Posted on 09/10/2012 12:21:46 PM PDT by presidio9
President Obama told author Bob Woodward that he didn't know Rep. Paul Ryan was going to attend at a major speech he delivered last year on spending and debt, and says in retrospect that it was "a mistake" to dress down Ryan and his budget plans to his face in that setting.
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"I'll go ahead and say it – I think that I was not aware when I gave that speech that Jack Ryan was going to be sitting right there,"
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"I do think that they felt like we were trying to embarrass him," Obama continued. "We made a mistake."
(Jack Ryan is the name of a famous Tom Clancy character,
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Last April, shortly after Paul Ryan released his budget proposal, "The Path to Prosperity," Obama chose to get more specific about his budget goals in a speech at George Washington University in Washington.
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But as Ryan and two GOP House colleagues settled into their seats, barely 25 feet from the president, they were in for a shock. The president lit into the Ryan budget plan, saying it was "less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America."
Woodward writes that the "spotlights in his eyes" prevented the president from immediately noticing that Ryan was in the audience, though he was seated in the front row.
Ryan thought it was a planned attack, and he was incensed. Ryan rushed out of the room even as Gene Sperling, a top Obama economic aide, tried to stop him to explain that the speech "wasn't a setup," Woodward writes.
"I can't believe you poisoned the well like that," Ryan told him.
Back at the Capitol,
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Ever since Coery Booker strayed off the plantation and had to be corrected that is.
I THINK THAT I WAS NOT AWARE.
What a strange comment.
Also, what a crock.
That's just about in the spirit of : "I almost made a mistake once when I thought that I might have been mistaken."
Regards,
GtG
The POTUS is a petty, little MINO. (M=man)
Your tag fits this like a glove!
maybe like an OJ glove......that's fits !
me & and my inscrutable humor....I gotta start doing night clubs!
No one believe sthis.
The WH staff aiming the lights to blind the President?
Oops I meant US Senator from that state.
I'm not sure which is worse: Obama is setting you up, or Obama is incompetent.
I wonder if Jack Bauer was sitting by Jack Ryan?
I wonder if Jack Bauer was sitting by Jack Ryan?
Jack Ryan wouldn't need to kick Jack Bauer's ass. John Kelly/Clark would have already taken care of it.
Speaking of which, Worst Casting Call in the History of Books to Movies: That overacting gargoyle known as Willem DaFoe as John Clark. In the books, Clark/Kelly is described as physically imposing, but otherwise completely unassuming. Dark hair, brown eyes. Tough to pick out of a lineup.
When I lived in Greenwich Village, DaFoe lived in my neighborhood. Or, at least, he was a frequent customer at the same aquarium store as me in my neighborhood. Not only is he one of the oddest looking human beings I have ever crossed paths with in my life, he is also quite scrawny and under 5'10." Couldn't be a nicer person though. Just not cut out for the role of Clark/Kelly. But hats off to him for getting the job.
Hmmmm, the Fail is strong in this one ..... </Darth voice>
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