Robert Gibbs Mocks Sarah Palin from White House Podium…When Imitation Isn’t Flattery

No. She’s just dumber than dirt and an easy target.

Liberal fear of Palin once again raises its ugly head..lol…

It’s one thing to use a notecard – or your hand – to remember a few bullet points. It’s something else entirely to deliver each and every speech or pretend-off-the-cuff comment you make via carefully scripted TelePrompter.
I agree…she’s hit a nerve, bigtime, for them. And the WH press secretary is juvenile.

I LOVE IT! Of course he’ll take some heat for it but what the heck. He was probably trying to lighten up the press conference given the state of the weather in D.C. right now. Cut him some slack for goodness sake

If Gibbs is mocking Palin he is just showing the fear that resides in the Obama camp.
I know a brilliant doctor who takes notes in his palm, and methinks he could take Gibbs handily in an IQ test.
If Gibbs thinks Palin’s notes are genuinely funny then he should be in tears of laughter over Obama’s use of the word “corpse” where “corps” would have served better!
Gibbs if you read this check here ___ .

If he’s mocking her, he must be afraid of her……Gibb’s you are history! Take that to the podium!

Janice…No Mr. Gibbs is not “juvenile”. He is fighting “fire with fire” and that airhead, moron of a person deserves all the scorn and derision she gets. I have never in all my years of voting seen anyone as pathetic as her at this level of politics.

While Palin is basically low hanging fruit in terms of things to make fun of, Gibbs does a pretty good job.
Good week for Palin, yet another round of “How stupid is she?” coverage that just followed the “what a hypocrite” coverage because she was afraid to criticize Rush Limbaugh.

It’s all just fun ‘n games starring Bobby Glib and company…

This is rather childish & unseemly for the representative of the Oval Office, is it not?
And it’s surely worthy of gleeful mocking itself, given Gibbs’ boss’ notorious over-reliance on a very expensive teleprompter crew everywhere he goes.
Sarah Palin doesn’t have a tax-payer funded team of professional writers & teleprompter technicians to follow her around wherever she goes.
She does exactly that which costs a fortune in public treasure to keep the President on cue except she does it DIY-style & on her own dime & this WH has a problem with that.
Why? Is it because no government jobs were “added or saved” doing it her way?

Remember the last Presidential Debate, where the candidates were asked a question with three parts and John McCain stopped to write down the three parts? I guess she got it from him.

This WH pays a lot of attention to Sarah Palin.

Maybe Obama should try the writing on the palm instead of the addiction to the teleprompter.

Gibbs’ boss can’t speak to any audience, not even grade school kids, without a teleprompter and Gibbs takes a stab at Palin? Obama, without is teleprompter, is a train wreck. Even with it, he can manage to insult an entire community of Navy Corpsman; some Commander in Chief he is. There’s the real joke. CWO4 USN (Ret)

Politicians need to use teleprompters to remember their complex speeches. Sarah needs to write on her hand so she won’t forget to mention lowering taxes at a tea party convention.
She is an idiot.
BTW, President Obama didn’t use a teleprompter two weeks when he went before the Republican Congress to take them to task for playing obstructionist politics. Can you imagine Sarah trying to do the same thing with the Democrats? It’s laughable to even think about.

Very juvenile of Gibbs. Just lowered himself to a whole new level.

Hey Gibbs, read my hand:
“Incompetent”
“In over his head”
“Arrogant”
“White House Press Secretary”
“Toilet paper”

ARE YOU PALIN SUPPORTERS KIDDING? I PRAY EVERY NIGHT SHE IS YOUR 2012 CANDIDATE. PALIN WOULDN’T MAKE A PIMPLE ON THE ASS OF THE OTHER PUBS RUNNING. SHE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT. I’M GOING TO CONTRIBUTE TO HER PRIMARY CAMPAIGN HOPE CHEST.

Beautiful! Very funny.

Go away, Sarah…please. You are not qualified to be President and your flippant attitude is not helping the GOP.

DontGet818OnMeNow I have never in all my years of voting seen anyone as pathetic as her at this level of politics. (him)
Sure…you have it in the WH right now! Only it’s BHO and they’re having to dig and dig in hard because they know what a failure and empty suit they have in the WH.

“Gibbs’ boss can’t speak to any audience, not even grade school kids, without a teleprompter and Gibbs takes a stab at Palin?”
He took Q & A with the Congressional Republicans the other day and kicked their butts.
But you’re right.
Congressional Republicans are less intelligent than grade school kids so maybe he felt the teleprompter was not necessary.

ENERGY
TAX CUTS
LIFT AMERICANS SPIRIT
…….Obviously three things the administration knows nothing about.
Wait, I thought the administration doesn’t spend time thinking about Palin, she’s irrelevant.
Palin gets so far under these people’s skin like no one else….just too funny to watch :)
Palin 2012….getting clearer and clearer :)

Palin is a complete and utter moron. I find it hard to believe people actually care about what she has to say. Could we please just keep her in Alaska with a moose burger shoved in her mouth?

were are school closings !!)

stacystometimes….I’ll see that laughing in 2012. She may be all we have right now. That’s pretty sad given what we have in the White House right now…..now that’s good for a laugh!

Maybe he should have shown New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts crossed out on his hand with Pennsylvania followed by an exclamation point. He’s laughing at his own electoral lynching.

Run Forrest run…. ooops, I mean run Sarah run!!!!

Cute response to a woman can’t remember four points, but is willing to put down our President for using a teleprompter when he gives a 60+ minute speech. I think President Obama has better things to do than memorize text. Palin – not so much. I’m glad Gibbs made light of it because Palin should be embarrassed about pointing fingers. Maybe she forgot to put that on her palm. She just slings crap all the time.
I don’t think that anyone in the White House or democratic camp is scared of Palin. But I think they’re all disappointed in her. Instead of working for something good, she’s just intent to rally the troups and stop anything from being done. She is self-serving and egotistical at the cost of really working toward solving the problems that face our Country today. We need to get down to business and stop the mud-slinging.

Ben,
What experience over Palin does Pawlenty have, aside from making me think of a slice of white bread…????

“It’s sad to see the White House mock private citizens like this”
Good point.
We should always remember that Palin quit her job when it became “too hard” as she heaps scorn upon the White House for not immediately cleaning up the mess of Republican policies.

The leader of the free world is reduced to imitating Sarah Palin.
That is one powerful woman.
She got $100,000 to speak, Obama is absolutely obssessed with her, everyone in the left wing media illustrated her talking points, she likely boosted her book sales and she has the full attention of the White House.
And they say she isn’t intelligent.
LMAO!

Does anyone find all of this ridiculous? This is the kind of things kids would do.
Palin wasn’t ready for prime time and still isn’t although she clearly appeals to a lot of voters.
Is this appeal why so many people on the Left go nuts over this former Republican Veep candidate?
With the economy and foreign policy a mess, surely the politicians’ spokesmen and the political wannabes have something better to do than play childish games.

Doesn’t this group of clowns in the WH have any respect for the duties of the executive branch? They need to show some real leadership. Not slash and burn politics on anyone who dares to disagree with them.

Robin Gibbs needs to be fired. He is an abysmal representative of the POTUS….any POTUS.
How can I take President Obama and his administration seriously when Gibbs is spending time with this stupid, childish behavior?

This is so beneath the POTUS. Someone should sit this president down and explain to him that he is president of the United States, not president of Romper Room.

It’s beyond comprehension that the Press Secretary for the President of the United States would stand at a podium and mock ANY citizen, regardless of who the person might be or the reasons behind the mockery.
Is is possible there are people who honestly don’t see the difference between complete and total dependence on a tele-prompter and 3 words written on a hand?

I imagine if Palin spoke at an elementary school she would not require a teleprompter to speak to the children.

“As for Palin, she is exponentially smarter than most of the administration.”
ROFLMAO!
She was stumped by a question of what newspapers she read.
Earlier the right wing media went through the embarrassing exercise of trying to prove the Bush Doctrine was non existent, when she had no idea what it was.
Nate Silver has a great article on all the very stupid things that Palin has done.

Childish… I can’t wait until Obama and his cast of fool’s is out of office. Hopefully we can elect adult’s next time round.

Let’s face it , neo-cons can dish it out but when they get it back they get all indignant. Faux News and Pill popping Limpaw have been taking shots daily at the President. Why don’t they show some respect for him? All they can do is get huffy when someone attacks them, let me get my violin so I can play a song for you while you weep.

Oh grow up, I see 4 year olds act better.

I guess that POTUS took offense to her comments about him.

Sarah does anything to keep herself and her party in the news…are YOU sure she didn’t do this stunt on purpose?

Brandon – I may be wrong, but Jim Crow Laws, I believe, were democrat enacted laws….

Gibbs is an immature dolt but fits in nicely with that inept, incompetent administration.

“This is so beneath the POTUS. Someone should sit this president down and explain to him that he is president of the United States, not president of Romper Room.”
ROFLMAO!
The right wing’s fake outrage at Palin having the tables turned on her is quite amusing.

Palin = big loser! Republicans = bigger losers! Conservatives = Altra losers!

Don’t worry. Sarah will play the victim in this somehow. Sarah complained about the gotcha media, then she goes off to trash anything necessary to make a buck. She’s the Bernie Maddoff of the GOP – taking the money but nothing tangible purchased – doesn’t matter as long as she can convince the followers to keep sending funds.

I have to admit, I was fairly impressed. Though her head is filled with air, she managed to take a lesson from World War II. Speak loudly enough to a scared populous, define a group or a person to unite them against, and then give speeches that appeal to their humble origins with promises that this country will be great again. Funny that she calls Obama a socialist, when in reality she is.
The last person to do that effectively, was, well…Hitler.
While Palin knows nothing about American History, and got out of office before a scandal could hit her in court, she did manage to get something from high school history.

Thanks to the posts from William Dull and from Linda. Well spoken.
Bob, however, needs to learn the appropriate use of apostrophes.

This is great, it’s about time someone from the Presidents camp shoots back at that nut…Funny how Gibbs get’s heat for making fun of Palin but when those nuts from the Tea Parties have signs with Obama looking like Hitler…not a peep. Palin is a used show salesperson, I hope she runs and I can’t wait for the debates Obama is going to destroy her…

I am so tired of the nastiness coming out of this White House. I was looking forward to hope and change when W finally left, but come on …. when the White House spokesman makes fun of a private citizen, it kind of makes you miss the days of W, who at least could take the criticism and didn’t resort to trying to make fun of critics.

I hope the dems grow some nuts & tear apart the GOP like the GOP is doing to them w/ one hand behind their backs. Send bush, cheney, rumsfeld & company to jail- with blood of thousands on their hands. Tear apart Fox News for pandering propaganda (fyi: propaganda is illegal in the USA) & do away w. Rush limberger for playing Tokyo Rose. Enough is enough!

This whole thing is pathetic. Are these guy’s in the White House really giving in to Palin? Come on, This is playground stuff, and the whole world is watching. If Gibb’s and O’bama were not worried they wouldn’t even react to what Palin does. My 5 and 8 year old kid’s play these stupid games. We really have elected a grown up crew to the White House. This woman is a political joke, and o”bama is playing into her hand. Smartest President ever?

I write things on my hand that are important that I don’t forget. Right now it says, “Truth, Justice, Freedom, Liberty, The Constitution, States Rights”.

Every time I see this … woman … I want to reach through the television screen and slap her silly. But then I remember, she’s already silly and it wouldn’t do any good.

Finally.
The only thing that I worry about is that ribbing her from the podium make lead folks to forget about what Palin was saying. She was trashing Obama and has been trashing Obama everyday. The fact that she could not even remember three things she stands for without writing them on her hand is, well, pathetic.

Gibbs is a jerk. He’s a child. Emanuel is a child. Obama is a child.

Mr Obama did not need a “tele-prompter” at the Republican conference in Baltimore a couple of weeks ago when he answered every question, in-depth, and made, the GOP party of NO, Representatives and Senators look so foolish they are refusing another proposed meeting (this time with Democrats included) over health care!

Funny thing is someone will have to sit Sarah down and explain this whole thing to her. Then she will start her whole indignant ranting about how everyone is attacking her. Maybe the cold weather up in Alaska permanently froze her brain.

How utterly unprofessional and childish. I would have hoped the Administration would show that they can take the high road and lead by example. Besides, this silly stunt just keep Sarah Palin in the press. Great job!

Children Behave!

Quit making fun of how people spell on these blogs. We all know we’re trying to write as quickly as possible before our supervisor catches us!

Why is it necessary to rebut or comment on everything this woman says???? Leave it lie! Given enough time she’ll hang herself.

For all the abuse Bush took he never stooped to this boorish behavior. He had class, something absent in this adminstration.
But you have to hand to Palin. She is a thorn in their sides. Iran is thumbing its nose at the US and Obama is obsessed with Palin. The economy is a mess and Obama is obsessed with Palin. Banks are failing daily and Obama is obsessed with Palin. Unemployment is 10% and Obama is obsessed with Palin.
Heck of a job, Barry.

Maybe some day he will forget the infantile jabs and start explaining a rudderless president. Of course his boss has to come up with a consistent course of action, stop ridiculing and talking down to the “little people” and start listening. On second thought, maybe he should continue with infantile jabs.

“Gibbs is a jerk!” “Gibbs is immature.” Translation: Oopsie, our Sarah does indeed look a fool.

“Posted by: drjohn | Feb 9, 2010 3:59:22 PM”
Poor Dr John the sting of the day remains.
That was so humiliating for Palin completely whiffing on a softball question in her first national interview after being chosen as VP.
That was her chance to proclaim the bush doctrine a success.
She didn’t even have to discuss the particulars.
She learned later to just not answer question and belch forth her scripted replies regardless (see the VP debate)

I can picture Sarah Palin now throwing things all over the house in a rage over this. My guess is she gets even more hateful.

Would have been funnier if he had called the press corps the “press c-o-r-P-s” making fun of Obama’s inability to even read off of a teleprompter. There is a big difference in a speaker using a few keywords for note and reading from a script someone else wrote.

Just shows the administration for what they really are… scared… why else would the White House see the need to belittle the free speech of an American. Anytime someone speaks out against the stupidity of Obama, the powers seek to destroy them. Mr Obama… you are a hack.

anitlaen – I’m pretty ordinary, and she’s stupid, and her followers are really far more stupid.

