Here's part of the article from Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism, that explains more of what happened. (Though that article too makes fun of the fact that Obama's wife "nagged" him to return to their Christmas party, which is why he left. Though you've got to admit that Obama asked for that ridicule.
In a ghastly cable news convergence Friday, Barack Obama exploited his wife as an excuse and bizarrely abdicated to an unelected civilian, the former president Bill Clinton, in what is surely a historic White House briefing:
Time’s Michael Scherer describes the optics:
For the first part of Clinton’s performance, Obama, the current president, who never acts so freely in the briefing room, calling on reporters at will, stood by stoically watching the spectacle. The television cameras cut Obama out of the shot, making it look for most of the world like Clinton was again president, holding forth before the presidential seal.
When a reporter’s question gave Obama a brief moment to take back the microphones, he seemed to move towards them, but Clinton did not give way. So leaning, Obama said that his wife had been waiting for him for a half hour, at a previously mentioned holiday party, and he was going to leave. “I don’t want to make her mad,” Clinton responded. “Please go.” Indeed.
During the briefing, president Clinton propagated – while at the same time denying – thin euphemisms of redistributionist Marxist doctrine that, “people that benefit most, should pay most. That’s always been my position. Not for class-warfare reasons, but for reasons of fairness.”
During the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama clumsily asserted the same during a debate with Mrs. Clinton and more notoriously, to Joe the Plumber.
President Clinton also gave away the Obama-Democrat tax deal’s game by confessing that this it’s basically a stealth Stimulus II (massive spending bill):
“We have to go beyond direct investments, whether they’re Stimulus projects or tax cuts, to private growth. But, to get there we have to achieve a higher level of growth that triggers the confidence. So, I personally believe this is a good deal, and the best he [Obama] could have gotten under the circumstances.”
“We had an election [Nov. 2010]. The results are what they are. The numbers will only get worse in January in terms of negotiating. And the president [Obama], look if we had five percent growth and unemployment was dropping like a rock, maybe you could have the so-called Mexican Standoff and you could say, ‘it’ll be you, not me the voters will hold responsible for raising taxes on middle-class people if they [tax rate compromises] all go down, you know, next year. “ [my emphasis]
Stunning candor, or slick dissimulation intended to make Mr. Obama look bad?
In any case, where was Press Sec. ‘Gibbsy’ to run media interference for that outburst? Would he have even had the cojones to thwart president Clinton’s roll? Where was the media in calling for their President to duty instead of calling in pinch-hitter Clinton?
And where was Mr. Obama? He bailed on the crisis and presidential duties in order to attend a Christmas party, apparently because Michelle was nagging him on his telepromp … er, Blackberry to “get back here!” Or, something.
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