President-Elect Obama’s Press Conference Today

Mr. Obama, WHAT DO YOUR REAY MEAN BY SAYING “WE MAY NOT THERE IN A YEAR BUT WE WILL:…WHERE IS “there”?
Mr. Obama, do you believe in individual liberty or common good?
Mr. Obama, when will you release your collage paper s, transcripts or medical records?

Question 1. Why did you pick the obnoxious partisan Rahm to be your COS?
Nice change of tone there, Barry.
Question 2. Why are lobbyists now allowed in the White House? (I’ve never seen a President flip flop quite so quickly!)
Question 3. When do my 3 kids get their free college education? I need to know ASAP.
Question 4. When will the seas be parting so I can charge up my camera?

The above question should clarify that only intelligent answers are permitted. It should say for grown-ups only.

Everyone has an OPINION should have ran for PRESIDENT!!!!
3 DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION!!!!
GIVE HIM A CHANCE!!!!

no soft balls please..
he had enough of soft ball question in the last 2 years

I would ask President Elect are you gonna work on Education and Make it Better? By reading some of these post on Board President Obama we need serious Education Reform listen to some of these Losers!

1. Senator Obama, will you invest political capital in overturning the recent decisions against gay marriage, or will you work toward a redefinition of the States granting churches the power to declare marriages but requiring even these to be registered as civil unions thus preserving the separation of church and state by taking away the state’s power to declare a marriage?
Reword that for simplicity if you can, but it is the workable approach and points out that the current flaw is marriage defined as sacred union and the phase “power vested in me by the State of” conflates church and state. The middle ground is the sacred union and the civil union should be different. The church has no power over civil union and the state has no power over sacred union; therefore, a couple interested in both is engaging in two different and separate contracts.
2. Senator Obama, what is your position on the net neutrality proposals given limited wireless capacity and its applications to public safety? Should there be a means to set priorities in times of emergency?

Is Hillary going to have a place in your administration? If she opts to stay in the Senate, is she going to be the point person for Health care reform?

1. Please do not ask the pressing NBC campaign interview question: “What flavor ice cream co you like”
2. What four initiatives will you propose to congress during your first 4 months in office?

I voted for McCain – but Obama will now be our president – let him have the press conference for God’s sake. I wish him the best.

I’d like to ask:
With both a popular and electoral college landslide as a mandate, it’s clear that the American people have repudiated the Republican Party’s obsolete fanatical ideology …
WHO GIVES A FLYING **** WHAT REPUBLICANS WANT?

Mr Obama,
Will you make a promise, here and now, to keep Patrick Fitzgerald on to complete the Rezko investigation?

Ahh, so refreshing to see the haters still spewing even after our President has proved them wrong continuously ober the past 2 years. I hope these arent the questions asked, because I can answer so many of them now.
Jackie, to your question #3. When they actually work and earn good grades and get scholoarships that pay for their school. Or when the bill for college grants passes and they do some work in the community.
Frieda, get over it about a college paper, he is YOUR President, like it or not.
Kit, yes Hill will have a place, right next to Ted Kennedy on health care.
Ask, as for the communist flags, you may want to ask who was waiving them. As for the other world leaders being thrilled, it’s probably because the U.S. now has a President that isn’t a joke like Bush/Cheney was or McCain/Palin would have been. It isn’t just Ackman whatever who is pleased, it’s the majority of America!
Smith, favorite flavor is cookies and cream, just like me. We are all about Unity!
Next Question
Obama/Biden, it’s official, no, its Presidential!

President Obama: Will you choose Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State?
I think that would be a wise choice, due to it will bring in more knowlege and experience of one of the greatest Presidents Mr. William Clinton!!

Jail terms for the Bush/Cheney/Rove traitors?
PLEASE?

Obama won in a landslide, believe it or not.

Jake, ask him your “Sam” question from a few days ago. That was a good question.

So Ed, are we a one party system now? I don’t think the Constitution provides for that, in fact, it does precisely the opposite.
If you want to claim a landslide, you are free to do that. The Republicans did that with Bush when it wasn’t so perhaps you should too.
Gently and without rancor: Proverbs 16:8 or Superbia ante casu.

I would like to know if he will use a drive for creating energy independence as a means for economic stimulus…create jobs and help our country become independent of foreign oil.

len: As we all know, Obama’s central message was CHANGE.
The American public overwhelming voted for CHANGE.
THIS IS CALLED A MANDATE.
Republicans saying “some of us kooks voted for more of the same” does not entitle them to demand that Obama and America submit to the will of A BUNCH OF KOOKS.
If the Repubs produce useful relevant ideas on HOW to change, I’m sure they will be welcomed.
If, on the other hand, they continue with the communist-socialist-Ayers-Rezko-Whitey-Tape-birth-certificate conspiracy nonsense that has been REJECTED, then they will be REJECTED too.
GET IT?

