Reuters: US ambassador to Libya dead

[mongers]

I don't understand whats your problem with it?

He thinks it makes bad policy for embassies(govts) to make statements when they think said statements could protect their citizens.

I think it's hilarious that Martinus has managed to get most of the board to swallow his trollhook for the last 18 or so pages in this thread.

He may have a shitty grasp on the law, but he certainly knows how to drag along a witness during cross examination.

Therefore, given he describes himself as very successful, lawyering is just a matter of advanced trolling ?

[garbon]

I don't understand whats your problem with it?

He thinks it makes bad policy for embassies(govts) to make statements when they think said statements could protect their citizens.

I think it's hilarious that Martinus has managed to get most of the board to swallow his trollhook for the last 18 or so pages in this thread.

He may have a shitty grasp on the law, but he certainly knows how to drag along a witness during cross examination.

Meh just boredom.

[CountDeMoney]

Therefore, given he describes himself as very successful, lawyering is just a matter of advanced trolling ?

You disagree with that premise?  I don't.

[derspiess]

I do think he's a much better communicator with a teleprompter than without it... 

I disagree.  I think he is a better communicator when he has a written speech than when he is speaking off the cuff, but I also think that this is and was true of every president and 99.54% of the non-presidents.  Whether Obama was speaking using a teleprompter versus paper notes doesn't seem to impact his communications much.

But it seems that when using paper notes he's more likely to interject some off the cuff remarks, which is where he has had problems.

[Razgovory]

More then the ordinary person?  More the most presidents?  More then his predecessor?  Or perhaps you frequent sites that focus on these and sometimes invent them.

[derspiess]

More then the ordinary person?  More the most presidents?  More then his predecessor?  Or perhaps you frequent sites that focus on these and sometimes invent them.

More than he does when he's using the teleprompter.

Man, you guys cannot stand even the slightest criticism of your guy.  I've never seen anything like this before.

[Jacob]

More than he does when he's using the teleprompter.

Man, you guys cannot stand even the slightest criticism of your guy.  I've never seen anything like this before.

[Jacob]

Speaking of reasonable criticism of Obama, here's more - Kansas want to take him off the ballot because they're not sure he's American - http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/09/14/obama-birth-certificate-kansas-ballot/70000327/1?csp=34news#.UFNZAGlYsjc

[derspiess]

Speaking of reasonable criticism of Obama, here's more - Kansas want to take him off the ballot because they're not sure he's American - http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/09/14/obama-birth-certificate-kansas-ballot/70000327/1?csp=34news#.UFNZAGlYsjc

That's dumb, and crap like this unwittingly plays in Obama's favor.

[CountDeMoney]

Mittens condemns Cairo embassy statement and agrees with it at the same time on Good Morning America.

The Cairo embassy press release said the United States "condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. " It added: "We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."

Romney has said it amounted to sympathizing with America's attackers. He blamed President Obama, although he conceded that Obama had also distanced himself from the statement.

But, asked about the film itself, Romney said he hadn't seen and had no intention of doing so. Still, he seemed to agree with much of the substance of the embassy's statement.

"And the idea of using something that some people consider sacred and then parading that out a negative way is simply inappropriate and wrong," he said. "And I wish people wouldn't do it.  Of course, we have a First Amendment.  And under the First Amendment, people are allowed to do what they feel they want to do.  They have the right to do that, but it's not right to do things that are of the nature of what was done by, apparently this film."

No wonder his was picked to save the Olympics;  he's more flexible than Mary Lou Retton.

[Jacob]

  yeah I just saw that: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/mitt-romney-condemns-anti-muslim-film-echoing-white-house-position.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

So I guess Viking prefers Mittens wording when he says the same thing Obama did?

[Razgovory]

More then the ordinary person?  More the most presidents?  More then his predecessor?  Or perhaps you frequent sites that focus on these and sometimes invent them.

More than he does when he's using the teleprompter.

Man, you guys cannot stand even the slightest criticism of your guy.  I've never seen anything like this before.

Okay, then riddle me this.  What is the obsession with Teleprompters?  I mean this has been bouncing around the Conservative echo chamber for years now.  It's really fucking bizarre.  Hell, Congressmen have gotten in on it, trying to remove funding for Obama teleprompters from the budget.  Did anyone try obsess over Bush's teleprompter, over Clinton's over Reagan's? While we are at it, why it that conservatives seem to think that liberals secretly worship Obama as a messiah figure in a very literal sense.

[derspiess]

Okay, then riddle me this.  What is the obsession with Teleprompters? 

You're the one who brought it up.

[CountDeMoney]

Okay, then riddle me this.  What is the obsession with Teleprompters?  I mean this has been bouncing around the Conservative echo chamber for years now.  It's really fucking bizarre.  Hell, Congressmen have gotten in on it, trying to remove funding for Obama teleprompters from the budget.  Did anyone try obsess over Bush's teleprompter, over Clinton's over Reagan's? While we are at it, why it that conservatives seem to think that liberals secretly worship Obama as a messiah figure in a very literal sense.

Reagan invented the teleprompter;  therefore, the Unread First Reader is always exempt.

[grumbler]

But it seems that when using paper notes he's more likely to interject some off the cuff remarks, which is where he has had problems.

I don't see it, but then I am not a tribal, so maybe I can't see it.