I do not think that word means what you think it means.
∏eh n00b W∅n
Remember when there were Spin Doctors? In this economic time, I guess all we can afford is Spin Interns.
Last Friday a reporter from the New York Times asked President Obama: “Are you a socialist as some people have suggested?"
Obama answered, “You know, let’s take a look at the budget—the answer would be no.”
It’s ok. I’ll wait til ya stop laffin. Took me a while, too. I’m not sure who else was laffin—but *somebody* was apparently worrying.
At 2:30 p.m., President Obama called The New York Times, saying he wanted to clarify a point from the interview. Here is a transcript of that brief call: [insert your own “uuuh ...erm… uuhhhh"s]
President Obama: Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter. It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question. I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement – the prescription drug plan without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks through these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word socialist around can’t say the same.
oygeeze. n00b. That “argument” wouldn’t fly in a freshman logic class. Hell—“Georgie did it fiiirst” wouldn’t fly in pre-skool.
So what, ‘xactly, makes that which you condemn in the previous administration, yet continue to do, “entirely consistent with free-market principles?” Have David Axelrod call me back BlackBerry you the answer so you can call me back.
Q. So who’s watch are we talking about here?
A. Well, I just think it’s clear by the time we got here, there already had been an enormous infusion of taxpayer money into the financial system. And the thing I constantly try to emphasize to people if that coming in, the market was doing fine, nobody would be happier than me to stay out of it. [whaa?] I have more than enough to do without having to worry the financial system. The fact that we’ve had to take these extraordinary measures and intervene is not an indication of my ideological preference, but an indication of the degree to which lax regulation and extravagant risk taking has precipitated a crisis.
I think that covers it.
Oh. So it’s Barney Frank’s fault.
Another pri¢eless tidbit from the middle of the first interview:
Q. Are you sleeping sir or is it hard to sleep?
A. Ohhhhh, I always sleep because when I’m not sleeping I’m working.
...or whinging. [did he even understand the question?!?] [or the concept?!?!?]
Whew! Makes me tired to look at it.
[no. srsly.]
Somebody else took a look at the Communist Party USA (Yep, there’s still one there) website, at their Agenda (couple dozen points), and paired them off with what His OneUpNess has been doing.
They figure about an 80% match.
Posted by ZZMike on 03/11/09 at 12:58 PM
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