The president didn't go to Baltimore to make nice with the republicans

[bigtree]

President Obama dressed them down and made them eat their rhetoric in front of the cameras today. Watching the exchanges, I was impressed with the way he defended and represented his efforts at 'bipartisanship'; maintaining the line of his values and intentions and measuring them against the credibility (or lack) of the republican arguments. I thought the president was brilliant in the tone and substance of his responses. The republicans have to be sitting at home wondering how they can possibly hope to up their own game to counter this nimble, capable opponent.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. no, they are not that smart

to know they lost... they are sure they won, because fox news says so

[BrklynLiberal]

3. FAUX cut away before the end..so if they did not see it, it did not happen...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. that's even better

love it

[shraby]

2. What gets me is I've heard it said that he's just

a great speech...nothing more..wonder if they still believe that??

[Pirate Smile]

14. Right. The "empty suit" who just reads off the teleprompter. When you hear or read that it is like

the person is wearing an "I'm an ignorant asshole" tattoo on their forehead.

[tridim]

4. I wonder who will be brave enough to defend the GOP on the Sunday shows?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Oh, all of them

who will be brave enough NOT to?

[napi21]

9. Well, Bonner is the guest on MTP I think. Alone he does OK. Funny

I didn't hear a peep from him today!

[11 Bravo]

5. He smiled at them as he slid the knife between their ribs.

I've been a political junkie for a very long time, and I've never seen anything like it.

[napi21]

8. I figured that too. I think he was playing to the public. show the Pubs

for what they really ARE! I was very impressed.

In fact, ever since, I've been trying to think of any member of Congress, Senate or House, Dem or Pub, who is an match for him. I haven't thought of any so far! I'm not sure if that's GREAT or SAD. GREAT in that OUR President really IS the best in the Presidency, or sad that out of 535 people, I can't find ONE who could really match him!

[zbdent]

10. Next time some R puts up their list of demands to be met,

shouldn't the media point out that "We" (the U.S.) "don't negotiate with terrorists"?

I mean, when Dems voted against spending bills for the military, weren't they labeled as "supporting the terrorists"? "hate the U.S."?

[tularetom]

11. His logic tied 'em up and raped 'em

[PJPhreak]

12. Another can of...

Lovin It!

[bigtree]

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[bigtree]

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[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. He was only addressing the House repubs, right?

The Senate repubs are still smug and comfortable with their 41-vote majority in the Senate.

:hi:

[bigtree]

17. I don't imagine

. . . there's any love lost between them either.

[Yurovsky]

21. I didn't see any...

but many of the biggest idiots/wingnuts are in the house, so it makes for better television watching the President "pants" these bible-thumping, racist, WASP pricks.

[NNN0LHI]

18. He told the Rethugs they were acting like HCR was some kind of Bolshevik plot

That was pretty good.

:rofl:

Don

[bigtree]

19. that was a great line

I thought he was brilliant when he went on to tell them how their own cynicism and posturing made it politically impossible for them to backtrack and do the right thing. 'You folks are dishing it out, and they're buying it,' the president told them (paraphrasing).

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. I bet heads were nodding

Because, yes, indeed, HCR is a gol-danged commie plot. Even worse if the HCR involves single-payer, yikes, Stalin, Stalin, Stalin!

I hate that my dyslexia always reads HCR as Hillary Rodham Clinton, it's so confusing.

:hi: