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Obama to reporter: 'Let me finish my answers' next time

please do point it out when it happens. such rude behavior should be found objectionable to anyone or any party


i do note you used the expression "republican candidate" rather than the direct counterpart, "republican president"; is that an indication you have already written off 2012?

Well, we have some time to go before it gets down and dirty. Um, well maybe not seeing as how Obama already showed how nasty he plans to be. But in any case unless the GOP gets its **** together, and puts up someone strong, with a clear message, and plan, then yes, unfortunately we may go down this election cycle.

j-mac
 
the problem isn't the president being interrupted by some little nobody and letting it get to him so he loses a little presidential composure

no, the trouble is the president doesn't have any answers, interrupted or not

for jobs, for housing, for gasoline, for afghanistan, libya, iran, the middle east...

for the budget mess whoever's-to-blame got us in

for entitlements and the inevitable major restructuring physics will impose upon us if we don't act

all he's about anymore is invest, invest, invest

and class division

let him talk

leadership, anyone?
 
[emphasis added by bubba]
again, you misrepresent what you actually said. so, (once again) let's do see what you actually posted: [emphasis added by bubba]

if you will look at it again (the video has been provided twice already) you will see how bush

Ahhhh... The time honored tradition of parsing someones words, rather than interpreting their meaning. Doubling down on the dishonesty I see...

You know, if you even resembled an honest person rather than the rage filled partisan hack your portraying yourself to be on this thread, you might have taken my original quote, rather than using the post where I paraphrased myself.

What I originally said was:

Obama should have taken a page from George Bush when it comes to being interviewed by rude or hostile members of the media...

I know, I know... Parsing my words and pretending that your post was actually relevant to what I actually said, was the only way you could justify your off-topic attack on Bush and quell your rage.

So, care to triple down and show us the true depths of your dishonesty, by again trying to justify your attacks? Or are you going to surprise me by just walking away and showing that your partisan dishonesty actually does have limits?
 
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We'll see if you are as annoyed with a republican candidate being questioned by an MSNBC reporter and doing the same when the time comes....I suspect your position may shift a little....heh.

j-mac

I do know this:

If a republican is cut off by any reporter while he/she is trying to speak and then tells that reporter, "Next time let me finish my thoughts", I won't compare him/her to Al Capone and I won't hint that he/she is a bitch for requesting such a normal thing to request.
 
I do know this:

If a republican is cut off by any reporter while he/she is trying to speak and then tells that reporter, "Next time let me finish my thoughts", I won't compare him/her to Al Capone and I won't hint that he/she is a bitch for requesting such a normal thing to request.

Nor should anyone. We really should want complete answers.
 
From the FoxNews interview w/Clinton in post #75, if the book Clinton's referring to is Richard Clark's book, "Your Government Failed You," then Clinton was 100% correct. I've read that book and it is very informative. Not only does it outlining the various changes our military and government has gone through since the Vietnam era, it also goes into great detail on the Clinton administrations efforts to capture or kill OBL and how the FBI/CIA dropped the ball in that regard by their petty bickering and neither side wanting to take the financial or "political" responsibility for covert operations if things fell through. Even the 9/11 Report speak on this matter.

Clinton was right not to just sit there and take Chris Wallace's BS.
 
I do know this:

If a republican is cut off by any reporter while he/she is trying to speak and then tells that reporter, "Next time let me finish my thoughts", I won't compare him/her to Al Capone and I won't hint that he/she is a bitch for requesting such a normal thing to request.


Well, we will have to wait and see won't we....You don't mind if I save this post for future reference do you?

j-mac
 
Well, we will have to wait and see won't we....You don't mind if I save this post for future reference do you?

j-mac

Please do. I want to consider myself to be a reasonable man, and if I ever lambast a person for wanting to be able to finish his/her thoughts, please point it out to me so that I will know that I am in fact not reasonable.
 
No, that isn't what I said. You know that too. You can bring up what ever you wish, no matter how small and petty it makes you appear. But when you post something making it appear as though someone else is saying these things, it is not only dishonest, but should not be tolerated.



So you think you should be able to just post anything and attribute it to your opposition whether true or not, as long as it scathingly mocks, and ridicules your opponent....? And you think that is an honorable way to debate?



