” bill. It consists of a meeting invite and “my way or the highway.”
Good to see that even the Wa Post is on to this.
Worst. President. Ever.
Splunge on March 28, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Barry only knows the answers to certain questions, so he has to narrow things down a bit.
You wouldn’t want him to look like an idiot would you?
profitsbeard on March 28, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Well, duhh…
Saltysam on March 28, 2009 at 10:17 PM
uh…er um uh….
Pardon me but “the Chimpenator” had to deal with confrontational a$$hats, the media, shoe throwers etc etc…
Captain ThinSkin Teleprompter needs to nut up and scrum.
sven10077 on March 28, 2009 at 10:18 PM
To be fair, he did have that dinner with the smart “conservative” writers, so, he has been as engaged with “critics”.
myrenovations on March 28, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Throwing softshoes at Obama?
Since no balls were in evidence.
profitsbeard on March 28, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Yeah, like the gop counter budget:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0wRJjXvyZ1I/Sc2YuQfcpKI/AAAAAAAADtw/Y8uS7iVhakQ/s1600-h/GOP_Fail1.jpg
getalife on March 28, 2009 at 10:22 PM
The never ending campaign………..
…… all hail TOTUS!!!
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Carol Platt Liebau worked with him at the Harvard Law Review and said he would always sit down and listen to conservatives politely but never follow their suggestions. He ALWAYS did it his way.
goat on March 28, 2009 at 10:23 PM
You didn’t turn off your power for “Earth Hour”….
…… TOTUS will not be pleased!
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Hey barry,
You work for me, so get off of the internet and get to work. This guy thinks his fireside chats will keep him in the good graces of his ‘bots. As long as he keeps setting the stage in his favor it will work, but not forever, when the fit hits the shan all bets are off.
thomasaur on March 28, 2009 at 10:24 PM
well, he does like to know what he’s talking about before he speaks, after all.
no better way to take care of that than to know the people and the questions they are asking before they ask them. all night cram sessions, no doze, and a little caine….what a combination for a town hall.
sandlin71 on March 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Maybe he doesn’t want any questions to start out with ‘Look you commie bastard’
RalphyBoy on March 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Off-topic, but I’m running full-bore with the lights for Earth Hour, anyone else?
CP on March 28, 2009 at 10:26 PM
I wonder,are the questions already asked before hand!
Because without the telepromter,it takes Obama
around 10-to 15 seconds to grasp his thoughts
before attempting an answer,and thats every
question!
And even then,he’s struggling at best!
canopfor on March 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM
with the lights ON, I meant.
CP on March 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I even plugged in old phone chargers.
myrenovations on March 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM
ROFLMAO!
Saltysam on March 28, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Maybe he doesn’t want any questions to start out with ‘Okay turd… enough already’
RalphyBoy on March 28, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Mr. Teleprompter………….
…….. this was also meant for you!
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Heh. Funny president.
29Victor on March 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM
full-bore with lights for Earth,anyone else?
CP on Mar 28,2009 at 10:26PM.
CP:Yes,lights are on,full power,or as my grandfather
would say,
Lit up, like a whore house!!Hehe:)
canopfor on March 28, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Yeah, they had a chance to present one. Where have you been the last few months? Pelosi, Reid, Obama and company totally blew off the Republicans so what good would it have done if they had presented an alternate plan?
docdave on March 28, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Normally, Im a tyrant about turning lights off that aren’t being used in the house.
Tonight, we’re having celebrate Thomas Edison night.
The kids are having a blast!
Saltysam on March 28, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I’m signaling all the ships at sea that can see my house…….
……… and from the looks of it, so are about a thousand neighbors of mine,
some of them……..
………….. even have “Obama” stickers on their cars.
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Christmas lights are back up and ON for the weekend (and not that LED crap).
WashJeff on March 28, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Yeah, that’s same promise Caligula made.
Speakup on March 28, 2009 at 10:34 PM
I’m running out of new ways to say fraud….
katy on March 28, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Maybe he doesn’t want any questions to start out with…. Never mind, I have no questions that I would ask this POS… But I would put him on the spot for raping the future and throwing money around like there is no payment due attached to it.