Hahaha! Good one, Gibbs! Whassamatter, Palin drones, can’t take a little joke? It’s your own fault, you know. By demonizing the use of a teleprompter, you preclude Caribou Barbie from using one. So she is reduced to hand-written notes – literally! Bwahahahahahahaha…!

Gibbs is a joke. I don’t care for Sarah Palin but I don’t see why the White House give her so much importance. Maybe they feel threatened by her.

She was there to talk about the things that mattered most to her so you would think she could have at least had them readily in her mind. She isn’t the sharpest crayon in the box so let us all stop giving this woman more credence where not much is due or even suggest (ha) that she could be the President of our country. Didn’t we learn our lesson with W? Honestly. It’s crazy. Dumb President make for dumb policies and this recession we are in is proof of that! Thanks W and the majority who voted him in once (the first time he cheated).

“She didn’t even have to discuss the particulars.”
It’s really harmed her, hasn’t it? She commands the full attention of the President of the United States and his resources. Daily. The affairs of the country are put aside for Sarah.
He looks like a complete jerk.
She’s a genius.

“For all the abuse Bush took he never stooped to this boorish behavior. He had class, something absent in this adminstration.”
LMFAO, that is the funniest thing I have ever heard, GW was a babbling blunder, he couldn’t open his mouth without making a mistake. Anyone remember, Ob-gyns not being able to practice their love with their patients?

“For all the abuse Bush took he never stooped to this boorish behavior. He had class, something absent in this adminstration.”
LMFAO, that is the funniest thing I have ever heard, GW was a babbling blunder, he couldn’t open his mouth without making a mistake. Anyone remember, Ob-gyns not being able to practice their love with their patients?

Oh, for Pete’s sake! Why can’t Gibbs have a little fun with these 4th grade crib notes on Palin’s hand! All the TV commedians have had their fun. The problem with Queen Palin is that she has such a good time trashing the president, offers no concrete solutions to the serious problems our country faces and then cries “foul” everytime the tables are turned on her. Remember what HST said: “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”. Problem is Palin seems to think her kitchen is a protected cacoon.

In honor of drjohn, here’s an excerpt that interview again.
Poor Gibson was so taken aback by her ignorance that he tried to hold her hand and walk her thru it.
ABCNews
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?
GIBSON: The Bush — well, what do you — what do you interpret it to be?
PALIN: His world view.
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.
PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that’s the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
PALIN: I agree that a president’s job, when they swear in their oath to uphold our Constitution, their top priority is to defend the United States of America.
I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.
GIBSON: Do we have a right to anticipatory self-defense? Do we have a right to make a preemptive strike again another country if we feel that country might strike us?
PALIN: Charlie, if there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we have every right to defend our country. In fact, the president has the obligation, the duty to defend.

So! Robert! It is your underwear in a wod or OBama’s? You are such a doofus baby!!! Stick a pacifier where the sun don’t shine.

“This sort of undignified behavior really dishonors the office of the President, the White House, and the country as a whole. Even by Obama-standards.”…………Next I’ll turn around and shout “Sarah for President!” Those republicans – they can dish it, but they can’t take it.

jimrod said, “Palin did what many do. In college you snuck in some notes on the hand for reminders.”
“Snuck in some notes”?!?!? Snuck them in when, during a test? You are likening Palin’s crib notes to cheating on a test? And DEFENDING it? Bwahahahahahahahahahaha…..!

Every time Robert Gibbs speaks he removes all doubts that he is a fool.Speaking of notes on the hand, how a hand puppet like Obama who his notes to are given to him by someone elses hand.The only thing to figure out
are two things: we do the strings go that are cotrolling Obama and where does the paper trail go on the $750M that someone gave Obama the sept. before the election.The answer lies inthe paper trail and We The People deserve to know where it goes , so we know who controls Obama. We need to know ASAP!!!

Sarah is so diss-able.

Wow I always thought that the Administration was a little childish by always pointing fingers at Bush but this act has sealed the deal. President Obama is the worst President ever. We have real problems in this country yet they don’t get it.I am done with the MSM and this President. Although I am a Black American I am so happy I didn’t vote for him. Ever chance I get I point out to as many Blacks and I can that Obama is just using them.

Gibbs should write this on his hand…
New Jersey
Virginia
Massachusetts
What a jerk he is.

Liberals, including their media mouthpieces, will always tell you who they fear by mocking, belittling, marginalizing the ones they fear the most.
I don’t begrudge Obama his teleprompter; how could any person be expected to memorize anything if they never stop talking?

I am a Conservative and have never been a particularly big fan of Sarah Palin. But I loathe the Democrats with every ounce of my being, so the fact they hate her makes me like her more than I would otherwise. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Robert Gibbs is so clever! To defend Obama with humor is great, but to poke fun at Palin is even better!

Frau Palin is a dim bulb at best but Gibb’s action was childish. Not consistent with a White House press secretary. Best to ignore dimwits like her.

The liberals here are forced to attempt to argue the past because they can’t defend the present. You should be studying what went wrong with the Carter administration. Here’s a tip: it wasn’t that he didn’t spend enough time mocking others.

drjohn, I don’t know how to explain this to you – but the press sec. and Obama are two entirely different people.

Scottbrownrepublican – you summd up the republican party better than any Democrat could. Enemies? We are all AMERICAN.

It is fine and dandy for Obama to read an entire speech from a teleprompter. But Sarah cant have a few notes to speak from like every public speaker was taught in school. It would be a great thing to see Obama give a speech with just a FEW words wrote on his hand or a sheet of paper and not an entire speech from the telepromter. Someone please write JOBS on Gibbs and the presidents hand so they remember what their job is. Pathetic and immature from this Admin.

liberals are so funny and i realize with things going so bad for your overeducated never done anything leader that you need something to rally around.picking on someone who actually knows the difference between a corpman and a CORPSEMAN says it all. enjoy the 44% and dropping approval rating and the dems last 10 months of controlling anything.

It’s great to see that with all the problems of our nation solved, this administration has time to joke around and poke fun at people.

“I didn’t quit my job as a public official claiming the job had become to hard when I found celebrity to be more appealing. ”
Neither did Palin. Show me the quote that she said that.

The White House attacking FREE SPEECH… and the press doesn’t report it… can’t wait for the brown shirts.

Palin should be held to a much higher standard than Obama and his teleprompter. She went to JOURNALISM school which means she majored in communications. There is no excuse for notes on her hands or her incoherent ramblings.

Steve C – Try this on: The White House USING free speech. It’s about time they began to shut her up.

In an odd way.. instead of marginalizing Palin.. if adds credence to her..
She has no real stature.. why this attention (even negative attention..is still attention).

Another day and the WH mocks opponents instead of doing the peoples business. People are suffering and all that is remembered today is this idiot Gibbs trying to be funny. High School stuff- but at least we’ll only have 3 more year of this disaster called the Obama administration!!!

Iran.
Unemployment.
Financial mess.
Economy.
No jobs.
Obama’s answer?
Spend time on Palin! Respond to Palin! Insult Palin!
Palin! Palin! Palin!
If she was the tool the left says she is, we wouldn’t have this thread.
The left wets its collective pants over Palin.

“Then Gibson asked Obama tough questions like “what’s your favorite color?”"
Thankfully Gibson did not ask that of Palin. She may have asked him what he meant by favorite then what he meant by color.
And yet just over a week ago, there was President Obama taking on GOP questions, discussing policy at length and basically eviscerating the GOP so bad, their propaganda organ FoxNews had to cut away with 20 minutes left in the meeting.
Meanwhile the Quitta from Wasilla knew the few softball questions in advance and had to write on her hand right wing boilerplate that she has been parroting for over a year.

hah…obama is jealous …she actually balanced a budget. having a majority in both house and senate and accomplishing nothing is the height of impotence.

And yet just over a week ago, there was President Obama taking on GOP questions, discussing policy at length and basically eviscerating the GOP so bad, their propaganda organ FoxNews had to cut away with 20 minutes left in the meeting. Posted by: Ryan C —You must have been smoking a big one that day????

It’s so easy to see republicans think her stupid telePALMter is embarrassing as well.

“drjohn, I don’t know how to explain this to you – but the press sec. and Obama are two entirely different people.”
~Posted by: secondlook | Feb 9, 2010 4:17:55 PM
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secondlook, I don’t know how to explain this to you – but in his capacity as Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs speaks for Obama. Unless Obama communicates something different, one can only assume that Gibbs is saying what Obama wants him to.

Mr. Gibbs,
Very Statesman-like of you Mr. Gibbs.
The goods news for America is you that you’ll be unemployed in three years along with your Boss.
I guess it shows that Mrs. Palin is truly conservative, since she doesn’t have to invest in a Tele-promter to speak to the public, including elementary school childern, as Obama did recently.
Also, let Obama know it pronouced “KOHRS-MAN” NOT COPSE-MAN. It difficult when ready a Telepromter and have no idea what a Corpsman is, much less how to pronouce correctly.

I so wish everyone would just ignore Sarah Palin. She’s not an elected official; she’s not an expert on any part of running the federal government.
Lord forbid she ever get elected, but if everyone on the left keeps griping about her, the far right will just become that much more stubborn in supporting her.
What do you do with a child throwing a temper tantrum? You ignore them and they stop!
How about some self-discipline here? Ignore her!

I love Jon Stewart’s reporting on the pee tardy better than anyone else’s. Amerigasm indeed.

Would all of you haters and fearmongers stop berating Obama????? Gibson is the Press Secretary…. go after him…. you just can’t stand the fact that Obama is your president. That’s right I said it…. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA… If you don’t like it go jump in a lake… Also as for all you Palin supporters, it goes to show your ignorance…You’d rather have an ignorant person to represent this country, that has no knowledge of wordly events than a well learned ivy leaguer…And you wonder why other countries laugh at us……

Dear ScottBrownRepublican – No, I doubt seriously the press sec. runs everything they say thru the pres. I really don’t care anyway. Take your double standard and shove it. I’m sick of this hag and her hate.

The press will write anything to take the focus away from an incompetent administration. Can you trust anything a member of this administrations says? Think about it, these people open mouth and enter foot on a daily basis. The media better cover stuff like this or the public will notice the bumblings of the incompetents.

Posted by: GO | Feb 9, 2010 4:23:17 PM
Great point.
Obama will change “politics as usual.”
A “new era of responsibility”
“The time has come to set aside childish things”
“we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.”
You just can’t make this stuff up.
All of which prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what liars occupy the White House.

Gibbs may not be a stand-up comedian, but his riff on Sarah is a hoot! Best laugh I’ve had today.

So, the White house has decided that Palin is Presidential. A few more boneheaded moves and they can make her into the next President.

The buzz is Sarah cancelled an outdoor press conference today because it was cold and she would have to wear gloves.
And thank you Sarah, for backing yourself into a corner concerning the use of teleprompters. You of all people are in dire need of one… You know the one You used during the 2008 presidential campaign

soooo gibbs is sterotyping Palin as the shopper wife??

Isn’t Gibb’s behavior WAY below that of a White House Press Secretary? He is an embarrassment.

Ryan C: “”Then Gibson asked Obama tough questions like “what’s your favorite color?”"
Thankfully Gibson did not ask that of Palin. She may have asked him what he meant by favorite then what he meant by color.”
I think you’re confusing Palin for Clinton. She knows what the meaning of “is” is. You liberals and your smarmy, dishonest politics. I guess it’s tough keeping it all straight.

I so wish everyone would just ignore Sarah Palin.
Posted by: malcat
Why should we ignore her when the White House doesn’t ignore her and the media keeps reporting on her? If she were so unimportant, why is the White House even alluding to her in an official media briefing?

“Neither did Palin. Show me the quote that she said that.”
ROFLMAO!
So why did Palin quit?

I can’t believe the Obama administration puts this sophomoric dufus in front of the American people as their spokesperson. Unless of course, Gibson, as a sophomoric dufus, is indeed representative of the Obama administration, that would make perfect sense.

Woah…now this report on Sarah’s notes is really important.

I read all the criticisms about the White House Bunch and Palin of course. Seldom one offers a better way to do things. Let’s be positive.

Robert: “How does this help Gibbs or the administration? It just puts him on Palin’s level. Disappointing.”
Correction — below Palin’s level. She can disagree on the issues without resorting to petty insults.

dot…americans should never concern themselves with how other countries see us. we are the best country in the world for over 200 hundred years.hope we can last another 10 months until this administration is neutered. noew thats hope we can believe in.

The economy is in the toilet, there are substantial political issues to talk about, and this is how Gibbs wastes the White House Press Corps time? What a petty little man. Makes me miss every other former press secretary that ever did the job for all the other administrations, Democrat or Republican. I suppose that smug little cuckoo clock face thinks he is being funny?

And….what junior high grade is Robert Gibbs in? Oooo…look at me…I can write on my hand too! Geez.

“I think you’re confusing Palin for Clinton. She knows what the meaning of “is” is.”
ROFLMAO!
Clinton dissembling by discussing actual variations in the use of the word “is” is somehow a black mark on his intelligence?
Geez how shallow is the gene pool in the right wing.

If Palin ever gets sworn into office again, she might be asked to raise her left hand to see if she has the words “I do” scribbled on them.

Please people, get over it. Gibbs was having fun. (Don’t we all do that at work once in a while.) Obama uses teleprompters and Palin uses notes on her hand. (Although, if she had my mother, she would get yelled at for writing on herself and not a note card.) Most politicians have notes stuffed somewhere to help them during speeches. They both are ‘guilty’ of poking fun at each other for using notes. Palin may be a bit hypocritical, but who cares. Let’s concentrate on something a little more important, say the economy.

“Liberals fear Palin because she is the complete opposite of what liberals perceive a woman to be and is perceived as a powerful force in our society”
You mean how liberals view women as equal partners in life and look at women politicians as accomplished and capable in their own right, while right wingers want their wives to be subservient and the right wing media treat Palin like eye candy while pretending her lack of intellectual curiosity (being charitable) is a plus?
(See Rich Lowry’s column about her winking at him and the recent Wallace controversy about her sitting on his lap)

Catman sez: …americans should never concern themselves with how other countries see us.”
Unbelievable. As if the US can exist in this world without the good will and support of the rest of the world. BTW, we’d BETTER be concerned about how China, Russia, etc. think of us since they jointly hold about $2 TRILLION of our debt. They can turn this county into a 3rd world basket case with a single swipe of their collective pens.
The days when the US could retreat into isolationism ended long ago. The world is now an interdependent place where no country can exist in isolation.

