Obama: No, I Didn’t Storm Out Of The Debt Ceiling Talks

[kpete]

Source: WSBTV

Obama: No, I Didn’t Storm Out Of The Debt Ceiling Talks (VIDEO)
Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 14, 2011, 5:50PM


Hey, remember when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said President Obama walked out of the debt talks yesterday? So, yeah -- Obama says that never happened.

"No," Obama told Cox TV's Scott McFarlane in an interview Thursday. "At the end of the meeting, what I said to the group was what the American people feel: We have a responsibility to do the right thing. We shouldn't be partisan, we should solve problems."

The interview was one of a few sit-downs Obama did with local television reporters from across the country today. In addition to the interview with McFarlane, he spoke to TV stations in Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

Read more: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28551274/detail.html

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VIDEO:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/obama-no-i-didnt-storm-out-of-the-debt-ceiling-talks-video.php?ref=fpblg

[Enrique]

1. Obama: Eric Cantor is a lying sack of dog mess n/t

[Kaleko]

2. Alert to habitual knee jerkers:

So much for the 10,000 words you've wasted on this tidbit.

[lamp_shade]

3. Kick and rec.

[Trajan]

14. You imply we should just shut up ...

and only discuss matters approved by you ?

You do have your own choices, you know .... Like NOT entering threads that dont interest you ...

Let me know how your plan to control DU discussions comes along ....

On second thought ... Don't ....

[Kaleko]

17. Oy. You must have felt personally called out.

If the shoe fits...

[lamp_shade]

18. We?

[toddwv]

4. "Storming out" is just right-wing speak-code for "Angry Black Man"

Cantor knows EXACTLY who such language plays to.

Probably also a counter to the "eat our peas" and the homework analogy.

[loyalsister]

7. You hit the nail on the head

A dog whistle if ever there was one. I have thought for a long time that republicans have been aching to get that image to present to their constituents. I could see the "angry black man" stereotype as very frightening to a soccer mom.
Obama's calm demeanor has been perplexing for anyone who wants to use his race as a tool. They haven't been able to find their usual stereotypes, so they went with the birther thing.
Try as they might, I don't think they have gotten it here.

[chill_wind]

12. It was a democratic aide according to TPM

who didn't say he stormed out, but wanted to help get the angry drama story out.

A Republican aide described today's nearly two hour gathering as "composed and polite" -- probably because, according to a Democratic aide, unlike on Wednesday evening Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) didn't pipe up once.



http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/obama-to-congress-you-have-36-hoursbefore-our-next-meeting.php?ref=fpblg


When Obama was concluding the meeting, giving the closing remarks and talking about returning to the White House for a Thursday meeting, Cantor interrupted him and raised for the third time doing the possibility of a short-term extension, according to the Democrat. At that point, Obama had had enough and shut him down, said, "See you guys tomorrow," and left.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/president-obama-gave-both-sides.php

And it sounds like it was meant to glorify:

“Obama lit him up. Cantor sat in stunned silence,” said an official in the meeting. “It was incredible. If the public saw Obama he would win in a landslide.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x710145

eta: All that ado aside, Cantor is an ass.

[rpannier]

5. I was okay with him storming out of the meeting

The republikkans are pains in the ass
But, I'm not surprised Cantor is lying

Either way, I'm okay with what happened

[BR_Parkway]

9. Me too, was hoping he swatted him upside the head on the way out and told Cantor

to grow the fuck up as well

[grasswire]

15. a little tweak with finger and thumb would have been cool

you know --- snap him with a little tweak.

[florida08]

6. yes he gave a terse.."see you tomorrow"

so much for lightiing Cantor up

[Kingofalldems]

8. Never trust a republican---incredibly sneaky and dishonest.

[eilen]

10. Who cares?

Wasn't closed door meetings supposed to be so 2007? The antibacterial rays of sunlight denied again.

[A Simple Game]

11. Exactly, where is C-span when you need them? n/t

[No Elephants]

19. There you go again, confusing Candidate Obama with President Obama.

[Javaman]

24. Notice how you never see them both in the same room?

:rofl:

[brooklynite]

13. Hmm, this is a toughie...

Do I take the word of the President? Or do I take the word of the Republican Majority Leader, who for some reason never says the same thing as the Republican Speaker.....

[No Elephants]

21. No matter whose word you take, President Obama was right.

And, as some DUers may have noticed, I do not always agree with or defend President Obama.

[sendero]

22. I believe the president..

.. while wishing Cantor was telling the truth. Obama NEEDS to tell these jackasses off, and bad.

[Duppers]

16. Pres. Obama vs. Cantor in PICS

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/president-obama-vs-eric-cantor

All of Obama's remarks are quotes provided by multiple sources who attended the meeting, including Cantor himself.


If someone wants to post the pics, PLEASE be my guest--that'd be great!

[No Elephants]

20. O'Donnell of MSNBC said Cantor interrupted the President three times to say the same thing

Cantor had been saying all along, whereupon Pres. Obama said something like "President Reagan would never have stayed in a meeting like this," then got up and left. (Rightly so, if the O"Donnell version was correct.) This was broadcast either the night it supposedly happened or the next night.)

It's irrelevant. When you are in a meeting at the WH with the President, the meeting is over when the President stands up and leaves, no matter what his last words were or why s/he leaves. So, the President left when the meeting was over and vice versa.

Cantor's a rude, arrogant twerp who has overstepped as to both President Obama and Speaker Boehner, both of whom are his superiors. I suspect he will get his comeuppance--and it may just come at the hands of his own Party.

[A Simple Game]

25. Normally I would say higher ranking would be the correct phrase,

but in this case I think we can leave it at superiors.

And I have a very low opinion of Boehner.

[Javaman]

23. What? a repuke lied?

hard to believe...hard to believe.