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MSNBC Anchor Bashes Obama For Not Supporting Wisconsin Unions

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President Barack Obama’s response to labor protests in Wisconsin hasn’t been forceful enough for many political leaders in his party, but what’s likely the most scathing critique the president’s received for his actions (or lack thereof) came earlier today via MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur. Uygur lambasted Obama for not showing more solidarity with the workers – even though back when he was running for president, he vowed he would.

Indeed, for Obama the most damning segment was a clip Uygur played of him campaigning in 2007, in which Obama said the following:

“If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain, when I’m in the White House I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself – I’ll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America.”

Aside from wondering why Obama was seemingly having such a difficult time finding a suitable pair of shoes, Uygur criticized him for not voicing enough words of support for workers, either…as well as White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, whose remarks about everyone needing to “live within their means” he called indistinguishable from Republican talking points.

Uygur did say that Obama “isn’t the problem,” but not without some harsh words for a perceived unwillingness to lead:

“He’s never gonna put on those walking shoes. He’s not gonna get out there and lead. That’s not what he does; it’s not who he is. He’s a careful, calculating politician.”

Video of the critiques of Obama, via MSNBC.

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  • Color Me Badd

    Damn Liberal media always loving Obama!

  • Color Me Badd

    it’s only because the TYT Army is too strong, Randy Gonzalez.

  • WCinWI

    He also had Van Jones on. This dude is crazy.

  • HeilSchultz

    Cenk Off, Cenk Off, Cenk Off.

  • Color Me Badd

    Cenk Uygur is obviously a political pundit wizard cast into the fire to dwell among the cable news plebes. I hope they don’t ruin him.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Chunk makes Mr. ED the Talking Horses ASS look good!

  • bobmoses

    Who is Cenk Uygur?

  • WCinWI

    What will Martin Bashir add to MSNBC’s lineup?

  • Davo

    Hussein has always stood with unions against America, and ultimately will do so in Wisconsin. But apparently Hussein knows that the vast majority of Wisconsin citizens SUPPORT Governor Walker’s determination to not be held hostage by labor unions, so he’s afraid to offend so many voters in a swing state. But don’t worry, Libs………….I’m sure someone like Hussein will make moves to eliminate elections……for the “good of the republic.”

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    O’Reilly just Busted the Public Union Debate apart.

    Turns out over 2 million Fed Employees DON’T have collective bargaining, except for something minor, and the law for this was enacted under Jimmy Carter w/ Dem. House & Senate!!

  • ImNotBlue

    This all fits in with the Presidency of the very academic Obama.

    As I have said since early in his presidency, he is a man with a plan. He came into the office with a strict plan of what he wanted to accomplish, and how he was going to do it. The reality on the ground, whether it’s terrorism, international issues, or a union struggle, simply aren’t part of that plan.

    The man doesn’t think on his feet and react, everything is part of a predetermined plan… the rest is just an annoyance. And by now, this fact should not be a surprise to anyone.

  • George C

    “If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain, when I’m in the White House I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself – I’ll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America.”

    Ummmm…..Federal employees have very nearly the same collective barganing that Wisconsin is pushing for , The Federal Labor Relations Act of 1978 (FLRA) , Jimmy Carter , just saying . D’oh !

  • Tribunal

    bobmoses said:
    Who is Cenk Uygur?

    I believe you mean what’s a Cenk Uygur?

  • same2u

    ImNotBlue said:
    This all fits i

    I am sure Bush’s reading of My Pet Goat impressed you.

  • WCinWI

    In other news, Maddow wore black…..again. Ugh!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    ImNotBlue said:
    This all fits in with the Presidency of the very academic Obama. As I have said since early in his presidency, he is a man with a plan. He came into the office with a strict plan of what he wanted to accomplish, and how he was going to do it. The reality on the ground, whether it’s terrorism, international issues, or a union struggle, simply aren’t part of that plan. The man doesn’t think on his feet and react, everything is part of a predetermined plan… the rest is just an annoyance. And by now, this fact should not be a surprise to anyone.

    He’s an ideologue with a plan, and that’s dangerous.
    That’s someone who’s reasoning ability has been petrified on a particular understanding of things; and as an absolute certainty, the ends justify the means.

    - and that’s pretty much, with requisite compromise and deceit, what we’ve seen.

  • ChrisNH

    I love it when Obama doesn’t even know from minute to minute ‘whose ass will be kicking him.’ Richly deserved, from whomever.

  • ImNotBlue

    @ same

    Did you read what I wrote, or just stop at the first line?

    Obama is academic in that he bases his plans on political theory, not necessarily on national support or need.

    And is there something wrong with reading to school children… or do you just not like goats?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    So Mediaite is trying to promote another loser. No one cares what this guy thinks.

