Comments on: Clinton, Obama, and Edwards Look “Fragile” http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/ Specializing in Bovine Fecal Detection Since January of 2002 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrick http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15118 Patrick Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:35:17 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15118 Why, for fuck's sake, hasn't he participated in MORE news conferences? Compare the amount of press-meetings with the current president to those of the past 11 presidents... Seriously, what is his aversion to tough questioning? Actually, I guess that's kinda self explanatory. Why, for fuck’s sake, hasn’t he participated in MORE news conferences? Compare the amount of press-meetings with the current president to those of the past 11 presidents…

Seriously, what is his aversion to tough questioning?
Actually, I guess that’s kinda self explanatory.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192159 Patrick Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:35:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192159 Why, for fuck's sake, hasn't he participated in MORE news conferences? Compare the amount of press-meetings with the current president to those of the past 11 presidents... Seriously, what is his aversion to tough questioning? Actually, I guess that's kinda self explanatory. Why, for fuck’s sake, hasn’t he participated in MORE news conferences? Compare the amount of press-meetings with the current president to those of the past 11 presidents…

Seriously, what is his aversion to tough questioning?
Actually, I guess that’s kinda self explanatory.

]]> By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15080 Vinny Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:56:06 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15080 <blockquote>President Bush doesn’t give interviews to anything but the friendliest of reporters: Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Tim Russert, Jeff Gannon.</blockquote> Friendly like <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5866571/" rel="nofollow">Matt Lauer</a> on Today, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/14/60minutes/main2359119.shtml" rel="nofollow">Scott Pelley</a> on 60 Minutes, or maybe <a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/2003/0425brokaw.htm" rel="nofollow">Tom Brokaw</a>... Maybe you mean that bastion of right wing thought, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7065633" rel="nofollow"> Juan Williams</a>? Or maybe <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june07/bush_01-16.html" rel="nofollow">Jim Lehrer</a>? Possibly <a href="http://http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1672006&page=1&WNT=true" rel="nofollow">Elizabeth Vargas</a>? Come on, man. You can do better than that.

President Bush doesn’t give interviews to anything but the friendliest of reporters: Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Tim Russert, Jeff Gannon.

Friendly like Matt Lauer on Today, Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, or maybe Tom Brokaw…

Maybe you mean that bastion of right wing thought, Juan Williams?

Or maybe Jim Lehrer?

Possibly Elizabeth Vargas?

Come on, man. You can do better than that.

]]> By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192158 Vinny Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:56:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192158 <blockquote>President Bush doesn’t give interviews to anything but the friendliest of reporters: Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Tim Russert, Jeff Gannon.</blockquote> Friendly like <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5866571/" rel="nofollow">Matt Lauer</a> on Today, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/14/60minutes/main2359119.shtml" rel="nofollow">Scott Pelley</a> on 60 Minutes, or maybe <a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/2003/0425brokaw.htm" rel="nofollow">Tom Brokaw</a>... Maybe you mean that bastion of right wing thought, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7065633" rel="nofollow"> Juan Williams</a>? Or maybe <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june07/bush_01-16.html" rel="nofollow">Jim Lehrer</a>? Possibly <a href="http://http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1672006&page=1&WNT=true" rel="nofollow">Elizabeth Vargas</a>? Come on, man. You can do better than that.

President Bush doesn’t give interviews to anything but the friendliest of reporters: Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Tim Russert, Jeff Gannon.

Friendly like Matt Lauer on Today, Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, or maybe Tom Brokaw…

Maybe you mean that bastion of right wing thought, Juan Williams?

Or maybe Jim Lehrer?

Possibly Elizabeth Vargas?

Come on, man. You can do better than that.

]]> By: RKB http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15079 RKB Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:50:12 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15079 I'm not talking about candidate Bush, I'm talking about President Bush. And I don't know about what he did in 2000, since, clearly, he didn't need to debate anyone to get the Republican nomination in 2004. President Bush doesn't give interviews to anything but the friendliest of reporters: Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly, Tim Russert, Jeff Gannon. His press secretary, for goodness sakes, is a former Fox News reporter. What you'd bolded -- but here’s what candidates look like when they attempt to choose which reporters are worthy to question them: fragile, egocentric and frightened of tough questions -- is the same thing that President Bush has done since he's been in office. Does that mean he's fragile, too, or simply that he's exercising executive privilege to decide who he wants to be interviewed by? I'm not saying that he shouldn't be allowed to do whatever the hell he wants, be lobbed the most softball questions, but it's funny when an op/ed says that potential democratic candidates shouldn't do the same thing. I’m not talking about candidate Bush, I’m talking about President Bush. And I don’t know about what he did in 2000, since, clearly, he didn’t need to debate anyone to get the Republican nomination in 2004.

