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Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit
washingtonpost.com ^ | April 14, 2010 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 04/13/2010 12:56:20 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.

They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.

In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.

The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: "I'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: closedpress; danamilbank; milbank; nuclearproliferation
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Whatcher complaining about, Dana? He’s been doing this to the sycophant press ever since he was inaugurated.

Did you just notice that he’s screwing you?


21 posted on 04/13/2010 1:16:02 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ChocChipCookie
Hell hath no fury like a girly man scorned!
22 posted on 04/13/2010 1:18:36 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Herman Cain 2012!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I live in this alternate universe where I imagine a young Woodward or Bernstein who realizes that the emperor is a nekkid Marxist. Realizing that his editors at the WaPo are old and demented, slavishly hanging on to their JFK tie pins - he decides to bypass his bosses and seize the printing presses.

He finds surprising allies in the union print shop - with a group of former military and community college students.

I said it was an alternate universe dammit!!!!!!!!!!!!


23 posted on 04/13/2010 1:18:42 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: ChocChipCookie
The #1 thing LE fears is an assassination. It could be that all these precautions are the choice of various LE agencies.

Perhaps. But it is more likely that is "O"'s #1 fear...

Notice the lack of beer summits lately?

24 posted on 04/13/2010 1:22:17 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners buTt never trade patsies.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press."

Was misstated - fixed now:

"putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent their free pass."


25 posted on 04/13/2010 1:22:29 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Just a lover’s spat.

The State Controlled Media will fall back in line.


26 posted on 04/13/2010 1:23:13 PM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Milbank is a racist and potentially violent . I'll bet there is a copy of Mein Kampf and the Anarchists Cookbook in his building . The Secret Service should probe him at once .

Milbank has problems .

27 posted on 04/13/2010 1:27:48 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: mware

Probably yelling at him for his Royal Canadian Mint far surpassing our sorry US Mint. Any numismatics out there know what I’m talking about, they have ruined the mint as with everything else they touch. I hope Canada’s PM told him to take that finger out of his face or take a ass-whooping. The creep-in-chief has no class especially with our friends.


28 posted on 04/13/2010 1:37:29 PM PDT by WNC mountainboy (Fed up to here with it !!!!!!!!)
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To: mware
Ditto.

The Poster Child for Megalomania.

Someone needs to be posting this non-stop to each and every member of the CNN and MSNBC staff. For a month solid.

RUB IT IN THEIR FACES.

Especially Chrissy Matthews.

29 posted on 04/13/2010 1:38:23 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners buTt never trade patsies.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I keep hearing more and more Blacks critizing the Mocha Messiah even radicals.

Obama promised the moon on a lasso and yet...
There is no free health care.
There is no reparations.
There is no free gas.
There is no free rent.

Many Blacks and I mean poor urban Blacks are fed up with Obama and his perpetual BS.

The line is: Enough talk, pretty speeches, and promises, SHOW me the MONEY!


30 posted on 04/13/2010 1:38:25 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
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To: henkster
"He doesn’t want the press to see real world leaders humiliate him before he gives away the store. "

He is mired so deeply in himself, I don't think he can be "humiliated".

He can get pissed off when he doesn't get his way, but so can my 7-year-old nephew.

That's why I join with the French in saying I think he is mentally ill.....


insane obama


31 posted on 04/13/2010 1:40:54 PM PDT by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: ChocChipCookie
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Nobody stands a chance of getting close — except those who guard.

And they aren't likely to grow a conscience.

32 posted on 04/13/2010 1:41:33 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“....many operating in repressive countries, got the impression that the vaunted American freedoms are not all they’re cracked up to be.”

Nooooo! You don’t say!


33 posted on 04/13/2010 1:44:26 PM PDT by Nickname (2012 - Yes You're Canned!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How can any US president state that he is “fond of Pakistan”? What’s his game? Seems to me that he will be talking out of both sides of his mouth without anyone in the press to contradict him. And who are you going to believe? President Obama or the leader of another country when he (obama) contradicts that leader?


34 posted on 04/13/2010 1:48:13 PM PDT by DallasDeb (USAFA '06 Mom)
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To: ChocChipCookie

What does LE stand for?


35 posted on 04/13/2010 1:49:23 PM PDT by DallasDeb (USAFA '06 Mom)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

we don’t have a Live thread on the Presser on the summit now!


36 posted on 04/13/2010 1:50:03 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok, joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

#10—that is REALLY good!


37 posted on 04/13/2010 1:50:22 PM PDT by DallasDeb (USAFA '06 Mom)
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To: DallasDeb

law enforcement


38 posted on 04/13/2010 1:51:39 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (God to Obama: Don't think I'm not keepin' track. Brother.)
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To: LucyT

ping


39 posted on 04/13/2010 1:54:54 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The President will attend Plenary Session II of the Nuclear Security Summit. This session is closed press."

Plenary Session...? Where have I heard that term before?

Seems to me like it was associated with...mmm, what was it?...Politburo? Yeah, Politburo. And, now that I think of it, it had something to do with Internationale, too...

40 posted on 04/13/2010 1:57:39 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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