  • david r

    So Cenk Uygur is disillusioned over Obama saying one thing and doing another. He’s shocked to learn that Obama is just another shallow, cynical politician primarily interested in himself. (I thought all the preening for the cameras was a dead giveaway.) I think this on-air reporter is spelling his name backwards to avoid his creditors. His name is really Knec Rugyu, and he is from Latvia.

  • George C

    david r said:
    I think this on-air reporter is spelling his name backwards to avoid his creditors. His name is really Knec Rugyu, and he is from Latvia.

    HA !

  • Pokerdude777

    Whaaaaaat??????? Is the Young Turk FINALLY starting to open his eyes about Obama?? Ok, he shows you the presidents own words promising to do something if elected and doesn’t do it (what a shocker). Now it’s time for all you lefties out there to jump on his case and breathe fire at him. I mean, when Glenn Beck does the same thing that is how you react. Come on Lefties… stay true and start ungar bashing.

  • ChrisNH

    Get a load of those orange-shirted ‘special-ed’ Libs in Wisconsin in a rabid froth as they see their Cadillac Escalades and junkets to Cuba evaporate before their eyes. What a wonderful sight.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Top down, bottom up strategy. Obama is the top part. He isn’t going to physically get in the trenches on an issue that only has limited support in the country. Instead, he’s sent in his organizing wing and political allies. Of course, Uygur knows what the strategy is and his false ‘upset’ is more about positioning for the American middle and issuing plausible deniability.

  • Yoda002

    Conservatives would never criticize Bush but liberals will criticize there own. There is a difference.

  • Color Me Badd

    gordonbloyershow said:
    So Mediaite is trying to promote another loser. No one cares what this guy thinks.

    Cenk has the biggest internet show on the entire net, Gordon Bloyer has a blog that his teabag drinking buddies attempt to read.

  • ImNotBlue

    Yoda002 said:
    Conservatives would never criticize Bush but liberals will criticize there own. There is a difference.

    Lie.

  • The Real RoyaI King

    I’m not sure you can really say they’re “promoting” given that they didn’t even use his name in the header.

    It was pretty funny seeing Gibbs 2.0 hem and haw around.

  • The Real RoyaI King

    ImNotBlue said:
    Lie.

    I also think the real Yoda would know the difference between “there” and “their” but that’s neither hair nor they’re.

  • Olby Sucks

    Why was the msnbc anchor’s name buried in the post? Why not in the headline? Hmmm.

  • The Real RoyaI King

    Olby Sucks said:
    Why was the msnbc anchor’s name buried in the post? Why not in the headline? Hmmm.

    Great minds think alike, been trying to figure that one out m’self.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    NORBIT Jr. says:
    ’Reilly just Busted the Public Union Debate apart.

    Turns out over 2 million Fed Employees DON’T have collective bargaining, except for something minor, and the law for this was enacted under Jimmy Carter w/ Dem. House & Senate!!

    Right on Norbit. It was a great segment. From the moment it aired, I wondered if Mediaite would report on it. I guess we shall see.

  • Sidhekitten

    Yoda002 said:
    Conservatives would never criticize Bush but liberals will criticize there own. There is a difference.

    Holy Crap! You did not channel the dark side, you channeled the silly side, I think you just went plaid (Spaceballs tag). The left criticize it’s own, really? How long did it take the congress freak who posted his pictures online to resign? You have a nut job in congress who should be committed. How about Charlie Rangel, that noted paragon of virtue. Wow was that racist? Where was the criticism of Alan “Republicans want you dead” Grayson, crickets chirped for two years. How about “Lil Tony” Whiner? I know, Robert “I was a top leader in the KKK” Byrd. That rat bastard was a certified racist.

    Now I will admit that Republicans will circle their wagons, but they will eat their own on a dime, any dime. Now as a thinking libertarian, I think both sides are screwed, but the Dems are Pros at covering their own backsides. When an Elephant screws the pooch, the media happily states the party affiliation with fireworks and band music. When its a Dem, you have to go down eight paragraphs, if at all, to find the clowns affiliation. It’s so bad that if I can’t find a party ID, i assume it was a democrat. I have not been proved wrong yet.

    Sorry man, but I have to cry “bullshit” on that one.

  • BruceGoose

    Yeesh, this guy is like the liberal version of Sean Hannity, interpret that however you want.

    A lot of states have had to do some pretty drastic things this year to deal with budget shortfalls, trust me, I know, I live in California. The people of Wisconsin voted in a Republican governor and state senate/assembly majority, they need to take their lumps now, even if that means losing collective bargaining. Imagine if the minority party in every state ran off and hid like the Democrats did, we’d never get anything done.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-M-Chick/507482075 Daniel M. Chick

    BruceGoose said:
    Yeesh, this guy is like the liberal version of Sean Hannity, interpret that however you want.