While trashing President Obama for using a teleprompter,Palin clearly READ her speech verbatim on the podium while having additional notes scribbled on her hand for the prepped Q&A.
BTW: Didn’t she use the teleprompter the entire time on Campaign trial there is plenty of footage! I want to see the bimbo memorize one of those ghostwritten speeches without the palmgate, note cards, and any digital device that is used daily by all politicians. the I want her to speak without written ghostwritten speeches/notes or the digital device that is used in the Political world.

The level of pettiness of this administration is only eclipsed by their arrogance.

Yet more proof that all of Obama’s claims to want “bipartisanship” is so much hot air.
I can’t believe there are people naive (or just plain stupid) enough to continue to buy into his rhetoric.

“Name one liberal woman who can draw a crowd like Palin does.”
Hillary Clinton certainly can.
And Hillary can do without the audience hoping for a wardrobe malfunction.

The President had teleprompters for a 6th grade class, but Sarah Palin writing down a few topics on her hand is unacceptable? Gibbs, your lack of class only angers people. Government is supposed to protect people, not attack individuals.

Liberals fear Palin because she is the complete opposite of what liberals perceive a woman to be …
_________
Part of that statement really IS true for me. I’ve believed since early, early on that women were much, much, MUCH smarter than men. It started in first grade when all the boys needed help reading, and with math, and so on. Palin– and her buddy Bachmann? Not so much. And then I also always beleived women to have more true grit– you know, they don’t quit. Palin? Not so much.
I don’t fear her though. i fear the stupidity of the folksy right wingers who dig her and think she’d be an awesome Prez.

Stupid is……..is stupid does.

Chew on THIS Gibbs:
campaign in NJ = FAIL
campaign in VA = FAIL
campaign in MA = FAIL
stimulus bill = FAIL
cap&tax = FAIL
health care =FAIL
unemployment = FAIL
copenhagen = FAIL
olympics = FAIL
approval rating 42% = FAIL
economic grade F = FAIL
lost 8.4 million jobs = FAIL
China Trip zero results = FAIL
Germany Trip = (Germany Press WIMP) FAIL
France Trip zero Results = FAIL
Picks Colts = doom colts FAIL

Trent -
Every time you try to compare Palin’s “intelligence” to Obama’s you lose.
Take away the teleprompter and you have an world traveling, educated man. Take away her palm and you have a deer caught in the headlights. What’s Palin’s position on anything other than just “oppose”

Stop all the whinning about how bad things are… Let the man have fun… Didn’t sister Sarah poke fun at the president because of his teleprompter…
As pointed out she used notes on February 6th and then the prompter many times campagining with JM.

First off, it was disgusting that the White House would use its podium to continue the desecration of Sarah Palin’s character. Truly outrageous and yet another indication of the scorn and contempt this Administration has towards anyone who criticises them.
Secondly, what hasn’t been mentioned is that Sarah Palin’s speech was tremendous. She may not be presidential, but she can deliver a great speech. A conservative with charisma, she will therefore be targeted by the left and will continue to face the slings and arrows of outrageous and vicious attacks. It seems the progressives have no answer to her arguments, so they’re trying to assassinate her character instead.

First off, it was disgusting that the White House would use its podium to continue the desecration of Sarah Palin’s character. Truly outrageous and yet another indication of the scorn and contempt this Administration has towards anyone who criticises them.
Secondly, what hasn’t been mentioned is that Sarah Palin’s speech was tremendous. She may not be presidential, but she can deliver a great speech. A conservative with charisma, she will therefore be targeted by the left and will continue to face the slings and arrows of outrageous and vicious attacks. It seems the progressives have no answer to her arguments, so they’re trying to assassinate her character instead.

ryanc…i finally agree with you that hilary clinton could draw a crowd like palin does and will when she upsets obama in the 2012 primaries.

I see the Republicans and Tea Party goers think they have the majority in this forum too. Let’s get something straight here; the Democrats are big, The Republicans are small, and the Tea Partyers are too insignificant to be counted. That’s politics. The rest of this is nonsense.

I’ll give you a valid criticism of Obama. He’s doing nothing while Iran goes nuclear. That,Mike from Carolina, has absolutely nothing to do with race.

“while right wingers want their wives to be subservient ”
lol…Yeah sure. My wife, a Summa cum laude grad of Yale, and an MD, is right now laughing at you as she takes out the trash..lol

Ha Ha Ha!!!!! The next American president? Thankgod she did not lift her skirt higher to check on her other teleprompter Ha Ha Ha.Republicans you have a great choice here.Obma you have nothing to worry for 2012.Please send back to where she came from.She is not fit for anything.Ha Ha ha She now a political analist for FOX NEWS.Now you know the standard of that channel.

I don’t paticular like Sarah Palin myself and pretty sure she would never win an election for President. BUT, it is funny that Obama uses the Teleprompter more then any President I think I have seen and Gibbs pokes fun at Palin? Now, if Palin had her entire speech written on her forearm, I would maybe understand.

We should all be amazed.. Gibbs finally did something well..

“… oh no she didn’t. Gonna research for myself and if that proves true… let’s all sy goodnight Gracie!”
Original exchange
“When you interview her, will she be sitting on your lap?” Imus asked.
“One can only hope,” Wallace replied.
Awkward damage control on Fox N Friends
WALLACE: What happened was I was on Imus, which was my first mistake…and he said to me at the end — just kidding around — “So when you do the interview, will she be sitting on your lap?” And I said, “One can hope.”
CARLSON: Why would he ask such an inane question?
DOOCY: I think it’s a great question. (CROSSTALK) But you said yes.
CARLSON: Would you ask that of a man?
WALLACE: Would he have asked me if a man?
CARLSON: Yeah, would sit on your lap.
WALLACE: I don’t know. Let me ask you a question. Would you do an interview with Brad Pitt, with you sitting on his lap, Gretchen?
When Gretchen Carlson is the voice of sanity in an exchange you know its bad

We deserve better than this in the White House.

“who would they sell their tainted dog food or drywall too?”
Yay capitalism and 3 cheers for the free market.
Stupid government regulations.
If I want my kid to get lead poisoning from defective AND cheap Chinese goods, that’s my right!

Almost as empty headed reporting – the cheat notes on hand was not for the speech – it was for the Q & A! Big difference.

I see the Republicans and Tea Party goers think they have the majority in this forum too. Let’s get something straight here; the Democrats are big, The Republicans are small, and the Tea Partyers are too insignificant to be counted. That’s politics. The rest of this is nonsense.
Posted by: James | Feb 9, 2010 4:45:03 PM
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
May we introduce you the citizens of Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts? You better get started on it because there’s going to be a long list of other states’ citizenry you’re going to meet in the coming months. Could take a loooooong time. Or, you could spend your time waiting ot take punches at Sarah Palin. Your call.

Somehow it is not comforting to realize that this WH considers Sarah Palin a bigger threat that the Al Qaeda news that broke over the week-end but God forbid Gibbs would have to address that to reporters aside from the CYA policy change that Al Qaeda is now a threat we have to live with like snowstorms and drunk drivers instead of actually doing something about this very real threat.

Sarah Palin’s speech tremendous? Charisma? How about biting sarcasim? She’s such a joke.
That being said, Gibbs was wrong to do that today. Makes him and the WH look small.

Posted by: Jeff Kline | Feb 9, 2010 4:45:39 PM
The attention devoted to Palin by the left says more than anything else. The attention given to Palin by the White House makes clear how powerful she is.
She’s just a private citizen and the White House is reduced to answering to her.
That’s pretty cool.

Stylistically, still not ready for prime time. Her delivery was rushed and high pitched, she flubbed lots of what were supposed to be her own phrases, she kept knocking the microphones while gesticulating clumsily with her arms, and she had to refer to notes written on her left hand when answering the small number of adoring softball written questions during the brief Q&A period.
BTW: DEBUKED LONG AGO….The president did not use a teleprompter during the time he spoke to the 6th grade class. It was setup in another area to speak to the press and the public – NOTES ON A DIGITAL DEVICE THAT WE ALL USE WHEN GIVEN A PRESENTATION. I surely can’t do from Memory

seconlook: “How’s that “hopeie changey thingie working out for ya?”"
It’s not an insult if it’s true or a fair criticism. I find it rich that Obama would insult anyone else’s note-taking methods when the man drags those teleprompters everywhere and doesn’t speak well without them. They are quite the crutch. At least Palin can speak with a few notes jotted down instead of reading the whole thing verbatim from a screen like Obama.

It must be hard to defend Obama , I know I would not want the job. It is no wonder they have stooped to make cheap jokes.

So much for Obama’s hollow words regarding changing the way Washington conducts itself.
The liar in chief, yet again, lies his @ss off.
Throw the bum Obama out on his fat tin ear.

“aside from the CYA policy change that Al Qaeda is now a threat we have to live with like snowstorms and drunk drivers instead of actually doing something about this very real threat.”
So Ferrari, since you’re an expert on counter-terrorism and SW Asia just what do you propose? The last administration took their collective eye off of the ball with Iraq. The current one seems to be making progress with the extensive use drones, SIGINT, and HUMINT to target and eliminate terrorist leaders. I’d love to hear your plan, or any plan from those that are so critical. I’m not a huge fan of Obama. To me he’s just another politician looking out for his own.

Anonymous – If you enjoy listening to sound bites done in franmented platitudes then I suppose she speaks well. Let’s ponder, what new ideas have Queen Sarah brought to the table lately? Nothing. She continues to be nothing but a rabid dog after Obama. So she can milk little people out of millions and live happily ever after having exploited ignorance. You have to love America! P.S. She looks foolish and you really need to give up that whole “teleprompter” thing. It’s just stupid.

The Party of the Right is alive and well at Yale. Open your mind.
Posted by: Sigmonde | Feb 9, 2010 4:55:14 PM
The Right can be extremely elitist. Open your mind.

First, I found no evidence of Sarah Palin sitting on Chris Wallace’s lap. Found research during an interview with Don Imus that Chris Wallace hoped that would happen. (Very disrespectful in my opinion.)She is indeed an idiot but…
Now, extinguish… You look at it as “fanning the flames.” Hmmm… possibly. However, I look at it as putting her back into reality. You Borg people thought her speech better than the second coming. I will give you that it was a WONDERFUL performance but no substance at all. Her talk (as routine) was snarky and mean spirited. The kind of language y’all LIKE! But as my grandma used to say; “what is in the dark will surely come to light.” In this case, once again the Quees Borg’s lack of intelligence shines through again!
How can you dismiss her incorrect statements about death panels? That was purposely done and used to manipulate.

Sigmonde – My mind is open. I happen to value IQ and education. I think it’s not quite as highly valued on your side though. They put down people like your wife.

Catman sez: …man will never get along each other until we are attacked by alliens. till then and always has been each country for itself.”
How sad. How do you get up in the morning, and why bother?

Sarah Palin used a few notecards, and spoke to the American people for 40 minutes, and she was compelling, smart, and direct.
Obama has to use a teleprompter to talk to gradeschoolers – and he is incoherent and confused if he has to talk on his own.

If this was a few hundred years ago Gibbs title would be “The Court Jester”.

“Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the Right…”
This is great, we have 12 years old’s running this country and the 13 year old’s want it back.

You get some of the dumbest people I have ever seen in my life trying to make well decisions. Sarah Palin is a moron and everyone who listens to her is a moron. She is just angry because Barack Obama won the Presidency. Hate has a way of destroying you and if she and all the tea party members don’t stop all this hate, cancer will eat them alive. God is still in charge and you will reap what you sow, Sarah Palin.

“I find it rich that Obama would insult anyone else’s note-taking methods when the man drags those teleprompters everywhere and doesn’t speak well without them.”………. I personally thought he held his own and then some at the GOP retreat. Evidently some on the GOP side regretted it was televised, so I believe they’d agree.

The best part about all of this Democratic fiddling while Rome burns is that in the very near future each one of these clowns will have to find a job in the private sector. Talk about karma!

Don’t sweat the small stuff, cutesy little mocks and jabs from both sides… politics as usual, and look at the bigger picture…The current economic climate; as well as, national security concerns is what should be focused on and not grade school pranks…..TRY TO KEEP IT ON AN ADULT LEVEL people are really hurting here…VOTE INDEPENDENT….

Posted by: Chris | Feb 9, 2010 4:56:30 PM
It’s policy, we have been prepared for months now that Al Qaeda is now just an everyday threat just like living with crime, drunk drivers, etc. I would like to hear this administration address what has led to this change. If George Bush would have ever suggested such a thing as policy the press would be all over him, I would like to know why the press isn’t all over this or why it isn’t being addressed as it is quite clear that we are being prepared to have to accept periodic terrorist attacks as if they should be of no more concern than being robbed at gunpoint.

BWA ha ha ha , Thats what happens
when you try to mess with the bigboys.
She truly is the dumbest person i have
ever seen on the politcal scene, she
even makes Dan Quayle look like a
scholar, And to think some people voted
for her in the last election a
heartbeat away from the most powerful
office on earth.( what were they drinking)

If Obama and Palin were ugly.. no one would pay any attention to either of them.

Such class acts at the White House. I can’t recall a Press Secretary that ever made such continuing issues with anyone in the media that have opposing opinions. Palin herself needs to shore up her speach making, though she can’t count on me as a supporter. But Gibbs and Co should stick to writing jokes for late night TV, they don’t have any business working as a Press Secretary.

That Gibbs is one big IDIOT. Are any of the Obama co-horts normal?

Ferrari sez: “t’s policy, we have been prepared for months now that Al Qaeda is now just an everyday threat”
The truth of the matter is you can’t defeat terrorism in totality by force of arms. The best you can do is to continue to disrupt terrorist activities and minimize the threat. The “war on terror” can’t be won. Not by Bush, not by Obama, not by anyone. The only way to defeat terrorists is to deny them the rationale for their acts, and then some will continue their activities because they’re just plain crazy. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fought a “terrorist” insurgency from 1946 until they overran the south in 1975. Terrorists are patient. And the minute you kill one another rises and takes his place. I’m still waiting on how you would tackle this problem.

