Robert Gibbs told reporters that President Obama is not watching the results tonight.
Politico reported:
Hours after urging reporters not to draw sweeping conclusions from Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told POLITICO President Barack Obama wasn’t even keeping an eye on the results.
“He’s not watching returns,” Gibbs said.
The Obama administration and other top Democrats have consistently tried to play down the import of this week’s contests, which Republicans have sought to portray as a referendum on the Democratic-led government in Washington.
In Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Gibbs dismissed suggestions that the two governor’s races and a special election in upstate New York could be a preview of the 2010 congressional midterms.
“I don’t think, looking at the two gubernatorial races, you can draw with any great insight what’s going to happen a year from now,” he said.
UPDATE: Barack Obama watched an HBO special about himself instead.
What a shock.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:19 pm | #1
You lie.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:19 pm | #2
Waterboard Bobby Fibbs.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:19 pm | #3
Obama to candidates, you are on your own, don’t expect anything from us. Wonder how the cockroaches are going to feel about this kind of support? mpw
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:23 pm | #4
Yeah–he campaigned heavily for Corzine but isn’t going to bother to watch? I have a feeling he’s glued to his TV drinking about a gallon of coffee, first out of anticipation and now out of anxiety at a complete and total route.
And this not being ‘anything important’? How do you think the WH would have reacted had the Dems had a triple victory? Let’s just say they’d use it for campaigning.
But now with the truth out–the healthcare bill will stall and sink as the Blue Dogs will be terrified to go in the same room with the drafters of that foot-thick stack of ramblings, while cap-and-trade will also be dead in the water.
It is ‘the turn of the tide.’
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:24 pm | #5
If I were thin skinned, I wouldn’t watch either. “I can’t handle the truth!”
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:25 pm | #6
Well, he didn’t know about the Tea Parties either, right?
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:25 pm | #7
Oh okay. Yeah and abortion funding will not be in the health care bill nor healthcare for illegal aliens. And the stimulus package is creating millions of jobs. And you never heard of these tea parties. And you aren’t aware of the things Jeremiah Wright said from the pulpit.
I understand now that whatever Obamao says is actually just the complete opposite.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:27 pm | #8
O we are even….I never watch you either.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:28 pm | #9
CHRISTIE WINS !
CHRISTIE WINS !
CHRISTIE WINS !
take that Mr. Obama…
Obama campaigned in NJ endlessly.
Clinton campaigned in NJ endlessly.
The BLUE STATE has now been stunned, after years of Democratic Partisan policy of taxation and overt insane spending.
And the VOTERS in NJ rejected the DNC completely.
Republicans win big, with a good Candidate with some fine conservative policies, including tax cutting agenda.
They tried to tie him to GW Bush, and he won big.
Take that Nancy Pelosi…
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:29 pm | #10
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i could give a bats guano..
besides.. who doesn’t know B Hussein
O’s TV set is a HUGE one way mirror..
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November 3rd, 2009 | 9:32 pm | #11
He’s probably busy making a decision on Afghanistan.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:32 pm | #12
Check out the new meme.
BO is skipping meals. Mememechelle isn’t.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/11/obama-thin-graying-pale.html
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:33 pm | #13
“He’s probably busy making a decision on Afghanistan.”
Your giving him credit for something. Are you sure you want to do that?
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:35 pm | #14
Headlines
2 Nov 2010
“Obama not watching the results tonight.”
Gibbs, “These midterm elections don’t mean anything.”
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:36 pm | #15
Kristen
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:32 pm | #11
He’s probably busy making a decision on Afghanistan.
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LOL LOL ROTFLMAO
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:41 pm | #16
Gibbs dismissed suggestions that the two governor’s races and a special election in upstate New York could be a preview of the 2010 congressional midterms.
Actually, I might have to agree with Mr. Gibbs on this one. The truth is the 2010 congressional midterms will be worse for the Dems than the 2 governor’s races and special election in upstate New York. Much worse.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:43 pm | #17
“He’s not watching returns,” Gibbs said.
Yeah, right.
I see stupid people. (Losing elections)
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:44 pm | #18
Where are all the trolls that told us we were delusional and that we were going to lose big time?
Perhaps they are blubbering in their beers.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:50 pm | #19
If the state run media are not fawning over him, you can make book he is not watching.
The trolls are probably getting their talking points as we post.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:51 pm | #20
The man child is in his bed with the covers pulled over his head, certain that the monster is coming out of the closet for HIM. Such is life for President Prompter with the gravitas of goose down.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:51 pm | #21
Nope…tonights the weekly Illuminati game with Axelrod, Jackson, local ACORN rep, Stein, Olberman and Emmanuel.
Elections?
What elections?
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:52 pm | #22
Oh, yeah. I believe that. And I also believe that Obamacare does not cover abortions or illegal immigrants… And i just bought this really cool bridge.
