Obama is kicking ASS

[madokie]

in the hearings in case anyone isn't watching

[TwilightGardener]

1. I'm proud of him!

[madokie]

5. it was quite as a church mouse when he finished

I'm impressed with his grasp of this issue

[Nite Owl]

2. Heard most of it

he's right about the hearings shouldn't be today. I'm glad someone said that!

[sabra]

3. he's kicking A-S-S :-)

[EFerrari]

4. He did well except for that part where he blames Iraq

for the chaos we inflicted.

[madokie]

7. I think by that point my eyes were glassed over and I didn't hear it

sad that I do that sometimes

[EFerrari]

10. I do it, too, and usually when I'm trying to take in numbers.

lol

:hi:

[LSK]

6. he said we should not have had these hearings today

It perpetuates the notion that Iraq was linked to 9/11.

[ThomWV]

8. You and I must be watching a different hearing - he just gave his stump speech all over again

And never did manage to get a question out that had not already been asked by someone else.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Don't piss on my parade, man! LOL!

On edit--to be honest, I thought Boxer, Feingold and Hagel did a better job, at least in the passion and outrage department, but they are FAR more experienced at this sort of hearing, so that's OK.

[EFerrari]

11. But he comes off more presidential than Junior could ever be

except in Barney's dreams.

[ThomWV]

12. Better than Bush, to be sure, but not of the quality needed to lead the Adminstration of the US

[TwilightGardener]

13. Oh, I thought it was fine! Who are you comparing him to today?

[EFerrari]

19. I'm working for someone else but think Obama would make

a fine executive. We have a nice, deep field this time. :)

[Benhurst]

20. Don't damn Obama with faint praise. The village idiot would come off more presidential than Bush.

[EFerrari]

21. Reminds me of the bumpersticker: "somewhere a village is missing

its idiot."

lol

[Pirate Smile]

15. I thought he did a great job of adding some much needed perspective to this

dog and pony show.

Any success in Anbar is because of political decisions made by the Sunni tribes, not our surge. The fact that the bar has been set so low for success that they are touting as success things that aren't. The chaos and intolerable violence has been somewhat lessened by the addition of 20,000 addition troops to a slightly lower level of chaos and intolerable violence. That is touted as a great success but it's not.

I didn't hear all of his statement but liked what I heard. Crocker and Petraeus have been good at filibustering and using up people's time without answering any of the tough questions anyway.

[madokie]

18. no doubt that the whole bush* cabal have gone to the same school

The School of Saying a Whole Lot of Nothing and they all appear to be graduates with honors too

[madokie]

16. amazing but I liked the fact he could pick up on a question which

had been asked but not answered. no big deal but just an example how we are all individuals with different interest ;-)

[Cameron27]

14. He did great IMO

[jillan]

17. Why did he say all that about 9/11 when he himself is giving

a major speech on Iraq tomorrow???

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/09/obama_to_outlin.html

[carpe diem]

22. his critcism is of the neverending effort...

by the administration and their supporters to conflate 9/11 and Iraq, thus he questioned the timing of the hearings based on that aspect....he, on the other hand is not trying to conflate the two, so the timing of his speech is irrelevant to efforts to conflate 9/11 and Iraq because he has made it clear repeatedly that the two ARE NOT related...