hotair.com - 7/23/2009
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When a president calls a prime-time press conference, it traditionally means that the White House has some new strategy, message, or policy creation that they want to reveal with a big flourish. For at least the second time in a row , Barack Obama demanded valuable prime-time real estate and ...
article.nationalreview.com - 7/30/2009
hotair.com - 7/22/2009
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hotair.com —
Barack Obama disclosed an unusual meeting with the
CBO, presumably its director Doug Elmendorf, in his Today...
Show appearance this morning with Meredith Viera. [...] Read the rest »
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Why did Obama meet with the CBO?
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Obama Fatigue Setting In?
California Conservative —
... I appreciate Captain Ed’s take on last night’s snooze conference: ...
New Unemployment Data In; Obama Administration Doesn't Get It
A Blog For All —
... ; you just wont know how many are going to see their taxes rise even as their health benefits and options for health care decline. Moreover, he now notes that the health care plan will be funded in part by a tax on the middle class because running the numbers on the Democrats' proposals all come up hundreds of billions short without doing so . The redistribution of wealth involved here is staggering, and it's only going to get worse as more details slip out about how much people are going to be taxed so that the health care delivery system can be reworked. The ...
The real FAIL of the Obama presser
Patterico's Pontifications —
[Posted by Karl]
Pres. Obama’s fourth prime-time news conference (and fifth overall) was truly craptastic. I am no Obama fan, but when Larry Sabato, Howard Fineman and assorted mopes at MSNBC are unenthused, it’s safe to say it was craptastic.
NBC and ABC, Howard Kurtz, The Hill, and Ed Morrissey were among the many to note that Pres. Obama held a news conference without making news.
This left the president filibustering on every answer, and every answer followed the same general pattern. Pres. Obama tended ...
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