Sure you did, and although you didn't direct it at a person, you generalized which is worse.



See, that is your problem. You think because the reporter didn't ask softball questions of your hero Obama, that he is biased. Yet, if the roles are reversed, would I be correct in assuming that a liberal media person asking questions of a conservative, and not allowing that conservative to get away with skewing the facts is a biased PoS and out to get him as well?



No, I don't think he is evil either, I disagree with how he fundamentally sees this country, and her place in the world, and I think that his policies are ruiness for this country, and I also think that he outright lies to avoid the tough stances, and decisions he has made.



No, I can't stand listening to him because he is a liar. And I don't need some 20 minute lecture to answer a 30 second question. As for knowing who he is, the time for that was in 2007, but you libs did your best to help him hide that didn't you?



Crazy? no. Hateful, absolutely! He is very transparent in holding grudges. As for sounding insane? I guess that is a matter of what you think of his policies isn't it?



Well, you'd be dead wrong. See, that is the problem with you assuming anything. Although I think that Obama is purposely withholding his long form BC, because it is a distraction, and a way to paint with a broad brush his opposition, just like you attempted here, but I called you on, I am more so interested in his upbringing, whom influenced him at a young age, his schooling, and his grades and papers, what he thought, who he really is.

But you go ahead and cling to bomb throwing of sorts like you tried here, and I am sure that more accolades like the one from Bubba will emerge, and your position on the far left will be staked out for you.

j-mac

The only person I made an assumption about was the journalist, and I admit it was an assumption... There is nothing wrong with making an assumption, and I feel it was an informed assumption. Yep, I assume the guy is biased... most journalists are. Most people know that and make those assumptions. And I'll go even further and assume his lean is conservative.... which is probably a common assumption on this thread.

I really think you're overreacting... and making a big fuss over nothing. I am not coming out of left field with my assumptions, nor are they ignorant or offensive.

I didn't make an assumption about all Conservatives of even all Conservatives posting on this thread... I said birtherism is stupid, and I don't think the president is entirely bad. That doesn't make me a liberal btw..

I still fail to see why you have a problem with that...
 
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I still don't really understand what's wrong with asking to be able to complete one's answer when asked a question.
 
the problem isn't the president being interrupted by some little nobody and letting it get to him so he loses a little presidential composure

no, the trouble is the president doesn't have any answers, interrupted or not

for jobs, for housing, for gasoline, for afghanistan, libya, iran, the middle east...

for the budget mess whoever's-to-blame got us in

for entitlements and the inevitable major restructuring physics will impose upon us if we don't act

all he's about anymore is invest, invest, invest

and class division

let him talk

leadership, anyone?

Nobody has those answers... Not Obama, not Boehner, none of them. Yet millions of Americans keep thinking otherwise...
 
I still don't really understand what's wrong with asking to be able to complete one's answer when asked a question.

Nothing. Nothing at all. So this thread makes very little sense.
 
Nothing. Nothing at all. So this thread makes very little sense.

Nah. It makes sense if you just look at it as some one trying to paint the President doing some rude/unreasonable when he just wants to fully answer a question.
 
Because there are some here who interpret it as being whiny or rude.

I mean, I'm sure there is a way to be whiny and rude while doing so. But in general, this seems more a lot to do about nothing. If he wasn't being allowed to finish his answers he should say that he should be allowed to finish. I don't know how much information can actually be taken from politicians these days. A lot of words come out of their pie holes, but very little information. But we have gotten to a very annoying state in politics where everything has to be canned sound bites, little stump speeches. But honestly, if we are to control the government we need to know what the government is up to. And that requires tough questions and complete answers for us to gauge where the government is at and what it's doing. I think that for quite some time now the Press has failed in its duty to the People.
 
I mean, I'm sure there is a way to be whiny and rude while doing so. But in general, this seems more a lot to do about nothing. If he wasn't being allowed to finish his answers he should say that he should be allowed to finish. I don't know how much information can actually be taken from politicians these days. A lot of words come out of their pie holes, but very little information. But we have gotten to a very annoying state in politics where everything has to be canned sound bites, little stump speeches. But honestly, if we are to control the government we need to know what the government is up to. And that requires tough questions and complete answers for us to gauge where the government is at and what it's doing. I think that for quite some time now the Press has failed in its duty to the People.

