Lauer picks Obama apart.. leaves only bones behind

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[ConservativeMan55]

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Obama
"Well I think there are a couple of core principles that have to be put into place."

Lauer
"Dealbreakers?"

Obama
"Dealbreakers. I.. I.. think you have to have some mechanism of oversight. You can't give one.."

Lauer
"But both sides agree on that."

Obama
"Both sides agree on that. But.. the.. the administration hasn't been entirely clear on whether they agree with it but, the bottom line is you can't give one person authority over 700-billion dollars without any oversight whatsoever.
So I think that's gonna be important. The second thing that's gonna be important is to uh make sure the criteria by uh which firms participate.. the way it's set up.
So taxpayers get the upside and not just the downside. We want to make sure taxpayers are benefiting. Third principle is.... this can't simply be a bailout for investors and CEO's and shareholders.
They've got to take a hit for the bad decisions that they've made."

Lauer
"But how much time do you have to vet this? The talk is this has to get done in the next week or two weeks.
If you're lucky enough to be elected President..

STOP THE TAPE... OBAMA TAKES A BIG SMILE WHEN LAUER SAYS "IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ELECTED PRESIDENT."
OBAMA LIKE A LITTLE MANCHILD.. "HOLY CRAP.. I COULD BE PRESIDENT.. HEHE. HE'S SMILING WHILE LAUER'S TRYING TO ASK HIM SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS HERE. WHILE WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A FINANCIAL CRISIS THIS BOZO THINKS IT'S SO COOL HE'S COULD BE "PRESIDENT"



Lauer
"If you're lucky enough to be elected President, and it turns out this plan has flaws. They are not going to want to hear from you.. "we were rushed into this" They're going to say you voted yes pal. It's yours."

Obama
"Well uh.. ye.. this is why we've gotta think about this in two phases.
We've got a short term crisis that has to be dealt with in a bi-partison fashion. And then we have a long term structural set of problems we've got to deal with. "

Lauer
"You've laid out an ambitious plan. You want to improve healthcare, you want to improve education.. the infrastructure, investment in energy and.. oh boy
Here comes this 700-billion dollar bill that wasn't apart of your thinking when you laid out this plan. If I'm a voter and I want to decide whether I want to vote for you or Senator McCain..
Don't I have a right to know from you right now which of those things are gonna get hit by the budget axe before I vote for you?"

Obama
"Although we are potentially providing 700-billion dollars in available money to the treasury. We don't anticipate that all that money gets spent right away.
And we don't anticipate that all that money is lost. How we're gonna structure that in budget terms still has to be decided. Does that mean I can do everything I've called for in this campaign?
Right away probably not. We're gonna have to phase it in and a lot of it's gonna depend on what our tax revunues look like.

Lauer
"Part of this whole ecnomic picture was the AIG situation. On Tuesday night the Fed decided to bail them out.
Huge amount of money. That morning prior to the bailout John McCain said that the federal government should not bail out AIG.
You chastized him on the campaign trail. So the message to those voters.. John McCain didn't grasp the scope of the situation and the the fallout from the failure of AIG?"

Obama
"I think what's been clear this entire past ten days has been John McCain has not had clarity.. and and.. a grasp on the situation.

Lauer
"John McCain said that on our program.. to me. Three minutes later in an interview with Meredith Viera.
Joe Biden your running mate was asked the exact same question.
Should the federal government bailout AIG? And he said no. So it looks like...

Obama
"I think in that situation Joe should have waited as well."

Lauer
"But it's the kind of thing that drives people nuts about politics. It sounds like you were trying to score some political points against John McCain using his words.
When your own running mate used very similiar words.

[CaliforniaCon]

Re: “I would like a president who does not say ‘gunna’.”

AGREE! He slaughters the English language daily — even WITH the teleprompter. I find myself picking apart every sentence, and then there are the “ums, uhs, ands, ahs, hold ons,” and more.

Oblahma is pathetic and not ready for daytime much less primetime! The public has just got to recognize this, unfortunately a huge portion will not as they don’t want to do so, or are not capable of recognizing the myriad problems with The Zero.

[JavaJumpy]

“Matt Lauer? Isn’t he an Obama worshipper?”

That was my first thought exactly!

I just heard on our local newscast that while both parties have had some play in the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae situation, the Democrats are largely to blame for this debacle because of actions taken during the Clinton administration (according to their reporter from DC).

I about fell over. I guess it really is crunch time!

[mwl8787]

this is just patty-cake on behalf of NBC... they could care less about their bias - they are just trying to provide some modicum of cover for themselves.

anybody who thinks MSM is gonna turn on BO, I have a handsome suspension bridge in NYC for sale....

[Plutarch]

The interview wasn’t that tough, nor was is it disastrous to Obama.

[downtownconservative]

O’Rielly gets a “C”. I have yet to hear an interview of Obama that did not fail to ask multiple hard questions or questions that followed up the spin-nonanswers. Obama has always gotten a pass. The interviewers seem to always be enablers and, like Lauer, almost aplogetic for asking the occasional probing question.

[GWMcClintock]

...or receiving the questions in advance!

[ConservativeMan55]

Didn’t come out too good for Biden.. LOL

[padre35]

Nice...it would appear that the News side of NBC at least is going through the motions, as for Baldilocks, who cares?

AFAIK, he is still looking for packets of Ketchup at the Rockefeller Center..

[Bahbah]

Thanks, CM.

[JavaJumpy]

“AGREE! He slaughters the English language daily”

In his latest ad in Ohio, he doesn’t slaughter it at all. I guess Ohioans - who are supposed to be so typically bitterly uneducated - want to hear proper English, too. Especially those middle aged, white, female Clinton supporters who are REALLY supposed to be uneducated.

Who knew?! :)

[ConservativeMan55]

I think a big part of the problem is Obama doesn’t give very much time for interviews.

He only gave BO 30 minutes. That’s not enough time to ask tough questions AND follow up.

[IYAS9YAS]

My soon-to-be five-year-old has better speaking and thinking skills than this community organizer.

[ConservativeMan55]

You’re welcome! :)

[SoCalConservative]

Looks to me like Lapdog Lauer got hit in the wallet a bit with this latest Wall Street fiasco! THAT is why he grew some, he’s losing money! He wants to know which candidate is going to help get his coffers back up to par. He doesn’t give 2 craps about anything else.

Pssst, hey Matt, it ain’t Obama..........

[sugar_puddin]

I was a little surprised at the questions Matt was asking him too. A couple of the questions were a little tough but he seemed to be trying to help Obama answer the ones that he was stumbling over.

Having said that, I would like to know if anyone besides me is bothered by Obama's whistling through his teeth when he talks? It drives me crazy. When I listen to him, that's all I hear. lol..

[Ann Archy]

You people are GRASPING at STRAWS!!! This wasn’t tough at all! Nothing like what Sarah has gone thru.

[IYAS9YAS]

AGREE! He slaughters the English language daily — even WITH the teleprompter. I find myself picking apart every sentence, and then there are the “ums, uhs, ands, ahs, hold ons,” and more.

Ah, the Scooby-Doo generation at work. Like, wow, man

Full disclosure, I'm 39, and part of this generation.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Ms.NBC = More Slanted News By Communists

[ConservativeMan55]

When your running mate says something and you have to come back and scold him..

Don’t you think he should be questioned about this Biden gaffe?

[MHGinTN]

Obama sycophant Lauer didn’t pick his demigod apart. If you think that, you probably saw O’Reilly’s interrupting fawning of Obama as an attack.