Krauthammer Mocks Obama's 17 Minute Town Hall Jibber-Jabber: "It's Only 9 Times Longer Than Gettysburg Address" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, April 5, 2010, 5:10 PM
Charles Krauthammer mocked President Obama on Special Report for his 17 minute answer to a tax question at a town hall event last week…
“It’s only nine times longer than the Gettysburg Address.”
Charles Krauthammer on the president’s jibber-jabbering:
“I don’t know why your surprised. It’s only nine times longer than the Gettysburg Address. And, after all Lincoln was answering an easier question on the higher purpose of the union and soldiers that fall in battle. Look the president had an easy answer. He could have said, “Hey I wanted to make history with health care and to do it and to make the CBO numbers look OK I had to raise your taxes. Sure it’s not a good time economically in the middle of a recession but politically I had to because I have a window a majority in Congress and I’m going to lose in November.” End of answer.”
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Flyover Sam commented:
Don’t forget Obama’s Maxim: More is Better.
Like taxes, deficits, government intrusion, state domestic surveillance, terrorism, IRS employment, seizures of property, regulations on businesses, michelle’s thighs, corruption, disinformation, media abuses, etc.
shibumi commented:
Wow.
Epic smackdown.
down with dems commented:
The reason the answer was 17 minutes long was because everything Charles Krauthammer said was running through Obama’s mind, and Obama was having to tiptoe around the truth on the fly.
USMC Thomas commented:
Succinct unlike SOBama.
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Andreas K. commented:
Epic, like Buzz Aldrin punching the hippie who called him a liar. Okay, maybe not that epic, but still good.
I’m curious when Obama will pick up the “smart” idea employed in the UK with 4 million CCTV cameras.
Which… don’t do anything to lower the crime rates there, but are very good to spy on the normal people.
Richard Romano commented:
One of my students wrote an essay that went on and on and on, but essentially said nothing — he makes no claims and defends no propositions. It’s complete nonsense.
Obama is the same way — he says nothing of substance; he uses rhetoric to obscure, never to enlighten.
He is a fraud — his whole persona is almost entirely manufactured by his staunchest supporters, i.e., the media.
ar05075 commented:
Listen to the FLOTUS talk about the POTUS and his “Home Country of Kenya”;
http://www.thefoxnation.com/birthers/2010/04/05/birthers-arms-over-first-lady-home-country-video
No Man commented:
Pithy and true.
Michel commented:
“Epic, like Buzz Aldrin punching the hippie who called him a liar.”
Do any of you ever get it right? He punched a guy who was convinced that government lied about the moon landing. He sounds just like most people who post here …
Not Intimidated commented:
Obama is the same way — he says nothing of substance; he uses rhetoric to obscure, never to enlighten.
He is a fraud — his whole persona is almost entirely manufactured by his staunchest supporters, i.e., the media.
“What we need is the opposite of a miracle. What we need is the simplest, most do-able, everyday occurrence. We need to get out and vote, and we need to take a few friends with us. Nothing could be less miraculous. I think if we understood how easy it is, we would be more likely to do it.”
–Bill Whittle
proof commented:
Ah! The Great Orator! (A teleprompter! A teleprompter! My Kingdom for a teleprompter!)
bg commented:
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posted this earlier in a previous thread..
Just think if Obama had to answer a hard question…
will add an excerpt:
[Guess how long it took Obama to "answer" the question. About 17 minutes! And, he still didn't answer it. Of course, he starts off by saying there is a lot of "misinformation" out there. Misinformation about how big our tax burden is? Is he kidding?]
ask me no questions, i’ll tell you no lies, “typical Obama”
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Auntie Em commented:
Like shibumi said…EPIC SMACKDOWN.
obummer is WAAAAY out of his league and should really just shut the hell up.
Flyover Sam commented:
> Just think if Obama had to answer a hard question…
In a sense, that question was one of the harder ones he could have ever been given; to answer honestly implicates him and exposes him for what he is.
In that respect, I feel sorry for the President. Can any of us imagine living a life as a total fraud? No wonder he gets so angry (and loathes tea party people who have real lives, real accomplishments, real struggles). In fact, I’d support the President setting aside the farce that all but the loons who represent the inside-the-Matrix Democratic party regulars know is bogus. Set aside the simulation. It’d be healthier for all as he’s increasingly showing odd tendencies toward paranoia ala Nixon and has even started jewifying his opposition (ala Zizek’s observation that fascists make their opponents out to be devious evil geniuses who are behind all the trickery and subversion of fascism’s perpetual failures, and yet at the same time, clueless sub-human Neanderthals).
bg commented:
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ar05075 @ 5:48 pm #7
add the following to that (along
many other silenced factoids)..
