Hey Gibbs, want some cheese with that Whine! That was the best damned interview I have ever seen with this president. Baier would not let him filibuster his interview, thus the evasive president could not explain the problem with spending Medicare twice (which already has $28 Trillion in unfunded liabilities), or what was in the Bill.

If there was any doubt about the style and content of Obama, then everthing is now out in the open.This man is so obsessed with his Socialist ideology that the mainstream media does not see him avoiding press meetings.
This antic of summoning the press and not wanting to answer on the spot questions about policy and issues reflects badly on this Democracy.
This is not the America we want or can afford to offer our children. If this is an indication of where we are heading then we are in a lot of trouble.
Incidentally the reason why I referred to his socialist ideology is based on this very concept, that government is not accountable to the press and to a greater extent the people.
For a man who is a Law professor and far more educated that his predecessor Bush, who incidentally had numerous meetings with the press,what could Obama fear from a media willing to do his bidding.
This is the Socialist manifesto. They, being the government knows what we want and so without further ado they implement. Then the media cooperatively informs us from a White House script.
This will not work in America!
Chavez does it in Venezuela and Castro does it in Cuba.
IT WILL NOT BE SO HERE !!

I agree with the comments thus far, but what gets my goat is that this person sat on his skinny arse and told us that he likes what Cuba, Venezuela, China are about. He also said that we need redistribution of the wealth (take from me to give to lazy people and illegals?)  I mean, aside from what was available for us to read about his past upbringing…his mentors and associations, his refusal to show certain records like other presidents have done, WHERE ALL THAT MONEY CAME FROM FOR THE CAMPAIGN…the American sheepal still went to the polls and voted for him.  Now we have to deal with him, et. al.  These agendae were slated to be implemented from time past, and this was a good time to put up the creep that they have been mentoring along…to be the tool of persuasion. A lot of the craziness is just orchestrated bull to get the deal done so that the economy can be in the hands of a few, and we are so stupid to believe that there will be a lot of jobs…(they will be gov.mt jobs to collect your money and keep you in line).  Well, all I can say is, that when the devil himself shows up, I hope that there is a lesson to be learned here.  The devil will not show himself ugly, dumb or stupid…no quite the opposite.

Perhaps just a ploy to enable Pres. Obama to refuse future interviews with FOX, maybe?
Just as a magician, in order to hide an elephant, airplane or other large object, superimposes bright lights between the object to disappear and his audience, Pres. Obama uses the prestigious panoply of the Presidency to hide his extraordinary inexperience, leftist philosophy, and critical lack of leadership from the public!

CTR—
Occam’s razor is very applicable here (your post #4)in other words..“The principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed. This principle is often called the principle of parsimony.”  The simplest answer is usually best…Obama is so enamored with his own position that everyone should kiss his Arse without question..just like Gibbs.

How did MSM reporters treat George W. Bush?  The whining is unbelievable.  I thought Bret did a fabulous job with Obama, and I wish he had not apologized at the end for interrupting him.  No apology was necessary.  Obama’s filibustering non-answers were a sham, and Bret exposed his sorry rear end.

What amazes me is just the whining of grown men… when faced with those who dare to ask..

To the Occam’s razor comment, I agree.  I should have just said, “The emperor has no clothes.”

As to Bret’s interview, I wish along with many of us, that he could have gotten a straight answer out of Pres. Obama.  However, it’s hard to cross- examine a President of the United States.  They ALL come with prepared comments, ready to lecture, pontificate or shamelessly filibuster, determined to control the interview.  Pres. Bush, of course had more experience with hostile interviews, and there’s every reason to think that Pres. Obama was persuaded by his “scripters” that any interview on FOX would be hostile.  Historically, few Presidents have ever answered direct questions which might prove embarrassing—especially as, again historically, reporters and partisans are quick to misquote or take out of context anything they can turn into a good sound bite or byline, or quite dishonestly resorting to outright partisan editing.  [For confirmation, if you really need it, ask Pres. Bush, Palin, or even either Roosevelt or Truman! etc.]

Obama is like most, and like most, he gets into trouble many times when he speaks his mind, as with the prejudical police comment, etc.

CTR—
“Obama is like most, and like most, he gets into trouble many times when he speaks his mind, as with the prejudicial police comment, etc.” 
I think you are correct… I have no objection to him speaking “his mind” or offering an opinion SO LONG AS HE SAYS
IT IS JUST AN OPINION– unfortunately as president of the US often times many (and perhaps his own mind) think being President automatically makes him a qualified expert on areas in which he has no expertise at all. 

The other greater problem – is in MHO – politicians simply lack integrity and honor as the term “Gentlemen”  was understood by our founding fathers. It has lost its meaning.  As a sign I read once said… “Gentlemen WILL have honor and behave, others are expected tool”

I agree completely, Obama could have said “In my opinion, I do not believe Fox is real news”, as opposed to what he actually said, “Fox is not real news.” As President (at least in the United States), he should not comment at all if he had a modicum of decorum. Obama has people to do that for him, when it comes from his own mouth, it makes him appear even more petty, thin skinned, biased and (more) weak.

As my father always taught me, which came from Thomas Jefferson, “Do not judge me alone, judge me by the people I surround myself with.”

Well, we have seen who Obama has surrounded himself with, 50 years ago, many of these people would be investigated for treason, criminal activity (and should be today), union thugs and so on…worst of all, an intended agenda to obfuscate the truth from the American people. The sheer arrogance to intentionally bring this country to its knees against our will.

Rep Alcee Hastings (D-FL) (member of the Rules Committee actually said on Rules, “We make’em up as we go along.” It is sad enough that he thinks that way, but to actually speak the words shows the arrogance of these supposedly lawmakers. You all remember Hastings not too distant past:

In 1981, Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. He was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court (resulting in a jail sentence for Borders).

In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed, providing five votes more than the two-thirds of those present that were needed to convict. The first article accused the judge of conspiracy. Conviction on any single article was enough to remove the judge from office.

The Senate had the option to forbid Hastings from ever seeking federal office again, but did not do so. Alleged co-conspirator, attorney William Borders went to jail again for refusing to testify in the impeachment proceedings, but was later given a full pardon by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office, as was Mark Rich.

When it comes to Government they are exempt from the laws we the people must follow (had Mark Rich been a Republican supported, he would still be in prison).

Health care is not a right, the Student Loans taken over by the Government (in the current H/C Bill does this), going to college is not a right, owning a home is not a right.

Not even the POTUS can force us to purchase Health Care, then fine us if we do not buy into their plan, and hopefully SCOTUS will take this measure seriously according to our Constitution.

Jobs, Obama also promised we would have very many thousands of American people and factories working on ‘Green Jobs’, so why is China providing 80% of all solar panels, and manufacturing 78% of all Wind Farm materials?

Moody’s has already warned the Government that if Health Care is passed, we could very well lose our Triple A rating, if that happens, we will not have the money to pay our interest rates on the loans Obama has taken on, look at Greece. We are facing a Global Economic meltdown, what comes next is a One World Economy formed by the U.N. if they can even pull it off.

The men and women in our House who have sold or traded their votes have lost any principals they may have had. Out of the 55 Dems standing against this Bill, only Bart Stupak has stood his ground.

The MSM are just a guilty for hiding the truth from the people, and as the ratings show FOX beating every single one of them solidly for the past five months. The FCC goes after many advertised for making false accusations, where is the FCC on honesty in the Media?

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” 

Samuel Adams

Wesley, you’re correct—health care is not a right. Rights are only guaranteed by legislation. We could argue all day about what you or I believe a “right” should be; but in the end, none of it matters unless you create a document with enforceable language (there’s nothing so groundless as the assertion of abstract rights without the laws to back them). In the case of health care, that’s finally been done.

To quote the Teabaggers, “Can you hear us now?”

