Obama’s Double Somersault With a Twist Flip-Flop
So it happened like this, according to Barack Obama.
They were having a birthday party for little Malia last weekend in Montana when, all of a sudden, several trucks pull up to the house where they are staying and out jumps Maria Menounos of Access Hollywood, pushing herself and 10,000 pounds of equipment through the door while loudly demanding to interview the candidate, his wife Michelle, and even his kids Sasha and the birthday girl Malia.
Well, Obama and his family were having so much fun and everything that he had something of a brain cramp and, without thinking much about it, agreed on the spot to Menounos interviewing his little darlings.
Sound plausible? Here’s a transcript of a Today Show interview with Obama where he explains why he “regrets” allowing his children to be exploited by one of the most exploitive TV shows in on the air today:
LAUER: …some people said wait a minute, the senator is trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, you want to protect your private life. On the other hand, here you are sitting with your two daughters and allowing them to answer questions. Did you make the right call on that?
OBAMA: Uh, you know, I think that we, uh, got carried away in the moment. We were having a birthday party and everybody was laughing, and suddenly this thing cropped up. And, uh, I didn’t catch it quickly enough. And I was surprised by the attention it received as well.
LAUER: Senator, if you had to do it over again?
OBAMA: Yah, I won’t be doing it again and we won’t be doing it again.
Suddenly this thing cropped up? Who is Obama trying to kid? This was a coldly calculated effort to use his children as props in the “Getting to Know Obama” campaign that the candidate will be pushing all this month. It certainly helps that effort when you have two cute as a button, clever, photogenic kids to melt the hearts of the viewing audience.
Michelle Malkin points out what’s wrong with Obama’s “explanation”:
He’s got no one to blame but himself for this bad judgment call that wasn’t, to borrow Michelle O’s phrase, good for his kids. Yet, Obama makes it seem as though the cameras just magically appeared from nowhere, taking him by surprise. As if the four-part interview were a spur of the moment decision that “suddenly… cropped up.”
Horse-hockey you can believe in.
A four-part interview that probably entailed hours of set-up, makeup, mic checks, and post-wrap schmoozing… and he “didn’t catch it quickly enough.”
What Obama told Good Morning America about the incident is, if anything, more bizarre:
“It was an exception, it was Malia’s birthday, we were in Montana, everybody was having a good time,” he told Good Morning America talk show on ABC. “I think we got carried away a little bit. Generally what makes them so charming is the fact that they’re not spending a lot of time worrying about TV cameras or politics and we want to keep it that way.”
Asked if he regretted the interview, Obama said: “A little bit of pause, Michelle and I, particularly given the way it sort of went around the cable stations. I don’t think it’s healthy and it’s something that we’ll be avoiding in the future.”
It beggars belief that Obama would have agreed to the Access Hollywood interview without strict ground rules laid out in advance about what questions could be asked and how the children would be approached. If he didn’t get these issues clear prior to taping, he’s not much of a father — or a politician, for that matter.
Either way, a blatant exploitive use of his kids as political capital, or a shocking lapse in judgement and principal…it shows his complete lack of ability to make correct decisions when under pressure.
Gee…and this was just the crew from Access Hollywood!! Do we REALLY want this guy in charge of our country and OUR safety…when the pressure is on???
Then he trys to wiggle out of his “conflicted” ego/superego conundrum with more “regret-speak”!
Pathetic!
I can hear the speech now, when and if we are ever attacked again:
“I really regret the loss of life, and I regret not having made decisions that might have avoided this..”
Yeah…and we regret electing you!
Obama lies. With Impunity. Because he knows he can. Yes, he can. The press has decreed it.
Isn’t this a little like his boneheaded house deal with Rezko? Or like his boneheaded idea to speak in front of the Brandenburg Gate? His judgement isn’t all that great when he stands to profit financially or politically.
The sad thing that most of Obama’s supporters don’t appear to grasp is that he honestly believes that they, and the American public at large, are just downright stupid.
To be fair, Obama would be an idiot if he didn’t take advantage of the free pass he has been handed by the media. Why wouldn’t he treat the US public with disdain when they seem to lap up every weak lie he churns out as if it was some sort of gospel?
The problem is that nobody knows what he will be like when all is not sweetness and light so someone needs to test him out before he waltzes unopposed to the presidency. I shudder to think how he’d handle himself if he had to endure even one week of the hatred and contempt that has been thrown in Bushs’ direction over the past 7 years.
And what will happen if anyone dares to criticize anything the children said on camera after he thrust them there, or impugns his parenting skills because of what they said? Will he imply they’re racists? Barbarians attacking his family without provocation?
This man isn’t qualified to be dog catcher, much less leader of the free world. It makes one yearn for the days of Mondale and Dukakis.
So if he is president and something suddenly crops up he wont “catch it quickly enough” and make a bad move.
It is a very clear indication in Britain of a politician being in trouble that he (women politicians do it less) appears in photographs or TV shows with his family. You can trace it through every time. I just wonder whether the same applies to American politics and far from being too cocky as Andrew Sullivan says, this whole saga may show that Obama is getting a little nervous. Of course, sitting on this side of the Pond I may well be wrong.
Obama seems to have more “regrets” than solutions these days! If anyone believes that this interview was not a choregraphed, calculated strategy, you need your head examined. The Obama’s don’t do anything without a reason. This man is a CHARLATAN! He is unfit and undeserving to hold office and between his “regrets” and flip-flops, he is proving to be a less than honest candidate. Which Obama is one to believe? Frankly, I think the Jesse Jackson comments were part of a plan….”see, look at me, I am above it all”. This man is dangerous, disingenuous. If he is elected, this country will explode with racial divisiveness. Be afraid, America….be very, very afraid.
