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Obama says people who hate him don't know him

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Asked by interviewer Bill O'Reilly whether his critics annoyed him, Obama said: "By the time you get here, you have to have had a pretty thick skin. If you didn't, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here."

The 14-minute, live interview sought Obama's views on a range of timely matters, including the unrest in Egypt and the ultimate fate of the new health care law. O'Reilly also probed Obama on lighter topics, including which team would win the Super Bowl and the worst part of his job.
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Obama wasn't the editor of the Harvard Law Review for nothing. He handled the interview very smartly. Bill O'Reilly didn't pull his punches either, and asked questions that mainstream America want to know the answers to.

This turned out to be an excellent interview, for both Obama and O'Reilly.

Article is here.

Also, the video of the interview is now up on Youtube. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3SX0lRWjEk

So, what does everybody think?
 
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Obama is mad that he's followed everywhere? What does he have to hide? Is he going with friends to a super secret Muslim-Commie-Kenyan meeting? :O
 
Hatuey said:
Obama is mad that he's followed everywhere? What does he have to hide? Is he going with friends to a super secret Muslim-Commie-Kenyan meeting? :O
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That wasn't too honest. There is a sizable population that don't like the health care program. There are also many who see what Obama is doing as wealth distribution. To O'Reilly's credit, he focused on that. Why? For his audience, of course. There was nothing in the interview that questioned Obama's patriotism, called him a Marxist, or or called him a Kenyan, or called him a Muslim. IMHO, the questions were good ones, and Obama fielded them well.
 
danarhea said:
Obama wasn't the editor of the Harvard Law Review for nothing. He handled the interview very smartly. Bill O'Reilly didn't pull his punches either, and asked questions that mainstream America want to know the answers to.

This turned out to be an excellent interview, for both Obama and O'Reilly.

Article is here.

Also, the video of the interview is now up on Youtube. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3SX0lRWjEk

So, what does everybody think?
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Too many softballs... who cares what he feels, how he's changed... the last third was an absolute, 100% waste.

1. Free press. Unless it is FOX in the WH. Remember how they tried to shut them out of the pool?

2. Egypt isn't going back and want a responsive government. How about America? We sent BO a message... with Brown and during the midterms.

3. Muslim Brotherhood. Obama is praying it doesn't backfire. He'll be right beside Carter... he has been in every way up to now, this would be the cherry on top. What a cherry.

4. Florida judge used his words against him in shutting down ObamaKare. One judge got it dead, solid, perfect right on the money.

5. Obama may not want to refight a back-door mess of policy called ObamaKare... he fails to understand people voted overwhelmingly to undo his mess.

Obama fails to get the message. Period.

6. WSJ... nice skate. He's placed burdens and redistributed wealth like Marx would have liked. Trillions in future debt. What a joke.

7. Obama has done nothing to create jobs.

8. HE ADMITTED WE WERE LOSING JOBS!!! and if you listen to his tone... he knows he f'd up. Big Time.

9. It's not his job to tell and demand Americans to buy services.

10. He's full of it about creating jobs. Pure BS. And again, he thinks he can skate past the disaster called ObamaKare saying he doesn't want to fight what happened during the past 2-years. Too bad... Americans do. That's why we voted out the socialists en masse.

11. Common sense focus... ROTFLOL...

12. Nobody has been able to solve... complicated problems... aw. Reagan seemed to handle them ok. His problem is his "solutions" aren't solutions, and people don't want them. He might have been able to pull some of his destructive program during better times, but not now. That's why it's complicated for him... people see through the deceit.

13. We don't hate Obama, we hate his policy.

14. We know Obama... it was clear to any sober citizen before he was elected. This was all predicted.

A fairly useless interview. Can't wait until the Republican nominee sits across and kicks the light weight's ass.

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The blind partisanism is amusing, Zimmer.
 
