swampland.blogs.time.com - 11/7/2008
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Well, if the presidential campaign didn't convince you that Barack Obama is one disciplined fellow, his first public appearance as President-elect certainly should have. The press conference was notable for several things:
--he did not stray from or change a single position that he took ...
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whitehouse.gov —
For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary
November 4, 2004 President Holds Press Conference 11:17 A.M....
EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Yesterday I pledged to reach out to the whole nation, and today I'm proving that ...
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The president-elect fields a few questions
Political Animal —
THE PRESIDENT-ELECT FIELDS A FEW QUESTIONS.... A few days before the election, a reporter pressed Barack Obama on when the media could expect another press conference. Obama, half-joking, point to the day after the election. As it turns out, he waited until three days after the election, but held a press conference in Chicago this afternoon. I took a bunch of notes, but soon after, noticed that Joe Klein's write-up said most of what I'd planned to write anyway. Well, if the presidential campaign didn't convince you that Barack Obama is one disciplined fellow, his first public ...
The First Press Conference
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Full transcript here. Joe Klein was impressed. So was Josh Marshall.
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News —
... President-elect Barack Obama's first post-election press conference is praised by liberals, while conservatives take offense at Obama's joke about Nancy Reagan. Obama seemed disciplined and in control at his first press conference, Swampland's Joe Klein declares. Obama spoke before reporters and TV cameras after meeting with economic advisers, and Klein says the Democrat did not stray from one policy position he had taken during the campaign. Obama navigated reporters' questions easily, Firedoglake's ...
Clueless Joe: Time Hack Says Obama 'Completely in Control' With 'No Gaffes'
JammieWearingFool —
If you ever needed a textbook example of a biased media hack with his head stuck either up his own ass or girded firmly between Barack Obama's loins, look no further than fawning ferret face Joe Klein. Here we have a dispatch 20 minutes into President-in-Training Barack Obama's inaugural press conference today: --His answers were crisp and brief . The most expansive was his response to the puppy question. This presages a cool, businesslike presidency . And I should add: His self-identification as a "mutt" was just delightful. First of all, I just reviewed what Klein watched ...
Joe Klein joins the Matthews contingent of "journalists"
QandO —
Speaking of the Obama presser yesterday, Joe Klein gushes: —No gaffes. Unlike Bill Clinton, who opened the door to the "gays in the military" question in his first press conference, Obama said nothing controversial, so far as I can tell. "Uh, Mrs. Reagan, uh about that, uh seance crack ..."
A Different Stamp?
The Glittering Eye —
... If Joe Klein’s report of President-Elect Barack Obama’s first press conference after his election on Tuesday is to be believed: ...
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Obama just insulted Nancy Reagan, by the way -- very classy.
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