The White House should have left this to Saturday Night Live. So much for the level of dignity in the White House.

You get some of the dumbest people I have ever seen in my life trying to make well decisions. Obama is a moron and everyone who listens to him is a moron. He is just angry because Sarah may run for the Presidency. Hate has a way of destroying you and if he and all the liberals don’t stop all this hate, cancer will eat them alive. God is still in charge and you will reap what you sow, Sarah Palin.

Once again Robert Gibbs has proven that he’s an idiot. Big surprise.

Gibbs is stupid to sneer. Never sneer. Get on with the work. Heaven knows there’s enough that needs doing. But to sneer is to demean yourself. Gibbs is to clever by half. He should resign, not just for this but because he has a pattern of not understanding context.

“The truth of the matter is you can’t defeat terrorism in totality by force of arms. The best you can do is to continue to disrupt terrorist activities and minimize the threat. The “war on terror” can’t be won. Not by Bush, not by Obama, not by anyone. The only way to defeat terrorists is to deny them the rationale for their acts, and then some will continue their activities because they’re just plain crazy. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fought a “terrorist” insurgency from 1946 until they overran the south in 1975. Terrorists are patient. And the minute you kill one another rises and takes his place. I’m still waiting on how you would tackle this problem.”
Posted by: Chris | Feb 9, 2010 5:11:08 PM
Great Post

Posted by: Ryan C | Feb 9, 2010 5:07:48 PM
Who’s cowering under the bed, I am asking that in light of the threats over the week-end and after one attempted attack why are we being prepared to accept periodic terrorist attacks as a way of life with the notion that it is somehow normal. I don’t think that is too much to ask of the president whose main job is national security.

I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Sarah Palin is stupid.

Great you have the making of the next president of the United states in her.She would have to write all over her body to speak at the state of the union.It will be great to she her stripping down on live TV on FOX NEWS to make sure she reads them out right. Ha Ha Ha !!!!!Go ahead Republicans make sure you vote her to the white House. America badly need someone to make this the most laughable nation in the world.

At this rate I wonder when Gibbs will start using bathroom humor in his press conferences?

All you Fox News fans and Palin fans are freakin morons who cannot think for yourselves. All you do is criticize yet you have no suggested solutions of your own. Barack is better than anything your side endorses.

I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Obama is stupid.

It’s not my job to figure out how to deal with terrorism but it is his, one that he asked for. I would just like to know what they know that we don’t and why is the threat of terror now being treated like it should be no more than a minor nuisance, something we should expect. Well if we should expect it I would like to know why.

Does the White House have nothing better to do than mock a private citizen? Where are the grown ups?
Ahmadinajad is threatening to attack and the Press Sec’y is writing notes on his hands!

How in the h*ll can folks equate a single note written on Sarah’s hand with Obama’s use of a teleprompter for freaking everything? The guy set up the teleprompters for meeting with the press after speaking with 6th graders! When not using a teleprompter, Obama sounds like GW for goodness sake and is obviously in over his head.

“Writing 3 or 4 notes on your hand as opposed to having to read entirely off a teleprompter doesnt even come close to comparison..”
You’re right, it’s MUCH harder to memorize complex concepts like “tax cuts” than it is to memorize a 5,000 word speech.
What a maroon.

foxfansridiots..tell that to the 44% who actually approve of obama. the rest of us, and especially the independents cant wait until november 2010. turn out the lights…pelosi flies commercial.

It’s funny because The Half Term Prince had previously made such a point of dissing Sarah for using facts. He is blissfully, ironically, and comically unaware that he is throwing stones while living in a glass (white) house.

Too funny…Cartoon character Robutttt Gwibbs trashing Palin !! Someone needs to show Robuttt how rdiciulous he looks and how poorly he speaks everytime he hogs the tv screen. He is a total embarassment/

Save this photo for the Presidential library of Sarah Palin. It certainly does characterize the Obama administration for what is really is, “Hoax and Shame”.

So let me get this straight. The White House is making fun of Sarah Palin? Don’t they have more pressing issues to deal with like the economy, healthcare, Iran…??? Maybe if they spent a little more time working on the issues that actually matter this country might be in a better situation than we’re in currently.
And another thing, they rip on Palin for having notes written on her hand but Mr. President reads from a teleprompter everyday but he’s a genius? WOW no wonder this country is so screwed up!

“as the majority of folks fear socialism and big government.”
Yeah so much so that if you discuss cutting MediCare or Social Security you’ll find yourself voted out of office.

Gibbs is proving to America what an ignoramous he truly is. It’s becoming more evident that this current administration are a bunch of light weights. Did he also talk about how the President can’t pronounce CORPS?? That’s clearly transparent!!!

The hope-y, change-y “we the people” want and need has been thwarted by a Republican Party effort to bring our government to a halt. The Republican Party of NO to health care is a glaring example of No Leadership, No Brains, No ideas, NO legislation, No intelligence, No empathy, No Caring and above and beyond stupidy for those Republicans who vote NO even on legislation they put forth themselves! STUPID PEOPLE = Republicans! And, Sarah who?

Spokesman for a man (Commander in Chief for chrisakes) who repeatedly can’t pronounce corpsman and depends on a teleprompter for every appearance is making fun of someone for writing notes on her hand? Thats fresh.

catman sez: “he majority of folks fear socialism and big government.”
I agree with out to a point. First, I doubt that many of the people who scream “socialism” even understand what it really means. That said, I think Americans do have a natural suspicion of Big Government. However, what really keeps me up nights is the rise of the unholy alliance between government and corporations. Lincoln warned us about it in the 1860s and Eisenhower did the same in the 1950s. If we don’t do something to break this up soon we won’t have much of a democracy left.

Maybe Oprah could have them (Pres and Palin)get together at her house for a friendly malt beverage (it has worked in the past).

The best one I have seen so far is Steven Colbert and his “Thumb”!!!
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . . . .

Sure, it would be easy for the WH to ignore Palin. Just as it has ignored the will of the people.

You can not deny the rationale of terrorism to terrorists when that rationality is based upon hundreds of years of religion, culture, and up bringing…To them, terrorism is a rational choice that will not be denied…Smart security choices is the only way to confront..

“No, I think right wingers are sniveling cowards because they live in constant fear of a terrorist attack. ”
Firstly,name-calling is a trait I associate with eight year old children. Secondly,THERE WAS AN ATTEMPTED TERROR ATTACK SIX WEEKS AGO. Did you miss that? Americans don’t fear terrorists,we despise terrorists. Americans are not fearful,we’re simply being cautious.

Its no wonder this country is going down so quickly. Its being ran by children. You are speaking on behalf of the United States of America and the leader of the free world (a week one) Grow up.

Good GRIEF! That woman is still around?!
Destroying minds wherever she goes. Please sweet jesus, allah, whatever, tell her to go away.

Sigmonde – Ha! Thanks for the correction. My Spanish is way better than my French. The French have too many letters that aren’t pronounced. And I agree with the Coolidge quote.

Boxcar: “Writing 3 or 4 notes on your hand as opposed to having to read entirely off a teleprompter doesnt even come close to comparison..”
…Oh, Boxcar….if you can’t see why it’s funny I can’t make much of a difference here. If you love her, you love her…despite her intellectual and logical shortcomings. She’s not very smart, just a bundle of ambition who got more than her 15 minutes of fame by cosmic accident and simply will not quit. It would really help if she had some actual substance to her.

“Americans are not fearful,we’re simply being cautious.”
No, Americans are not fearful.
Right wingers are sniveling cowards.
These terms are not one and the same not matter how much the right wing likes to pretend they are.

Liken Obama to a very young, attention-getting teen age boy with his extreme facial expressions, his pants hiked up and legs poised as though he was posing for a teen magazine and his teen age jargon “change sing-song voice. He is one of the most annoying people I have ever heard in the longest time.
Please, we are in big trouble if he runs for any other political office and if the American people believe he could be affective in any office.

I want in the worst way to be proud of our President—but his ‘team’ is made up of a bunch of jacka**es. Is this the White House or a Frat House? I’m not sure anymore.

ooops. should have read weak one. Maybe I need a teleprompter.

Laugh & mock now liberals, progressives, Democrats, & Obamabots. Your time is coming when you will laugh no more – in November 2010 & 2012.

Hey Mel Gibson, do you have an original thought you’d like to bless us with? If not, quit wasting everyone’s time.

I get disgruntled by Obama at times, but then I wonder what it’d be like if McCain and Palin had won the election. Ugh!
Palin is a mediocrity whose lionization and subsequent importance — and she HAS gained importance — happened because she was interviewed by Oprah, and so many others — none of who set up interviews with the opposing side, with such as Amy Goodman, Barbara Lee, Cynthia McKinley, Maxine Waters, etc. They, too, have strong personalities — but with facts to back them up.
And anyone who says that Obama hasn’t “done anything” should take strong note of the Republican reactionary obstructionists, who have kept him from succeeding.
Tom Hartmann asked two years ago for anyone to call in and state anything the Republicans have done that was progressive and for the common people; in all that time there was only one who could answer, and that was they backed the amber lights warnings.

Who is the idiot here?? We have the person speaking for our “leader??” stooping to a grade school level??? Give me a break!!!

Gibbsy…you are an absolute wonder…a disgrace to some cool people over the years who held the position the POTUS stuck you in, but candidly, I wish you would do what you are supposed to do in a professional, pleasing manner. If you told me WW3 broke out, do you know what I would do? Why, just wait for your humorless punchline. Hate to say it, but you are somewhat of a farce.

“The results tend to change quickly. ”
Independents are leaving Obama in droves. He won election with the independent vote. Independents are no longer hoping but are changing.

“Two brigades is 8,000 troops. Obama has ordered 42,000 troops to Afghanistan.”
Hmm, exactly what the Republicans demanded he do. Sad to see Obama repeat the mistakes of the last administration. I had higher expectations.
We’ll be out of Iraq by mid-2011 (except for the inevitable “advisors”). Of course, we never should have been there in the first place.

Sarah Palin is a smart girl.
Her presentation is outstanding.
She would make an outstanding leader
in this country. All take notice.

Did you hear the baboons in the press corpse laughing along with Gibbs.
..and they wonder why the public holds them is such contempt

chris…”Your blantant prejudice aside.” This has nothing to do with character assignment as you are clearly trying to imply…Try taking the emotion out of your response and you may actually well, learn something…Try reading William F Shughart II paper entitled, Terrorism in rational choice perspective and …wait for it….you just may be enlighten to other views is that not the “progressive way.”

It’s funny because The Half Term Princess had previously made such a point of dissing the President for using a teleprompter. She is blissfully, ironically, and comically unaware that she is throwing stones while living in a glass house.
Posted by: NovShmozKaPop
So you are saying that reading a pre-written speech from a teleprompter is the same as having a few talking points jotted down on your hand?
I’m guessing you don’t do much public speaking.

I find it painful to listen to Sarah Palin until I actually do listen and the woman makes alot of sense. I can’t stand listening to Barrak Obama when he has no credibility with the American people any more, he’s been lying since the beginning of his term. What’s the point of listening when he doesn’t speak the truth or do what he says he’s
going to do. Sarah Palin has intergrity, and it shows.

What I find discouraging in all this is that we continue to look to our political parties and politicians to solve our problems. They have no vested interest in doing so. IMHO, they create,or at least extend, problems for selfish political gain (remember the S & L fiasco?). They don’t care about you except around election time. Then they promise you anything to get you to vote for them. Once elected, they don’t need, or want, you any more. They are all beholden to the big bucks corporations that paid to get them elected in the first place. I don’t care which party you talk about. They are both the same. Until we sheep stand up and take responsibility for ourselves back from this collection of morons we’re doomed to continue this stupid name calling amongst ourselves – just what the corporations and politicians want us to do.

“Sure, it would be easy for the WH to ignore Palin. Just as it has ignored the will of the people.
Why shouldn’t the WH ignore close-minded people like Palin? After all, Palin not only ignored Alaskans, she turned her back on us and quit when things got a little hot. Last thing we need in the WH is a quitter, we need someone that will stick around and fight for the needs of the people like President Obama, not tuck tail and run like Palin did.

“What will all of you be saying one year from now when you have control, again, and your class of proven losers screws things up even more?”
Americans will say “the people have spoken and we want no more of Obama and his destructive policies”.

Look at all the cryin’ here over mean
ol’ Robert Gibbs! The Right can dish it out but they sure can’t take it.

Parallax View sez: “Try reading William F Shughart II paper entitled, Terrorism in rational choice perspective and …wait for it….you just may be enlighten to other views is that not the “progressive way.”
Thanks for the reference. I’ll look it up. I’m always interested in understanding all sides of an issue. In return, I suggest you consider picking up a copy of “Three Cups of Tea”, by Greg Mortensen. You, in turn, might learn something about the people of Afghanistan.
BTW, I consider myself a “social liberal” but “fiscal conservative”. I can’t find a single party that represents my views.

It is inappropriate,unprofessional and unethical for a Presidential Press Secretary to mock opposition political figures. It is the same type of abuse of power Obama displayed when he tried to exclude Fox News from White House interviews.

“You can start with most right wing media personalities. ”
OK. Which right wing media personality is not a sniveling coward, then, if you think most but not all are that way. Thanks.

To my deceased little aunt who quit her teaching job to join the army as a private in WWII only to spend all her time going through all the bombings in London, I am so glad you are not alive to see how juvenile, sophomoric, disrespectful and punitive the people are that occupy the white house and “run” your wonderful country.

I am so glad you are not alive to see how juvenile, sophomoric, disrespectful and punitive the people are that occupy the white house and “run” your wonderful country. ——– No worries, bud! Bush left office in 2008!

“OK. Which right wing media personality is not a sniveling coward, then, if you think most but not all are that way. Thanks.”
You would think such a thing would be easier to list but it may take me some time to come up with one.
How about Ann Coulter?
To be a transgendered person in a sea of right wing hatred has to take some stones.

In the event Gibbs steps down, there are spots open at a myriad of comedy clubs in Manhattan. The material isn’t clever enough for SNL.

