Alex Castellanos: Tonight You Saw the First Hint of a President Who Could Be a One Termer
Well they were all circling the wagons around Ed Henry at CNN tonight and talking about how angry President Obama looked when he responded to Ed Henry's gotcha' question. This hackery from Alex Castellanos was some of the worst of it. Obama is going to be a one term President because Castellanos doesn't like the way he treated Ed Henry who's suddenly the tough guy now in the White House press corps along with his buddies Todd, Reid and Tapper now that Bush is gone. The networks apparently decided to let their reporters grow a spine now with their questioning after eight years of being Bush's lapdogs.
Cooper: So Alex Castellanos from the right's perspective was the President accurate when he said I want to know what I talked about before I said it?
Castellanos: Well tonight I think we saw the first hint Anderson, and it's only a small hint of a President who could be a one termer. We saw some impatience beneath the surface ahhh, on this Ed Henry question, which I thought was entirely fair. You evidently our educational system is not in as good of shape as we thought because neither Congress nor Democrats there or the President could actually read the stimulus bill.
This is language that they wrote, that Congress voted for and the President signed and they still seem to be shocked and outraged and angry even that these executives at AIG took the bonuses that the Democrats and the President gave them.
Cooper: So why do you say this makes him a one termer perhaps?
Castellanos: Well there's a short step from self confidence to arrogance and tonight we saw some impatience that lies not very deeply beneath the surface of this President. This is a young President. This is a very confident President. But this is a President that does not really have a lot of economic experience as far as creating prosperity himself. He really doesn't have that much political experience and when tested tonight we saw a little flash just under the surface, again, small hint. I think this is still an incredibly popular guy and a gifted communicator but in advertising there's a saying. Nothing kills a bad product quicker than good advertising.
He then almost gets laughed off the set. Check out the looks on Anderson Cooper, Paul Begala and David Gergen's faces while he's talking. This is the same jerk that said it was okay to call Hillary the B-word and espouses the same sort of Republican dirty tricks as Karl Rove. CNN doing its best to compete with Fox by having someone like him on their shows.
one more river to cross!
If anything, Obama showed that there's a new sheriff in town and the gotcha journalism and faux press will NOT be tolerated. He skewered pathetic Ed Henry and made mincemeat out of his remains in one fell swoop.
Sure CNN will try to "spin" it differently but that's not the way the american people saw it. We're all cheering for Obama.
CNN has become a gang of frauds parading as serious journalists. Their viewership numbers are tanking. With moronic journalists like Ed Henry representing them, there's nowhere to go BUT down.
Obama scored HUGELY with the american people last night for eviscerating CNN and filleting the corpse of Ed Henry.
That's exactly what I thought -- I couldn't believe my ears when I heard the "commentators", um, commentating! I couldn't wait to get to work this morning and discuss w/my office mate - we both agreed the president was, as usual, amazing. I mean, really, the man can string together 3 words and make a complete sentence. What's NOT to love? :)
Indeed!
It's great to have a president that:
1. Was actually elected by the people
2. Knows how to use the English language and
3. handles his job like an adult.
NOBODY 2012
I read on another thread that little Eddie Henry is getting his ass handed to him at the CNN website.
He was totally punked.
Reid, Todd, Henry -- three partisan idiots pretending to be journalists.
You go, Barack!
Begala's comment was great.
The combined IQ of Castellano and Cooper still doesn't equal the intel of Paul Begala. hahahah! What assclowns these two have shown themselves to be.
Pity them. They're paid sycophantic fools.
This looks like a one-term president because there's a short step from confidence to arrogance? Do we really have to make the obvious...oh God, how can these people be so blind?
I am really very, very strongly against off-the-cuff accusations of racism. I've seen a lot of cases where liberals have cried "racism!" about the right's treatment of Obama where it clearly was not. But in this case, man. How can you live with two terms of Bush arrogance, and then turn around and say this about Obama? It's almost like "that boy doesn't know his place."
I almost hate to say it. But man. How can you know Bush and say that you're a one-term president if you're arrogant.
You got that right, Spinn.
