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While Dana Milbank is not alone in showing contempt over this, he comes across as petulant and whiny. The fact is, the HuffPo reporter (Nico Pitney) has been scooping absolutely everyone on the events transpiring in Iran. In addition, though Pitney was sought out by Obama, the question was not a cream puff, and I don't think there's any indication that Obama had prior knwoledge of what the question would be.

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Updated On: 6/24/09 at 11:04 AM

I thought the narrative was that Obama had the press in thrall?

Shifting winds, Joe.

I happen to like Dana Milbank and I love a skeptical press - in every administration.

Updated On: 6/24/09 at 11:59 AM

he even snapped at helen thomas.
there is nothing this president will ever do to make us question him. ever.

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the irony of huffpo having attacked the bush admin for allegedly planting questions now is being used by the obama administration to plant questions.

i know, i know, nothing to see here. when democrats do it it's completely different. i look forward to your justifying it when he declares martial law: "it's clearly necessary to preserve order and prevent the kind of chaos that too much freedom brings. anyone who is afraid of this clearly has something they are ashamed of. saint barry will take good care of his. he always keeps his promises and never, ever goes back on his word. i think it'll be nice not to have to bother with all those choices."

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hate? i hate no one. i think the real issue is the self-loathing you must repress everytime you apologize for or excuse or spin in walter duranty fashion another of the administration's grotesquely obvious flaws, failures, lies and or ciminal activities. i think you probably realize that you've become the very thing you supposed to loathe during the bush administration: a blind apologist who refuses to even consider that the administration might be something less than the greatest thing since sliced bread. i understand that such a realization must really, really hurt, ywiw, no matter how much you work to deny it and that you can only cope with it by projecting it onto others, so i can take it. i mean that's what friends are for: to be there when their friends realize that they have become the democrats' goth and roxy.

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Updated On: 6/24/09 at 01:29 PM

You really have me confused with someone or something else. I was a Clinton supporter, when voted for Obama because McCain was not a viable option.

Am I giving Obama some time to see what he does, yeah. He has been in office for about 4 months, and has multiple big old stinking piles of crap to try and address. I don't agree with all of the decisions he made, but I understand the logic behind it.

Do I approve of everything he has done, no. But, then I did not expect to agree with everything he says or does.

If, after the first couple of years he has implemented policies to address what I think are much needed changes he will not get my vote in 2012. It is as simple as that.

For the record, I have been relatively satisfied with his foreign policy activities to date.

But go ahead, put me in whatever category makes it easier for you to dismiss criticism of your nearly pathological desire to undermine/attack/marginalize him. I understand we did it to Bush - but that was after he screwed up so many things he earned the contempt. If in a couple if years is turns out that Obama is everything you claim him to be, I will turn around and say "papa told me so." It is possible, but in my opinion unlikely to happen.

And MB - facts don't get in the way of papa's perceptions. Somehow Pitney is the same is Jeff Gannon. I am not sure how he gets to that conclusion, but those are the facts as papa sees it.

Updated On: 6/24/09 at 01:47 PM

But this administration IS the greatest thing since sliced bread- or at least FDR. He's getting more done in 4 months than Bush did in eight years. The Republicans don't know whether to **** or go blind- so they are blindly ****ting everywhere they can. The guy gave one speech and democracy is breaking out in Iran. The Ayatollah had to give a speech saying ENGLAND was the problem because Obama is so popular among young Iranians. He's going after banking reform, financial reform, health care reform- good god, he got TOBACCO put under the FDA's purview. No wonder you're panicked.

i'm not panicked, joe. i believe that the united states can survive even barry and co's overt attempts to destroy the very foundations of the country. i do enjoy pointing things out along the way though on their downward spiral into oblivion.

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you're wasting your time, q. i have an almost transparent knowledge of her soul.

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nothing like a chris matthews line to lighten the mood, eh?

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my theiving ways

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