Obama is hiding

**Dr.Knuckles** · 24th February 2010 02:54 PM

And there's a level of that that is just a fact of life. But come on. This was so far down below any conceivable level of stupidity.

And there has been zero repercussions from it. Nothing. Not a single person has been claled to task on this stuff.

**Blah** · 24th February 2010 03:13 PM

[quote name='liberalman' date='24 February 2010 - 08:54 AM' timestamp='1267030460' post='120524']

But is he REALLY hiding?[/quote]

I don't think the suggestion was he isn't running his mouth, it's that he might be avoiding the tough

unscripted questions like those from the press.

**Six** · 24th February 2010 03:27 PM

[quote name='liberalman' date='24 February 2010 - 10:54 AM' timestamp='1267030460' post='120524']

But is he REALLY hiding?

February 1 2010 Obama answers questions submitted on youtube

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

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Haha. Yea that's courage for you. Taking screened online softball questions.

He really has no other alternative but to hide. Everything he proposed has either been a failure( stimulus ) or never happened ( Gitmo ) so there are no victories to speak of.

And Gibbs ? Can you imagine the Saturday Night Live skits if that guy was working for a Republican ? He's ripe for parody but no one in the main stream press or entertainment industry has the integrity to mess with him.

**liberalman** · 24th February 2010 05:54 PM

[quote name='Six' date='24 February 2010 - 05:27 PM' timestamp='1267050437' post='120656']

Haha. Yea that's courage for you. Taking screened online softball questions.

He really has no other alternative but to hide. Everything he proposed has either been a failure( stimulus ) or never happened ( Gitmo ) so there are no victories to speak of.

And Gibbs ? Can you imagine the Saturday Night Live skits if that guy was working for a Republican ? He's ripe for parody but no one in the main stream press or entertainment industry has the integrity to mess with him.

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Actually the author of the thread said and I quote:

"He is not hiding from reading statements on TV. He is hiding from answerering questions. "

He answered questions did he not? Or is this another one of those rightwing...well yeah I said that but I really mean this so disregard what I said before and just give me a pass....PRETTY PLEASE?

**Disappointed not surprised** · 24th February 2010 06:19 PM

[quote name='Dr.Knuckles' date='24 February 2010 - 01:28 PM' timestamp='1267046919' post='120630']

What could he have possibly done?

And then HIDING???? What does that even mean?

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I believe he could have created a plan and sent it to Congress. He sends budgets to Congress, he sends his Generals to congress to explain his war strategy, he has any number of strategies he formulates and sends to Congress. Instead he stayed way back and let the Dems, let us not forget that the Democrats had complete control of the both the Executive and Legislative branches, step on their collective dicks over and over. By hiding behind Pelosi and Reid and not taking the lead for his signature agenda item he abdicated his responsibility in a particularly gutless way.

For me, "hiding" is a synonym for be being absent from his party's and governmental position of leadership roles.

**liberalman** · 25th February 2010 03:49 PM

[quote name='bla bla' date='24 February 2010 - 05:13 PM' timestamp='1267049613' post='120649']

I don't think the suggestion was he isn't running his mouth, it's that he might be avoiding the tough

unscripted questions like those from the press.

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Thats not how it was presented but I can see where you would make that assumption however I choose not to make the same assumption.

Especially since he took questions from someone tougher then any cub reporter or Neail Cavuto

BALTIMORE — In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt.

The president and GOP House members took turns questioning and sometimes lecturing each other for more than an hour at a Republican gathering in Baltimore. The Republicans agreed to let TV cameras inside, resulting in an extended, point-by-point interchange that was almost unprecedented in U.S. politics, except perhaps during presidential debates\http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_442213.html

So again I say hes not hiding AND he is taking AND answering tough questions....I dont recall a lot of give and take between BUSHCO with anyone who might say no to anything he had to say.

**Blah** · 25th February 2010 08:33 PM

[quote name='liberalman' date='25 February 2010 - 02:49 PM' timestamp='1267138144' post='121290']

Thats not how it was presented but I can see where you would make that assumption however I choose not to make the same assumption.

Especially since he took questions from someone tougher then any cub reporter or Neail Cavuto

BALTIMORE — In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt.

The president and GOP House members took turns questioning and sometimes lecturing each other for more than an hour at a Republican gathering in Baltimore. The Republicans agreed to let TV cameras inside, resulting in an extended, point-by-point interchange that was almost unprecedented in U.S. politics, except perhaps during presidential debates\http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_442213.html

So again I say hes not hiding AND he is taking AND answering tough questions....I dont recall a lot of give and take between BUSHCO with anyone who might say no to anything he had to say.

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I'm sure he's more than willing to have focused exchanges with other politicos but the point was about press

conferences where anything can come up... like the last one he ever had where he blurted out his stupid cop

comment.