Obama is willing to do or say anything to get elected. He reminds me of a certain other recent Democratic President. The American public willingly allows the lies and rewards them with there undying support. Obama is very likely to be the next President, so be prepared for even more slipping and sliding around responsibility for his actions. Nothing will be his fault and he will always find a way to deflect blame or won’t be able to figure out what sexual relations means. His policies are liberal and harken back to the Carter years. As for me, I am looking forward to 2012 and tossing these liberals out on their collective butts.
Any man who uses others as tools for his own megalomania is evil.
If Obama keeps up this sort of behavior, a significant portion of the “Stupid” supporters will start to realize their mistake. Let’s just hope that it happens before Nov. My God! Where is an honest MSM journalist?
“the possibility that this campaign is becoming far too cocky for its own good”
You mean like placing everyone and their brother into great distress by dictating great changes weeks before the Democratic nomination?
Yes, would guess he’s feeling the pressure of being “in trouble”. But rather than correct and move back closer to where he first promised he would stand, this is the type of tactic used.
Still can’t figure out how he got as far as he did with the very limited experience he has when so many others have so much more.
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You still can’t figure it out? HE IS BLACK. To our media, Black = perfect, period. If you criticize Obama, you are a racist. So they do not criticize him! And they will not report all the “racists” who do dare to criticize him! Why should they? They’re racists!
Bring back the 3 am phone call commercials, and why it is relevant.
Imagine the sleepy-eyed President, under the greatest pressure, need to make a judgement call.
Can he give excuses 24 hr later “Yah, I wouldn’t do it again…”
Can we afford it?
I’m glad someone is writing something about this travesty and twisted logic. That was the firrst thing I thought of when I read the “suddenly things got out of control” or “cropped up” or whatever. He had aides carting around props for the kids for the People magazine article (I read this somewhere.)
And what galls me is that the media gives him a pass. Every damn time.
And I’m a liberal!
yeah.. i hate it when i’m having fun at a party and suddenly i’m surrounded by lights, cameras, directors, make-up people, interviewers, etc…
gimme a freakin’ break !
I would like someone to ask his daughter Malia some questions about what she thinks of “Uncle Jeremiah” and if she has heard him talk about America.
Is it once again the lesser of two evils? Obama or McCain? We all know what happened with the last Republican – http://www.funwithwarcrimes.com
LP
Poor guy! Everyone of you stop picking on the man – he’s like us, didn’t you know – did you notice – Michelle even pointed out he has to wear pants that are 10 yrs old. It’s insidious is it not?
What happened with the last Republican is that the genocidal, terrorist, terrorist-supporting, mass murdering thug was removed from office and when the jihadists tried to prevent the establishmnet of a democracy they took such a sh*t kicking that they have fled Iraq and are now collected in the tribal areas of Pakistan where they will meet their end, if America has he good sense to keep on keeping on.
And two other points FWWC:
1. The pacification of Iraq is at hand. (Those, like Obama, who wanted to surrender Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran were spectacularly and cluelessly wrong.)
2. Not only has al Qaeda been defeated in Iraq but as a result of their barbaric tactics of targetting innocent Muslins – in order to create anti-mission sentiment in America and cause Ameerica to abandon the mission and withdraw prematurely – al Qaeda’s reputation among Muslims has been seriously damaged.
Great article Rick Moran, especially the last three paragrphs. I particularly like this:
It is the overweening confidence in his own abilities — he believes he can say anything about any subject at any time and people will swallow his switch in positions and accept that he is sincere in his beliefs — that is at the bottom of Obama’s recent spate of flip-flops. This includes his shocking exploitation and then “regret” about using his own family to carefully craft an image to counter the “elitist” tag he has been burdened with for months. All politicians have a little of this. Obama carries an abundance of it.
Only a cynic could look at that dizzying change of positions and say with a straight face that his plan for Iraq had never altered. And perhaps that’s what the Access Hollywood incident revealed of Obama most of all: for someone who proclaims himself an American optimist — a man who will unite us by practicing a new kind of politics — he certainly demonstrates a hard-edged cynicism when it comes to doing what it takes to win an election.
QUOTE:
“If Obama keeps up this sort of behavior, a significant portion of the “Stupid” supporters will start to realize their mistake. Let’s just hope that it happens before Nov. My God! Where is an honest MSM journalist?”
Tim Russert is dead. Sadly.
Why did OBAMA lied about not knowing any foreign language?
Remember this article from New York Times, from last year (3/16/07)?
“In a free-ranging interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ The Times’s Nicholos Kristof wrote, Obama recited, ‘with a first-class [Arabic] accent,’ the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer. ”
“first class Arabic accent”!!! why not brag about that? why does he need to hide it??
this blogger has been covering it for a while? http://WWW.OBAMASGAFFES.BLOGSPOT.COM
Well said, Terry Gain and Rick Moran. It is a shame people like you don’t get their voices heard. I wonder you’ll ever get an in-home interview that suddenly just “cropped up?”
McCain needs an ad that visually depicts Moran’s tag of BO’s “double somersault with a twist flip-flop” — I’m sick of hearing BO say McCain is the flip-flopper. I just heard him do it again.
BO needs to be revealed as the frenetic flip-flopper he is. An effective ad would make the windsurfing Kerry look completely placid and sane by comparison. BO knows he’s vulnerable – it’s why he’s out ahead of it calling McCain one.
Somebody, please come up with a good one. And put this guy away for good. I can’t take it any more.
Fast forward to 09/25 in Detroit. The Today Show interviews Governor Jennifer Granholm. http://obamastuff.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/ojamas-on-the-today-show/.