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Shhh: Obama accepts award for transparency — in closed-door ceremony
“Our understanding going into the meeting was that it would have a pool photographer and a print reporter, and it turned out to be a private meeting,” Bass told POLITICO. “He was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us, it is baffling why he would not want that message to be more broadly heard by reporters and the public interest community and the public generally.”
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Wipe your chin off Stephanie.
darwin-t on March 30, 2011 at 11:54 PM
LASER BEAM on J-O-B-S.
It amazes me with this idiot that anybody is “afraid” of what “they will do to Palin”. My God.
Marcus on March 31, 2011 at 12:00 AM
A metaphor for his entire presidency. His. Entire. Presidency.
JavelinaBomb on March 31, 2011 at 12:09 AM
Ah…another Obama meeting.
Rocks on March 31, 2011 at 12:14 AM
Bass told POLITICO. “He was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us
So, for the first time in Obama’s life, he is “so on point, and so on target” it is behind closed doors and there is no proof? Riiiiighhht
I just don’t get it. How can people continue to lie and cover for him? How do they think they will benefit?
Ditkaca on March 31, 2011 at 12:22 AM
Oh maybe because we won’t be on our kneepads bowing as we listen to Obama and we will then use our critical thinking skills to understand what he’s saying.
RJL on March 31, 2011 at 12:23 AM
Maybe Obama doesn’t want to be seen celebrating himself during the main phase of the Libyan conflict, that would make for a bad visual.
Raisedbywolves on March 31, 2011 at 12:23 AM
No. With the “Obama Peace Prize” joke today and his lowest Gallup numbers ever, I think Narcissus was told he doesn’t want to be seen “celebrating himself during the main phase of the Libyan conflict.”
I expect him to become as bashful as Mother Theresa, probably. Won’t be successful at it, probably will last less than a week.
Marcus on March 31, 2011 at 12:33 AM
The epitome of “tone deaf.”
CurtZHP on March 31, 2011 at 12:49 AM
True committed idiots, even after such a blatantly anti-transparent forum, these fools continue to make excuses for him and fawn over him.
Is it possible to run out of “what if Bush had done it” moments? They are coming so fast and furious lately, I’m afraid the supply will run out and we don’t yet have a reliable alternative source on line yet.
AZfederalist on March 31, 2011 at 12:54 AM
Giving Obama a transparency award makes about as much sense as giving him a Nobel Peace Prize……
………..oh wait.
Baxter Greene on March 31, 2011 at 12:55 AM
You forgot the /sarc tag there.
Especially given that his first opportunity to accept it occurred waaay before Libya was even a gleam in his eye.
AZfederalist on March 31, 2011 at 12:57 AM
Serious question: Does anyone here believe that someday, long after his term is up, 0bama will walk into his private office, look around at all these meaningless awards hanging on his wall, suddenly realize that he didn’t do a single d@mn thing to deserve any of them, and feel a little ashamed?
Yeah… neither do I.
UltimateBob on March 31, 2011 at 1:09 AM
This is the media’s wet dream: taking Obama out of the loop altogether, so the ONLY thing anyone ever hears is the media telling us how incredibly great a job Obama is doing.
People say Obama peaked with his innaguration, and it’s all been downhill from there (albeit, downhill from Olympus.)
But that’s not really true. Obama peaked just BEFORE his innaguration. The media took Spike Lee’s meme of the “magic negro” who could solve all the world’s problems and made it a national obsession. Literally every single thing Obama has said or done since then has proven them wrong.
The ideal situation for the left would be to cloister Obama completely, like a Japanese emperor, and just give us occasional pronouncements on what miracles he’s performed for us and how we have disappointed him.
logis on March 31, 2011 at 1:33 AM
Hey everybody…!
… I’ve got a great idea!
Let’s elect…
… never mind.
Seven Percent Solution on March 31, 2011 at 1:35 AM
Dude, Obama’s medals are going to be the central theme in the first museum in space.
FloatingRock on March 31, 2011 at 1:55 AM
They weren’t allowed to come out of the closet…
karl9000 on March 31, 2011 at 1:58 AM
In truth, I suspect that Obama will be very unpopular by the end of his first term, possibly soon, and that the first museum in space will be dedicated to a great man.
FloatingRock on March 31, 2011 at 2:02 AM
…or woman.
FloatingRock on March 31, 2011 at 2:04 AM
Satire is now officially dead. You can’t possibly do a better job of it than they do themselves – and they are serious!
percival on March 31, 2011 at 7:35 AM
Heh. First orbiting Presidential library: the Barack Obama wing of the International Space Station.
ElectricPhase on March 31, 2011 at 7:36 AM
0′s really following in Hugo “Journalism Award” Chavez’s footsteps. So many shades of Orwell’s 1984…
Tuari on March 31, 2011 at 7:48 AM
I speak for millions: I hate to say I told you so…
Knott Buyinit on March 31, 2011 at 8:24 AM
“He was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us,”
If you experience an erecshun for more that four hours… well you know the drill.
Mr_Magoo on March 31, 2011 at 9:34 AM
Secret ceremony, or secret meeting?
I have a shoe box that’s more transparent than Obutthead.
capejasmine on March 31, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Located in the airlock.
Then get Sigourney Weaver up there as the librarian. She knows how to take care of such things…
ZenDraken on March 31, 2011 at 11:22 AM