    A lot of states have had to do some pretty drastic things this year to deal with budget shortfalls, trust me, I know, I live in California. The people of Wisconsin voted in a Republican governor and state senate/assembly majority, they need to take their lumps now, even if that means losing collective bargaining. Imagine if the minority party in every state ran off and hid like the Democrats did, we’d never get anything done.

    Better yet, imagine Republicans were in the minority and did the very same.

  • bohratom

    This is JUST too funny to respond to…Cenk said People in NJ are running scared….Well Cenk, I live in Jersey, we not running scared….We just stamping out the Liberal agenda previous Administrations did….

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    LOL This Hack is such a bottom feeder to Mediaite, he doesn’t get included in the headline. O well, he shouldn’t have bashed Mediates Messiah…

  • Alz

    This guy “Cenk” kinda looks like another Belushi brother.

  • Sode

    Cenk wants the President to go to Madison instead of dealing with the problems in the Middle East. I thought Cenk was really smart and I am beginning to wonder about his analysis.

  • OxyCon

    Don’t sweat it Junk. Obama is busy working in the background. Did you really think the Community Organizer in Chief wasn’t behind all this union thuggery which is happening all around the country? You don’t know Obama all that well, do you?

  • Theerifiinal

    s it true that those people in biohazard suits had to show up at the studio to clean up the urine that Keith released when getting so worked up?
    http://ezinearticles.com/?Best-Wrinkle-Cream-Review—Tips-to-Select-Best-Wrinkle-Cream&id=5871930

  • Probably NOT wrong

    I have observed quite a few of the Wisconsin students
    on TV over the last seven days or so>
    Conclusion=The teachers have not been showing up for
    work for a long time………………..
    Please Gov. Walker, give them a History Lesson!
    Ronald Reagan/AirControllers ring a bell???

  • Big Eddie

    The union goons bought themselves an incompetent President and now they’re seeing their plans crumble .

    http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41988

  • Mr.Papshmer

    As much as the “community organizer” in him would like to rouse the rabble, there are certain things that you simply can’t do as president, regardless of what an ignorant, minor league charlatan he may be. Anyone who who heard his 2007 comments and thought “hell yeah!” is even dumber than he is for saying them.

  • Dave Richards

    What you may not know about Obama.

    When I first saw Obama, I remember I was standing on the porch of Boss’s parents’ impressive home as a sleek, expensive luxury car pulled up the driveway. Two young men emerged from the vehicle. They were well-dressed and looked like they were born to wealth and privilege. I was a little surprised to learn they were Boss’s friends from Occidental College until she articulated the underlying0 political connection. “They’re on our side,” she said.

    “The taller of the two was Obama, then only 19, who towered over his five-foot-five companion, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo – a wealthy, 21 year old Pakistani student. Chandoo had a full dark black, neatly trimmed moustache, and was dressed in expensive clothes. Nevertheless, Obama was the more handsome of the two. At six foot two, Obama carried himself with the dignity and poise of a model. The diminutive Chandoo, in contrast, came across as more of a practical, businessman type. Obama displayed a visible deference to Chandoo when they were standing together at the vehicle.”

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/meeting_young_obama.html

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “He’s not gonna get out there and lead. That’s not what he does; it’s not who he is.”

    Well, he got that part right.

    “President Barack Obama’s response to labor protests in Wisconsin hasn’t been forceful enough for many political leaders in his party, but what’s likely the most scathing critique the president’s received for his actions (or lack thereof) came earlier today via MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur. ”

    At least it appears here, otherwise no one would have heard it.

  • RichS

    same2u said:
    I am sure Bush’s reading of My Pet Goat impressed you.

    Yes it did. It showed the calm demeanor of a leader who was able to process a message, take a few minutes to finish what he was doing so as not to upset children while his aides were gathering initial information and then take action. What you you have wanted him to do? Have you ever led anything?

  • RichS

    bohratom said:
    This is JUST too funny to respond to…Cenk said People in NJ are running scared….Well Cenk, I live in Jersey, we not running scared….We just stamping out the Liberal agenda previous Administrations did….

    I live in NJ also. The other day, while driving back from Princeton, I heard an ad for some state public employees union. The guy sounds very gruff and angry. The line that stuck in my mind was something like, and the governor doesn’t want us to be able to retire until 65! I found this memorable since the full retirement age for Social Security is 66, for those born between 1943 and 1954, and 67, for those born after 1960. This means that this public employees union, since it was an ad, actually sat down and thought it would be a good strategy for them to complain that could only retire a year or two before the people who were paying their salaries.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Take a gander at the depths the MSNBC-Left will go to use the RACIST SMEAR against anyone – including black conservatives – that goes against their own indoctrinated bigotry:

    Analyzing a new Republican ad that urges voters to “stop Obama and his union bosses,” MSNBC‘s Lawrence O’Donnell was shocked Friday night by the message’s apparent racism.

