Damnnnnnnnnn. I’m not sure King Barack I has ever been dressed down like this since maybe prep school in Indonesia.
Damnnnnnnnnn! Too bad the video doesn’t show how he answered. My guess is that it went something like this… “well, uhhhhhhh…..aaaaaand…. I inherited this mess….uhhhhhhhh…. hope and change…. aaaaaaaaand….. uhhhhhh…. Republicans are evil.”
I know, I know… the lady must be racist.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
The answer is here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-economy/2010/09/at_cnbc_town_hall_obama_is_ask.html
Looks like someone’s asking to get audited…
Simply marvelous!!!!
Did ya catch the look on his face??? It reminded me sooooo much of the look GWB had when he was told that planes had hit the WTC.
Difference being, of coursre, that GWB had just learned war had been declared on the US.
Obama, the self-absorbed narcissist, had only just learned that much of the country had declared war on his worldview.
Zing! President Obama is beside himself as the teleprompter weeps.
I give a lot of credit to the African American woman who posed that question. You can imagine how much courage it took, and how much she risked in terms of backlash from fellow blacks. She made me proud.
What you miss is the response. Obama went to the side, whispered in the ear of an aide, maybe a secret service guy, who spoke into his cuff. About 10 seconds later, a swarm of 3 white guys decended on the questioner and hustled her out of the room, keeping a hand over her mouth so she couldn’t scream! Obama simply went on, asking if anyone had a “serious question.
Obama’s response was pure party line. Never mind “you” individually, because “we” all are in this together and, of course, things will get better. The most unamerican American President ever.
Response:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/20/obama_responds_to_exhausted_woman.html
His response was more cliche and platitude. He spun the plates faster. He cranked up the bells and whistles. He made sure that the spotlight was on his daring act on the high trapeze but at the end of the day the woman’s family will still struggle with an economy that is being strangled by the Obama Administration’s belief that it has ALL the answers to life’s problems. Her family is still faced with that awful reality that the change she voted for will mean a lower standard of living for her family and the country as a whole.
When you are the central-planner-in-chief you know better then your serfs. You can deny all truth and continue to push your intentionally destructive policies, claiming that existing notions of individual liberty, property rights and true equality before the law are antiquated and immoral.
But in reality, Mr Obama’s economic policy of denying truth merely divides and favors certain classes over others and compounds and prolongs our problems. The president seeks to supplant with the decisions of divine bureaucrats the decisions of millions of individuals partaking in mutually beneficial actions to the good of the whole world.
This administration completely perverts truth, justice and morality in their grab for greater control over the rest of us. Most importantly, they’ve forgotten the fundamental truth that man is flawed and thus can not be G-d. What could be more dangerous and immoral than a policy which stems from such a hubristic and fallacious principle?
Considering the fact the audience was “by invitation only” I am certain it was not unexpected.
Lets see a REAL town hall, not one sponsored by the most liberal news source filled with people Obama and MSNBC picked.
Delusional Bill,
I believe you were talking about his stunt double who actually spun the plates faster, etc. Obama was having his make-up touched up and his TelePrompTer reloaded. You really have nailed this clown. Some day he will come forth and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT0LKMSSAW0.
Oh even if it was by invitation only, she could have still pulled a bait and switch from when the Obama-ites were vetting her. Maybe she couched the same question in a way that dripped more with fawning adoration than the tone she ended up taking which was still quite respectful but no-nonsense and by then it was too late for Obama’s handlers to really put the brakes on her.
Here’s the jist of the response:
“Your children will be able to put themselves in dept easier in order to finance their education, even though there aren’t any jobs for them when they come out of college… Oh, except for green jobs of course”
“We’ve created new rule to make sure credit card companies find new innovative ways to screw you”
“We are providing ladders to get to the middle class….. especially if you are rich.”
Jebus H! She’s a freaking CFO. She’s handled more financial responsibilities than he has all the way up to getting elected. And all th could give was this rambling answer? I wonder if he looked as much a fool in her eyes as he did in mine.
