Obama tangles with the press----answers "curtly" and walks out as press erupts...

[Gloria]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/03/726268.aspx

Obama tangles with the press
Posted: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:58 PM by Domenico Montanaro


From NBC/NJ’s Aswini Anburajan
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Led by the Chicago press corps that has covered Obama for years, the candidate today faced a barrage of questions in what turned out to be a contentious news conference.

Questions centered on why his campaign had denied that a meeting occurred between his chief economic advisor and Canadian officials as well as questions on his relationship with Tony Rezko, a Chicago land developer and fast food magnate, now on trial for corruption charges.

(SNIP)

Toward the end of the press conference, the question of Goolsbee's meeting was raised again. Obama answered curtly and then walked out after a staffer called last question. The press erupted with shouts, but Obama continued to walk out.

He paused only to say, "Come on guys; I answered like eight questions. We're running late.”

On the flight from San Antonio to Dallas, Obama, unsurprisingly, did not wander back to make small talk with the traveling press corps.

[Hoof Hearted]

1. Leave Britney ALONE!

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. He's thinking, "What's this shit, it's not supposed to work like this!"

[tabatha]

5. No, he had a flight to catch.

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. We all have a plane to catch sometime, I guess.

[Bluebear]

24. He doesn't have a chartered plane?

[Double T]

3. A true sign of GUILT. obama supporters, it's NOT too late to..........

just throw away your vote on this FRAUD. This revelation is ONLY one of the MANY to come.

[tabatha]

6. Not at all.

[KoKo]

4. Bush got away with that....Let Obama show them...DEMS DON"T DANCE LIKE BEARS ON LEASH!

Good for HIM! No Dem now needs to answer to any whore Press after Bush II made THEM DANCE like BEARS ON A LEASH!

Good for Him!!! (and I'm not a supporter of either Hillary or Obama...but they deserve what he did)

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Thanks for posting that....FOR THE 8000th TIME TODAY

Lord....doesn't ANYBODY look for duplicate stories or post something original anymore?

[rodeodance]

21. ha ha--like the Xerox. and the fake outrage about mccain, Rachel on Hil ha ha ha

[journalist3072]

8. Acting like the pompous, arrogant person he is....very telling. eom

[msongs]

9. Jesus Chri...Obama doesn't like to be challenged nt

[Fresh_Start]

14. and he takes a snit

like the current resident

[RememberWellstone]

10. No way!

The saviour of the lemmings walked out on his lackeys?? Say it ain't so.

[depakid]

11. If Barak Obama has the guts to hand these sorts their hats in hands

That would be a huge reason why this particular skeptic might get on board.

[Avalux]

12. The mass of reporters were from Chicago; badgering him about Rezko.

He's trying to run a campaign and needed to go on to the next stop. Where's the problem? He had already answered a bunch of questions.

[Mojambo]

13. And who decided that he answered "curtly?" The very press he was "tangling" with. n/t

[jillan]

16. Yeah - he'll do just great taking the RW heat - won't he?

[AX10]

17. He'll do just fine against the right wing machine.

:sarcasm:

[flyarm]

19. they will eat him alive!..with out a doubt..eom

[gmudem]

32. He's dismantled the Clinton machine quite nicely

It seems that the Clintons are the ones that can't even handle Obama, no less the entire RW machinery.

[flyarm]

18. u tube here....ok obama blame it all on Hillary ..or anyone but never take a fucking bit

of responsibility..we know that tactic we have been living it for 8 years...

change you say Obama??? ..i say bullshit!


go ahead run Obama..but we will continue to ask questions..unlike your sheeple!

fly and Edwards supporter...and voter.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbkhzsTwz_g&eurl=http://noquarterusa.net/blog/

[rodeodance]

20. thanks

[fishwax]

33. *that* is what all the fuss has been about

wow, big deal. :shrug:

[AZBlue]

22. Hmmm....I wonder what the topic of tonight's activist e-mail from Clinton was?

Perhaps the lame topic for which there are 8 threads in this forum?

Coincidence? I think not.

[Fredda Weinberg]

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[Gloria]

25. Hey, I don't get any HIllary emails....because I'm not a Clinton supporter...

I just support the veneer being stripped from Obama now rather than later.

Not a lame topic...they guy can't even answer a question without going into "BUSH mode??"

[Diogenes2]

26. How many times...

does Senator Obama have to answer the same question at the same press conference? Give it a rest.

[Patchuli]

27. Until the scandal-mongers get what they want

and what they think exists!

[judaspriestess]

28. oh my god LIKE totally answered eight questions

I guess thats enough for some people.

[Cha]

29. Spam with your desperate whine..

Don't get a hernia carrying hilly's water.

[whistle]

30. Imagine that, and there is no video of this

[fishwax]

35. Here's a bit of video of the end of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbkhzsTwz_g&eurl=http://noquarterusa.net/blog

[zulchzulu]

31. THISSS AS GRATE NEWWS11! GU HLLRARY11!!

Fuck off.

[Cha]

34. lol..

What's that smell?

[Scriptor Ignotus]

36. he should have stayed for hours and hours

to answer every question at this IMPROMPTU press conference and missed whatever rallies, speeches, interviews, or other appointments he had SCHEDULED for after this event.

[cloud75]

37. Hillary keeps going no matter what happens tomorrow this story has legs. n/t

[JoFerret]

38. He basically wimped out with a tanty

he does not like to answer questions.
Some fine president. Reminds me of GWB (in that respect)