Gregory: "Is Obama making a mistake by taking a trip abroad when the economy's in such bad shape?"

[jenmito]

:eyes: Jeez-David Gregory's true colors are really showing! Now he's questioning Obama's TIMING of his trip abroad, saying he thinks people in OH and PA may see him as wanting approval from OTHER countries when THIS country is in such poor shape. You know-like an elite internationalist? Give me a BREAK already with this narrative that everything he does is a mistake! And Noah Oppenheim is going on about "at what price does he want to negotiate with people like Ahmadinejad?" :wtf:

[Oceansaway]

1. turn the lurchy fuk OFF....n/t....

[SoFlaJet]

5. Oceans Away

is a great song by Roger Daltrey-ever hear it?

[jenmito]

7. I can't-Rachel Maddow's on there countering these fools. n/t

[Major Hogwash]

65. Just because you turn off the tv, doesn't turn him off from talking to other people still watching.

"Gee, hadn't thought about that."

LoL

[SoFlaJet]

2. David Gregory

the biggest concern troll on the air-put him on ignore Jen-it ain't worth it

[niceypoo]

76. He gushes over McCain

Why people put any value on anything these pundit types say is way beyond me

[NattPang]

3. Like McCain wasn't in Colombia

when the bad job numbers came out.

How about that, Mr. Gregory?

[jenmito]

9. Gregory just said this trip may look like a "copy cat trip" following MCCAIN'S trip abroad.

I can't BELIEVE this BS!

[SoFlaJet]

13. they're really friggin reaching this year aren't they?

I mean ya gotta hand it to them-they're frigging TRYING to screw this thing up-really hard-I mean they must really want to see this country turn into a third world nation and their kids have no futures as run by the republicans-I will not be distracted

[butterfly77]

17. Anything to make sure a white male is running the country...

No women or other races allowed...

[Cha]

23. Who would want to copycat a doddering,

confused fool?

[jenmito]

36. Everyone in the MSM that says McCain's a straight-talking war hero?

:shrug:

[Cha]

45. mccain's base, the m $$m, needs to go

down with him.

[jenmito]

47. I agree. And McCain has the nerve to claim the media gives OBAMA a pass!

[Cha]

49. mccain doesn't have any nerve..he's just

CONFUSED Again.

[jenmito]

53. Hey-he's a WAR hero! How dare you call him

CONFUSED! :sarcasm:

[Cha]

58. You didn't need to add the

:sarcasm: for me:P

[jenmito]

61. I know...

but not everybody is as bright as you. :)

[Alexander]

4. If he goes abroad, it's bad timing. If he stays, he doesn't have foreign policy creds.

Obama can't win with the MSM hacks, so he shouldn't worry about appeasing them.

[tridim]

10. Yet he's still winning by large margins.

Take that MSM. Idiots.

[jenmito]

11. Exactly. And today the McCain camp complained that the media is biased in favor of OBAMA!

Unbelievable! McCain has gotten a pass on nearly everything!

[RNdaSilva]

69. Gaffe, after gaffe, after gaffe infinitum...

At least Dan Abrams spoke to those gaffes tonight...to an extent.

Obama's trip is significantly more important than McCain's vacation to Colombia and Mexico.

[Cha]

66. WE don't...we treat them as the

enemy and he does what's best for our country.

[eleny]

6. I turned it off the other day and refuse to watch

It's because his show is all about two things:
What's wrong with Obama today
What advice can we give the McCain campaign to help McCain do better

Meh.

[hisownpetard]

8. Exactly. Makes me want to punch him in the face, the dancing fool!

Urghhhhngh.

[eleny]

18. I'm watching a movie on TCM and pontificating all over DU

Waiting for my thrifted end table's new paint to dry so I can go out and give it another coat. His show would take the joy out of everything.

Btw, Hardball may be next off my list. Chris treated John Stoltz like dog shit today. It used to be fun bitching about those talking heads but I can't muster the patience nowadays.

On the other hand - Keith is back tonight!!! :woohoo:

[hisownpetard]

22. Actually, I had to cross Tweety off my list a while ago when his spittle-whipped face just wouldn't

shut up and let Rachel talk one day. And I've never gone back.

I'm down to Keith/Rachel, and that's about it.

I simply have no tolerance left.

[eleny]

39. I'm right behind you

Keith and Rachel are the only ones I feel I can trust.

[SoFlaJet]

24. I've stopped watching everything BUT KO

I just refuse to let them do what they always do to the democratic candidates-not this time not THIS year. I listen to Randi locally here and wait for Countdown. Who friggin NEEDS the bullshit they're selling...not me, and not my family that's for sure.