I personally believe that the Witch of Wasilla will hand President Obama another term on a silver platter. That’s mighty nice of her, don’t you think? :)

Frankly I think we should turn the whole mess over to women. We men have certainly screwed the pooch since the beginning of time. Let them have their chance. It can’t be any worse that what we men have done. It’s happening anyway. Women now make up more than 1/2 of the workforce and graduate more bachelors, masters, and PhD students than men by a long shot. Why not just call it quits guys?

“I personally believe that the Witch of Wasilla”
I think we can all make fun of Palin without resorting to sexist language.
Just remember that moron is gender neutral.

Recent polls show that 63% of people still like Obama! And recent polls show that 60% don’t think Palin is qualified for political office! I don’t care how many unimportant books she sells, how many tv appearances she does, the bottom line is: in 2012 the Republican party won’t even back her! You can’t change the stripes on a zebra! She is out and out stupid and a liar to boot!

At least she is only using notes to be sure she covered all the points she wanted to cover. Obama can not even talk to grade school students without a teleprompter. Who do you think is smarter than a 5th grader?

As a Chinese citizen I must say we are really fond of the Republican Party. It is the only party that cares for China, & will allow Daiwo Corp to fund their elections. All this while, ignoring the basics (healthcare, job security) for your people). We want the Republicans to win the next election! The quicker you win, the faster we rise and take over your country. The lack of investment in your educataion system already shows. A majority of the Science and Math graduates are Chinese (or Indians). So while the Republicans and the Tea Partiers’ ignore the role of science (evolution and tech) we will continue to beat you.
Waiting by the wayside…for another 20 years of Republican rule…for the final nail in the USA’s coffin…
A Proud Chinese Citzen

Mike d. Sorry Mike, the myth about Obama and the teleprompter in front of a class is just that, a myth. But don’t let facts get in the way of your opinions.
There are plenty of valid reasons to criticize Obama . This isn’t one of them All it does is make me ignore the opinions of those who continue to repeat it.

Gibbs isn’t worth a comment.

Even better….some businessmen got together and put up a big billboard with a big ole picture of President Bush saying…..miss me yet? That should tell the WH how America really feels.

Witch of Wasilla….LMAO!

Hey “Chang-bo,” why don’t you tell us about the money which your government illegally poured into the Clinton-Gore campaign? Did you forget about that already? Such a convenient memory you seem to have.

“sarah is a happy mother who does it all. name one liberal women who can make that statement.”
Hillary Clinton who is now the Secretary of State and one of the most powerful women in the country, whose daughter graduated from Oxford and should marry soon.

Jenny continues to miss the point. Corporations pour money into EVERY POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. It doesn’t matter which party. Both parties have been bought; lock, stock, and barrel by multi-nation corporations. Is that so hard to see?

ryanc i agree with you i like hillary and wish she was the prz.she is a conservative moderate democrat that i can support and did. the key is conservative moderate. i am tired of extremes on either side.

i am tired of extremes on either side.
Amen catman.

Bo: of course the Chinese put money into the Clinton Campaign. But what we gave to Mr. Bill Clinton was peanuts compared to what we dole out every year to the Republican lobbyists and think tanks. And w/the Sup. Ct decision, we are going to flood it with US Treasury bills into Sarah Palins campaign (or any other viable Republican’s campaign)!! Go Republicans!! China loves You!!
There is so litte you know my dear Amerincan friend Bo.

This administration is evil.

If you think Palin is a legitimate leader, you need professional mental health treatment. To compare her to HRC is an insult to all working women who are accomplished and educated. Did it take HRC 8 years and 4 schools to graduate college? No it didn’t.

“Liberals like to say that the teleprompter in front of the classroom was a myth. We all know it’s true, so you saying it’s a myth doesn’t make it so”
No its a myth because it did not happen.
Obama addressed the press using a teleprompter but did not do so when speaking to the children.

Hey Gibby, how about your boss calling Corpsmen CORPSE men.
Hardy Har har. Obama is a joke and so are you Gibbs. Enjoy your 3 years because America is going to vote your JOKE boss OUT!!!

bo – Are you saying that Obama addressed the elementary kids with a podium and a teleprompter? Unless you have proof, you are just repeating a rumor.

This guy just lowered himself to the level of a 3rd grader.

I miss Tony Snow.

“Sorry Chris, but the fact is he did. Google Obama teleprompeter 6th grade to see the picture and video.”
I did.
Got this AOL story
“Here’s what is true. Obama did bring teleprompters along for his Jan. 19 visit to Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va. They were set up in a classroom where the president made a statement to reporters about expanding his Race to the Top program to improve schools. That happened after he chatted with the sixth-graders in a separate classroom — with no teleprompters.”

“Obama never said 1 or two brigades a month and the drawdown of troops in Iraq has already begun. ”
You are lying. Here is what Obama said in Chicago on October 02, 2007:
I will remove one or two brigades a month, and get all of our combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months

ryanc…hilary knows the moderate game from her husband. she knows that peole vote their pocketbook and she knows from experience that messing with healthcare is a loser. she is more pro business and i like war hawks. i like hilary but would rather look a palin.

Wow. I thought the Obama Administration was supposed to be enlightened, intelligent, amazing… frankly, this demonstrates their profound fear of Sarah Palin. The more people make fun of her – the more power she will have. A smart, crafty, fearless, conservative, freedom-loving woman. What more could you want?
Oh… not only that, but: she just very well may be the only one who can save the U.S. from certain death under spiralling socialist policies that dismantle and denigrate the constitution.

whether you like obama or not…gibbs is a divisve idiot and the president could do much better. in fact pelsoi reid gibbs emmanual axelrod….are not doing obama any favors

Matthew E – do you know what socialism is? If so, please give me one single example of the Obama administration enacting a socialist policy. Just one.

Gibbs, KEEP YOUR DAY JOB!!
It’s more funny when Palin does the “Palm Reading”… after the Couric interview, what else would you expect from the lady who thought she was “qualified” to be VP because she could see Russia from her back yard.
After the elections, I was sad because I thought the Palin comedy routine was done…. but she just keeps coming back! “Encore, encore… bravo, bravo!”
:-)

ryanc…i know the clintons well enough to know they say one thing and do another. the clintons know ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID. i dont worry about sounding stupid i am very comfortble in my own skin.

ryanc…hilary would not be stupid enough to push health care, tax increses, cap and trade while losing jobs in a terrible recession. thats the diferrence,SHE HAS COMMON SENSE.

Sarah can’t either she used the Teleprompter with JM and she used Notes for the ghostwritten speech on Saturday… Then she had penned in answers to pre selected questions she should have known the answers toooooooooooooo!
SARAH USED A TELEPROMTER AND SHE DOESN’T DO ANYTHING FROM MEMORY…B/C WE ALL KNOW THE OUTCOME……. GIBBERISH!

The funny thing is, this is really Obama speaking, making off the cuff smart-ass remarks, degrading people, etc. Gibbs is merely the Pillsbury Dough Puppet Boy sent out to do the dirty work. But, at least his mentality level suits the job.

Gibbs is an egotistical jerk and a total embarrassment to his position but I guess that we should not expect any better from this non performing administration. Keep your day job or better yet get one that you can adequately carry out.

“ryanc…hilary would not be stupid enough to push health care, tax increses, cap and trade while losing jobs in a terrible recession”
ROFLMAO!
Yeah because her husband certainly never attempted such during rough economic times during his administration…oh wait.

New York Post story. “Poll Shows Voters Abandoning Prez in Droves — President Obama’s overall approval rating has sunk to a new low — and independent voters who propelled him to the White House have gotten downright sick of the job he’s doing, according to a devastating poll released yesterday.”
Gibb is just trying to change the subject to something irrelevant about a private citizen (yes, a former governor and now a book author).
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“I finally met Miss Right, but I didn’t know her first name is ‘Always.’”

ryanc…evry candidate made health care a central issue…then the great reccession happened. i have posted ad nausem that there is no money to do this and it wont happen until we can afford it. guess what i probably right.the truth seems awfully hard for you to handle.

Enjoy the show! I’m waiting for Palin to finally get to Obama himself.

“ryanc based on your responses you appear to be soley an obama supporter rather than a democrat.”
Why?
Because I defend Hillary Clinton from your mischaracterizations?
That’s odd.

Ah yes, this administration and politics in general seems to have turned into junior-high school maturity levels. Mr. Gibb’s boss reads his speeches word-for-word off a teleprompter, but yet he attempts to mock her (btw – he’s about the 20th media personality to do this….way to be original Mr. Gibbs). Yeah, I can tell President Obama wants to get past the “petty” politics. Apparently, he hasn’t communicated this to his staff.

ryanc…you defend obama against a moderate like clinton.she would have been the better president at this time. if were rolling in dough i could support some of obamas wishes, but were not.last year should have been spent securing jobs instead of listening to pelosis words of wisdom.

If he makes fun of Palin with a few
words written down, what must he think
of that dolt Obama who needs a teleprompter to speak to 6th graders??
I wish someone had the gonads to ask him
that question.

So let me get this right. It’s ok to mock the president, but he’s not allowed to shoot back when you are exposed as a hypocrite?

Jimbo @6:38 –
You got that right about Trig (and the rest of it). That child has been used and abused as a political prop from the moment she announced her fake pregnancy (five weeks before the most bizarre delivery story ever told), all the way through the campaign, book tour, and every other chance she get. Her fans eat it up because they’re more concerned with right to life in the womb than out of it.
When the truth gets out (and it will), watch her bots try and spin this major fraud she has perpetrated into something pure and noble. Sarah won’t disappoint them in her next role as martyr in chief.

Have to laugh…ol’ Palin was making fun of the Obama supporters during her Tea Party appearance, i.e., “Hows that ‘Hopey-Changey’ working out for you?”
Now that the administration is striking back in their own comical way (you have to admit, Gibbs was funny)…. all the Palin supporters are up in arms calling Gibb’s joke, “3rd grade”… LMAO!
Well all you “Forrest Gumps” (Palin supporters), only one thing I have to say to “ya’ll”…. “what’s good for the goose is good for the gandor!!!!”
Hehehehehehe…. GREAT JOB GIBBS!

ryanc..glad to hear you like hilary.so do i and will support her in 2012.

Toni – I already looked at that URL. It clearly states the Obama sat down with the kids and spoke with them. It had video to prove that no teleprompter was used when talking with the kids. Then he went to another room to give a formal speech to the reporters where he did use a teleprompter. I have seen NO evidence from the people who claim he used a teleprompter when talking with the kids.

ryanc…why do you think liberals rejected hilary…i think its because obama was considerably more liberal.which is point. hilary is more conservative than obama will ever be.

I hope Obama uses teleprompters, I hate to think the leader of the free world spends his time memorizing speeches. Plain on the other hand can spend her Governless days doing whatever she wants.

wis134 – why are you spreading a lie that “Obama who needs a teleprompter to speak to 6th graders.” It has already been disproven in this discussion. Or are you one of those that think it just needs repeated frequently to fool others that don’t know the truth?

Sarah Palin gives a 45 minute talk to a receptive audience using four words as a reminder written on her hand. Obama takes questions from the opposing party for 90 minutes with no notes or teleprompter.

Gibbs Slammed the “Crazy Woman with the Telepalm”……hehehehehehehe.

Palin is a disgrace to America.She has to go home and take care of the family

As long as the republicans in our government are stooges for the republican idiots in their base I will diss any republican who thinks Palin has the sense to teach spelling in any school. She is so determined to attack the things that would help the country. She is just another shrieking neocon to work up their haters.

The President and the Deomcatic Party and the Media must be afraid of Palin…they keep taking pot shots at her…the must fear her!!!!

President Obama is so much more intelligent than all the republicans who can’t talk about anything but his use of teleprompters. I am so proud that we have an honest, decent and very smart president fighting against republican stupidity.

“How petty has this administration become”
On the other hand the mocking “hopey changey” derision wasn’t actually petty. There’s a underlining level of nuanced sophistication people outside of Alaska don’t seem to understand.

Sarah Palin can laugh at herself whereas Robert Gibbs and the administration (Rahm)seem to enjoy pointing out other peoples faults.

“How petty has this administration become”
On the other hand the mocking “hopey changey” derision wasn’t actually petty.
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That’s the problem with the Republican right – derision is fine for them to use to attack the President and the Democrats; but as soon as Democrats fight fire with fire, the Republicans start whining and pointing fingers.

I checked out “hopry chngey” in Websters, it’s not listed.

Isn’t it funny. His boss can’t even talk to 1st graders without a teleprompter, and Gibbs is talking about crib notes. Thats as bad as Obama still pushing for Health car when better that 75% of the people tell him to stick. It appears that the White House and all that are in it focus on ALL the stupid things. Could that be because there are only STUPID People in the White House.

“Of course, most of you just want to win an argument and could care less about our country”
Well that may indeed be part of the problem Mike. But when right-wingers are saying Americans who don’t agree with them aren’t really Americans where do we start? If they don’t even accept what our country really is how can you expect them to really care about it?

What I don’t understand is..WHY does anyone in their right mind give this woman any credence? She still reminds me of a Little hometown cheerleader, preping for the Big college game. Please lets move on to more important issues than s. palin.

God help us If Palin ever gets to the White House. I for one am glad for our country not to be a laughing stock because of our President anymore. He can not fix in a year what took eight years to screw up. I have never voted a straight party ticket but the actions of Palin and others in the R. party and the antics of this past year make me question if I was right to do so.

Scares me to death that anyone in this country truly believes this woman could actually handle the office of president. She couldn’t even finish being a governor. These Tea Party people are a joke.

“Making fun of this, when his boss needs a teleprompter for 1st graders.”
Each time a right wingers tells this lie the grade gets lower.
It started at 6th grade, then 5th then 3rd now its down to 1st.

Wasn’t there a news story about how Obama had to use a teleprompter to have a discussion with his daughters about their allowances? Obama and his entire staff are a joke. One that has been aimed at AMERICANS!

All I have to say about Robert Gibbs comment is UMM UMM Ummmmmm Ahhhh Ahhh Ummm UMM Umm. Not very articulate for a press secretary. He ounds like a moron.

Followers of Palin were told a joke that is STILL FLYING at high altitude over their heads!

