about as much as I do the political opinions of that hookerbot I picked up at the All Night On-Line Monopoly Tournament at Hooters Vegas Casino!
Posted on 01/14/2009 7:13:38 AM PST by kellynla
Edited on 01/14/2009 8:13:46 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
President-elect Barack Obama arrived at a dinner party on Tuesday night in Chevy Chase, Md. (Photo: Charles Dharapak/Associated Press) WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama spent Tuesday evening at a dinner party with several prominent conservative columnists, including William Kristol and David Brooks of The New York Times, according to an Obama transition pool report.
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William Kristol and David Brooks -— conservatives? LOL
Did they eat what Lincoln ate?
I imagine Brooks and Kristol each licked one of OBummer’s shoes.
Obama transition officials refused to comment on the dinner, saying that it was off the record.
Kind of like the ACORN votes.
With the exception of Krauthammer, no surprises there.
Wasn’t Rush reported to be in D.C. yesterday?
Rush was mysteriously in DC yesterday - was he there also?
Next thing you know, Bush and McCain are “Conservatives”.
Same thought here.
A very small, intimate dinner for 4 or 5?
I hope he washed his ass, it was going to be kissed by the “Conservative” intelligentsia.
He’s more shameless than Clinton.
“William Kristol and David Brooks -— conservatives? LOL”
I’ve paid attention to Krauthammer and Will lately, too. Not impressed.
It’s fair to say that these are amongst the conservatives that no conservatives listen to anymore. They’re beltway-drunk.
wonder if the Peg[noonan] was in attendance? they might have had to peel her off of Obams, if she was.
about as much as I do the political opinions of that hookerbot I picked up at the All Night On-Line Monopoly Tournament at Hooters Vegas Casino!
David Brooks????
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Not surprising, and not even original. Clinton did the same thing when he took office - tried to buddy up to the Conservative Punditry - had them to the White House for lunch. It’s strictly a PR move for Obigula. Look at what a nice man I am! I’ll even talk to the evil White Right-Wing media.
Of course, someone should tell him it didn’t help Clinton, either. Rush put him down so effectively there was a Republican Congress in two years and Dr. K beat him up every week in his column for every boneheaded move the Sleezeball in Chief did.
Of course! It's all a matter of where you are standing in the political spectrum - and the NYT is way over on the left, so almost anyone, except left wing bomb throwers, looks conservative to them.
Hey, they compare Bush to the leader of the former "National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party".
In other words, they think Hitler, the leader of a socialist workers' party, was a conservative!
That tells you just how far left they are.
I’d love to get Dr. Krauthammer’s psychiatric report on Barry.
Rush was in the audience at the White House for the Freedom Awards. You can clearly see him in the video released by the WH. Doubt he met with the great exalted One, the messiah.
What is distressing is the story coming out that Obama pre-designates which reporters will ask him questions at press conferences. If you are not in favor, you will not be called on. Not a good sign, IMO.
Disagree- if he asked me for advice or my opinion, I would give it to him straight up. And I would keep the discussion to politics, not personalities, even though I might not care for his personality.
We don’t think so.
It’s the rohrschach blot absorbing.
More schmooz the newz.
Which one of these neocon rinos is the conservative?
I’ll play devil’s advocate for a moment.
Some of our presidents understood the importance of schmoozing the opposition press. If you listen to the LBJ tapes, it sometimes seems like that’s all he did. Reagan was the great communicator. I think one of the current Bush’s biggest failures was that he did not do this. If you want to be an effective president, this is what you have to do. That and get your loyal people in key positions.
0bama has clearly read some history, and has given some thought as to what makes presidents effective and what not to do. So I won’t ding him for this. Hell, I’d do the same thing.
I don’t think CON MAN falls within psychological parameters.
Not only WHICH reporters, but even more distressing, WHAT THE CONTENT OF THEIR QUESTION will be.
Will the journalists be wearing Team Obama t-shirts so he can recognize them during pressers?
A hard rain will fall "someday".. soon I hope..
Next thing you know, Bush and McCain are “Conservatives”.
I know what you mean...when the Cold War ended some of these formerly so called conservatives showed their true colors and they aren’t conservative.
You can’t get more “inside the beltway” than a Chevy Chase dinner party for the President Select hosted by four entrenched RINOs.
Neither is their fellow neocon, Krauthamer.
If Rush was part of the conversation - then what’s left...just everything.
Seriously I cannot imagine he was....
“Of course! It’s all a matter of where you are standing in the political spectrum “
Exactly.
Mmm, I guess I got the wrong impression from the title of the article. I thought it said that he dined with conservative columnists, but it was actually Bill Kristol.
(My “straight up” to Hussein.)
I will laugh at every stumble you make, applaud your mistakes and cheer your enemies. I want you to spend the next four years cowering in a corner while our economy crashes and burns and our enemies kick your arse. I want you to leave office a broken man. And I want every disloyal “American” who voted for you to share your pain. You all poisoned the well for the last eight years, and I want you to choke on it now. *No* bipartisanship, *no *compromise, *no* surrender *
I will create doubt about you in every conversation. I will question your judgment. Support your opponents. Ridicule your errors. Mitigate your successes with suggestion of unintended consequences. Refuse to praise your work. Challenge your advocates when they advocate; I will not let them own the conversation.
I will give you the same respect you gave last President of the United States, our missions in two war theaters, and our military.
He is “schmoozing” with neocons like Kristol becaue they they have been praising him from the rooftops for the last month. Now....if he had invited Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, (even Rush)....well then you can really say with he was meeting with “the opposition.”
Nope. He was at a Medal of Freedom diner given by the President if I remember correctly.
I didn’t know until this morning that Krauthammer was a speechwriter for Mondale.
That's more than fair.
Just shows how far we have fallen.
It seems that even FR has more Lieberman "conservatives" than Conservatives.
Au contraire! There are a number of classic signs of con-man psychology that a trained shrink who was interested in that part of his field would be in an excellent position to spot. Con men are nuts in their own special way, and that leaves tracks all over their personality.
Like Zero's Law Firm records, State Senate records, Medical records, College records, Campaign records, and his Birth Certificate.
Sounds like a plan to me.
True....they’re sociopaths who use their minds instead of weapons to destroy people.
No different than when the T.V. reporter out of FL...asked Biden some questions he didn't like. And that whole station was banned....
Not unlike the MO sheriff and lawyers smack down of anti-Obama speech there.
Why would things be different now?
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