He spoke very well on the situation in Gaza.

And even with that, the president's answer was comprehensive and insightful. I wanted to reach through the screen and smack that hack's smug fáce.

Hacks never learn

They are a bunch of self-entitled brats.

I'm a retired reporter. What passes for coverage now is just an absolute disgrace. I used to be proud of my profession. Now I'm ashamed of it.

that depend on your people to be professional and truthful, even if it hurts. thanks for your service.

I am a freelance writer and I write feature stories for my local daily. I find that the few reporters who still work here are better than the national folks. Some exceptions, of course, but the WH press hacks are just the worst.

I particularly enjoy when he focuses on the purposeful failure of republicans in DC to do anything.

I really wish that he would address the nation, some night very soon.

Recommended.

but there was more balance here and he has been spot on most of the other issues raised.

"We crossed the line with torture ...and we have to take responsibility for that".

What I love most about Obama is that he tries to be honest.
Like you I think he needs to address the nation particularly while that useless House is on vacation.

of issues where I disagree with him, but I believe that he does the best that he can to serve as president. That he remains a rational person at this point in his presidency is impressive.

and almost mocking ReTHUGs in that very calm manner. He was excellent today and admitting that the US tortured some folks was almost calling out Cheney et al again.
I was impressed at his 'calm' given the current global and domestic chaos.

what a toxic, talentless jackass George W Bush was. The contrast between Bush and President Obama is so huge.

I thought about Bush. That war criminal would have been giggling like the moron he is, and using nicknames for his favorite hacks. Bush was clumsy, ignorant and silly. Obama has one hell of a sense of humor, but is never silly or glib.

Maybe deep down that's one of the reasons the haters hate him so much. DAYUM does he make his predecessor look bad! He makes dubya look like the steaming pile of crap we all long ago recognized him to be. They'll stay in denial about it, though. AWFULLY hard to admit you were wrong. Some former congressman on "Hardball" yesterday, I think it was, admitted he'd voted wrongly on the Iraq War and he and Chris Matthews both agreed that a President who starts seeing the input coming to him that says his decision was wrong - would at least stop and reassess, if not change the policy. And it's VERY instructive about the kind of person dubya is - that, to this day, he flat-out REFUSES to admit he was wrong. That he made a wrong decision. That invading Iraq was the wrong thing to do. Won't do it. Can't do it. Can't afford to bring himself to admit he was wrong. Has to insist the world is flat. Because he's not man enough to admit he was wrong.

Well, you know it, and I know it, and everybody on this board knows it. And more beyond that know it. But he and his - will NEVER admit they were wrong. It's hard to do. It's pretty damn courageous and ballsy, and mature, and adult, and grounded in reality, to admit you were wrong. And he can't do it. So that should be very instructive as to who - and what - he really is.

The deliberate, thoughtful, intelligent answers Obama offered are a complete opposite to GW's inane frat-boy giggling.

And still, Obama gets the criticism.

wish he'd do more of it

But has handled it quite well, IMO.

that Dems got a shellacking in that 2010 elections. Politicians are not supposed to ever say they lost or got a beating. That stayed with me.

You're so right

Then they claim the media is too cowardly to confront Obama with "the tough questions" so when some brainwashed idiot decides he's going to make a name for himself by showing courage he inevitably succeeds in making a complete ass of himself.

I have satellite radio and turned on Sean Hannity when there was a commercial on the progressive station..

Hannity had some substitute because he was out jerking off to some gun-porn or something. I don't know who the sub was. Anyway, a caller called in to complain about how Obama says, "uh and ah" too often. They both then went off on how a President needs to be more articulate.

That is when I found myself talking to the radio saying, "oh yeah, right...like George W Bush, huh?"

Needless to say, my radio didn't answer me, but that was the most honest thing I heard on that channel all day.

What Obama does is pause and think before he answers questions.
What they want is for him to just run his mouth so they have something to play "I gotcha' with. He's way too deliberate for them. Lots of persons in academia use that approach to articulate points.
Still that comment is just one more in the line of their racist rants. The black man is never articulate enough for them. Dumb ass George Bush was their guy. Go figure.

In deep contrast to the last one.

That hasn't happened much during my adult life, thanks to the country's infatuation with Republican simpletons who can be counted upon to take orders.

and he needs to speak to the country without the press.

He seems to have no idea how powerful half an hour of TV time during prime time can be.