Posted on 03/08/2009 6:30:37 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Two big stories emerged from Pres. Obama’s interview with New York Times reporters aboard Air Force One yesterday:
1. we have a whining, self-pitying president. 2. The Times scrubbed from its article the worst of the president’s comments, the ones that revealed him in that self-pitying light.
Fortunately, the Today show had the tapes, and played them this morning. According to Today, when President Obama met with reporters from the New York Times yesterday aboard Air Force One, his goal was “trying to sound hopeful and reassuring.” Mission not accomplished. As ambivalent as were the president’s putatively reassuring words on the economy, the delivery was even worse–halting and anything but assured. Be sure to view the video.
But much worse was his whining when it came to the burdens of his office:
PRES. OBAMA: I wish I had the luxury of just dealing with a modest recession or just dealing with health care or just dealing with energy or just dealing with Iraq or just dealing with Afghanistan. I don’t have that luxury, and I don’t think the American people do, either.
A bit later came this stunning statement, edited out of the Times story but broadcast by Today
View video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at finkelblog.com ...
Poor baby Obama ping to Today show list.
Bush did it 24/7 for eight years without a whimper.
Up to now, the hardest decision he had to make was which ghost writer to choose for his detailing of a completely worthless life.
I think Obama is feeling a bit like the dog who unexpectedly catches a car...”I got it; now what do I DO with it???”
We have a mental midget Marxist occupying the White House and I begrudge his wife, kiddies and mother-in-law even the toilet paper they use.
He acts like a spoiled 10year old. He should grow up.
If the problems were easy, a community organizer would have solved them....
No, no, Obama is the first President to have to make the REALLY tough decisions!
All Hail the Messiah, who works so hard for us!
Echoes of Clinton....”I never worked harder in my life”
Let’s face it, every past president (R) or (D), has done the job without acting like the whiny biatch that Obama is.
How could I have forgotten that. After all, he was too exhausted to properly greet the Brit Prime Minister.
This poser has all his life skated through on the efforts of others. He’s been propped up, petted and adored. Now that he’s FINALLY having to be accountable for his actions, he’s showing himself for the petty, mewling narcissist that he is.
I have a mental image of Obama looking out the window of the Oval Office each and every morning and seeing nothing but pea-soup fog.
Exactly.
By golly, I think you've got it!
or voting “PRESENT”?
Frankly if he would simply vote “PRESENT” and stay out of our wallets, the American people might work their own way out of this economic mess
This poser has all his life skated through on the efforts of others. He’s been propped up, petted and adored. Now that he’s FINALLY having to be accountable for his actions, he’s showing himself for the petty, mewling narcissist that he is.
God help us.
Thank you President Bush for your extraordinary service to this nation.
It both saddens me and delights me that your critics get to now see what they have sown in their hyperbolic criticisms of you.
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