During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama’s 20-year association with preacher Jeremiah Wright became toxic when the magnitude of Wright’s anti-Americanism and racism came to light. When pressed, Obama grudgingly distanced himself from Wright, carefully orchestrated and packaged by the press as some sort of ‘falling out’. He first said “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community” before later conceding Wright was divisive.
One thing we’ve learned about Obama in the last 24 months is that he’s willing to betray or under-bus just about anybody – except his old radical associations. Pelosi, Reid, Murtha — all expendable. The Blue Dogs — so much chattel. But Wright was not jettisoned, just moved off the front stage. Van Jones was not canned – he was transferred to another division of Soros Inc. Obama said not a word about SIEU’s violent antics during the August recess.
Then there’s ACORN.
As anybody knows, Obama’s ties to ACORN run deep and go way back to his beginning. If you believe he has not been closely following the ACORN video scandal then you are a moron. There’s no other way to put it.
Now meet George Stephanopoulos if you have not already.
Stephanopoulos is an unlikely protagonist. He’s ABC’s Chief Washington Correspondent and was a senior advisor in the Clinton administration. Normally we get from him about what you would expect from somebody with that resume. But yesterday Barack Obama’s whirlwind wow-and-impress Sunday Talk Show Express made a stop at Stephanopoulos’ This Week show, where he met a surprisingly cynical, aggressive, and persistent host. Here’s an interesting exchange (emphasis mine), and the link has video:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?
OBAMA: You know, if — frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.
OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not committing to — to cut off the federal funding?
OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.
Yeah, I bet he’s not paying a whole lot of attention to it. Just like Charlie Gibson.
Know this: ACORN was and probably remains a key component in Obama’s plans. His ties with ACORN run long and deep. He will neither support nor countenance the doom that seems imminent for them, and he is deeply and intimately involved in whatever left-wing response is coming.
Don’t doubt that, even for a second.
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Steph still a Clintonista?
Crowe (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 12:19PM EST (link)I know he wrote the non-flattering account of his time in the Clinton WH and kinda ticked off some folks there, but any chance he’s still got a soft spot for the Clintons and sees Obama as the usurper-in-chief, sitting in the office Mrs. Clinton should presently occupy?
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Now that is an interesting angle
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 12:42PM EST (link)We forget sometimes that it’s not all happy pink ponies in Democrat land.
If I am to understand right, George S is actually a Hillary (not Bill) Clintonista. Which might explain much. Many of the Clintonistas are serving the Obama loyally, but many remain loyal to one or both Clintons and harbor some nasty grudges.
That might explain this interview. George raked him over the coals on several issues, and not just on ACORN.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
But all those pink ponies ARE happy.
Crowe (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 1:09PM EST (link)You’re right it’s not all happy pink ponies in Democrat land, but all the pink ponies in Democrat land ARE happy. Or at least they’re told that they are happy and we’re told they are happy and eventually we all believe it.
(But just a note: they prefer to be called “salmon” ponies. “Pink” is so perjorative, turned into a term of diminution by the patriarchal society which decided all little girls should like pink and should like dolls and pretty things in the their hair. But not for these salmon ponies–no-sir–ee–they are fully liberated salmon ponies who can do everything the blue ponies can do, including pee standing up, nowadays.)
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Isn't this the same Obama in this video???
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 12:22PM EST (link)Or was this an imposter saying his was Obama???
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Provacateur-in-chief not following it closely?
Crowe (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 12:30PM EST (link)So he signs a bill that gives ACORN loads of money, but didn’t know they were getting any. He’s had close ties to them for a long time, but didn’t know they were getting public money. He was informed enough to declaim that Officer Crowley had “acted stupidly” and that Kanye West was a “jackass.” Both non-issues for the POTUS. But he wasn’t following this closely enough to say anything more damning than that counseling prostitution, human sex-slave trafficking, child-prostitution, tax evasion, and all on the public dime, was “certainly inappropriate” and deserves investigation?
He really does believe his own hype, doesn’t he? Pathological liars usually do, I guess.
Reminds me of the end of Psycho when Norman Bates is sitting there with his mother’s voice going through his head–gets so lost in the fantasy world that he becomes the lie and is so certain that everyone else sees it too…
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Steppenontopofus (or is it Steppenalloverus)
UpLateAgain (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 12:47PM EST (link)has been making guest appearances on Fox lately. I think he’s trying to increase his street cred. Ergo, it doesn’t really surprise me that he jumped into BHO’s scatology just a wee bit.
I’m still waiting for our Fearless Leader to show himself somewhere that they might bring up a few of his other radical associations, show how they are all tied together and ask him how come he likes to hang out there.
Guess I’ll be waiting a long time, huh.
You never never never actually need a gun, until you need a gun, and then nothing else will do.
Georgie's doing better
WarEagle01 (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 1:23PM EST (link)He’ll throw in a zinger here and there just to show everyone that he’s a real journalist. But just keep in mind that he cried tears of joy when Barry was inaugurated.
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
Georgie's doing better
WarEagle01 (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 1:23PM EST (link)He’ll throw in a zinger here and there just to show everyone that he’s a real journalist. But just keep in mind that he cried tears of joy when Barry was inaugurated.
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
He ain't Jake Tapper
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 1:34PM EST (link)But he’s not the worst in that fever swamp at ABC.
And yeah, on always hitting favorable venues, notice he hit every Sunday morning show except the best one – the one at FNC.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Soooo, he's either lying
Cargosquid (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 12:54PM EST (link)or he’s incompetent….
I vote for both.
Ditto -nt
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 1:34PM EST (link)Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Incompetent.
abbynormal Monday, September 21st at 2:19PM EST (link)Even if he’s lying, he’s still incompetent for thinking we’d be stupid enough to believe him.
opaque language
jeepnpat1 (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 12:57PM EST (link)What concerns me most about this excerpt is how opaque Obama is about the situation in the question posed. For example, he didn’t specifically say that ‘Acorn should be investigated’. He left the door open that the reporters should be the ones investigated and I am afraid that is what he wanted to say and feels about it. He didn’t say specifically that the behavior by the employees in the videos was inappropriate… At least that is what I am reading between the lines…
The ends justify the means.
Steph C (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 2:13PM EST (link)That’s their standard. It never occurs to them that if they have to resort to such means, it might be a thing not worth having.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Not Something I'm paying a lot of attention to.
red_1 (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 2:17PM EST (link)But didn’t he say…
“I think it’s going to be a part of the President’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.”
Not even a little bit of certainty on the issue?
How quickly he weighs in on rappers, cops and professors from Cambridge, etc., but when it comes corruption in an organization that receives taxpayer dollars, I’m not sure he’s working up to bar he himself set.
That has to be disappointing.
I didn't watch Obama at all on Sunday.
Shayelyn Monday, September 21st at 2:27PM EST (link)I don’t want to give him the ratings satisfaction and figured I would find out more than what I wanted to know anyway today (which I have). Therefore, I don’t know how often Obama addressed George directly. I do know this, when I am pissed at my husband, I make it a point to address him by name. I do this to try to get my point across and let him know I am serious/mad. That is what struck me about the final line.
OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.
He’s pissed. This is my answer. Don’t go any further. Of course I know all about it. I don’t want to talk about it.
Obama has his head so far up ACORN's
jeannieology (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:55PM EST (link)oak — that he can’t see the forest for the trees.
…BUT WE CAN
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