I couldn't believe Castellano's remark about it being a short step from confidence to arrogance. Uh huh. All those white guys like Bill-O, Rush, and George W. who are absolutely certain that they're on the side of the angels aren't arrogant?
BTW, my buddy Robert likes to check out the front pages of the tabloids every time he goes to Safeway. He tells me that the tabloids are way harder on Obama than they were on any other President in recent memory. I'm thinking about sending Globe Media Entertainment a nasty letter to tell them "So the black guy got elected President. Get over it and get a life!"
from a sad clown.
Castellanos and Cooper looked like unadulterated imbeciles.
But, keep talking, fools.....the damage you are doing to your network is unbelievable. You've become the enemy of the people by making inane and false statements.
What they've effectively done (singlehandedly) is raise Obama's popularity even more now. Discussions like this will ABSOLUTELY ENSURE A SECOND TERM FOR BARACK.
Watching assclowns the likes of these is hilarious.
for President Obama.
First, with respect, he has to still be alive in 4 years. Given the increasingly violent rhetoric of some on the far, ultra-nationalist right, I expect there to be a number of attempts on his life.
Second, its all about the economy. If the economic situation is markedly better in 4 years, President Obama gets a second term (assuming my first issue doesn't come into play). If the economy is still in recession/depression, then the GOP return to power. This will happen regardless of whether the current administration's policies have any beneficial effect.
For the record: Obama has already accomplished more in 60 days than any other president in recorded history.
Perhaps the american people will do what the folks in NY did and permit three terms for Obama?
To suggest that he's a "one term president" will only ensure that he will serve for two.
Nice try, Castellano and handpuppet Anderson.
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common sense matters as much as truth
When you lose Gergen, you're done. Stick a fork in Alex, done.
Block CNN from your home. It's definitely a "caca" channel, getting more inane and irrelevant every day. Castellanos and Cooper will not have a job by next year.
does anybody watch American Morning on CNN? I never hear much about the sad Kyran Chetry and John Roberts.. Both look like they should be smack in the middle of F*x and Friends.. and they seem to take such delight in trying to skewer Pres. Obama (as if they have the intellect for it)..
refer to CNN as the "Communist News Network" because of how "liberal" it is.
Yet another indication of how wide the cultural and ideological divide has become. We are in a cultural, social and political war which humanists, liberals and Democrats need to win.
No wonder CNN is now number 4 in cable news ratings.
People are sick of the liars and assclowns on CNN. No one is watching their irrelevant programming any longer which is why they're dropping like the Titanic.
They've become pathetic.
Castellanos has nevr been anything more than a smear nurchant. Hope Rove & Casty have a grand time at the old oinks sty!
It's not all or nothing.
Castellanos, Tara Wall, Ron Christie, Bill Bennett, Tyree, Concern Canuck, sing the same old song...Obama never does shit right. Yet the American public keeps telling them to go to hell.
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for a lawer you have a way with words , is thier anything obama could do that youd disaprove of? like take away your civil rights! keep two bush wars going ! drain the chinese money off for paying off the bankers for the nice contrabutions he recieved , guess not ,
blah blah blah blah
Same old gripes, just a different day.
Obama continues to have approval ratings in the high 60% range. And the same old people (supposedly on the left) do nothing but bitch.
not worth the effort!
You'd have more credibility if you started by admitting that the current administration is, while not perfect, at least far preferable than the last one.
sorry while it may appear to be so, i still want all of bushes takeaways of our constitutional rights back , aint going to happen still want bush and cheny in prison, aint going to happen, still want our troops out of iraq and afganistan aint going to happen, im not willing to settle for bush lite government !
"Bush lite" government as progress?
Also, will you accept that reversing Bushco policies will take time (especially, given that 47 out of 100 voters preferred McCain/Palin)?
i have heard nothing to indicate thiers any interest by this government to reverse the constitutional grabs by the bush gang, in fact the guy you voted for , voted for every bill bush asked for, i would assume he believed they were the right things to do, even though he said he was against them before he became the democrat candidate for president, and while im at it , afganistans the right war! since when?,
You are replying to people that are like the Bushie followers. Obama could start World War 3, and they'd praise him.
