President Barack Obama was his usual impressive self during his prime time press conference on Wednesday, responding to questions with a crispness, clarity and grasp of detail that’s all the more impressive when compared to the general doofusness of his predecessor. Teleprompter or no, the man speaks in complete paragraphs, his thoughts leading logically from one to the other, rarely avoiding a question or failing to give a credible answer, whether you agree with the content or not.
Still, he looked like a guy struggling up a steep path, needing to talk people into buying his position, after months in which he grew accustomed to getting the benefit of the doubt. He has a lot of convincing to do to bring Americans around to his struggling healthcare reform plan, and it showed. He insisted he won’t sign a bill that worsens the already-appalling U.S. deficit and piles new debt on top of old; that he’s not an old-fashioned tax and spend Democrat; that he won’t finance his plan on the backs of the middle class; and that he wants a bipartisan bill with Republican support, not something rammed through Congress solely thanks to Democrat votes.
He looked sincere, if not entirely convincing. And maybe that’s because he’s been hanging around with the wrong people. The President’s healthcare program, badly needed as it may be, is in very real danger of Death by Pelosi.
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What a jaw droppingly dishonest first paragraph.
LOL, Ward, the spite.
Don’t you guys say Obama’ s a great orator when you’re complaining he’s an empty suit?
Partisanship at it finest – no wonder people are getting fed up with politics of any kind. Partisans are too busy attacking the man to worry about the policy.
Spite?? Simply dishonest. I’m not one who said he was a great orator. From the get go Obama has not impressed me, and frankly it still confounds me how people are still swept up by him.
Partisanship? Again I’m saying that Mr. McParland is writing something that reality does not reflect, hence its dishonest.
Where did I attack Obama? I “attacked” Mr. McParland.
Whats really funny Cynapse is that it is so blindingly obvious that you are exaclty what you accuse others of being, yet you are completely unaware of it.
I am partisan, but likely less so than you. I live the ideology that I espouse, and that is something that the likes of Obama and his supporters do not do.
Obama has been disproving for the last 6 months that he is impressive. Pretty much a gaffe a week or better of the kind that killed Dan Quayles career, or that GWB was endlessly ridiculed for.
Crispness, clarity and grasp of detail? The man speaks in rhetorical flourishes that are the exact opposite of clear or detailed.
“rarely avoiding a question or failing to give a credible answer..” That was the biggest BS line of the entire paragraph. Obama stands up and contradicts himself endlessly and outright lies.
Mr. McParland has written what he wants Obama to be, or at least what he wants disengaged readers to believe Obama is.
Whats really funny Cynapse is that it is so blindingly obvious that you are exaclty what you accuse others of being, yet you are completely unaware of it.
Really? Tell me more …
You seem to be confusing disgust with one part of the political spectrum for wholesale endorsement of another.
The ‘GREAT ONE’ should be able to answer the questions that are asked of him in the press conferences! Krist, they were delived to the askers prior to the pressers.
What a fake!
As far as McParland or whatever his name is – what an IDIOT. It is Saps like him that prevent me from accepting any of the dead tree media into my home anymore.
“Really? Tell me more …
You seem to be confusing disgust with one part of the political spectrum for wholesale endorsement of another.”
Cynapse – you just said all that needs to be said to validate my previous post..
Not really. You and your mates call me a leftist and a liberal every time I don’t drink the Palin kool-aid or reflexively oppose something because a liberal thought it was a good idea. I see no value in opposing something just because group X said they liked it. Obviously, neither do most human beings in North America – otherwise we wouldn’t need pre-election campaigns. Many of the people who voted for Obama this time voted for Bush before that and Clinton even earlier. One can take that voting path and still have serious disdain for the far right or far left. My disdain for the strong right has been explained many times and qualifies more as a natural reaction than some political mind-block.
That makes me guilty of whoring out my vote and thinking before I support someone. Another term for it is ‘democracy’