Walters-Obama Odd Thanksgiving Message Exchange

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Barbara Walters invites Great Leader to "give" Thanksgiving message to "the people."  Great Leader obliges: be inspired by . . . me.

Check out the clip of Barbara Walters's interview of the Obamas, aired on GMA today, and tell me whether you find something off-putting in the way Walters poses what is, after all, a very banal question. And then there's the President-elect's self-centered answer . . .

View video here.

Adopting a tone of maudlin sincerity:

BARBARA WALTERS: You know, I don't have to stress the fact that this is such a hard time for this country.  Do you have a Thanksgiving message that you would like to give to the people?

"The people"?  Wouldn't "Americans" or perhaps "your fellow Americans" be customary?  And "give," instead of "send" or "share"?  Maybe I'm being picky here, but have a look and tell me if it doesn't almost come across as Walters inviting a monarch to bestow something on his huddled peons.

And let's not ignore Obama's answer.

BARACK OBAMA: I want to remind people that, as tough as times are right now, and they're a lot tougher for millions of people around the country than they are for Michelle and I [N.B. dual alert: grammar and Rush's 'I'm richer than you are'] that, we have been through tough times before, and the extraordinary blessings of being an American, of having a nation that has a tradition of communities pulling together.  A country where somebody like myself, or somebody like Michelle, has a shot, no matter what the circumstances.
That's right.  "The people" should be inspired by the example of . . . their Great Leader.

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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I didn't watch the interview

I didn't watch the interview but from what I've seen here this AM, it appears that Walters was in full-grovel mode.

And when talking about tough economic times and "communities pulling together" he segues into this:

 A country where somebody like myself, or somebody like Michelle, has a shot, no matter what the circumstances.

But it's not about him, you understand.

 

Mb that was exactly what I

Mb that was exactly what I was thinking when I watched it.  Way to make Thanksgiving all about yourself man!

The sound of his voice, a

The sound of his voice, a picture of his face or just the mention of his name is enough to make me want to yak all over the place. The hairs on my neck stand up when I come in contact with anything about him. My dog even growls at him.

I Will Change the Channel Before Listening to Him

I cannot listen to him because I am afraid I will have some sort of seizure when I hear all those................."uh, uh, uhs".............."me, me, me"..............and more uh, uh, uhs."

Add in the behavior and attitude of the MSM speaking to him, and it's more than I can really stand.  I feel the same way about Hillary Clinton.  

That's enough to make me

That's enough to make me puke up my Thanksgiving dinner!!

So I'm not crazy!

So I'm not crazy!

Luckily we're being exposed

Luckily we're being exposed to this in the AM...plenty of time for the Pepto to kick in....

No, Mark you're ...

No, Mark you're not crazy. The people who elected this character (Obama) are the crazy ones.

I've been watching elections since Ike was elected the second time and Obama is the only president-elect that has ever established an "Office of the President-elect".

Obama's whole term will be "about him". He just doesn't get it. He will never understand that it ISN'TABOUT HIM.

I hope for the country's sake that "We the People" wake-up before his next term and get rid of the extreme liberals in Congress so that this country will get back to the center right where it belongs.

Mark, keep up the good and keep up the pressure on Obama and his hacks.

Have a great Thanksgiving.

Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It has been bought with the blood and sacrifice of our men and women in the U.S. Military.

SentryDan

This reminds me of an old song..Maybe someone else out there has heard it:

"Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble,

when you're perfect in ev'ry way"

I believe it's a country song.  Every time I hear him speak, that song comes to mind.

 

"Be careful of the words you speak, someday you may have to eat them"! 

Hard To Be Humble

Having played that song on the radio more than a few times, I know the lyrics well.  The song's by the inimitable Mac Davis, and the chorus goes thusly, and like so:

Oh, Lord, it's hard to be humble

When you're perfect in every way.

I can't wait to look in the mirror

I get better looking each day!

To know me is to love me--

I must be a (heck) of a man.

Oh, Lord, it's hard to be humble,

But I'm doing the best that I can.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport.com

Hey Mark! Happy Thanksgiving!

Remember on the show "Seinfeld" how Kramer would freak out a little every time he heard Mary Hart's voice?I swear that is what happens to me(without the slapstick) every time I hear osam...obama's voice. No joke...he is pure evil.

Sentforth: thanks for the

Sentforth: thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes, and same to you.  "Pure evil," though?  Yikes.  I went with "self-centered" today.

I don't see why you can't

I don't see why you can't both be right...

self-centerism

...is just a small part of pure evilism!

Pencil me in for Pure

Pencil me in for Pure Evilism.

like Ivory

99% pure!

Oh! Bama

I'll tell you folks, if you were able to survive the Carter years, with gas shortages, gas rationing, Americans being held hostage overseas, 12% inflation, 10% unemployment, 16% mortgages, 18% auto loans, Carter telling you to tighten your belt while government grew and grew, you can survive Obama.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain?