RalphyBoy on March 28, 2009 at 10:34 PM
How does this reconcile with the “I won” so your opinion doesn’t matter bullshit?
highhopes on March 28, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Electric stove running, central air to keep the kitchen cool, the dogs electric blanket on high, washing clothes, re-drying clothes, all lights on.
Full steam ahead
Knucklehead on March 28, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I gave my son the task of testing all of our flashlights as well…………
……….. along with all his battery powered toys.
Great fun…….
……… sure has “lightened up” the neighborhood.
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 10:37 PM
And we should listen to the gop on regulations to keep another economic disaster from happening again.
getalife on March 28, 2009 at 10:37 PM
You guys act like narrowing topics down to make the telepromter guy’s job easier makes Obama into some kind of hypocrite.
Can you even imagine how much drive space it would take to store the doublespeak needed to deal with the sort of questions conservatives would ask? It’s not hypocrisy, it’s professionalism, and that’s something you rascist redneck bumpkins will never understand.
TMK on March 28, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I’m running out of appliances to turn on.
Knucklehead on March 28, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I wonder if TOTUS gets the nite off for earth hour?
Speakup on March 28, 2009 at 10:40 PM
This is what the TOTUS says while doing the exact opposite. Engaging critics is the opposite of reading scripted answers to tightly-screened questions from Obama cult members.
Right_of_Attila on March 28, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Would have been more impressed if the WP hadn’t been acting as apologist — “Although the questioners were supporters, the questions weren’t planted” Oh, no no no, there was no attempt to stack the deck here folks, move on.
They may be getting it, but the love affair is far from over.
AZfederalist on March 28, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Let me guess…
…on their SUVs?
Saltysam on March 28, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Bawney Fwank, Christine Dodd, and Maxi-Oad Waters are Republicans?
They are the folks who got risk misvaluated…
sven10077 on March 28, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Reference: Community Reinvestment Act
…….. you can lie about the truth, but that doesn’t ever change the truth.
Some Republicans were on board with the CRA, but ALL Democrats were completely invested………. which caused the economic disaster.
Even you, can not change that…….
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Yeap……….
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 10:43 PM
I checked his blog and he is, “burying recyclables, old batteries at Camp David, and buying acre of rainforest and having it burned.”
WashJeff on March 28, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Have a ball.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Earth Hour is probably going to try and take credit for all the dark houses in Kansas tonite- Big storms all day, a lot of power outages.
anniekc on March 28, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Awesome link! Would that a Republican had the balls to stand and say the same to The Pinnochio Presidente!
Outrage at debt becoming 10% of GDP and Urkel is headed for 80%. Where is the GOP, RNC, a patriot or two willing to take on the Obommunist?
dhunter on March 28, 2009 at 10:48 PM
+1
jgapinoy on March 28, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Then swallow Bawney’s Frank.
WashJeff on March 28, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Mr. Obama – then please read Mark Levin’s new book:
http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Tyranny-Conservative-Mark-Levin/dp/1416562850
izoneguy on March 28, 2009 at 10:48 PM
No problems with Fannie and Freddie, no sir, not a problem, no reforms necessary. Then they call us the party of no.
msmveritas on March 28, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Mr. Obama – then please read Mark Levin’s new book:
izoneguy on March 28, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I went to Barnes & Noble today to get a copy and they’ve been out since Tuesday, same with the other store across town. Was told the publisher had to print more and we wouldn’t get any in town for another week and a half.
CP on March 28, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Obviously, the idiot messiah was talking about “fashion critics”. For anything that requires actual thought, The Precedent is too friggin’ stupid to understand the points of his critics. After all, if he ever had two brain cells to rub together, he never would have taken any of the moronic marxist garbage seriously.
progressoverpeace on March 28, 2009 at 10:53 PM
President TelePrompter graduated summa cum laude from ACORN.
TN Mom on March 28, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Engage me, baby! Dunno if you have the yarbles to actually do it, though.
thebrokenrattle on March 28, 2009 at 10:57 PM
I’ll see your SUV and raise you an SUV with an Obama sticker driven by an employee for a defense contractor.
