Posted on 03/15/2011 5:35:22 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney barely survived the briefing today. CBS' Chip Reid was clearly fed up watching the administration do nothing about Libyan atrocities while claiming they were responding with "unprecedented" speed. Today the clock ran out on the White House and their dithering was exposed.
Q On no-fly zone, what exactly is the U.S. -- the administration's position before the Security Council?
MR. CARNEY: Our position, Chip, remains that we are evaluating a number of options, military options, including --
Q But a decision has to be made now.
MR. CARNEY: -- including a no-fly zone. We feel that it is important that any action like that that might be taken should be done in concert with our international partners. Through the United Nations would be our preferable vehicle for that, and therefore we would look to the U.N. as a forum for evaluating that option. I think I mentioned yesterday that today is the deadline for the no-fly zone option to -- preparations or plans to be submitted in Brussels at NATO. And I believe the NAC will review those tomorrow. So this process is moving forward.....
Q But wouldn't it be fair to say -- accurate to say the United States is still sitting on the fence on this? Isn't it time to make a decision, yes or no?
MR. CARNEY: Well, Chip, you tell me if as an American citizen would you want your President not to consider all the implications and ramifications of taking military action.
Q Doesn't there come a point to make a -- where you have to make a decision?
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The decision to play golf, jet to another vacation villa, party at the White House...
Decisions, decisions.
C'mon - Obama makes decisions. Didn't he fill out his NCAA Brackets today ???
I think the powers that be have voted zero off the WH desk and podium.
Chip Reid didn’t push the issue, though. He remembered his duty is to serve OGreatOne, and is probably mad at himself for letting his journalistic instincts take over for a few minutes.
Silly Chip. Stick to the canned questions.
The oldest rule in the book. No decision is a decision. Obama is speaking loud and clear.
Doesn’t MR. CARNEY have a teleprompter telling him what to say??????? NoBozo does!
I honestly believe that Obama has more knowledge on NCAA hoops than he does on what is going on in Japan.
He is, quite simply, a very odd man who seemingly doesn’t understand how to operate in a normal social manner.
Chip Reid went off the reservation a couple of years ago. I’m surprised they still call on him.
And then beat it down to Rio for the weekend.
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Being Obama means never having to make a decision.
(unless voting “present” is considered to be a decision)
Back off Barky, he made a decision.
He is going to Rio!
Well, the prevailing wisdom was that Obama voted 'present' to protect his future political ambitions from controversial issues.
The real truth is that he's just not that intelligent.
Like my dad would always say, this is what you get when you send a boy to do a man’s job.
Once again Obummer votes “Present.”
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