Deuce said:
The blind partisanism is amusing, Zimmer.
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I numbered the points... all in sequence. What's partisan? ... point it out instead of lobbing a statement without any backup. That he's Carter II? How about accurate? The elections of brown & midterms? The last 33% of the interview being useless? Trying to shut out FOX from the WH pool? He didn't say we are losing jobs? The Judge using Obama's own words to shoot down ObamaKare? That we don't hate Obama, but really dislike his policies because they're diametrically opposed to the Constitution?

How about it Deuce?

And his comment about "streams of anti-Americanism" within the Muslim Brotherhood was shading the truth too. They're both anti-American and anti-Semitic. It is their core... not a stream... Let's not kid anyone.


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Too many softballs... who cares what he feels, how he's changed... the last third was an absolute, 100% waste.

1. Free press. Unless it is FOX in the WH. Remember how they tried to shut them out of the pool?

2. Egypt isn't going back and want a responsive government. How about America? We sent BO a message... with Brown and during the midterms.

3. Muslim Brotherhood. Obama is praying it doesn't backfire. He'll be right beside Carter... he has been in every way up to now, this would be the cherry on top. What a cherry.

4. Florida judge used his words against him in shutting down ObamaKare. One judge got it dead, solid, perfect right on the money.

5. Obama may not want to refight a back-door mess of policy called ObamaKare... he fails to understand people voted overwhelmingly to undo his mess.

Obama fails to get the message. Period.

6. WSJ... nice skate. He's placed burdens and redistributed wealth like Marx would have liked. Trillions in future debt. What a joke.

7. Obama has done nothing to create jobs.

8. HE ADMITTED WE WERE LOSING JOBS!!! and if you listen to his tone... he knows he f'd up. Big Time.

9. It's not his job to tell and demand Americans to buy services.

10. He's full of it about creating jobs. Pure BS. And again, he thinks he can skate past the disaster called ObamaKare saying he doesn't want to fight what happened during the past 2-years. Too bad... Americans do. That's why we voted out the socialists en masse.

11. Common sense focus... ROTFLOL...

12. Nobody has been able to solve... complicated problems... aw. Reagan seemed to handle them ok. His problem is his "solutions" aren't solutions, and people don't want them. He might have been able to pull some of his destructive program during better times, but not now. That's why it's complicated for him... people see through the deceit.

13. We don't hate Obama, we hate his policy.

14. We know Obama... it was clear to any sober citizen before he was elected. This was all predicted.

A fairly useless interview. Can't wait until the Republican nominee sits across and kicks the light weight's ass.

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First, to the interview. I think it was a bit too political for the Superbowl, however I think that O'Riely's harder pitchs weren't too over the line for the atmosphere. I think he did a good job of asking questions that, while may seem illigitimate to some of his supporters (because they don't feel that way), were important to some of his detractors and those on the fence to hear...and they're as large and legitimate of a faction as the other side of things. I think he did a good job asking them as legitimate questions of Obama for Obama to answer if he agrees, or why he thinks they may view it that way, or if that view it leigtimate, or how he feels about it, etc. Never questions simply assuming that he IS those things but more for his responses. Wasn't a great interview, but for the venue I think it was rather hard hitting while not being over the top.

As to the question in particular in the title of this thread...I agree. I think its very hard to "hate" Obama or "hate" Bush as people. You may hate them as the President, you may hate what they've done, but no matter how many people foolishly yuck it up like they know Bush's thoughts, hopes, and intelligence first hand or how many people ridiculously declare what's really deep in Obama's soul the real fact is as human beings...as people...we know very little about our Presidents. Not near enough to honestly "Hate" them personally in any way other than an irrational hatred.
 
13. We don't hate Obama, we hate his policy.

I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV when O'Reilly started talking about all the people who "hate" Obama.
In my opinion, that is just not true. I absolutely hate the things Obama is trying to do, but I don't hate the man. All anyone has to do is look at the polls. His personal approval ratings always continue to remain high. People like him as a person. He just happens to be the worst President ever for America.
 
Barbbtx said:
13. We don't hate Obama, we hate his policy.

