The sound of sirens in the background is a little distracting …

And if he hadn’t taken this tact, you’d be complaining he wasn’t Presidential enough. Michelle, the all mud all the time work for you, but keep it up. You’re helping the Democrats.

Thanks, Michele–I probably would’ve missed this if you hadn’t kindly provided the link. I’m glad to know that our President-elect is already on the job and will hit the ground running. Somebody has to figure out how to get us out of the colossal mess the Republicans created through their greed and incompetence for the past eight years.
Hope you enjoy the next eight! Or 12. Or 16.

Well, of course, there’s only one president at a time – however, the fact remains that W’s tenure as President is, effectively, OVER.
The heads of state of the G20 could care less as to what GWB thinks about the economy – he is the lamest duck of a President since Herbert Hoover – the people most in demand at the Presidents ‘conference’ were Madeline Albright and Jim Leach, Obama’s surrogates who had something like 35 meetings with foreign leaders anxious to converse with him – NOBODY cares that Bush is POTUS – for all intents and purposes, he’s the president in NAME ONLY – from the moment the election was over, Obama is the guy in charge, by default – it’s called ‘filling the vacuum of leadership.’

The Office Of the President Elect…hahahahahahahahahaha….deep breath…hahahahahahahaha…wiping tears…..hahahahahahahaha! Folks it is just gonna get worse from here….I wish it were not so, I want my country to do well but this is worse than amateur.
Next Please!

The President-Elect does have an office, so what exactly is the reason for the whining? (Well wait a minute, you DID promise to start whining didn’t you?)
As for the radio address…There has always been a weekly address from a representative of the party that does not hold the White House at the time. Why shouldn’t the person who has been elected to the office make that address?
I’m guessing that none of this would have been an issue for you if McCain had been elected.
Whether you like it or not (and clearly you don’t) the man is the leader of his party, as well as the next President, and can recommend action. The truth is that Dubya is the lamest duck ever to occupy the White House and the world is wanting some cues on the priorities and preferences of the next Administration.
But you are certainly free not to listen. Just like I stopped listening to know-it-all rightwingnut talk radio pundits who yammer on for hours.
Hey Guy Arthur Thomas!
I seem to recall you confidently predicting a few days before the election that McCain would win!
Whoops.
Next please.

No doubt, Grade- school- guy is crying for a very different reason than he says.
He has finally learned that you can’t fool enough of the people all the time. Some of them have brains enough not to ask the party of failure to try,try again.
It’s also funny for the Republicans to suddenly have that collective road to damascus experience, and actually pretend to care about fiscal responsibility. Sorry, Repubs, can’t be fooled again.
And it’s even funnier for the Repubs to criticize anybody else for being arrogant. Or perhaps they just regard arrogance as their turf.
They had their chance, and we’ve all seen the splendid job they made of it.

You know, Rush Limbaugh has to retire someday. I’m thinking Guy Arthur Thomas and Michelle really ought to team up to replace him. They so perfectly capture what it means to be Republican, and to be Reformed Christians. I wouldn’t be surprised that various churches in the Reformed tradition link to Michelle’s blog from all over the internet, because she is such a wonderful spokesperson for their tradition. You can be sure that the same people who want Sarah Palin to run for President will make sure Michelle is even better known than she is now.
They’re Democrats.

I seem to recall you confidently predicting a few days before the election that McCain would win!
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Of course I predicted that, I was supporting him you dullard!
(and if you’re going to let me do your thinking for you and copy my catch phrase it ends with an ! not a . )
Next Please!

I’m guessing that none of this would have been an issue for you if McCain had been elected.
Pretty much. Michele is only whining about any of this because Obama won the election. If it was McCain giving this weekly address, she’d be praising him for getting out there so early and being involved while the country is in transition.
This is just more of her sour grapes at the GOP losing the election, nothing more.

“Thanks, Michele–I probably would’ve missed this if you hadn’t kindly provided the link.”
You’re welcome, just doing my job.

“f it was McCain giving this weekly address, she’d be praising him for getting out there so early and being involved while the country is in transition.”
Believe me, I would be happy to jump on him for being presumptuous and rude but I know he wouldn’t have done something this stupid. The press would be all over him for jumping the gun.

Yo people -____To start, I’m a white guy. So don’t jump to ignorant conclusions b/c I use urban-speak. It’s my style.____O’bama? (yes – he wishes he were Irish, and who doesn’t?)____All you republitards are just scared. The President doesn’t do much more than give speeches. It’s his cabinet who take care of things. So if the President is nothing more than a speaker (witness Reagan) how can you criticise this guy? He’s smooth. He’s hip. He’s modern. He’s not the spoiled son-of-privelege, incompetant brat who can’t put-together a sentence IN ENGLISH.____O’bama is so down with America. Is America prepared for him?____Good luck. man.

Thanks for the link, now I can hear my President elect and hear his speeches regularly. It’s about time I wanted to actually hear what our President (to be) is saying…..

Well, no-one cares about lame duck President Bush- and it was evidently so in the G-20 summit during the weekend too.
Plus, he wasn’t in Washington for the summit in person. If he was there, then that would be indeed presumptive of him to do so.
Americans need reassurance anyway- and President-elect Obama is the guy whom most will listen- because a majority of Americans did. I mean when John Howard was voted out in Australia(I’m in Australia) last year, who did Australians listen to the day after the federal elections? Certainly it wasn’t John Howard(who lost his Prime Minister post); it was Kevin Rudd, who was elected the new PM.

Well, some of the press are saying Obama’s jumping the gun, but many more are not, focusing more on what Obama says, than what Bush has said.
Even the House and Senate are looking at what Obama says and do, and not what Bush is doing. This has all got to do with Bush’s approval ratings, and overall ability.
I mean, at least when Clinton was the outgoing President in 2000, many more gave him due respect due to his high job approval ratings. Now its different; Obama’s approval ratings now range from the high 60s to the mid-70s as President-elect.
That’s a lot of political ammo.

Michele:
A lot of serious constitutional scholars are noting that having a two-month transition period is far too long generally, and especially in a national crisis. (Indeed, it was the agonizingly slow four-month transition from Herbert Hoover to FDR in 1932-33 during the Great Depression that got the Constitutional rules on transition changed from four months to a little over two months.)
Anything Obama can do to accelerate this transition isn’t presumptuous; it’s smart. And I can promise you that, despite my disappointment in an Obama loss, I would have said the same of McCain.

Wow, too bad your post was infiltrated with the Obama loons, including a proud Wegro.