Working your way up to Charlie Gibson’s job, eh?
Good luck.
Let the scandals begin.
Posted by: len | November 6, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
jake
they are smart for moving you up.
Posted by: dl | November 6, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
Thank you so much! I enjoyed the excellent insight.
Posted by: Truth Matters | November 6, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
Posted by: like it or not here I come
“Obama WIns!!!! markets down 1000points as investors show “NO CONFIDENCE” in Obama’
This is the exact kind of nonsense we will see and hear from republicans…..
typical out of touch,
no reality repub comments…..
as if President Obama is responsible for the last 8 years of republican economic malfeasance and corruption.
Posted by: Blue | November 6, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
Oh, now, Jake admits how inexperienced Obama is.
Posted by: Maria | November 6, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
JakeT!!!
Congratulations man. NOW we really have a voice out there. You won’t forget us small people now that you are in the WH, will you Jake? I was actually feeling sad yesterday that we won’t have your good insights now that the campaign is over and was wondering how we would now keep tab on that egotistic, arrogant and cold ***. I actually just came to your blog right now to suggest some questions that you may wish to consider asking Mr big shot President-Elect tomorrow at the news conference before you bid him farewell. I am glad you will now be following his every move.
Now, to get down to business, some of the people who got him elected might also be some tough, cold and calculating ***s and we would like to ask a few questions about what he intends to do for us. I particularly want to know about that energy policy that he has been touting. Considering that he has been talking about how energy policy would become the corner stone of his economic policies, one would assume he would address it tomorrow at his economic forum (? is that what it is?) Who in his transition team is handling it? Does he plan to overhaul the whole thing that the current administration has in place or is he going to tweak it a little? Considering that I will be needing a job in that area sometime soon, how soon can we expect the jobs? And where will they be?? Cities? small towns? governmental? (like DOE?) Universities? (more research funding?) What about that smartgrid thing? Can we expect that in his first term/year? Where can we follow progress of his transition team/administration? We followed his campaign on his campaign website. We will be needing something similar to follow his administration on. Mr President-Elect, the internet is not for fund-raising only. Let’s see how it will be used in your admin (Anybody in his transition team appointed to address that aspect?)
Yes, we too are arrogant and cocky and we will be following him with our cocky arrogant questions. Jake help us. Let’s not allow this admin the same free passes of the past.
Excellent and very illuminating. Too bad this interview could not play on the Evening News…for a wider audience.
You are such a great reporter Jake, at times I wish you could just be on here answering questions.
We all hope Obama will succeed and that the vote reaction to Bush and his policiies for those who voted for BO will feel good about their choice in 4 years.
This is such a great interview…the transcript hopefully will be available on Charlie’s Site.
Posted by: i am so I can! | November 6, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm
“markets down 1000points as investors show “NO CONFIDENCE” in Obama”
—————-
Oh really! You don’t think maybe the dreadful unemployment numbers or the dismal retail sales numbers had anything to do with this?
Posted by: hang | November 6, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
All the best, Jake.
You did a great job during the campaign. I learned much from your reporting. Some of it was entertaining too.
Still, I wish you could have found a different word than SOB.
God speed.
Posted by: A Friend | November 6, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
I am a late supporter of Barack Obama. If I hadn’t watched Obama — and John McCain — for a whole year, I would have agreed with Jake Tapper that it was our reaction to George Bush that explained why Obama won and McCain lost. But look, Obama not only defeated McCain but also Hillary Clinton. In both cases, Obama proved not just how inspiring he was as a potential leader but — more importantly to me — how capable of strategizing he was in getting things done. Note: Clinton could in fact have won if she had come up with the right strategy for the kind of game she had to play — if the rule was winner-take-all, we would in fact have Clinton competing with McCain for the top job. McCain could have won too if he had managed to pick a truly qualified running-mate like Mitt Romney. McCain was essentially neck-and-neck with Obama before the two party conventions. It wasn’t the economy or Bush that sank him. It was his own poor judgment — especially his VP pick. Just imagine if the financial crisis broke out and Romney was the VP candidate. Romney’s rich experiences in turning things around in Mass and in the private corporate world would substantially raise the credibility of the McCain team and dwarf the relatively inexperienced Obama team.
teddymaniac,
Please dont give us this silly notion that Palin did anything other than help McCain. After picking her, he went UP in the ratings, not down.
Keepyourheelsdown,
I wasn’t going to comment on your comment but then decided you might perhaps benefit from my comment even in your every day life. it goes as follows?
I don’t think teddym should give up that notion at all. When somebody makes a decision and when you consequently weigh the quality of their decision, you wouldn’t/shouldn’t only be concerned with the short term consequence of that decision but should really be agonizing over the long term effects as well.
Sure, Gov Palin might have helped with Sen McCain’s poll #s soon after the convention but that was only because she was barely known. That might have been a great approach had the election been held a week after the convention. But it wasn’t and there was ample time to get to know the non-convention Palin. Even without the whole hindsight is 20/20 thing, McCain should have thought of it enough to determine if Palin would stand the test of time, which she didn’t (with or without the economic crisis). I personally don’t think that McCain would have really missed that conclusion had he spent more time with her. And that, I believe, is what teddymaniac is saying when he talks about the Palin Effect.
Anti-Obama people have been saying that Obama supporters thinks Obama is the Messiah. (I have yet to hear a democrat say that.) But you guys must think he is if you think that he can change the finacial crisis just by being elected. Come on guys, it’s over. McCain is a great man, a real hero and this nation will always love him for that. Can we move on?
Gov. Palin is now being used as a scapegoat, when in fact it was Gov. Palin who energized the Republican base; and the base remained energized right up to the very end. Within the Republican Party it was mostly moderate and liberal Republicans who had a problem with her because they felt she was too far to the right (the inexperience claim was really bogus since she had more executive experience than Sen. Obama). YET the base of the GOP is Right. And she was “Right” on all of the issues. You Obama supporters don’t understand that Mitt Romney did not have the support of the Republican base–if you recall he didn’t do that well in the primaries. In fact, much of the GOP base stayed home during the primaries due to the disappointment with the choices.
NOTE: Had Gov. Palin been in the mix during the primaries, she might have actually won the GOP’s nomination.
The McCain/Palin ticket did AS WELL AS any Republican ticket COULD HAVE DONE with McCain on the top of the ticket.
Sen. Obama won the election because of: (1) His charisma and charm; (2) His great ground game–a testament to the skills that he learned as a community organizer; (3) The historical significance of his running; (4) The mainstream media bias–we learned more about Gov. Palin in 2 months than we learned about Sen. Obama in 20 months on the campaign trail); (5) The economy; (6) The anti-war sentiment of the electorate; and (7) The low approval rating of President Bush–and the Obama Campaign, Democrats and the mainstream media’s success in portraying Sen. McCain’s run as synonymous with a Bush third term.
Posted by: James Danley | November 6, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
Hey, now that Obama won, I would be happy if he listened to McCain on military issues alone. The surge worked, Obama knows it (but couldn’t admit it – tactics)…maybe he will look to McCain, the real champion of the Iraq war.
Please folks, quit touting McCain as a military or foreign affairs expert, did anyone listen to what he said in the debates and on TV. McCain started promoting the invasion of Iraq only 2 months after 9/11.
Posted by: blues | November 6, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
jake, you look soooooooooo gooooooood!!!!
:-)
I hope you will not forget to ask tough questions from Obama. I think it’s time to stop baby sitting Obama, he now needs to show us that he deserves that 52% vote!
I hope you will show Chris Mattiews, what a real journalist looks like
Blues, it was BECAUSE of 9/11 that President Bush changed our policy from being reactive to one of being proactive. Thus the decision to push the UN Security Council to issue a final ultimatum to Iraq attempting to convince Saddam Hussein that it was in his best interest to comply with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire. When Saddam Hussein again refused to comply, and after the UN Security Council made it known that they had no intention of following through on the threat, President Bush terminated the cease fire.
Posted by: James Danley | November 6, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm
Looking good, sounding great! I have become a big fan!
“One of the things that’s been remarkable to watch with Senator Obama, with President-elect Obama, as I made this journey with him, and other journalists made the journey with him, from February 2007, his announcement in Springfield, Illinois to last night in Grant Park, is to watch how he has grown into the job….”
Jesus, Jake, get a room!
Posted by: Thank God for Karma | November 7, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am
George Will notes that GOP carnage in the past two years has produced losses so steep for the Republicans that you have to go back to the Depression to match them, and the reason the house of cards fell so quickly was because, as Henke noted, the rot was so deep. This is not a cosmetic problem for the GOP. This is systemic.
That is what is so damned entertaining about the short-term circular firing squad- it really symbolizes how deep in denial some of these folks are. These guys are delusional if they think the problem was an insufficient number of Red State mugs on the Palin plane and inadequate fealty to the cause. The problem is not inadequate adherence to unnamed “principles,” the problem is that they simply have no principles. They have slogans. Nothing symbolizes the slogan driven tactics over strategy GOP quagmire quite like one of my favorite episodes from the last election- the tire pressure gauge imbroglio.
