No Thanks, Gridiron Dinner: Barack Obama Snubs the Washington Establishment

Telegraph ^ | 3/17/09 | Toby Harnden

[Paladin2]

This is the first thing TOTUS has done correctly.

[Ann Archy]

You didn't BELIEVE me??? They are WORSE than RUBES....they are CLASSLESS.

Bush could NOT read the TOTUS, but he at least had CLASS.

[Ann Archy]

Michelle doesn’t wear a WEDDING RING???? She has a ring on her FU finger, but no wedding ring......hmmmm....REALLY CLASSY.

[Colvin]

Change we can Bereave in.

[Chickensoup]

(2, PRIOR to entering politics? Why?)

payola

[bert]

He was criticized for wearing a WHITE tie.

Ties must be color blind.

[6SJ7]

Zero can use is Blackberry as a mini-prompter.

Perfect!

[ErnBatavia]

Ghetto Fashion? You rang?

[wbill]

Even if Mr. Obama can’t or won’t make it, it doesn’t matter, really

In the great grand scheme of things, it matters not.

However, Obama giving the cold shoulder to those who got him elected will not go unnoticed, I'm sure. Just one more little ding in the "messiah" image.

Long run, it might be a good thing for us FReepers.

[RexBeach]

A lot of the birds that go to that dinner are retired.

However, you are correct; like “Welcome Back Carter,” the press will turn on Mr. Obama. They love to hate people. The press will revert to type, as they say.

[Verginius Rufus]

Is this the event where Steven Colbert was the featured speaker 2 or 3 years ago and was very insulting to President Bush?

Bush went even though most of the journalists there treated him like dirt--he repaid them by being gracious. Obama would be among friends, but won't go. Maybe they won't let him bring his teleprompter.

[lonestar]

The 0man hath no ‘couth.’

The wOman ain't got none neither.

[wbill]

yep. I'm thinking that the honeymoon is over already. It was a surprise, I figured that it would last at least 6 to 9 months.

The media likes to play kingmaker. They like to tear down what they've built up even more. Puts eyeballs on their products and $$$$ in their pockets.

Obama's total incomprehension of this is a good thing for us, I think.

[devere]

Obama is snubbing the opinionmakers who got him elected in favor of Jay Leno. It’s an audacious media strategy that will either succeed brilliantly or else end in total disaster.

[Delmont]

Heaven’s to Betsy, If the first aint my old ex-wife Velvetta Brown, I aint seen her since she was cheating with my ex-friend Maurice, looks like she still gots the shelf on her rear end, just like a fireplace mantle.

[pointsal]

Now, that's a hot post!

Get real! Obama has never done any “real work” in his entire life! Obama let Pelosi write most of what he has signed, so far. Obama never really wrote his own autobiographies. (2, PRIOR to entering politics? Why?) Obama never really wrote any legislation, in the Illinois legislature. Obama is a bum. He always makes the “little people” do all the work.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I think he’s simply afraid of embarrassing himself - not only can he not tell a joke, I serious doubt he can take one.

You are correct...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

The One shows his utter contempt for the fawning media that helped deliver the White House to him.

Do you think the media realizes it?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

If only republicans had the guts not to kowtow to them too...

If only...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

It’s an audacious media strategy that will either succeed brilliantly or else end in total disaster.

Obama isn't worried about it because he thinks that everything is going his way...