Truth is, his supposed arrogance will have no bearing on his re-election. The economy will. If things haven't improved, he'll be booted. It's that simple.
yeah concerned i know ! i was thinking the same thing this morning, luckly i wont be around for the return of the bush crowd , next election race , chelsia clinton vs jeb bush, and the same old crows singing from the power lines!
that is a scary thought!!! Sure hope you aren't psychic on that one.
And I also hope that you and Canuck will one day admit Obama does some things right.
why settle for a half loaf when you want the whole loaf!
actually his poll numbers are falling slightly
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/
still they are a shit ton better than bush
Look this video segment, Sanders speaks the good and bad things of OBAMA:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/25/sen_san...
I Agree with Sanders
Ugly looks from Cooper? How about a SMACKDOWN when someone starts spouting partisan rhetorical crap about a 1 term prez 60 days into his presidency??? Not good enough. This is why CNN is losing the ratings race. They don't have the b*lls to take a stance and instead just play nice with fringe elements like this.
Look, we just got rid of a president who was installed by the Supreme Court, and by most of the world is looked at as a war criminal. He also sat idly by and watched the economy fall apart around his head and shoulders and put us in to what very well might turn out to be a second great depression, and this right wing shill has the cajones to go on national TV and intimate the Obama might be a one-termer. God help us, Satan himself is speaking through Castellanos now that Bush and Cheney are gone!
Obama is going to be an one termer because he lacks the patience to deal with mentally challenged questioners?
I wish I was surprised, alas... this nonsense coming from the same camp who basically made "having a beer with" the only requirement for a two term conservative president, it is quite predictable.
Basically Mr. Castellanos seems to be under the impression that there is little difference between the office of the presidency and a summer camp instructor.
CNN that is. Castellanos isn't worthy of attention or comment.
Dammit! I just commented on him!! :(
Couldn't they find something more appropriate for a mentally-retarded person to do besides "report" the "news"?
This creep from the neo-con cabal also should remind himself that Obama has presented himself to more unfiltered public questioning in 9 weeks than Bush did in eight years. Oh wait, that's right, Bush always prescreened his audiences and had the news media so afraid of him they would piss their pants if he looked cross at them!
The president handled Ed Henry like any superior would handle an out of step underling. Henry asked the question in an inappropriate manner. He asked it three times and brought the presidents daughters into the equation. I felt that the president showed restraint. The problem with guys like this winger, is that the president is consistently the smartest guy in the room and it drives the wingnuts bonkers. They do not know how to handle it. One termer because of a stupid question by a lock step presser. CNN may be begging to be called on next time.
Henry is going all Jim Cramer about it today on CNN ... the chubby little d-bag ..
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
Time to sick John Stewart on him!
"... but I'll twyyy to do better ...honest! ..."
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
Bless his widdle heart.
Cramer said he would try to do better and proved on his next show that, that was bullshit.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Did Henry cry or just need to go change his undies?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Just ignore him for the next couple press conferences.
How about these mealy mouthed reporters learn to take as good as they give? The President does not have to kiss anyone's ass just to play nice. If Obama was impatient toward Henry, it's a good thing Henry never met my father when he was alive.
I guess a one term president is going to be the new talking point from the right. After all, these people have been correct about so many things these last few years, guess we better take them seriously. Not!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Doesn't CNN understand that Fox has a monopoly on wingnut reporters guests and commentators? That niche is already filled.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
If only!!
Sometimes I think CNN is trying to outFox Fox.
I wonder if now CNN regrets letting Beck get away from them? They had a rising star in craziness there and they let him slip right through their right hand.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I think CNN only allows a certain level of crazy. Beck is in a whole different league.
Lately beck is sounding like he should be in a whole different mental cell.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
this is just cheap theatre. alex Castellanos rarely disappoints when needing someone to say something
both ridiculous and stupid. it's a cheap set -up for the other talking heads.
That way they can look and feel like adults.
This president is a self made man. The last one was a politically made half man. Big giant difference there.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
My God, that would have been a stupid comment if he were spouting it on FoxNews! He would have not stood out so much as a "marching in lockstep" hack Republican on that network though.
really do live and breathe in a different bizarro world. I would venture that 90% of the viewers saw that moment for what it was...a SMACKDOWN!