President Bush doesn’t give interviews to anything but the friendliest of reporters: Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Tim Russert, Jeff Gannon. His press secretary, for goodness sakes, is a former Fox News reporter.

What you’d bolded — but here’s what candidates look like when they attempt to choose which reporters are worthy to question them: fragile, egocentric and frightened of tough questions — is the same thing that President Bush has done since he’s been in office. Does that mean he’s fragile, too, or simply that he’s exercising executive privilege to decide who he wants to be interviewed by?

I’m not saying that he shouldn’t be allowed to do whatever the hell he wants, be lobbed the most softball questions, but it’s funny when an op/ed says that potential democratic candidates shouldn’t do the same thing.

]]> By: RKB http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192157 RKB Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:50:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192157 I'm not talking about candidate Bush, I'm talking about President Bush. And I don't know about what he did in 2000, since, clearly, he didn't need to debate anyone to get the Republican nomination in 2004. President Bush doesn't give interviews to anything but the friendliest of reporters: Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly, Tim Russert, Jeff Gannon. His press secretary, for goodness sakes, is a former Fox News reporter. What you'd bolded -- but here’s what candidates look like when they attempt to choose which reporters are worthy to question them: fragile, egocentric and frightened of tough questions -- is the same thing that President Bush has done since he's been in office. Does that mean he's fragile, too, or simply that he's exercising executive privilege to decide who he wants to be interviewed by? I'm not saying that he shouldn't be allowed to do whatever the hell he wants, be lobbed the most softball questions, but it's funny when an op/ed says that potential democratic candidates shouldn't do the same thing. I’m not talking about candidate Bush, I’m talking about President Bush. And I don’t know about what he did in 2000, since, clearly, he didn’t need to debate anyone to get the Republican nomination in 2004.

President Bush doesn’t give interviews to anything but the friendliest of reporters: Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Tim Russert, Jeff Gannon. His press secretary, for goodness sakes, is a former Fox News reporter.

What you’d bolded — but here’s what candidates look like when they attempt to choose which reporters are worthy to question them: fragile, egocentric and frightened of tough questions — is the same thing that President Bush has done since he’s been in office. Does that mean he’s fragile, too, or simply that he’s exercising executive privilege to decide who he wants to be interviewed by?

I’m not saying that he shouldn’t be allowed to do whatever the hell he wants, be lobbed the most softball questions, but it’s funny when an op/ed says that potential democratic candidates shouldn’t do the same thing.

]]> By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15071 Vinny Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:27:23 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15071 Sorry... When did President Bush cancel a debate appearance due to an ideological litmus test? Sorry… When did President Bush cancel a debate appearance due to an ideological litmus test?

]]> By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192156 Vinny Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:27:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192156 Sorry... When did President Bush cancel a debate appearance due to an ideological litmus test? Sorry… When did President Bush cancel a debate appearance due to an ideological litmus test?

]]> By: RKB http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15069 RKB Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:25:14 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-15069 Heh. I had to laugh out loud reading this. Everything this article condemns three "prospective" POTUS's for are the EXACT same things that the CURRENT president has done for years. Already these candidates are being held to a higher standard than the current White House resident. Can't wait for more of the same of the next couple of years. Heh. I had to laugh out loud reading this. Everything this article condemns three “prospective” POTUS’s for are the EXACT same things that the CURRENT president has done for years.

Already these candidates are being held to a higher standard than the current White House resident.

Can’t wait for more of the same of the next couple of years.

]]> By: RKB http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192155 RKB Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:25:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/04/12/clinton-obama-and-edwards-look-fragile/#comment-192155 Heh. I had to laugh out loud reading this. Everything this article condemns three "prospective" POTUS's for are the EXACT same things that the CURRENT president has done for years. Already these candidates are being held to a higher standard than the current White House resident. Can't wait for more of the same of the next couple of years. Heh. I had to laugh out loud reading this. Everything this article condemns three “prospective” POTUS’s for are the EXACT same things that the CURRENT president has done for years.

Already these candidates are being held to a higher standard than the current White House resident.

Can’t wait for more of the same of the next couple of years.

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