Cantor says he was taking notes during Obama’s speech
Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, says he was not being discourteous to President Barack Obama last night, he was merely taking notes about what the president was saying.
Television cameras caught Cantor fiddling with his BlackBerry as Obama delivered his call for health-care reform to a joint session of Congress. Bloggers have taken note of the apparent inattentiveness.
Cantor, who is the Republican Whip and a leading critic of Obama, said he carries his BlackBerry with him at all times. Last night, the White House did not make available a text of Obama's remarks to members of Congress beforehand, as is the usual custom, Cantor said.
Cantor said he was reading excerpts of Obama's speech on the BlackBerry and taking notes as he did so.
As for the speech, Cantor said he found it to be "incredibly partisan," but he said he was glad to hear that Obama was willing to consider Republican ideas.
"There are some things we can agree on," Cantor said.
But he said "I was looking for a reset button" on the Obama health-care plan "and I don't think he got there. The American people are very fearful about what he is planning to do."
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theobservor-Saddam Hussein spent a decade or more telling the world that he was an “emminent” threat to his neighbors and the world in general.
He engaged in an 8 year war with Iran and then invaded Kuwait.
That is why we went to the Middle East, remember?
If BushI had gone to Baghdad then the issue would have been settled.
Saddam bragged loudly and often about his WMD’s because he was terrified by his neighborzss.
The whole world believed he had those weapons after 9/11 and they encouraged the US yo do something about it.
I have stacks of magazines both American and European from that time with screaming headlines calling for war with Saddam.
The Bush administration went to war because they “had a bug up the backside”, you have got to be kidding.
Please read some of the Arab/Israeli history.
You really don’t believe all that tripe you wrote, do you?
You got it from the internet, right?
Dandyman: Are you serious? Bush and Cheney spent nearly two years telling the American people that Saddam was an “imminent” threat to America, that we was building nuclear weapons, close to having them—and they said that Iraq was involved in 9-11. All blatant lies! Anybody that halfway followed foreign affairs knew they were lies. Cheney was on TV regularly talking about Iraq’s nuclear program and WMD! Powell went before the UN and gave a speech full of falsehoods about Iraq and its weapons—a speech that he now deeply regrets. This has all been very well documented. The Bushies had a bug up the backside about Saddam—wanted to get rid of him—and they played Americans like fools in the two years after 9-11 to justify that war. This is fact, not opinion. Saddam was never any threat at all to the U.S.—the CIA knew that but the head of the CIA opted to play along rather than resign. The Bushies were also strongly influenced by Israel—which is quite adept at intimidating and gaming all the cowards in Congress who think that country can do no wrong even as it has systematically stolen Palestinian land for 30 years. Israel spent more than a decade trying to convince American presidents to get rid of the Saddam. Most of the major US backers of war with Iraq were/are big-time pro-Israel hawks. Unfortunately, the American public doesn’t hear much about Israel’s vicious oppression of Palestinians. Saddam was a very bad man—but that’s not the point. You don’t lie to start a war. The Bushies did and there is no disputing it.
Personally I intend to have my next
hip replacement in Andorrra.
And check out the deficit France is buried under and the taxes they pay in order to have that great health care system.
They all have at least two insurance carriers with the attendant bureaucratic red tape.
The doctors go on strike periodically which must be very inconvenient when your appendix ruptures.
And the latest plan I heard from a friend was that they were going to charge patients to pay for parking on hospital grounds.Gotta make a buck to keep that free health care going.
And of course most telling, you don’t find a lot of Americans running off to France or Andorra for their medical care.
hey daddy/andy you want a direct quote from G-Duh-B-Ya just read or watch the reruns of his 2002 state of the union address. You know the one where yellow cake uraniumn was being aquired fron Niger, and then you remember when he got caught in that lie what happened. It was time to out a CIA operative and ruin her carear and endanger her life, and obstruct justice,ans so on and so on….....p.s katie couric IS cute and i saw the stunt you tried to pull on George Clooney this week in Italy….have you no shame….lol
Why are the conservatives on this Board arguing with people (the leftists on this Board) who think that you can cut costs by offering free services?
Remember Obama is their god.
An independent assessment of health care system rates the US at #37, behind the likes of Andorra and FRANCE. Shameful when the unfounded claims of “the best in the world” are hurled about by GOP puppets.
At least Cantor stayed awake.
There are some great videos of legislators both Dems. and Repubs. sleeping during all sorts of important speeches.
There was lots of booing and hissing I remember at one State of the Union Message.
But that lack of “respect for the office” seems to have gotten absolution because the holder of the office at that time did not deserve the respect that the office deserves?
Too much equivication for me.
Mr. Wilson was wrong to call out and Mr. Cantor was rude to be fiddling with his Blackberry, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden looked like idiot jack rabbits leaping to their feet every five seconds and I do not believe that anyone in that room, including Barack Obama believed for one moment that the health care plans as proposed will be deficit neutral, that illegals will not be covered or that a public option will not eventually lead to Universal Health Care.
Of course they were not lies.
If they were, the audience would have been well within their rights to boo him.
I wonder what would have happened then?
vamamma, you said that Bush “lied”. All I want you to do is simply quote the exact “lie”....not just parrot the democrat talking points. Give me date of the speech, newscast, or press release and the exact quote where Bush “lied” about Iraq and Sadamm.
You don’t even know what “lie” you’re talking about, do you? All you’re doing is repeating the things that the democrats told you. If you can’t back up the things you say, then maybe you shouldn’t be posting things as fact just because you heard cute little Katie Couric say it. In the meantime, try to think for yourself for a change…don’t let the democrats tell you what to think. Okay?
Dandy Andy - So there were WMD? What are you talking about?
vamamma, guote the “lies”...not the things you heard on TV. Simply quote the “lies”.
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