Robert Gibbs is quitting

[MaggieMae]

pretty typical for them to only serve a couple of years, no big deal.

He quit halfway through Obamas' term and we hate quitters don't we?

He's just joining the fleeing mob.

Stupid fuck.

George W. Bush's turnovers are too numerous to list. Go to page 5, here:
George_W._Bush_Cabinet

In his second term, President Clinton shuffled most of the 14 top administration posts in his Cabinet. Only four members of President Reagan's original Cabinet remained a year into his second term. President Nixon replaced every member of his Cabinet at least once in the five years of his administration, and only three of Jimmy Carter's Cabinet members served the entire four years of his presidency.

So can I expect my third neg rep from you in as many days?

 

[MaggieMae]

It is no big deal... oh, except when Scott McClellan quit. For some reason that was a HUGE deal. The Republic was coming to an end and Bush was going down.

Scott McClellan was actually fired because he no longer abided by Bush's policies.

 

[jillian]

socialism
- 4 dictionary results
so·cial·ism
   /ˈsoʊʃəˌlɪzəm/ Show Spelled[soh-shuh-liz-uhm] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2.
procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3.
(in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

If it walks and quacks like a duck, it is a duck.

i've yet to see any indication that the president is a socialist... no matter how many times the same lies are repeated.

Some filter facts, some don't.

We all have the power to choose in which group we are. I choose the latter group.

And before you go off on some accusation of partisan bullshit, I was one of the enthusiastic volunteers for the 2008 Inauguration.

you mean you're selective about the facts you acknowledge?

i agree.

to me, you get to have your own opinion. you don't get to choose your own facts.

 

[MaggieMae]

Funny stuff. Please explain how four more years of gridlock in DC advances the needs of America. Obama should just fade away. Hope he takes his socialism with him.

are you people really this goofy. he has a higher approval rating than either reagan or clinton at this point in his term. you didn't win the senate.

apparently, there are an awful lot of people who don't think like you (thank heaven).

and it would be really really helpful if you defined socialism instead of just tossing the term around because that's the party line.

Jill, you're asking for miracles. These are the same people who carp away at their same ignorant bullshit day in and day out. I'm bored with it all.

 

[Si modo]

i've yet to see any indication that the president is a socialist... no matter how many times the same lies are repeated.

Some filter facts, some don't.

We all have the power to choose in which group we are. I choose the latter group.

And before you go off on some accusation of partisan bullshit, I was one of the enthusiastic volunteers for the 2008 Inauguration.

you mean you're selective about the facts you acknowledge?

i agree.

to me, you get to have your own opinion. you don't get to choose your own facts.

If I meant that, I would write that.

When I want your editing "skills", I'll request them.

 

[Modbert]

Next month he will step down.

Guess he knows its all hands on deck for 2012. He'll go down with the ship as well.

Gibbs to Leave as White House Press Secretary - NYTimes.com

Did you say the same thing when Ari Fleischer left in 2003? He too left for the private sector.

 

[Modbert]

They need someone better than Gibbs. I wish him well, but am not sorry to see him go.

Agreed.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

I doubt he'll be missed. He really did come off as a smug & arrogant little worm. I wish him the worst of luck in his future endeavors.

 

[MaggieMae]

Funny stuff. Please explain how four more years of gridlock in DC advances the needs of America. Obama should just fade away. Hope he takes his socialism with him.

are you people really this goofy. he has a higher approval rating than either reagan or clinton at this point in his term. you didn't win the senate.

apparently, there are an awful lot of people who don't think like you (thank heaven).

and it would be really really helpful if you defined socialism instead of just tossing the term around because that's the party line.

socialism
- 4 dictionary results
so·cial·ism
   /ˈsoʊʃəˌlɪzəm/ Show Spelled[soh-shuh-liz-uhm] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2.
procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3.
(in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

If it walks and quacks like a duck, it is a duck.

It's not even walking like a duck, according to card-carrying Socialists.

What Mr. Johns, Mr. Gingrich, and others brandishing the "socialist" s-word are really complaining of is a return to the policies of John Maynard Keynes, the English economist who advocated vigorous government involvement in the economy, from regulation to pump priming, says labor historian Peter Rachleff of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.

"Socialism suggests getting rid of capitalism altogether," says Dr. Rachleff. "Mr. Obama is not within a million miles of an ideology like that."

For what it's worth, socialists deny that Obama is one of them – and even seem a bit insulted by the suggestion.

"I have been making a living telling people Obama is not a socialist," says Frank Llewellyn, national director of the Democratic Socialists of America. "It's frustrating to see people using our brand to criticize programs that have nothing to do with our brand and are not even working."

Adds Billy Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA: "I am not even sure he's a liberal. I call him a hedge fund Democrat."

More here: Is Obama a socialist? What does the evidence say? - CSMonitor.com

 

[Si modo]

are you people really this goofy. he has a higher approval rating than either reagan or clinton at this point in his term. you didn't win the senate.

apparently, there are an awful lot of people who don't think like you (thank heaven).

and it would be really really helpful if you defined socialism instead of just tossing the term around because that's the party line.

socialism
- 4 dictionary results
so·cial·ism
   /ˈsoʊʃəˌlɪzəm/ Show Spelled[soh-shuh-liz-uhm] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2.
procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3.
(in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

If it walks and quacks like a duck, it is a duck.