Obama should give the answer he really really wants to give….
“Hey folks, I’m trying to correct the mistakes of the 43 guys who served in this job before I got here. It’s gonna take more than 2 years.”
Spartann you forget that he IS the ONE. Hubris is not possible. Principle is for the simple minded fools. Que Yul Brenner “So let it be written. So let it be done.”
Heliotrope I’m not sure The One knows the words….
I love how the lady started out kissing Obama’s rear… setting him up for the sting to come. And that she’s a veteran.
I don’t love the philosophy she expressed of “I’m waiting… I’m waiting” (her words) for Obama to make her life better
A key point of this townhall where the audience was chosen and hand picked. Imagine a real townhall, with open doors and free wheeling questions. Obamas SUPPORTERS are embarassed and tired of making excuses for him. Like the libs who use to come to GP.
I agree she pulled a classic bait & switch when she was vetted; she knew she would not be accepted. So, she changed her question on television. If only more people would do this for the canned Obama Town Halls.
Joe Biden, another one of Obamas boobs embarassed him today…
Biden says he’s second in Presidential succession…..um no, you are first.
And Christine O Donnell and the tea partiers are dummies???
http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Screen-shot-2010-09-20-at-12.00.14-PM.png
Notice, he laughs at her question with his response. Incompetent, arrogant boob.
When answering a question that is not in any way funny,,,, people who laughingly deliver their response are usually chuckling for one reason…. they haven’t a real answer to the question at hand being posed……. It speaks volumes to the maturity of this president.
If this woman was already exhausted from defending President Obama, just imagine how much more exhausted she’ll be tomorrow after defending his rambling attempt at an answer.
At least he did not give a 20 minute answer to his filibuster.
Gene, Joe Biden can’t count the letters in J-O-B-S; to him, it’s a three letter word. This sums up Joe Biden as another incompetent nitwit.
I saw this on The O’Reilly Factor tonight. Priceless!
That had to have hurt, comin’ from a sista.
His response was cunning, even a little triangulating (once he started listing consumer protections etc.). He certainly didn’t lose his cool. Her image of franks and beans is vivid, though. Real vivid.
Reading between his lines, the message is: Get used to a down economy.
What I found interesting (and disturbing) about his response was the bit where he said that because she had “given back to her community” ( in regard to the comment that she worked for a veterans organization and was a vet herself) that “that’s what we want to reward.”
Um, sorry Mr. Obama, but it shouldn’t be up to the government to reward or punish people based on their choice of vocation. Working for a non-profit and working for a corporation and owning your own small business are all equally valid forms of employment and one should not be “rewarded” over any other or in the case of the coming tax hikes & repeal of tax cuts that benefit all Americans (not just those making less that $250K) one should not be penalized over the other either.
What a douche.
Dr Lamont Hill on O’Reilly said that this woman was a “plant”. I am sure he does as this is how the left operates. I wonder if he thinks she is from the Tea Party, but no he believes the Tea Party is RAAAACIST, so who could have put her up to this. I am sure this is keeping Dr. Lamont Hill up tonight trying to figure it out.
Err, has anyone seen this brave woman today? Or has she been sweep-away by apparatchiks of the regime to some unknown location, her family detained and there’s a moving-van is currently in front of her (former) home.
Ohhh.. *sigh*
I hope they get a shot of First Dude Todd counting the WH silver when the Obammys go a-packing.
That’s about the only thing I’d love to see more than this choreographed POS.
What you won’t see after this is the media pulling out all of it’s guns to discredit this woman as it has in the past when an average American had the nerve to question Obama’s policies.
Courage to ask a question, unless you are a 25 y.o. progressive ain’t no one drinking the ‘bama-aid. Real people with real problems want real solutions. I noticed Barry failed to tell her that thanks to his new banking regulations her credits which are paid off but kept for emergency went from a low rate of 6% to a hefty 19% because if felt it unfair that late and over the limit payers were incurring high fees. Guess what? You should be paying more. It would be nice if he could just say I f-d up, do-over.