Today’s Qs for O’s White House
EmailYunji de Nies: So in these meetings, is the President wanting to pursue Al Qaida and the Taliban as a dual enemy or on two separate strategies?
GIBBS: Well, I — I'm not going to get into the Q&A involved in all these meetings, except to reiterate what I said to Ed [Henry of CNN], and that is that, through the beginning of these — each of these meetings, we've had intelligence assessments. And throughout this process, not just in the last couple of weeks, but going back through the transition, the President has wanted us to evaluate the threat that emanates from this region.
I do think there is clearly a difference between an entity that, through a global, transnational jihadist network, would seek to strike the U.S. homeland. I think that's — the Taliban are obviously exceeding bad people that have done awful things. Their capability is somewhat different, though, on that continuum of transnational threats.
Yunji: So how do you approach that, then, if you're dealing with two enemies in the same area? I mean, what…
GIBBS: That's — you — you — you've touched on part of what's being evaluated in the situation.
Yunji: I mean, can you illuminate on that at all?
GIBBS: No.
Yunji: And — and on Ed's last point, Secretary Sebelius said yesterday on Jay Leno that — to “bring it on” with the president. Can we expect a little one-on-one [basketball] with him?
GIBBS: I — like I said, I'm — he's played — I don't know if he's played with Secretary Sebelius before, but I — I think the president would — would be encouraged to play, yes.
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Yunji: And — and on Ed’s last point, Secretary Sebelius said yesterday on Jay Leno that — to “bring it on” with the president. Can we expect a little one-on-one [basketball] with him?
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Nice try, but what we really want to know is what Michelle was wearing today. I’m a little disappointed. I expected more.
Posted by: jennifert7 | October 8, 2009, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
So now even William Ayers has admited that he wrote Obama’s memior, Dreams of My Father. (Starbucks, Reagan Airport, 10/5/09)
William Ayers, along with his wife Bernadine Dohrn, set off bombs all across the country in the 1960s and 70s.
It is interesting that Obama would let someone like that write his memiors. What a goof-off!
Posted by: Colonel Rebel | October 8, 2009, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
LMAO as I said yesterday
Gibbs: I’m not going to get into answering real questions
Posted by: everyone must use single ply tolietpaper | October 8, 2009, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
..’exceedingly bad people who have..’..
Gibbs is a master of the English language.. what hath God wrought?
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | October 8, 2009, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
“So now even William Ayers has admited that he wrote Obama’s memior, Dreams of My Father. (Starbucks, Reagan Airport, 10/5/09)”
ROFLMAO!
Bill Ayers obviously jokes with blogger who identified herself as a conservative, right wing bloggers then report that as an admission. And not just the crazy conspiracy guys but people like Jonah Goldberg who had to issue an embarrassing correction.
When one wonders how right wing lies are so easily swallowed and passed along by right wingers consider this example of how utterly stupid they are.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 8, 2009, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm
A thoughtful British perspective:
“This is among so many indications the world is preparing for a “post-American” future, in which, as Obama himself promised at the United Nations, his country would no longer be a superpower. Everything else he is doing, at home and abroad, seems designed to contribute to the same result: the political and economic diminution of the United States.
It is against this background that the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan becomes, in effect, the test of remaining U.S. commitment to anything under the current administration.”
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 8, 2009, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm
“A thoughtful British perspective:”
Gee a right wing Canadian who loves Palin and called Bush the most impressive President of his lifetime except for Reagan (natch)who writes about right wing themes like this
“Over the 151 years since the apparitions of Mary to the devout little peasant girl, Bernadette Soubiros, countless millions have visited that remote shrine, and the medical bureau that was established to test claims of miraculous cures has identified many cases beyond human explanation. In other words, there is far more empirical evidence of the miracle at Lourdes than there has ever been, or can ever be, of Darwinism.”
What a shock that the rabidly right wing Canadian does not like Obama.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 8, 2009, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
How about asking whether or not the Justice Department is going to prosecute those nine Republicans who met with the coup leaders in Honduras in violation of the Logan Act?
Posted by: Flash Override | October 8, 2009, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
“How about asking whether or not the Justice Department is going to prosecute those nine Republicans who met with the coup leaders in Honduras in violation of the Logan Act?”
Its ok for Republicans to work against US foreign policy with dictators who suspend civil liberties.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 8, 2009, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
Glad Jake Tapper is still reporting at the White House. Looks like Axelrod talked to Ailes at Fox and Major Garrett is gone.
Posted by: iawbiar | October 8, 2009, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm