Saturday, January 30, 2010

Presidential Intellect vs Republican Politics. Guess Who Won?

Let's just get one thing straight from jump street. Politics is not about truth, but about winning points and elections. Knowing this fact, is there any hope for America?
-
Luckily most of the hard work of solving America's problems is not done by politicians, though politicians definitely make solving America's problems considerably harder.
-
Yesterday we watched a master intellect at work ... dealing with hard questions and political talking points. Yesterday Republican hypocrisy and politics was exposed for everyone to see. (See President Obama's 82 minute speech and sparing with Republican politicians by clicking the CSPAN link at bottom of this page - also, below that is the full question and answer video segment from YouTube - [2 minutes and 13 seconds into the Q&A, the YouTube video will pause, to resume viewing, just move the time slider forward a little])
-
Here's a number of video and comments [Keith Olbermann's Countdown] from President Obama's meeting with Republican House members at their Republican retreat in Baltimore - remember the full video Q&A is at the bottom of this post:
-


After viewing the video, do not click on "next" or "return to video", just go to the video below it.


Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy



Obama meets the Republicans, asks that 'no' become 'maybe' Jan 29, 2010
-
House Republican Retreat with Pres. Obama ....

C-SPAN Jan 29, 2010

-

-

-