KOEB Meeting: 06/15/10 -- Triple O Edition

[Patsy Stone]

Oval Office Obama. :hi: Welcome to the World Cup of Politics. Grab your vuvuzela and join us!

[Berry Cool]

1. Wouldn't that be Quad O (and Olbermann)?

:hi: I would grab my vuvuzela, but my mom told me if I did that I'd go blind. :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

2. Grabbing it is okay

but if you blow it, that's when the trouble starts. :hi:

[Berry Cool]

3. What if someone else blows it

or at least puts his lips on it?

I think I know..."GOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!"

[Berry Cool]

4. Isn't it sick that our president is on TV talking about a disaster

and this is how we react?

Well, he's saying all the right things. I just hope it makes a difference.

It is a relief, though, seeing him there vs. Bush.

[Berry Cool]

5. Aw, crap. It sounds like he's leaving it up to Congress to wean us off oil.

By coming up with its own ideas. And passing them.

Good luck with that. :shrug:

[Patsy Stone]

8. I think Chris is spitting.

Obama was very nervous in the beginning, then he got a little more comfortable. I have to agree though. I don't know exactly what the point of that speech was.

[Patsy Stone]

12. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[RavensChick]

30. Hell to the yeah on that!!

Hi, Berry!

:hi:

[rocktivity]

6. Oh, god, I gotta listen to tweety?

Keith says he expected to hear more details about the energy that's stalled in the Senate. But if he had, Tweety would be skawking about using the crisis to advance his own selfish agenda!

:eyes:
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[Patsy Stone]

11. I had to run and turn the TV down.

I wanted to hear the speech, and it seemed a little low. Then, all of a sudden, a screaming Chris Matthews appeared, followed by a screaming Howard Fineman.

:hi:

[ralps]

7. Hi Patsy! Hi Everyone!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Patsy Stone]

9. Hi, ralps!

How are you and the kitteh this evening? :hi:

[ralps]

14. We're doing good, How are you doing?

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :hug:

[Patsy Stone]

17. All is well.

I can not complain, thanks! Good to hear you're all okay.

[Berry Cool]

10. I gotta tell you guys, I agree with Tweety and Keith

I am left thinking, "C'mon, man, you're the President. DO SOMETHING. Ask me to help you and I will, but tell me what you want me to DO."

[Berry Cool]

13. I'm asking myself: How would I feel if Bush said this?

And sadly, the answer is: I would think he didn't have a clue.

I mean, that was way more eloquent than Alvin Greene, but I got the impression he knows about as much about what to do about this as Alvin Greene would.

[Patsy Stone]

18. Are we sure this was the speech he was supposed to give?

It sounded a little like something he'd say to the local Rotary Club.

[ralps]

15. Hi Berry Cool!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Berry Cool]

23. Hi ralps--hope you and Crook are well.

:hi: I guess I'm just a tad discouraged. There's the oil thing, and then there's the unemployment situation, and nothing really is happening. I get the feeling nobody knows what to do except the evil ones. They, as usual, are full of passionate intensity.

[RavensChick]

31. Hi, Ralps!

That kitty is so adorable! In fact, that's how my baby Raven is, all over my bed!

:hi:

[ralps]

42. Hi RavensChick! Thanks

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

16. Hi all!

I had to change the channel after the speech; Tweety was getting on my nerves.

I've been listening to the calls on C-SPAN and even some Republican callers are being supportive of Obama. One Republican woman said she wanted other Republicans to stop toeing the party line and start thinking for themselves, and listen to what Obama says, and watch what he does. :wow:

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

20. Wow

It's opposite day! :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

25. Hi Patsy!

It must be, though I rather liked the speech. I agree that it could have had more details in it, but overall, it was pretty good.

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

27. At the risk of sounding like a cheerleader

(I really, really like him a lot.)

[SeattleGirl]

32. (....so do I)

Rah Rah sis-boom-bah!!!! :)

[Patsy Stone]

35. :)

I know the speech wasn't supposed to cover everything, and it wasn't for the hardcore politcal junkies, really, anyway, but I liked what he said about BP. I thought he went off a ways on the view for new energy tangent, and it could have included more specifics (or less ambiguity). I don't feel as strongly negative as KO and the Screaming Meemies, though.

I'm happy you heard some nice sounding Republicans. That gives me hope.

[SeattleGirl]

43. I can agree with that.

And you're right; the speech was aimed at the population at large, not at political geeks like us.

[ralps]

22. Hi SeattleGirl!!! Wow! maybe some Republicans are wiseing up on how clueless

their Representatives & Senators are! :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :wow:

[SeattleGirl]

26. Hi ralps!

Maybe so! Perhaps the black oil covering a beautiful area has taken the blindfolds off their eyes.

