(Time) Press Secretary Gibbs: In the past 8 1/2 months Obama has spent "a pretty big chunk of time... close to 20 direct hours" on Afghanistan war. You can stop helping now, Robert
jehovahs witness protection:And the guy's an asshole to boot. Isn't the president supposed to have someone in this position that can make him look good?
the number of hours that he has spent in these meetings is probably now -- well, at the end of today will probably be getting close to 20 direct hours of his time.
please kill yourself before you breed, liarmitter.
Tor_Eckman:20 hours in the seven meetings he has had with the principles involved in Afghanistan. Not in 8 1/2 months.
But good jerb, tardmitter. You got an insta-green.
Exactly. Context is everything:
GIBBS: On the first part, Jeff, you know, look, I think -- I don't -- I used to have it calculated, I should just go back and do it, the number of hours that he has spent in these meetings is probably now -- well, at the end of today will probably be getting close to 20 direct hours of his time.
Gibbs is talking about 7 specific meetings, not Obama's ENTIRE time dealing with different people along the chain of command in regards to Afghanistan.
But go ahead and keep criticizing a president in time of war, subby. Because, as you know, it's only bad when WE do it.
Nabb1:/Seven meetings? Wow, that's almost one a month.
seven specific meetings with those principals. not total meetings on afghanistan. but if it helps sooth your fauxtrage, run with it.
i do love, by the way, how you fark independents™ are so concerned over afghanistan now (just like suddenly, miraculously concerned with deficits, i suppose). remember, it was your messiah who let the taliban fester and let bin laden escape at tora bora so we could commit 4,000 american lives and trillions of dollars to the invasion and occupation of iraq.
FlashHarry:i do love, by the way, how you fark independents™ are so concerned over afghanistan now (just like suddenly, miraculously concerned with deficits, i suppose). remember, it was your messiah who let the taliban fester and let bin laden escape at tora bora so we could commit 4,000 american lives and trillions of dollars to the invasion and occupation of iraq.
I can see why you are angry. I mean, your "messiah" (to use your turn of phrase) was damn sure how to handle Afghanistan when he was just a candidate. Its a bit harder being "the man" when you have to make real decisions, instead of just critiquing the other guy, isn't it?
FlashHarry:seven specific meetings with those principals. not total meetings on afghanistan. but if it helps sooth your fauxtrage, run with it.
I'm not outraged, Sparky. I am, however, quite entertained.
i do love, by the way, how you fark independents™ are so concerned over afghanistan now (just like suddenly, miraculously concerned with deficits, i suppose). remember, it was your messiah who let the taliban fester and let bin laden escape at tora bora so we could commit 4,000 american lives and trillions of dollars to the invasion and occupation of iraq.
Ooo. You got me. Let's see, you made sure to jump to the assumption that I supported Bush, and threw out the "Fark Independent" label. That's awesome work, there.
If you took the "under" on the over-under of ten posts before the first "B-b-but Bush," you may now collect your winnings.
/Seven meetings? Wow, that's almost one a month.
It's not like the man has had a serious economic crisis to deal with that's more of an immediate threat to our national security than Afghanistan is. You know.....worst economic collapse since the Great Depression? Ring any bells? It's also not like he can't delegate responsibility to, say, some sort of, perhaps "war department" or something. Also not like, after years of neglecting the Afghanistan campaign, it might take some time to get a detailed assessment of what is and isn't going on over there in order to be able to make informed decisions as to what our goals should be and how to go about them.
Oh, no. The President should have ignored the economic crisis and started micromanaging the Afghanistan war, making decisions based on his gut and faith in God rather than waiting on good intelligence and taking time to formulate a plan.
Nabb1 If you took the "under" on the over-under of ten posts before the first "B-b-but Bush," you may now collect your winnings.
But it's relevant. Any Bush supporter who whines about Obama playing golf is competing for world's biggest hypocrite. Obama's vacation time so far is quite reasonable and far, far less than what the previous President took.
I_C_Weener:I can see why you are angry. I mean, your "messiah" (to use your turn of phrase) was damn sure how to handle Afghanistan when he was just a candidate. Its a bit harder being "the man" when you have to make real decisions, instead of just critiquing the other guy, isn't it?
lol. i'm not angry. i'm amused. i find the spittle-flecked, red-faced impotent rage of seething republicans risible.
i love it when they are reminded how they once said that criticizing a president during a time of war was tantamount to treason. i love it when they are reminded that their man erased thesurplus and plunged the nation into deficit with nary a peep from those who now cry about deficits. i love it when they are reminded how they once marginalized afghanistan and bin laden in favor of a hasty invasion of iraq yet are now squawking that we're not being hasty enough in afghanistan.