The one thing that Castellanos said that made sense (albeit obvious sense) was that it was a fair question. Well, sure it was a fair question, pretty much any question is fair. That wasn't the issue. The issue was that this particular question had all the relevance of "Mr. President, do you wear briefs or boxers."
They are so desperate to try to find a chink in the armour that they just make shit up in an attempt to sound knowledgeable. It is actually sad in some respects how lost the right is. If they would only move from their echo chamber into the real world, they would be much happier.
Why is that anyone from the left who is invited on these shows has to reasonable, moderate, and gracious to some extent, while the right-wing guests get to be as disingenuous, outrageous, and hypocritical as they can possibly be? Why are we still being subjected to these loons long after it's obvious what idiots they are and what kind of propaganda they're going to spew every single time out?
Are these media outlets so unable to change with the times and the tenor of the country? They just make themselves look ridiculous and discredit themselves by having these morons on their shows and pretending they're some kind of "experts" and/or intelligent commentators. Enough already.
That no matter who is in power,we're still treated to a daily diet of right wing talking points?
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
I was telling people 8 months ago that all of the right wing hacks were secretly praying for an Obama victory because it's so damned good for their businesses when Democrats are in charge. The Limbaughs and Coulters and O'Reillys have built their careers on riling up the anger of liberal-haters. They're pretty impotent when the Republicans are in charge and they have to really stretch to blame every damned thing that's wrong with this country on Democrats. They can really let it fly now - and the media outlets are only too happy to oblige them.
I really wish Michael Moore would make one of his documentary/ expose of the entire Corporate Media ... the 'villagers' .. for the criminal mafia that they are. Starting with Jack Welsh when he 'ordered' NBC to call the election for Bush.
Are certainly competing with FOX.
Someone that's been really irritating me of late is Wolf Blitzer,who day after day has featured one republican after another on the Situation Room to tear into the new President with relative impunity.
Blitzer is dangerous because his presentation is low key and designed to seem balanced.FOX is obviously biased and therefore its less likely a politically moderate audience would take them seriously.Not so Blitzer and CNN who to my mind, are engaging in an insidious and underhanded attack on the Democratic Party and are feeding people cleverly disguised right wing talking points.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
FOX reinforces the stereotypes and easy answers that a segment of US society is looking for and CNN tries to move "independents" to the right.
and they're both selling a right wing business agenda.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
"...because his presentation is low key..."
You're being pretty kind to Wolf Blitzer. Whenever I watch the guy, I feel like I'm watching someone who has had a stroke and is a little brain damaged. And I'm not joking. I really think the guy is a little "slow."
I don't get the impression that he's slow,but I do think he's engaging in some underhanded partisanship.
He's also a former editor at AIPAC.
http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/blitzer2.htm
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
I think he's been taken over by a Borg, or a pod-person. His presentations during the campaign, particularly late in the campaign, were informative and interesting and I thought pretty neutral, but lately, in the past month or so, he's been leaning heavily toward the FoxNews brand of program hosting: interrupt your guest before the guest makes his/her point, either to change the subject or to "take a (commercial) break" -- and he NEVER goes back to the previously discussed topic. Very irritating.
Wolf Blitzer has been a pandering right-leaning host for a much longer period of time. He showed some of his biases in his style of hosting and asking questions even DURING the campaign.
I just don't understand why the neocon right-wingers are always complaining about how MSM is "librul". Geez, how much more right-leaning do they want the MSM to be? Over in Fascist Land?
...to see people who have at least some brain matter, selling their souls for money. Instead of denigrating Obama on CNN or wherever else he spews this crap, he should be doing whatever he can to raise his fellow Hispanics out of the poverty they live in in Cuba, Mexico and here in the US. How soon they seem to forget - he got out, had the chance to succeed in America and now forgets from whence he came.
I don't know for sure (yet) if Obama is the real deal - but I know for sure that Castellanos ain't.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Clearly this man's face spends most of its time buried in someone's bum.
