This bit from Robert Gibbs is LOL funny. Before anyone screams 'how dare they?' this was after Palin bashed Obama to a friendly crowd for an hour, with mocking tones.
Can someone please enlighten me on how anybody can take Sarah Palin seriously as a national political figure? (Without resorting to bashing somebody else to make their point.) If it weren't for the media propping her up to stoke conflict and catchy headlines, she'd might still be gov. of Alaska.
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I don't think he has any room to make fun of Palin for writing some talking points on her hand, when Obama uses a teleprompter for even the simplest of speeches. Especially after calling Navy Corpmen "Corpse-Men" three times in one speech.
Palin had a couple of things she wanted to touch on written on her hand. Big deal.
I have to agree with SG. Obama has to have a teleprompter for everthing (even a speech to a bunch of sixth graders). I noticed on the news when Palin was doing her little gig at the Tea Party, she was reading from some notes she had brought, not a teleprompter. Maybe, just maybe, she is able to think for herself, and had some last minute thoughts before going on the stage, and the only place she could write them were on her hand. Guess you never had any last minute thoughts before a speech? I have given a few presentations myself, and have written them down myself on my palm so I wouldn't forget. I must be an idiot, according to Gibbs and Andrea Mitchell (and you).
Wake up you Obama haters. Every President has used the teleprompter. In a world where you all are sitting around waiting to dissect every "the" and "uh" that comes out of a President's mouth, it would be stupid to not use any technology available.
Let's see.... Just last week the media inflated a benign statement made by the First Lady about trying to instill healthy diet habits in her own daughters. In just a few hours all these so called experts with no meaningful purpose in life were diagnosing her children as having eating disorders as a result of what their mother just said.
We have become an adolescent nation who blows up something out of anything. We hate truth and love to be manipulated. We accuse Congress of lying but still cling to our faith and guns while obsessing over Limbaugh and all those other hypes who distort reality.
Even now people are calling the Bush 43 era the good ol days. Funny how easily we forget paying $4 to $5 per gallon of gasoline while the energy companies were posting year after year of record profits.
Remember the CEO friends of Bush who blamed it on terrorism and then on an oil spill and then on wildfires in the west and then on someone's house fire in Omaha Nebraska.
All that time, we were being bled of personal savings and our disposable income vanished while wealth was concentrated back into the heads of energy and banking. Housing prices were over inflated (of course we blame that on Obama or was it Clinton or maybe Nixon) and LMI neighborhoods cavitated while upscale housing was built on vapors of future earnings.
That's where we are today. And the notion that we can argue who has the best method for recalling their talking points while facing the worst recession in nearly a century is laughable and a genuinely sad indictment of what was once a great nation.
Two words
NAVY COPRSEMEN!
First of all, the oil shortage during the Bush administration was due to a number of things, namely supply and demand, that had nothing to do with the president at that time. In fact, the president has nothing to do with oil prices. Lets not forget that american oil companies only make 30% of their profit from the american people. We get 70% of our oil from the middle east, they are the ones that determine how much they produce, therefore directly effecting price. Hurricane katrina knocked out several oil rigs in the gulf in 2005, and thats when the prices really started to go up. But I do remember that there were alot of "wingnuts" that blamed Bush for the huricane too. Whats wrong with beleiving in God and cherishing our 2nd amendment? Is it somehow bad to exercise our rights to bear arms? I geuss I don't understand why people like you have such a problem with faith and the bill of rights. Also, do you beleive that it was Bush's fault that people lost money? You talk about savings and disposible income like Bush took them from the people. The only way that the government can take away money from the people is to tax them. Do you honestly beleive that George bush ruined the economy? If anyone has half a brain they would know that congress makes economic policy, not the president. I don't blame George Bush or Barrack Obama for the current economic mess. I blame congress. Do you remember when the economy started that down hill slide? 2007. One year after the liberals took over! Wake up guys and gals! The housing prices were inflated because of crooked lending practices and government regulation on who qualified for a loan. But I geuss the community reinvestment act signed into law by Carter in 1977 is George Bush's fault too. Look, I don't like everything Bush did, namely his endorsement of the "stimulus bill", but in general, he was a good president in my opinion. Also, if you truly beleive that this is not a great nation anymore, then please suggest to me a nation that is better.
Believe, Ray, believe.
BTW, I agree with you 100%
Can someone PLEASE enlighten ME on how Junior is a serious journalist ?
Amen to the Raybirds:
Unless you are inside the fenceline at one of the BIGS, you may actually be spewing corporate rhetoric.
Someone really close to me said they had sat through a business presentation given by an excutive of one of the BIGS to the employees. The Exec was pretty open and candid that their optimum profit margins for the near future are pinned on being able to massage the price of gasoline up to $4.50/ gallon in the US.
That trusted friend also shared a few insightful reports from one of the BIGS during that time you reference. There may have been more opportunistic marketing than what you know to influence the price of gasoline.
Take a look at the public web page for any one of the BIGS and see what they boast of to their investors about oil reserves. Not many really talk about shortage. They maybe talk more about profit from buying in a depressed market so that margins are optimal in a recovering economy.
As intelligent as we are, Americans as so easily manipulated. Someone just comes up with a good story to feed the public and we swallow because it's easier than thinking for ourselves and using our own reasoning skills.
I remember the old Think AND Do books from school. Now we just Hear and Repeat. Thinking has been discarded in lieu of political ideology and bickering based on unvetted rhetoric.
Raybird, at the risk of getting into a dialog that is substantive consider
1)maybe there simply isn't a great nation right now. Sometimes, average is the best of the lot.
2) if we can genuinely continue down that road where we stop blaming our woes on the "person" in the Whitehouse (need to learn that if you are going to elect Palin) perhaps we can actually mine down to where the responsiblity lies - with the choices that the typical American consumer makes on a day to day basis. There are no stories of people being held at gunpoint and forced to take several credit cards or to buy the 6mpg H3 Hummer.
3)Correct, the government did no take people's savings (so why keep blaming it on federal policy) but how hard is it to understand that if the BIGS were posting billions and billions in profit, it had to come from someone. Eventually they sold something to somebody for profit. so don't you think it makes a difference the average commuter sees their fuel costs suddenly triple and stay there for almost 3 yrs.
4)People like me don't have a problem with faith or the bill of rights - people like me are faith leaders who teach good citizenship.
Now, stop name calling and blindly labeling and let's talk real issues. Huh?
"I" before "E" except after "C". Sorry about that guys. I'll correct this from now on. Thanks for the heads up. I feel like a dork now. LOL
The part you left out of the equasion on fuel:
Price determines demand!
In the case of Katrina there is no doubt fuel prices increased not only due to the real possibility of interuption in Supply. But also as a means to curb demand!
Then you can't rule out the fact that the World demand has increased for oil! The closer supplies get to demand the higher the price they can achieve!
No doubt the Oil companies profited handsomely during that period.
But higher prices also brought out the competition from all over the world! Plus alternative fuels and even the Canadian Oil Sands! Guess what happens when you get a glut of Oil?
Those companies and anyone else in the oil business rides that roller coaster!
Btw: The Government does have an impact on fuel prices in times of WAR!
I agree about the whole credit card deal, but you can't tell me that gov. policy had nothing to do with that. When the federal government dictates to lenders that they have to extend credit to some who have not earned it, you get massive credit defaults. Thats what happened in the housing market, it happened in the credit crisis, and it will not change unless the regulations mandating poor credit practices stop. I also believe that the individual took advantage of these poor policies and therefore once again proved that when the government intervenes in the free market it will most likely be disasterous.
If you didn't mean to make a bad remark about guns and faith, then why did you bring it up?
There is a great nation right now. It is the United States of America. No other measures up.
If the bigs relied soely on the American people for profit, then maybe they would have lost profit. However, like I said before, we only get 30%of our oil from them. OPEC is the real reason for high oil prices. If people want to buy the hummer and can afford it, then why should we complain?
Can someone please enlighten me on how anybody can take Sarah Palin seriously as a national political figure? (Without resorting to bashing somebody else to make their point.)
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If you can't see all the incredible things this woman did for Alaska - then no one can help you. She is simply amazing. And remind me again of Obama's accomplishments and experience he had before becoming President?
I'm guessing most of the people who say she has no experience do not have many accomplishments themselves or have probably never done anything close to governing a state before.
So she wrote a couple of notes on her hand - big deal. To me it just shows how REAL she is. The liberals are such elitists anymore it is ridiculous. Obama can't talk to anyone without the TOTUS. Bob Gibbs is a joke anyway. But it's easy to see how you would find humor in him.
Ray at Commonsensepoiltics.blogspot.com said...
I agree about the whole credit card deal, but you can't tell me that gov. policy had nothing to do with that.
Here's a debating discipline for blogging: When a person openly declares that "you can't tell me..." that pretty much shuts down the discussion.
It thrusts us into the ol' John Paul Jones mantra - "I may not agree with what you say but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."
To Ray and the Raybirds, you do offer some interesting counterpoints. They would weigh more heavily and produce more constructive exchange of discussion if you could do it without trying to discount every contrasting opinion or perspective by assigning what you consider to be a demeaning label.
I am so neither left nor right. I am truth. Trust simply does not have a party in the USA anymore. We began the passionate exodus from truth during the Richard Nixon impeachment era.
We trod towards with reckless abandon in the post- Reagan era. President Reagan was the last (in fact the only one since the 60's) to simply articulate a policy whether it be popularly received or no and stick with it.
His trickle down failed in principle because the people nearest the top wouldn't play by the POTUS rules. They are the first set of the latter 20th Century and early 21st century to sneak out the back door with the money of promise.
Every since , the first t get money in the vein of helping stimulate the American economy have all simply taken the lump sum and quickly forgotten to execute the play as designed.
In that respect, Terrell Owens - NFL - is the microcosm of the USA, offering much rhetoric about being a team player but simply forgetting about everyone but himself.
That is the bankers who took bailout money. That's the energy companies who took "green" money. That's the automakers who took hybrid stimulus money.
My goodness, it's the local school units who take federal Ed money for students and turn it into bonds and buildings.
It's the municipal leaders who take stimulus $$ to put people to work and spend it on frills and raises. It's the health care industry who laments reimbursements on Medicare and Medicaid and then inflates their bills to recover $20 for single a Tylenol.
You all keep right on running to the left and to the right. Keep listening to the high paid talk show hosts. What we lack is a passion for truth in America. We have a strong appetite for rhetoric and propaganda.
Partisan rhetoric is like cupcakes and bonbon to a little kid. Truth is like spinach and liver. America just doesn't want it anymore.
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