Too bad the MSM didn’t bother to show Obama reading off the prompter at the Prayer Breakfast as he said Corpse-man three times instead of Corpsman.
A Commander in Chief that doesn’t know how to pronounce Corpsman?
But that did not make the MSM.
They have his back.
And he’s supposed to be a brilliant orator.

Democracy permits all to speak as they choose, it also requires all of us to analyze political speech and decide if the person doing the speaking is worthy of being listened to. I would suggest that the media should consider whether or not most of us care to have Palin’s speeches splattered all over our news. How about some real news for a change.

Run Sarah run!
We the people also scribble notes on our hands from time to time.
You’re one of us, you connect with us.
When Gibbs, Obama, and those snobby elitist know-it-alls in Washington cut you down they cut us down.
They don’t have enough common sense to realize they are losing voters in droves!

Speak for yourself millie!
Name one politician who wrote on their hand on national television. Name one.

Corpseman
57 states
Teleprompters in a 6th grade classroom
Bragging about a supporter being buried in an Obama t-shirt
But the biggest joke is Obama having a supermajority for a year and accomplishing “jack squat”.
When your agenda stinks so badly that you have to bribe your own party to vote for it–Gibbs has a nerve laughing at anyone.

Who needs to jot down notes on the hand when we can use a perfectly good teleprompter…
Of course one should rehearse to not pronounce words incorrectly, like Corps…You know with the silent “s”…
I love how this teleprompter mess must be getting to the obama camp if they think using Palin jotting down notes is going to change the fact that he can not speak without it…
Liberal is as liberal does…

To funny…the teleprompter king whinning that Palin wrote a quick note on her hand.

This guy is a laugh a minute. Why give Palin so much attention? Worry about being a press secretary, not a comedian.

America.. This is you current White House at it’s best. Like 2 year olds. it starts at the top.

I love the fact that Palin can’t talk without having a telepromter or type writtern notes.
TAKES ME BACK TO HER RESIGNATION SPEECH WHICH SHE DID WRITE ALL BY HER LIL OLE SELF. LMAO…
Palin doesn’t do anything from memory – name one Politician who spoke without a prepared speech either on paper on using the lastest (telepromter).
Name One Please!

Palin only needed bullet point notes to carry on an articulate conversation, as compared to Obama needing the full speech written out on a teleprompter so as not to sound like a stuttering schoolboy. Bushleague move by Gibbs, shows lack of class. I hope they keep it up, as it shows them as the elitist pigs they are.

Joe,
Check your facts. President Obama didn’t use a teleprompter to talk to 6th graders. You have seen a picture that your party photo shopped to make it look like he did. Look it up.

Gibbs reeks of arrogance..good choice to speak for Obama.

Its too bad people cant give a lady any respect, unless the lady is a liberal.

This from a guy that starts every sentence with uhhhh, ummm, uhhh, I, I, uhh, ummm.
And takes forever to complete a sentence, then doesn’t answer the question.

Its too bad people cant give a lady any respect, unless the lady is a liberal.
Posted by: Archie | Feb 9, 2010 9:07:15 PM
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Palin began her national `career’ at the Republican convention with RIDICULE – she ridiculed Obama for his work as a community organizer.
She continued her career of ridicule the other night.
When you deal out ridicule, expect some back. She doesn’t have the brains to carry it.

Sarah Palin has become the female Rush Limbaugh. It’s just that simple. No ideas of how things should be done. That would expose how little she knows.. But lots of bashing and folksy sort of criticism.

Ummm…Obama can’t speak without a teleprompter? Uh, hello? Didn’t you see the meeting he just had with the Republican Reps? You can bet that he didn’t have those questions handed to him before hand. Oh, I forgot, the people who watched Fox News didn’t get the full story. They edited it! Just like they did the John Stewart interview. What a laugh. Try watching something with a different point of view from your own once in a while.

“They are creating this huge following for her”
It works just as dramatically the other way round too. Palin is one of the biggest fundraisers for the Democrats.

I saw where Ex. Gov. Palin used quite a few notes and the palm of her hand to keep notes. I believe all speakers use Teleprompters or notes, if wise, to speak to the public. When you do not use either, then it leaves room to really confuse yourself as well as the public. We the audience do not see the teleprompter when in use…but do see the shuffling of notes. As far as fear of Palin…when someone wants the sitting Pres. to declare War on Iran, can not give you the name of one of our Forefathers and does not know the difference between N. & S. Korea…we better think again about her as President. There should be fear due to the uneducated advice given!

Nonsense. In the Q&A with the Republican caucus, the President spoke at length without teleprompter OR NOTES – and he mopped the floor with the Republicans.
The exchange is still available on the White House web site. Check it out. Or check out ANY of his interviews with the media, or his media conferences.
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The Republicans know they’re being used by Obama to score political points, he doesn’t really want bi-partisanship, if he did, he would have asked for the GOP to help draft the health care legislation last year. He still thinks that the people only don’t like the health care bill because of the backroom dealing, so he’s running interference by trying to shame the Republicans into selling out cause he can’t get his own party to pass it on its merits. There is plenty of non-Obama-approved video of Obama mispeaking, you won’t find any raw video on the whitehouse site – duh.

@tyler
Wallace! Did you actually see the interview? She sounded scripted and like a 3rd grader – rambling in all!
Palin has never sat down for a legitimate, on the record interview by a legitimate MSM journalist. Probably never will, unless the journalism community forces the issue.
Sarah is not going to run… She doesn’t like to answer questions without being prepped on Fox news. However, she needs to be stopped spreading hatred among the American people. She is like a terrorist. Sarah is having fun by being divisive and mean-spirited without having any solutions to back up the crazy rants and one-line slogans. While along the way, trashing the President for using a teleprompter (that she used many times on the campaigned trail), Palin clearly READ her speech verbatim on the podium while having additional notes scribbled on her hand for the prepped Q&A. Is there any end to her hypocrisy?

Energy, Tax cuts, Lift America’s spirits
I’ll take those six words any day than the BS Obama reads off his pet teleprompter.
“We are the ones we are waiting for”
“The oceans will stop rising, the planet will heal”
“Hope and change” “A righteous wind”
Complete BS.

How childish for such person as Mr. Gibbs to do this? He is acting as a boy in school pulling a girl hair out, not like intelligent man from White House. I have nothing to say about this politician. He is putting himself down saying this remark.

From a guy who works for a guy who is fixated on his blackberry 24-7… it seems truly perverse to go after someone who uses the original palm pilot.

This President is light years ahead of Palin in terms of intelligence and articulateness.
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Elitist. Got it.
Posted by: motterman | Feb 9, 2010 9:24:20 PM
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Sorry, I refuse to vote for Palin just because she’s dumb.
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Makes no sense since you admitted voting for obama…obama is what a genuis? Or is that elistist…I guess if you consider having a super majority and unable to pass any legistlation genius, then he’s really above average…
You betcha…

Sorry, I refuse to vote for Palin just because she’s dumb.
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She’s criticizing this administration’s handling of certain issues, she hasn’t really shared a platform yet, despite hanging out with the Tea Party movement. Besides, if you want to talk stupid, Obama’s health care plan doesn’t pass the say it out loud test. Go ahead, say it out loud – “Let’s put the government in charge of health care.” On what planet does that really sound like a good idea?

The whole thing is a joke. Can’t believe it.

“Let’s put the government in charge of health care.” On what planet does that really sound like a good idea?”
“Let’s leave big greedy insurance companies in charge of health care.” On what planet does that really sound like a good idea?

Palin would be a better president than Obama for one main reason.
She connects with people and I believe she would listen to us.
Obama thinks he knows what is best for every human, plant, and animal on Earth.
He totally ignores what we think.
That’s why people are so angry.
It’s all about him.

When your administration is rated a failure by most of America I guess that tends to make the staff act out.
Posted by: kandy | Feb 9, 2010 9:41:29 PM
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The President’s approval rating remains steady at about 50%.
It’s actually above 50% in all areas of the country except for the south – figure that out.
President Reagan’s approval rating dropped to 35% in his first term.

It’s all about him.
Posted by: bailey | Feb 9, 2010 9:46:34 PM
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Nonsense. This President’s approach is all about applying principles, common decency and intelligence to the problems faced.
You’re still thinking back to the Republican neo-con era – when it was all about THEM.

What a small man. But what can you expect from someone who has no lips.

“Let’s put the government in charge of health care.” On what planet does that really sound like a good idea?”
“Let’s leave big greedy insurance companies in charge of health care.” On what planet does that really sound like a good idea?
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How you get “Health care is broken” therefore “Government takeover is the answer” is the real issue here. It’s simply madness.

The President’s approval rating remains steady at about 50%.
It’s actually above 50% in all areas of the country except for the south – figure that out.
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Race Card for the win!
Useless carrying on any further, I’m clearly racist for not drinking the Obama Kool-Aid.

50,000 comedians out of work and Mr. Gibbs is cracking jokes?

Americans for Palin have to be paid bloggers. There is no other logical explanation as to why you would support her candidacy for president! McCain what were you thinking????????????????

Comedians will soon find the job if some dumbos who miss legs come out on mainstream media and attack those who miss fingers..lol
Unless Americans really wanna pass a civic test order in order to prove their allegiance and patriotism to the country.
Unless Americans believe War on IRAQ and if possible RUSSIA is criteria on staying in the white house.

But she will just move along collecting money for spewing slogans and taking no action. She won’t run. Period….
The republican’s will tear her apart. Run on as a third party she will be touce there too! Some others are planning to run – so she will have to debate and we all know how she makes no sense when she off script… She will never run..She continue the clown show of poking fun at the president and when the republican’s(my party)throw her out she’ll turn on them too

“NO NAME CALLING PLEASE!NO OFFENSE LANGUAGE PLEASE”..Free speech has its limits.if it exceeds it is more like honey being a poison.

I really take offense with all the palin bashers.
You guys are really missing on the sight of snow bikes escorting a president in the history of America.That is what real fiscal conservatism is all about.This is what Rush Limbaugh wants to see in his vision of America.DONT QUESTION him if he seeks medical treatment in HAWAII rather than Alabama or New ORLEANS.
By the way has any republican presidents ever said no to “cadillac”escorts?Has any republican candidates for president ever said no to “cadillac”escorts”?Sarah Palin is the only one who is gonna say that .so let us vote for a real fiscal conservative ; others are conservatives in name only.

Karen Travers wrote: “Palin tried to play it off the following day while campaigning in Texas for Gov. Rick Perry (R) with another message on her hand – “Hi Mom.””
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Tried to “play it off”? What she did was simply make the worthless news media look really stupid and made the current fraud president look like the little punk kid that he is.

” BTW, get rid of that clown you have as Press Sec.-he is embarassing the WH.”
Answer is yes. But along with it get rid of Hannity and Beck.They are really sspitting -(dont really know what they spit..but it stinks for those who watch).
Let us come to a bipartisan agreement on this.lol

I am really surprised Gibbs can read or write. You can always tell when he is lying, his lips move.

Is a 50% approval rate, for 1 year of service for a POTUS, a level to brag about (with the amount of discord I have seen, I believe it is lower)?
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Given the economic recession, the 2 wars etc. the 50% approval rating is actually impressive.
President Reagan dropped to 35% approval rating during his first term – largely due to the poor economy.

Posted by: what667
Good effort. I hope somebody listens.

She mocked Obama for using a teleprompter, as if other Presidents have never used this device. Mean while, she 1) was reading her speech off index cards, which is a low-grade “prompter,” and 2) she had to use a “handprompter” for her few pathetic points. All the while, giving one of the worse political speeches I’ve ever had the misfortune of hearing. And this was in addition to her “hopey-change” snide comment, which is a cliched conservative troll sort of phrase. Even, right off the bat, at the 2008 RNC, she mocked Obama for being a community organizer.
If she can put it out then she should be able to take it.
For the last year, all we’ve heard from right-wingers are childish attacks on the President, and now they are whining when Gibbs has a little fun with Palin’s “handprompter”?
Give me a break.

Talking about Health Care Reform…off subject just a little.
We already have a lot of Socialistic programs already, but people forget that. I guess they would be willing to do without Medicade, Medicare, FDIC, Military, Education, Postals Service, Highways, Utilities, Police, Fire Dept, Trash Pickup, Parks Service, FBI, etc. if they had the choice to lower their taxes so they can take care of all that themselves and not be Socialists.
So what, we pay twice what any other country in the world pays for health care. We would rather spend $10,000 a year on health care than have to pay $5000 in taxes.
BTW: Sarah Palin is a Fool for repeating speeches that she doesn’t seem to read beforehand. Teleprompter and she used one all the time (2008 JM Presendial Run). Low grade (reading speeches line by line)

What double standards .. she can call Obama a terrorist, but heaven forbid if anyone uses the word ‘retarded’.. she has hijacked that word and makes it sound like everyone’s out specifically to insult her son. She makes fun of Obama for using a teleprompter (he who is incredibly eloquent even on impromptu interviews), while she herself needs a handprompter and can’t put two coherent sentences together without a ‘you-betcha’ wink, or name a single newspaper! Even McCain is ruing the day he hired her as his running mate (note how he quietly avoids coming to her defense when the media gets on her nerves… and maintains a suitably low profile instead of trying to hog every podium available). That a section of Americans is even considering her as a President is a matter of extreme shame and embarrassment. What’s wrong with these people? Do they really miss having a President with a low IQ?

the whines about the teleprompter are just sour grapes that the president is an exceptionally good articulator. Every president uses a form of teleprompter. It’s not the prompter, it’s the man who is talking who gets the message across and sounds like he knows what he’s doing because…he does. Their leaders sound like hacks, because…they are. It’s just jealously. Palin has had access to teleprompters and she still sounds dumb as a stone because….she is. It’s not so much that she had notes on her hand, it’s that she’s stupid enough to hold UP Her hand so everyone can SEE the notes WHILE she criticizing someone for using notes is what is so damn funny and so STUPID about her. The women does NOT have a brain in her head. And my, what big hair she has now. What’s up with that?

but heaven forbid if anyone uses the word ‘retarded’—-actually, Rush uses teh word “retarded” extensively and when she was questioned about this, whether she thought Rush should be fired, she said he was “using satire” – in other words, it’s ok to insult “God’s creatures” so long as you’re a republican.

