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

who cares

if something isn't done now to restructure entitlements they won't be there in their present form for the next generation

grow up

got any ideas? or just more whining about having a DEM in the WH....
If the GOP had been doing a better job, not even a GOOD job, just a better job, Obama wouldn't be in the WH now...
 
Seeing how politicians in general like to give a long winded non-answer(or even a long winded answer to bury what they actually mean) instead of just a straight answer, maybe reporters should cut them off. You could ask a politician what his favorite color is and he or she would give a long winded non-answer on the importance of colors or some other bs.

You can hold an evasive politician's feet to the fire without being rude.
 
There was nothing particularly evasive about him. It wasn't the white-house's decision - but a committees to place the NASA launchpad or whatever the heck they wanted. Maybe they don't know how the government works in Texas. :shrug:

Also he told that reporter like a pro.

o(~.')b glad he stuck it to him.
 
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I guess I must've missed the memo that clarified that being an insightful, dogged and thorough professional required you to leave your manners at the door.
 
It's been a couple days since I watched it, but I recall at least one occasion where the reporter interrupted the President. That's rude.

The only time it looked like the reporter interrupted the president is when the president lied about the points he lost Texas by. Was he really supposed to just sit there and let the president make false statements without challenging him on it?
 
I guess I must've missed the memo that clarified that being an insightful, dogged and thorough professional required you to leave your manners at the door.

He was actually very polite. You still haven't pointed to where he was rude in the interview.
 
got any ideas?

let house republican leadership answer you

structural reform

today:

Republicans are floating a wide range of major structural reforms that could be attached to the debt limit vote, including statutory spending caps, a balanced budget amendment and a two-thirds vote requirement for tax increases and debt limit increases.

GOP escalates demands on debt limit - Jake Sherman and Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

in contrast, status quo:

Liberals want a “clean” vote to raise the $14.3 trillion borrowing limit.

americans see the contrast, there's no concealing it, the divide is too deep

leadership, anyone?
 
The only time it looked like the reporter interrupted the president is when the president lied about the points he lost Texas by. Was he really supposed to just sit there and let the president make false statements without challenging him on it?

I don't care why the reporter did it. It's rude. You can nail the president on a lie without being rude.

As for lying how many points he lost Texas by, that could easily be him mixing the results from one state up with another.
 
I don't care why the reporter did it. It's rude. You can nail the president on a lie without being rude.

As for lying how many points he lost Texas by, that could easily be him mixing the results from one state up with another.

which of the 57 states did he mix up with Texas?
 
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

Much ado about nothing. Nice editing, but that is common with local stations pressed for time and content, but I would have liked to see the entire interview uncut. Regarding the comment he made at the end, whoopy. He told the guy that he didn't appreciate being cut off. Neither do I. If he wanted to debate with the President than do so without cutting him off. That said, the footage they showed did not really show the journalist cutting the President off very much. I think I saw one instance of this, but again, it was an edited piece.
 
i would want to see the unedited version of the interview, to see if the interviewer did interrupt the president's answers


what we do know is that the interviewer is manipulative. we know this by his insisting that Obama's comments reflected the president's dislike of his answers being challenged, when that edited video clearly describes Obama actually objecting to being interrupted

my speculation is the interviewer has an agenda to so wantonly misrepresent what the president said



notice how desperate the reich wing is, to trot this out. it is telling. they have so little to be able to criticize they must fabricate things to whine about

of course the 2012 republican nominee will be a shoo in ... too bad they don't have one

Exactly. This is the game that is played. I could agree that "W" was also treated like this during his tenure, but I cannot remember a time when he did an interview with a local reporter, or any hard hitting 1 on 1 interviews. The soft-core porn interviews he and Cheney did on Fox do not count.
 
Basically, the president is going to try to explain his thinking and defend himself and a biased journalists doesn't want to hear that BS, so he interrupts him.

I really don't think this president has done anything 100 percent wrong or he is a bad person... The president has to make tough decisions, and he has to defend them. 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.

Some idiots really think the president is all bad and no good... If they hear the president explaining himself like a decent human being, guided by morality and good intent, then that entire bogeyman image might be shattered and idiots on talk radio might have less doomsday BS to scare people about.

When "W" was president I had the same thought. I always believed he was a good guy. Someone I could go have a beer with and so forth. I disagreed with him politically, and would never, ever vote for him, but it was never because I thought he was an evil guy with thoughts of world domination. And I remember getting angry when my fellow Liberals would compare him to Hitler and other despots. Just like when Conservatives say that Obama is a socialist, calling Bush names was never productive.

Anyway. Off track here. You can now resume the thread...
 
I don't care why the reporter did it. It's rude. You can nail the president on a lie without being rude.

As for lying how many points he lost Texas by, that could easily be him mixing the results from one state up with another.

It wasn’t rude. The president was just being an arrogant crybaby.
 
When "W" was president I had the same thought. I always believed he was a good guy. Someone I could go have a beer with and so forth. I disagreed with him politically, and would never, ever vote for him, but it was never because I thought he was an evil guy with thoughts of world domination. And I remember getting angry when my fellow Liberals would compare him to Hitler and other despots. Just like when Conservatives say that Obama is a socialist, calling Bush names was never productive.

I agree wholeheartedly, I looked to the guy as the devil for a while and after a bit and seeing footage of him being himself I took that stance. Still, he was only a petít fascist. Not hitler by any means.
 
Obnoxious as hell.

That's why when New Yorkers move to Texas, they're so caught off-guard by everyone saying "hello" and waving to them when they're driving down the street. Most think we're making fun of them, when that's just what we do.

The guys I do business with in New York or just grade-A pompous assholes. And they don't even know it. It's like they're on an internet forum 24 hours a day, but in public. LOL

Well people love to sterotype the people of New Yawk but those people will have your back like no others. Can they be crass? Sure but you see what happened after 9/11! How they all banded together. Say what you will the people of New York are good folks. They may be loud at times or whatever but so what that makes em special:)
 
Actually, how do we know. We only saw select cuts.

Did you ask yourself this question with the same insight you show here before expressing an opinion? I'll look back at the comments and see if you expressed an opinion one way or the other so you can't hide from it.

I'll get you a link to the uncut, entire interview (was about 8 minutes long) in a few.
 
Well people love to sterotype the people of New Yawk but those people will have your back like no others. Can they be crass? Sure but you see what happened after 9/11! How they all banded together. Say what you will the people of New York are good folks. They may be loud at times or whatever but so what that makes em special:)

I wouldn't agrue with you about this for a second. New Yorkers are among the best America has ever grown without question. They are very diffent than most Americans but that doesn't mean they aren't among America's finest.
 
I don't remember ever complaining about Bush and Helen Thomas. Perhaps you have a link? And how many questions did Bush ever actually answer?

J, this is trivial ****. Whinning unnecessarly. If you want an answer, let him answer. If you don't like the answer, ask the question again and specificy what you thought was weak. This is not hard. And this whining about the how mean Obama abused the poor report is just dishonest.

Looks like you formed an opinion without watching the uncut vid and in your words "would[n't] know" what you are talking about because you hadn't seen the uncut version.

I just love liberal hypocrisy.
 
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