Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk?

Quote from jficquette:

Obama needs to be fired.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20339.html

President Barack Obama said he believes the global financial system remains at risk of implosion with the failure of Citigroup or AIG, touching off “an even more destructive recession and potentially depression.”

His remarks came in a “60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by an incredulous Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world’s economy.

“You're sitting here. And you're— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asks at one point.

“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft says.

“No, no. There's gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama says, with a laugh
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I'm going to defend Obama on this one (and anyone who's read my posts knows I'm no shill of his)

At the depth of any 'death march' IT project I was ever one, gallows humor always came out.

In my case it was someone deeply burned out, just trying to stay sane and in the game - in the moment you are laughing, you dont feel bad, and gallows humor was the only laugh available
 
Quote from swtrader:

I'm going to defend Obama on this one (and anyone who's read my posts knows I'm no shill of his)

At the depth of any 'death march' IT project I was ever one, gallows humor always came out.

In my case it was someone deeply burned out, just trying to stay sane and in the game - in the moment you are laughing, you dont feel bad, and gallows humor was the only laugh available
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Actually, I find it refreshing that we have a President that fills out his March Madness brackets . . . is able to use gallows humor to get him through the incredible amount of "dog-doo" that his Administration is currently dealing with . . .

"facing impossible odds with limited resources when most parties fundamentally disagree with the right solution to take." not too mention being able to do so with a sense of irony."

The Neo-cons continue to "chirp" away with some of the most absurd stuff. And I really wonder how many of the ET Neo-cons actually watched the interview on "60 Minutes" - - - But hey, if Elisabeth Hasselbeck has a problem with it, it must be terribly important. I mean after all, wasn't she on Survivor???

:D
 

"facing impossible odds with limited resources when most parties fundamentally disagree with the right solution to take." not too mention being able to do so with a sense of irony."


Their budget proposal doesn't look like they are concerned with "trivial" problem like who the fuck is going to pay for it.
 
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