:hi:

[RavensChick]

34. Hi, SG!

They did?!?! Whoa! I'm not sure that's good or bad but at least the repukes are getting a conscience, even if it's for a minute.

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

36. Hi RC!

Pretty amazing, huh?

That's one thing I will never get about the lock-steppers: do they think that misfortune will only befall Democrats and others who don't march along with them?

:hi:

[RavensChick]

47. Exactly!

Then again, with the way this oil cleanup is gonna hit all of us in the wallet, they'll wise up and realize that this is no longer a bipartisan thing, it's a human and environmental thing and we all must band together and get down there to clean up the mess.

But, so much for my mini comment. They're only going to bitch and moan and complain and make Obama look much worse then before, and that'll be fuel to the fire the freepers are gonna use to discredit the President even more.

[Botany]

19. Damn good speech!

n/t

[Patsy Stone]

21. I felt that he felt my pain

but I don't know what he said. Basically, I'm praying with him.

:hi:

[Botany]

33. when i was doing election protection work in 2008 I worked for upper ..

.... level Obama people and his legal people too .... they don't call him "no drama Obama" for nothing.
We were told that if we wanted to make a public fuss or get some press that we could leave the meeting
now. Although I don't like Salazar or THAD now is not the time to fire people.

[Patsy Stone]

41. Believe me

I have no problem with President Spock, and I don't need PR stunts and photo ops to make me feel like he's doing something. There's something to be said for the strong silent type.

I could have lived without the wandering vision for a new America, or he should have tightened it up a bit, that's all.

[CBHagman]

53. Thanks for the glimpse inside.

I volunteered at a very chaotic campaign office with the nicest people and obviously never could have gotten the look inside the inner circle you got.

No drama is good, and good for the country too, I think.

[Patsy Stone]

24. BTW

I know the picture of the Prez wasn't taken in the Oval Office, but I liked it.

[RavensChick]

28. Good evening!

What a speech! Too bad Obama left out something--telling us when exactly he's gonna put his foot up BP's ass!

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

29. Maybe *that* would have made Chris happy.

:hi:, RC!

[RavensChick]

38. Hi, Pats!!

Keith was on a tear himself, so I gotta feeling a Special Comment is on the horizon.

:hi:

[Botany]

37. I refuse to listen to a talking head telling me what I should think about ..

.... what I just heard w/ my own two ears.

[SeattleGirl]

40. Hi Bot! Same here. It's fine for them to have their own opinions

on things; I've got no problem with that. My problem is that so many of them get on their high horses and pontificate, and start coming across as if their opinion is fact, and thus we should all fall in line behind them.

I'm not going to do that.

:hi:

[Botany]

45. If it is a speech I really want to understand I listen to it on the radio.

Even K.O. and Rachel sometimes get to me telling me about I just heard.

Honestly Obama is a really good speaker and he knows how to get his point
across ...... table full of jack asses yammering gets to me.

[SeattleGirl]

48. I love that pic you have!

May I steal it?

[Patsy Stone]

44. That's what they get paid for.

And from the sound of it, it's billed in decibels.

[SeattleGirl]

49. "it's billed in decibels."

:rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

51. 'night, SG!

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

54. I guess my post from last night never showed up.

So I'm trying to recreate it here.

I, too, am not allowing talking heads (Keith included) to tell me what I think.

It just so happens that this time, Keith agrees with me (maybe more than I agree with Keith).

There weren't enough specifics.

Him saying he felt our pain wasn't enough. I didn't want empathy. I wanted action. (No, not emotion, or drama--action.) And when I say "action," I don't mean he has to plug the hole himself.

I'm just not feeling very good about this right now. Sorry. :shrug:

[rocktivity]

39. Nearly 100 workers/volunteers have gotten sick

Doctors have given it a name--and Tweety wants all the "energetic" young people to go down there! The 9/11 workers are STILL waiting for a settlement!


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[SeattleGirl]

46. Hi rocktivity!

That really pisses me off, that BP is telling these workers they can't wear safety gear!!!

Kind of puts them between a rock and a hard place, because on the one hand, these folks need money AND they want to save their coastline, and on the other hand, if they do that, BP wants to make sure they get sick just so their "reputation" isn't sullied. :grr:

:hi:

[RavensChick]

50. Sad.

This cleanup is gonna take a very long time. I wouldn't be surprised if they're still cleaning up this mess when my great nephew is a grandfather! Yes, it could take THAT long.

[rocktivity]

52. LOL!!! Keith announced Laurence O'Donnell's show

rubbed his hands, and said it was part of a plot to get all his substitute hosts to take over!

:rofl:
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