It's not even walking like a duck, according to card-carrying Socialists.

What Mr. Johns, Mr. Gingrich, and others brandishing the "socialist" s-word are really complaining of is a return to the policies of John Maynard Keynes, the English economist who advocated vigorous government involvement in the economy, from regulation to pump priming, says labor historian Peter Rachleff of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.

"Socialism suggests getting rid of capitalism altogether," says Dr. Rachleff. "Mr. Obama is not within a million miles of an ideology like that."

For what it's worth, socialists deny that Obama is one of them – and even seem a bit insulted by the suggestion.

"I have been making a living telling people Obama is not a socialist," says Frank Llewellyn, national director of the Democratic Socialists of America. "It's frustrating to see people using our brand to criticize programs that have nothing to do with our brand and are not even working."

Adds Billy Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA: "I am not even sure he's a liberal. I call him a hedge fund Democrat."

More here: Is Obama a socialist? What does the evidence say? - CSMonitor.com

I keep it simple and compare Obama to the definition.

 

[MaggieMae]

Gibbs a terrible public speaker/communicator that interjected 'aahhhh' every three spoken words.

Can you ad lib without pauses, and ahhhh's or ummms?? If so, you're missing your calling. I'm sure Leno or one of the other late night guys would love to have you demonstrate your talents. And I hear they pay well, too, for one-shot performances!

 

[The Infidel]

What a crying shame.

I enjoyed his almost daily buffoonery....At least that inadvertent comedy routine did nothing to actually harm the nation.

Yeah... its kind of like watching old "Baghdad Bob"


Im gonna miss the POS

 

[jillian]

They need someone better than Gibbs. I wish him well, but am not sorry to see him go.

Agreed.

Ditto!

 

[The Infidel]

I doubt he'll be missed. He really did come off as a smug & arrogant little worm. I wish him the worst of luck in his future endeavors.

Perhaps a cartoon anvil to the head

 

[MaggieMae]

They need someone better than Gibbs. I wish him well, but am not sorry to see him go.

I agree. He didn't like the discomfort of being on stage when the mudslinging in the anti-Obama press began (immediately in January 2009) and the questions from the designated press corps became more what had gone viral that day rather than the issues of the day.

 

[Si modo]

They need someone better than Gibbs. I wish him well, but am not sorry to see him go.

I agree. He didn't like the discomfort of being on stage when the mudslinging in the anti-Obama press began (immediately in January 2009) and the questions from the designated press corps became more what had gone viral that day rather than the issues of the day.

What anti-Obama press in Jan 2009?

 

[MaggieMae]

socialism
- 4 dictionary results
so·cial·ism
   /ˈsoʊʃəˌlɪzəm/ Show Spelled[soh-shuh-liz-uhm] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2.
procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3.
(in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

If it walks and quacks like a duck, it is a duck.

It's not even walking like a duck, according to card-carrying Socialists.

What Mr. Johns, Mr. Gingrich, and others brandishing the "socialist" s-word are really complaining of is a return to the policies of John Maynard Keynes, the English economist who advocated vigorous government involvement in the economy, from regulation to pump priming, says labor historian Peter Rachleff of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.

"Socialism suggests getting rid of capitalism altogether," says Dr. Rachleff. "Mr. Obama is not within a million miles of an ideology like that."

For what it's worth, socialists deny that Obama is one of them – and even seem a bit insulted by the suggestion.

"I have been making a living telling people Obama is not a socialist," says Frank Llewellyn, national director of the Democratic Socialists of America. "It's frustrating to see people using our brand to criticize programs that have nothing to do with our brand and are not even working."

Adds Billy Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA: "I am not even sure he's a liberal. I call him a hedge fund Democrat."

More here: Is Obama a socialist? What does the evidence say? - CSMonitor.com

I keep it simple and compare Obama to the definition.

So I wonder why he didn't just nationalize the banking industry? He could have raised taxes by executive order because of the economic emergency. He could have stuck to his guns and made sure universal health care was what we wound up with. Anything else?

 

[MaggieMae]

They need someone better than Gibbs. I wish him well, but am not sorry to see him go.

I agree. He didn't like the discomfort of being on stage when the mudslinging in the anti-Obama press began (immediately in January 2009) and the questions from the designated press corps became more what had gone viral that day rather than the issues of the day.

What anti-Obama press in Jan 2009?

Surely you jest.

 

[Si modo]

I agree. He didn't like the discomfort of being on stage when the mudslinging in the anti-Obama press began (immediately in January 2009) and the questions from the designated press corps became more what had gone viral that day rather than the issues of the day.

What anti-Obama press in Jan 2009?

Surely you jest.

Not at all. Jan 2009 was during the Inauguration and I'm trying to think what press was anti-Obama (and as your side keeps telling us Fox is not press, I guess they are excluded, even though they were fawning all over him then, too).

 

[Si modo]

It's not even walking like a duck, according to card-carrying Socialists.



More here: Is Obama a socialist? What does the evidence say? - CSMonitor.com

I keep it simple and compare Obama to the definition.

So I wonder why he didn't just nationalize the banking industry? ....

He started with the auto industry. Then moved on to insurance.

.... He could have raised taxes by executive order because of the economic emergency.

....

No need. He just spends and that comes naturally.

....He could have stuck to his guns and made sure universal health care was what we wound up with. Anything else?

Nope, you've pretty much added some of the support. Thanks.