Insert snide comment here on Obama being socialist.

Good to see him very comfortable outside of politics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice to see Colby admitting that Obama is a joker.

You know Hitler also did good color commentary.

Ouch!

He plugged Sportcenter on CBS! Pres. Obama seemed like he was having a great time. He seemed relaxed.

Apparent that he may have had Republicans on his mind and his mind on Republicans.

They’re going all out with the anti-professorial mode.

Are you serious? Where’s he gonna show up next?

Sound the alarm, it’s an invasion on ALL fronts!!!

m says:
January 30, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Insert snide comment here on Obama being socialist.
Hadn’t planned on it, but since you asked “Ok, Obama’s a socialist”.

SWWT says:
January 30, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Are you serious? Where’s he gonna show up next?
There are no forms of media on/in which you can escape the Precedent. He’ on camera campaigning somewhere 24-7.

Congrats to Cactus for managing to compare Obama to Hitler because he attended a basketball game. Who saw that one coming? I say its worth an additional 25 bonus points!!! BRAVO CACTUS!!

Ted, you completely misinterpreted the comparison, it’s not because Teh One went to a basketball game. It’s the amazing similarity in the ability of both men to speak in such a manner as to completely “mezmorize” their followers. A similar uncanny ability to completely fool hordes of disciples into believing one thing while actually doing another.

Many people of diverse backgrounds and ages share similar traits, it certainly doesn’t mean Barry’s a nazi.

Hell everybody knows he’s a socialist.

Ahhh…I misinterpreted the Hitler comparison, could’ve happened to anyone right? timzank, let me introduce you to my soap dish, the both of you could have a great conversation. BTW , I’m going to have to take away 10 pts from your score for eating way too much stupid for dinner. Now run along and Tivo Glenn Beck; I’m quite certain you can relate to him.

Glad you understand how similarities work now. Maybe just try reading a little slower, or have your reader read to you a little slower. If you have any other problems, just be patient and wait until one of us grown ups logs in, we’ll help ya out.

Moron (aka timzank) – Its good to see an example of a tea partier who thinks its okay to compare Obama and Hitler. Seriously, thanks for that.

But I do believe my soap dish AND my door knob could take you in a debate. No offense to the soap dish and the door knob.

Now Teddy, I did no such thing. I pointed out how people of various diverse backgrounds can have similar traits. Are you saying Hitler and Obama are NOT both excellent and skilled orators?

Ted… seriously… this was such an blatantly obvious reductio-ad-absurdum that I didn’t think I had to point out it was sarcasm – especially after M’s “Insert snide comment here on Obama being socialist” crack.

Hell, I didn’t even think it necessary to stick around in this thread to see if someone didn’t get that it was making fun of the “Hitler Gave Good Speeches Too” crowd. The fact that you’d think for even a split second that my comment was made seriously either displays just how deteriorated the political atmosphere has become, or your lack of sense of humor…

Hitler comparisons without context do that…don’t ask me why.

“the fact that you’d think for even a split second that my comment was made seriously either displays just how deteriorated the political atmosphere has become, or your lack of sense of humor…”

or that he’s tone deaf to irony…

He/she had a context, you overlooked it. He just told you, Einstein.

Ehh, it’s all good. Didn’t mean to full-on Godwin the thread by dropping a ridiculous brain nugget… if anything, I thought someone who believes the Obama-is-Hitler proposition would shoot back at me for poking fun. But yeah, I thought the irony in it was as subtle as a Mack truck; as if anyone in the 1930s did “color commentary”, never mind what’s-his-name.

Next time, I’ll be sure to use the (sarcasm) tags. Moving right along…

Yeah, we all got a chuckle out Brain Dead Ted.

Too funny…

What a great guy and class act, he really mixed it well with the broadcasters, who obviously were gracious and appreciative of his time.

It’s wonderful having a President again that’s verbose and charming. It must be terribly painful for those blinded with rage and hatred. Pity.

Are you sure you mean “verbose”?

I’d describe the president as being eloquent.