    “The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses… that the unions bossing him around. Does that sound to you like they are trying to consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that of course — of course a black man can’t be the real boss?” O’Donnell asks his guest, former Michigan Democratic Gov. Jennifer

  • Alz

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Take a gander at the depths the MSNBC-Left will go to use the RACIST SMEAR against anyone – including black conservatives – that goes against their own indoctrinated bigotry:

    Analyzing a new Republican ad that urges voters to “stop Obama and his union bosses,” MSNBC‘s Lawrence O’Donnell was shocked Friday night by the message’s apparent racism.

    “The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses… that the unions bossing him around. Does that sound to you like they are trying to consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that of course — of course a black man can’t be the real boss?” O’Donnell asks his guest, former Michigan Democratic Gov. Jennifer

    Libs always go to the race card. It’s a way to cover for their own racism. Think slavery, Planned Parenthood, Progressivism in the 1920′s and 30′s, and what they have done to the inner cities since the early 1960′s. Oh, I left out what they have done to the American Indians.

    And as recently as in 2009, what did Ruth Bader Ginsberg say about Roe v Wade: Answer: “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”?

    Socialist Lawrence has to COMPENSATE by making up racism charges.

  • im_lovin_it

    RichS said:
    Yes it did. It showed the calm demeanor of a leader who was able to process a message, take a few minutes to finish what he was doing so as not to upset children while his aides were gathering initial information and then take action. What you you have wanted him to do? Have you ever led anything?

    Come on. He sat there for 7 minutes after being told the country was under attack. He couldn’t just say, “Excuse me children…” and get up and figure out WHAT THE F*CK WAS GOING ON?!?! Oh well thank Jesus he didn’t startle a couple dozen 2nd graders while thousands of Americans were dying in NYC. That would have been horrible.

  • Hugo Daun

    bobmoses said:
    Who is Cenk Uygur?

    You know…he’s ANOTHER one of those guys whose identity you and a bunch of others repeatedly question.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    How will the Public Union Democrats justify this to the American people?

    Turns out over 2 million Fed Employees DON’T have collective bargaining, except for something minor, and the law for this was enacted under Jimmy Carter w/ Dem. House & Senate!!

    Answer, They can’t!

    Public Union collective bargaining is, by definition, inherently corrupt.

    The only question remaining:
    Is the Democrat-supporting network media IGNORANT or COMPLICIT in not addressing this fact.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Sidhekitten said:
    Holy Crap! You did not channel the dark side, you channeled the silly side, I think you just went plaid (Spaceballs tag). The left criticize it’s own, really? How long did it take the congress freak who posted his pictures online to resign? You have a nut job in congress who should be committed. How about Charlie Rangel, that noted paragon of virtue. Wow was that racist? Where was the criticism of Alan “Republicans want you dead” Grayson, crickets chirped for two years. How about “Lil Tony” Whiner? I know, Robert “I was a top leader in the KKK” Byrd. That rat bastard was a certified racist.

    Now I will admit that Republicans will circle their wagons, but they will eat their own on a dime, any dime. Now as a thinking libertarian, I think both sides are screwed, but the Dems are Pros at covering their own backsides. When an Elephant screws the pooch, the media happily states the party affiliation with fireworks and band music. When its a Dem, you have to go down eight paragraphs, if at all, to find the clowns affiliation. It’s so bad that if I can’t find a party ID, i assume it was a democrat. I have not been proved wrong yet.

    Sorry man, but I have to cry “bullshit” on that one.

    and i have to cry “bullshit” on your “bullshit” claim…does mark foley ring a bell? how about tom delay?
    give me a break ‘the will eat their own on a dime.’

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    im_lovin_it said:
    Come on. He sat there for 7 minutes after being told the country was under attack. He couldn’t just say, “Excuse me children…” and get up and figure out WHAT THE F*CK WAS GOING ON?!?! Oh well thank Jesus he didn’t startle a couple dozen 2nd graders while thousands of Americans were dying in NYC. That would have been horrible.

    it took him 7 minutes to think of the lies he would tell the american people linking attack to iraq. i was never fooled by that ‘george bush is an idiot’ perception going on.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    BruceGoose said:
    Yeesh, this guy is like the liberal version of Sean Hannity, interpret that however you want.

