Category Archives: Baghdad Bob Gibbs

Proposition C spells trouble for Robin Carnahan

Posted on August 6th, 2010

By DAVID CATANESE    POLITICO While Washington is obsessing over what the results of Missouri’s anti-health care reform ballot initiative mean for President Barack Obama, the state’s political insiders are debating whether it’s Democratic Senate nominee Robin Carnahan who needs to be worried. A staggering 71 percent of Show-Me state primary voters cast ballots Tuesday opposing [...]

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This Just In…Obama’s Favorite Authors: Mitt Romney & Karl Rove

Posted on March 26th, 2010

Obama Stops to Browse at a Bookstore By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG IOWA CITY — President Obama spent plenty of time in Iowa as a candidate. On Thursday, he had a little homecoming of sorts, making a surprise visit to the Prairie Lights bookstore, a business he had referred to during a campaign-style rally just an [...]

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Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama ‘dumped him for dinner’

Posted on March 25th, 2010

By:  Giles Whittell, Washington, and James Hider, Jerusalem For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how [...]

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Barack Obama comes to town hoping to sell health insurance overhaul

Posted on March 10th, 2010

By Bill Lambrecht POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF 03/10/2010 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will try to rally a skeptical public behind his health insurance overhaul in a speech in St. Charles today that may remind Missourians of Obama’s days as a hard-charging candidate. Hoping to bring a sense of urgency to the debate, the White [...]

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Obama’s ‘Chicago mafia’ blamed for paralysis at the top

Posted on February 21st, 2010

WHEN President Barack Obama’s secret service codename was revealed as Renegade and his wife Michelle’s as Renaissance, the names seemed perfect for a first couple who had come to Washington to shake things up. More than a year into the Obama administration, with healthcare yet to be reformed, Wall Street banks continuing to pay huge [...]

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Press Room Laughter Dies Down

Posted on February 10th, 2010

What’s next, the Laughter Index? ~~John Cronin~~ By:  Patrick Gavin The White House press room was a jovial place to be in the early days of President Barack Obama’s presidency. But times have changed. Back in May, POLITICO analyzed the press briefings and found that the instances of laughter — as indicated by “(Laughter)” being [...]

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Kit Bond and Whitehouse Exchange Terror Charges

Posted on February 5th, 2010

Sparring between Congress and the White House over treatment of the suspect behind the Christmas Day bombing attempt escalated further Thursday, with Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) accusing the administration of releasing sensitive national security information to the press and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs indignantly demanding an apology. Bond, the ranking Republican on the [...]

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Tehran is about to blow! Where’s Obama?

Posted on January 10th, 2010

THE NEW YORK POST By:  Michael Goodwin   I try not to overdose on the fear factor, but the shocking intelligence failure in the Christmas airline plot isn’t the only national security night mare facing America. While we were all absorbed with the underwear bomber, the Iranian nuke mess took another big turn for the [...]

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Jack Cafferty Rips Obama a New One

Posted on January 7th, 2010

Hat Tip to Crystal F. for the heads up on this one! When Jack Cafferty rips you, you know you’ve been ripped. I bet they are howling inside the White House on this one. Looks like O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Colter, Malkin and Ingraham have a new teammate….from CNN, no less. Welcome to the team, [...]

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You Tube Wins Again

Posted on January 6th, 2010

What an age we live in. Significant campaign promises or Presidential quotes used to be relegated to the lexicon of public thought.  That was until You Tube came along, then even minor promises were preserved, measured, and expected to be kept.  Take this one for instance. Now let’s see Baghdad Bob Gibbs pull a squealer Is it November 2nd yet? Recommend [...]

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