Sounds like a new musical!

After a 57-state tour, it's coming to Washington, D.C.!  Opening January 20th, you'll thrill to the leg-tingling excitement of Ayers & Axelrod's Oh! Bama!  Be one of the first million to inaugurate this sweeping epic onto the big stage!  Redistribute your wealth by getting your tickets today!  Oh! Bama!  O.K.!

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport.com

HA HA!

Thanks Mike for the great Thanksgiving laugh.  I almost fell off my chair, visualizing the chorus line of Pelosi, Reid, Wright, Ayers, etc;

I keep hearing (to the tune of Oklahoma), "oooooooh Bama, when the wind goes roaring thru D.C." .....  

I see Chris Matthews high-stepping as if he has a permanent "tingle".

(more meds... please ....)

I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy

We can survive it....half the country can survive it.

Add to your list brazen lying in our faces politicians with no scruples, a suspect president elect, the medias' interference and propensity to portray him as the messiah.  I hate to be a fatalist but have we EVER had the country divided to this extent...I know.  The War between the States. But now add to that the enemy that we have allowed into our midst. 

The arrogance is

The arrogance is unbelievable. I happen to catch just a minute while surfing around...the exchange between Michelle and The One concerning the lipstick on her teeth was just precious. Gag.

Yes, you, too, have a "shot."

Just follow Barack's easy steps to success!

  1. Use Christianity as a prop.
  2. Read and follow the lessons you find in Machiavelli to the exclusion of the ones in Matthew.
  3. Learn all you can about stealth socialism, and use that knowledge every chance you get. 
  4. Advocate the death of children at every opportunity.
  5. Vote "present" a lot; never take a stand you can be pinned down on.
  6. Get others to write your autobiographical tomes.
  7. Have no past: Teach, but make your students disappear; work, but have your colleagues vanish. 
  8. Whip up your own narrative, your own faux life story.  And when your family does something to mar the image (such as, for example, living illegally in Boston or in a hut in Kenya), just blithely ignore it.  Certainly don't deviate from the narrative to actualy help them.
  9. Oh, and burn your actual birth certificate, particularly if it can be used to prove you're not even basically qualified to be President of the United States of America.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport.com

Yep you betcha.......

and its known as the

The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis

 

http://www.americant...

 

Obama/Ayers mission accomplished!

 

 

Inspired by Affirmative Action?

Apparently qualifications do not matter anymore to run the most power country on the planet. But thanks to Affirmative Action and liberal guilt we get the Messiah.

Censored Global Warming Videos

Waaaahhhhh

All those white libs who voted for Obama thought they would finally get a pass on racism. Wrong you whitey cracker! LOL.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Liberals attoned for their sins voting for Obama

The sin of being born with Brain Damage.

Censored Global Warming Videos

OK, this must be kind of

OK, this must be kind of how the goth kids on South Park must have felt when they saw the school trending towards "twilight."  (BTW, my 15-year old daughter thinks this is the gayest thing she's ever seen, and militantly refuses to go see the movie - LMAO). 

Observing an Obamaphile in full gush-mode makes me want to sit them down and explain that they are not informed, nor have they the slightest idea how a nation stays secure or how to give thoughtful analysis to economic fact and theory.

perhaps...

Perhaps Obama should stick to scripts. Dear lord...he started okay (not great) but quickly turned it into "Look at me, look at me!"

Maybe he should have said something more along the lines of: "Despite the tough times that we Americans have endured we should remember our blessings and count every one. For there are nations in this world that suffer at the hands of brutal tyranny, poverty and starvation."

(of course america will join them shortly)

 

 

 

Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

All I can say is..

Oy.

...and I'm not Jewish.

Uncle Gary

"Bri is with Jesus now, we will meet again, just not right now. We love you Bri!"

His own personel celebration--------

Isn't he swell, although he celebrates Kwanzaa, he's still my president, can-ya-dig-it.

 

He's gonna get us killed!!!!!!!!

The One

I was flipping through channels last night and saw the beginning of the show and there was Michelle Obama speaking like she was just another red-white-blue American. I kept flipping. I can't stomach listening to either one of those commies nor Walters. But I do believe the egomaniac's view of himself as The One to be inspired by (gag) rather than thanful to be an American (or is he?). Unfortunately, 52% of the voters do, too. All of this a$$-kissing by the MSM is really starting to affect me physically.

just more messiah-speak

Whosoever Believeth In Me. I am the way, and the .... 

bleah.

member of the Conservative Independant Witness Protection Program since Nov. 5, 2008

If I had a choice...

I'd rather mud wrestle with Rosie O than listen to Barry O.

Sorry, just couldn't listen more than 10 seconds. He freakin' creepy!

A friend of mine

Used to say, when then Pres. Jimmy Carter spoke: "More mush from the wimp." 

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. (On a Poster)

He's NOT my President.

