Obama 'Not at all' embarrassed by Release of Open Mic Comments

[MadBadger]

The White House has no problem with President Obama’s comments in Chicago that were caught on an open microphone and quickly circulated through the media sphere. Asked aboard Air Force One if the president was embarrassed by the comments, White House press secretary Jay Carney said “not at all.”

ABC News reports Carney said the comments, including harsh words about Paul Ryan, whom the president had praised in public, did not conflict with anything the president had said:

“There’s nothing he said that contradicts anything he said in public,” Carney said, “I think what he said in that session you’re talking about and the things that he’s said in more public forums have been entirely consistent.”

Carney insisted to reporters the open mic incident was a “miscommunication, nothing more than that,” and concluded “it’s not a problem, it’s not an issue.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-not-at-all-embarrassed-by-release-of-open-mic-comments/

[craigmatic]

1. He shouldn't be he didn't say anything we didn't already know.

As a matter of fact the quotes make me like him more because it shows that he gets it.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Yeah, unlike Scott Walker trying to claim the exact the same thing

about comments he made in during that "punk'd" phone call with "Koch".

[pnwmom]

2. I bet he's careful never to say anything he doesn't mean near an open mike. n/t

[Clio the Leo]

13. Yep, after the "cling to their guns" "gaffe" I'd imagine not.....

.... I doubt that he'd have complained about the WH phones or called SOME Fed. workers slugs if he knew the whole world would read about it, but over all it was a win for him.

[Kali]

3. what did he say?

[mrcheerful]

5. He expanded on his thoughts about what the R's are trying to do to

with the Ryan budget plan. It has wing nuts going bat shit crazy all over the internet.

[Pirate Smile]

He really showed that Paul Ryan's Dudley Do-Right character is full of shit. Here:

President Obama had harsh words last night in a seeming private moment for the Chairman Paul Ryan whom president has praised in public for offering serious attempts to address the deficit.

"Eliminating the health care bill would cost us $1 trillion dollars," the president said. "It would add $1 trillion to the deficit. So when Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, he's just being America's accountant and trying to you know be responsible, this is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for. So it's not on the level. And we’ve got to keep on you know, keep on shining a light on that.”

[Pirate Smile]

6. Dupe

[vaberella]

7. But why should he be? He said noting out of line or unfamiliar. Ugh..

[buddysmellgood]

8. Excellent! What a great way to spread the word.

[FrenchieCat]

9. My thoughts as well. Pundit invaded Bully Pulpit work around.

[Life Long Dem]

10. I don't think it's anything he wouldn't say in public.

He sounded a little more emotional when he asked about being stupid. More so than in public but he would have said the same thing in a bit of a softer tone when in public but... trying to make something out of this is even funnier than his "bitter" comment in the primary election.

[noel711]

11. I don't believe it was an error..

I think he knew what he was doing, and saying.

Obama's nobody's fool. Let them rankle over his comments
and his speech. Tough titties.

[Lugnut]

12. I don't think it was an error either.

This isn't his first rodeo and he has the saddle sores to prove it.

[Clio the Leo]

14. It is very ironic that the reporter who heard him...

..... just so happened to be the most accurate/least biased one of the bunch. You have to wonder, huh?

[Unvanguard]

15. I hope it wasn't. He ought to talk like that a whole lot more. n/t

[NorthCarolina]

16. Mic left open accidently on purpose? nt