Constructive Criticism: What Obama should have just said at press conference

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Question at news conference just now:

Republicans say hell will freeze over before they allow anything like a new stimulus package. What do you say about that?

Optimal Obama sez:

If that is true then the Republicans are dooming this nation to stagnant growth and endless high unemployment. Period. That is straight up economic fact and I am not going to sugar-coat it.


Real Obama said:

I take the debt really seriously... bipartisan... small changes...

[handmade34]

1. I imagine he can't say

exactly what is on his mind...

the reporters right now are pretty ruthless with questions...

[PA Democrat]

4. The question about how did he feel after last night was idiotic.

Akin to the reporters sticking a camera & mike in the face of a person watching their house burn down and asking them how they feel.

[Abq_Sarah]

14. Reporters

Are like sharks, always looking for blood in the water. That question is asked every time a President loses ground in the midterms.

[Vincardog]

5. I imagine WE would not like what is really on his mind. It could be he is a Chicago School TRUE

BELIEVER and e never had a populist notion.

[joeybee12]

13. I agree...I'm starting to think he was fed that Chicago school crap

and really thinks it'll eventually work...the populist stuff he mentions from time to time is kind of like scraps to us dogs so we don't get too hungry.

[bullwinkle428]

8. "he can't say exactly what is on his mind... " - Unfortunately, I think

this may end up dooming his Presidency.

[handmade34]

10. good point n/t

[DJ13]

2. DC is full of crap

Nobody outside the fringe 20% are worried about the debt.

They're worried that the economy will stagnate, or even get worse.

You cant worry about spending when spending is the only thing improving the economy.

If Obama goes after compromise to lower the deficit before the economy has rebounded he will send us right back into an even deeper recession.

[onehandle]

3. I'm glad you said that and not me. I would have been set upon.

Probably upon fire.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. I think I may be on a lot of ignore lists

I don't get flamed quite as hard as some of my OPs would normally get.

[onehandle]

11. Me too. Nobody is on my ignore list. nt

[scheming daemons]

7. What he says in the "morning after" presser and what he says/does behind closed doors are....

...two different things.


This presser is part of the "dance" he must dance.


It means nothing.


Wait a few weeks, and watch what he does.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. More... tenth dimensional chess I see

[scheming daemons]

12. No... just the same version that all Presidents play the day after an electoral setback

[GeorgeGist]

16. What he does ...

is Chump Change.

[GeorgeGist]

17. What he does ...

is Chump Change.

[BurtWorm]

15. Kurt_and_Hunter for president!

:applause:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

18. Suck-ass job, but I could use the salary

[Angry Dragon]

19. You could be sworn in and then quit the next day

you could have secret service for the rest of your life
Your own library
I wonder if you would get a pension??