[eleny]

41. I can hardly wait to watch his show tonight

I've gotten my chores done and an extra project to boot. After Keith I have a book to finish. It'll be an evening well spent.
:hi:

[Cha]

12. Is it mistake for David Gregory to sound like

such a mediawhore tool at every chance he gets?

Any thinking person can tell you the Economy is in bad shape thanks to mediawhores installing bushit and they can tell you another mediawhore "gift" foisted on our country, the War On Iraq, has a direct bearing on our Economy and infrastructure.

[jenmito]

20. Yup. And yet they're going to keep doing everything they can to try to make Obama

lose.

[Cha]

32. I keep wondering what the mediawhores

are going to do in an Obama Presidency when the real reporters get invited to the White House?

It's not like they'll be yucking it up with the bu$h-cheney-rove maggots looking for WMD at the WhiteHOuse press dinners.

[jenmito]

37. I hope there are a whole new bunch of media people and Obama

totally ignores the ones who dissed him in the GE.

[blogslut]

14. ROFL!

Jack Welch must be one hell of a lover considering the behavior of all his yappy lap dogs.

[jenmito]

21. Yuk!

Don't put that picture in my head.

[MichiganVote]

15. Is Gregory making a mistake by living in La-La Land before the election?

[butterfly77]

16. I am listening to this garbage right now..

Does he question McCain and his travels like this. These people think we really are stupid, Obama is an elitist if he was so what,they will do anything to pretend that racism is not somehow involved in these questions.

They question everything he says and really want us to believe that Obama has to explain himself further. Gregory and his crew need to get their asses out their and start questioning Bush and Cheney about what they are going to do to help the american people with these depression... Here we go again Obama needs to do this or obama needs to do that I have been hearing this shit for months. He has explained his thoughts on a variety of subjects they are doing their best to help their party the RepubliCON party..

[jenmito]

25. Did you notice the other theme of the day-that Obama doesn't have a sense of humor?

Unbelievable. He's VERY witty and has a GREAT sense of humor. He makes fun of himself all the time-including his big ears.

[butterfly77]

28. They are coming up with anything ..

trying to see what will stick so they can make an issue out of it then, they say Obama needs to explain himself further. THey hate it because they have dumbed down the public for so long the game of talking about non-issues isn't working so they keep beating anything day in and day out and then blow it up and keep repeating Obama is in trouble, Obama is in trouble..

[jenmito]

38. I agree...

and NONE of it will stick-especially once the debates begin.

[butterfly77]

48. They will some how come up with..

some nonsense questions on race,patrotism, or religion..Believe me they already have it planned and they will keep beatin it for the people who haven't paid attention..

[jenmito]

55. I believe you...

sadly.

[azmouse]

19. People are so worried about the economy right now

that all the crap the RW is trying to fling at Obama over foreign policy isn't gonna stick.
It'll probably just spray back at them as people wonder why the RW isn't worrying more about the situation at home.

[jenmito]

26. I hope and bet you're right

:hi:

[SoFlaJet]

27. exactly az

there are just too many other bigger things to be concerned with than WHO the MSMwhores think won the day's news cycle. Here's a hint WE THE PEOPLE lose every day, and have since November 2000

[monmouth]

29. They can't bear to see the overwhelming welcome and warm

greetings Obama will receive on his trip. Germany, hopefully Ireland, etc. The media just dreads it...I'm loving it.

[jenmito]

35. Yup. And no matter WHAT Obama says the media is going to portray him as being naive

and wrong. But I bet the people will have a different picture.

[MarjorieG]

30. Who is this Oppenheim guy? Really don't like this Obama elitist not likable meme.

Vote for McCain because you like him, telling us he's likable and that's enough. Just like Bush. And get this ace on foreign policy, rather than a military only response we know he'd give.

This whole day, surge is working. Other reasons than just sending troups, and still didn't win this war, whatever the meaning of 'win' is.

[jenmito]

42. I don't know-but he's been on this show before slamming Obama and praising McCain. n/t

[JoFerret]

31. No. N/t

.

[barack the house]

33. It's just the way of the world. Just write a response in your local paper in the classifeds....

This is how we overcome the smear machine.

[jenmito]

46. I write to the show almost every night to complain. Just like I complained to Joe Scarborough

when this morning he claimed 95% of Black people don't support McCain (5% APPROVED of him, but only 57% disapproved. The rest had no opinion) yet he kept going on about the mythical 95% number, not understanding that more Black people didn't support McCain "even though he served this country and was tortured for 5 years and to this day can't lift his arms above his head). :eyes:

[tbyg52]

34. Shut up, Gregory.

And to think that for a brief time I liked that man....

[tishaLA]

40. in philly, there is a phrase....

a "smacked ass" (pronounced "smacked azz")--for people who are perpetually clueless. Gregory personifies that phrase.