You have the right to take care of yourself…to make decisions in life, within our framework, to care for you and yours.  You don’t cram legislation down the throats of people who do not agree with the ‘way’ health reform is being done.  This is an unhealthy takeover by government that you will one day perhaps learn that is not good for our freedoms which we have enjoyed.  Gov. is going to really grow to handle this and to get into areas of our lives that we don’t really want them in.  By this takeover, this so-called right, takes away my right to keep as much money as I can, after the Gov. has already taxed it.  It taxes it again when I get ready to move my car (high tax on gas for doing NOTHING to earn, or help to earn it). Now I will be taxed again to pay for people who eat and drink crap, don’t take care of themselves and won’t go to the facilities for healthcare in their areas until they get sick and wind up in the emergency room…not to mention the illegals that we will be paying for.  That’s right, take my rights away, to create a right for you.  Many doctors will be leaving the system while more patients are coming in.  They already only get about 40% of what they charge.  Medicaid will now likely ask them to take less and see more people.  This is the wrong way to go about health reform, but when people with power have an agenda to get done, (like global warming?)they will do it regardless of the fallout.  YES we need to reform the system, but we need to reform the way Medicare and Medicaid are run (GOVERNMENT RUN).  They waste more money than you can shake a stick at, I KNOW!  Reform that and there would be savings enough to pool in more people, on an economic sliding scale. (make a little, pay a little).  Then, you tell hospitals (states) what will not be tolerated in charges.  You then give,
at state level also,lawyers AND insurance companies parameters.  Reform the tort system so that doctors and hospitals don’t have to pay so
much for insurance.  There are other things which can be done..(drugs), but they should be done as blocks of legislation and cooperation and not as a one-piece garganuan monstrosity in which the gov. is the major player.  This is a disaster waiting to happen and I hope the courts overturn it.  From a Teabagger, AND one who has had to take especially good care of myself because I could not afford healthcare (born with deficits)…Can you hear me? And since when do you think you count…this is AGENDA that must be done…it is not theirs…they are the puppets to get it done.  There WILL be new insurance companies cropping up…wonder if Pel. or o. will have stock…of course the reps will walk through the doors into them…of course…pharma too.

I beg to respectfully disagree with the “opinion” comment, as I do agree generally with the writer’s views.  The problem with Presidents is that whatever they say can be taken by people both a home and abroad as official US policy. Thereby Presidents are completely hamstrung, unable like commentators, members of Congress, governers, etc., to “shoot from the hip,” answer their critics in kind (which is why Pres. Obama’s attacks of FOX, O’Reilly, etc.,[Remember Truman’s undignified attacks on his daughter’s critic] are looked at askance and generally deemed “un-Presidential.”)  Thus anyone can attack the President with any slander or totally disrespectful comment or insinuation—including outright lies and half-truths, innneundoes, specualtions or bizarre theories, etc. with impunity.  Unfounded, usually partisan, attacks on the President are thus often outright cowardly in that accuser or slanderer knows full well that the President cannot answer him or her directly.  Also, attacks on the President are all too often exploited by enemies and nations who are envious of the US or for many reasons do not wish us well, as criticisms of the US.  It is no accident that the US prestige suffered around the world quite directly because of the constant, insanely visious attacks on President Bush.  (And, irony of ironies, those who worked so hard, so underhandedly, and so viciously to destroy our worldwide reputation, now declare again and again that they are working hard to restore what “Bush” destroyed! Incredible!)  Such is the nature of politics, however, that Presidents beginning with Geo. Washington have been mercilessly slandered and lied about, and the partisan process continues;  it is a fact of life, an age-old dynamic of politics.  The nation be damned: we will continue to trash our Presidents.
This is not to say that attacking a President’s bad policy or appointments are not fair game, or entirely necessary to the “democratic process”; it’s just that in the case of the President (for the sake of our national reputation, if not for more decent or construtive reasons) ad hominem attacks should be eschewed in favor of sound factual or political arguments, in search of which is why many of us read these blogs.  (I am, like most of us, quite often guilty of the above, often caught up by the madness or politics of the moment, so this is a reminder to myself as well as a plea to others for a more thoughtful and fair dialogue.  I am no sanit!)

  To repeat, what the President says cannot be taken as mere opinion, as when he speaks, what he says can be taken so often as national policy; he speaks for the nation (not that Presidents always abide by such rules!).

ctr, you are correct in most of your post, Bush was destroyed in the Media, and regardless that Obama has adopted many of his policies of which the press will not give credit. But to criticize Obama rarely if ever is reported by our media, but more so in the international media.

Obama is losing (or has already lost) favor with many other countries. The sheer arrogance of Obama and/or his people giving him credit for the success of the surge in Iraq is simply unbelievable. Gitmo is still open a year after it was promised to be closed, the Federal Wiretapping w/o warrants was renewed by Obama, only this time it includes phone calls within the United States, he took Bush’s TARP for “short term loans” then turned them into stimulus and government owned private sector businesses.

Obama’s enabling of Iran to give them time to continue their nuclear ambitions, now he is talking about sanctions…it’s too late for that now, he spent too much time campaigning on Health Care to worry about Iran. Hillary was unable to stop Russia from sending New Nuclear technology to Iran.

beverly, in 2003 Rick Perry Gov of Texas instituted Tort Reform, as a result (along with having no State Taxes) has resulted in many of the richest Americans to leave California, N.Y. and other states to move here, along with middle class families, and businesses. Thanks to Tort, we are rated as #1 in Medical Care in part to thousands of doctors moving here.