… that designs and builds that “untested” ballistic missile defense systems.
Yes, they really are THAT stupid.
AZfederalist on March 28, 2009 at 11:00 PM
crap!
That should have read: “that designs and builds those “untested” ballistic missile defense systems that Obama was railing against during the campaign”
AZfederalist on March 28, 2009 at 11:01 PM
This will be so whitewashed it will glow.
After beating relentlessly on Rush Limbaugh, Cindy McCain, Bush, the Bush Twins (and God knows who else on the right side) for past addictions and/or lapses in judgement…
The communist MSM will dode on Mizzz Biden with comforting words of sympathy, cheer her on in her “inner struggle” to rehabilitate and “find her way through the dark hour”, and in the end, give her a multi-million dollar book deal. Oprah will have her on the show to discuss her “rebirth”. She will be granted admission to the onslaught of awards shows. She will be the cover story for People as a heroine (no pun intended) to be admired. She will become a fashion icon, getting a cover of Vogue. She will become a feminist icon, getting a cover to Ms. magazine.
She will be a star. Because of this.
Nary will we see her on the tabloid covers (as we did with Palin and baby Trig). It will not be mentioned on Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollyweird, The Daily Show, The Colbaaaaaaair Report, SNL, Olberfart nor Mathscrewz.
This girl’s got it made.
ErinF on March 28, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I have all the lights on inside and out, with all shutters open. I can’t stand the un and anything they stand for…
Bambi on March 28, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Don’t worry, the irony was caught.
When Obama slams the big evil corporations, do you think that they are shaking in their shoes? No, because in Obama-lingo regulations simply means regulating the crap out of small businesses and having a government employee on the board of AIG…
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Got one at Sam’s Club yesterday.
Christian Conservative on March 28, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Earth hour doesn’t start here for another 28 minutes, may turn on a few more lights and a heater (I’m cold).
As mentioned in another thread, I did go out and buy some ‘canned air’ after learning that it was being banned in office areas at work because it contains ingredients whose constituents are some large amount worse than CO2 for global warming. After hearing that, who could resist? Worked really great cleaning out the PC chassis when I replaced the dead video card yesterday.
AZfederalist on March 28, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Exactly. You were expecting maybe … Sarah Palin? Don’t think he could come close to holding his own with her without lying through his teeth. Oh wait… he does that anyway.
Christian Conservative on March 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM
What you’ve got to remember is that this guy has no conception of how moderates, let alone conservatives, think and operate. Our viewpoint isn’t even on his radar screen. His idea of “engaging the other side” is to listen to a normal liberal.
After all, this is the man who called the abortion debate “stale and fruitless.” Doubt he would have been happy had someone used those words to describe the passionate abolitionist movement in the 19th century….
Roxeanne de Luca on March 28, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Dang, this is the first time I find myself wishing I was the type of person who leaves the Christmas lights up all year long!
But, I will do my best to ensure that my house is visible from space.
califcon on March 28, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Again I ask what makes this man tick? What he DOESN’T do is so pointless. If it’s important to ‘engage ‘ people who differ, why won’t he insist that Pelosi and company at least listen to a GOP budget? Why does he refuse to rein in Nance and her crowd insofar as that is possible? Why does he refuse, absolutely refuse any kind of inter-action with the Hill. Instead he goes to the people as he calls it and expects them to rouse their Congress people. OK as far as it goes but sooner or later they’re going to get tired of it because that’s just the way things are. He is rife with so many contradictions that they are becoming too many to keep track of. What he’s doing is illogical and makes things harder than they need to be, and yet he just escalates this crazy behavior when it would be so easy to get what he wants by less controversial means and at the same time build some bridges which this country sorely needs. Both right and left would/could embrace this. He’s crazy in how he goes about things and not being smart about it at all. I know, another long rant—sorry but I’m obsessed–have to see someone about it I guess.
jeanie on March 28, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Obama can’t hold his own in any debate without extensive pre-set ground rules and a sympathetic moderator. Sarah Palin would have destroyed him in debates last autumn, especially if the moderator had been, say, Brit Hume.
ddrintn on March 28, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Just got TurboTax to installed on Vista (a minor miracle in itself). Timmah’s phone number is not under Help->Service and Support. I guess I am on my own.
WashJeff on March 28, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Don’t know about his views on the abolitionists; however, I know both him and Hillary are so proud of their “progressive moment” roots – yes, the progressives that probably would have had his mother sterilized for fornicating with a Negro…
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I just put some lights on my “Victory Garden”………
……. yeah, the one about to be outlawed by Mr. Teleprompter.
My son asked me, “Daddi……. what are you doing?”
………. then I explained the process of PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
Hey GetaClue……..
………. explain to me again how CO2 is bad?
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 11:14 PM
This is about the point in the conversation where a liberal would say, “Oh, your views on things are so ‘black and white.’ You’re like the moral police. There are real people hurting out their and you are worried about a few words.”
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:15 PM
That is why Obama has been encouraging all of us to learn a new language.
myrenovations on March 28, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:15 PM
I get told the black and white thing all the time, but thanks anyway for the heads up. Any conservative who attends an Episcopal Church grows used to hearing this.
jeanie on March 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Yeah, he will listen to criticism in London.
getalife on March 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM
I hope no one believes that tape of Ashley Biden is ever going to see light of day.
No media outlet is ever going to buy it out of fear of being ostracized. More likely is that NBC pays up just to bury it.
budfox on March 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM
She would have as she did O’Biden but he would have lied so beautifully, as did O’Biden, that she would not have time to rebut the lies else not make her own points.
His lying eloquently would have been mistaken for enlightenment and knowledge by the publik skool edukated masses and libural mediaobots would have told them they were correct in their assessment while Sarahs’ folksy, everyday plainspoken truth would have been ridiculed as a stoopid hick from that little frozen godforsaken place up north.
I’ve never been so unproud of my country!
God Help Us!
dhunter on March 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Obama’s new language… the truth will be a lie and a lie will be the truth…Hummmmm, I know I’ve seen that written somewhere… ;o)
katy on March 28, 2009 at 11:23 PM
More likely the LA Times will buy it. They’ve already started a library of videotapes that can never be shown, and they know that no one ever demands they show anything.
progressoverpeace on March 28, 2009 at 11:25 PM
BUSH PREVARICATED, JEFF GANNON INFILTRATED
Jim Treacher on March 28, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Really? That’s what he said on the campaign trail, but I know “uneducated” Americans who could say “Merci Beaucoup” better than the O. I wonder what languages Obama can speak fluently?
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:26 PM
OT.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article5993184.ece
That’s it! I’m moving to Germany. Merkel has some serious cohones….
katy on March 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Yeah, speaking of which, maybe you could tell me what exactly a Zen Episcopalian is… It seems to be a big, unemployed O supporter.
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I fold.
Unless you’ll allow me to use my Warren Buffet card. Are joker’s wild?
Saltysam on March 28, 2009 at 11:28 PM
The more conspiratorial minded might point out that this is not crazy at all, but part of his effort to continue to sow more chaos that can then be leveraged to his advantage in promoting his change and growing government meme. The more chaotic things become, the more people will turn to government to instill order back in their lives — that they will have to give up some freedom for that order will be a reasonable trade in their eyes.
AZfederalist on March 28, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:15 PM
In fact, in my Church, during Bible study they all make a concerted affort to convince each other that the naive folks of Bible times only thought they witnessed real miracles and then they put forth various theories on how these could have happened in such a way as to fool these poor mis-guided folk. You could make a whole sit-com based on these people.
jeanie on March 28, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Zen Episcopalian–never heard of it but will ask around. I’m sure it will promote discussion during Bible study.
jeanie on March 28, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Yeah, I had a similar experience in college. My “devout” catholic professor told us he believed Jesus was real person and he believed that he died on the cross, but that he did not believe in an actual resurrection, but more of a metaphorical resurrection… For me, this would be where I would want to become an atheist; however, for liberals (which he was), this is a way of finding our definition of G-d in our own way…
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM
If you really want to get the conversation going, ask what an
Zen Episcopalian is.
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 11:36 PM
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