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Here’s one clip from the GOP retreat where he points out that the health care bills are centrist to the core. The meeting was a gutsy move on his part, and maybe it paid off. If you click twice on the video it will take you to the youtube page where you will find more clips from the event. There were some pretty contentious moments.
Here’s one of those moments.
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January 29, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Anonymous
It is gutsy. Now if he would only do the same for the Progressive Caucus.
January 29, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Rose
Scott Brown was more of a wake-up call than anyone knew. Pretty clear.
January 29, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Anonymous
It was all over television. Obama clobbered each of them one by one. He is back on top of the game but will he follow through?
January 29, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Eric Kirk
I look forward to watching this on CSPAN. I don’t know if a President has ever done anything quite like this, walking into the lion’s den. Bush wouldn’t even face the press. Clinton never did this, though he probably could have pulled it off. Reagan too. In his first term anyway.
January 29, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Anonymous
Only unfortunate thing was he was in the cubs den. The problem with the health care bill, as I understand it, is not the House Republicans, but the Senate Repos and their wannabe Repos counterparts. He should now get it on with McConnell, Chambliss, Cornyn, Grassley, Inhofe, and, we can never leave out the media’s all time fave appearance leader for 2009, McCain.
Only then will he be ready to take on Palin and Hannity at FOX News.
January 29, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Eric Kirk
According to this blogger, Fox News pretty much ducked coverage of the event.
But Marc Armbinder of the Atlantic has this to say:
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/01/the_moment_president_obama_began.php
Accepting the invitation to speak at the House GOP retreat may turn out to be the smartest decision the White House has made in months. Debating a law professor is kind of foolish: the Republican House Caucus has managed to turn Obama’s weakness — his penchant for nuance — into a strength. Plenty of Republicans asked good and probing questions, but Mike Pence, among others, found their arguments simply demolished by the president. (By the way: can we stop with the Obama needs a teleprompter jokes?)
January 29, 2010 at 9:30 pm
moviedad
Should he really subject himself to those two?
January 29, 2010 at 10:40 pm
milt
Meanwhile, back in the Senate, business as usual.
January 29, 2010 at 11:50 pm
joe the plumber
If the discussion is based on logic and facts Obama will wipe the floor with these “patriotic” clowns. They only function as one-line wonders or mostly one word wonders …..”socialism”
“BTW can we stop with the Obama needs a teleprompter jokes” Not a chance, that’s one of their favorite criticisms. It’s been utter baloney since they first trotted it out but what does truth have to do with their MO.
He handed them their asses because he knows what the fuck he’s talking about and they only know they hate him but their not sure why.
January 30, 2010 at 8:47 am
milt
Why, yes, md, Obama needs to debate Palin and Hannity on FOX so he can rebut this thoughtful Palinalysis of his health care program:
Palin:” Ever since about August more and more (*wink*) Americans have paid more attention to what is in this health care bill, and more and more Americans are becoming more concerned about what we see in there, so it hasn’t been a matter of he not being able to explain his policy, with government takeover and mandation of health care, but Americans understanding what’s in there, not liking it and sending him that message via those three Republican sweeps in Virginia, in New Jersey, Scott Brown’s election too, the Tea Party movement, the town hall events – people sending that message to the president, namely health care being a focus on this. He not understanding that we don’t want to see government takeover of one sixth of our economy”.
Certainly he must explain that “mandation” thingy, and whatever else he can decipher in there, before he finds himself totally eclipsed . Also.
January 30, 2010 at 8:51 am
Mitch
Anonymous @ 5:25 (first comment),
You’ve got me salivating. You are 100% right. Obama going before the Progressive Caucus, with the event televised, would do as much to inform people as his brilliant turn before the Neanderthal lobby.
I hope the Progressive Caucus sends the invitation to the administration and publicizes it today. Either way, the winner is to the left of the right.