Obama and the Dems should pay attention to getting the nation’s work done rather then childish worrying about who will run in 2012. The Dems had a “veto proof” majority and did zero, zip, nada-zilch, accomplished nothing period. What a waste. And that’s the real problem, the libs who run the Dems don’t tolerate any straying from the lib line. But, the libs couldn’t stop big medicine and insurance from stopping their veto proof majority from passing healthcare. Why? Because the Dems always implode trying to be “pure” instead of pragmatic. Obama offered the Pubs a chance to participate today, much to the chagrin of the lib wing of Dem party.
Palin doesn’t have a snowballs chance , but, the ideas she sets froth resonant with many citizens who are tired of the do-nothing Dems.

I think it’s odd that those who think Palin is dumb are the same people who think Obama is a genius! How do you judge a person’s intelligence without some objective measure? Scores, grades, etc. I don’t think we know these things about either one, but the media is suggesting we believe that Palin is dumb and Obama is smart.

Just listen to them talk, especially at interviews where they cannot rely on notes! And see a few interviews to make a consistent image.

Palin is dumb and Obama is smart—if someone graduated Cum Laude from a top school in law and then passes the barr exam it’s pretty safe to say they are very smart. You cannot do that unless you are very smart. Palin flunked out of journalism. She went to five colleges in six years and could hardly muster out passing enough EASY courses to finally get a journalism degree two years after all her other classmates had already graduated. I’m sorry, but as an indication of either being incredibly lazy, or a constant quitter, or just dumb, or all of the above, Palin’s intelligence doesn’t look too good.

“I think it’s odd that those who think Palin is dumb are the same people who think Obama is a genius! How do you judge a person’s intelligence without some objective measure?”………. You listen.

Nephron, if you cherry pick a few misses out of hundreds of articulate talks, even Einstein would sound like an idiot. Don’t do selective listening to prove a point. Obama generally is incredibly articulate (even the republicans agree on that). Palin seems incredibly inarticulate and uninformed when it comes to anything.. she confidently mentioned Africa as a country, could not name a SINGLE newspaper, kept talking of Roe-v-Wade when asked about OTHER supreme court decisions… it’s not a few slipped comments (which all of us are guilty of), but the overall impression you get when listening to her. I would very much like a woman President in the White House… just not her!

She speaks in fragmented platitudes. Take “the words” out of this and simply go on sentence structure and it’s telling. Then there are those odd moments she chooses to raise her voice.

I use notes when I give presentations. It’s not that she used notes, it’s that she is stupid enough to use notes while giving a speech that disses people who use notes, and maybe she could have gotton away with it, if she wasn’t even dumber still, that she HOLDS UP HER HAND so everyone can see that is using notes during a speech in which she disses people who use notes during their speeches!!! It’s almost too funny to be true!

Of course, there are those who will always believe that Palin will need someone to hold her hand. But she does not stand alone. To paraphrase that great gospel song penned by the late Gene MacLellan, she has “put her hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water/put her hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea.” Just so we are clear – the man with that hand is not the “charismatic guy with a teleprompter.” Yet so long as Sarah Palin keeps a firm grip on that hand she will be able to reach out and be received. Meanwhile, liberals will be left to grasp at straws.

joe you slay me. You guys make up stuff. Obama never said a word about the plumber. Your Sarah’s throwing things in a hotel room over this embarrassing gaffe, and plotting revenge. Sarah’s the biggest whiner on the planet – so I suppose you should understand whining.

Yeah Obama the idiot – The God I know loves snarky racist rallies where people yell “kill him” and “sit down boy.” I’m sure the big guy approves of some woman touring the country doing nothing but making a living bashing the President. He’s big into lies too. Yeah, I’m just sure he is. He thinks lying is way Christian. Yeah, whatever.

@ rob High Five… My mom use to say the exact same thing! You nailed it.
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There is a scary tendency for Republicans to make the most incredulous statements. More incredible is that they get elected. South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, running to replace the governor who dissed his wife and family publicly, after going AWOL and turning up in Argentina, recently stated, “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.” This from someone running for governor in one of the poorest states in the US. Neither party seems to have a complete grasp of reality, but this mantra spoken by emboldened Republicans is frightening.
Posted by: Rob Dent | Feb 9, 2010 11:16:54 PM

Doesn’t anyone remember Ross Perot, what he tried to do with Idependents, and so many others, Ross Perot went down the drain like Sarah Will…I worked so hard for Ross Perot and I was so embarassed, and let down by his behavior.

Let’s see Sarah take questions live on TV from the Democratic caucus. I bet FOX would be sweating bullets with their finger over the panic button for that one!

I really feel sad that the tea party people are being used by the republicans and talk show host to only get more listeners and exploit their power and personality…these people enrich their pockets at the expense of independents and others…

tea party people ===They are called “baggers” and the are right wing conservative christians. They aren’t being ‘used’ by the right wing, they ARE the right wing. it’s the same people. there are no indenpendents who follow Palin. If you see a crowd chatning “Run Sarah Run” rest at ease. it’s a winger, I mean, bagger crowd.

I can tell right away who’s a Republican, the ones that think they are always right and won’t listen to anyone but their “own kind”
That’s very extremeist of you, George W. was like that as well. We don’t want an extremely cruel government or any one-sided government, there is more than just this going on in everyone’s heads, it’s not really why you are angry, there is something else entirely. The folks that call people names and complain on here are bullies looking to start a figh and some are using language that shouldn’t be used here.

I think Mr. Gibbs is a sexist pig. I have no kind words for Ms. Palin, but the “grocery” list on his hand seems very sexist. I dare say had it been a man he was mocking for notes on his hand, it would not have occurred to him to write bread and milk. Sexist jerk, as if the men running this country have done any kind of a decent job.

The actions and comments from the WH Press Secretary represent the views and comments of the President and his administration. It is the arrogance and condescension toward critics and potential rivals which is the most telling aspect of this Presdident and his lackeys. This vain man and his dream team of pointy headed intellectuals are in abject fear of Mrs. Palin. With good cause, she represents the majority of Americans, those tired of supporting a government which does not represent their views, protect them or even the Constitution anymore. We will not stand by and watch the this economy be destroyed by the One who promised to save it .

LORI SAID: “I think Mr. Gibbs is a sexist pig. I have no kind words for Ms. Palin, but the “grocery” list on his hand seems very sexist. I dare say had it been a man he was mocking for notes on his hand, it would not have occurred to him to write bread and milk. Sexist jerk, as if the men running this country have done any kind of a decent job.”
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LOL …. let’s see… my wife has ofte called me up at the office and asks me to stop and get a list of things that she needs for a dinner recipe she’s trying out for the evening. In haste, I write the items on my hand.
I guess I’m a “sexist” because of that… LMAO!

Why didn’t Gibbs really have some sport and write “corps” on his hand!
Actually Gibbs may be very smart, but his demeanor denies it! He is just fueling Palin’s popularity with his jabs.

badcafe falls back on the familiar excuse-George Bush did this, George Bush did that.So the smartest politician Barack Obama is no better than the dumbest politician George Bush-where is the logic in that argument? If you are truly a scientist how do you explain his stupid comments about tonsillectomies? I don’t believe his resume includes board certification in Otolaryngology. How do you explain his completely bizarre comments about surgeons doing leg amputations based on a phony fee schedule? If he is so intellegent why can’t he speak a foreign language-despite living overseas for a good portion of his life?Where are his transcripts? Why didn’t he have any undergraduate honors?Why wasn’t he a member of any honor society?Ordinarily people who get into elite professional schools have backrounds that contain those things-but not Obama.How can a man be intelligent when he spouts nonsense like” all economists left and right believe that the stimulus worked”?Why didn’t he get selected for a prominent clerkship?If he was such a great legal mind coming out of Harvard why wasn’t he offered a position by a top legal firm?These are facts-I am sorry if they contradict the myth but there they are.

so what, palin had something written on her hand. so what!!! you have to read your prompts or props or whatever. i would vote for her anytime, at least she had sense to write down what she felt was important to our nation. hell without a calender i would forget important stuff. a woman is what we need to help run this country. and who cares what her kid did, her kid is a kid and palin is a mom. at least she has the heart to stick around for all issues in her life, and the guts to fight the stupid media.

Robert Gibbs is making fun of and demeaning a fellow American. As a employee of the Executive Branch or the President, Gibbs should be neutral. After all, Obama is supposed to be the President of ALL the people. Gibbs’ actions illustrate how much the Democrats fear Sarah Palin. And, those of you who demean her with your comments seem to forget that
under the doctrine of freedom of speech, we all have the right to speak up, and be heard,without the fear of intimidation. Making fun of people’s ideas in order to silence those ideas is contrary to the informed debate that makes for a healthy democracy. What should be eliminated from discussions are the vicious and petty language and the personal attacks.

I’ll keep it simple- I’ve never seen anyone as arrogant as Gibbs in his current position…. He’s a total tool. I would expect he was a big part of the AV Club in high-school and got beaten up on a regular basis.

Posted by: right to speak | Feb 10, 2010 1:22:45 AM
If Palin is going to deal out ridicule of other people – which she began with her first national appearance at the Republican convention – and continued in the recent appearance; she can expect to get back as good as she gives.
Have you watched the Gibbs section? He doesn’t mention Palin by name or the incident.
Palin was far more ugly with her ridicule. She is two-faced.

Its harder to tell who is the most stupid…the monkey in the White House OR….(drum roll) its mouthpiece!!! Keep up the good work

Making fun of people’s ideas in order to silence those ideas is contrary to the informed debate that makes for a healthy democracy. What should be eliminated from discussions are the vicious and petty language and the personal attacks.
Posted by: right to speak | Feb 10, 2010 1:22:45 AM
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but Palin and others do it to the administration on a regular basis. Do your “rules” apply to them also or is this just another pefect example of the right wing doctrine of “do as I say not as I do”?

Mrs. Palin needs to write on her hand, what she needs to remember, she only had to cross out 1 word. All politicians, pundits, former VP candidates, broadcast news and opinion personnel, CEO’s, do the same thing… don’t they.
Writing on your hand, to remind yourself of what you’ stand for’ is a much better option than written notes, teleprompters, or prepared speeches.
Mrs. Palin declares that Rush’s use of the word ‘retard’ is OK as it’s used in a satirical sense. One wonders why Mrs. Palin took such offense at Dave Letterman’s comedy/satire show, after all it’s a comedy show full of satire.
Palin in 2012………
PLEASE, PLEASE, pretty Please

under the doctrine of freedom of speech, we all have the right to speak up, and be heard,without the fear of intimidation
Posted by: right to speak
I wasn’t aware that when you worked for the government you gave up the right of freedom of speech.. and
I also wasn’t aware that the Mrs. Palin was entitled to special rights that prohibited anyone in America from taking exception with her statements, claims, or political attacks.

Where does one have the idea to write “crib notes” on your hand? From learning to cheat in school! Palin is obviously a “Ditzy Blonde Pageant Queen” who doesn’t know her elbow from her… (a-hem) ear & it’s also obvious she isn’t “Smarter than a 5th grader” and that the only way she can get thru anything; school or life – is to cheat, lie & steal!

Could Gibbs be saying this because Obama’s poll numbers have hit an all time low at 44%?

Robert Gibbs Mocks Sarah Palin from White House Podium
On the SAME DAY:
Obama: “The people who sent us here expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics,”
Barack Obama predictably does the opposite of what he says. He is a liar. A continuous liar.

That hopey, changey thing??? How old is she? 5 years old? Hopey, changey thing??? Good Gawd. No wonder her family is so dysfunctional. But it’s OK to say retarded, if you are a Republican, just don’t do it if you’re a Democrat. What an idiot.

Tina fey sucks she is not qualified for anything she is an overpaid and overrated actress, gibbs classless and clueless, which is why he fits into the obama administration they are all clueless, he needs to grow up he was probably a geek who got beat up in high school all the time. It’s better to occasionally write notes on your hand than to always read off of a teleprompter like obama. Oh and I think the hope changey thing is hilarious and not childlike palin was trying to make a point. can’t wait till obama is out of office he sucks

My friends (they aren’t wonks) seemed to think that Tina Fey’s Palin was really Palin talking.. e.g. they would say.. did you hear what Palin said.. when they were clearly talking about the SNL skits.. I love my buds.. but sometimes they miss the whole point.

The media and talking heads created an environment for public figures that lends itself to canned speeches.. anytime a leader messed up his script or misspoke.. the jumped on them like the hyenas that they are. There is no wiggle room for public speeches.. canned equal safe.. extemporaneous equal political suicide.

I agree.. Gibbs should master his day job.. before trying out for the late night circuit.. he’s either a genius or totally incompetent .. I can’t differentiate.. in this case.

real classy. gibbs is such a smarmy twerp. and what’s worse, writing notes on your hands or not knowing how to pronounce the word “corpsman”? didn’t everyone deride bush for saying “nucular”? so, what’s the difference? i thought obama was supposed to brilliant.

Let’s see the lingering image Palin painted for herself:
1. Governor who quit half way to sign a book deal and be a Fox political analyst and fill her coffers: can’t be trusted!
2. Championed family values until daughter turned up pregnant out of wedlock. Touted their upcoming wedding until son-in-law defected to Playgirl, and then started spouting hatred on him: Would bring a Jerry Springer culture to DC.
3. Went rogue with GOP and picked fights with McCain and aides — NOT a team-player!
4. Can’t speak coherently beyond “you betcha” winks — refuses to name a single newspaper, to answer questions at the debate, and when put in a corner, mumbles incoherently with a few memorized phrases like “Roe v Wade” and “shore up the economy” and “maverick”. Reminds us of the kid in class who had to have cheat sheets for everything!
5. Called Obama a ‘terrorist’ but when anyone anywhere uses the word ‘retarded’ in any context (except Rush!), claims that insults her kids. Claims Rush is satirical but David Letterman is not: will manipulate truth to serve her purpose.
6. Has zero idea of international geography, sadly, like many Americans. Calls Africa a country, no idea of Russia except it’s across from Alaska. Plans to take on warmongering nations, when a comedian masquerading as Sarkozy openly plays a huge joke on her.
This lady does not even have the credentials to be our condo president… and some of you think she’ll be the leader of this nation!! Well, that will do one thing for sure… most intelligent folks I know will probably move away to other countries…. imagine an USA full of Palins, Rush’s, Hannities, Becks and O’Reillys… there’s a scary thought!

