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Caught a piece of a news clip of Pres Obam' testily telling reporters to stop focusing on irrelevant matters when there are important matters at hand. Though in an eyeblink he switched back to his lets all be friends persona, though to I he still appeared obviously annoyed.
My original intention was to post about this with a video clip as an example of Obam' not being able to handle dealing with a press core NOT 100% in his pocket, only to discover a curious thing. Like the incident of Obama thanking himself when reading the wrong teleprompter speech or he walking into a widow thinking it a door, the video has ceased to exist! Likewise what written reports that did comment on this incident spun it as friendly banter, one example:
"Stop It, All Of You": President Obama Jokingly Chastises German Press for 'Tensions Mit Merkel' Stories
June 05, 2009 8:02 AM
At a joint press availability in Dresden, Germany, this morning, President Obama jokingly chastised the German press for playing up stories about alleged tensions between him and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr. Obama was responding to a question from a German television reporter, who noted that there has been certain "mild, sometimes even wild speculation" about the president not leaving much time for a visit with Merkel on his way from Cairo, Egypt, yesterday, where he gave his major address to the Muslim world, to Normandy, France, tomorrow where he will join in the commemoration ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Some in the German press have suggested this constitutes a slight and is part of a history of tensions between the two leaders.
"I think your characterization of wild speculations is accurate -- they are very wild and based on no facts," President Obama said, with a smile. "The truth of the matter is, is that the relationship not only between our two countries but our two governments is outstanding. Most of the speculation around my schedule here in Germany doesn't take into account simple logistics: traveling, trying to get from one place to the other, coming off a Middle East trip, having to go to Normandy tomorrow. There are only 24 hours in the day. And so there's nothing to any of that speculation beyond us just trying to fit in what we could do on such a short trip. That's all that there was."
The president then jokingly scolded the German reporters to his left.
"So stop it, all of you," he said." I know you have to find something to report on, but we have more than enough problems out there without manufacturing problems."
The double speak thought police Propaganda Ministry strikes again! 
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> I hope you find the time
> to read this with an open mind. It's
> interesting. Please read it with the open mind
> rather than immediately breaking it down into left or right,
> but rather look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or
> wrong. It's like the line below says,
> "what if he is right?"
>
> Take the three minutes to read this. Maybe he is
> wrong. What if he is right?
>
> David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published
> works have covered a broad range of topics, from European
> Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son
> of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital
> cities:
> Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar , Senegal
> .. He attended Harvard University , graduating there in 1969
> with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at
> Harvard, gaining a PhD in history,
> which he obtained in 1976. He served in the Army Reserve
> from 1970 to 1976..
>
> He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of
> the United States Naval War College. He has previously
> taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard
> University.
>
> Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the
> Kennedy assassination, was just published by
> Harvard University Press.
>
> Dr. David Kaiser
>
> History Unfolding
>
> I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written
> 15 books on history that have been published in six
> languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have
> come to think there is something monumentally large afoot,
> and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a
> mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but
> they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that
> is only now coming into a sharper focus.
>
> Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense
> it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks
> like, and how people react to it.
>
> Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something
> happening within our country that has been evolving for
> about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically
> quickened in the past two.
>
> We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our
> banks make massive loans to people we know they can never
> pay back? Why?
>
> We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which
> has little or no real oversight by anyone, has
> "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is
> $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not
> tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our
> money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700
> billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past
> September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are
> the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who
> authorized it? I thought this was a
> government of "we the people," who loaned our
> powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
>
> We have spent two or more decades intentionally
> de-industrializing our economy.. Why?
>
> We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our
> history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we
> are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students
> by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or
> articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not
> picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
>
> We have now established the precedent of protesting every
> close election (violently in California over a proposition
> that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to
> remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you
> ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have
> corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected
> judges to write laws that radically change our way of life,
> and
> then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to
> turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what
> purpose?
>
> Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are
> in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking
> system is on the verge of collapse, social security is
> nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government.
> Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college
> and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is
> staggering in its length, breadth, and depth... It is
> potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at war with
> an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of
> the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the
> throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do
> so.
>
> And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows
> anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen,
> let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his
> associations and alliances are with real radicals in their
> chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about
> him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary
> (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create
> and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than
> our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course.
> The media would never play that for you over and over and
> then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant
> daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)
>
> Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one
> word: Change. Why?
>
> I have never been so afraid for my country and for my
> children as I am now.
>
> This man campaigned on bringing people together, something
> he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my
> assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines,
> push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new
> and different power structure. Change is indeed
> coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same
> nation again.
>
> And that is only the beginning..As a serious student of
> history, I thought I would never come to experience what the
> ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s. In
> those times, the "savior" was a former
> smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom
> the average German knew next to nothing. What they should
> have known was that he was associated with groups that
> shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they
> disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through
> great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right
> now.
>
> And there were the promises. Economic times were tough,
> people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he
> smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even
> newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his
> "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into
> submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he
> was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled
> economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression.
> Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government
> power, person by person, department by department,
> bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens
> were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his
> name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later,
> they were required to do so. No Jews of course.
>
> How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising
> jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards
> for the military-industrial complex. He did it by
> indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health
> care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to
> re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe ,
> and across the world. He did it with a
> compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in
> the name of justice and .... .. .. change. And the people
> surely got what
> they voted for.
>
> If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all
> there in the history books.
>
> So read your history books. Many people of conscience
> objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names,
> laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed
> out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House
> of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was
> booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was
> right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not
> listened to.
>
> Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most
> cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art,
> museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet,
> in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two
> terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own
> citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning
> children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors..
> All with the best of
> intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with
> them.
>
> As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional
> decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the
> objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me
> cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting
> to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope
> I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and
> ignoring what is transpiring around me..
>
> I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will
> scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or
> both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been
> afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what
> I believe-and why I believe it.
>
> I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only
> hope is our vote in the next elections.
>
> David Kaiser
> Jamestown, Rhode Island
> United States
>
> Please Pass this along. Perhaps it will
> help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are
> headed.......There is an old adage that goes something like
> this-If you want to know the future study the past
> (history).
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