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:54 pm | #23
And now, a special message to the President of the United States.
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/03/and-now-a-special-message-to-the-president-of-the-united-states/
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:57 pm | #24
not enough dead people voted this time. Why do they put this nonsense out, just like he knows nothing about the teapartys.
They are incompetent if they don’t care about what is going on. He’s definitely not thinking about afghanistan so he has plenty of free time to watch his fellow liberals on tv. I’m sure the whitehouse has cable tv where he can tune to FOX news for the latest election coverage.
More than likely he is hitting the “pipe”. Getting a good hit off that “pipe” will calm the nerves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88V3F6_iUus
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:05 pm | #25
Yes, if only all the dead people who received stimulus checks would have gotten absentee ballots…
Obama has been chain smoking all night. Fibbs is doing what he does poorly: LYING.
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November 3rd, 2009 | 10:07 pm | #26
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November 3rd, 2009 | 10:12 pm | #27
“Obama Not Watching the Results Tonight”
Why should I? I won.
BTW
Did you know I won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Just saying.
Hey look at me!
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:12 pm | #28
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Chisum @ 9:54 pm #23
priceless!!
rotflmbo!!
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November 3rd, 2009 | 10:15 pm | #29
If these elections mean nothing, why did Opie use AIR FORCE ONE to fly to GOVERNORS RACES that have NOTHING TO DO WITH FEDERAL GOVT.?
Opie, how’s that Afghan decision coming?
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:15 pm | #30
He went to NJ to campaign FIVE times and he’s not going to see how it turns out?
Are they even capable of telling the truth?
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:18 pm | #31
BG,
Can you just picture it? Michelle bellowing down to the kitchen, “Pie! Make us some pie! Barack wants PIE!”.
Remember this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:28 pm | #32
Check this Jim;
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/03/obamas-half-brother-recalls-abusive-father-book/
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:29 pm | #33
As of this statement Robert Gibbs can no longer be believed. I will immediately assume the opposite whenever he speaks.
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:31 pm | #34
That is the most hilarious and ridiculous lie I’ve heard from the WH in a long time.
Obama is embarrassed, and he should be.
DO YOU HEAR US NOW, OBAMA?
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:38 pm | #35
Hopefully Obama campaign for a lot of Dems in 2010 like he did for Corzine.
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:50 pm | #36
CNN is reporting he was watching a NBA basketball game.
November 3rd, 2009 | 10:53 pm | #37
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November 3rd, 2009 | 11:00 pm | #38
obamoa never watches anything unless he is on it or it praises him and all the while looking at a reflection of himself in a mirror.
Narcissist to his very core.
November 3rd, 2009 | 11:19 pm | #39
They don’t hear us. They never will. Obama has ONE PURPOSE.
MARXISM.
If he achieves what he wants, your thoughts are irrelevant.
November 4th, 2009 | 12:13 am | #40
He’s probably pouting.
November 4th, 2009 | 1:04 am | #41
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Chisum @| 10:18 pm #31
no, i don’t, but i could spot the lies a mile away..
here’s another “pie” clip..
i also recall a big to-do about Obama having to have pie every night in his palace, ergo, fancy pastry chef’s.. because the only thing Michelle knows about pies is how she wants US to slice them..
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November 4th, 2009 | 1:17 am | #42
As hailarious as Fibbs propaganda proclamation that the election results were insignificant and the Communist News Network’s fable that the Narcissist-in-Chief is not following election reports will be the steaming stinking road apples that the marxiststream media will dropping on the airwaves tomorrow morning. Chrissy honey will have a tingling liquid running down his leg!
November 4th, 2009 | 1:46 am | #43
Oooo, those grapes would have been sour, anyway!
November 4th, 2009 | 1:54 am | #44
Prior to the double loss Reid told Obama that he doesn’t have the votes for Healthcare and won’t be able to call for a vote until early next year. Obama has shown that he cannot protect the Dems and they don’t appear to be eager to climb out on a limb for him.
November 4th, 2009 | 2:36 am | #45
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November 4th, 2009 | 5:11 am | #46
0bama:
Ah, crap! I suck! Elections suck! David Axelrod sucks!
I am so angry I will have to cut 57% funding for the troops. They are using up my tax money. That’s why my cronies lost. May the troop’s surrender in Afghanistan be quick and final. ACORN and SEIU need more money. Good Night.
November 4th, 2009 | 5:18 am | #47
We the People have spoken–Obama is mack daddy-man child-he is so full of BS-he has forgotten our soldiers-lies about everything..I mean everything, Bill Ayers, Federal Reserve, SEIU, Single Payer..he is selling America to rebuild AFRICA, (in December he is signing over our SOVERIGNITY to Copenhagen..why does he hate America? Under the guise of CAP&TAX..He never suffered, the best education, a great life and America provided it to him! Why doesn’t he spread his wealth? Refuses to sign up for his own policies..And he stalls on more Soldiers for the seized attacks in Afragan–what about their young lives???? I pray we VOTE Reverend Wright, Valerie Jarrett, evil CZARS out!! He is starving milk farmers, the lost valley in california-selling our parks, supporting Brazil, closing our coal plants…on&on, !!!
November 4th, 2009 | 6:58 am | #48
I have found sticking my thumbs in my ears allows the rest of my hand to cover my eyes and, if I chant loudly…LALALALALA….I don’t have to deal with reality at all!
November 4th, 2009 | 7:00 am | #49
Obama and Biden campaigned for both the Democratic candidates….and now they are not interested in the results?
That tops the scale on the B.S.-meter.
If the Democrats had won, there would be photos and interviews of him watching the results on TV, congratulating the Dems and saying this is affirmation of the Dem way of leading the country.
Total Fail Obama and Co.
November 4th, 2009 | 7:22 am | #50
He’s not watching because he’s on the roof fiddling and watching the pretty fire.
November 4th, 2009 | 7:22 am | #51
Speaking the bulls and watching the Bulls goes hand-in-hand with man-child.
November 4th, 2009 | 7:43 am | #52
Yeah, and I just came from Stupidsville on last night’s bus so I believe everything these people say. ; )
November 4th, 2009 | 8:11 am | #53
bg
November 4th, 2009 | 1:04 am | #41
Wonder if that’s cherry or exoctic mango pie.
Look for his NPD to really kick in and take vengence someway. “He** hath no fury, like a woman scorned”..oops
Let’s all be thankful to God for this, and never forget and not drop our guard ever again.
November 4th, 2009 | 8:13 am | #54
Guess the money and influence of old King George of Hungary didn’t work this time.
November 4th, 2009 | 8:24 am | #55
Like the AP new headlines this morning?
” Bad omen for White House?”
November 4th, 2009 | 8:51 am | #56
I don’t care what they say, Gibbs Lies. I also don’t care if Obama was watching a rerun of the Simpsons with his daughters, he was being briefed all evening long and freaking out with each report. Or else he is the dimmest witted president we’ve ever seen. OF COURSE it was an important election, or he wouldn’t have flown into NJ so many times, and he wouldn’t have pretended NOT to watch the returns.
November 4th, 2009 | 9:50 am | #57
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November 4th, 2009 | 11:37 am | #58
barry didn’t have time to watch the news because he was out riding.
well, here’s a photo of what he was out doing
http://rumcrook.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/hey-democrats-the-partys-over/
November 4th, 2009 | 12:13 pm | #59
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November 4th, 2009 | 1:14 pm | #60
Wanna bet the HBO programming last night wasn’t an accident?
I wonder who changes Obama’s diapers and gives him his 2:00 in the morning feedings?
November 4th, 2009 | 1:28 pm | #61
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November 4th, 2009 | 1:35 pm | #62
What’s worse, watching the election results or a show about yourself. Shows what the priorities are.
November 4th, 2009 | 2:09 pm | #63
The Pill
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/11/pill.html
November 4th, 2009 | 2:12 pm | #64
Is obama THAT insecure??
Good heavens. Get him some help.
November 4th, 2009 | 3:04 pm | #65
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November 4th, 2009 | 3:14 pm | #66
Jim,
Major Garret just corrected the story. Your report is wrong. He was watching the Bulls- Bucks game. So you should probally update this post
November 4th, 2009 | 3:14 pm | #67
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Windel @ 7:00 am #49
oh yeah, it’s not a referedum on Obama because
the Republicans won, but if the Dems had won..
viva la vida Obama!!
(another delete from YouTube.. so watch it while
you can, i swear Obama’s sweepers follow me lol)
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November 4th, 2009 | 4:56 pm | #68
hmmm… wife and kids are out to a concert leaving O alone with his jar of KY to watch a movie about himself.
November 4th, 2009 | 6:33 pm | #69
Thank you, IOpian, now I have that grusome image seared into my mind. Thanks, thanks a lot.
November 4th, 2009 | 7:11 pm | #70
Read transcripts of yesterdays news conference. They show that Gibbs response was I dont know what he is doing. You guys lie so easily and so often forgetting that transcripts are out there and available for those who want to know the truth.
November 4th, 2009 | 9:02 pm | #71
obama: “I’m ready for my close-up Mr. DeM…uh, er…Mr. Soros, sir.”
November 4th, 2009 | 9:08 pm | #72
Pat Smith
November 4th, 2009 | 7:11 pm | #70
Operative word: “yesterday’s”.
How about a transcript of today’s statements?
Quibbling is even lower than lying.
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