CNBC's Deutsch: 'You Need a Commander in Chief That's Going to Give the Country a Hug'

NewsBusters ^ | November 4, 2008 - 21:05 ET * [Email this to friend] * [Printer-friendly version] | Jeff Poor

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This just in: Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama makes us feel better. That's the way marketing guru and host of CNBC's "The Big Idea" Donny Deutsch sees it.

Deutsch appeared on CNBC's Election Night coverage to explain how the country needs a hug and Obama was just the right guy to do - in his psychoanalysis of the nation's temperament.

"I'm going to go back to his dad," Deutsch said. "I'm going to go back to his dad - I think people are looking for a kinder gentler nation. I think whoever gets in there - for two reasons - number one, we've got two countries, so nobody is getting in with 58 percent, 42 percent - whatever the Electoral College goes. We all know it's going to be a few points. Secondly, you have a frightened populace right now. We all know that - we've been calling that for the last eight weeks. And you need a commander in chief that's going to give the country a hug."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ARGGGGGGHHHHHH!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping!

[Dr. Ursus]

Biden: Stand up, Donny-Oh, you are!

[Slapshot68]

After Watergate, Carter made the country feel better too....

[tropical]

Oh for cryin’ out loud!!!!

[JimRed]

A kick in the @$$ would be more appropriate than a hug!

[spectre]

((Group Hugs))..

sw

[RexBeach]

This is positively insipid. Period.

The country has been wussified. In that case, Mr. Obama is the perfect leader.

I think it was Mr. Jefferson that said something like, “a country that can give you everything, can also take everything you have(that’s from memory).”

[frogjerk]

LIBS: "We adore our dear leader!"

[Faith]

Ernest, please! Just when I start to get my stomach settled. . .

[henkster]

UFB!!!!

[Canedawg]

Oh, this is a load of bull.

There are 56,000,000 voters who i am pretty sure despise him and everything he represents.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Secondly, you have a frightened populace right now. We all know that - we've been calling that for the last eight weeks. And you need a commander in chief that's going to give the country a hug."

You idiot!

[drzz]

This man pretends to be USA's commander-in-chief. Please call the nearest psychatric hospital

[massgopguy]

Medvedev already told him to kiss his ass. never mind hugs.

[Carl LaFong]

Hug this, leftard.

[wideawake]

I think it was Mr. Jefferson that said something like, “a country that can give you everything, can also take everything you have(that’s from memory).”

It was actually Gerald Ford who said it, about 150 years after Jefferson died.

[DennisR]

Yet another liberal girlie-man.

[Snickering Hound]

[gimme1ibertee]

Awwwww.....
ain’t that enough to make you lose your lunch????
I got a hug for ya, you big @#$%^%^!!!