I'd like to see that too, but I seriously doubt Obama would answer his questions.

 

He'd answer them but it wouldn't matter what he said. People who don't like him will say he is a liar and people who like him will say "see, I told you."

 

Either way, I'd love to see it for entertainment purposes. I think Obama is smarter than Hannity.

Don't disagree with your sentiment but concerning the bolded above: That described Jimmy Carter to a tee. Just saying. :thumb:

I was too young to understand politics very well during the Carter years but I always thought that he was incompetent but well intentioned. He was often criticized for being too detail-oriented - something that nobody will every accuse Obama of being. Carter was genuinely concerned with the Iranian hostages and felt a deep responsibility for them, IMO, despite his inability to free them. Contrast that to Obama's ongoing refusal to take responsibility for and the cover up of the events surrounding the Benghazi slaughter.

 

I saw Jimmy Carter, our second worst president ever, as merely incompetent. Obama is both incompetent and extremely lazy (only with respect to his job - the guy is a prolific golfer), which earns him first place among on my list of worst presidents.

He'd answer them but it wouldn't matter what he said. People who don't like him will say he is a liar and people who like him will say "see, I told you."

 

Either way, I'd love to see it for entertainment purposes. I think Obama is smarter than Hannity.

I think a pet rock is smarter than Hannity. :lol2: But I can't see any politician actually answering any tough questions, it's just not in their DNA.

I was too young to understand politics very well during the Carter years but I always thought that he was incompetent but well intentioned. He was often criticized for being too detail-oriented - something that nobody will every accuse Obama of being. Carter was genuinely concerned with the Iranian hostages and felt a deep responsibility for them, IMO, despite his inability to free them. Contrast that to Obama's ongoing refusal to take responsibility for and the cover up of the events surrounding the Benghazi slaughter.

 

I saw Jimmy Carter, our second worst president ever, as merely incompetent. Obama is both incompetent and extremely lazy (only with respect to his job - the guy is a prolific golfer), which earns him first place among on my list of worst presidents.

 

That's cool. I was just pointing out that I don't recall having seen a harder working President than Carter. It's just what he did didn't work.

That's cool. I was just pointing out that I don't recall having seen a harder working President than Carter. It's just what he did didn't work.

:thumb:I apologize. I misread your post. I totally agree with your assessment of Carter. He was a very hard worker. I also thought that he surrounded himself with good, smart people, most of whom were as ineffective as he was himself.

I think a pet rock is smarter than Hannity. :lol2: But I can't see any politician actually answering any tough questions, it's just not in their DNA.

 

That's why I wish I was in politics. I love honesty so much that I would never have a tough question. I'd be happy to tell people the truth and see if they can handle the truth.

That's why I wish I was in politics. I love honesty so much that I would never have a tough question. I'd be happy to tell people the truth and see if they can handle the truth.

 

"You can't handle The Tooth!" Wait, that's not it …

I realize that I am part of a tiny minority, but I would love to have an American president who refused to appear on talk shows to read jokes that taxpayer paid writers prepared - a president who either avoided events like the White House Correspondents' Dinner or resisted the temptation to use the platform to smear his political opponents. (The Koch brothers are not even in the top 20 list of political donors and the list is dominated by Obama supporters.)

 

 

 

I would like my president to be capable of using humor appropriately and spontaneously, while acting as the president of all Americans, not just the ones who helped get him elected. I would like to see a president who spends less time golfing and vacationing and more time working - one whose daily calendar routinely reflects a work week more typical of a top CEO than that of a Kardashian girl.

 

Don't get me wrong, I think that a good sense of humor is important in a national leader but Obama's vicious attacks on Americans who honestly disagree with his political agenda don't pass for what I consider a good sense of humor. Obama is a thin-skinned tyrant and good joke writers are no substitute for good character.

 

Did you miss the parts where HE and his cabinet or party were the butt of the jokes?

 

I think you are having a bit of an overreaction to one of the true gifts we have as a country. We can make fun of leaders. Leaders can make fun of leaders. Leaders can make fun of themselves as long as it's done properly.

 

This was (and always is) done properly.

President Bush from 2008. Very funny.

 

Did you miss the parts where HE and his cabinet or party were the butt of the jokes?

 

I think you are having a bit of an overreaction to one of the true gifts we have as a country. We can make fun of leaders. Leaders can make fun of leaders. Leaders can make fun of themselves as long as it's done properly.

 

This was (and always is) done properly.

There is no right way for a president to use the power granted to him by voters to make political attacks on private citizens.

 

There is nothing presidential about whining about one's critics, whether that whining is wrapped in a joke or not. As I said, Obama is a thin-skinned tyrant and what he has done and is doing to this country is no laughing matter.