His own mother .. was “very young
and very single when she had him.”
Kenyan Ambassador: Obama born in Kenya
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moron commented:
Why can’t you right wingers just get along and give him a complete pass like the elite journalists of this great nation do?
vargas commented:
Don’t look now! But he’s giving away the farm now…..He’s ruining this country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html
kato commented:
Anyone who heard even two minutes of the Blowhard’s rambling non-answer — Section VIII parasites excluded, of course — should realize, if they didn’t before, that this empty suit is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on this country.
DocScience commented:
Perhaps Obama was merely demonstrating that there really IS enough hot air for a post-fossil fuel America.
He is a practitioner of obfuscation, not elucidation.
gus commented:
His problem is, he thinks he’s smart and he thinks you’re dumb.
myohmy commented:
Charles should analyze if Obama as narcissistic complex since he is psychiatrist by profession. There is really something wrong with Obama’s long winding non-answer.
Gerry commented:
Methinks that C.K. knows the difference between a contraction and a possessive pronoun.
czekmark commented:
Krauthammer, one of the few sane voices in the lamestream media. Always telling it the way it is.
meester w commented:
Obama is in the process of destroying the Democrat party through a rarely seen combination of incompetence, and buffoonery that America has not been witness to since Carter was making out the schedule for the Whitehouse tennis court.
From foreign policy to economic policy, his absolute lack of common sense or decency leads to a series of blunders that, if committed by a Republican, would be grounds for immdiate removal from office.
The press will cover for him just long enough for him to destroy the one thing that he and the fourth estate love; himself.
Thanks, Barry! Tahnks New York Times! you guys are brilliant!
bandit commented:
#25 – I have the misfortune of living in the biggest college town in the US and you hear it every day. People who can’t discern that the only thing more obvious than the banality of their profound ideas is their lack of originality.
LJM commented:
Love Krauthammer
David in Cal commented:
I don’t find this at all funny. Our President was zoning out during a public appearance. Does he zone out at othe times? Presidents are called upon to do crucial tasks all the time. His strange answer makes me worry about his leadership.
bg commented:
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David in Cal @ 8:10 am #35
re: [Our President was zoning
out during a public appearance.]
certainly not the first time, nor the last..
also a symptom of doing drugs (wouldn’t be the first time) and/or schizophrenia (refuses to show his med records).. why is he exempt from having to heed the freedom of information act, Bush et al were not (as a matter of fact, Bush revealed all his records twice)..
[Information is leaking that Barack Obama was treated for mental related illnesses in the 70's and early 80's and may have been prescribed anti-psychotic medications. Schizophrenia is the main reported diagnosis with possible case severe depression.
[..]
The refusal of the Obama campaign to release records any American has to provide to secure employment is a puzzler: Obama promises “change” and “hope” and transparency.]
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Forever Now commented:
Time for a Psychedelic Furs revival! President Gas again, indeed.
bg commented:
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re: bg #36
oops, link didn’t show..
here you go..
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Daniel commented:
most presidential speeches in the recent past were compiled by aides, carefully checked and, while they were based on the ideas of the president, were generally authored in detail by a large group, including the president, speech writers, related cabinet ministers, and others.
our present president seems to make statements that no responsible group could ever approve. he maimed the economy of Las Vegas by denouncing holding conventions there. he maimed the huge American aircraft industry by denouncing corporate use of their own jets. now he mutters irrelevant banalities for 17 minutes in response to a simple question, albeit one he could not answer honestly in public.
he does not seem to be aware that his statements have consequences, and consequences he may not have foreseen.
I hope we survive the remainder of his term.
Julie commented:
Looks like Obama’s chip was malfunctioning or something. Ew.
PacRim Jim commented:
“9 times as long,” not “9 times longer” (which would make it 10 times as long).
bg commented:
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“We Are Overtaxed” 1
“We Are Overtaxed” 2
“We Are Overtaxed” 3
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Georg Felis commented:
This is the song that never ends
It just goes on and on my friend
….
*sigh*
Where do I call to get my refund? I seem to have wound up with a President who is defective, and lacks an “off” switch on his mouth. I would like to trade him in on a nice conservative model who does not steal my checkbook and run through town, writing checks to all of his friends.