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like he needs to be full of shit...... LITERALLY!
:<[)
Some stuff you can't make up!
It doesn't count as questioning authority when you just ask a stupid question aggressively.
Did you guys actually watch the clip? Cooper asked Alex for his perspective, then joked on him noting Gergen was shaking his head and Begala was grinding his teeth. He invited Begala to respond. That's what Cooper does when he moderates, when some partisan windbag says says something ludicrous he invites someone from the other side to address it and polices everyone for civil discourse. It doesn't cast Cooper as a macho hero figure, but how many more big mouthed opinionated populist cable hosts do we need yelling at guests they disagree with?
If you watched the show you know Alex was the only repub on the huge panel and he wasn't asked many questions.
than he ever demonstrated himself to be on other occasions. he gets no pass here for letting that ignorance through twice before giving begala an opportunity to speak. I guess you missed that part.
Some stuff you can't make up!
She's a Repub, I believe.
I really do think it takes both wings to fly and as much as I may like Obama as a person, of course, but more importantly as a policy maker, there are reasonable alternative perspectives. I understand, at least to some extent, the needs of our corporate, commercial media.. nay, I bemoan those needs.. but Damn we have to do better than this guy Castellanos.
Castellanos's remarks, if anything, tell us how desparately pathetic his masters have become- only an arrogant, out-of-touch, power elite would try that shit.. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Nicely said. Why can't these TV shows, at least occasionally, be about having an honest debate among intelligent, reasonable people with different viewpoints? Is that too much to ask for once in a while?
I'd love to hear the conservative side of any given issue delivered by a sincere, intelligent, qualified person. I know such people are out there, but cable channels are dead set on pitching the circus tent and pushing their favorite performing chimps at us. And are Republicans so far gone that don't realize that these very troubling times demand for them to finally get some serious thinkers out front instead of this constant parade of hacks, quacks, and attacks? Unbelievable.
Why not have it on this website? Hell, I have a moderate viewpoint and I get vilified. Practice what you preach dear sir.
I'd hardly call your post about Obama's "socio-communist policies" and getting away with throwing feces at reporters and accusing all of us of being brainwashed "moderate." Is that your idea of what that word means? If so, you must also think Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are moderates.
I suggest it's you who should practice what you preach.
Moderate? I don't think so!
Wed, 03/25/2009 - 19:16 — Chris Yoder
"Well, if Obama wants to continue to pushing corporatist/socio-communist policies down our throat, then I hope he only lasts one term. However, he is too charismatic to lose in 2012. I mean seriously, he could probably drop his drawers, take a dump and then throw his crap on the reporters and most of you brainwashed people would be like "OMG he is the worlds greatest."
"I know that most of you think I am just a gop troll but at least I had the balls to say I didn't agree with everything Bush did. You all...well that is a different story completely. You are just blindly listening to whatever is coming out of the White House and accepting it as gospel."
Moderate? Only in you're mind sport.
The above comment is what happens to peoples minds when exposed to too much wrong wing media.
Or, this is a mind on hallucinogenics. Moderate. Thanks, I needed the laugh.
You keep telling yourself that Chris. Sooner or later someone will believe you. Later. Much later.
Ace, is that you?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Castellanos mentions Obama's "arrogance"????This from a guy who was shilling for GW Bush and Dick Cheney? And he dares evoke the word "arrogance"? No wonder the other panelists were perplexed.
goes back to the campaign with all the thinly-veiled racism. Alex is good for derogatory epithetical speech. He made a remark about a woman once and something about her husband suffering or somesuch. He's only slightly less a windbag than Limpballs, but no less verbally virulent.
Some stuff you can't make up!
But this is a President that does not really have a lot of economic experience as far as creating prosperity himself.
In talking about Obama's lack of experience is Castellanos referencing Bush's experience with respect to creating prosperity? Seriously? Openly acknowledged as a recipient of gentleman's C's, the business community's MBA president had a history of corporate cronyism, stock manipulation, and the misappropriation of public lands, before presiding over an administration which delivered us a global economic collapse. That being said, I guess GWB did well by himself and that is probably qualification enough for the likes of Castellanos. The peasants don't matter so long as the king is doing well.