This State is the only one in the USA who was its own country when we joined the Union. In return for Texas giving up so much land to the U.S. to create five new states, the Republic of Texas was granted certain rights. We had a complete government, President, V.P., Congress and House of Representatives, the constitution was adopted from the US in most part.

I am not one of these people…but there is a petition of 14 million signatures of people who want to succeed from the USA. I am, and always have been an American first and foremost. There are currently five states in the green with 45 in red ink. The government wants to force all states to become equal in paying for other states that cannot make ends meet. Punishing those who were fiscally responsible to bail out the rest, especially California.

Sunday we lost many more of our Constitution Rights and freedoms as Americans. I am sure those of you who are informed (as I believe most everyone who comes to AIM is, and surely everyone in this blog) have heard Pelosi, the President, and other say “When this Health Care passes, you and I will know what is in this Bill.” The fact is that ObamaCare was not written by Congress, the Senate or any member of the United States government. Most if not all was written by the Apollo Alliance and the Tides Foundation, along with the American Center for Progress.

For awhile I thought Bart Stupak was a stand up guy, on Fox every day for weeks saying he and his group were unmovable No Votes. Well he sold out on Sunday along with the rest who would have killed the bill, for an Executive Order that Tax Payer Abortion would be removed from the Bill, and Obama would sign it “after” the vote and keep the Hyde Amendment in place.

The executive order is not worth the paper it is written on, the President does not have to sign it, if he does sign, it means nothing due to the fact that the H/B overrides the order, and Hyde has been removed. Either he was taken for a fool, or he knew, and as the rest sold their souls for who knows what. Stupak is not a freshman; he knows that order could not hold water.

Now we begin paying taxes on Health Care four years before it is in place, that is a total of 10 years of taxes for six years of H/C, with an actual cost of $2.3 Trillion dollars, 165 new H/C agencies, plus 16,500 new employees in the IRS to make sure every American has the right Health Care Plan approved by the Government, if not then a $2,500.00 or a bit over 2% of your gross salary, whichever comes first.

Moody’s has already warned the US that our Triple A Credit Rating is in danger (that was before the H/C Bill). If we lose that rating as Greece did, we will not have the money to pay the interest on all the money Obama has borrowed or printed…as of Saturday, our interest was $800 Billion dollars a year, to be paid by taxpayers.

Heath Care is NOT a Right
Owning a home is NOT a Right
Welfare is not a Right (it is an entitlement)
Freedom of Speech is a partial right…If you stand on a podium in public and say, Islamists are a danger to this county…you have broken the law.

Rights were granted to citizens in our Constitution as it was written; Inalienable Rights are granted by our Creator.

AMEN. “NUFF said and said well.

Sounds like I need to go to live in Texas…one of my favorite places anyway.

I wonder if those textbooks in Texas explain exactly WHY Texas looked north instead of South and joined the United States. [ditto for CA, AZ, NM] Had Mexico been colonized by the British, with colonial legislatures, free religious assemblies, and people who felt that they inherited certain personal rights as Englishmen—a New World shining as a beacon to men all over the world as destination for those seeking freedom and prosperity; and had what is now the US been colonized by Spain which spawned a rigid class system including peonage and a hierarchical Church as an appendage of the state and ruling class, then the gallant Texans would certainly have today been a part of THAT Mexico.  [Modern times has its own parallel in the Falklands, where the citizens of the Falklands absolutely would not yield up their rights as free Englishmen to be subjected to an Argentine dictatorship and Spanish law which denigrates women among other things.]  In fact, had Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico become a part of Mexico, today we would without a doubt have illegals pouring across those borders into LA, OK, CO, NV, OR, etc., and the oil in Texas would have gone the way of Mexican oil in Chiapas, Texas would still have longhorn cattle, no great industry, no NASA, and CA would never have had the great industial, dot-com, oil, and agricultural enterprises that produced an economy larger that that of all but five nations of the world—it varies from fifth to eighth depending on who’s reporting.
Again, are these things—the real naked truth of why Texans chose to join the US—in the new Texas history books?  Or are they so PC that we can hardly find even the founding fathers there?  Or so enamored of socialism, multiculturism, relativism, etc. that there is hardly a mention the contributions of the great capitalists? Or of Christianity? Which religion is banned?