    A lot of states have had to do some pretty drastic things this year to deal with budget shortfalls, trust me, I know, I live in California. The people of Wisconsin voted in a Republican governor and state senate/assembly majority, they need to take their lumps now, even if that means losing collective bargaining. Imagine if the minority party in every state ran off and hid like the Democrats did, we’d never get anything done.

    yeah, imagine if they all ran off like that coward abraham lincoln.
    http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=9803297

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    I have observed quite a few of the Wisconsin students
    on TV over the last seven days or so>
    Conclusion=The teachers have not been showing up for
    work for a long time………………..
    Please Gov. Walker, give them a History Lesson!
    Ronald Reagan/AirControllers ring a bell???

    if you saw people acting like idiots they might have been from the tea party impersonating protesters.
    http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/02/20/tea-party-plan-to-impersonate-union-protesters-even-if-it-becomes-known-that-we-are-plants-the-quotes-pictures-will-linger-as-defacto-truth/

  • Nationman

    I followed Cenk way back when the young turks was just a youtube channel. I stopped once I realized just about every statistic he used was falsfied or unverifiable.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Yoda002 said:
    Conservatives would never criticize Bush but liberals will criticize there own. There is a difference.

    Thank you for proving that you don’t actually listen to Conservatives, just get your talking points from MM and the Daily Kos. That is utterly and completely FALSE!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Nationman said:
    I followed Cenk way back when the young turks was just a youtube channel. I stopped once I realized just about every statistic he used was falsfied or unverifiable.

    MSNBC came to that same conclusion – and gave him a show!

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Yoda002 said:Conservatives would never criticize Bush but liberals will criticize there own. There is a difference. Thank you for proving that you don’t actually listen to Conservatives, just get your talking points from MM and the Daily Kos. That is utterly and completely FALSE!

    I guess Yodel doesn’t remember the Illegal Amnesty debate.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    It’s called a selective memory, Norbit.

  • notsofast

    Well, we see MSNBC has hired yet another racist. MSNBC- stop your racism against our president just because he is black. This is 2011, not 1811!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Dave Richards said:
    What you may not know about Obama.

    When I first saw Obama, I remember I was standing on the porch of Boss’s parents’ impressive home as a sleek, expensive luxury car pulled up the driveway. Two young men emerged from the vehicle. They were well-dressed and looked like they were born to wealth and privilege. I was a little surprised to learn they were Boss’s friends from Occidental College until she articulated the underlying0 political connection. “They’re on our side,” she said.

    “The taller of the two was Obama, then only 19, who towered over his five-foot-five companion, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo – a wealthy, 21 year old Pakistani student. Chandoo had a full dark black, neatly trimmed moustache, and was dressed in expensive clothes. Nevertheless, Obama was the more handsome of the two. At six foot two, Obama carried himself with the dignity and poise of a model. The diminutive Chandoo, in contrast, came across as more of a practical, businessman type. Obama displayed a visible deference to Chandoo when they were standing together at the vehicle.”

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/meeting_young_obama.html

    what a load of shit that is. this guy drew is nothing more than another disgruntled right-wing pussy. he’s pissed of because he believes it was affirmative action caused him to be passed over on a number of teaching positions and not because he just sucks as a teacher.
    According to Drew, his present conservative world view resulted, in large part, from adult rejections, as he was denied tenure in a series of teaching jobs, he believes, due to affirmative action policies, for which he blames the Democratic Party and deserves “reparations.”
    Here are a few of his Tweets:
    I wanted to be recognized as the best in the nation @_ccm Winning award from APSA didn’t overcome racial preferences for minorities.
    Can you imagine how painful it is to live in poverty, study 10 years, @_ccm then hear, “Sorry, you’re white.” #tcot #p2 I need reparations.
    I repeatedly came in 2nd to minority candidates with less credentials. @_ccm It’s painful to interview and compete for nothing.
    There are a lot of us @_ccm with the same story of being harmed by affirmative action. Democrats don’t understand our anger.
    Democrats hurt me w/ affirmative action. @_ccm I felt betrayed by people who encouraged me to become a political scientist.

    This is the recurring theme in all of Drew’s writings: Somebody has something better than I have and they need to suffer for it. Isn’t this reminiscent of the way the right often views the left? Drew went to very good private schools on scholarships and good for him. But his getting breaks along the way seems only to have intensified his jealousy of those who have succeeded beyond him; although I think he would deny that, because like many right wingers, even while everything is all about what they want, self-awareness is not such a prominent characteristic.

  • notsofast

    im_lovin_it said:
    Come on. He sat there for 7 minutes after being told the country was under attack. He couldn’t just say, “Excuse me children…” and get up and figure out WHAT THE F*CK WAS GOING ON?!?!

    No, he could have done what Dim libs in Wisconsin are doing now; running and hiding!

    Bush did the right thing- you wanted him to panic and scare the nation? No chance, son- he is a Republican , not a Dim. And just tell me, exactly what he could have done during those 7 minutes? Called for a meeting of the UN? LOL

    Son, there are more people than the president who respond to situations like those of 9/11/2001.

  • notsofast

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    what a load of shit that is. this guy drew is nothing more than another disgruntled right-wing pussy.

    Says the BHO shill and arse kisser.

