Obama: National dialogue “coarsening”
posted at 1:41 pm on September 13, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Barack Obama is concerned about the “coarsening” of our national debate:
President Barack Obama said in an interview to be aired Sunday night on “60 Minutes” that he sees “a coarsening of our political dialogue.”
“The truth of the matter is that there has been, I think, a coarsening of our political dialogue,” Obama told Steve Kroft in an interview taped at the White House on Friday evening.
“I will also say that in the era of 24-hour cable news cycles, that the loudest, shrillest voices get the most attention. And so one of the things that I’m trying to figure out is: How can we make sure that civility is interesting?”
Bob Schieffer, who played the clip on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said Kroft had asked the president what he thought of all the anger that had erupted over the summer.
Coarse dialogue bothers the president? Is it safe to say he’s getting “all wee-wee’d up” over it?
Or maybe when Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer called town-hall feedback “un-American”? Or perhaps this moment when John Dingell compared the protesters to the KKK?
I’d say “Physician, heal thyself,” but Obama would probably propose a new bureaucracy for that. Disdain, indeed.
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Dear President Obama,
Coarsening? You want to see COARSENING?
How about this: STFU!
And, oh, just go away.
Oh, and there’s an ARSE in the middle of “coarsening”.
“…highly motivated GOP base
confusedPISSED OFF by the president’s proposed health care plan and angry at what they consider reckless spending and high debt.”fred5678 on September 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM
F uck you, you liar.
D2Boston on September 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM
I have a recurring dream….Obama is giving a press conference, his tone coarsens, his face bears the Obama signature contemptuous smirk, when suddenly someone in the audience
yells “YOU LIE!”throws a big shoe right at his face…a shoe with cleats.ziggyville on September 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM
And the SS would shoot the thrower, unlike they did when a shoe was thrown at Bush.
Liam on September 13, 2009 at 4:29 PM
The Strange Case of Professor Obama and Mr Hussein is a real life drama playing out in the aftermath of the Presidential election of 2008. It is about the dilemma of the American citizen who sees strange dissonances between the new found Messiah, Professor Obama, and the ever more emerging misanthropic, pyromaniac (reference note #1) Mr. Hussein. It is a vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is, or was, both an apparently good and an ever more emerging evil personality each being quite distinct from the other. In mainstream culture the very phrase “Obama and Hussien” will come to mean a person who’s words are vastly different in moral character from his actions.
Reference note #1: Such individuals who lack ulterior motive have traditionally been referred to in layman’s terms simply as a variation of a pyromaniac. Most such maniacs lack conscious motivation although they are fully aware of the acts they are failing to stop or they themselves are committing. Typically they will feel intense pleasure, gratification, or relief when causing destruction or when witnessing or participating in the aftermath. Motivation is also classified as pathological and non-pathological. Some research suggests that feeling such joy at horrific situation is pathological. Other research suggests that some motivation for this comes from rational thought. Taking joy in horrific situations for envisioned gains in political power and/or the concealment of the imposition of devious plans are examples of supposed rational decision making.
Sigmund on September 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM
That’s all he’s got — the media. They’re more deserving of wrath than he is.
Without the media, his cult of personality ceases to exist. It’s a mutual symbiotic relationship, and they are far from being “sick of him.”
Nichevo on September 13, 2009 at 4:35 PM
The Major Media in the U.S. gleefully jacks-off to Obama. Any other description of the relationship between the Media and Obama is gross understatement. They finally found a politician they can masturbate to like a rock star which is why they get so much pleasure treating him like a rock star.
KentAllard on September 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Good one “freddy”…!
I like the “olde English” spelling my ownself…!
Geezer on September 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM
yeah he really brought a new tone with his flipping Hill the bird after she cleaned his clock TWICE and brushing her off his shoulder
of course after he won IA and walked into JAYZs 99 problems and a b aint one I think we suspected in our hearts this was not the One we were waiting for.
Now I want them to get the hexx out of our way and elt us get the country growing again
frakkers
ginaswo on September 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM
They are deep trouble and they know it. The race canard is hitting tables all over the internet.
drjohn on September 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM
In the spirit of not coarsening the dialogue, let me say:
Jeez Louise!
What a pathetic whiner.
rockmom on September 13, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Obama needs to print a new race card.
The old one is so worn you can no longer tell the suit.
Empty as it it.
profitsbeard on September 13, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Awwwww. You’re makin’ me cry.