Helen,
you forgot a few:
Are you a citizen?
Do you hate America?
Are you a Muslim?
Are you a friend of Bin Laden?
Do you murder babies?
C’mon Helen, let go of the lies!

“Finally the war is not fake. After 12 years of diplomatically trying to persuade Saddam Hussein to comply with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire, the Bush Administration pushed the UN Security Council into issuing a final ultimatum”
It just was the wrong war at the wrong time. Saddam was contained and impotent.

sorry william didnt read your whole post my bad

“Senator Obama. The ‘Change We Need’ slogan. How would you define that in respect to how you govern?
“It of adminstration my the overarching theme will be….Next question.”
“Senator, there have been questions about your grades….”

WILL THERE BE A TAX INCREASE FOR THOSE UNDER 42000?

Thanks Mack. It will be hard for some to transition out of campaign rhetoric to policy making. Intense emotions are addictive. The Onion piece was funny because it is both precise and good advice. The more zealous supporters need to accept that the President-elect will be distancing himself from them unless they can start working on a more positive agenda. The Republicans will rail a bit longer but it is expected.
Meanwhile, a young Senator is taking on a very heavy load given the drop in the market, the jobless numbers, the auto industry implosion, the sabre rattling from Russian and so on. My suspicion is about this election is that it has little to do with much of what is being claimed on the blogs and in the press.
Change is not the mantra; S.O.S. is.
And for that load, young shoulders may be exactly the right resource.

“Mr. Obama, does the selection of Rahm Emanuel, former director of Freddie Mac, indicate that you approve of the way that entity was managed in the years leading up to the current financial crisis?”

“Mr. Obama, would you recommend that Harry Reid seek to remove Joe Lieberman as head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee? If so, should that be a seen as a gesture of inclusiveness for different points of view or not?”

“Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.”
Richard Perle, chair
The Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board
July 11, 2002
In April 2001, President George W. Bush’s Cabinet agreed to use military intervention in Iraq, because it was considered a destabilizing influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East. Neoconservatives in the U.S. called for the sell-off of all of Iraq’s oil fields and planned for a coup d’etat long before the September 11th attacks, hoping a new government would use, “Iraq’s oil to destroy the OPEC cartel through massive increases in production above OPEC quotas.”
Those plans were abandoned shortly after the invasion because former Shell Oil Company CEO Philip Carroll, who had been charged with their implementation, refused to be involved with Iraqi oil industry privatization since it could have led to the exclusion of U.S. firms, unlike the state-run oil ministry.
U.S. oil industry consultant Falah Aljibury alleged that soon after Bush took office in 2001, he took part in secret meetings in Washington, the Middle East, and California involving an overthrow of the Iraq regime. Aljibury told BBC’s Newsnight that he, “interviewed potential successors to Saddam Hussein on behalf of the Bush administration.”
-> In an August 30 2005 speech, Bush stated a role of the occupation of Iraq was to prevent oil fields from falling into hands of terrorists: “If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks. They’d seize oil fields to fund their ambitions.”
Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview that the removal of Saddam Hussein had been “essential” to secure world oil supplies, a point he emphasized to the White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Additionally, in his memoir, Mr. Greenspan writes: “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil. However, a Bush Administration foreign policy critic Dr. Robert Jervis stated: “Indeed, it is quite likely that failure [in Iraq] will lead the most common explanation to be that the war was fought for oil and Israel. This would be unfortunate.”
The invasion was initially called Operation Iraqi Liberation until the acronym OIL was noticed and it was changed to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Will you please pick Colin Powell as secretary of defense. thank you.

Even the Big shot Republican wing-nuts are hittin’ the skids……….
‘Sheldon Adelson, a casino billionaire and financial backer of right-wing attack groups, has gone bankrupt:
Las Vegas Sands Corp., billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s casino company, fell the most in New York trading since going public after saying it may default on debt and face bankruptcy.’

pefros
you are correct Sir..
simple Republican math, start 2 wars, reduce taxes for the rich, and ‘charge it’ to the citizens..
privatize the profits for the few,
and, dare I say it…
‘socialize’/subsidize the losses to the public via bailouts and selective loans to favored corporations..
Republicans, the party of ‘small government’ and ‘fiscal responsibility’… ??????????
well, everyone knows how big a fraud Republicans are now

if you examine where the U.S. has ended up after
8 years of Bush & Cheney, one might with some dark humor conclude that they were on the payroll of bin Laden as they have achieved what he could not and never dreamed of in bringing America down…..
as someone around here used to post in all of their comments: “Mission Accomplished’
Sums up the whole Bush/Cheney reign.

