Wonkette: Was Barack Obama Too Smart With His ‘Policies’ Last Night?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Since most top-notch political pundits do not understand or value public policy, they simply did not care for Barack Obama’s attempt to explain a very complicated reform effort last night with such grown-up words as “incentivize” and “cost-curve.” Psychotic Harvard fart-talk! This is why they are instead focusing on how reverse-racist it was for Obama to say white police officers acted “stupidly” by arresting that black guy who broke into his own home. But don’t blame the reporters! It was Obama’s decision to be so boring for 50 minutes that made them focus on this exciting 51st minute-adverb that “Real Americans” understand.

From MSNBC expert politics blog First Read:

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg
*** A snoozer conference: Last night’s primetime news conference, President Obama’s fourth since taking office, was as much a dry health-care symposium as it was a give-and-take with reporters. Honest question: Is there a point when the president knows too much about an issue? He got into the weeds a number of times on a number of different aspects of health care, which is what his diehard supporters love, but might not grab the attention of the average viewer.

Honest response: No, so fuck off, fuckos! If all you can muster are condescending vagaries about the bad politics of the “average viewer” being treated like an adult, then don’t say anything. Because it’s bad for your country.

http://wonkette.com/410048/was-barack-obama-too-smart-with-his-policies-last-night#more-410048

[Thrill]

1. When Obama speaks in themes and so called platitudes. they claim

he gives no details. The devil is the details they claim. Now when he breaks it down to terms even a child can understand, he's being too smart and giving too much information.

You really can't make this up.

[tabatha]

2. No, he was falling apart.

No, he spoke sensibly and many understood him.

No, he looked tired.

No, he has found his stride.

Good Lord, so many self-centered opinions and filters.

[Jennicut]

3. This here is why I love Wonkette

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. "Fuck off, Fuckos" is exactly what I'll be thinking the next time I see Chuck Todd.

[Jennicut]

5. And this response and follow up

Suds McKenzie says at 5:15 pm, July 23rd, 2009:
Honest question: Is there a point when sweaty 1970s porn bearded Chuck Todd becomes so utterly useless as a T.V. “pundit” that his only career option will be to crunch numbers on Nate Silver’s tax returns?

SmutBoffin says at 5:29 pm, July 23rd, 2009:
Gawd I know, those face-pubes of his make me cringe a little. Doesn’t he have a wife or something who could leave out a razors or some trimmers as a little hint?

Also, this is the guy who puts all that sports shit into his writing. If there is some political debate that doesn’t follow a simple narrative (like, say, health care reform) he can’t follow it. The President that we had before Barry (what was his name again?) would’ve just been like “There’s these tear-wrist muslins out there who want to hurt us and so we’re gonna go all Tom Clancy on them cause we’re the home team and we wanna win the big game!” Chuck and his ilk could relate to that shit…

"Face pubes"...OMG
:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Obama talks to the American people as if they have brains

The media hates this implicitly, since their job is to do the opposite.

[PretzelWarrior]

7. yeah. because a president who didn't know SHIT on anything worked out so well

right? last president to be called too "wonkish" and "into the details" was Clinton who oversaw one of the better periods of our nation's recent history.

Chuck Todd is an anal cyst.

[wildflower]

8. "Is there a point when the president knows too much about an issue?"

Well it's not something we had to worry about the last eight years. :)

[malletgirl02]

9. Chuck Todd

If Chuck Todd thinks the press conferences are boring, maybe he should step aside and let his job be taken by a real reporter.

[JI7]

10. wonkette has sucked every since Ana Marie Cox left and some man took over

[JI7]

11. can you imagine Cronkite complaining about something like this being Boring ?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Huh?

I guess people (still) would rather have somebody as a President who they would "like to have a beer with" rather than, um, somebody who is smart, intelligent, cares about them and their concerns, and treats us like we're all adults?

:wtf: I mean, seriously, :wtf: are they talking about??????

Just when I think the bottom of the barrel has been scraped, they find a way to keep scraping. :eyes: geez!!!

[JI7]

13. they probably wanted Obama to call them by nicknames like Bush

fucking gross.