bush and cheny had nearly 8 years of keeping us safe. jimmy obama has had 6 months of keeping us safe..I’ll hold my judgment for now. IMHO obama has a long way to go to live up to that claim.

Keeping us safe is the most important duty of any president. But it is not the ONLY duty. I would hope you are also judging presidents on how well they protect your liberty, not just your life. And on that score, Obama is one of the worst in history — actively destroying liberty outright.

I think it shows class that Obama defended Dubya. But of course most of you will somehow still use this to attack him. ODS at its best!

dcwvu on June 22, 2009 at 8:22 PM

It shows that Barack Obama has more of a gag reflex than you do. Which says more about you than Obama.

Harry Smith – blushing schoolgirl. “did I go too far, you great big gorgeous hunk you, cause if I did, i’ll do anything to make it up to you….if you’ll just touch me”
notagool on June 22, 2009 at 10:22 PM

King Xerxes President Obama: “Unlike the cruel Leonidas Bush, who demanded that you stand, I require only that you kneel.”

Doesn’t this remind you of the MSM and the boy king? Be cautious. You knew what are!

Most of us here (trolls excepted) have engaged the bullsh*t filters in our brains and we can see through the crap being dished out daily in the state-run media. Still, it would be refreshing to hear the truth from the so-called guardians of truth. Not Obama bashing, just truth. The good, the bad and the ugly. Then the unengaged masses can have a shot at knowing more than the company line. But it’s not going to happen, so we have to support the few small islands of reason that do exist. At least until the fairness doctrine is reinstated and those islands sink beneath the waves.

On a separate note Obama’s response to mr. “biography” was quite possibly the first, and maybe the only, utterance from our President that I could fully stand behind. I think for the first time I’m actually proud of him; laughter is, after all the best medicine. That is, of course, when answering questions from a politically, historically, and apparently illiterate, (did he not read the transcript,?) moron such as this. I mean seriously, let’s just go ahead and make up rhetoric for people to say and pretend they actually said them. That makes things so much easier for the terminally uninformed, cough, Olberman, cough, to spew out as fact. Why stick to the truth when you can just make it up as you go along?

Please for the love of “God,” (had to put that word in quotes lest I get lumped in with the rest of the DHS confirmed right-wing extremists,) can we, the American public, have an actual unbiased, non-politically motivated, media in this country!! Ya’ know, for that “small” percentage of us that want to hear the Truth, the facts, and maybe make up our own minds about how we think.

And then what does Harry do? “But … but … but Cheney thinks that!”

“Oh dear Lord, I thought it would be pleasing to him if I trashed Bush. I’m so confused now.”

He thinks it’s ludicrous somebody would call him treacherous.

Phoenician on June 23, 2009 at 1:08 AM

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That was my take also. And the deflection by being a smooth soother (a very basic part of his MO to the top no doubt)… worked for him. The Bush help was ancillary and I give zero, as in no credit for that.
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I think it shows class that Obama defended Dubya

Are you really this daft? Obama didnt defend Bush, Obama was defending HIMSELF from a harsh criticism by insisting that Bush never claimed any such thing.

I suppose any criticism of statism nowadays counts as an accusation of high treason against the left.

So ludicrous is this that Obama can’t keep a straight face in correcting him. Good work, CBS.

Perhaps I’m getting overly cynical, but it seems to me that the Mainstream Media, and Harry Smith’s faux pas is indicative of this, is almost attempting to incite the same type of protests here in America that are going on in Iran right now.

If they can gin up the outrage and similar “derangement syndrome” as they themselves exhibited all during GW Bush’s eight years, then they will find justification for their deplorable behavior during that period of time. As well as for their behavior since Obama became President, which has been an embarrassment of adulation such as I’ve never seen in nearly sixty years as an American, and that includes the Reagan years.

The MSM is out of control, and deliberately so it would seem. To selectively report only news which supports their political and philosophical agenda, essentially telling the American people how they should interpret what news they do report while ignoring news that they want the general public to ignore…… say goodbye to the “public watchdog” that used to tell us the news and let us make up our own minds, if it ever even existed before the advent of Fox News, Talk Radio, and the Blogosphere!

So ludicrous is this that Obama can’t keep a straight face in correcting him

He thinks it’s ludicrous somebody would call him treacherous.