I agree. I think you have to know how Obama thinks and what is motivating him to make his decisions, before you can actually judge him and form an opinion on his judgement. I'd like to hear him explain everything, then his way of thinking and presidency can really be challenged.
 
What a child this man is. Thin skinned, and unwilling to be challenged in his answers to tough questions. In fact anyone remember during the campaign, reporters he didn't like the questions of somehow disappeared from the press pool?

This is a man that likes to 'control' the media and when he can't it rattles him. What a loser he is.

j-mac

Agreed. I foresee a custom karma title going his way soon...

I think Obama ran up against a reporter that matched or exceeded his skills, and he kinda panicked.
 
I still don't really understand what's wrong with asking to be able to complete one's answer when asked a question.

Nothing is wrong with it. Any reasonable person would have responded the same way or in a similar manner...
 
Agreed. I foresee a custom karma title going his way soon...

I think Obama ran up against a reporter that matched or exceeded his skills, and he kinda panicked.

I wish half way into your thought I could have slammed your laptop shut or turned off your computer and then when you complained, I would reply by saying, "You ran up against someone who matched or exceeded your skills and you are panicking!"

That would be so awesome.
 
I wish half way into your thought I could have slammed your laptop shut or turned off your computer and then when you complained, I would reply by saying, "You ran up against someone who matched or exceeded your skills and you are panicking!"

That would be so awesome.

lol....Obama is starting to show his true colors

Limp, panicky and half-measures lead to more Obama incompetence
 
The only person I made an assumption about was the journalist, and I admit it was an assumption...


Really? Let's go back to the original post I called you on shall we?

You said:

You might not like how he defends his decisions or his reasoning, but because this is a free country, you're not going to be killed or punished for disagreeing with the leader. But to think this president is a liar, a secret Muslim, socialist, and Kenyan who secretly wants to destroy America is just stupid and insane, and the epitome of ignorant.

so now after 5 pages, and some back and forth, I will ask, Whom are you talking about here that has said that Obama is a "Secret Muslim", "Socialist", "Kenyan", or want's to "secretly destroy America"?

Were you saying that Soccerboy was saying this, because that is whom you were addressing? Or were you making a larger point that "You" being in the general terminology is trumpeting that, and I ask if the latter, whom is in the generalization that you so wrongly characterize?

But then you went further to say:

Some idiots really think the president is all bad and no good...

Who are the "idiots" SW? I can assume like you, but I prefer to see you have the integrity to come on out and say it.

There is nothing wrong with making an assumption, and I feel it was an informed assumption.

Oh, an informed assumption...Well then what are you basing your informed assumption on? And as to assumptions they are a bad road to go down, because generally assumptions are made on perceptions, and thus are skewed by our notions of what we believe, and don't really know about the person we are assuming of.

Yep, I assume the guy is biased... most journalists are. Most people know that and make those assumptions. And I'll go even further and assume his lean is conservative.... which is probably a common assumption on this thread.

Facts be damned. Ok that tells me volumes about your thought processes.

I really think you're overreacting... and making a big fuss over nothing. I am not coming out of left field with my assumptions, nor are they ignorant or offensive.

Says who? You? Or are you assuming again? they are by the very definition ignorant, and offensive.

I didn't make an assumption about all Conservatives of even all Conservatives posting on this thread... I said birtherism is stupid, and I don't think the president is entirely bad. That doesn't make me a liberal btw..

Hard to tell who you were talking about....It was generalized to the point allowing you to now weasel out of what you really meant. And no you didn't just say "birtherism is stupid" I posted you exact quote. Now you are just being dishonest about it.

It may not make you a liberal, but it doesn't make you independent either.

Probably in my assumption a liberal that is ashamed to admit it....See how off assumptions can be?

I still fail to see why you have a problem with that...

I had a problem with it because I am so damn tired of this Allensky style smear debate that libs often employ today, then just as you did, refuse to stand behind their own words. It is highly dishonest. But if that is how you want to proceed then God Speed girl. I am done with it.

j-mac
 
....and unwilling to be challenged in his answers to tough questions....

because there is no answer in his Teleprompter.
 
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