Robert Gibbs: “Reaganesque†Barack Obama “Doesn’t Need A Lecture About Hope†From Bill Clinton - Actor Obama Plans To Play Reagan Tonight
“Seems that Bill Clinton’s advice to his wife’s boss to express a bit more hope about the economy might not have gone down too well in the White House.
After President Barack Obama used the word “crisis” some 25 times in his Arizona speech last week, Clinton told Good Morning America with mock helpfulness: “I just want the American people to know that he’s confident that we are going to get out of this and that he feels good about the long run.”
On NBC’s Today Show this morning (hat tip: Mike Allen), White House mouthpiece Robert Gibbs said sharply: “This president doesn’t need a lecture about hope. We’ve done that before, we’ll do that again. We understand there are brighter days again.” He didn’t mention any names but I wonder who he might have been referring to?
It seems that Obama will suddenly be all sweetness and light for tonight’s address to a joint session of Congress after a month of doom, gloom and long faces. Gibbs said last week that the president was “an eternal optimist”. If that’s the case, Tony Blankley quips, “one can only tremble at what he would sound like when he turns a little glum”.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, Gibbs (who showed off his West Wing office, complete with Bobby Kennedy picture over the mantelpiece) indicated that Obama would be back to his old hopemongering self tonight, even suggesting his boss would be “Reaganesque”.
He said: “The president believes very clearly that we have to be honest with the American people about where we are. But … tonight he will … tell the country that we’ve faced … far greater challenges than the ones we face now, but we as Americans always meet those challenges. But in the Reaganesque words, there are always better days ahead.”
Interesting that the comparison was with Reagan and not, say, Bill Clinton.
You might recall that when Obama said back in January last year that “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not”, the former president and then would-be First Spouse went bananas.
Looks like the rivalry between the two Democratic presidents isn’t over.”>Times Online:
Seems that Bill Clinton’s advice to his wife’s boss to express a bit more hope about the economy might not have gone down too well in the White House.
After President Barack Obama used the word “crisis” some 25 times in his Arizona speech last week, Clinton told Good Morning America with mock helpfulness: “I just want the American people to know that he’s confident that we are going to get out of this and that he feels good about the long run.”
On NBC’s Today Show this morning (hat tip: Mike Allen), White House mouthpiece Robert Gibbs said sharply: “This president doesn’t need a lecture about hope. We’ve done that before, we’ll do that again. We understand there are brighter days again.” He didn’t mention any names but I wonder who he might have been referring to?
It seems that Obama will suddenly be all sweetness and light for tonight’s address to a joint session of Congress after a month of doom, gloom and long faces. Gibbs said last week that the president was “an eternal optimist”. If that’s the case, Tony Blankley quips, “one can only tremble at what he would sound like when he turns a little glum”.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, Gibbs (who showed off his West Wing office, complete with Bobby Kennedy picture over the mantelpiece) indicated that Obama would be back to his old hopemongering self tonight, even suggesting his boss would be “Reaganesque”.
He said: “The president believes very clearly that we have to be honest with the American people about where we are. But … tonight he will … tell the country that we’ve faced … far greater challenges than the ones we face now, but we as Americans always meet those challenges. But in the Reaganesque words, there are always better days ahead.”
Interesting that the comparison was with Reagan and not, say, Bill Clinton.
You might recall that when Obama said back in January last year that “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not”, the former president and then would-be First Spouse went bananas.
Looks like the rivalry between the two Democratic presidents isn’t over.
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Im sick of this ass clown using other Presidents to shape his image.
He has no ideas of his own so he steals from others.
“This president doesn’t need a lecture about hope. We’ve done that before, we’ll do that again.”
What the hell does this mean? Sounds like he just admitted to “using hope” as empty rhetoric. DUH….
I fucking hate these S.O.B.s
obama is a piker. He will do more to galvanize conservatives and blue dog dem’s than anyone else has since reagan, and in that way only can he be called “reaganesque”. In all other matters, he more resembles a cross between joe stalin and alfalfa.
O’Vomit has been in office for one month and he is already worse that Carter X 10. Now all we’re waiting for is the official dumping of Israel, elimination of the First and Second Amendments and being rounded up for internment in one of the new concentration camps the messiah is preparing for folks (real Americans) like us. Seig Heil Comrade!