  • felixw

    Alz said:
    Libs always go to the race card. It’s a way to cover for their own racism. T

    The history of the Democrat party proves your point. For most of its history, Democrats wanted to give white people preferential treatment over black people. But for the last fifty years, Democrats have wanted to give black people preferential treatment over white people. At no point in its history, have Democrats stood for equality and color-blind application of the laws. The Republican, in contrast, have been more consistent — since pushing for freeing of slaves under Lincoln (a Republican), and taking the lead in giving women the vote (against fierce Democrat opposition) — in dealing with people on the “quality of their characters” and not the “color of their skin.” How ironic that Democrats always accuse Republicans of bias and racism, when their own party has never been able to put race behind, not for a single day.

  • http://www.twitter.com/nuktubian Nuktubian

    Shocking that this Young Turk hack actually has a show on MSNBC.

    I vehemently disagree with his ideology, but that pales in comparison to how bad – how truly bad, he is on TV.

  • im_lovin_it

    notsofast said:
    No, he could have done what Dim libs in Wisconsin are doing now; running and hiding!

    Bush did the right thing- you wanted him to panic and scare the nation? No chance, son- he is a Republican , not a Dim. And just tell me, exactly what he could have done during those 7 minutes? Called for a meeting of the UN? LOL

    Son, there are more people than the president who respond to situations like those of 9/11/2001.

    You mean like when he ran and hid in a bunker at Offut AFB in Omaha? Haw Haw….son.

    Oh no, he didn’t scare anybody. He just sat there. No need to ask any questions on the matter. No need to figure out what was known at the time. Just sit there reading a book for little children. It was very reassuring of our Commander in Chief.

  • notsofast

    im_lovin_it said:
    You mean like when he ran and hid in a bunker at Offut AFB in Omaha? Haw Haw….son.

    LOL

    Yeah, son- when the country is under attack , you want your leader to be in the kill zone.

    Hey, how come Barry wont call out the terrorist who killed many American’s; Gaddafi?

    talk about a coward!

  • notsofast

    im_lovin_it said:
    im_lovin_it says:
    February 26, 2011 at 11:28 am im_lovin_it(Quote)

    BTW, son, this post was about what the MSNBC guy said about Barry, not Bush. Barry has been in office for over 2 years and you coward libs are still embarrassed to talk about him.

    LOL

    I don’t blame ya, son!

  • Emma

    Cenk and Jane Hamsher. They’re uber leftists and real liberals don’t pay attention to their nonsense.

  • BruceGoose

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    yeah, imagine if they all ran off like that coward abraham lincoln.
    http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=9803297

    Lincoln only delayed the inevitable. If the Democrats goal was to prove their dedication to their constituents and bring national attention to this issue, mission accomplished, but they have no hope of preventing this from passing. What are they going to do, hide out until 2012? Wisconsin decided to become a red state last November so they’re getting the government they deserve. They can reconsider that decision in 2012 and 2014.

  • writer

    I would comment on the article, but INB made a grammatical error and I’m too upset.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Templeton/1642703797 Dave Templeton

    Obama can talk the talk but unable to walk the walk with the dysfunction union brats!

  • 2shareisjoy

    We have known that Obama, far from being a leftist political figure, stands in the middle, paying very close attention to see which way the wind blows, and in these days, contrary to what must people believe, the winds of change are coming in stronger, the fact that Justice and Love will set the stage is undeniable.

    “I need your help to come before you, to bless this world and teach, to show men that the way forward is simple, requires only the acceptance of Justice and Freedom, Sharing and Love. These aspects are already within you and need only to be evoked by Me.”
    ~Messages of Maitreya The Christ

  • Cancon2

    I am sure this is front and center with the The One today. Yes, yes, world is imploding in Middle East , but this Young Turd has got my schedule set for me. A guy named Sink is on TV calling me out. Screw that call to NATO, I have watch this idiot on Youtube. What a dink he is, but MSNBC, just had to have him. Nice one.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Seems like the “Corrupt B-tards” at lamestream M(ore)S(ocialism)from N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) are adding EXTRA FOAM to their usual foaming-at-the-mouth hysteria.

    “You Lie!”, the most extremist, radical, anti-American, leftist excuse for a president in American history, can’t even keep up with these media nut-jobs., who make al jazeera seem “Fair and Balanced” in comparison.

    Is this what the lunatic-left wanted when they called for “more civil discourse” following the shooting by the “left-wing pothead” of one of their d-crat socialist pelosi puppets?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Elaine-Jesmer/614756658 Elaine Jesmer

    Unfortunately for unions, Uygar is right. It’s not that Obama stands in the middle that bothers me, it’s that he said he stood with unions when he was running, but he turns out to not walk the walk. Hopefully, the unions will cut him some slack when he needs their $ to run for re-election. No matter how disgusting this behavior may be, he’s better than any alternative.

