I do not consider him my president, and do not stand by him in any way. Everyone is different. Ever since he just sort of appeared and then we could not see any of his academic records or anything else, then the assns with certain types in Chicago, then people saying he was god-like, I checked out. I spent 35 yrs in DC, I worked with many politicians—they are not gods, they are people.

He also got the virtual colonscopy—the one Medicare won’t pay for. Oh, well, consistency is the hobgoblin…etc.

When I first came to this site—the hatred was against Hillary, then Palin, and now we see skepticism about Obama, finally! I was personally reviled on this site for calling him out when he first appeared. I am still a registered Dem, but wonder if I would ever vote that way again. Who knows… I still think Obama is a big social-climbing phony with a questionable agenda.

What I saw, too—but I guess everyone can pick out something they saw. Still, he seemed like he was replaying a ball game in his mind or a golf shot. The "other side" would ask a question and his answer was, "Now I am calling on Pete." I will wage none of these senators even hung out with him when he was in the Senate. I find him a slow-talker and quite ordinary when he is off script. His anecdotes were lame… Actually all the anecdotes were lame. The proposals on the table would not change most of these situations.

 

In your opinion—I saw a quite deliberate attempt to dismiss young smarties like Ryan with his diversionary tactics, too. My opinion.

People looking away and taking notes are rude. Don’t care what party they are in. This is commonplace in Congressional hearings—I guess they could have been texting, that would have been worse… The president dubbed anything he didn’t want to hear a talking point. What do you think his points were—we must act now, this will bring down the debt, etc. Why was he even in charge? The Dems talked twice as much as the Republicans. Why were the Republicans all seated opposite—this is theatre. But no one said it would not be.

They won’t "suddenly become insured." In four years, they will have to buy insurance or pay a fine. They just laid off 42,000 health care workers here in AZ because people were knocked off Medicaid.

Don’t forget condescending and snide.

I saw him making notes or calling over aides while people were talking. Rude.

When the president shrugged and sort of threw up his hands and said if we can’t agree, this is why we have elections, I took that to mean not that Americans will have a chance to tell him if he was right or wrong in Nov, but that the past election gave him the right to do whatever he wanted, how he wanted.

You got medical records on the kids? Did you get HIS? Besides some doctor saying he’d be a neat president.

Mileage may vary on Michelle as a best friend. I can’t imagine wanting to jaw with her. Speaking of, if the president walked into a room and told you you to do something, you can tell him to fly a kite, right? He cannot tell people what to do unless they are in the military, right. So why "tell" us to turn off cable. We don’t have to do anything you say, Mr P.

She was sort of cross-looking and hunched over in that interview…

Cindy McCain has done a lot of charity work in the grossest places for decades. I don’t know what footwear she took along, but I am sure it was approp for stepping in mud and human waste.

Of course not—-it would take some brilliant genius, some miracle worker—we have him, remember. Maybe he an "unmire" us and quit letting those timeservers in Congress finance their pet crap in the name of stimulus. Oh well, I am feeling snarky. I can hardly stand these admin people—they make me scream sometimes, like that Gibbs on Sunday. They have added a trillion in debt…not gone from $1.3 to $1.4.