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White House Cancels Sunday Press Pool Coverage – Game Change?
Mediaite ^ | 1-10-10

Posted on 01/10/2010 2:40:50 PM PST by My Favorite Headache

Late last night, the White House announced that there would be no pool coverage for Sunday, January 10. While the President had no scheduled events this weekend, there was pool coverage yesterday.

It could be a mere coincidence, or it could be that the White House is trying to catch its breath before responding to bombshell revelations in the upcoming book Game Change,excerpts of which poured out all day yesterday. President Obama already issued a statement about Harry Reid’s “negro dialect” quote, but even more explosive passages have emerged since.

The newest passages from the book to hit Marc Ambinder’s blog could be even more explosive than Reid’s, as several of them involve the Clintons. Among these is an anecdote about the late Ted Kennedy taking offense at President Clinton’s assertion that “A few years ago this guy (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.”

While pool reporters are normally just there to observe and report, the only thing stopping them from peppering the President with questions is the icy stare of the press staff.

Also of interest, Jake Tapper reviews President Obama’s responses to other racially incendiary remarks in the past, which have some crying “Hypocrisy!” I would point out that the devil is in the details. In each case, Obama provides a fairly clear rationale. In Reid’s case, it seems he earned a storehouse of goodwill that the others cited did not.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhopress; clinton; election08; gamechange; obama; servingcoffee; tapper
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1 posted on 01/10/2010 2:40:51 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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The newest passages from the book to hit Marc Ambinder’s blog could be even more explosive than Reid’s, as several of them involve the Clintons. Among these is an anecdote about the late Ted Kennedy taking offense at President Clinton’s assertion that “A few years ago this guy (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.”

LOL. Oh this is gonna be great.


2 posted on 01/10/2010 2:43:38 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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“Also of interest, Jake Tapper reviews President Obama’s responses to other racially incendiary remarks in the past, which have some crying “Hypocrisy!”

I hope they aren’t behaving stupidly...


3 posted on 01/10/2010 2:44:16 PM PST by jessduntno (We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation..." - B. Hussein Obama)
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related....

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/obama-risks-a-domestic-military-intervention-by-john-l-perry-2/


4 posted on 01/10/2010 2:46:23 PM PST by gunnyg (Just An Old Gunny ~ And *Still* Not A F'n Commie Basterd!)
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Obama out golfing again?


5 posted on 01/10/2010 2:46:48 PM PST by XHogPilot
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In Reid’s case, it seems he earned a storehouse of goodwill that the others cited did not.

Eleanor Holms Norton’s “Racism Credits” take the demosphere
by storm. “So simple , so elegant. Why didn’t we think of it?” New York Times.


6 posted on 01/10/2010 2:46:57 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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The problem with Obama is that nothing bothers him...Hassan didn't bother him. The panty bomber didn't bother him.

Dereliction of duty doesn't bother him.

As usual, he heads for a closet.

7 posted on 01/10/2010 2:48:23 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Ted Kennedy taking offense

I'm sorry, but leaving a girl to drown in a few feet of water while you work your butt off to try to escape blame, kind of makes you lose any qualifications you might think you have as a moral arbiter. It's like Tony Soprano getting mad at Paulie Walnuts if Paulie uses the "N" word.

8 posted on 01/10/2010 2:48:29 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Kenya tell me where Obama was born?)
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Meantime, the repeated false accusation by McCain’s handlers that Sarah Palin wasn’t up to prepping for the Biden debate seems to have been lost in the shuffle.

I think that was supposed to be the blockbuster revelation, but it seems to have been overwhelmed by all these Democrat racist gaffes.


9 posted on 01/10/2010 2:49:13 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Excerpted from New York Magazine

Subject: Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster

http://nymag.com/news/politics/63045/


10 posted on 01/10/2010 2:49:19 PM PST by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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11 posted on 01/10/2010 2:51:29 PM PST by McGruff (We're Going Rogue Baby!)
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12 posted on 01/10/2010 2:52:33 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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60 minutes won’t have tine to cover all the democrat stories, but Drudge has one last week about Hillary being so certain she was going to win, that she had hired two people for her transition team for the White House...lol.


13 posted on 01/10/2010 2:52:51 PM PST by onyx
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LOL. Racism credits... similar to the Rape Credits and Sexism Credits purchased by BJ Clinton via his legalization of the abortion pill?

Legalize baby killing in a pill form and the so-called feminists will forever turn a blind eye to rape. It's amazing what the left can do by living in a land of make believe!

14 posted on 01/10/2010 2:53:43 PM PST by upstanding
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As usual, he heads for a closet.
So eventually he'll have to come out of the closet? {;^)
15 posted on 01/10/2010 2:55:08 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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Well....the impostor was disturbed on his vacation and didn’t get a rest away from the office...he needed...he had to work...now he is being slapped with more uncomfortable stuff...and he is just plain tired of it all...maybe the mental meltdown we’ve been expecting.......HA


16 posted on 01/10/2010 2:55:24 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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“A few years ago this guy (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.”

Quite a comment from the so-called "first black President"

17 posted on 01/10/2010 2:55:54 PM PST by Reo
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This IMHO will be Hollywood Gossip compared to what Glenn is hinting about.

Remember, Glenn says this week something big will break that will make the ACORN pimp-prostitute ordeal look tiny.

If it is that big, do we get an insulated Whitehouse like Nixon, which is really Ironic, since Mark Levin calls the Bamster, Richard Millhouse....

18 posted on 01/10/2010 2:56:53 PM PST by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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Fear and Loathing on Pennsylvania Avenue


19 posted on 01/10/2010 2:56:59 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . What ever I do is what shall bean the production line than to operate the equipm)
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They are just like Carbon Credits, you can store up
before hand or even buy them as you need them depending
on your Racist Footprint.


20 posted on 01/10/2010 2:57:20 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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