Huffington Post: Obama 'Sarcastic, Demanding, Partisan' At News Conference

Imagine the shock to wake up to this headline from the Huffington Post on the front page of AOL this morning.  Maybe the media is starting to slowly turn.  He has not acted Presidential for as long as we can remember as he is always in campaign mode but now the media is picking up on his tactics.  This month's flavor is the new, aggressive tone out of Obama.  Wonder what next month's flavor will be as he morphs into anything he thinks can win him votes.

Who was he referring?  Republicans or foreign competition?  Media doesn't seem to know but are guessing it is foreign.

"I'm not going to cave to the competition," President Barack Obama declared midway through Thursday's news conference.

What an odd thing to say but it is obvious that whoever he meant, he has taken the 'my way or no way' approach.

If I remember right, Senator Reid, Majority Leader of the Senate and a Democrat, was who killed the Obama Job's bill in the Senate.  Yet today Obama became 'sarcastic, demanding, and partisan' at the news conference in his attacks on Republicans when his own Democrats killed the bill in the Senate.  This from the man who said "I WON" to start off his first and last term in office.  Don't know when we have had someone as President with the arrogance of Obama who demands everyone fall in line or else.  Now if a member of the Senate doesn't vote for his bill, they are the bad guy and have to explain why.  Does he have several hours to sit and listen why his jobs bill is a non-starter since he wants an explanation?   Bet there are some Senators who would be glad to tell him in a face to face with details why his bill is bad.  Has he even read his bill that others wrote for him?

"Any senator out there who's thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to explain exactly why." 

We know what his campaign rhetoric is going to be:  Blame Congress!  He is acting like he has had no part in this stalemate or the huge deficits or the bad economy.  He is the most partisan President ever but blames everyone else especially Republicans.  Hate to think what this last year would have been like without a Republican House after the first two years of Obama and the Democrats in charge of both Houses.  He would have browbeat Pelosit and Reid into submission to pass what he desired that day with no thought to the consequences.

He had a ready suggestion for how voters would respond to Republicans in Congress if they don't get with his program. 

"If Congress does nothing," Obama said, "then it's not a matter of me running against them. I think the American people will run them out of town." 

I have a better suggestion, let's run Obama out of town and start over with a President who doesn't travel the Country campaigning and instead does his job.  Why isn't Obama demanding that the Senate Democrats pass a budget which is already past due as of 1 October 2011?  The House passed their budget in April but the Senate is stalling once again on the budget.  In fact, the Senate hasn't passed a full budget since the Democrats took over the Senate in 2007.  The current occupant of the White House doesn't seem to care as long as he can get his way.   He acts more like a spoiled brat than a President.

Like a parent admonishing a child, Obama laid out a stern – and utterly unrealistic – "expectation" that every legislator would vote for the jobs bill. 

If everyone doesn't vote for this bill, is Obama going to take his basketball home so no one can play?  This was a good comeback from the Speaker:

Republican House Speaker John Boehner, appearing at a Washington Ideas Forum not far away, threw cold water on any such notion, with a scold of his own: "We're legislating. He's campaigning." 

The most amazing part of all of this is how the mainstream media is picking up on his news conference and portraying Obama in a not particular flattering way.

Obama News Conference: President Goes On Offense Over GOP Opposition To Jobs Bill  

WASHINGTON — He deployed hand chops, finger wags, furrowed brows. He was sarcastic, demanding, partisan. 

"I'm not going to cave to the competition," President Barack Obama declared midway through Thursday's news conference. 

He was talking about America's economic rivals abroad. But he could just as well have been referring to his Republican antagonists at home. 

Obama, so often partial to a measured, professorial mien, opened his hour-plus news conference by throwing down a marker to the Republicans who have dared to dis his jobs plan. 

"Why would you be opposed?" he demanded of those who are against his jobs proposal. 

"Any senator out there who's thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to explain exactly why." 

Standing ramrod straight, Obama kept up the newly aggressive tone that he's adopted as the 2012 campaign approaches, punctuating his words with the single hand chop, the double hand chop and the bouncing fist. 

To enumerate key points, he'd raise a balled-up hand, then extend the thumb, next the pointer and work his way down to the pinkie. 

Like a parent admonishing a child, Obama laid out a stern – and utterly unrealistic – "expectation" that every legislator would vote for the jobs bill. 

"They should love this plan," he insisted. 

Republican House Speaker John Boehner, appearing at a Washington Ideas Forum not far away, threw cold water on any such notion, with a scold of his own: "We're legislating. He's campaigning." 

Obama didn't just call out Republicans in Congress. His admonishments extended to those vying to run against him. 

"You've got Republican presidential candidates whose main economic policy proposals is, we'll get rid of the financial reforms that are designed to prevent the abuses that got us into this mess in the first place," Obama said. "That does not make sense to the American people." 

For all his exhortations for Republican cooperation, the president's intended audience was clearly the American voters who will decide whether he gets another four years in the Oval Office. He mounted the kind of spirited offense that disenchanted liberals have often found lacking in his first term, and that is aimed at repairing his sagging approval ratings. 

Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged the Democratic ticket's peril as he spoke at the same forum where Boehner appeared.   

(snip) 

Back in the East Room, one questioner asked Obama if he was worried that he'd lost his widely praised "powers of persuasion." 

"Well, no," Obama said. 

Then came a long discourse on the causes of cynicism in American society and the frustrations that people are feeling. 

The presidential finger of blame was pointed, again, at Republicans in Congress. 

"What the American people saw is that Congress didn't care – not just what I thought; they didn't care about what the American people thought," Obama said, referring back to the fractious debate over raising the national debt limit. 

The president also acknowledged, though, that he had used up a considerable amount of political capital fighting the economic wars of his first term. 

"And I've got the dings and bruises to prove it," he said. 

The president said his door remains open to those who want to negotiate. But the chummy overtures to Republicans of weeks and months past were gone, replaced with sarcasm. 

He treated the Republicans' proposals for creating jobs with derision. 

"Their big ideas, the ones that make sense, are one we're already doing," he said.
"It's not enough." 

He proposed a "little homework assignment" to prove his point: Ask the Republicans for their jobs plan, he suggested, and have it evaluated by budget analysts to determine what it would do for the economy. 

"I see some smirks in the audience because you know that it's not going to be real robust," he told reporters.    

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Obama treats Republicans like they are scum but then wants them to pass whatever he dreams up without even bothering to read what he has sent the Congress.  He must be slow on the uptake not to realize that bills are originated in the Congress not the White House.  Maybe he should read that pesky document called "The Constitution" to learn what his powers are and what powers belong to the House and Senate.  He is not a king for a dictator although he wants to be either one so he doesn't have to deal with the peons that hold the fate of his agenda in their hands -- the Congress of the United States elected by We The People!

January 2013 cannot come too soon when we throw this 'sarcastic, demanding, partisan' out of the White House.  Where is Obama going to live when he no longer can call 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home?  Maybe some African country can make him king, and he will live happily ever after among his subjects since he has said on several occasions it would be easier to rule.