Lauer picks Obama apart.. leaves only bones behind

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[ConservativeMan55]

Watch the video...

Obama
"Well I think there are a couple of core principles that have to be put into place."

Lauer
"Dealbreakers?"

Obama
"Dealbreakers. I.. I.. think you have to have some mechanism of oversight. You can't give one.."

Lauer
"But both sides agree on that."

Obama
"Both sides agree on that. But.. the.. the administration hasn't been entirely clear on whether they agree with it but, the bottom line is you can't give one person authority over 700-billion dollars without any oversight whatsoever.
So I think that's gonna be important. The second thing that's gonna be important is to uh make sure the criteria by uh which firms participate.. the way it's set up.
So taxpayers get the upside and not just the downside. We want to make sure taxpayers are benefiting. Third principle is.... this can't simply be a bailout for investors and CEO's and shareholders.
They've got to take a hit for the bad decisions that they've made."

Lauer
"But how much time do you have to vet this? The talk is this has to get done in the next week or two weeks.
If you're lucky enough to be elected President..

STOP THE TAPE... OBAMA TAKES A BIG SMILE WHEN LAUER SAYS "IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ELECTED PRESIDENT."
OBAMA LIKE A LITTLE MANCHILD.. "HOLY CRAP.. I COULD BE PRESIDENT.. HEHE. HE'S SMILING WHILE LAUER'S TRYING TO ASK HIM SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS HERE. WHILE WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A FINANCIAL CRISIS THIS BOZO THINKS IT'S SO COOL HE'S COULD BE "PRESIDENT"



Lauer
"If you're lucky enough to be elected President, and it turns out this plan has flaws. They are not going to want to hear from you.. "we were rushed into this" They're going to say you voted yes pal. It's yours."

Obama
"Well uh.. ye.. this is why we've gotta think about this in two phases.
We've got a short term crisis that has to be dealt with in a bi-partison fashion. And then we have a long term structural set of problems we've got to deal with. "

Lauer
"You've laid out an ambitious plan. You want to improve healthcare, you want to improve education.. the infrastructure, investment in energy and.. oh boy
Here comes this 700-billion dollar bill that wasn't apart of your thinking when you laid out this plan. If I'm a voter and I want to decide whether I want to vote for you or Senator McCain..
Don't I have a right to know from you right now which of those things are gonna get hit by the budget axe before I vote for you?"

Obama
"Although we are potentially providing 700-billion dollars in available money to the treasury. We don't anticipate that all that money gets spent right away.
And we don't anticipate that all that money is lost. How we're gonna structure that in budget terms still has to be decided. Does that mean I can do everything I've called for in this campaign?
Right away probably not. We're gonna have to phase it in and a lot of it's gonna depend on what our tax revunues look like.

Lauer
"Part of this whole ecnomic picture was the AIG situation. On Tuesday night the Fed decided to bail them out.
Huge amount of money. That morning prior to the bailout John McCain said that the federal government should not bail out AIG.
You chastized him on the campaign trail. So the message to those voters.. John McCain didn't grasp the scope of the situation and the the fallout from the failure of AIG?"

Obama
"I think what's been clear this entire past ten days has been John McCain has not had clarity.. and and.. a grasp on the situation.

Lauer
"John McCain said that on our program.. to me. Three minutes later in an interview with Meredith Viera.
Joe Biden your running mate was asked the exact same question.
Should the federal government bailout AIG? And he said no. So it looks like...

Obama
"I think in that situation Joe should have waited as well."

Lauer
"But it's the kind of thing that drives people nuts about politics. It sounds like you were trying to score some political points against John McCain using his words.
When your own running mate used very similiar words.

[ConservativeMan55]

I transcribed the first 3:30 of the interview. It's all on the youtube video at the top.

Lauer picked Obama apart. This should be in an AD!! Pronto!

[ConservativeMan55]

ping

[F15Eagle]

Matt Lauer? Isn’t he an Obama worshipper?

[Onerom99]

NBC must be feeling frosty for getting snubbed by McCain/Palin for interviews.

[ConservativeMan55]

You guys wanted to be pinged too!

[ConservativeMan55]

Don’t forget.

He is a constituent of Hillary Clinton.

[llevrok]

Baldino (Matt) will not be asked on The View with tough questions like that!

[ConservativeMan55]

NBC may be feeling kind of embarrassed lately at all the jokes about how they aren’t “real” journalists.

[wideawake]

Wow. Obama got clowned by . . . Lauer? Amazing.

Will Olbermann name his coworker a "Worst Person" now?

[ConservativeMan55]

ping... by the way. :)

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL!

[ConservativeMan55]

ping!

[johniegrad]

Utterly and hopelessly confused. Not fit for duty under any circumstances. No one even asks him about the $700M he wants to give away to Africa. To refer to Osama as a disaster is a compliment.

[ConservativeMan55]

Obama doesn’t stand a chance when it’s even a halfway tough interview.

He’s constantly saying “Hold on. Hold on”

[MrB]

Isn’t 0bambi trying to “vote present” on this one by avoiding being there for a vote?

[F15Eagle]

He nailed him on one thing: Biden said the same thing as McCain.

Obama, shocked at the truth hitting him once again, switches to distraction and ducks the question.

Just like when he played the race card and ducked the Jeremiah Wright question.

Will people see through it and understand the obvious?

[oh8eleven]

OBAMA: We want to make sure taxpayers are benefiting.
I stopped reading right there (not that I would have believed anything else either).

[3AngelaD]

Still not ready for prime time.

[AppyPappy]

Lauer had nothing to do with it. Obama just shit and stepped back in it.

