Posted on 07/22/2008 9:21:37 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
Last night Obama had to field an off-the-cuff question from ABC News: "If you had it to do over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge?"
Well .. there was a small problem. This was not a question that Barack's handlers had prepared him for. He had no script. He had to ad lib, and for Obama that's not good. Sit down folks. Here is Barack's answer.
http://boortz.com/more/video/072108_obama_abc.html
See if you can make any sense at all out of this.
Remember, this is the man who wants to be our Commander in Chief responding to a question dealing with military matters. So ... we at the Nuze are now proud to present Obama's answer to the difficult question "If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge:"
"No, because keep in mind that question, you wouldn't ... but keep in mind that kind of hypothetical is very difficult to know hindsight is 20-20 ... later ... but I think that what I'm absolutely convinced of is that at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with."
Wow! Now that's just amazing! What off-the-cuff eloquence! This guy is really sharp. Now we all know why Barack Obama would still vote against the surge ... the troop surge that worked.
Lordy, folks. We have to get over this mass hysteria and start to get serious about selecting our next president. This is just getting ridiculouser and ridiculouser.
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He said “No, ‘cause Bush is always wrong, no matter what”
Affirmative-action punk playing “President”.
“No, because keep in mind that question, you wouldn’t ... but keep in mind that kind of hypothetical is very difficult to know hindsight is 20-20 ... later ... but I think that what I’m absolutely convinced of is that at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with.”
Say what??
He said: “I am the Great and Terrible Oz! Pay no attention to that man in the empty suit!”
“You will obey!”
Heaven help us if the US elects this clown
Dat right, cause the Kingfish says so.
And don’t think youse gonna git away wit anthin. Let me introduce my lawyer, Algonquin J. Calhoun
See what smoking coke does? It turns your synaps into scrambled eggs.
If he wins then someone is going to have to run the country for him. I’m afraid it will be every lefty radical in the Dim party.
Jesse was right. He was the first legit “black” candidate for President.
Obama is the first affirmative action candidate.
Yes. I believe he was for the surge yesterday, but against it today.
And, yes, if you boil his confusing statement down to a few less confusing words, it comes out: “I hate Bush, so I voted the other way.”
Can't wait for the debates.
McCain can be your cranky old neighbor when he's losing a debate, but turns into a giddy smug knife-twister when he's winning.
I suspect he'll be winning often.
He’s checking his Magic 8 ball for an answer.
I’m sure the McCain camp will come out with a translation/interpretation that makes Obama look good.
Nuze says we need to get serious so why is McCain running for Obama’s VP slot?
OH My GOSH! What a bafoon, we all knew that already but can you imagine saying something like this?
He sounds like he’s running for Ms. South Carolina.
Sorry to insult her.....
And that is exactly what his base wants to hear.
“Heaven help us if the US elects this clown”...
-If the press wants a story, let’s see them write about 65MM white families refusing to pay federal taxes all at once.
-How about “White Flight: How America became a third world nation and Europe became white again, at the beginning of the twentieth.”
As usual, when B-HO has no script he’s completely lost. If a GOP candidate displayed this tendency he’d be poked fun of on a nightly basis by the usual suspects (the MSM, late night talk shows, etc.) and portrayed as “stupid.” But B-HO gets nothing but praise, and embarrassing incidents are duly ignored.
This guy thinks he’s God, since God is infaulable.
He said “No, ‘cause Bush is always wrong, no matter what”
At least that’s what the leftists psycopaths want history to say!
Gabby Johnson: [shouting] The sheriff's a N...[the last word is lost in the peal of a church bell]
Harriett Van Johnson: What did he say?
Dr. Sam Johnson: He said the sheriff is near.
How many debates are scheduled? I've heard varying reports. ....from one to three. Unfortunately I suspect those will be scripted as well. The MSM would never risk B-HO being surprised by a question.
The Thin-Skinned Messiah is going to need to hire a lot of tutors to teach him how to do his job. He has only served a short time in Federal politics.
Guess who gets to pay for this advice? But on the bright side, the Drive by Media will help all the way. /s
If there are debates, I suspect they will be taped with both candidates retaining the right to “revise and extend”.
Both McCain and Obama will be kept on short leashes.
Obambi can’t keep up with Miss Teen South Carolina - at least she probably knows where Kentucky is and how many states there are.
Who coaches this guy, Norm Crosby?
Who cares what he said. The point is that Obama is really clean for a black man. Joe Biden said so.
Or just one...Soros!
Otherwise how do you explain him saying that he had to oppose it because of the "political" events at the time?
In other words = I will say and vote anyway just to win, it doesn't matter if I am right or wrong!
Deserves repeating.
Or maybe it should say,
"Peter-Principle-limited Affirmative-action punk playing 'President'."
Translation.
No, I would not because remember that question wouldn't....(hmmmI better rephrase my opening statement.)
Remember the answer to the question, you ask, that really isn't a true question is hard to answer because I did not know the answer to the question ahead of time, because it happen before now not later.
..but I think therefore I am absolutely infalliable in my assertion, that I had to change the political debate because I wanted to win the democratic nomination and I needed a whipping boy.
Is it clear now????
Look for lumps in Barry’s back and and earpiece like the LibDems accused GWB during the debates in 2000.
Jesse has no problem answering questions without a script. Where is the substantiation for the media meme that Barack is so smart? Nothing that he has said has persuaded me of any great intelligence.
I’m not going to white flight to Europe. There is way too much old stuff there.
There is still lots of empty space in the Rockies!
Amazing! This confirms Obama knows less about the past, despite hindsight being 20-20, than he does about the future. What a maroon.
Somebody set up us the Obama.
Obambi almost makes me long for the clear and concise statements by John F’ing Kerry...
McCain camp bump — make ads out of all these foibles concentrating on
Obama v. Obama.
What he said then. What he said later. What he said today.
Very effective.
Worked with Kerry — right?
This absolutely MUST be put into a campaign ad...but probably won’t be because Mother McCain doesn’t want to seem negative. I thought he took an oath to protect the country “from enemies, both foreign and domestic.”
He needs a presidunce cap.
“hindsight is 20-20”
Tell that to Dan Rather and Mary Mapes who still claim that they were wronged and that they were in the right in running that news story.
1) (as noted) Failure to give credit to the troops and the strategy for the success they clearly have achieved thus far.
2) Obama explains that a reason he was against the plan is because the president was for it. (without respect to wether the plan had merit). This is not congruent with his "not the same old politics" theme.
3) He and his advisers apparently did not foresee anyone asking him this question? He clearly was not prepared to answer it. A third grader would be able to predict someone asking about his perspective now (that he has been there) versus several months ago when the surge was up for vote.
Can we really elect someone this obtuse?
That should be a bumper sticker.
Dan Quayle never said anything so stupid!
That Was Pure GobbledyGook.
He will have to have a corner the size of a foot ball field. And everyone of them will be delegated to do something Obama is not capable of on his own. We will have an administration that looks like the bureaucracy at the unemployment office or the social security office. And NO ONE will take responsibility or own ANY project of issue. The whole crew of losers he appoints will be walking around with their shoulders permanently super glued to their earlobes. Complete chaos will reign. It will be one gargantuan, expensive, irresponsible, do-nothing, governmental cluster f%$#!!!!
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