It’s amazing how it’s only “coarse” when it’s not someone fawning over him, or slamming someone who disagrees with him.
uncivilized on September 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM
This from the former candidate who flipped off 2 of his opponents, HRC and JM…in a civil passive-aggressive manner, of course???? His civility made an interesting and lasting impression on me. I changed party affiliation.
mtb on September 13, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Welcome aboard!
I switched (from unenrolled to R) when Al Gore and his minions worked all the legal loopholes they could to disenfranchise overseas military voters in 2000.
massrighty on September 13, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Heh,
My wife asked me if I wanted to go see a movie yesterday.
I said watch a movie?
I said we background actors in the biggest horror flick ever made.
Everyday is a new scene and a plot twist that the best & brightest of Hollywood could never create!!!
izoneguy on September 13, 2009 at 5:27 PM
You would think that hanging around Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod had toughened up the Wee Wee-in-Chief.
onlineanalyst on September 13, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Wait…a southside Chicago politician is shy of ‘coarse’ dialog?
We need an investigation…….
Limerick on September 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM
We will just have to put the currently unemployed Van Jones in charge of political etiquette now, won’t we?
onlineanalyst on September 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM
You’re right – in this case the clothes have no emperor!
massrighty on September 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Yah know “ola” I have a soft spot in my heart for that homey colloquialism “wee-wee” …My momma used to use it all the time; when I was a kid some seventy years ago.
I find it somewhat ironic; that so many good olde, down home, conservatives here, have jumped on the CIC for his very effective use of that familiar, familial expression.
Geezer on September 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Wow, glad to see you posting here. Always good to find someone older than I am :-).
Oldnuke on September 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Wrong, Mr. Hussein Obama, it’s you, your administration and your party as a whole, who depicts any and all dissenters as racists, that are coursening the debate.
Stop lying and pitting everyone against each other based on race and class.
roninacreage on September 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Now, on top of being School Principal in Chief, the Surgeon General, the CEO of AmericanCars, and all his other roles, he wants to be the Head of All Debate Anywhere.
Is there no limit to this totalitarian-wannabe nag’s endless, pompous hectoring? Apparently not. Effete moralizing is the Progressive’s life mission and this guy’s got a severe case of Carter’s disease.
On the upside, couple that with his continual pouting because Congress won’t instantly pass his every wish, and you have a guarantee of continually falling ratings.
JDPerren on September 13, 2009 at 6:07 PM
C’est la vies…!
To my embarrassment I learned the correct spelling of “C’est” not “Sie” on an earlier post, thanks to some babe that had lived in France and had studied in private not public schools.
Thank heaven for “private schools”…!
Thought I’d use it on you, now, just for fun!
Mon apologies…?
Geezer on September 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Josef Goebbels would be proud of all of them.
And they call Conservatives Nazis?
Del Dolemonte on September 13, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Obama needs to print a new race card.
The old one is so worn you can no longer tell the suit.
Empty as it is.
“Ah, but what a suit. What creases. What a pair of pants. I’m in love.”
–David Brooks
George Orwell on September 13, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Why does he bother even talking about those who oppose him. They HATE him, He HATES them,this is WAR
Jeff from WI on September 13, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Interesting comment from Obama, who is on national tv almost 24/7, loudly, shrillingly chiding anyone who opposes him!
TN Mom on September 13, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Awesome and true. Well said.
Elisa on September 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Isn’t that the truth? It seems like he’s been President forever. I can’t take him anymore.
Then sometimes it feels like a bad dream. Like it can’t possibly be that this radical, arrogant, inexperienced nobody came out of nowhere and practically overnight became our President. Not even a year before the election everyone – EVERYONE- didn’t think he had a shot. Maybe 8 years later, but no way this time. We all know how it happened, but it still seems unbelievable to me.
And it’s only been about half a year. So much damage to come. The people are motivated, but will the Republicans get their act together? Who knows.
Elisa on September 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM
You started it Mrxist Alinsky boy
No when the nice troops come to get you just STFU and do what they say and enjoy your flight to Venezuela.
bill30097 on September 13, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Maybe I’m just cynical and maybe someone has noted this already, but has anyone noticed that he is mentioning the “24 hour news cycle” and the “media” a lot more?
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you wish, but I’m starting to think that there may be a plan for the White House to seize control of the media in the future. I mean the media is already in his pocket and they simply spew talking points as it is, but he’s still whining about them.
I think his whining about the media is to condition people that it would be in everyone’s best interest if there were only 2 tv news channels (1 network and 1 cable) and 1 radio news channel. That way things don’t get all wee-weed up in the translation of other channels and stations.
I mean we know the White House hates Fox News and they just jumped all over CNN about misreporting the drills. That leaves MSNBC as the only “righteous” cable network right now.
Hmmm… I think we need to focus on his whining a little more. It’s when someone whines that you find out their true feelings and/or motives.
MobileVideoEngineer on September 13, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Coarsening of the debate: not wearing silk gloves when massaging Obama’s ego.
spmat on September 13, 2009 at 7:32 PM
He ain’t seen nothing yet. We have only just begun!
BetseyRoss on September 13, 2009 at 7:38 PM
I’m sensing a lotta deep seated hostility here…
I like to say something constructive…
OK…OK…
I suggest you don’t do… all yer deep fryin’ in the nude…!
Does that work?
Geezer on September 13, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Dude! I thought you told the WH press that you didn’t pay attention to the 24 hour news cycle! Can’t you tell the truth about ANYTHING?
Mr_Magoo on September 13, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Or using day-old ostrich feathers when fanning him.
Mr_Magoo on September 13, 2009 at 8:16 PM
President Barack Obama said in an interview to be aired Sunday night on “60 Minutes” that he sees “a coarsening of our political dialogue.”
Spoken by the guy with the 20 grit sandpaper in his hand…
Khun Joe on September 13, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Betsy Ross at 7:38 has it right. Our Chicago-Thug President thinks the American people are going to fold under his pressure, and he is wrong.
GaltBlvnAtty on September 13, 2009 at 8:30 PM
I can’t wait for the new thread on this. Obama is taxing the hell out of Chinese tires and the Chicomms ain’t pleased about it. Calling it a trade war and “rampant protectionism….”
Can anyone say Smoot-Hawley…. Bueller,… Bueller…
ted c on September 13, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Obama’s allegiance is another yoke on our economy and on our foreign policy.
GaltBlvnAtty on September 13, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Meant to write “union allegiance.”
GaltBlvnAtty on September 13, 2009 at 9:13 PM
As much as I want to tell you you’re over reacting here, I can’t. I’ve noticed the same thing and it’s really bothering me. Barry is either incredibly petty, (yeah) or he has an ultimate goal to quiet his critics.
anniekc on September 13, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Yep.
And, unlike the actual messiah “his yoke is not easy.”
massrighty on September 13, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Some of his buds in the movement have written about ‘re-education camps’ for those who will not see the light.
massrighty on September 13, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Is that Barry’s underlying agenda with the non-stop media blitz?
anniekc on September 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
I know, I agree with the president. We should all go back to the days when Bush was President and have the civil discord we had back then.
What a tool.
jjverdi on September 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM
He and his fellow Democrat thugs are at the root of any “coarsening” going on. Most conservatives were quite happy to go to work and enjoy what they put together from scratch the rest of the time. Hmmm. In retrospect, maybe that was part of the problem.
Dr. ZhivBlago on September 13, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Wasn’t this tool the first and only Presidential Candidate to repeatedly brandish his middle finger on national television?
Maquis on September 13, 2009 at 10:03 PM
“Coarsening…” Obama said with his rasp-file tongue…
enoughalready on September 14, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Because he has no position he is just objecting to the “tone” of the debate.
Perhaps there is a smoother way to explain his lies, but do we really have time?
virgo on September 14, 2009 at 5:17 AM
Where are those pesky Boeing jetliner weilding terrorists when you need them?
Griz on September 14, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Thou shalt not tease the President; Isn’t that in the Constitution?
Cybergeezer on September 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM
More like the MSM bends over while Obama rams it home. He dominates them and while they act like it is pleasurable – it is not. This is your typical – Bitch I will kill you if you get out of line.
izoneguy on September 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Dict: Coarsening: Becoming more racist toward the presidents healthcare plans.
Cybergeezer on September 14, 2009 at 9:40 AM
http://veteranoutrage.com/?p=903
Just like global warming the biggest hoax
ever pulled on mankind
Obama still wants to pass this BS law..
Now if i oppose this based upon logic and science
I am becomming coarse?
Good ass wipes
here try this for coarse..
http://veteranoutrage.com/?p=903
enjoy you liberal dum ass
veteranoutrage on September 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Mr. “Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face” thinks that there is a coarsening of our political dialogue.
Who’d a thunk it ?
J_Crater on September 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM
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