Comments on: The Obama Presser

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:21:52 +0000

Is Dollhouse actually good or is it just a vehicle for Elizabeth Dushku's boobs?

Arguably, a distinction without meaning.

By: hcantrall

hcantrall — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:39:56 +0000

Is Dollhouse actually good or is it just a vehicle for Elizabeth Dushku's boobs?

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:57:56 +0000

You're still watching Heroes? I jumped off that train a while back. I recommend Dollhouse instead.

I'll give Dollhouse a whirl. I often don't start watching shows until a critical mass has built up that I can watch in rapid succession via Netflix or other means.

Heroes is still pretty good, although I liked it better when it was a story arc rather with a forced end point than as episodic television.

By: Alex Knapp

Alex Knapp — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:07:48 +0000

James, You're still watching Heroes? I jumped off that train a while back. I recommend Dollhouse instead.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:51:35 +0000

Toady;
You should watch Richard Burton's last film!

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:06:15 +0000

Hmmm. The President talked. 31 million people tuned in. The DJIA (a leading indicator, after all) is approaching 8000 after a sustained rally. While this may have Bit and the rest of the Bushies contemplating jumping out of a window, most Americans think it is good news.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:38:12 +0000

Anyone catch the line when Obama said something close to “I will do it from day one”?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:29:45 +0000

After reading his opening remarks, he basically ignored the questions and kept repeating his talking points. Anytime he got stuck he would look down at his notes and repeated his talking points. Not sure why he needed his notes because he just repeated his talking points. He never elaborated on anything or gave specifics he just repeated his talking points, repeated his talking points. Oh, sorry flashbacks.

By: odograph

odograph — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:36:59 +0000

Heh. I stopped watching Heroes sometime in season two for similar reasons.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:30:14 +0000

Pappa oom "Mao Mao", this guy's image is everywhere.
They must be using blue screen though, to hide his starving Brain Slug... Dave.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:50:17 +0000

I like his strategy. He needs to keep up the appearances and talk to the American people regularly. You might not have noticed but there are a lot of blogs and opinion websites out there that want to lie to you.

By: DL

DL — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:44:21 +0000

Was Obama on last night? I thought it was just reruns.

What do you know. I suppose I should have noticed that the halo had slipped a bit.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:36:49 +0000

"Most liekly, Steve, because they wanted to be invited BACK, you see"

It would be a blockbuster report for a network like Fox, which has no fear of not being invited back and as at no risk of being a favorite anyway. Now, I could be wrong, and all the right leaning news organizations are spineless beyond belief. Even then, that makes no sense. These are the same organizations that were claiming he is a Muslim, not a US citizen, calling him a socialist, and those are some of the nicer things they have said about him. Now, they are hiding his teleprompter use? Why? Makes no sense.

Steve

By: just me

just me — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:48:42 +0000

I generally don't waste my time watching political speeches or press conferences anymore. I find I can generally find the information I need on the internet the next day without actually wasting an hour or so of my own time.

I think Obama is campaigning more than leading anyway, and comments on the speech/press conference confirm that.

By: pylon

pylon — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:21:42 +0000

Ummmmm - perhaps the reason they didn't report that he read his answers from the screen was because he didn't. He used it for his prepared opening remarks.