No One At The White House Is Laughing

I still think that Robert Gibbs is funny.
How can you not laugh at a man who makes a complete fool of himself each time he opens his mouth?

The White House press room was a jovial place to be in the early days of President Barack Obama’s presidency. But times have changed.

Back in May, POLITICO analyzed the press briefings and found that the instances of laughter — as indicated by “(Laughter)” being noted in the official transcript — occurred more than 10 times per day during press secretary Robert Gibbs’s briefings.

But the laughter has been reduced by half in recent months: In the first six months of the Obama administration, briefings produced an average of 179 laughs per month. Over the past six months, the average has dropped down to 89.

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People Who Live In Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Teleprompters

During his daily briefing with reporters on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs held up his hand, showing the press pool that he had written the words “Hope” and “Change” on his palm.

A blatant mockery of Sarah Palin, who had notes written on her hand for a speech she gave last week at the first convention of the Tea Party Nation.

Isn’t Gibbs a little old for this sort of childish nonsense?

Especially considering his boss is so articulate speaking without notes, as he shows here when his telepromter shorted out:

The CHANGE Obama Promised Has Arrived. Or Has It?

This weekend we will be bringing you a series of articles that may escape your notice otherwise, but that we feel are important enough that you should know about them.
This article examines if the change that President Obama promised us has happened yet.
Seems like business as usual to us.
Or worse.

In the year since he was elected president, Barack Obama has revealed himself as one of the boldest leaders to occupy the Oval Office in the modern era.

 In that same year, Obama also has revealed himself to be an innately self-protective, constantly calibrating and, in some surprising ways, supremely conventional politician.

 So who is Barack Obama? The drama of this presidency — in sharp relief with Wednesday’s one-year anniversary of his 2008 triumph — revolves around how Obama navigates his own contradictions.

 Obama turns out not to be a Bill Clinton-style centrist or a Paul Wellstone-style liberal. His plans for health care and his trillion-plus dollars in new spending have earned the ire of Rush Limbaugh for being too grandiose and of Arianna Huffington for not being grandiose enough.

 Obama is the president as grand improvisationalist: a leader of epic ambitions who — when faced with a difficult choice — almost always pursues his aims with a pedestrian strategy and style.

This may be a shrewd approach to governing. But it manages almost by definition to defy and disappoint the huge — and wildly divergent — expectations Obama encouraged supporters to harbor for his presidency.

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FOX’s Major Garrett vs White House Press Secretary Over Emails

So how does White House press secretary Robert Gibbs explain people receiving e-mails from Obama crony David Axelrod regarding health care?

It’s real simple.

He doesn’t.

When questioned as to how individuals who have had no prior contact with the White House, have never asked to have their names added to an e-mail list, etc., are receiving messages from one of Obama’s top hatchet men, Gibbs ducks and weaves like a heavyweight boxer.

This kind of reminds me of Richard Nixon and his infamous “enemies” list.

Remember Nixon, the paranoid President who kept a list of the names of anyone who spoke out against him?

Seems like the White House asking people to snitch on anything that they see that is against the health care reform bill isn’t the only thing here that is fishy:

I really need to get my eyes checked.

Because I still can’t see the transparency of the Obama administration.

A Member Of President Obama’s Staff To Appear On “Dancing With The Stars”

Theoretically, it must be possible that Robert Gibbs can give a straightforward answer to a direct question.

It hasn’t happened yet, but the potential is there.

That is why I think he should take a break from his duties as White House Press Secretary and become a contestant on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars.

Watch the first video, and take note that about the 30 second mark that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor makes the statement that “the court of appeals is where policy is made.”
She then tries to shrug off that claim once she remembers that she is on camera, but it is patently obvious to myself, as well as the other individuals that appear on the panel, that her statement is an honest reflection of her convictions.

Now watch the second video, where White House Press Secretary is questioned about her statement:

Did you see the way he danced around that question without ever providing a coherent answer?

Her statement was “taken out of context?”

What the hell video was Gibbs watching?

I haven’t seen footwork like that since Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers stopped making movies.

However, I am willing to give Mr. Gibbs a second chance, so allow me to ask:

“Hey Robert, it’s common knowledge that it is not the job of a judge to make policy.
Especially a judge of the Supreme Court.
Seeing as how your boss’s nominee feels differently, how the hell does he justify her viewpoint?”