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Gibbs Leaves the White House

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All I can say is that the White House is a better place without Gibbs. He might be one of the worst Press Secretary I have ever seen in my short life.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says it's been a "remarkable privilege" to be President Barack Obama's top spokesman, "even when you wake up at 4 and pick up the paper and groan."
"I would not trade the worst days here for many of the best days at another job," Gibbs told reporters Wednesday, after announcing his departure from the White House. But he said he wants to "step back a little bit and recharge some" after four years of campaigning and a hard-fought first half of the Obama administration -- "probably the busiest years that Washington and the White House have seen in a couple of decades."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/05/gibbs.leaving/index.html?hpt=T1

Edit: Actually thinking about it, who would you want to see replace Gibbs?
 
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All I can say is that the White House is a better place without Gibbs. He might be one of the worst Press Secretary I have ever seen in my short life.

I miss the good old days...

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I miss the good old days...

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Yeah she is easy on the eyes. Maybe President Obama's next Press Secretary will be just as easy on the eyes. At least the next one will be better than Gibbs though, it will be hard to imagine some one worse.
 
All I can say is that the White House is a better place without Gibbs. He might be one of the worst Press Secretary I have ever seen in my short life. …

Personally, I think he's done well. He has a terrific sense of humor. There's been some faux pas but that comes with the territory.

What's the complaint?
 
Yeah she is easy on the eyes. Maybe President Obama's next Press Secretary will be just as easy on the eyes. At least the next one will be better than Gibbs though, it will be hard to imagine some one worse.

I have a couple of suggestions...

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Or:

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Children posters should be banned.
 
I gotta hand it to Gibbs. He had to get up there everyday and stick up for this joke of an administration. You can tell it wore him down.
 
I gotta hand it to Gibbs. … You can tell it wore him down.

That's why he's moving on to be an outside consultant to the re-elect campaign committee, huh. That'll be far less stressful.
 
It's a damn difficult job and I have little doubt he's burned out. Best of luck to him.
 
Might I offer this for your use?
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Wow, another example of this so called “humor” people keep on referring to.

Here's an example of real humor after Sarah Palin got caught with talking points written on her palm.

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Personally, I think he's done well. He has a terrific sense of humor. There's been some faux pas but that comes with the territory.

What's the complaint?

Agreed. He's done his job well. I don't lots of things he's done or how he's approached them, or the writing on the hand incident. The press secretary however is there to do a specific function and he did it and was a strong face in front of the press.
 
Personally, I think he's done well. He has a terrific sense of humor. There's been some faux pas but that comes with the territory.

What's the complaint?

It is just at times he has come off rather childish and it just seemed unprofessional. If it wasn't for the childish that appeared I would have thought he was a pretty good Press Secretary.
 
It is just at times he has come off rather childish and it just seemed unprofessional. If it wasn't for the childish that appeared I would have thought he was a pretty good Press Secretary.

For instance …
 
I'll let you know when I see some.

Ouch Chappy, that sure did hurt.

I understand sometimes my jokes suck, such as in this thread... but I mean, it stands to reason that for the story itself, who really gives a flying toss? The Janitor of the white house is more useful then the Press Secretary.
 
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On topic or infractions will ensue. Quit with the personal insults.
 
They should get James Earl Jones!
 
gibbs was a disaster

former dnc howard dean this morning on msnbc:

"[M]ost of the people who were [causing the friction] are either out of the White House or going," Dean said."So I guess I would say there is in process a huge senior staff shakeup going on at the White House. I think that is a very good thing and I think that will help… The core issue is the contempt, which not just the progressives were treated by but lots of people were treated by, by senior advisers around the president who have been here for 20 years and thought they knew everything and we knew nothing. That is a fundamental flaw in any kind of administration. As they say, 'Don't let the door hit you in the you-know-what on the way out.'"

Robert Gibbs leaving to work on President Obama's campaign - Glenn Thrush and Carol E. Lee - POLITICO.com

"contempt" is a relatively new charge, "combative" has been an almost consensual characterization of the dismissed mouthpiece for the better part of a year

google: "robert gibbs combative," you'll see how often the appellation has been applied

the weirdest part is---it was the folks in the m-s-m, once so THRILLED with obama, with whom the press secretary was so impish

remember when gibbs called out the "professional left," recommending they should be "drug tested"

Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought to be drug tested' | Richard Adams | World news | guardian.co.uk

he immediately went into hiding for a couple months, replaced by asst bill burton, and gibbs never really recovered

his infamous prediction on mtp that dems might lose the house also hurt

Gibbs: Democrats Could Lose House - CBS News

gibbs was the "consummate insider," according to roger simon's journolisters this morning (see politico link above)

and that's a big part of the problem

the president appears extremely reluctant to surround himself with anyone not from chicago, elite academia or the basketball court

compared to every other modern president, obama looks almost painfully insecure in the presence of outsiders, pros and adults

"insular" is the word used most often used to describe this white house, sources as mainstream as the washington post, mike allen and chris matthews

did you hear that WILLIAM DALEY is the president's likely next chief of staff

the brother of richard m and son of richard j (america's pharaoh) was seen in the west wing this morning

Potential top aide visits Obama | POLITICO 44

while rahm goes to CHICAGO, william DALEY comes to dc to take over for rahm

it's almost LOL-able

the staff is in shambles, the entire economic team has fled, romer, orszag, summers

the political posse---axelrod's out, plouffe was brought in, but the 2008 campaign choreographer has been kept mostly in a closet

the security crew---mcchrystal, blair, jones

meanwhile, howard dean this morning did not confine his criticisms to the secty

The former Democratic National Committee chairman, who is frequently called on to speak for the party’s left wing, said President Barack Obama has thus far been ill served by “a group of senior advisers around the president who’ve been here [in Washington] for 20 years and thought they knew everything and we knew nothing.”

“That will change dramatically if Bill Daley comes in,” he added, throwing his support behind the possible selection of Daley as the president’s next chief of staff. “He’s a grown-up.”

Without naming names — “I’m not talking about anyone in particular,” Dean said, “it’s the whole mind-set” — Dean said Obama has been surrounded by a gang of Beltway insiders whose style and actions reeked of business as usual. As a result, those who voted for Obama’s promise of changing the ways of Washington have been disappointed.

“They thought they were going to get a fundamental cleanup of Washington, and they didn’t get it,” Dean said. The desire to change the capital’s old way of operating “is what the left has in common with the tea party,” he said.

Howard Dean rips senior W.H. advisers - Molly Ball - POLITICO.com

thus it comes as no surprise that out-of-his-element obama looks to insiders, burton or biden spokesman jay carney, to replace pugnacious gibbs

wapo, home of journolist founder ezra klein, reported yesterday the white house's mulling of a major shakeup---up to EIGHT staffers may be moved in the "next few weeks"

BUT, according to the post, it appears the admin, rather than turning to anyone NEW, is likely to "reshuffle" people already there:

The staff reshuffling will not necessarily bring new faces to an administration that has been criticized for being insular. Most of the positions in play are likely to go to officials already in the West Wing or to campaign loyalists.

Gibbs tells staffers he is leaving White House
 
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