While Palin isn’t the brightest in the World, why legitimize her? Why be so petty to stoop to that level? We expect a little more integrity out of the Whitehouse. This entire administration is just poor.

GIBB IS RIGHT! HIS JOB IS PARTLY TO COUNTER LIES SPREAD ABOUT THE COUNTRY BY ELEMENTS LIKE PALIN AND REPUBLICANS! IF ALL SHE HAS ARE LIES, CHEATING, CORRUPTION IN ALASKA, SELLING LIES TO MAKE MONEY ACCROS THE COUNTRY, BLOCKING HEALTH-CARE FOR AMERICAN WITH “DEATH PANEL”, HYPOCRICY AND FOOLERY, THEN SORRY, SHE AIN´T SERIOUS AND REMAINS A JOKE, PERIODE!!

OBAMA/PELOSI/REID CANNOT BE TRUSTED | Feb 10, 2010 7:21:49 AM… “The difference is that Governor Palin didn’t READ from a telepromputer for 45 minutes. Almost everyone who gives a speech makes notes. Obama READS his speeches constantly from beginning to end.”… Palin read from a written speech on “paper” so much for going green!! Let see former President Clinton & Bush used teleprompts, your beloved Palin used a teleprompt during the campaign at least know what you’re talking about. Did the President use a teleprompt during his meeting with the GOP in Baltimore? Think hard!! NO

“This lady does not even have the credentials to be our condo president”
By that logic, neither does Obama…

Just another example of the low class Chicago style politics of this administration.

think it’s funny. palin was silly to have crib notes just as obama must always have a teleprompter, have someone write his speeches which most likely is standard practice regardless of who is potus. neither obama or palin are really qualified to be potus. palin proved it almost immediately while obama has proven it after a year in office. but many thought, maybe just maybe, obama might be able to step up. but obama has failed miserably, to date, but he has 3 years to turn it around. just don’t hold your breath. as for palin, she just won’t go away so best to ignore her unless you love and adore her.

It’s below the dignity of the White House to have the president’s press secretary mocking an American, especially while our country is going through this most difficult period. No class. This is just a PR stunt by the corrupt administration to keep us from focusing on what they are doing wrong! Obama has no real intention of considering GOP views. This is more smoke and mirrors.

Here’s a suggestion Palin; why not use your soapbox to address issues and solutions for the country, stop with your meaningless sound bites; lower taxes, smaller government, nation defense and small business? What does lowering taxes and smaller government actually equate too? Smaller defense budgets, less local/state Government services in education, public safety and first responders? Then this notion of small businesses reviving this economy, small business can’t compete with major corporations who import goods from cheap labor markets (i.e. China, Mexico, India). Why not address the real problem(s) and issues in/with our economy; America no longer manufactures, manufacturing sustained our economy and our relevance in the global economy!! Also, stop outsourcing jobs to Foreign countries and documented workers!! How simple!!

How can we expect true bipartisanship if this idiot mocks someone not even in politics (at the moment)? If Obama allows this idiot to act like this against ANY GOP member, we can’t take him seriously about “meeting them half way”.

I think its great that Gibbs mocks Sarah Palin and the tea party.
The Tea Party is on the march. The People are coming and we will vote obama and all the rest of the socialist slugs out of office along with their lackies like gibbs.
The People are Coming!

For a guy whos boss doesn’t know how to pronounce “corp”, as in Marine Corp, Mr. Gibbs is leaving himself open to more than a little mocking.

Seems to me if Obama had wrote down some of his campaign promises on his hand, he might have remembered what he was going to do when he was elected.

Who will be the next American Citizen that this administration attacks? While MSM laughs

The latest tactic of the West Wing Loonies it to UHHHHHH and ERRRRRR us to total boredom, so watch out as they probably want to use it to their advantage…………uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Axelrod and Gibbs have uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh to be errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr among the worst public speakers errrrrrrrrrrr in the administration…………and…uhhhh…I think….uhhhhhhhhhh we should ignore them both. If uhhhhhhhhhh they can’t borrow a pen errrrrrrrrrrrrrr to write it on their hand uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmaybe the Leader….errrr…will let them borrow a teleprompter………..

maybe if jackass Robert Gibbs spent more time doing something for America (his job)instead of thinking of stupid attacks and trying to be funny we all would be better off another waste of tax payers money.

Fire Gibbs let and replace him with Conan O’Brien

skimming through the comments is like sliding in mire of the bush administration, and from the reading i would bet most if not all voted for the criminal. For those of you that missed the point of UNITED states it means one country. not a divided bunch of school girls. Palin thinks she is still in high school and her history shows it. But you die hard sheep are spooked and fooled by simple things .. sad .. but the truth is coming out i am happy to say.. you will all be sining a different tune about hope-y stuff.

Gibbs is a moron, there is a BIG difference between the dependency President Obama has for the TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) and a few words on Sarah Palin’s palm.
I guess they truly fear her, it shows.

Palin is an hypocritical oaf. She rakes one person over the coals for using the word retard and then gives Rush Limbaugh a pass, cause he’s “different”. She scribbled notes on her palm with a marker like some teenager cheating on a test. Reading from a teleprompter or notes is not a bad thing. Most intelligent people that have ever given a speech of any kind, would realize that. Her folksy diatribe is nauseating. She makes the Republican party look foolish, and herself look ignorant and stupid.

If I was a big Obama fan, I’d hope and pray that Sarah Palin is the GOP nominee for President.

And this moron speaks for obama, seems fitting……

It’s funny to hear/read Palin supporters try to defend the use of her hand with “duh… but the president uses a teleprompter.”
Yes, he does. But it was Palin that kept driving that point into the ground.
Guess what; all kinds of people use a teleprompter. All kinds of people use notes. It’s not a bad thing to use notes.
It is hypocritical, however, that Palin supporters join in her chorus about the ad-hominem approach to Obama’s teleprompter, but then use that same point to defend her.
People that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
You know, I don’t think it would have been as big a deal if Sarah hadn’t latched on to Obama’s teleprompter as a talking point.
Maybe if she had layed off the teleprompter from the beginning, she would have saved herself the embarassment of having to use her hand for crib notes.
All politicians use notes, queues etc., because it’s such a pressure to talk to a mass audience.
Palin’s learning this the hard way.
One thing’s for sure, Palin will never be able to bring up teleprompters again, for everytime she does, the response will be the same; TALK TO THE HAND, Sarah…

I get inscensed when I read comments about Obama’s “socialist agenda.” Look between the lines, people. Almost all his appointments are those who trained under Bush and even Reagan. Is that socialist? He’s bailed out the auto industry and Wall St. Is that socialist? He’s ignored your needs and mine. Is that socialist?
All those people who think so are just echoing what someone else had said; they haven’t been thinking for themselves.
Get off your duffs, go to the library, and read up on what socialism is. It can’t be explained in a small paragraph any more than any other system can be. Try to learn with an open mind. THEN, if you disagree, do it coming from a place of knowledge.
For the record, I started out as an extreme Republican, but slowly, as I saw what was being done under their aegis, I shifted over to the Democracts. And now I’m not happy with them because they don’t live up THAT MUCH to the promise of a better future for everyone. The Republicans only promise a better future for the moneymakers. It doesn’t trickle down, and the beautiful concept of “less government interference” promises, among other things, less inspection of foods, less improvement of roads, no controls on medicines, and I could go on, but you have to do the thinking.
Their concept of rugged competative individualism sounds wonderful; but it’s meaningless.

Thanks for the straightforward report, instead of the IOKIYAR attitude at CBS and NBC/

Please go away; your time is up!

This guy has nothing better to do than mock someone else. He’s getting paid by taxpayers and this is what he does.
Don’t care if it’s a Dem or Rep. Simple fact is that it was childish, and immature. Time to have the president look at the people he surrounded himself with and make some changes. Looks like Chicago in the 20′s

It’s funny to hear/read Palin supporters try to defend the use of her hand with “duh… but the president uses a teleprompter.”
Yes, he does. But it was Palin that kept driving that point into the ground.
Guess what; all kinds of people use a teleprompter. All kinds of people use notes. It’s not a bad thing to use notes.
It is hypocritical, however, that Palin supporters join in her chorus about the ad-hominem approach to Obama’s teleprompter, but then use that same point to defend her.
People that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
You know, I don’t think it would have been as big a deal if Sarah hadn’t latched on to Obama’s teleprompter as a talking point.
Maybe if she had layed off the teleprompter from the beginning, she would have saved herself the embarassment of having to use her hand for crib notes.
All politicians use notes, queues etc., because it’s such a pressure to talk to a mass audience.
Palin’s learning this the hard way.
One thing’s for sure, Palin will never be able to bring up teleprompters again, for everytime she does, the response will be the same; TALK TO THE HAND, Sarah…
Posted by: Joe_in_CA | Feb 10, 2010 6:59:04 PM
Joe you don’t get it! What we Palin supporters admire her for is that she only used a few notes written on her hand for her speech. She didn’t even have a written speech and she did great without one and she gave HER OWN speech, not one that someone else wrote for her! Obama doesn’t write his own speeches and he doesn’t just have a few notes on his teleprompter. His entire speeches are uploaded on the teleprompter for him to read. All he has to do is just stand there and read them! Palin showed that she is quite capable of giving a speech completely on her own without having it on a screen or printed on paper in front of her.

For a president’s mouth piece to resort to childish mocking instead of bringing something of substance shows how out of touch these people are. Sarah wants the people to know that she intends to keep the promises she makes and realizes how close these issues are to the hearts of the people who are looking to her for real hope and truth. Not a carefully crafted teleprompter snake oil pitch.

No, redapplelady, it is not enough said! The point is Sarah showed she didn’t need a teleprompter! She gave a great speech with just a few notes on her hand! She doesn’t need to rely on a teleprompter! She also doesn’t need to have her entire speech written out before her!

redapplelady No I didn’t misinterpret you any more than you misinterpreted my message. I understood you completely but I just don’t agree with you! You are wrong! We do want hope and change but we don’t want to put our country into so much debt that our decendants will still be paying our debts hundreds of years from now. That is exactly what Obama is doing with his spending. We also don’t want the fiasco of a health care reform bill that Obama is trying to force upon us. Our country may need health care reform but not the bill that’s being forced on us. We are fighting that tooth and nail because we know that there has to be something better. And about your opinion that we are hate filled. I guess you haven’t been paying attention for the past 17 or 18 months. NOBODY has been treated more hatefully than Sarah Palin by you democrats! You democrats have been attacking her like a pack of wolves since the minute John McCain announced her as his running mate! Even her children have been attacked, including her little boy with Downes Syndrome. Her daughter Bristol has been called every filthy name that there is and has been accused of sleeping with just about every man in the world. You can’t get more hateful than to attack someone’s children! That’s is something Sarah Palin has never done. She has never attacked anyone’s children!

JimVgirl First, I’m not a democrat, I’m an independent. I’ve voted for candidates from both parties, and I look for a candidate who can see both sides of an issue and who I believe will vote for what is best for our Country, not for their party.
Second, I reread my posts and am saying publicly that I should have worded some things differently. I want to talk the talk and not say things that are not constructive and which do not add to the conversation and put forth constructive ideas. For that I apologize.
None of us wants the debt load that we are carrying. But the truth is, most of that debt was there when this administration came into office on January 20, 2009. The bank/mortgage company fiasco started years ago when the regulations were removed and these companies were allowed free reign to practice risky lending and other poor business practices – and it all came tumbling down around them before the election. This administration didn’t create the problem, they inherited it. Yes, the banks (and AIG – which insures our deposits) were bailed out – it was that or they were going to fail – and millions of people would have lost their retirement funds and savings and checking accounts. What would you have done? Bailing out the automobile companies was tougher for me to swallow, except that I realized thousands of good manufacturing jobs were on the line – job that are held by Americans. Not bailing these companies out would have had a snowball effect – parts manufacturers and suppliers, dealerships and their service centers, and any number of other companies would have meant more untold jobs lost.
The stimulus funds were a good idea in principle, but Congress (both sides) got their greedy hands on it and managed to waste at least a portion of it. It was intended to create jobs, which we sorely need. It not only benefits individuals and families, it also helps our government by bringing in additional taxes that we need to pay for the Country’s business.
Health care is a sticky subject. There are many rumors about what it does and doesn’t do. Hopefully the republicans will add their wealth of knowledge to coming up with a bill that will provide the most benefit to Americans. I’m sure that they have good ideas to contribute and that they can look at what’s been put together with fresh eyes and find the shortcomings in the bills. Continuing to vote no will do nothing except let the insurance companies bankrupt all of us.
As for Sarah Palin, I watch a fair amount of tv – I’ll admit it’s mostly CNN and MSNBC – and I have never heard any of the moderators or their guests say anything untoward ABOUT her children. They have played clips of Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh saying things that I would have washed my kids’ mouths out for. But the moderators I listen to have collectively said that both Beck and Limbaugh had, in so many words, crossed the line. So I’m at a loss as to who you’re referring to when you accuse “democrats” of saying despicable things about Sarah Palin’s children. I really want to know, so please respond to this. “They” must have names.
As for Sarah Palin herself, you and I will always disagree – so it’s probably best to just leave it at that.

Must be tough to suck up to your boss, that badly.

Sarah is an “ass clown”. I have’nt seen anyone write notes on their hands since elematary school.
The woman is plain STUPID!

All you need to know about Obama is the man he chose as his press secretary, Rob -errr – Gibbs. If that’s the best he can get as a front man, God help America. The most inarticulate putz I have ever seen occupying that role.

juvenile.
Mr. Gibbs, you work for the President of the United States. Act like it.

Thanks Sarah for being who you are. Gibbs mean spiritedness showed a lack of judgement which reflects again on the current level of leadership from the WH. Make a mental list of those they demeaned this year, and add the American electorate and your name to the list. The post adolescent arrogance respects no one. Perhaps Gibbs couldn’t think of an issue he disagreed with so he had to get his jollies with this silliness.

I hear that Gibbs is tweeting now. How appropriate for such an enormous TWIT.

“And let us not be weary (lose hope) in well doing: for in due seasonwe shall reap, if we faint (lose hope) not.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked (cant be out foxed, out smarted) For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”.