Obama’s Press Conference

I will also say that I was a champion of George Stephanophalous when he worked for Clinton but as a news man he is way to sensationalist which is why I am not a champion of Barbara Walters. He would be a far better reporter if he left his opinion out of it. Peace!!! So much for a news organization run by the corporate world. They should have more trust in the people to report real news and the people who tune in.

the border has a direct, verifiable impact not just on our health (swine flu epidemic, salmonella, etc) but on our security (kidnappings, gangs, drugs, and possible terrorist infiltration.) Yet Obama refuses, like Bush, to do anything about it except rhetoric. I realize the likely strategy is based on future voters and a natural empathy for illegal aliens (like his dear aunty) but so much damage is being caused by the open borders that something needs to be done. Even Mexico attempts to seal its border in the south. Yet we do nothing as virulent diseases and criminals come across. Amazing. Why can’t “The One” address this problem? How many kidnappings or diseases will it take?

Excellent press conference president Obama! You are simply the best! Genuine and sincere president..we haven’t had one like that in a long time! God bless president Barack Obama and God bless America!

My first impression while watching the press conference was that it went very well but when one analyzes the answers one begins to wonder whether he is getting the best advice and whether there is a certain depth in his understanding of the issues involved. I particularly did not like his simple minded response on the looming swine flu pandemic which if not controlled with an iron hand could spread rapidly to thousands of people. Obama seems to be asking congress for a few billion but did not seem to take the hard decisions like closing the border and travel to and from Mexico for even 2 days to take stock of the situation and to track the flow of infection. His naive solution of hand washing firstly does not merit the billions he is requesting congress for but also hand washing if done improperly (without an antiviral or antibacterial ingredient) and hastily does not achieve the purpose of or the desired goal of washing off most of the virus on the hands. He made no mention of masks or cleaning surfaces with disinfectants. Hopefully this swine flu scare will disappear soon but if not each infected person with or without symptoms entering the country has the almost same level of risk/danger as a terrorist bringing down a plane.

Pcc:”Please someone ask him a tuff question like why did you have to have a photo op that cost over 322.000 dollards and scared the crap out of everyone in NY”
Most people don’t care about a military SNAFU or how they spent an insignificant amount of their mandatory pilot hours budget. Also, most of the reporters are smart enough not to ask a question that has already been thoroughly answered. Fine, you don’t like his answer – it’s not like he’s going to change it just because you asked again. The reporter would just look pathetically ill informed about recent statements.

Oh give me a break Obama has never been ask anything that he doesn’t already know whats going to be ask of him…It all a game to Obama do not let them ask anything that i may have to answer…Obama didn’t even answer most of what he was ask tonight danced all around it and said nothing as he alway ways does….And him making fun of the tea partys is way out of line Obama is nothing but a joke and most American’s are starting to see right through him and he’s to stupid to even know it…If he really thinks that the American people are going to keep falling for his smiles and speeches he’s out of his mind….

Dont send your kids to school or go to work, but lets not close the Mexican border its ‘too late’ to stop the spread of the pandemic THAT way. Whats up with that?
Listen guys let me explain something else to you that Obama said in his speech. He said “I dont want to run auto companies” what he means is he knows he cannot regulate or control banks & huge auto companies nor their managers. No way. He cant stop corporate from hedging numbers, changing spreadsheets & stop big companies or banks from padding or skewing their numbers! They cant be regulated. The question? Why didnt he already know this or did he lie to support his partys objectives at our expense?
closing the Mexican border is a GREAT idea but it would upset the leadership of Mexico! We wouldnt want that wiould we??? Lets just let the infected cross the border by the thousands daily (along with drugs and cheaply made goods)!!!! That wouldnt help at all would it! Its like saying if a person is a junkie or drunk already why take away their drugs and booze. Imaghine if hospitals said lets not quarantine the infected, lets just let them roam free. This isnt chicken pox Mr. Obama its a flu pandemic!

Best answer was to the “surprised, humbled, enchanted, etc” question. You could tell that Obama was really thinking about what he was saying.

I have to ask. Do some of the comments here sound like they come from party central? Honestly, I wonder if there’s an organized effort to get Obama loyalists lined up to spread the joy on the internet. After 100 days, I’m probably becoming paranoid.

Pam,
There are people who hate Obama and there are people who love him. Choose ye this day! Hope you are not a hater..he is our president and I’m gonna support him because I know that he is genuine and sincere..the complete opposite of George I never made a mistake Bush! Obama is a breath of fresh air after eight years putrefying so called leadership.