There is no right way for a president to use the power granted to him by voters to make political attacks on private citizens.

 

There is nothing presidential about whining about one's critics, whether that whining is wrapped in a joke or not. As I said, Obama is a thin-skinned tyrant and what he has done and is doing to this country is no laughing matter.

 

You're missing the point by a million miles in acting as though the correspondents' roast is anything like the day-to-day tit-for-tat that goes on normally.

You're missing the point by a million miles in acting as though the correspondents' roast is anything like the day-to-day tit-for-tat that goes on normally.

I am not missing anything. Obama truly hates Fox News, the Koch brothers, Beck, Limbaugh, and others that he has called out by name so many times. Do you recall any other president who has attacked private U.S. citizens by name in his capacity as POTUS (as opposed to a candidate)? Nixon certainly whined publicly about the media, as have many other presidents - but really, do you think that it looks presidential for Obama to whine about Limbaugh, the Koch brothers, Beck, et al. by name while he is speaking as president?

 

There is no doubt that all presidents ridicule and curse their critics by name within their inner circle but Obama's public whining is unprecedented in modern times. Of course, Bill Clinton deployed an army of political allies to attack the "trailer trash" that he abused, but he left most of the dirty work of character assassination to underlings.

 

If Obama had not spent so much time blaming other people for his many failures the past five years, then his jokes at the dinner would have seemed more appropriate to me. Of course, if not for Obama's whining (echoed almost daily by Harry Reid), few people in the audience would have known who the Koch brothers were.

 

In a totally unrelated story, the FEC is considering rules to regulate talk radio hosts' speech during political campaigns. Liberals love free speech as long as they are the ones doing the talking.

I am not missing anything. Obama truly hates Fox News, the Koch brothers, Beck, Limbaugh, and others that he has called out by name so many times. Do you recall any other president who has attacked private U.S. citizens by name in his capacity as POTUS (as opposed to a candidate)? Nixon certainly whined publicly about the media, as have many other presidents - but really, do you think that it looks presidential for Obama to whine about Limbaugh, the Koch brothers, Beck, et al. by name while he is speaking as president?

 

There is no doubt that all presidents ridicule and curse their critics by name within their inner circle but Obama's public whining is unprecedented in modern times. Of course, Bill Clinton deployed an army of political allies to attack the "trailer trash" that he abused, but he left most of the dirty work of character assassination to underlings.

 

If Obama had not spent so much time blaming other people for his many failures the past five years, then his jokes at the dinner would have seemed more appropriate to me. Of course, if not for Obama's whining (echoed almost daily by Harry Reid), few people in the audience would have known who the Koch brothers were.

 

In a totally unrelated story, the FEC is considering rules to regulate talk radio hosts' speech during political campaigns. Liberals love free speech as long as they are the ones doing the talking.

 

Good God, man, quit making this about Obama and Obama only. Every POTUS does this. It's the one time a year the press and the Prez take shots at each other and it's all good. Lighten the hell up, for chrissakes.

 

If I spent as much time hand-wringing over Dubya, Clinton, GHWB and Reagan as some of you people do about Obama I would have shot myself in frustration a long time ago. Unreal. :ohbrother:

 

And I'm pretty sure the Koch brothers do like every other corporate giant: Intimidate their employees into voting the way they want them to. It's called the multiplier effect.

That's why I wish I was in politics. I love honesty so much that I would never have a tough question. I'd be happy to tell people the truth and see if they can handle the truth.

That would be refreshing.

Good God, man, quit making this about Obama and Obama only. Every POTUS does this. It's the one time a year the press and the Prez take shots at each other and it's all good. Lighten the hell up, for chrissakes.

 

If I spent as much time hand-wringing over Dubya, Clinton, GHWB and Reagan as some of you people do about Obama I would have shot myself in frustration a long time ago. Unreal. :ohbrother:

 

And I'm pretty sure the Koch brothers do like every other corporate giant: Intimidate their employees into voting the way they want them to. It's called the multiplier effect.

Liberals seem to have developed a selective case of amnesia about their never ending complaints during the Bush years. I recall plenty of hand wringing during those years. What I don't recall about that period is Bush turning the IRS, EPA, FEC, Justice Department, and other federal agencies into political arms of the Republican Party to persecute Democrats. I suspect that if Bush had deployed federal agents to harass and intimidate journalists, Democratic donors, and other political enemies, as Obama has done, liberals would have done far more hand-wringing than you have seen from me.

 

Nixon had his enemies list but a bipartisan effort removed him from office before he could do much damage. Obama has shown that when it comes to punishing his opponents and rewarding his supporters, he is a man of action. It's too bad none of that energy has been channeled into constructive channels.