  • tgk

    When is Obama gonna show some support for the people being gunned down in Libya? The whinny ass unions can take care of themselves and aren’t in danger of losing their lives. Regardless of what these folks say:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl0uOhm_fek&feature=player_embedded

  • RichS

    im_lovin_it said:
    Come on. He sat there for 7 minutes after being told the country was under attack. He couldn’t just say, “Excuse me children…” and get up and figure out WHAT THE F*CK WAS GOING ON?!?! Oh well thank Jesus he didn’t startle a couple dozen 2nd graders while thousands of Americans were dying in NYC. That would have been horrible.

    You forgot to read the second part. You also forgot to answer my question.

    First they told him what had happened. What action would you have had President Bush take?

    Tell me the truth, do you find out what party a person is in before you decide whether what they did was right or wrong?

  • CAconservative

    How does Obimbo stand with the WI Public Unions when Federal employees are bared from collective bargaining? Both are Publicly supported by taxes and therefor, shouldn’t be subject to collective bargaining. What’s really laughable here is, the leftist-sheeple thinking Obimbo was looking out for them. Obimbo’s socialist ideology from the outset has always been about control, and power. Socialism is not about the masses. Socialism is about using the masses to support an oligarchy. It is, and has always been about making the masses dependent upon, and subservient to the government, hence, we see the lack of immigration and border enforcement, ever growing entitlement programs, and a propensity to undermine the Constitution.

  • RichS

    im_lovin_it said:
    hid in a bunker at Offut AFB in Omaha

    You fault the President for going to the SAC headquarters for a briefing for two hours and then flying back to Washington, D. C. You don’t really care what he did, you just want to take whatever he did and say it was wrong. You have no credibility.

  • WillP

    Campaigning and governing are as different as men and women.

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    It’s not the economy stupid; it’s the fact that we don’t have enough businesses to put people to work. Today’s businesses formed a Cartel like the OPEC Oil gangsters. This legally kills all competition. They do this to monopolize production and services to horde everything for the few who belong to the Cartel. Wise up you educated dummies; real management could have caught this long before the economic debacle this same group created.

  • Tedderman

    Obama had better wake up, the future of democracy is at stake. Once the Tea-party/Fox news republican Governors and their lackys in the state government succeed in destroying unions by denying them collective bargaining rights, it’s over. It began with a right wing SCOTUS awarding big business status as individuals and with the Karl Rove groups collecting 90% of the millions they spent on campaigns from these million and billionaires. It ends with the American worker having NO rights and a return to 1900 where there were no laws to protect workers. Bye Bye any safety restrictions, bye bye fair hourly wages, vacations, sick time, pensions or any other rights gained over the last century by unions. Bye bye America, hello 3rd world nation.

  • Arkansas Steve

    CENK, before you shoot your mouth off again, please do the world one small favor.

    Go see the movie WAITING FOR SUPERMAN.

    It describes the enormous harm that teacher’s unions have done to public education in the U.S.
    It shows them putting $$ & greed ahead of students.
    It shows them being run by “politics” in the worst sense.

    Maybe President Obama has seen it and realizes he was wrong about a lot of things. Have you ever consideded that possibility? Maybe ALL presidents are pushed to the center. Maybe he’d like to completely change some of his policies because he’s learned some things WHILE BEING PRESIDENT he just didn’t know beforehand.

    Maybe he talked to Bill Clinton.

  • Grammie

    im_lovin_it said:
    Come on. He sat there for 7 minutes after being told the country was under attack. He couldn’t just say, “Excuse me children…” and get up and figure out WHAT THE F*CK WAS GOING ON?!?! Oh well thank Jesus he didn’t startle a couple dozen 2nd graders while thousands of Americans were dying in NYC. That would have been horrible.

    .
    Do you really think that the Secret Service et al were ready to instantaneously just let the president hop into a limo and put the petal to the metal?

    From what I’ve seen hundreds of people went into preplanned crisis planning and with no more info than was available at that instant any jumping up into instant action would have been foolish.

  • Arkansas Steve

    im_lovin_it said:
    Come on. He sat there for 7 minutes after being told the country was under attack. He couldn’t just say, “Excuse me children…” and get up and figure out WHAT THE F*CK WAS GOING ON?!?! Oh well thank Jesus he didn’t startle a couple dozen 2nd graders while thousands of Americans were dying in NYC. That would have been horrible.

    You come on lovin it.

    Does it occur to you that one of the easiest ways to harm a President would be to get the Secret Service to act impulsively because of an unknown or undetermined threat to the country?

    Do you remember Sonny in The Godfather? He reacted impulsively, drove fast & angry, probably cussed to himself and said he was going to get that sob who hurt his sister, right up until he got to the toll booth!!!

  • betweentwoevils

    President Obama is showing his true side – a moderate corporate Dem on the side of the rich and powerful. Well it does not matter since we the workers of this nation will win in this civil rights fight.

  • betweentwoevils

    http://t.co/TtPhWTv

    From the lefty site Forbes

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Arkansas Steve said:
    Go see the movie WAITING FOR SUPERMAN.

    It describes the enormous harm that teacher’s unions have done to public education in the U.S.
    It shows them putting $$ & greed ahead of students.
    It shows them being run by “politics” in the worst sense.

    Good comment & Cenk Uygur is even dumber than the usual PMSnbc offerings to the great God of the Unwatched.

  • Joe Astroturf

    Because of all these public union slackers that work for 20 years and then retire on your backs we’re losing our healthcare that we worked for. Unlike the nonpublic unions that have to create a product they just have to vote in democrats like Nancy Pelosi so they can get rich and her elected. Their taking Avastin away from 17,000 women with late-stage breast cancer and delabeling it . This means your girlfriends and wives and daughters won’t get to live as long as craggly face Nancy Pelosi. If you don’t believe me do a web search on it and FDA decision. This is one of the reason I wrote this song “Teapartiers I can’t hear you” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfboOindCo. Older Vets and citizens don’t let them do this to your wife and loved ones. Nancy Pelosi can afford and get Avastin if she needs it, she don’t care about you but the illegals that will get your healthcare and will vote for her.
    Here’s a verse

    Doctors are retiring earlier but we’re getting 17000 new IRS
    This is how Obama creates health care jobs I guess
    For 234 years this country’s been God’s blessing.
    Now he’s following Cloward and Piven’s to bankrupt the country I’m guessing
    If Obamacare gives Grandma and Grandpa a scare
    Think how when their rationed and die earlier we’ll save on healthcare

    Hey guys if you fought at Iwo or the Chosen
    when they stop giving your wife her meds and her last breath comes over her face
    you’ll find comfort knowing Nancy’d gladly take her place.

  • Davo

    betweentwoevils said:
    …………the workers of this nation will win in this civil rights fight.

    And the American citizens who work to pay those government elites will lose. Lose their jobs. Lose their homes. It doesn’t matter as long as we can still “Look For The UNION Label” worn by the selfish parasites.

  • http://libertyinprogressnow.wordpress.com/ ProgLib

    CAconservative

    First of all, you clueless idiot, if Obama was about taking power in a socialistic state he wouldn’t keep giving breaks to the big banks and allowing them to get bailed out by the American taxpayers, along with extending the Bush tax cuts for the super rich. We could only wish that this president was even remotely to the left or sympathetic to the middle class. He is a corporate Democrat who sucks up to the Republican party so they don’t hate him. He is a capitulator (sp?) in-chief, and always wants to make his critics happy. To even remotely assume that he is a socialist is defying reality and the facts, but obviously nobody of your low caliber of intelligence can comprehend something like that.

  • Alz

    ProgLib said:
    First of all, you clueless idiot, if Obama was about taking power in a socialistic state he wouldn’t keep giving breaks to the big banks and allowing them to get bailed out by the American taxpayers, along with extending the Bush tax cuts for the super rich. We could only wish that this president was even remotely to the left or sympathetic to the middle class. He is a corporate Democrat who sucks up to the Republican party so they don’t hate him. He is a capitulator (sp?) in-chief, and always wants to make his critics happy. To even remotely assume that he is a socialist is defying reality and the facts, but obviously nobody of your low caliber of intelligence can comprehend something like that.

    Read up on Cloward-Piven (not just the Wikipedia entry.)
    http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=Cloward-Piven&aq=f&aqi=g5&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.1,or.&fp=19d8439716407a1a

    What the left is doing is very destructive to our country (and the World.) Commodities are going up because of Obama’s policies.

  • hgovernick

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    Seems like the “Corrupt B-tards” at lamestream M(ore)S(ocialism)from N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) are adding EXTRA FOAM to their usual foaming-at-the-mouth hysteria.

    Keep trying. Meantime, my sympathies – I see you are suffering from delusions of adequacy.

  • hgovernick

    tgk said:
    When is Obama gonna show some support for the people being gunned down in Libya? The whinny ass unions can take care of themselves and aren’t in danger of losing their lives. Regardless of what these folks say:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl0uOhm_fek&feature=player_embedded

    Typical dummy… can’t spell.

  • hgovernick

    uggugg said:
    It’s not the economy stupid; it’s the fact that we don’t have enough businesses to put people to work. Today’s businesses formed a Cartel like the OPEC Oil gangsters. This legally kills all competition. They do this to monopolize production and services to horde everything for the few who belong to the Cartel. Wise up you educated dummies; real management could have caught this long before the economic debacle this same group created.

    Your logic is too intelligent for most here.

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