I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV when O'Reilly started talking about all the people who "hate" Obama.
In my opinion, that is just not true. I absolutely hate the things Obama is trying to do, but I don't hate the man. All anyone has to do is look at the polls. His personal approval ratings always continue to remain high. People like him as a person. He just happens to be the worst President ever for America.
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While I don't like many of Obama's policies as well (he isn't left enough for me), I find it far-fetched to say that he's the worst President ever. I think that we'll have to look at all of this in hindsight and then we'll be able to tell.
 
Barbbtx said:
13. We don't hate Obama, we hate his policy.

I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV when O'Reilly started talking about all the people who "hate" Obama.
In my opinion, that is just not true. I absolutely hate the things Obama is trying to do, but I don't hate the man. All anyone has to do is look at the polls. His personal approval ratings always continue to remain high. People like him as a person. He just happens to be the worst President ever for America.
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Then would should stay on policy. No birther ****. No over emphazing his middle name. No teleprompter nonsense. But speak to the policies.
 
Mr. Invisible said:
While I don't like many of Obama's policies as well (he isn't left enough for me), I find it far-fetched to say that he's the worst President ever. I think that we'll have to look at all of this in hindsight and then we'll be able to tell.
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Not with Bush the junior on the list. ;)
 
I found it odd that he dodged/avoided the question about whether he would like to see the muslim brotherhood in power in Egypt. it was a simple yes/no question and he wouldn't answer it.
 
My general sense from the interview was that O'Reilly looked very rude at times (what's new, right?) and that Obama did a good job responding without the help of a teleprompter.
 
OscarB63 said:
I found it odd that he dodged/avoided the question about whether he would like to see the muslim brotherhood in power in Egypt. it was a simple yes/no question and he wouldn't answer it.
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Simple is rare, so I don't agree with you that it was simple. His being against the brotherhood openly would work against us and for the brotherhood. He has to think of more than just us as an audience.
 
OscarB63 said:
I found it odd that he dodged/avoided the question about whether he would like to see the muslim brotherhood in power in Egypt. it was a simple yes/no question and he wouldn't answer it.
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I imagine all things being equal Obama would not want to see the brotherhood in power, but he wants to see a legitimate democracy more than he doesn't want to see them in power. Meaning if the Egyptian people create a democracy and elect members of the Brotherhood that their perogative and Obama doesn't want to set himself up with a diplomatic handicap or a political handicap by making it appear he cares more for not getting the brotherhood in power then he does for the Egyptians having an actual democracy.
 
Mr. Invisible said:
While I don't like many of Obama's policies as well (he isn't left enough for me), I find it far-fetched to say that he's the worst President ever. I think that we'll have to look at all of this in hindsight and then we'll be able to tell.
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Worst President in my lifetime then.
I'm a Conservative so of course when we have the most liberal president ever, I'm going to have a problem with him.
 
Barbbtx said:
Worst President in my lifetime then.
I'm a Conservative so of course when we have the most liberal president ever, I'm going to have a problem with him.
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Jimmy Carter was worse
 
I would love to see just one conservative, just one, argue that history will be the judge of Obama's policies like so many of them did for Bush.

At the same time, I would also love to see one liberal, just one, attack Obama over the current state of the US as harshly as they attacked Bush.
 
OscarB63 said:
Jimmy Carter was worse
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At one time I might have agreed. However I find Obama way too arrogant and unwilling to listen. He thinks he knows what's best and is determined to cram his policies down our throats. It's like the election in Nov. never happened in his eyes. He still wants to spend, he's still dedicated to that crappy HC bill, and I still don't see him doing anything to make us energy independent by letting us use our own resources. Every day it seems we are doing something that grows government. Hec, now we have a hotline to the WH where unhappy employees can call and get a lawyer. What next? Maybe a hotline where I can call and complain if I get a roll of not so soft, Angel Soft toilet paper?
I'm sick and tired of our country being turned into a nanny state.
 
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