London Paper: Obama The Stuttering Bumbler
Barack Obama, the World’s Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn’t exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking …
Nick Robinson: “A question for you both, if I may. The prime minister has repeatedly blamed the United States of America for causing this crisis. France and Germany both blame Britain and America for causing this crisis. Who is right? And isn’t the debate about that at the heart of the debate about what to do now?” Brown immediately swivels to leave Obama in pole position. There is a four-second delay before Obama starts speaking [THANKS FOR NOTHING, GORDY BABY. REMIND ME TO HANG YOU OUT TO DRY ONE DAY.] Barack Obama: “I, I, would say that, er … pause [I HAVEN'T A CLUE] … if you look at … pause [WHO IS THIS NICK ROBINSON JERK?] … the, the sources of this crisis … pause [JUST KEEP GOING, BUDDY] … the United States certainly has some accounting to do with respect to . . . pause [I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE] … a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system … pause, close eyes [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF SHIT BACK HOME. HELP]. I think what is also true is that … pause [I WANT NICK ROBINSON TO DISAPPEAR] … here in Great Britain … pause [SHIT, GORDY'S THE HOST, DON'T LAND HIM IN IT] … here in continental Europe … pause [DAMN IT, BLAME EVERYONE.] … around the world. We were seeing the same mismatch between the regulatory regimes that were in place and er … pause [I'VE LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT AGAIN] … the highly integrated, er, global capital markets that have emerged … pause [I'M REALLY WINGING IT NOW]. So at this point, I’m less interested in … pause [YOU] … identifying blame than fixing the problem. I think we’ve taken some very aggressive steps in the United States to do so, not just responding to the immediate crisis, ensuring banks are adequately capitalised, er, dealing with the enormous, er … pause [WHY DIDN'T I QUIT WHILE I WAS AHEAD?] … drop-off in demand and contraction that has taken place. More importantly, for the long term, making sure that we’ve got a set of, er, er, regulations that are up to the task, er, and that includes, er, a number that will be discussed at this summit. I think there’s a lot of convergence between all the parties involved about the need, for example, to focus not on the legal form that a particular financial product takes or the institution it emerges from, but rather what’s the risk involved, what’s the function of this product and how do we regulate that adequately, much more effective coordination, er, between countries so we can, er, anticipate the risks that are involved there. Dealing with the, er, problem of derivatives markets, making sure we have set up systems, er, that can reduce some of the risks there. So, I actually think … pause [FANTASTIC. I'VE LOST EVERYONE, INCLUDING MYSELF] … there’s enormous consensus that has emerged in terms of what we need to do now and, er … pause [I'M OUTTA HERE. TIME FOR THE USUAL CLOSING BOLLOCKS] … I’m a great believer in looking forwards than looking backwards.
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LMFAO…terrific Barry, you really nailed it that time. You got no fucking clue what you’re doing. Or more correctly, you have no fucking clue how to tell people what they want to hear while not disclosing any clues about your real intentions while also dealing with the reality that a LOT of people ALREADY have a good clue what your real intentions are.
And naturally, you lost everyone while making abso-fucking-lutely no sense whatsoever. Way to go.
That came from the Guardian? I’m stunned.
No one can be perfect Ted B remember but, Obama just takes the cake because he is a hypocrite, a liar, and a conartist. Half the time I think he blabbers on anyways and just says the first thing that comes to his head because he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. Like today for instance that speech he gave in France, I noticed someone asked him a question about the econ crisis and it looked like he was very uncomfortable. He kept slipping and stutering with a lot of the questions actually.
Earlier today, “Uh.. I want make this perfectly clear ..uh..uh. This speaking problem ..uh..uh is due to the Bush administration’s ..uh lack of teleprompter regulations. I promise as aaaaa Global citizen to bring er… fairness and end the crisis of uh… me looking like aaaaa aaa shuttering idiot.”
Later in the day to Michelle, “This job is tough - Soro’s told me all I had to do is read the teleprompter… where the hell is a teleprompter when you need one — ttthat damn Bush, heee hate black people just like Kanye West said. I thought this job of playing an actor playing president was going to be as easy as when I got that Bill Ayers guy to write my autobiography.”
How do you know when Obama is lying? When his lips are moving.
Aw c’mon… you know he’s stumbling giving all he’s got not to break out into a “chickens come home to roost” tirade.
We should be thankful that we only got called “arrogant” today …he wanted to sing the ‘God Damn America’ anthem.
He is a deceiver and is a lie.
He is no POTUS w/out his TOTUS…
…I gotta spread that around
He could answered the question just as convincingly by using the “Hippopotamus Defense” ( spoof of legal defense as used by Johny Cochrain on South Park) as that spiel of mushmouth he uses. Asa an orator he has a different calling than being POTUS. Record books on tape for senile libtards.