[karynnj]

43. Also pretty dumb - Obama is on the SFRC

So it is perfectly normal for him to take trips overseas. He is a Senator - with very little power to change economic policy - until January 2009. Gregory should ask why Bush went overseas.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

44. SCQ: "Did Gregory make a mistake by dancing with Rove while he undermined this country's laws?"

[Hieronymus]

50. And I really liked Gregory until he got his own show.

[jenmito]

52. So did I. I had high hopes for his new show. I'm disappointed in him.

[Muttocracy]

51. oh noes! Senator goes on foreign trip while economy not good! the horror!!!!111

[slinkerwink]

54. he's the biggest concern troll ever.

[Barack_America]

56. Yeah, 'cuz we all know that the economy isn't global...

And that international respect and cooperation doesn't count for jack-shit.

:eyes:

[VADem11]

57. Gregory makes me want to vomit

He's really just that awful.

[rndmprsn]

59. I think the Europeans have already made up their minds...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6508877

[Peacetrain]

60. My good God.. the msm is spinning like a top

If he didn't go, it would be a mistake..if he goes it would be a mistake..My hand to GOD I am not making this up.. on cnn tonight, they wanted to know if Obama was making a mistake by not being funny enough????

[jenmito]

62. Yes-Gregory talked about that, too...

since there was apparently some article about Obama's "lack of sense of humor." I THINK it was by Maureen Dowd.

[Peacetrain]

77. On my gosh!..

I do not know how Senator Obama keeps it straight, but that Obama cool is just what is needed when you have the continual critique of the "liberal" media. I am beginning to think those dunderheads in the media like having a bush like entity in there, because it gives them something to talk about 24/7..they just have to make it up with Obama, does he lack a sense of humor.. what next..*lol*

[detectivecastro]

63. Gregory is not too bright

What does a trip overseas have to do with the economy? Obama needs to take care of another very important issue that by the way affects our economy. The money we are wasting in Iraq could be used to give Americans more stimulus.

[Major Hogwash]

64. Gregory also said that he didn't know what Obama's economic policy was!!

He said that since Obama hasn't "spelled out" his plan concerning Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, he didn't think that Obama could claim that he had a better economical plan for America.


Hahahahahahahaha!

What a fucking joke Gregory is!!

The mainstream media is out to get Obama - and that's it!!

[otohara]

67. MSNBC Is Starting To Make Me Sick

Yesterday after Obama's speech re: foreign policy - they had their attack dog Pat Buchanan, the girl who asks the negative questions and a dem strategist. It was all very negative - mean while over at CNN, after the speech - they went to other news. MSNBC is becoming way too repetitive and opinionated in the politics portion.

David Gregory - shut the fuck up! If it's not one thing, it's another with Obama.

[windbreeze]

68. It's not Obama's fault that this economy is in such dire straits...

how about we put that blame squarely on the doorstep where it belongs...these guys can't seem to make up their minds...McCain challenges him to go...but now they found out how popular he is, and how Europe is looking forward to greeting him, so Gregory throws cold water on the trip...someone needs to tell the idiots they can't have it both ways...wb

[Rosa Luxemburg]

72. It's Bush's fault that he didn't see it coming

[zulchzulu]

70. Exactly what impact would Obama's trip be on the economy?

Should all traveling to other parts of the World stop?

Should Presidential candidates use unicycles to get around the country?

Should Obama not travel to the Middle East and elsewhere so that asshats and great dancers with Karl Rove like Gregory could say he never travels there?

Indeed, it took some brain tissue functions for the thought to enter the small brain in Gregory's head to concoct such a beltway-laden query?

[AZBlue]

71. It's not like he's going on "The Grand Tour" for three months.

He's not wining and dining in 5-star restaurants and hobnobbing in a tux every night. And I'm pretty sure he's not taking in the opera, Fashion Week or the Save Venice gala.

[rufus dog]

73. I had the TV on in the Garage, doing chores with my kid

She is fourteen and into Journalism. I let Gregory's first segment go by (Obama doesn't have a sense of humor) then my kid made a comment about Gregory's hair (trying to spark me up I think) and then the asshole made the trip abroad comment. At that point I called him a tool and let her know that he is far removed from being a journalist.

[TheKentuckian]

74. Did he have any complaints about McSame's pandering tour

peddling more of our jobs and getting photo ops?

If so then I can accept consistency but otherwise, he's an ass.

[Vinca]

75. No matter what Obama does, it's a mistake to some.

Maybe David Gregory hasn't heard of "them new fangled gadgets" called telephones that allow people to keep in touch all around the world. Just as Obama doesn't have to go to Iraq to make policy on that front, he doesn't have to rent an office on Wall Street to make economic decisions.