Obama to make statement after U.S. election: White House (Wed. afternoon) LIVE THREAD

Reuters ^ | November 5, 2014

[maggief]

EXCERPT

"This afternoon, POTUS will convene a White House news conference. Details later this morning," Earnest said in a post on Twitter.

[Sir Napsalot]

Obama lamenting nobody appreciates his tireless, selfless work on behalf of the American people.....

American people said “No Thanks” yesterday.

[Genoa]

No, this one is working.

[glennaro]

If he really means what he says (and that's highly doubtful based on his history), he's going to have to work very hard ... and folks, that's not his nature.

[tomkat]

Impeach - Convict - Expel

[maggief]

Ed Henry: Haven’t heard anything you’d do differently. Same playbook. Why not take a page from Clinton. ISIS, are we winning?

O: To early to say we are winning.

[John W]

FU

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

No one has asked about the article in the WaPo.

[relee]

Q. Are we winning?

A. It's too early to say we're winning against isiL ...

[glennaro]

Watching him (it’s a tough thing to do), it’s easy to tell he is very uncomfortable talking about ISIS, Iraq, etc.

[maggief]

Standing with Muslims ...

[TomGuy]

This is so dull that people in the background are mumbling among themselves.

[mikrofon]

Tuesday: SHTF

Today: STFU Already

[Jane Long]

Or numbers....

[Covenantor]

Coming on the heels of his earlier statement that he's listening to the voters,

But,

He's also listening to the two thirds that didn't vote.

That's his money shot and justification, his invisible silent constituency. He's their president and there are twice as many of them than mid-term voters.

Straight from the Alinsky playbook.

[Freedom56v2]

Hmm, could be...

[Jane Long]

Standing with Muslims ...

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As always....business as usual.

[maggief]

re. Doing differently ... premature. Ed! What I’d like to do is see what the Republicans have.

PUNT!

[Freedom56v2]

Yikes...

[relee]

listening to the radio only, sounds like Obama is somewhat cross with Ed Henry

[glennaro]

The camera — for the most part — is staying on obama, so it’s hard to tell Ed’s reaction. Sounds like Ed was getting impatient with obama’s rambling posing as a thoughtful response.