Finally, if Texas were part of Mexico, we would have no “Yellow Rose of Texas”!

ctr-If you remember recent history, text books were written in solely in California, since their economy has all but collapsed, the United States Board of Education chose Texas to write the majority of Text Books, and the Teachers Union who set up shop in Austin (the ONLY Texas based Union) they were not invited. WE consider the books being written in our state an embarrasment.

Had it still been California (who once had the 8th largest economy in the world), I seriously doubt that the Conservatives would have not gotten their way by striking 497 of 688 changes the Liberals wanted. Trust me, if given the choice, we would like nothing more than to get out of the Text Book industry…We cannot vote out a Federal Mandate!

Silicone Valley in CA. has been overtaken by the Silicon Prairie. When Intel, the Processor maker applied to move to Texas, the company was denied since they would not move the manufacturing plant from Mexico to Texas.

15 years ago, the State was 70% Republican, with all the new comers escaping for jobs, no State Taxes, Tort, affordable housing, that number has dropped to 67%, now if we can just get rid of Shelia Jackson Lee, we would all be better off…

Ever since the conceal and carry permits of hand guns was enacted, Houston has gone from the #2 crime city in America to the most crime free city in America according to the National Crime database, and studies by Forbes. To even get the permit, you must attend police classes and their academy of criminal/civilian training, all this takes 12 weeks. I don’t leave home without one.

But the focus is NOT Texas, it is the U.S. Government who thinks it is unfair to the rest of the country that we, as well as the other four States have a surplus, who will all be forced to bailout California because they refuse to eliminate their illegal alien programs which would easily pay off their debt.

The thing we all need to focus on, is stopping Social Justice, which is permeating our Churches, Education and every other part of our society, or face the insurrection of Marxism.

Next up is Immigration Reform, then Cap and Trade. If C&P or we lose our Moody Triple A rating, I will too may join the succession movement.

I’m glad to know that the Texans are trying as gallantly to hold the line against the PC Revisionists as those who fought at the Alamo.  Everyone agrees on California; it’s the “Golden State” that literally killed the Golden Goose.  It’s not Arnold’s fault; he has a Demo legislature that is as far left, if not further, than the Demo-controlled US Congress.  All California has to do to balbance its bugdget is to drill for oil off her coast, seal up its southern border, get rid of sanctuary in cities like SF and the estimated 6 million illegals, get rid of a myriad of draconian environmental laws, muzzle the Sierra Club and its legion of $150,000+ per year lawyers, and elect a conservative legislature (all of the initiatives and polls show Californians to be conservative, which makes the left-leaning legislature a mystery).  California has a good chance of doint its patriotic duty in ridding the nation of both Boxer and Pelosi in the next election. Please pardon me if I seemed to ignore the contributions of the many “original” Mexicans who are an integral part of Texas, starting with their joining the fight against Santa Anna at the Alamo, as well as those who are there legally and contribute positively to the economy of Texas!

lol…hold on there, I am not saying we do not have our problems too, Houston has a portion of the city which also has sanctuary policies, however they do not extend citywide. Then there is the Cartel problems along our Border to Mexico, according to national reports, from California to Texas resulted in 2,687 drug cartel related deaths in 2009 alone.

The difference is we as a state have become highly motivated politically, especially on illegal immigration. there are literally hundreds of conservative and moderate groups who meet regularly.

Almost 15 years ago we began a campaign against illegal workers, it began with yard service people, then contractors (roofers, plumbers, interior/exterior remodeling…ect.), if you do not speak English or can present a green card, the company did not get jobs. Before Obama in mid 2009, if the police would not report them to ICE, we ourselves would…and did. Many, many illegals have now vacated our city since work is scarce.

I have lived, worked, and traveled the world (one period was a stretch of 17 years) some were in the most dangerous countries, such as six years in Libya (U.S. Government approved), there is not a better country in the world any better than the Untied States. Not in eastern or western Europe, definitely not in the near, middle, or far eastern countries, not in the South Pacific, South American or even Canada. I was living and working in Venezuela when they began Nationalizing the country. It always seems to be the banks that go first, then Medical, the schools and so on!

Back home, get rid of Social Justice and we get our country back, and California becomes a Golden State again. There is a new Revolution going on to retake America, but we are fighting it with words and votes, not guns and bullets. I’m in!!!