MS long beach’
Fox news is comedy central! Most Americans tune in to laugh at the losers..do you honestly take Sean Hannitty and Bill O’Reilly seriously? They support of party of voodoo economics and unjustified wars. Republicans are largely responsible for horse excrement of economy we are experiencing now. How come you guys did not criticize George Bush for some of the nonsense he did! Arlen Specter has left and rightly so and more a posturing to do the same.. I say “GO FOR IT”.

There’s a lot i could say about this guy. I’ll keep it simple…the down-turn is apparently bottoming, turing around, and many of the banks want to repay the TARP money. If this is indeed the case, and almost all of the TARP money has NOT been spent yet…i wonder if we’ll get our TARP money back…or will it become: the “crisis to pay for 2nd rate industry insider kickbacks” plan

No Stanley, I’m not a hater. I’m a disagree-er. It’s only been lately that people who disagree with Democrats and Obama have been labeled haters, bigots, racists, terrorists, ignorant, stupid…well you get the picture.
BTW, my family lives diversity. We don’t just talk about it. My mother-in-law is Mexican, a brother-in-law whom we loved (past tense sadly) was gay, my daughter-in-law is Hindu, one grandchild is 3/4 Mexican and my mother, sisters and I are registered Cherokees. We aren’t all white, for sure. We’re thinkers, readers, Texans and Republicans. We aren’t sheep and we aren’t fooled easily.

And Stanley, congrats on the Democrats gaining Specter, a pathetic waste of a politican. Even qouted on ABC “news” as saying the only reason he is switching is bcause he will lose reelection. Lose not to a democrat, but lose to another republican running. So congrats on getting another power mad senator, that cares nothing for principles, only for clutching onto power.

many billions of dollars of roses in a bed of animal waste. the stink will rise…may take a few years…hold your breath ’til then…can you breathe now!!!lol.

soconfused:”Still waiting for his school transcripts.”
And he never did release his dental xrays! What is he hiding!??!?!?!!?!

Yup, to another Republican who is so far right he has ZERO chance of winning in PA, a state that voted for Obama by over 10 points despite McCain finishing his campaign there.
jhw539, and your point is? It still doesn’t change the fact he is only switching parties so he can stay in power. And unless things really turn around for Obama and the country, I’d say that republican might have better chance than you think. Or are the democrats still gonna be blaming Bush and the republicans even though they will have controlled the congress for 4 years at that time and the WH for 2?

Pam,
In all fairness to you! I understand what you are saying but the fact is when you read some of these blogs you can feel the hate for Obama and I often wonder why? the guy has been in office for under four months..I have a question for you..how many times did you disagree with George I never made a mistake Bush and if so were you as pointed or forceful in your disagreements on this or other blogs?..would be interesting to know.

MS longbeach,
What can I learn from a News network that supported everything George Bush did..the worst president that we ever had..now tell me with a straight face that you really believe a network that has the highest ratings in the evening time slot but that did not translate to votes for the Republicans..a large percentage of the listeners and watchers of the Fox evening political programs voted for Obama..Now, what does that tell you! It tells me that people watch but are either amused or think that these jokers are exactly that..JOKERS! I wonder in this day and age,who in his/her right mind takes Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter seriously. The Republican party and their style of governance is not good for America and most American are beginning to realize that. Arlen Specter left and rightly so.

Pam—i just wanted to say i respect your post about diversity. it was touching to read even though i am sure we would disagree on many issues. i believe critical thinking is essential in good governance. dissenting opinions are essential. i am a gay texan (and i am sorry for your loss) and i am a democrat. maybe it’s that i am from texas that i am more tolerant of republicans, because i work with them and are friends with many of them. i think putting a human face on those you disagree with makes it more difficult to demonize them and that is a good thing. different views help me strengthen some of my beliefs and question others. your post reminded me that another human being is on the other end of this blog, not someone who wants to see me destroyed. peace.

I watched the news conference, as I watch and listens to every word the President says. Oh, by the way, I can’t remember when any other President was so “scutanized” as this President. But anyway, I have not felt as optimistic and safe in the previous 8 years as I do Now. I don’t have to “know” what was going on with the President and his Vice, and yet not being able to do anything about it. Most Americans “knew” what the Cheney/Bush, oops, Bush/Cheney presidency was doing to this country, robbing it. This President, like him or Not is our President, and I at 57 yrs old “know” what integrity, honest, open and smart not only looks like, but feels like.