I groan everytime I see Osa...uh...Obama on TV.  It makes me sick to think that this a$$hole will be our president.   

 

God Help Us!!!!

Election 2008

Liberal/Dem entire campaign theme:  That doesn't matter.  barry could have been bashing cute little white baby seals in the streets of Chicago, and it simply would have not mattered.....  ugh.

Unless, of course they want to refer to Sarah Palin's wardrobe or if John McCain uses a computer, or some other complete idiotic crap. 
 
Speaking of the media and politicians, this year was absolutely revolting to say the least.  Not to mention the nearly 8 Bush years.  Pathetic.  It makes me sad to see how this country has fallen off the deep end.   I wonder how so many issues would have turned out, if there had been just a little fair and balanced reporting and checks and balances in our Government.  One example, was spending the time and money on the firing of the U.S. attorney's, instead of focusing on Fannie and Freddie.  Where there was a REAL problem.

I hope that journalists begin doing their jobs.  But something very alarming tells me it is far too late.  Don't get me wrong, I love to get my news from the internet.  It is the kool-aid drinkers that believe EVERYTHING the msm say's, and vote solely on their spin and agenda.  shameful.

We need a firing squad in 2010.  Fire em all, and let God sort em out!!

<rant off>

 

 

How Long?

How long until we start seeing those giant, 4-story-high portraits of the Great Leader ala Mao and Stalin?  I so much want to start seeing those!

I thought I had put this in

I thought I had put this in my previous comment, but apparently not...

My first thought at  Walters' requesting Obama to "give a message to the people" was how long before she replaces the people with your people!!

LOL.  To be followed by

LOL.  To be followed by "your people, Your Majesty" ;-)

It's not BW

 Bcuz the same ppl that watch that BS from BW r the same ppl that watch Oprah, etal...either u laugh at the bias or u eat it up....It's like here...we r either preaching 2 the choiror it goes on deaf ears 2 the trolls.  They don't (wanna)see the bias. My prob is with shows like Law & Order...I watch it...but there theres MANY anti-Republican/christian/progressive, story lines. And if u werent 'smart' enough 2 pick it up,and know theres a 'sub' story...you would think that all Christians and Republicans are idiots and thats where the 'subversive' bias comes in. And theres many more millions who watch shows like that and get their 'news' from that, than Leno and Colbert. IMHO

Ya think?

"BARACK OBAMA: I want to remind people that, as tough as times are right
now, and they're a lot tougher for millions of people around the
country than they are for Michelle and I"

 Ya think?

 

When you can't ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary. That bothers me."

Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher

What?????

did he say?

I didn't hear him say ANYTHING??

Babble and others are worse off than he and his Belle?

He's the pres elect for goodness sake. How bad off can he be?

I can't believe ANYONE voted for this MORON!

As an aside. I hear folks wishing him well as pres. NOT me!

If he does what he says he wants to do, the United States of America and her Constitution, will no longer exist.

In that, I hope he just plain F's up.

You guys are a lot smarter than I am because I heard a question and listened to pure babble come out of the moron in chiefs mouth but never heard an answer.

What am I missing??

Delsa

I commented on this very thing, it may be painful, dangerous or worse I do not wish this regime anything that can be equated with 'success'. I hope he picks the worst candidates for posts,  makes the most glaring mistakes and blunders any president has ever made otherwise we may have him forever. That is if we still have any rights left after his reign. The sad part, as I write this opinion, in the back of my mind I keep thinking at some point a goon squad of civilian defense corps thugs with bow ties are going to be crashing through my door sometime in the future for writing such seditious, dis-loyal, traitorous, things about our god-king messiah er president.    

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. (On a Poster)

This is why I let NB watch BARRKY's propaganda for us ...

So I don't have to lose my Thanksgiving cookies. Thank you NB! Oh, and lest I forget, why didn't Walters ask to see his original BIRTH CERTIFICATE?

Insanity in the Family

I had a really heated discussion with my sister over the soon to be savior in office Barak "Jimmy Carter" Obama before we ate yesterday.  She started talking about how what this country needed was a new president who will help get the country back on its feet.  After I picked my jaw up off the floor and asked if she really voted for "The Messiah" I deleved even deeper.  It seems she actually believes that the president is going to get her husband a job. I asked her how this was going to happen since the person in question was stupid enough to take an early retirement from the local Ford plant without any thought of future earnings.  She then proceeded to throw figures at me from the MSM.  I fired back how the economy took a turn for the worse do to great Americans like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank.  Needless to say it was a fun Dinner.

 

 

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feed you"

Weak-kneed Republicans

One from Michigan was FOX a moment ago crying about bail-out $$$ for the big three. "Why does Wallstreet get it?.. They caused the problem..", etc. No mention of union pensions, Frank or Dodd.

This guy needs an attitude adjustment or be branded a RINO and excommunicated from the GOP. I'm tired of these guys giving Frank and Dodd a free pass.

Bolton/KEYES 2012