Obama Wants to Correct Blago Reporting 'Immediately' But Not Yet

Then you'll have no trouble demonstrating that.

Lets take the no brainer question of who controls congress. Wilson Research redid the inditing Zobgy poll with Republicans and Independents.

Should be an easy non-partisan question. All you had to do was pay attention at some point in the last two years.

"Before this past election, which political party controlled both houses of Congress?"

Democrat: GOP 45% to 38%
Strong Demo: GOP 48% to 37%

Republican: Dems 64% to 26%
Strong Rep: Dems 66% to 24%

Thats about a 30% point gap in basic knowledge in the Obama voters. And these are the people picking the leader.

You could go check the cross tabs for yourself, but of course you wont.

"You cant get around the fact that Zogby said: "We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work." "

A lame initial defense that he later abandoned.

A discredited survey that even most right wing blogs laughed at it.

But I guess Bertie needs a trumped up survey to feel better about herself.

The lesson for the day? Right wingers are pathetic.

You cant get around the fact that Zogby said: "We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work."

The fact that there was a lot of Obamacrat whining after the fact just means that Zogby doesn't feel that the small profit in private polling is worth the annoyance. And revenue from future Democrat polling.

"Obama told reporters that he is frustrated about the reporting regarding his staff’s conversations with Blagoveich’s office, and that he’d like to correct such reporting immediately.

But not yet."

Translation: No further comments until he and his PR spin staff get their 'story' right.

But on Wednesday, Zogby told me he was on a book tour* when the contract was reached and when the survey was conducted, and wouldn’t have approved the poll in the form it took, or a press release posted on his firm’s Web site. “This was not Zogby International’s finest hour,” he said. “Something, somehow, fell through the cracks.” He said he would review the incident with his staff on Friday to determine what went wrong.

Mike,

Its not that all these Obama voters were watching the GOP Convention.

Huge majorities seem to know
- Palins unwed daughter
- McCain didnt know how many houses he and his wife have
- Palin said she can see Alaska from her house (which she never said)
- Palin had reportedly spent 150,000 on clothes

They didnt know about Obama starting his campaign at Ayres house, his statements on coal, his conduct in getting opponents kicked off the ballot, or that Obama claimed to have campaigned in all 57 states.

They also didnt know who controlled Congress.

In summary- they knew a lot of smears about McCain/Palin but very little about the background of their own candidate.

Joe Scarboro summarized this the other day by saying that the media was busy investigating Palins tanning bed but didnt both to look into the swamp of Chicago.

What we are seeing now is the fruit of that. People are surprised about the messy Obama connections. Hell, if there werent sensational wiretaps of Balgo overtly offering bribes, the press still would be avoiding it.

BertieW - Palin did a lot more advertizing that her daughter was pregnant and going to marry her boyfriend than her opponents. She paraded her family around at every event. There was nothing wrong with that because she was proud of all her kids and husband. But it is stupid to say the Obama supports were somehow responsible for people know she was pregnant is pretty silly. Then you compare that to the "57 states" comment that Obama said one time in front of a few reporters. However, Palin brought up "the terrorists" a lot in her campaigning against Obama, but it was more about them being buddies than the detail that when Obama had early kick-off meetings in several people's homes, one of them was in the home of "the terrorists".

I have seen Stern's interviews with Obama's supporters.

They had no idea why they were supporting him. Stern switched around the candidates positions and the gullible Obama voters said that McCains positions were why they were voting for Obama.

Oh come on Bertie, haven't you ever watched Jay Leno do 'Jaywalking'? Half the people in this country can't find Iraq on a map. I bet half the people who claim to be Republicans don't know that Abraham Lincoln was in their party. I'm just happy that enough Americans were smart enough not to fall for the Republican baloney again.

Why is it when these democrats try to put me in place they get everything wrong?

Zogby said: "We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work. We reject the notion that this was a push poll because it very simply wasn't"

The poll question you are thinking of was
"Which candidate started their political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground?"
which 56% of Obmacrats got wrong. 57% of Obama voters didnt know who controlled Congress. 76% of people didnt know that Obama said that he had campaigned in all 57 states.

However 94% knew Palin had a pregnant daughter.

So to sum up, Obama voters really didnt know much about Obama, much about politics but they did know a lot of irrelevant smears against McCain and Palin.

