Did Obama Skip Bush's Speech?

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

As his predecessor, President Bush, said his final goodbyes to America on national television, President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle dined at the DC restaurant, Equinox Thursday night.

CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic, who waited outside the restaurant, reports that there is no indication whether or not Mr. Obama was watching President Bush's farewell remarks.

The President-elect departed the Blair house, located right across the street from the White House podium from which the president spoke, minutes before President Bush commenced.

A host at the restaurant tells CBS News' that the President-elect stopped by the only television in the high end establishment, a small screen at the bar, and watched for "a minute or two." The source said he did not notice what Mr. Obama was watching but that "no" it was not for an extended period of time.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/15/politics/politi...

[babylonsister]

1. Barack Obama knows what's important, and this wasn't it.

Slap!

[polichick]

2. Funny that he made a public appearance so everyone knows he didn't watch.

[Cha]

15. Maybe he already had dinner reservations

and he was hungry and oh, bush was going to be on tv to lie one last time to the American people.

[hvn_nbr_2]

35. Maybe John Howard made the reservation for him. nt

[glitch]

45. ROFL! Thanks for that. nt

[CreekDog]

52. i like your answer

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Maybe he got it on Tivo.

[CreekDog]

53. was lower ranked on his TIVO than the Frasier season pass

[Muttocracy]

4. did Bush listen to Clinton? doubt it. nt

[Pirate Smile]

5. He knows how to use Youtube.

[liberalmuse]

6. Again, Obama makes the right decision.

Take my lovely wife out to dinner, or listen to the chimp fart out of his mouth for a half hour?

[Pirate Smile]

7. Talk about showing good judgment!

[elleng]

16. Taking advantage

of the few nights before the bubble REALLY encapsulates them.

[Mojorabbit]

25. Better decision maker than me

who actually watched it and screamed at the tv through most of the lies.

[EraOfResponsibility]

8. I hope that he continues to dine out after he's president

I hope he won't allow the bubble to close in on him completely like that. I know he'll have his own chef and cooking staff, and there won't be any need to eat out anymore, but still he should make an effort to stay social.

[my2sense]

9. bwahahahah

I'm glad he did this in a public way as well.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

10. Good for him! ! It would have ruined his meal.

[Faygo Kid]

11. I certainly hope so. What self serving garbage.

Awful. Do we still have days left to be rid of this pestilence?

[Brucie Kibbutz]

12. He already knew what the chimp was going to say.

"I kept Amurca safe from the terrist". "Except for that little incident in 2001". "But that was all Bill Clinton's fault, anyway". *snort* *smirk*

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. Surprise!

The Obamas have great taste.

Equinox is a wonderful place, and their food is out of this world.

http://www.equinoxrestaurant.com /

Chimpy never went out to dinner, never went anywhere socially in DC. This past week, Barack's been all over the place - Ben's Chili Bowl, the Supreme Court, the Washington Post, Equinox tonight.

Gonna be wonderful, just wonderful, to have them in my neighborhood.......

[elleng]

17. This week's dinner menu:

http://www.equinoxrestaurant.com/menus/equinox_dinner.p...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. Actually,

that was last week's dinner menu.

No matter what menu, their food is sensational.

[elleng]

23. Haven't been;

out of my league!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

27. Truly,

it's an expense account place.

Find yourself a lobbyist.

The prices are, I agree, insane.

[LibertyLover]

43. That looks like a great restaurant

and the prices aren't that bad for dinner in a downtown DC restaurant. Hmm, 818 Connecticut? That's not too far from where I work. Maybe I can go and have lunch there one day. Their macaroni and cheese on the lunch menu sounds really good.

[scytherius]

14. lol Perfect. n/t

nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. How could watching that speech be ANYTHING but a total waste of time?

In fact, it would be detrimental to the health of most people I know. Higher BP, acid reflux, acid flashback.

There is NOTHING to be gained by tuning into a clusterf___ like that.

[Tab]

19. I would have

and I suspect Obama's smarter than I.

