Gibbs: Obama Still Wants To Feel Pressure From The Left

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sought on Friday to put an amicable coda on his tussle with the "professional left," telling the Huffington Post that the President continues to welcome the pressure he gets from his progressive base.

Addressing the issue four days after he initially chastised liberal (cable news) critics for having demands of the White House that he deemed "crazy," Gibbs once again stood by those remarks.

"There are a small number of people on cable and elsewhere who will never be happy, who will never give the President credit for anything, and who will always look for some cardinal sin to be upset about," the press secretary said in an email to the Huffington Post.

But, from there, he offered a far more conciliatory if not diplomatic reflection on the riff that briefly dominated macro-political debate within the Democratic Party.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/13/gibbs-obama-still-wants-t_n_681691.html

[Skittles]

1. LOLOL

go ahead: keep on squawking - we won't listen, heck, we may openly RIDICULE you but please, feel free to keep speaking up :rofl:

[FLAprogressive]

2. Of course he does, so then he can say he resisted it. nt

[eleny]

3. Oh, shut up, Gibbs

[golddigger]

4. I apologize for wanting

Canadian style healthcare Mr. Gibbs. I don't know what came over me.

[MisterP]

5. "we're not doing anything because you're not telling us to; now shut up" nt

[xchrom]

6. Oh puhleez Miss Gibbs - time for you to spend more time with your family. Nt

[JJ]

7. for what possible reason?

So he can show Glenn Beck how he stands up us liberals no matter how much pressure we can exert.

If Obama wants a second term, he needs to do some serious housecleaning on Nov.3. Though, if many feel the way I do, it may be too late.

[coti]

8. The unsaid ending being "...though we'll continue not to listen." nt

[felix_numinous]

9. President Obama needs someone with better social and communication skills

especially this close to an election.

[Demoiselle]

10. Yeah, right. Yo, Bobby. I gotcher pressure right here! Grrrrrrrrr.

[Iowa]

11. Screw him...

He wants to, "feel pressure from the left"???? WTF does that even mean? Is he so completely lacking in passion and conviction that he must be propped up in all directions? We need a Grayson or a Franken or a Kucinich or maybe even someone largely unknown in 2012... any decent liberal with a spine will be better than this slow-motion disaster.

[KoKo]

12. I watched some of his Presser today. My thought: "Gibbs nees a Very Long VACATION"

and maybe a permanent one. He's not doing Obama any favors with his OUTBURSTS...and then saying he had a Cold that was so bad he had to send his surrogate out there the next day to "take the heat" for his vile comments.

He's cowardly, can seem to give the Whore Press any Talking Points to counteract the "Politco" and Beck and Limbaugh and that means he is NOT CAPABLE of doing the JOB the PRESIDENT NEEDS HIM TO.

OBAMA needs to FIRED GIBB's ASS, NOW... and work to BUILD a STRONG COMMUNICATIONS TEAM that will SUPPORT HIS POLICIES IN WAYS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN BUILD ON SO THEY WILL VOTE DEMOCRATIC in Mid-Terms and after.

So Far..."The Great Obama Communications Team" is FAILING since they got into office. BRING BACK THE OBAMA "A"TEAM...from the Campaign Trail. They were MUCHO BETTER AT THE SPIN a PRESIDENT NEEDS!

DO YOU HEAR ME OBAMA?

[Plucketeer]

13. WHY???

It's gotten us nothing so far! :crazy:

[lib2DaBone]

14. A shame that Mr. Obama considers the Left his advisary...

Mr. Obama doesn't care if he is re-elected .

As soon as he gets rid of Social Security in November.. his mission will be complete. His Goldman-Sachs handlers will be satisfied.

[unkachuck]

15. now, now....

....we need to get behind President Obama and push, and push, and push....

[Psephos]

16. It's hard to believe, but it now seems he is even worse at his job than Scott McClellan.

The smugness is the difference. There's a yawning chasm between how clever he thinks he is and how clever he actually is.

His flip dismissal of the left, and now his backpedal, remind me of that old line from The Outlaw Josey Wales. "Don't piss on my back and tell me it's rainin'."

[EFerrari]

19. Scott finally had a moment of clarity, too. nt

[Mnpaul]

17. I want to know

who are the people on cable that never give the President credit for anything?

I hope someone pins him down on this

[Amonester]

18. When asked to, that wimp refuses to name names...

A character of his own...

[golddigger]

20. I wish the Little weasel would CLARIFY who the

FUCK he is talking about.

Who Gibbs, Who?

edit for typo: to pissed off to type!