The nearest anything Reagan came to being like Obama is Reagan’s horse’s shit, and I propose that anyone comparing the the “Gipper” and the “gimper” be fed a large steaming “shovelready” pile.
And so in 2009, the Third Age, the Mouth of Sauron [Gibbs] spake these words of his master: “Sauron doesn’t need a lecture about hope.” Meanwhile, in the gathering darkness of his White House fortress, Sauron cast his eye fervently in search of his One Ring (which he had misplaced, along with his Communist Manifesto and a Starbucks mug). The shadow of a rumor came from the east that Nancy “Gollum” Pelosi had The Ring but even she had to confess to herself that she had lost “her precious” to an enterprising hobbit. As Sauron made ready his great war upon the free peoples of the Middle Americas, the old alliance of conservatives, libertarians, Christians, and generally kick-ass people was being forged…
Apologies to JRR Tolkien.
Who can we cast as Saruman?…
maybe the ring was carried away to Alaska…
Satan is Obama and will have a civil war the like the world has never seen. This is no REAGAN, This is a EVIL BASTARD.
I am not watching this tonight. I can’t afford a new TV.
My thoughts are very much along the lines of what American Woman posted.
Soooo, now he’s “Reaganesque”, huh?
Really, WTF is with all of the image posturing and comparisons? Lincoln, FDR, et al…
The bringer of HopenChangeâ„¢ sadly won the American Idol presidency, and had ZERO noteworthy accomplishments from day one in politics.
We. Are. F’d.
has babbling gibbs ever been on time for one of his rants???? every time i have watched he is anywhere fm 10 to 45 mins late..i can’t believe he still has the job…
Satan will fool you that he is an angel of light…and this Satan is trying to get us to believe he’s Reagan.
…I miss Ronny
robert gibbs is a slump shouldered, soft bellied, spineless empty suit sack of worthless shit.
He reminds me of jim taggert from “Atlas Shrugged”
I knew Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. Obama, you are NO Ronald Reagan.
There’s only one reason Obama is going to be on national television tonight giving this speech and it’s got NOTHING to do with the economic state of affairs…it’s the kickoff of his 2012 Presidential Election Campaign.
This guy cannot STAND the daily duties of the Presidency - he’d rather be out stumping a campaign speech than rolling up his sleeves and getting down to some serious work.
He’s a talker, not a doer. It’s like America chose a hockey team and picked a guy to captain that team that doesn’t like to skate OR fight.
Every time this ass hat opens his mouth, the Dow drops about 300 points. He needs to crawl back under the political Chicago rock he came from and never reappear again.
I hope we can make it to 2012
Just yesterday I was arguing with my hubby about buying supplies for the coming unrest(WAR) and my dear steady eddie husband said, “What is the difference between what you want to do and what all those alarmist people did during the Cold War…building bunkers for a nuclear war that did not happen?
“What is the difference”, I said, “2 words, Ronald Reagan!”
He got REAL quiet!
I miss Ronny too!
I could not watch tonight Broadway production. I did watch Jindal’s response. On Jindal substance was good, but delivery must have been coached from some outside the state, and prepared elsewhere. He KO’s Obama Teleprompter if he had just been impromptu out of thin air in style and delivery.
But on the Fox online chat, the very valid point was made that he was speaking to liberals and moderates about how the GOP way was better and why.
Headline - “Robert Gibbs: “Reaganesque†Barack Obama “Doesn’t Need A Lecture About Hope†From Bill Clinton - Actor Obama Plans To Play Reagan Tonight”
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Without my reading glasses on, I read that as “…Actor Obama Plans To Resign Tonight”.
I thought Pat was having fun, cos it’ll be 30 or so months before Bambi resigns.
RR was a man of his rhetoric. He put substance and effort behind his words. Witness the fall of the USSR, his staunch antiSoviet and anti-government stance. He also got rid of Dhimi Kohtair’s high interest rates and double-digit unemployment and got his legislation through a Dhimi-dominated Senate and Congress.
Obambi is a clown working in a Dhimi-dominated circus. Only he also has the role of chief carnival-barker.
Around Obambi, one needs thigh-high boots so as not to step in the stuff that he leaves behind him. Only his shit smells worse than pig shit. Ever smell pig shit? Yeah, that smell.
Steve m nailed it good. “He more resembles a cross between joe stalin and alfalfa.” I’m borrowing that line. That’s too damed funny to keep to myself….