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Comedy Central - The Joke Is Buckwheat

Mike

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010; 11:49 PM

On Comedy Central, the joke was on President Obama Wednesday night.

On the Daily Show, the joke was on Obama

The president had come, on the eve of what will almost certainly be the loss of his governing majority, to plead his case before Jon Stewart, gatekeeper of the disillusioned left. But instead of displaying the sizzle that won him an army of youthful supporters two years ago, Obama had a Brownie moment.

The Daily Show host was giving Obama a tough time about hiring the conventional and Clintonian Larry Summers as his top economic advisor.

"In fairness," the president replied defensively, "Larry Summers did a heckuva job."

"You don't want to use that phrase, dude," Stewart recommended with a laugh.

Dude. The indignity of a comedy show host calling the commander in chief "dude" pretty well captured the moment for Obama. He was making this first-ever appearance by a president on the Daily Show as part of a long-shot effort to rekindle the spirit of '08. In the Daily Show, Obama had a friendly host and an even friendlier crowd.


But, as in his MTV appearance a couple of weeks ago, Obama didn't try to connect with his youthful audience. He was serious and defensive, pointing a finger at his host several times as he quarreled with the premise of a question.

Stewart, who struggled to suppress a laugh as Obama defended Summers, turned out to be an able inquisitor on behalf of aggrieved liberals. He spoke for the millions who had been led to believe that Obama was some sort of a messianic figure. Obama has only himself to blame for their letdown. By raising expectations impossibly high, playing the transformational figure to Hillary Clinton's status-quo drone, he gave his followers an unrealistic hope.

"You're coming from a place, you ran on a very high rhetoric: 'hope' and 'change.' And the Democrats this year seem to be running on 'Please, baby, one more chance.'" Stewart observed. "Are you disappointed in how it's gone?"

Obama replied that he was advised after the election that "two years from now, folks are going to be frustrated" -- a prediction he did not make public to his starry-eyed suporters at the time.

"We have done things that some folks don't even know about," Obama ventured.

WE TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:
 

Larrry

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Obama replied that he was advised after the election that "two years from now, folks are going to be frustrated" -- a prediction he did not make public to his starry-eyed suporters at the time.

And two years from now it will be even worse. For all of us
 

Tam

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Lonecowboy said:
We have done things that some folks don't even know about," Obama ventured.


Now that is a comforting thought--- NOT

Pelosi said they had to pass the bills to see what was in them and I doubt anyone has seen the last of what was tucked into the fine print of those multi thousand page bills the Dems stuffed through in the dark of night. :x
 

jingo2

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Tam said:
doubt anyone has seen the last of what was tucked into the fine print of those multi thousand page bills stuffed through in the dark of night. :x

You mean like the Patriot Act and others slammed thru in the dark of night during the Rep Reign????
 

per

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jingo2 said:
Tam said:
doubt anyone has seen the last of what was tucked into the fine print of those multi thousand page bills stuffed through in the dark of night. :x

You mean like the Patriot Act and others slammed thru in the dark of night during the Rep Reign????

Interesting argument Jingo. In math everything would be positive but here I think 2 wrongs are just 2 wrongs.
 

Sandhusker

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jingo2 said:
Tam said:
doubt anyone has seen the last of what was tucked into the fine print of those multi thousand page bills stuffed through in the dark of night. :x

You mean like the Patriot Act and others slammed thru in the dark of night during the Rep Reign????

Didn't Maobama support the Patriot Act?
 

Tam

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jingo2 said:
Tam said:
doubt anyone has seen the last of what was tucked into the fine print of those multi thousand page bills stuffed through in the dark of night. :x

You mean like the Patriot Act and others slammed thru in the dark of night during the Rep Reign????

In true liberal fashion Jingo2 :lol: :roll:

Hope, Change, Open, Honest, Transparent Administration is what he ran on. And what you got was NO hope NO change, lots of behind close door pay offs, a swamp full of CORRUPTION and an Administration doing things the voters "Don't even know about yet" His words not mine. :nod:

Just because he is seen everywhere does not make him TRANSPARENT Jingo. :wink: Well maybe a bit because we are seeing a side of Obama that nobody ever saw duning the election. One of a very thin skinned, race baiting, hate filled, teleprompted little "DUDE" (John's Name for him :nod: ) that will attack anyone that he considers to stupid to see how great he is. Which happens to be a growing number of people of late. Funny how that CHANGE thing is actually turning out. :wink: He needs to take a break and seek professional help for that oversized chip on his shoulder. I'm sure it will soon start effecting his Basketball and Golf games and for goodness sakes we couldn't have that now could we. :wink: :roll:
 

Mike

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jingo2 said:
Tam said:
doubt anyone has seen the last of what was tucked into the fine print of those multi thousand page bills stuffed through in the dark of night. :x

You mean like the Patriot Act and others slammed thru in the dark of night during the Rep Reign????

Yes, like THAT Patriot Act:
The Patriot Act was passed by wide margins in both houses of Congress and was supported by members of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

And the same one that the Dem Majority & Buckwheat extended recently. :lol:
 

Tam

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Sandhusker said:
jingo2 said:
Tam said:
doubt anyone has seen the last of what was tucked into the fine print of those multi thousand page bills stuffed through in the dark of night. :x

You mean like the Patriot Act and others slammed thru in the dark of night during the Rep Reign????

Didn't Maobama support the Patriot Act?

He could have but you can bet he didn't read the fine print in it before he voted. Just like he doesn't read the fine print in the bills he is signing as President. That is why the bills are thousands of pages long, to keep everyone from actually even thinking about reading them to see what they are agreeing to. As long as they see their earmark in there they don't care what else is tucked in too :wink:
 

hopalong

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Mike said:
jingo2 said:
Tam said:
doubt anyone has seen the last of what was tucked into the fine print of those multi thousand page bills stuffed through in the dark of night. :x

You mean like the Patriot Act and others slammed thru in the dark of night during the Rep Reign????

Yes, like THAT Patriot Act:
The Patriot Act was passed by wide margins in both houses of Congress and was supported by members of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

And the same one that the Dem Majority & Buckwheat extended recently. :lol:

Ouch that had to hurt EHHHHH kolo???
 
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