There was nothing that really summed up the idiocy of the GOP quite like Rick Davis and company passing out tire pressure gauges in an attempt to mock a common sense approach to dealing with one of many aspects of the energy crisis. I am sure it will surprise no one that the brain trust at Red State was issuing action alerts for this, too.
In short, America got seduced by the Republican sweet talk, we took them home into our bedroom for some good times, and instead of performance, it turns out the Republicans have a serious case of electile dysfunction. Rather than hold true to their “principles,” they chose to sit on the edge of the bed for eight years and tell us how good it was going to be, and we lost interest and fell asleep.
When we woke up, we realized that in one way, the GOP had kept their word, in a sense- we did get screwed. And we then had our own payback on Tuesday:
Posted by: Blue | November 7, 2008, 12:24 am 12:24 am
Congratulations, Jake.
If truth be told, you are the only correspondent that I can tolerate these days. Yeah, there were days that it seemed like you had a few too many sips of the Obama Kool-Aid but for the most part, you kept a pretty even head. If you had any tingles running up your leg you hid them well. :)
Maybe with your new position, you can encourage other correspondents to get back to the basics of journalism which means covering the news, not making or interpreting the news.
Good luck!
Posted by: mak | November 7, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am
Email
Sen. DeMint: GOP Race Could Go Until Convention 
Obama Avoids Questions on Contraception Rule
Working your way up to Charlie Gibson’s job, eh?
Good luck.
Let the scandals begin.
Posted by: len | November 6, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
jake
they are smart for moving you up.
Posted by: dl | November 6, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
Thank you so much! I enjoyed the excellent insight.
Posted by: Truth Matters | November 6, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
Posted by: like it or not here I come
“Obama WIns!!!! markets down 1000points as investors show “NO CONFIDENCE” in Obama’
This is the exact kind of nonsense we will see and hear from republicans…..
typical out of touch,
no reality repub comments…..
as if President Obama is responsible for the last 8 years of republican economic malfeasance and corruption.
Posted by: Blue | November 6, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
Oh, now, Jake admits how inexperienced Obama is.
Posted by: Maria | November 6, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
JakeT!!!
Congratulations man. NOW we really have a voice out there. You won’t forget us small people now that you are in the WH, will you Jake? I was actually feeling sad yesterday that we won’t have your good insights now that the campaign is over and was wondering how we would now keep tab on that egotistic, arrogant and cold ***. I actually just came to your blog right now to suggest some questions that you may wish to consider asking Mr big shot President-Elect tomorrow at the news conference before you bid him farewell. I am glad you will now be following his every move.
Now, to get down to business, some of the people who got him elected might also be some tough, cold and calculating ***s and we would like to ask a few questions about what he intends to do for us. I particularly want to know about that energy policy that he has been touting. Considering that he has been talking about how energy policy would become the corner stone of his economic policies, one would assume he would address it tomorrow at his economic forum (? is that what it is?) Who in his transition team is handling it? Does he plan to overhaul the whole thing that the current administration has in place or is he going to tweak it a little? Considering that I will be needing a job in that area sometime soon, how soon can we expect the jobs? And where will they be?? Cities? small towns? governmental? (like DOE?) Universities? (more research funding?) What about that smartgrid thing? Can we expect that in his first term/year? Where can we follow progress of his transition team/administration? We followed his campaign on his campaign website. We will be needing something similar to follow his administration on. Mr President-Elect, the internet is not for fund-raising only. Let’s see how it will be used in your admin (Anybody in his transition team appointed to address that aspect?)
Yes, we too are arrogant and cocky and we will be following him with our cocky arrogant questions. Jake help us. Let’s not allow this admin the same free passes of the past.
Posted by: Question | November 6, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Congratulations, Jake. I’ve enjoyed your reporting here during the Election cycle and look forward to your WH reports.
Posted by: TNeedle | November 6, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
Excellent and very illuminating. Too bad this interview could not play on the Evening News…for a wider audience.
You are such a great reporter Jake, at times I wish you could just be on here answering questions.
We all hope Obama will succeed and that the vote reaction to Bush and his policiies for those who voted for BO will feel good about their choice in 4 years.
This is such a great interview…the transcript hopefully will be available on Charlie’s Site.
