Barack Obama: King of Strawmen
Barack Obama, oddly cast in orange makeup, was asked tonight about water boarding and said he thought water boarding was torture, but kept going back to referring to them as “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
He patently refused to answer whether members of the prior administration should be prosecuted. Of interest, he took the bait by saying that he will be judged on how safe he keeps the American people. Through it all he created enough straw men that ACORN could spend the next year and not get them all registered to vote.
With plans to release prisoners from GTMO, bring some of them to the United States, release the names of CIA officers and others who structured the War on Terror, and undermine key efforts to gather information in the war — which we will no longer call a war — we’re going to keep this sound bite on file.
Most interesting of all, during this press conference, Obama continued to rely on the Teleprompter, though morphed into a large screen television with a huge carbon footprint. Likewise, Obama continued to go through a pre-cleared list of reporters who got to ask questions.
With a nice summation of his first 100 days excluding a willingness to admit his stimulus package and budget have had anything at all to do with a massive growth in the deficit, we have learned nothing new tonight other than Obama has a terrible make up artist.
The funniest part? Obama used the word “consistent” to describe his position on abortion. In fact, it is the only position thus far that has not come with an expiration date. Of course, with a smile he said the “Freedom of Choice Act” was not his highest legislative prior. That’s not what he said on the campaign trail.
I can’t watch any more — but 45 minutes in, I’m pretty sure Major Garrett from Fox News will not get to ask a question despite representing the largest cable news network on earth — larger than CNN and MSNBC combined.
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