Who's the bitch now, Castellanos.
how much better we would be if McCain had won?
Oh boy!@!!
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Braindead typically stupid, Reslugs are everybody's favorite idiots to laugh at.
To borrow a little from Castellanos: 'Some men simply deserve the name asshole.'
Carlos Castellanos?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
peyote muncher.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Why this clown is on all the time is beyond. He wouldn't know the truth if he was slapped in the face with it. All of sudden, these White House reporters want to ask tough question. They kissed Bush's right up until the end. Even when his own party publicly dissed him.
Does anyone seem to notice that Republicans all seem to have that Drugged-out, Groggy, 1-hour of sleep, I just got a hole drilled in my head look to them when they're speaking?
Michelle Bachmann, Bobby Jindal, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, etc etc etc?
It's pretty uncanny, actually.
Frankly with this economy the way it is republicans are the only ones who can afford drugs. But you are totally correct about the way they look.
They're all in a bit of shock about the election...hope it stays with them for a lot longer.
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
Shades of that pompous ass sam donaldson, when Monicagate broke out pontificated, "If this proves true, I doubt Clinton can serve another six months."
Not only did Clinton finished his term he got reelected.
And there never was from donaldson even a hint of a, "Oops...my bad..."
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
reelected?
This Nixon era type Cuban right winger reminds me of a Miami used car salesman. Or, ironically, as they said about Nixon, would you buy a used car from this guy? In all fairness to Nixon this Desi Arnaz wannabe doesn't have one-tenth the brains of Nixon. If dopey CNN still keeps this jerk around, he can sit there like the dumb ass that he is and watch Obama give his second term acceptance speech.
to react to extreme stupidity. This is one of those moments.
Altho I am enjoying the WTF expression on Cooper's face in the vidcap!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
They thought that was harsh!!! You've got to be kidding me. What a bunch of babies. Bush treated the press with utter contempt and was always prickly to say the least, and I never heard them complain once.
You gotta wonder where all the tough questions were when W was in the White House.
Well, if Obama wants to continue to pushing corporatist/socio-communist policies down our throat, then I hope he only lasts one term. However, he is too charismatic to lose in 2012. I mean seriously, he could probably drop his drawers, take a dump and then throw his crap on the reporters and most of you brainwashed people would be like "OMG he is the worlds greatest."
I know that most of you think I am just a gop troll but at least I had the balls to say I didn't agree with everything Bush did. You all...well that is a different story completely. You are just blindly listening to whatever is coming out of the White House and accepting it as gospel.
When you throw around stupidity like "socio-communist policies," nobody is going to take you seriously. You're practically begging to be called a troll, so if the shoe fits...
Really. Hmmmmm? Well, if you did. How are we supposed to know you did?
You've only been posting here for 9 weeks.
It's easy for you to say that now. There's no way for anyone to verify it.
And a lot of people here voice their opinion about Obama quite a lot.
And a lot of it is negative.
You're just a troll. A bummed out, lying ,negative, sore loser, short on good ideas,lost little troll.
If you bothered reading more of the comments you'd see that there are a lot of people here that disagree or aren't very happy with the Prez's work so far. Patriot Act, FISA, Afghanistan. That's just for starters.
Yet you try to say that you were objectionable about Boosh.
Don't make me laugh. Prove it. You can't.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Don'tchew mean objectional
Or were you being ironic?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I meant objectionable
But now that you mention it,perhaps both are adequate.
Either way, he's full of shit.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"think I am just a gop troll"
Yeah saying things like corporatist/socio-communist, which are by definition diametrically opposed, might make people think you're one of the DoughtyPantloads pals.
"just blindly listening to whatever is coming out of the White House and accepting it as gospel"
Or maybe we're actually intellegently analysising what he says and basing our opinions and comments on that.
Even beyond the sad Castellanos, CNN made a fools of themselves by overreacting in Ed Henry's defense to big bad obama's "snippiness". Most people i know, as well as some of the other news outlets, took that exchange as a somewhat interesting and appropriate retort to an obnoxious series of gotcha questions.