The Zogby poll? You have got to be kidding. The poll that caused Zogby so much embarassment that he said he'd never do another one like it? The poll that asked questions like "did you know that Obama started his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist?"

Thanks for alerting the rest of us as to the source of your "facts."

"New Marist poll in Time says that 83% of the country believes that Obama is handling the transition well or better than expected."

That because the Republicans are glad that he is going back on all the horrible things he ran on. I think he is ok with being in Iraq for 100 years now but he is going to rename the mission or something.

As for the Obama supporters, they were never sure what ol' Crystal Pepsi stood for the in first place so him chaging it up is fine as long as he keep speachifying. Did you see the post election Zobgy poll where a majority of his voters didnt know simple things about him?

New Marist poll in Time says that 83% of the country believes that Obama is handling the transition well or better than expected.

Those identifying themselves as Repbulicans are now down to 34% and 69% of them believe that the party needs to move further to the right.

Even Newt Gingrich is smart enough to put these two items together and conclude that conspiracy theories and lunatic fringe attacks are not going to help the party.

"transparency" would mean resolving the issue of his natural born citizenship status instead of hiring 3 lawfirms--not lawyers, but FIRMS-- to keep him from showing his birth certificate. seems showing the document would be a whole lot simpler that paying for three firms and using court time. the onus is on him to prove his eligibility.
if not, time will catch up with him and someone will find the proof he is not a natural born citizen. that will send the country in turmoil....remember, however, that bho, "the constitutional scholar" KNOWS he is not eligible so will have brought all this on himself...NO one else will be to blame.

Oh gee, why can't Obama be more transparent and open, as promised, answer these Blago questions ? Is his teleprompter broken ? And why doesn't the media/ABC, and I use the term very loosely interview Obama and ask him the questions that they pose to the public ? Something more to hide ? No citizenship lawsuit questions or interviews, now no questions about Blago or interviews by the media..Where is that over the hill reporter or should I call him narrator, Chuckles Gibson ? Michelle better watch her step or he will disassociate himself from her...He does that so well, and then claims convenient memory loss or has no knowledge of anything. Doesn't sound like experience to me. Sorry, I forgot, he is busy getting the White House Mafia lined up. So in light of all the fun that ABC is having by keeping everyone in an uproar... I wrote a little Christmas tune for you to sing to the tune of Silver Bells:

City Sidewalks, Busy Sidewalks
Dressed in Mafia style
In the air there's a feeling of Bailout
Rezco laughing, Bloggers gassing
Meeting more obstacles
And on every street corner you'll hear

YES WE CAN...YES WE CAN...
Spread the wealth in MY city
You Ding a lings - See my Bling
Soon it will be PAY UP day.

Strings of Lawsuits
From some old coots
Makes me see lots of red
As the SCOTUS rush
Home with their payoffs

Feel the bills crunch
Can't afford Lunch
This is Barry's big scheme
But above all the hunger you'll hear

YES WE CAN... YES WE CAN...
Spread the wealth in MY city
You ding a lings - see my bling
Soon it will be PAY UP day.

Have a very Merry and transparent Christmas

The U.S.Attorney is a pompous
ignoramus. He said he filed
this criminal complaint against
the governor to stop the
governor from actually committing
a crime such as accepting a
bribe. Not because he has evidence
that the governor did something unlawful.

It is hard believe that this
man is a U.S. Attorney.

There is no case against the
governor. The U.S. Attorney
in charge of this whole
worthless nonsense should be
disbarred from practicing or
enforcing the law.

AG Lisa Madigan filing was a legal embarrassment and she should be happy that it got dismissed without comment.

But I dont really see a problem with Fitz's position. It would have been nice to wait until money changed hands but the Tribune blew that for him when they ran their December 5th story and he had to move.

The U.S.Attorney in Chicago
and his posse of ignorant
lawmen should be jailed for
defaming the governor's
character. The government
attorney does not seem to
understand basic criminal law.

He is in the same league as
the Illinois state attorney
general whose petition to have
the governor declared unfit to
serve was summarily dismissed
by the state supreme court.

People who don't understand
law have been appointed to
enforce it.

For all of you mother hens out there
protecting the fledgeling Obama, it's
gonna be a looooooong haul....and at the
end of his term even YOU may be coddling
a new liberal egg.

The PE is a Cheshire Cat who intends to fade out on December 22 to Hawaii leaving nothing but his grin.