Will you allow US Attorney Fitzgerald (N. Dist. IL) to remain in place until he completes his investigation and prosecution of Chicago/Illinois political corruption?
f/u: Are you concerned that your political mentor, Emil Jones, may be the next target in the investigation?

I would like to know how he plans to change the press accessibility to the White House compared to the last eight years

“Mr. Obama, do you still plan to impose mandatory community service on secondary and post-secondary students? As a constitutional scholar, do you believe that this is a proper use of federal power? Would it be a requirement to obtain federal aid?”

“It was a good one. Which he didn’t answer.”
Obama did provide an answer to Jake’s question about Ahmedinejad’s letter of congratulations and whether he had answered it. Obama stated it had only been three days since he was elected and that there would not be a knee jerk reaction to the letter, meaning clearly it had not been responded to, at least yet. He also went on to say that it needed to be communicated clearly to him that he is currently not president. As usual, his response was measured and cautious. What a relief!

How about this:
Given the overwhelming repudiation of conservative governance and conservative politics at the polls, what are you going to do about the fact that 90% of the media is owned and programmed by right wingers?

oldspice you can call YOURSELF any kind of self-deprecating name you want.

Was Nancy Reagan participating in seances?

1- Give him the potatoe test?
2- Ask him to release all his records.
3- Ask him if he knows that an Iranain-American student has been arrested in Iran and he what his plans are to get an American citizen out of Iran?
4- Will he give credit to Bush for bringing succes in Iraq so it would be easy for him to withdraw?

pefros:
Nancy Reagan..
She consulted psychics to plan the daily schedule of Ronald Reagan. She used astrologer Joan Quigley.

Blue – my point on your point is – that when W started in 2001 – Iran was already a threat in many ways, Al Queda was already out to get us Pakistan already had A-bombs in the govt and terrorists on the frontiers, A North Korea already had the bomb, and Russia’s Putin was only playing nice til he could rebuild on Europe’s petro-money, and China – China keeps on growing with lead filled toys for us to enjoy.
In short the strategic situation was the same, whether getting rid of one tyrant Saddam was worth the price is a question but hardly the “worst” foreign policy decision made by a President the last 100 years.
Basically our struggle against terrorists and tyrants will continue, because THEY will not relent, at least for long. We are at 2001 again perhaps – we should be smarter because what we have gone thru? Are we??

robert b
re: ‘Are we??’
I sort understand your point, but..
Bush’s policy re: Iraq was wrong, as at the time the known enemy was in Afghanistan. He/they should have resolved that conflict, had they done so it would have established a much better framework for any future policy in the mid-east, and I would assume, that it also would have demonstrated American ‘resolve’ and ability to actually get the bad guys.
Iraq proved that America, could attack, but could not finish what it started with a positive outcome, there was no overall strategic and regional goal..and that it was prone to underestimating those we were fighting and also slow to change tactics..By diverting resources from Afghanistan it gave terrorists an idea that they could beat America.

James Danley
I don’t believe Bush is smart enough to plan anything….
yes,… Bush and his PNAC adviser buddies planned to invade Iraq, and, they didn’t plan what to do once they got there, or how to pay for it.
You only need to examine the first 4 or so years of the Iraq war to see how little they actually knew of what would happen.

Ryan C wrote: “Your previous excuse was that Saddam had violated the 1991 ceasefire. Never any mention of WMDs that were not there. The invasion of Iraq was based on a lie…”
Did you even read my comment? I did say:
“While it is true that no WMDs were found, the fact is that many Democrats said that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Some even said he was (an) “imminent threat” back in 1998 when Congress gave President Clinton the authorization for regime change. By the way, back in July of this year 550 METRIC TONS of yellowcake uranium that had been stored in Iraq was transferred out of Iraq (at Iraq’s request) and sold to Canada.”
But whether there were WMDs or not is NOT RELEVANT. That’s because one of the conditions of the 1991 cease fire put the onus on Saddam Hussein to prove that he no longer had WMDs; and to prove how he disposed of the WMDs. He did neither! That’s because he wanted his neighbors (and the rest of the world) to continue to believe he had WMDs. Had we not invaded Iraq, his neighbors would still believe that he had WMDs and continue to be bullied by Saddam Hussein. And some of that 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium might have fallen into the hands of al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.