I guess the price for not questioning the patriotism (ala bush) of probing journalists, is the rise of camera mugging hacks like henry.
CNN just keeps going down the tubes. Right wingers are such morons. Obama's rating is at 64%, he's being called the Teflon President. After his second term we're going to want him to run a third time, I predict he'll be that good.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
The one common thing I see in the Republicans is that they are nuts , definitely nuts , their circuits are shorted out . I used to think they were just plain evil but no , they are genuine nut cases who have found each other and taken over the Republican party .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
~O~ Shite!
...and dumber! What the hell kind of a question was that? How can this dumb ass Cooper guy ask a question like that? And then the answer! They just keep it coming don't they?
What's with these asswipes? They nitpick at every little thing they can find with Obama. It's maddening. CNN ought to ban this guy.
Bush had an approval rating of 95 % when he gave his "mission accomplished" speech after invading Iraq. You loved him when he was shedding blood. Obama will get the same treatment.
This isn't mathematics, doofus...these two men are clearly not equal. Obama has long ago proven he's a tad brighter than former President Crack and Jack.
You people are so accustomed to just saying anything...no matter how false or stupid.
just saying...
Ed Henry and all the other corporate media asswipes like him (like this asshat Castellanos) are getting served by this President with every asinine question they ask, every bullshit meme they float out there. I heard it described this way; They're playing checkers, and he's kicking their asses at chess.
Three-tiered?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
So, why even bring a nitwit like Castallanos on the show? This is one of the things I find MOST irritating about the media. How hard would it be for the to dig just a little deeper to find more interesting, more intelligent, and better informed people to interview.
CNN desperately wants Fox News' ratings and the only way they can think to achieve them is by becoming as pathetically obnoxious. In the process, CNN's quality has deteriorated horribly.
What was once a pioneering news operation with reporting heroes such as Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett, and John Holliman has become a shadow of itself. We are left with instead:
*Sheep (aka Wolf) Blitzer
*John (please forgive me if I ask a question) King
*Larry (how will I get back to the home?) King
*Lou (I'm so mad I can't remember what I'm mad at) Dobbs
*Ed (watch me act like a tough guy now) Henry
*Fake holograph reporting and graphics overkill to no real purpose in election reporting
The only anchor left worth a damn is Rick Sanchez. And the only field reporter of any consequence is Michael Ware.
What a fucking dunce.
It's funny Alex Castellanos should bring up the "hard work" thing cuz I was sort of thinking the same thing when I was watching the press conference. Here's the only difference Alex - With Obama there's substance to back that up where he says it's hard work after he's actually done work to help this country. Bush on the other hand, repeated that with no work to show for. So just stfu you wannabe geraldo rivera.
Kudos to Paul Begala's response...
"AIG took the bonuses that the Democrats and the President gave them"
Funny, I seem to remember a whole bunch of Republican Congressmen and 'conservative' commentors saying just last month that the world was going to end and we'd all be communists if those bonuses were given out to the idle rich.
I observed this alleged confrontation - President didn't look or act angry. He had just a hint of a smile while Henry posed his question, and then he hit Mr. Ed right between the eyes with a superb answer. Teleprompters and "he appeared angry," is this all they have? Such disgusting people in the Media and the Republican party.
Repugs are going out of their minds looking for Obama's Achyle's Heel. They're just throwing any shit out there hoping that something will stick.
As for being a one term President, these guys are petrified that congress repeals the 22nd ammendment and we get another Roosevelt scenero.
I am very disappointed in Anderson Cooper. I thought he had more integrity than this. CNN and most of the major networks gave the Bush/Cheney crowd a free ride for two terms and censured Helen Thomas and others who questioned their policies and actions.
Now they start taking shots at Obama within his first 60 days in office.
People need to call out Cooper and these other jerks for their hypocrisy.
But beyond that, regarding a President talking about working hard, there's a really good reason it was funny when Bush said it and not when Obama said it - something called irony. Obama will have been in office another 2 years before he can spend as much time WORKING as Bush spent J*RKING OFF.
Never was a complete SLACKER elevated so far above his competence level as was George W. Bush.
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