Jim R says:
January 30, 2010 at 10:31 pm {It’s wonderful having a President again that’s verbose and charming. It must be terribly painful for those blinded with rage and hatred. Pity.}

Yeah, verbose and charming, just the qualities we need as our country slides into the proverbial shitter.

Sorry, I’d rather have a leader instead of a salesman.

HA! I liked the part where Obama said I am coming after your job, so you either have 3 more years or 7.

I am glad he gets a chance to relax. Who wants him to live on the edge 24/7?

First off, for the President and the Vice President to be here and show their support of college basketball is spectacular and I think that’s the best. And he generated a lot of excitement. It’s neat to see our country excited about their President. I mean, that’s a cool thing. I’m excited about it too. It’s just a good atmosphere and their team responded to it at a really high level.”

He always brings energy. It was good to have him here, it was good to play well when he was here.

Pathetic! The President made sport of the idiots in the House GOP yesterday and like the 2008 election, some of you just can’t accept that he’s more intelligent, and in command of the facts than any President in modern history. It’s killing you folks isn’t it? I don’t blame you. I’m glad he’s on our side. That other party has no one even close! It must suck to be the delusional right!

By the way, no love for the lack of teleprompter yesterday? Oh, that’s right…it doesn’t fit your phony narrative.

You all realize this was probably planned by Pfolzer (?) right? To make Obama a ‘people person’ .How this will
help with 2010 elections though is still a question. Also as offended as Ted is at the Obama/Hitler comparision
he’s wrong. Just like Hitler, Jim Jones and Mao had the ability so did King and Ghandi. Perfect examples of ‘it isn’t the gift, it is how you use it.’ .Whether Obama belongs with the first, second or his own group
concerning this has yet to be seen.

Sorry Ted but it’s the truth, whether you like it or hate it, accept it.

roxsteady says:
January 31, 2010 at 2:48 am

No one said that Obama’s handlers are stupid. Kinda hard to ‘just drop by’ and have teleprompters set up
in advance.

I think Obama just got a serving of bad PR in Italy, regarding this. The news did a story about Florida turning away Haitians, although they reported that the hospitals are full, not that Christ has asked the Federal government for financial help. They said that haitians, many of them babies, were sitting in Haiti dying because Florida stopped taking them in, complete with footage. They presented a very dire situation and said nothing was happening, and people were dying.

They then cut away to this story, Obama sitting at a basketball game.

It didn’t look good.

Why isn’t Obama offering reimbursement to Florida, so they can start receiving more people? He pledged $100M… I would think some of that could go to cover these medical costs?
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/hillsborough/haitian-patients-strain-fl-hospitals-013010

So what you are saying Sara, is that the Italian media is looking at substance rather than style? What a concept. Too bad our own media views Obama only as a style icon and never discusses the details and absurdities of his “substance”.

i wouldn’t go that far. hahah

They didn’t trash him in the basketball story, but anyone watching it would have drawn the conclusion that while chlidren are dying in Haiti because FL can’t handle the load, the POTUS is laughing it up at a b-ball game. My husband sure did. He was actually pissed (and he is very mild mannered)

It looked very bad.

Style over substance? That discussion with House Republicans Friday was as substantive as any public dialog we’ve ever seen from a president – or so says nearly every media critic out there. The guy when to a basketball game, was charming, smart and self-effacing and the take away according on some on this post is that it remains to be seen if Obama is more like Hitler and Mao or King and Ghandi. Wow. Tough crowd.

There is plenty to disagree with Obama on policy, but automatically seeing the worst in his decision to attend a basketball game speaks volumes to the electorate, in my opinion. People need to cut him some a tiny bit of slack.

Damn you Colby!

I agree with you.

I don’t care if he went to a basketball game. i think, however, it didn’t play well on the news, when seeing the two stories back to back. It didn’t play well, at all. but it’s not like someones making a movie attacking Obama for playing golf…

I think the biggest take away from the GOP Q&A is that, after one year in office, and two years on the trail, it was the most substantive thing we have seen from the POTUS. And he was wasn’t 100% truthful or accurate, even then.