THE GOP has NO answer to this guy. . .
including the Congresswoman yesterday, who stood on the floor of the House and declared that the Matthew Shepard Hate crime in Wyoming was a ‘hoax’ !!!!!
Unfortunately, the GOP has decided that the answer to REASON; Good JUDGEMENT;
INTELLIGENT thought. . .is name-calling, and just saying ‘no’. . ..they act like high school bullies. . .the
POTUS is a class act. . . what does the GOP offer the country ????

Stanley those countries also have a high suicide rate I wonder why ?
I lived there so you have no clue
beside what our ” President” is doing is making this country unsafe
I didn’t agree at all with everything Bush did , not at all but one thing I know he kept us safe !

“Oh, by the way, I can’t remember when any other President was so “scutanized” as this President.
Posted by: sngeorgia | Apr 30, 2009 8:01:04 AM
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Wow, did you actually type that with a straight face?

“This man is a joke and I am growing more and more sorry I voted for him… He’s doing nothing for the responsible folks in this country who are hurting and unemployed. NOTHING. HE INFURIATES ME! 150,000 jobs, that is barely scraping the surface. There has to be close to 10 million people out of work – since those of us denied unemployment DON’T COUNT. We never count when it comes to OBAMA. ANYONE but Obama in 2012.
Tired of the Games”
You are a joke. What the President has done is for 100 days do what he said he wanted to do in his campaign and what the solid majority of the country voted for him to do. IF you voted for him and now feel somehow betrayed or disappointed by him doing what he said he wanted to do then I would submit that you are an idiot. More likely though, you are a right-wing nutjob who is posing as a disgruntled Obama voter because someone at your increasingly smaller, Fox-sponsored rallies suggested that bad-mouth blogging a president who has a 70 percent approval rating is an effective political opposition strategy. Either way, you are pathetic.

It almost seems like he is in la-la-land and not connected.

Honestly he has to be the most boring speaker I have ever heard in my entire life, ahs, uhs and completely monotonous.

His stimulus ( porkulus) package is not working. Another 650K unemployed this week. He has the government owning GM and Chrysler and he has no clue what he is doing. He has convinced people to spend money they do not have and create the largest debt in the history of the world. Nothing but bad results and the liberal media keeps carrying the water. can anybody name just one thing this guy has been successful at? Just one?

President Barack H. Obama will go down in history as the best president the U.S. has ever had. I have never been more impressed with a presidential news conference than this one. I think the president is making the best decisions and listening to everyone better than he is. He has so much class. Smart man. Very proud of my country.

JUlia- all form, no substance. If reading a teleprompter is what you consider impressive, we are in trouble.

julia: tell me genius did Barry just slip up last night when he said he had nothing to do with the deficit….seeing as the house and senate control the purse strings and not the president…WOW does he even realize that the democrats were in control…i guess since he rarely showed up to vote he forgot all about it. Yeah i know the Iraq war cost sooo much money but oh my god the democrats voted for the war and additional funding for it so there’s blood all over their hands.

Benjamin Franklin — When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
- A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
- The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Wayne, Fox is the only place you will hear “all” of the news, they don’t gush over the empty suit we have for President.

His telepromters were working and he read them word for word. wow

George,
I am dissapointed that healthcare was not questioned enough. The ecomonic state and the wars are very important, but the changes in the healthcare industry is going to effect millions of patients, staff, insurance coverage and over all employment. I would like to see the team that President Obama is putting together, because he needs to put a team together with front line workers and get their perspective.
Thank you for letting me vent.
Trish, Jefferson, SC

Although I didn’t agree with all the the President said, at the end of the Press Conference I said “That’s my President… cogent, logical, arranging arguments well, flexible”.
The only real personal knowledge (words, emotions, body language) we really get firsthand from any President is when he stands before us and articulates his thoughts in direct communication to us.
As for me, I happy with my selection: That’s my President.

Thank God for our president. I believe that he was hand picked by God. I also believe that he will be one of the best presidents that this country have ever had. Those that are watching and waiting for him to fall, well it will never happen, because he has God’s anointing on him to do this job. Many of us have prayed for this day and some of us have seen our prays answered. Continue to pray for him and watch God hand upon him.