FlashHarry:lol. i'm not angry. i'm amused. i find the spittle-flecked, red-faced impotent rage of seething republicans risible.
Oh, so that wasn't spittle-flecked, red-faced impotent rage you were flinging at me just a minute ago? I have to admit, you folks sure work hard policing the Obama submissions to correct the headlines, assailing commenters. It's a commendable effort.
Nabb1:FlashHarry: lol. i'm not angry. i'm amused. i find the spittle-flecked, red-faced impotent rage of seething republicans risible.
Oh, so that wasn't spittle-flecked, red-faced impotent rage you were flinging at me just a minute ago? I have to admit, you folks sure work hard policing the Obama submissions to correct the headlines, assailing commenters. It's a commendable effort.
i will admit that out-and-out lying does make me a little cranky. so, yeah, you got me there.
FlashHarry:i will admit that out-and-out lying does make me a little cranky. so, yeah, you got me there.
Well, hey, when anonymous people on an internet site known for irreverence make comments about powerful people whom I don't personally know, it raises my hackles, too.
Il Douchey:it's a simple choice, just make it already.
Ah yes, now we're going to pretend Afghanistan has a simple solution and lower the quality of the decision, since nobody seems to be mad that the President is thinking.
FlashHarry:Nabb1: /Seven meetings? Wow, that's almost one a month.
seven specific meetings with those principals. not total meetings on afghanistan. but if it helps sooth your fauxtrage, run with it.
i do love, by the way, how you fark independents™ are so concerned over afghanistan now (just like suddenly, miraculously concerned with deficits, i suppose). remember, it was your messiah who let the taliban fester and let bin laden escape at tora bora so we could commit 4,000 american lives and trillions of dollars to the invasion and occupation of iraq.
jehovahs witness protection
2009-11-02 10:02:53 AM
Isn't the president supposed to have someone in this position that can make him look good?
Snarfangel
2009-11-02 10:06:31 AM
Isn't the president supposed to have someone in this position that can make him look good?
He already has Biden.
Tor_Eckman
2009-11-02 10:09:54 AM
But good jerb, tardmitter. You got an insta-green.
MuadDib
2009-11-02 10:22:33 AM
96 hours:
FlashHarry
2009-11-02 10:24:34 AM
the number of hours that he has spent in these meetings is probably now -- well, at the end of today will probably be getting close to 20 direct hours of his time.
please kill yourself before you breed, liarmitter.
brigid_fitch
2009-11-02 10:25:35 AM
But good jerb, tardmitter. You got an insta-green.
Exactly. Context is everything:
GIBBS: On the first part, Jeff, you know, look, I think -- I don't -- I used to have it calculated, I should just go back and do it, the number of hours that he has spent in these meetings is probably now -- well, at the end of today will probably be getting close to 20 direct hours of his time.
Gibbs is talking about 7 specific meetings, not Obama's ENTIRE time dealing with different people along the chain of command in regards to Afghanistan.
But go ahead and keep criticizing a president in time of war, subby. Because, as you know, it's only bad when WE do it.
doublesecretprobation
2009-11-02 10:26:02 AM
what an asshole.
FlashHarry
2009-11-02 10:26:39 AM
11,760 hours
your point again?
Nabb1
2009-11-02 10:29:25 AM
11,760 hours
your point again?
If you took the "under" on the over-under of ten posts before the first "B-b-but Bush," you may now collect your winnings.
/Seven meetings? Wow, that's almost one a month.
I_C_Weener
2009-11-02 10:32:43 AM
FlashHarry
2009-11-02 10:33:16 AM
seven specific meetings with those principals. not total meetings on afghanistan. but if it helps sooth your fauxtrage, run with it.
i do love, by the way, how you fark independents™ are so concerned over afghanistan now (just like suddenly, miraculously concerned with deficits, i suppose). remember, it was your messiah who let the taliban fester and let bin laden escape at tora bora so we could commit 4,000 american lives and trillions of dollars to the invasion and occupation of iraq.
I_C_Weener
2009-11-02 10:36:10 AM
I_C_Weener
2009-11-02 10:38:06 AM
I can see why you are angry. I mean, your "messiah" (to use your turn of phrase) was damn sure how to handle Afghanistan when he was just a candidate. Its a bit harder being "the man" when you have to make real decisions, instead of just critiquing the other guy, isn't it?