[DissedByBush]

20. Did I miss something?

"As his predecessor, President Bush, said his final goodbyes to America on national television"

It was on TV blabbing again? I must have missed that.

Honestly I don't care to ever hear his voice again unless he's saying "I plead not guilty." I'll change the channel to hear that.

[CreekDog]

54. Oh, I didn't miss it

I didn't see it. But I didn't miss it either.

[rpannier]

22. Did anyone watch his speech?

I mean, I'm sure there were people who had it on because they were waiting for it to end so they could see the show they were waiting for.
But, other than his immediately family and a few lunatic fringe members...
Did anyone watch it?

[orleans]

33. i watched a jon stewart rerun. when fuckhead started walking up

to the podium i ran for the remote and managed to fast click onto comedy central in the nick of time!

[tanyev]

41. I watched it with the sound off.

Meanwhile, I was playing songs like "Hit the Road, Jack", "Goodbye to You", "If I Had a Rocket Launcher". First time I've ever smiled while Dubya's mouth was moving.

[teknomanzer]

51. I started to watch it on Utube...

Lost interest almost immediately. Closed the browser, did something else. Can't remember what - but I'm sure it was a more constructive use of my time.

[Betty]

24. why should Obama be different from any other American?

who the fuck would watch that piece of shit? For the last eight years, every time the asshole has appeared on TV, I change the channel or shut it off.

[Blue_Tires]

55. +1

[DLnyc]

26. That George guy is still around?

[bonito]

28. There were two rows of empty seats out of seven

That the White House had to fill in to make it look good because of the lack of interest.
Is what I heard.

[janet118]

29. I believe that was the case for Bush's last press conference.

I hope this is the last stop of the "Good-bye, Suckers" tour.

[silverojo]

31. So said Keith Olberman, so I believe it - n/t

[lanlady]

38. Cheney was head-bobbing

The camera caught him nodding off to sleep at one point.

[agincourt]

30. Why listen to a liar? nt

[concerned canadian]

32. that's about as long as I could stand hearing and seeing

that smirking idiot. Really, what IS with the almost constant smirking, as if he's got some kind of physical impairment?

[eauclaireliberal]

34. Obama should have aired it in the resturant...

to a laugh track.

[jonmiller74]

36. The bigger point is that CBS felt the need to discuss this.

Why make an issue of whether he watched it or nor, when it is available from the archives if needed.

While I'm venting, would someone else go the cnn.com go to the international edition and click on the hot topic link for Barack Obama and tell me what three pictures you see. I received a picture of guns, the Lorraine motel sign and a photo of Barack and Nancy Pelosi.

[lanlady]

37. he didn't miss anything

Bush was fear-mongering and kissing military ass until the very end.

[Vinca]

39. Why is this even a story? Any normal human being would opt

for a nice meal and good company over 15 minutes of revisionist history.

[rocktivity]

40. Why not? BUSH skipped it.

rocknation

[AnneD]

42. Heck.....I missed it too...

I had better things to do.

[HopeHoops]

44. I skipped it ;}

[damntexdem]

46. I sure did.

There was an old James Bond movie on that I watched until I could switch back to Keith.

[BlueJessamine]

47. Good for Obama!

[eauclaireliberal]

48. Well its not like Michelle was buying $200 shoes in Manhattan

nt

[No Elephants]

56. The Manhattan Goodwill store?

[bottomtheweaver]

49. He'd heard it before. So had I.

Terra, terra terra. I suspecte he's been hearing quite a lot of that lately from Bush and his apparatchiks.

[lonestarnot]

50. I listened for a minute or two for any hints of danger, then I puked and turned it off.

[No Elephants]

57. The man and/or his wife were hungry. His staff will give him a memo.

[ima_sinnic]

58. why would he waste his truly beautiful mind on predictable lies and bullshit?

it's not like the little wannabe emperor had any new important lies to say. I made a point of not watching.

btw, does anybody remember *'s inauguration? I sure don't remember one second of it. did he even have one?