When will the campaign end? Sounded like a scripted campaign stop with loyal journalists planted throughout the audience. Questions were deferential, easy and obviously planned. Answers were intentionally long-winded and short on substance. I don’t blame the politicians for exploiting this cozy relationship with the press, but the country is at considerble risk without a functioning adverserial press corps

Those of you who think it is an insult to praise the president’s ability to so effectively use a teleprompter have obviously never tried it yourselves. All presidents have spoken from prepared text. This one just does it so much better than all those who have preceded him, save for maybe Ronald Regan.

You people are fooled by a cult of personality. Blind faith in a MAN will lead you to irrational behavior and give him the ability to adversely affect our nation for decades to come.
Open your eyes. Even moderate democrats are scared by Obama. His wild political and social goals will wreck our economic future. Do not fool yourselves. Obama is driving economic policy although he has NO economic experience. Geithner and Summers provide opinions, but the overall policy is driven by the White House. You have elected an economic neophyte that has a head full of academic leftwing canards.
The older people supporting Obama in this blog are crazy. He is working double time to destroy their standard of living. Their retirements are being systematically diluted by borrowing and printing. Inflation. Protectionism. Unionism. Corporatism. Statism. Misguided Environmentalism. Paternalism. It all works toward making them poorer.

He needs to exert himself and pay attention to what is going on around him. Work on focusing his attention to become an active participant in the world.Become more mentally and emotionally engaged. He seems like he just looks thru you and is day dreaming!

soconfused.If you really want to see President Obama’s school transcripts, Check with the Harvard Law School, maybe you won’t have to wait so long.

I want my President to be a President, hie should not be a normal person, he should be the TOP person
Not – surprised…enchanted…troubled…and humbled
Posted by: jane | Apr 30, 2009 1:42:01 PM
He needs to exert himself and pay attention to what is going on around him. Work on focusing his attention to become an active participant in the world.Become more mentally and emotionally engaged. He seems like he just looks thru you and is day dreaming!
Posted by: jane | Apr 30, 2009 1:47:45 PM
Jane, remind me never to apply for a job if you’re the hiring manager. Wow. How a video image could ‘look thru you’ is beyond me. And the humbled, surprised, etc. was answering a direct question.
I’d like to believe these are your sincere opinions but it comes off as someone determined not to like him.
Try just reading the transcript and see if his answers are any more appealing to you in print.

President Obama is the ONLY President who I really enjoy listening to. He is a real leader. He is intelligent, articulate,and sensible. What a difference from Bush!

All of that “conference” was coreographed.Nothing different from the last one.Like they say back where I come from “keep telling lies to people constantly and they will believe you”
Hitler used the same methods and we know the rest.Those of you who are mesmorized by his “charisma” will be throwing garbage at him in few years, never fails…

Stanley, hope you never get sick after you turn 70 under universal health care.

Kent, Agree about the teleprompter, but Reagan was a sincere speaker who had learned lines for years so he it was not the machine that made him look good. In addition, he wrote or rewrote a lot of his own speeches and statements. Great speaking does not create a great man or woman. It does get them elected. I personally can not stand to hear Obama speak. I do not believe it is because of my total dislike for the man and all he stands for, but that his inflections are phony.

i see that the people that watch abc have been brainwashed by this liberal media. you all need to watch fox and see what is really going on with this country before obama runs it so far into the ground we will never recover

Barbara, is this fact or fiction? When people feed you this stuff,ask them to verify their suspicions.Anyway, If you want change or something you can believe in,don’t complain, do something, rather than using up your present moments with all kinds of anxiety over what is not going on, take charge of your situation and live now! Be a doer, not a wisher , hoper, hater or critic.

Carol: Fox News is very biased against Obama. It is also true that many other networks are biased in favor of Obama. However I think it is very important for anyone who is honest in looking for a ‘fair view’ take a critical look at their own favorite news source.

I am so relieved to have such a competent President in the White House especially after 8 sorry years with the incompetent Bush administration.
Go Mr. President. You are on the right track. I would not want to have your job, having to clean up after the money spending, deficit creating, unethical Republican administration.
Go Mr. President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian: “I don’t need to hear from some lawyer from Chicago about creating jobs, economics, running a business or paying taxes. ”
What you don’t understand is that it’s not all about you. You’ve made a great success for yourself – congratulations! Awesome American story, man. But who are you to say that “some lawyer from Chicago” is unqualified just because you didn’t need his help or ideas? He can’t tailor his presidency to every citizen in this country, and if you’re so dang great and self-sufficient, he shouldn’t be tailoring anything to help you – with no offense intended by that.
“Obama has done nothing so far but read a teleprompter and create the biggest debt ever recorded in world history. ”
What’s the big deal with the teleprompter, which he obviously wasn’t using last night while writing notes on the fly?
And to say he’s done nothing is false – he’s signed a lot of orders, made a lot of changes. Say you don’t like what he’s done, fine. But to say he’s done nothing – you’re just not paying attention.

These are facts about the United States economy:
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is down 6.1%
- Unemployment is nearing 10%
- A budget that places a burdensome debt on those yet to be born has been passed by the Democratic Congress.
- Social Security is still heading in the express lane toward bankruptcy.
Any other president would be skewered and roasted on these points.
Help me understand why not one question on even one of these facts was not raised during last night’s new conference?
Do intentions and “stage presence” trump results?

Dave- you are correct, I don’t need the governemnt nor Obama. Most of my friends are looking for a place to put money where it will not be subject to the destruction of the value of the dollar. All of us feel that the only way the US will ever be able to service the Obama debt is to pay with worthless dollars. This leaves us with the question as to how to protect the business and personal assets that we have earned. It is the main topic of conversation as everybody I know in business feels that Obama has wrecked the economy long term. This will effect my kids and looks like a big plan to redistribute wealth by making cash assets worthless.

Obama is at great risk of over-exposure.He is now all over the place.It is not doing him any good.His advisers must review their Hollywood tactics.The President is not a celebrity.He must appear thoughtful and more serious.

Come on George you call yourself a reporter. All you are is a PR hack that works for Obi-Wan but gets paid by ABC.Does Rahmy call you every day with what stories he wants today?

OMG, what a joke! A president needing to scribble down notes to answer a candid question? And, everybody thinking that it was cute? What an embarrassment!

Best President ever? Competent? Amereica being respected? I’ll start there. I don’t want to be respected be dictators that kill their own citzens. I don’t want to be respected by countries that won’t help when we ask for it, but demand us to help them because we can. I think I saw a poster also say Obama did everything he promised in just 100 days. I did notice that statement wasn’t substantiated. He did promise jobs. 109 cities are above 10% vs 14 last year. All 372 metro areas rose in unemployment. 18 are over 15% vs.1 last year. I don’t remember him running on the platform of empowering government, no growth in jobs, and quadrupling the debt that he inherited. My memory may not be what it used to, but I don’t remember any of those things being promised. Also more people buying, the economy is shrinking

President Obama’s common sense is working at the time of Global Crisis!I do not know about Chrchill being credited for the new found morality & spirituality.You know George, everything had died when I wrote 9 books in one year in 1994 & you put those books on the President Clinton’s desk. President Clinton won a second election. We needed Power Balance then & we need it now!It has taken 12 years of my guidance to teach Leadership Excellence & Universal Pdsycho-spirituality of Health & Excellence & Mind-Body-Spirit Power Balance & My Global Peace Porgram of Dialogue for Peace is empowering nations inspite of dictators! President is doing that and it works!

Watching Obama respond intelligently to complex and random questions must be very demoralizing to the FOX/Hannity disciples who were brainwashed into believing that he’s “not ready to lead”. Anybody can see that he’s head and shoulders above Bush, McCain, Palin, etc. Most of all,Obama has something in spades that none of the haters on this site have an ounce of; humility. He won the election and the petty, ignorant and distorted ranting continues. What a country !

What a Joke!

Obama’s press conference was a joke, as usual. My kids, when young, had more difficult questions than this from their class! With the economy getting worse, since Obama’s been in office, and the trillions of $$$$$ in proposed spending and approved spending – not one question about that from these so-called journalists. How un-American.
Maybe Obama should answer questions like the Miss American Pagent – they might be more difficult for him. Oh, I caught the way he ran the time out with his boring drawnout answers – what a con.

Also, Brian, get a life! Econ 101: We are in a RECESSION. We can’t lower your taxes. Because Bush did and lined people like your pockets for a while and caused the rest of us and our grandchildren to suffer, we are in this mess. You’re lucky we haven’t seen a 50% increase in all of our taxes to pay for his screwup. You are of the past. Please stay there and let the rest of us move towards the future.

I thought Obama hit every underhanded softball served to him very well. Problem is, this wasn’t really a press conference, and the questioning was weak and pathetic. I would have loved seeing him try and answer some difficult questions without teleprompter.

cynthia Robinson, posted 30April.
Thank you for your post. You must know many christians all over the world pray for this gifted, humble, intellengent man God has given us (the world). God will bless his time in office as many of us pray for him from all corners of the globe.