Posted by: i am so I can! | November 6, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm
“markets down 1000points as investors show “NO CONFIDENCE” in Obama”
—————-
Oh really! You don’t think maybe the dreadful unemployment numbers or the dismal retail sales numbers had anything to do with this?
Posted by: hang | November 6, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
All the best, Jake.
You did a great job during the campaign. I learned much from your reporting. Some of it was entertaining too.
Still, I wish you could have found a different word than SOB.
God speed.
Posted by: A Friend | November 6, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
I am a late supporter of Barack Obama. If I hadn’t watched Obama — and John McCain — for a whole year, I would have agreed with Jake Tapper that it was our reaction to George Bush that explained why Obama won and McCain lost. But look, Obama not only defeated McCain but also Hillary Clinton. In both cases, Obama proved not just how inspiring he was as a potential leader but — more importantly to me — how capable of strategizing he was in getting things done. Note: Clinton could in fact have won if she had come up with the right strategy for the kind of game she had to play — if the rule was winner-take-all, we would in fact have Clinton competing with McCain for the top job. McCain could have won too if he had managed to pick a truly qualified running-mate like Mitt Romney. McCain was essentially neck-and-neck with Obama before the two party conventions. It wasn’t the economy or Bush that sank him. It was his own poor judgment — especially his VP pick. Just imagine if the financial crisis broke out and Romney was the VP candidate. Romney’s rich experiences in turning things around in Mass and in the private corporate world would substantially raise the credibility of the McCain team and dwarf the relatively inexperienced Obama team.
Posted by: teddymaniac | November 6, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
I am a bit confused. You have been covering Obama for the last two years but you dont know him very well. Why not?
Posted by: Keepyourheelsdown | November 6, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
teddymaniac,
Please dont give us this silly notion that Palin did anything other than help McCain. After picking her, he went UP in the ratings, not down.
Posted by: Keepyourheelsdown | November 6, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
Keepyourheelsdown – I suppose you stopped looking at Palin’s ratings after mid-October.
Posted by: teddymaniac | November 6, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm
If you need to decompress and still have a little sense of humor left, the Onion strikes again.
Posted by: len | November 6, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
congratulations Jake
Posted by: mona | November 6, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
Keepyourheelsdown,
I wasn’t going to comment on your comment but then decided you might perhaps benefit from my comment even in your every day life. it goes as follows?
I don’t think teddym should give up that notion at all. When somebody makes a decision and when you consequently weigh the quality of their decision, you wouldn’t/shouldn’t only be concerned with the short term consequence of that decision but should really be agonizing over the long term effects as well.
Sure, Gov Palin might have helped with Sen McCain’s poll #s soon after the convention but that was only because she was barely known. That might have been a great approach had the election been held a week after the convention. But it wasn’t and there was ample time to get to know the non-convention Palin. Even without the whole hindsight is 20/20 thing, McCain should have thought of it enough to determine if Palin would stand the test of time, which she didn’t (with or without the economic crisis). I personally don’t think that McCain would have really missed that conclusion had he spent more time with her. And that, I believe, is what teddymaniac is saying when he talks about the Palin Effect.
Posted by: Question | November 6, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
Barack Obama, the president elect is smart, capable and inspirational. He is the better candidate for the job.
Posted by: bernard adusei | November 6, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
Thank you for sharing the video with us. I enjoyed it.
Posted by: Kit | November 6, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
Anti-Obama people have been saying that Obama supporters thinks Obama is the Messiah. (I have yet to hear a democrat say that.) But you guys must think he is if you think that he can change the finacial crisis just by being elected. Come on guys, it’s over. McCain is a great man, a real hero and this nation will always love him for that. Can we move on?
Posted by: SUSIE | November 6, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm
Gov. Palin is now being used as a scapegoat, when in fact it was Gov. Palin who energized the Republican base; and the base remained energized right up to the very end. Within the Republican Party it was mostly moderate and liberal Republicans who had a problem with her because they felt she was too far to the right (the inexperience claim was really bogus since she had more executive experience than Sen. Obama). YET the base of the GOP is Right. And she was “Right” on all of the issues. You Obama supporters don’t understand that Mitt Romney did not have the support of the Republican base–if you recall he didn’t do that well in the primaries. In fact, much of the GOP base stayed home during the primaries due to the disappointment with the choices.
NOTE: Had Gov. Palin been in the mix during the primaries, she might have actually won the GOP’s nomination.
The McCain/Palin ticket did AS WELL AS any Republican ticket COULD HAVE DONE with McCain on the top of the ticket.