January 30, 2010 at 9:36 am
moviedad
Damn you Hope! Here you are again, showing that cute lil’ face of yours. How dare you come around me again. After what you put me through! Begone, Begone thou foul empty creature!
January 30, 2010 at 11:14 am
Mitch
Ralph Nader, somehow, is still a mensch. I don’t know how he does it, it seems superhuman to me after all he’s been through. Here’s a link to his take on the SOTU, and an extract from his article.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/30-0
January 30, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Anonymous
Normally I don’t watch Obama’s speechs anymore because they are basically lies, BS, and spin. I did watch this one, and on Fox News Eric.
Obama did a pretty good job on this one, much better than I would have thought. And without a telepromter, what a surpirse. With his record I still don’t believe just about anything he says. He’s almost as good as Slick Willie.
It seems kind of obvious that the President and his “Progressive” friends are really worried about the tea partiers they blasted and smeared this past summer!
It’s time for Republicans, Independants, and middle of the road (non progressives) Democrats to work together to vote in some politicans that do what is best for the country, not what is best for their chances at re-elections or what favors they can do to make money for or further their buddies agenda.
January 30, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Anonymous
I just watched the Q and A session today on CSPAN and man it was a slaughter! He slam dunked the Republicans but good.
January 30, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Anonymous
Good speech but he’s a liar, nothing but a liar.
January 31, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Eric Kirk
Seth Meyers on SNL Weekend Update last night:
“On Friday President Obama appeared before House Republicans in a historic televised Q & A and performed so well, afterwards GOP Aids said that allowing cameras to roll like that was a mistake. Come on Republicans, are you on such a Scott Brown high you thought you could take down Barack Obama by debating him? You realize debates are why he is President, right? Seriously, all you do is complain how Obama is all talk and then you invite him to a forum that is literally all talk. That’s like saying lets see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water. I’m not saying you were out classed but the whole thing was like the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the guy charged at Indiana Jones with the sword and he just shot him.”
January 31, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Anonymous
It really was stupid on the Republican’s part. The format could only benefit him. I doubt they will invite him in the future unless he is willing to debate just one of them with equal time. Setting him up to give long winded answers to mere questions was a huge mistake.
Fox did sort of cover it. It wasn’t a total blackout.
January 31, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Anonymous
If 12:36 watched it on FOX, then he didn’t see it, as they cut away to their talking heads, who spoke over the video being carried live on every other network, with they criticism of what either they guessed he was saying, or had said in the past, as they were not listening to what he was saying at that moment, so neither were you 12:36
January 31, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Anonymous
Here’s a long and detailed backgrounder on the four young
Watergate-wannabes who
got themselves arrested trying to bug the NOLA offices of Sen. Mary
Landrieu.
As long and detailed as it is, however, there’s one detail that the
reporters somehow
either missed, or knew enough to keep out of their story, or that was
white out by
someone over them: the link between O’Keefe accomplice Stanley Dai and
the US
government’s own spy-recruitment apparatus.
READ HERE:
http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground/browse_thread/thread/cc657b72fae021f8
January 31, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Mitch
According to the TPM link below, it’s been reported by Newsweek:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/penis_monologues_scribe_stan_dai_worked_at_program.php
January 31, 2010 at 3:50 pm
moviedad
Words are so much more important than actions in this society. The media has been able to discredit war heroes based on them saying they supported anything called: “Socialism” by the right. Or Neo-Cons, or Corps-Slaves, or Conservatives, or whatever you want to call them.
And what is socialism to these people? Public education, rights to water, public health. In fact just put public in front of any noun or verb and they will yell “Socialism!” Which for some of us is not all that bad. Seeing how the Swedes and Danes are doing pretty good for themselves.
February 7, 2010 at 7:37 pm
milt
Thought this would be the appropriate place for Sarah Palin’s teabagger convention performance. Appears she can’t make a speech without a palmprompter.
February 7, 2010 at 7:39 pm
milt
Damn. New spellcheck is killing links .