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| George K | Jan 13 2009, 03:16 AM Post #1 |
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Finally
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Obama, Blago flip sides of Bizarro plotline
Is this SOP for press conferences? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| QuirtEvans | Jan 13 2009, 05:15 AM Post #2 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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I don't like it, but Presidents have always chosen whose questions they will take at press conferences. Deciding in advance is somewhat worse than deciding at the podium, imho, but it's all part and parcel of the same thing. But, is it really true? I'd like confirmation from some other source. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| VPG | Jan 13 2009, 06:09 AM Post #3 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Slightly different, didn't Mrs Clinton get slammed for planting questions during the campaign? I think they all do it to a certain degree. |
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I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK! "People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 13 2009, 06:12 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Why would you NOT do that? |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 13 2009, 06:43 AM Post #5 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Perhaps she did. Despite his other issues, I know Edwards did no such thing. His staff actually got in trouble for trying to screen his crowd during some of his public appearances. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 13 2009, 07:14 AM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Yes. No one with better hair than his was allowed in. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Kincaid | Jan 13 2009, 10:43 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think it is pretty standard SOP for a president to call on the reporter (frankly, I like that better than the yelling). However, if he is letting them know the day before, someone should do a study to see if reporters end up in Obama's doghouse after asking something particularly pointed. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 13 2009, 10:58 AM Post #8 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Short hand: When Bush does it, its really bad. When Obama does it, it's just the way things are done. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 13 2009, 10:59 AM Post #9 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Yup. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 13 2009, 10:59 AM Post #10 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Both are true, regardless of the imbalance of emphasis for both. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Jan 13 2009, 11:01 AM Post #11 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Did you miss this?
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| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 13 2009, 11:38 AM Post #12 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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No one missed anything. I have yet to see you raising a cri de coeur against Obama as you habitually do against Bush. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Jan 13 2009, 11:47 AM Post #13 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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/ignore |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 13 2009, 11:50 AM Post #14 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Oh the irony!
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| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Axtremus | Jan 13 2009, 12:25 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If you want total fairness, you'd have reporters draw random numbers out of a hat. As it stands, whether Obama will be worse (or better) than Bush depends on whether Obama put any reporter in the dog house for the wrong reasons. Time will tell. |
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| JBryan | Jan 13 2009, 12:30 PM Post #16 |
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I am the grey one
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Obama has already done that. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 13 2009, 12:32 PM Post #17 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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| ivorythumper | Jan 13 2009, 01:30 PM Post #18 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Ask Ryan Lizza from the New Yorker , or The Washington Times, The New York Post and the Dallas Morning News |
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