Nabb1
2009-11-02 10:39:23 AM
I'm not outraged, Sparky. I am, however, quite entertained.
i do love, by the way, how you fark independents™ are so concerned over afghanistan now (just like suddenly, miraculously concerned with deficits, i suppose). remember, it was your messiah who let the taliban fester and let bin laden escape at tora bora so we could commit 4,000 american lives and trillions of dollars to the invasion and occupation of iraq.
Ooo. You got me. Let's see, you made sure to jump to the assumption that I supported Bush, and threw out the "Fark Independent" label. That's awesome work, there.
horse-pheathers
2009-11-02 10:40:07 AM
11,760 hours
your point again?
If you took the "under" on the over-under of ten posts before the first "B-b-but Bush," you may now collect your winnings.
/Seven meetings? Wow, that's almost one a month.
It's not like the man has had a serious economic crisis to deal with that's more of an immediate threat to our national security than Afghanistan is. You know.....worst economic collapse since the Great Depression? Ring any bells? It's also not like he can't delegate responsibility to, say, some sort of, perhaps "war department" or something. Also not like, after years of neglecting the Afghanistan campaign, it might take some time to get a detailed assessment of what is and isn't going on over there in order to be able to make informed decisions as to what our goals should be and how to go about them.
Oh, no. The President should have ignored the economic crisis and started micromanaging the Afghanistan war, making decisions based on his gut and faith in God rather than waiting on good intelligence and taking time to formulate a plan.
patrick767
2009-11-02 10:42:15 AM
If you took the "under" on the over-under of ten posts before the first "B-b-but Bush," you may now collect your winnings.
But it's relevant. Any Bush supporter who whines about Obama playing golf is competing for world's biggest hypocrite. Obama's vacation time so far is quite reasonable and far, far less than what the previous President took.
FlashHarry
2009-11-02 10:43:52 AM
lol. i'm not angry. i'm amused. i find the spittle-flecked, red-faced impotent rage of seething republicans risible.
i love it when they are reminded how they once said that criticizing a president during a time of war was tantamount to treason.
i love it when they are reminded that their man erased thesurplus and plunged the nation into deficit with nary a peep from those who now cry about deficits.
i love it when they are reminded how they once marginalized afghanistan and bin laden in favor of a hasty invasion of iraq yet are now squawking that we're not being hasty enough in afghanistan.
angry? hardly. i'm ecstatic.
Il Douchey
2009-11-02 10:45:54 AM
Hey fark you Harry, W was grappling with serious brush growth problems at his ranch.
/And C'mon Barry, it's a simple choice, just make it already.
Nabb1
2009-11-02 10:46:08 AM
Oh, so that wasn't spittle-flecked, red-faced impotent rage you were flinging at me just a minute ago? I have to admit, you folks sure work hard policing the Obama submissions to correct the headlines, assailing commenters. It's a commendable effort.
FlashHarry
2009-11-02 10:48:10 AM
Oh, so that wasn't spittle-flecked, red-faced impotent rage you were flinging at me just a minute ago? I have to admit, you folks sure work hard policing the Obama submissions to correct the headlines, assailing commenters. It's a commendable effort.
i will admit that out-and-out lying does make me a little cranky. so, yeah, you got me there.
Nabb1
2009-11-02 10:49:55 AM
Well, hey, when anonymous people on an internet site known for irreverence make comments about powerful people whom I don't personally know, it raises my hackles, too.
I_C_Weener
2009-11-02 10:50:50 AM
I think thou doth protest too much. However, I've no time to worry about you. I've got Democrats all over the place to laugh at.
GAT_00
2009-11-02 10:55:26 AM
Ah yes, now we're going to pretend Afghanistan has a simple solution and lower the quality of the decision, since nobody seems to be mad that the President is thinking.
veedeevadeevoodee
2009-11-02 11:05:32 AM
Its twelve o'clock ... time for the Daily Obama Televised Speech
MuadDib
2009-11-02 11:05:55 AM
seven specific meetings with those principals. not total meetings on afghanistan. but if it helps sooth your fauxtrage, run with it.
i do love, by the way, how you fark independents™ are so concerned over afghanistan now (just like suddenly, miraculously concerned with deficits, i suppose). remember, it was your messiah who let the taliban fester and let bin laden escape at tora bora so we could commit 4,000 american lives and trillions of dollars to the invasion and occupation of iraq.
Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence!