Presidential Press Conference on Tax Cuts and Unemployment Extension

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Run time: 32:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTKUEfnegE   Posted on YouTube: December 07, 2010 By YouTube Member: whitehouse Views on YouTube: 63   Posted on DU: December 07, 2010 By DU Member: Poll_Blind Views on DU: 658

 
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[activa8tr]

1. I just watched a Republican President in that news conference!

More well-spoken than most Republican Presidents in my lifetime since Eisenhower, but a Republican Presidential Press Conference, just the same.

[markpkessinger]

2. Andrea Mitchell's reaction, and mine

Andrea Mitchell, on MSNBC, described the President's performance as "fiery" and "passionate." I guess I must have watched a different Obama press conference that happened to be airing at the same time, because what I saw was a tone that alternated between annoyed and defensive.

[MartinTurtle]

3. "we have a north star out there???"

the public option was the foothold to grow a better health care system, and he didn't do enough to fight for it. What we have now is just more bending over to big interest. The republicans will turn this against him and they will succeed once again! The additional debt burden for the unemployed and middle tax credit will be turned on him and they will win again. He will not veto raids and changes in soc. security and medicaid and there will be pitiful compromises to defense spending that will be hard to measure and have no impact on foreign wars.

At every opportunity he is trying to win over the fox news viewers by appealing to their language. This north star comment will not win over the vast majority of rural white voters who will always think he is a socialist kenyan, but he tries and tries to win them over by bending towards the power shift instead of using his amazinig natural skills to challenge it.

I really do sympathize with how hard his job must be, and at times I expect him to cut deals to do a little evil to do a greater good, but at every turn he has disappointed me, and it's in direct opposition to the rhetoric he campaigned on and I fought so much to get him elected on.

I've been reading DU for many years and never commented. I almost can't believe what has happened.

"abraham lincoln was a first rate, second rate man" f. douglas

I don't know what Obama is, but he is no A. Lincoln.

[Roy Rolling]

4. Expecting your allies to always suck it up

is what is wrong. If he would have just asked the Republicans to suck it up once in the last two years it would be excusable. Instead, he takes the easy way out and expects his supporters to be satisfied with the short end of the stick this time, and also the short end of the stick the last time--ditching the public option in the health care debate. What progressives want is a balcance budget like under Clinton---not more pork that will drive up the deficit. Giving the middle class new deficit-growing tax breaks is the same problem as giving high-income earners deficit-growing tax breaks. Both are bad fiscal policy---they both add to the deficit and do not add jobs---except in countries other than the U.S. where the new-found money will be invested.

[SirRevolutionary]

5. Wow...when the pirates took over that ship, he had the SEALs take care of it

I don't remember much negotiation with those hostage takers, if he wants to use that analogy :shrug:

[tomm2thumbs]

6. okay, so I burst out laughing at that answer to his 1st question...

'Hold on a second Ben, this isn't the politics of the moment - this has to do with what can we get done right now'

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Ummm, those might be the same thing.

[Poll_Blind]

8. YES, I caught that too. That was a harbinger that we were going to be in for a rough ride.

PB

[TatonkaJames]

7. You just laid out the whole enchilada

The Republicans holy grail is tax cuts for the wealthy. Now you tell the nation on live TV.
You should have done this the past two years with a dem house and congress.
You sold out. Hope has turned to misery. Wow, $1000 more a year while they get up to $800,000.
Don't you realize after paying one months rent most people are right back where they were, looking for money ?
Now if we had more had you not given the wealthy more money and steered it our way, then you would have done something big.

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Watch the Speech and turn off the Sound

This is not the Obama I knew.

By turning of the Sound with anyone
and watching the body movements
you will understand more.

Deafness has its rewards.

[Poll_Blind]

10. Thank you for that perspective, Ichingcarpenter!

Without the sound I am much more aware of his body language. Definitely a man on the defense.

PB