I think that whole Hitler thing started because of this comment:

m says:
January 30, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Insert snide comment here on Obama being socialist.

It looks like cactus replied, as snark.

oops, he *wasn’t* 100% truthful or accurate.

The media addresses the style of Obama more than the substance. Here are just a few examples over the last week:

To this date, there is nary a word on his mistakes in the SOTU. No other president has been given such a pass as Obama on his errors. He doesn’t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which was clear in the “error” he made in the SOTU. But Keith Olbermann tells us Obama is one of the 1000 smartest people on earth (probably behind KO himself).

he flat out LIED about SCOTUS decision, yet where is the media’s uproarious admonishments as in the 16 words of President Bush (which were true, yet deemed a lie by the media).

In his meet up with pubbies at the event you referenced Colby he openly admitted that the democrats violated their own pledge by “sneaking” in items that would indeed put the government between the people and their doctors. yet, silence by the media; silence on this board even.

This is a President who appears on television more than any other in history; I could care less what he said at a Basketball game — you do, as is evidenced by the fact that it was posted here. I care that he admitted the republican DO HAVE ideas and I care that he admitted the democrats put in language in the healthcare bill, yet the media continues to lie about both those items. I care that the media still calls the republicans the “party of no” when that is a flat out lie. Obama owns (owned) the WH, the House and the Senate, yet you folks in the media claim the republicans “obstructed” health care. That is FALSE.

I’m sick of BIOB. Every President “inherits” the policies and implications of past Presidents. Bush inherited “WMD in Iraq” from Clinton, but watching the media you would think that Bush invented Iraq had WMD.

This is a President who has been cut more slack than ever especially by the media. The media have thrown their responsibilities into the gutter. The DO focus on style over substance, when if they do talk substance, they lie about it.

No one took offense at his attending a bball game; are folks questioning his priorities? I am.

Colby Hall says:
January 31, 2010 at 9:41 am

I’m sorry but if you lie and fool me, don’t expect me to be believing you when you
become ‘nicer’. He’s already proven he would say or do practically anything to
get his agenda, why shouldn’t I be sceptical now?

As for the rest, well it’s the truth.

If you watch this video with any attention you can see that in this instance Obama’s “quick wit” was actually a bit and Lundquist humorously flubbed the set-up question. He got a little tongue-tied starting off with, “May I …Can I be totally irrelevant? … I mean irreverent?” Then he flushed and stammered as he realized what he said came out wrong. Obama reached over and grabbed his arm reassuringly, “Irreverent and irrelevant”, laughed the President. Lundquist chuckled embarrassedly, “Thank you, sir. My big moment and I couldn’t handle it!”. He gave it another shot and the President smoothly got in his clever line about his visit to the House Republican caucus: “I proved yesterday I could go to my right once in a while, but there’s no doubt that I’ve got a stronger left hand.”. He quickly segued off the subject by remarking that his assistant Reggie Love, who played for Duke, “probably has the worst case of nerves today”.

6is9 says:
January 31, 2010 at 10:21 am

dang, I think you are right!
“it was my big moment, and i couldn’t handle it”.
i smell a set up.

The potential bigger problem is when a President, any President (R) or (D) does anything that his/her opponents/partisans might like, they won’t be able to “see” or recognize it. Maybe just unwilling to.

The instinct/habit will be to see skepticism/cynicism. So it never stops. For those that bash Pres. Bush, it’s not hard to see the future that (R) President or Presidential candidates and supporters won’t be casting stones at Pres. Obama.

That’s arguably a bigger problem. It never stops. Tough argument for those that blamed Clinton for things while supporting Pres. Bush can then attack Pres. Obama supporters for attacking Pres. Bush.

Don’t think it gets “us” too far in doing that. It may help the current politician politcally, but probably does very little for country because ex-President has very little power/authority to help in the present, but that is what happens.

It was just a college basketball game.