[greatvikingone]

I would like a president who does not say ‘gunna’.

[proudpapa]

OMG! If Obama can’t handle Matt Lauer, how will he handle McCain in a debate.

Note to self: Must get more popcorn.

[listenhillary]

Did Matt rent some steel ones from somebody?

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL!

He was SOOO generic! He cannot answer specific questions.

[Snurple]

LMAO! Obama is done for. This is just the beginning...the media has turned on their mesiah. By turning I mean no more free passes....America has seen their bias...they know its costing them so say buh bye Barry O. lol

[downtownconservative]

Lauer asked a few incisive questions and pointed out some inconsistancies, but failed to followup on quite a few that Obama just skimmed over and failed to answer. I give Lauer a C+/B- for the interview.

[gridlock]

Wow. Obama got clowned by . . . Lauer? Amazing.

Now, if Obama holds to form, he will respond to this insult by giving Sarah Palin the finger on live TV, or some such smooth move.

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL!

Gonna! He says that a lot.

[ErnBatavia]

Life’s a bitch without the teleprompter...

[ConservativeMan55]

What do you give it compared to the O’Reilly interview?

[RED SOUTH]

I think that in Obama’s mind , he doesn’t think he is going to win. He gave off that fake smug smile 3 times.

When Lauer said , if you are “lucky enough to get elected.

2nd time : Lauer asked how he plans to pay for all his proposals with the 700 billion bailout coming.

3rd time : Laurer talked about McCain’s lead with woman and maybe Barry should rethink Hillary on his ticket.

He shoots off the fake smug grin when he has to lie or is asked somthing that is uncomfortable.

[Dacula]

bttt

[CaliforniaCon]

Whoa! Kudos to Lauer, who I usually have little use for, in his holding Obama’s feet to the fire in this interview.

It’s high time a few media hotshots stopped with the pumping up of the Zero and let the public know just how totally vapid and vacuous he is. Maybe Lauer just got carried away — who knows — maybe as a Hillary fan he just could not help himself. Who knows?

Wish I’d seen this myself — but it’s a popular program and one of the few times, unfortunately, that the masses can see what’s really going on here. Yeah, no doubt Olbermann will tag Lauer “worst person.” I’d take it as a huge compliment!

[gundog]

Whyzat?

[Aquinasfan]

"I think what's been clear this entire past ten days has been John McCain has not had clarity.. and and.. a grasp on the situation.

And uh... that's funny! This guy... uh... should have a... um... Vegas act.

[Soliton]

Lauer basically tells Obama, “You were a fool not to pick Hillary as your running mate.”

[ConservativeMan55]

Yep!

The teleprompter can’t answer for him.

[dfwgator]

Just remember:

NBC = Nothing But Clinton
ABC = Always Back Clinton
CBS = Clinton Broadcasting System
CNN = Clinton News Network

Build Barry up, tear him down, then say “We Told You So, Should’ve nominated Hillary”

[goodwithagun]

Hillary is not using hers right now.

[thingumbob]

No doubt an attempt to re-establish his credibility before O’bomber looses the election.....or maybe he has to renegotiate his contract....nahhh...it’s the first one.

[N. Theknow]

Did Matt rent some steel ones from somebody?

An unnamed source at NBC said that when he went by Lauer's dressing room, the door was slightly ajar and he caught a glimpse of a pod.

Also noted that one of Lauer's pinkie fingers does not bend.

[CaliforniaCon]

Re: “I would like a president who does not say ‘gunna’.”

AGREE! He slaughters the English language daily — even WITH the teleprompter. I find myself picking apart every sentence, and then there are the “ums, uhs, ands, ahs, hold ons,” and more.

Oblahma is pathetic and not ready for daytime much less primetime! The public has just got to recognize this, unfortunately a huge portion will not as they don’t want to do so, or are not capable of recognizing the myriad problems with The Zero.

[JavaJumpy]

“Matt Lauer? Isn’t he an Obama worshipper?”

That was my first thought exactly!

I just heard on our local newscast that while both parties have had some play in the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae situation, the Democrats are largely to blame for this debacle because of actions taken during the Clinton administration (according to their reporter from DC).

I about fell over. I guess it really is crunch time!

[mwl8787]

this is just patty-cake on behalf of NBC... they could care less about their bias - they are just trying to provide some modicum of cover for themselves.

anybody who thinks MSM is gonna turn on BO, I have a handsome suspension bridge in NYC for sale....

[Plutarch]

The interview wasn’t that tough, nor was is it disastrous to Obama.

[downtownconservative]

O’Rielly gets a “C”. I have yet to hear an interview of Obama that did not fail to ask multiple hard questions or questions that followed up the spin-nonanswers. Obama has always gotten a pass. The interviewers seem to always be enablers and, like Lauer, almost aplogetic for asking the occasional probing question.

[GWMcClintock]

...or receiving the questions in advance!

[ConservativeMan55]

Didn’t come out too good for Biden.. LOL

[padre35]

Nice...it would appear that the News side of NBC at least is going through the motions, as for Baldilocks, who cares?

AFAIK, he is still looking for packets of Ketchup at the Rockefeller Center..

[Bahbah]

Thanks, CM.

[JavaJumpy]

“AGREE! He slaughters the English language daily”

In his latest ad in Ohio, he doesn’t slaughter it at all. I guess Ohioans - who are supposed to be so typically bitterly uneducated - want to hear proper English, too. Especially those middle aged, white, female Clinton supporters who are REALLY supposed to be uneducated.

Who knew?! :)