Sen. Obama won the election because of: (1) His charisma and charm; (2) His great ground game–a testament to the skills that he learned as a community organizer; (3) The historical significance of his running; (4) The mainstream media bias–we learned more about Gov. Palin in 2 months than we learned about Sen. Obama in 20 months on the campaign trail); (5) The economy; (6) The anti-war sentiment of the electorate; and (7) The low approval rating of President Bush–and the Obama Campaign, Democrats and the mainstream media’s success in portraying Sen. McCain’s run as synonymous with a Bush third term.
Posted by: James Danley | November 6, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
Congratulations, Jake!
Posted by: ericajane | November 6, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
Jake, thanks for sharing and you did a TERRIFIC job, but Charlie Rose is a wonderfully beautiful person and such a brilliant man!
Posted by: InWantofaUnitedNation | November 6, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm
Hey, now that Obama won, I would be happy if he listened to McCain on military issues alone. The surge worked, Obama knows it (but couldn’t admit it – tactics)…maybe he will look to McCain, the real champion of the Iraq war.
Posted by: Wade | November 6, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
Please folks, quit touting McCain as a military or foreign affairs expert, did anyone listen to what he said in the debates and on TV. McCain started promoting the invasion of Iraq only 2 months after 9/11.
Posted by: blues | November 6, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
jake, you look soooooooooo gooooooood!!!!
:-)
I hope you will not forget to ask tough questions from Obama. I think it’s time to stop baby sitting Obama, he now needs to show us that he deserves that 52% vote!
I hope you will show Chris Mattiews, what a real journalist looks like
Posted by: frieda | November 6, 2008, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm
Blues, it was BECAUSE of 9/11 that President Bush changed our policy from being reactive to one of being proactive. Thus the decision to push the UN Security Council to issue a final ultimatum to Iraq attempting to convince Saddam Hussein that it was in his best interest to comply with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire. When Saddam Hussein again refused to comply, and after the UN Security Council made it known that they had no intention of following through on the threat, President Bush terminated the cease fire.
Posted by: James Danley | November 6, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm
Looking good, sounding great! I have become a big fan!
Posted by: shockolit | November 6, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
“One of the things that’s been remarkable to watch with Senator Obama, with President-elect Obama, as I made this journey with him, and other journalists made the journey with him, from February 2007, his announcement in Springfield, Illinois to last night in Grant Park, is to watch how he has grown into the job….”
Jesus, Jake, get a room!
Posted by: Thank God for Karma | November 7, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am
George Will notes that GOP carnage in the past two years has produced losses so steep for the Republicans that you have to go back to the Depression to match them, and the reason the house of cards fell so quickly was because, as Henke noted, the rot was so deep. This is not a cosmetic problem for the GOP. This is systemic.
That is what is so damned entertaining about the short-term circular firing squad- it really symbolizes how deep in denial some of these folks are. These guys are delusional if they think the problem was an insufficient number of Red State mugs on the Palin plane and inadequate fealty to the cause. The problem is not inadequate adherence to unnamed “principles,” the problem is that they simply have no principles. They have slogans. Nothing symbolizes the slogan driven tactics over strategy GOP quagmire quite like one of my favorite episodes from the last election- the tire pressure gauge imbroglio.
There was nothing that really summed up the idiocy of the GOP quite like Rick Davis and company passing out tire pressure gauges in an attempt to mock a common sense approach to dealing with one of many aspects of the energy crisis. I am sure it will surprise no one that the brain trust at Red State was issuing action alerts for this, too.
In short, America got seduced by the Republican sweet talk, we took them home into our bedroom for some good times, and instead of performance, it turns out the Republicans have a serious case of electile dysfunction. Rather than hold true to their “principles,” they chose to sit on the edge of the bed for eight years and tell us how good it was going to be, and we lost interest and fell asleep.
When we woke up, we realized that in one way, the GOP had kept their word, in a sense- we did get screwed. And we then had our own payback on Tuesday:
Posted by: Blue | November 7, 2008, 12:24 am 12:24 am
Congratulations, Jake.
If truth be told, you are the only correspondent that I can tolerate these days. Yeah, there were days that it seemed like you had a few too many sips of the Obama Kool-Aid but for the most part, you kept a pretty even head. If you had any tingles running up your leg you hid them well. :)
Maybe with your new position, you can encourage other correspondents to get back to the basics of journalism which means covering the news, not making or interpreting the news.
Good luck!
Posted by: mak | November 7, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am
Congratulations Jake!
Posted by: Stef | November 7, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm