Cold or hot mic? Obama covers up the microphone

Susan Walsh / AP

President Barack Obama covers the microphone as he arrives at the plenary session of the Nuclear Security Summit at the Coex Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. At left is Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Apparently President Barack Obama is able to joke about the open mic gaffe he made yesterday after he was overheard discussing missile defense with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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Can you believe this clown he is by far the BIGGEST loser President this country has ever had even worse than Nixon. Obama is a criminal and should be put in prison. When are all of you going to wake up and see that he is taking all of us straight to HELL!!!

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Reply#1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:37 AM EDT

An over 3 year joke anyway ....

Obama will go down as the worst president in the history of history ....

  • 9 votes
#1.1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:36 AM EDT

I keep hearing you republicans saying how he's the worst president ever. Sorry, but saying it a bunch of times doesn't make it true. And after he did what Bush started but couldn't finish (killing Bin Laden, Qaddafi) please tell me why you think he's the worst president ever. I mean, he basically caved to every Republican demand that they fought him on. He kept many Bush appointees in key posts in the govt throughout his administration. But because Fox News and Rush tell you he's the worst in history you take it in stride just because he has a D next to his name not an R. Please republicans start thinking for yourself. Look at the facts not what Fox News tells you. Stop being lazy.

  • 7 votes
#1.2 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:12 PM EDT

My sons can destroy a room in a few seconds but it takes a whole lot more time to put it back into place. The same goes for the country and what GWB got us into. I can't believe people actually think this is an Obama issue...

  • 7 votes
#1.3 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:27 PM EDT

If you took the time to read your Bible you'd see that there is no Hell. And if you think you can do a better job why don't you run for the office. Those who can do, those who can't teach!

  • 2 votes
#1.4 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:40 PM EDT

t.,

kjv uses hell 23 times throughout mathew, mark, luke, acts, james 2 peter and revelation.

  • 4 votes
#1.5 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:53 PM EDT

Scott: Please tell us what news sources you rely on that are so objective and balanced. Which ones? NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, PBS, CNN, BBC,New York Times, some other left wing paper....which ones?? Which commentators do you listen to? Schultz, Maddow, Olberman, Stewart, Maher?? Which ones do you listen to that are so much more enlightened?

I'm always amused by liberals who can't stand that there is even one network that gives a different viewpoint, also has exponentially more liberals on as well (not to mention kicks every other cable network in the ass in the ratings), than ANY other network has conservatives...and yet folks like you always say NOT to listen to Fox, and then never tell who you do listen to. Why is that??

Are you afraid that someone might say your source is a left wing pile of crap?? Why yes, yes, I do believe that might be the reason. After all, revealing what sources you get your information from completely destroys the illusion that liberals always portray of seemingly having this grand nebulous source of information that they can't quite reveal to anyone...while wanting you to rest assured that it is much better than Fox or Limbaugh. They know that revealing their sources totally destroys that delusion.

So please, put on you big boy pants and enlighten the rest of us as to what your sources are. And then I'll make my own judgements on your superior sources and tell you what I think of them. But as you can probably already guess, you most likely won't like what you hear.

  • 4 votes
#1.6 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:28 PM EDT

get a job, get out of your mothers basement, and put down the crack pipe.... imbicile

    #1.7 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:10 AM EDT

    you are a retard.

      #1.8 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:05 PM EDT
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      Mike: You ok? Sounds like you woke up on wrong side of the bed today, eh?

      Guess what? We were in hell when Obama took office--he's just trying to get us back up to Purgatory--then who knows: Heaven or Bust! ;^)

      • 4 votes
      Reply#2 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:03 AM EDT

      ErinsFire42

      What side did you get up on? The government union entitlement side.

        #2.1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:54 PM EDT

        Much better than that GUY WHO HAD TO CHEAT TO GET INTO OFFICE...

          #2.2 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:51 AM EDT
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          For a traitor, he still seems to have a sense of humor.

          • 1 vote
          Reply#3 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:19 AM EDT

          No I think he tries to make friends with other countries instead of trying to have WORLD WAR 3 sooner than expected...

            #3.1 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:53 AM EDT
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            We're getting tired of hearing what he has to say anyway ....

            Keep the mike covered ....

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            Reply#4 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:37 AM EDT

            when obama took over the presidency it was like inheriting an old car with a blown engine(unemployment at 10%), no tires(business stagnant), no money(ongoing wars), and having to fix it outside in the winter(the repubs stopping anything tried,"the party of no"). then the big repub cry, " he's had these yrs to fix it and what has he done". now that the economy is starting to pick up you don't hear that to often anymore. he may not be perfect by a long shot, but the other choices don't seem to have either the morals, intelligence, or the ability to understand what it means to have to work every day just to survive.

            • 4 votes
            Reply#5 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:05 PM EDT

            Wrong! The car was just dirty when Blowbama took over. Now we have sold it to the Chinese and we are renting it back from them and paying more than we sold it for. Blowbama needs to go and soon!!!

            • 4 votes
            #5.1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:51 PM EDT

            Well said, Ed! Well said!

              #5.2 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:55 PM EDT

              ed,

              unemployment was below 10%, actually just below 8% when obama took office. gas was at $1.83. obama stated the stimulus would keep us below 8% unemployment and we shot to over 10% and now slipped back to 8.3%. and oh by the way, gas has more than doubled.

              losers and thin skined whiners place blame and leaders take responsibility.

              as a libertarian i am not satisfied with either option, d or r. but a lousy r is better than a good d any day. a poor man never gave me a job and a community organizer knows very little about the "real" world. if his recent comments to medvedev dont wake people up about where he sees America's sovereignty nothing else will.

              he will sign the law if the sea act, he will sign the un small arms treaty and continue to sell you and i down the road to a world court.

              that which governs least governs best.

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              #5.3 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:38 PM EDT

              Everything Obama does is suspect in my eyes. No one seems to look at his actions. Don't forget the old saying that actions speak louder than words. Most people are ignoring the facts. He was a community organizer who hung around with communist radicals, went to a radical church with Jerimiah Wright who is a pastor who hates America and Isreal equally and Obama's past is pretty much a big secret. His energy policies are making the middle class poorer and the poor even more poor. Gas is up, electricty and heat will be going up once the coal plants are closed and he wants the prices to go up! He has so much as said so! He is buying up Amercia with our tax dollars, our health care, the auto industry and Fannie Mae owns many mortgage debts. He says he is looking out for the American people but I don't see it. There has been so much racial tension in this country since he has been in office. He is a liar and I am going to go out on a limb here and call him a Marxist/Communist. Look at the facts!!! We will soon be a socialist country if people don't start thinking for themselves and we don't turn it around by voting him out of office.

              • 4 votes
              #5.4 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:30 PM EDT

              Thanks Mitch

              For setting the left straight, not that its possible

              • 1 vote
              #5.5 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:56 PM EDT
              Reply

              So, who is really to blame for all of this? This is a country that wants God hating ideals. We want same sex marriages. We want abortion. We want legal drugs to fry our brains with . . . Then when we have eliminated as much of God's moral direction as we can, and still try to eleminite more . . . what do we say. "Wow, that lousy president really got us in a mess didn't he?"

              Maybe we should look in the mirror and ask, What can I do personally to start changing the way our country is going. What am I doing that is not God pleasing, then change that.

              Or, think I'm some kind of righ wing radical nut case and do nothing, and let it continue on down hill from here. But we are on a down hill run and it's gaining momentum real fast.

              • 3 votes
              Reply#6 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:12 PM EDT

              So true!

              • 1 vote
              #6.1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:57 PM EDT

              Dan,

              I agree with you except for the "we want legal drugs to fry our brains". The last time I heard "we" only want to legalize marijuana which by the way is a natural plant that GOD created. To say that ingesting a plant is somehow "wrong" with god is not the correct analogy. If that is the case then we all are going to hell because we all humans have ingested a plant or two in our lives.

                #6.2 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:57 AM EDT

                usa is great: God created a PERFECT world, but sin has caused corruption so nothing that we currently see is exactly as it was created in it's original perfect state. Perhaps the negative effects that marijuana has on judgement, memory of heavy users and the carcinogens in the smoke were not present in the original plant, but they are now. Considering the problems (23,199 deaths in 2007) caused by alcohol abuse and misuse which has certainly increased since Prohibition was repealed, why add stoners to the mix?

                  #6.3 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:41 PM EDT

                  Considering the plant in its "perfect" state as you put it was used for many years for medical purposes I dont think it has changed from that since we are now starting to agree that POT does have medical properties that HELP us not harm us. I have never heard of anyone dying from OD with POT like you can with alcohol. As far as carcinogens there are none in POT. Pot is smoked either out of a bong/pipe with no bad filters or papers which also have no bad filters built into them. What is so "bad" or "evil" about ingesting POT?

                    #6.4 - Wed Apr 4, 2012 10:33 AM EDT
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                    you're right dan, but we got this way because of our own greed. we've been taught "greed is good". the one with the most toys should be envied. and as those with the most toys got more powerful they could buy whoever was needed to change or write laws that favored them to get more or prevent others from taking a piece of theirs. as the money narrowed in who held it it became apparent that to protect themselves they would band together and call themselves a "corporation". now they can do whatever they please because then the corporation would be at fault not the individual and it can be folded and started under a new name. we did it to ourselves and encouraged it.

                      Reply#7 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:47 PM EDT

                      why does the news make such a big deal over every little thing?

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#8 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:37 PM EDT

                      Obama is a joke and an embarassment. He has no clue what this country is about, or what it stands for. Yet, we voted him in. What does that say about the intelligence of the American people? We better wise up before it's too late.

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#9 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:20 PM EDT

                      Sorry to say that intelligence, morals and common sense are at an extreme premium these days. Pretty much if you have enough money, you can buy most folks especially the poor, and have them eating out of your hand. There is no shame anymore...

                        #9.1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:09 PM EDT
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                        They're all to blame, Clinton deregulated the banks Bush raped it in other ways.

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                        Reply#10 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:21 PM EDT

                        Bush didn't have the house & senate like Barak Insane Nobama.

                        The dummycraps could of stopped most things inclusing Iraq

                          #10.1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:00 PM EDT
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                          BFD right Odumbo!

                            Reply#11 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:56 PM EDT

                            This country is going to hell in a handbasket.

                              Reply#12 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:26 PM EDT

                              All of which I must say Ron Paul spoke about in 2001 and 02 and 03 and 04 etc just go to youtube and punch in Ron Paul's name and start viewing the things he has said publicly for the last 30 years........and then kick yourself in the ass for not listening and for allowing those who have been voted in by you to spend your Grandchildrens freedom , rights and money !

                                Reply#13 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:42 PM EDT

                                Most americans dont even know what they are voting for (color of skin or he is a rep or dem). Obama is sneaky so was Bush heck Clinton started the trend. Ron Paul is teh best fit to help America but media shuns him for Romney the RICH and caught again lying Santorum. I will be either voting R.Paul or writing him in. Vote for Russian puppet, healthcare destroyer, gas price soar tour or Whatever terrible republican nominee should buy or lie his way to the nomination. I for one wish America would stop with the Republican or Democrat and stand up as one for AMERICA and do whats best for all not just the Rich and foreign countries.

                                  Reply#14 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:46 PM EDT

                                  Don't believe it is written in stone anywhere that the united states is given express permission to maintain itself for perpetuity. suggest everyone get ready to roll.

                                    Reply#15 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:06 PM EDT

                                    How sad Obama is. "Flexibility"? What does this mean? I am sorry, when someone starts speaking like this, there are secrets to be made just like the mic exposed. Wake up folks and don't elect this guy again. He will just run America further into the ground!

                                      Reply#16 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:06 PM EDT

                                      I am voting to get Obama OUT! The best way to destroy our country is to have a terrorist on the inside. Use your brains people get him out of office!

                                        Reply#17 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:45 PM EDT

                                        How could anyone who lived thru eight years of Bush complain about Obama?

                                          Reply#18 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:18 AM EDT

                                          I wonder what it takes for the oblivious and the deceived to get a clue about what has been going on here. O works for the same elites that GB worked for. Get a clue. They don't work for you or your best interest. Stop listening to the media. Try researching some real news. Try watching "in their own words" statements on You Tube. If you can't figure it out you are among the oblivious and the deceived.

                                            Reply#19 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:03 AM EDT

                                            From what I understand from this evedropped conversation is that Obama would rather discuss missile defense at another time, when he doesn't have to try to appease to the Republicans in Congress that won't work with him and the conservative @!$%#s are making it sound like he's giving away top secret information. The Cold War with Russia ended over 20 years ago! He's trying to loosen the tention between us and the Communist and the Middle Eastern nations we're actually having issues with. The alternative is a power hungry theocrat playing eeny, meeny, mighty moe on a map for which country to plant a few mushroom clouds in and bringing back the draft so the US has enough soldiers to use as cannon fodder for their next invasion. The only ones Obama should be pissing off are the war and oil profiteers.

                                              Reply#20 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:50 AM EDT

                                              First...Obama...SAVED ...auto...banks...insurance...more oil drilling now than any other President in history...he has decreased that amount of oil we buy from other countries by a hugh margin...he has gone to WTO along with Japn and Europe and is getting China to play by the rules of business...Makes friends with ALL nations to try to open the door to make things better....BUSH...Let China into the finacial markets and never made them play by the rules...Brought our Debt to unbeleivable proportions...Brought about a war that had NO merit...Spent BILLIONS within the MIDDLE EAST and Halaburton till this day has no record of. LET 911 HAPPEN. CHEATED TO GET INTO OFFICE...LETS SEE....WHO IS A PRESIDENT WE DON'T LIKE...Oh I know I HAVE MONEY SO NO MORAL VALUE MATTERS...So vote for a PRESIDENT that covers my wallet instead of takeing care of America and its best interest...I GET IT NOW!!!!....its mine...mine...mine...mine......BOM...goodbye

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                                              Reply#21 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:09 AM EDT

                                              IM SORRY BUT OBAMA DOES NOT CONTROL THE PRICE OF OIL...ITS THE FRUITCAKES THAT SPECULATE IN THE WALLSTREET BUILDING PAVING THEIR POCKETS WITH MUCH NEEDED CASH...ALSO YOU WOULDN'T FEEL SO BAD ABOUT YOURSELF IF THOUGHT ABOUT SOMEONE BESIDES YOURSELF...mine...mine...mine....

                                              Let me bring this down to a kindergarden level ok REPUBLICAN...What..happens..to..the..price..of..oil..when..the..stock..market..takes..a..nose..dive..THERE YA GO GOOD BOY..mine...mine...mine...mine....

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                                              Reply#22 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:17 AM EDT

                                              You are wasting your valuable time trying to enlighten the sheep. They are lost and mindless and will continue to tow the company line.

                                                #22.1 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:19 AM EDT
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                                                To those of you who voted for "change"

                                                That is all you will have left in your pockets before this administration is through with you !!!

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                                                Reply#23 - Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:53 PM EDT

                                                Nothing like an Obama story to get every redneck, bible thumping, gun-toting, trailer dwelling imbicile to crawl out from under their rocks. You knuckle dragging neandrethals all repeat the same filfth and fodder that you hear from your heroes like that douche Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. A bunch of mindless sheep without brains, spewing hate rhetoric and showing us all what morons you truly are. Go watch Fox some more so you will know what to say next!

                                                  Reply#24 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:15 AM EDT

                                                  And you are so intelligent how? Why? Do you have an Ivy league education? What makes you believe that you are so much better than someone who lives in the country, believes in God, reads the Bible, or lives in a trailer? I thought that the libs were supposed to be so loving and understanding and accepting of everyone. You sure aren't showing that with your comments. I'm pretty sure you are probably one of the most hateful people on the planet and talk about rhetoric, you sound like you are a fan of the filthy Bill Maher! Have you looked in the mirror lately? Are you able to see any of your faults or even begin to examine why you could be so hateful towards other human beings because they have a different set of values than you do? Maybe you should start pondering that! If you would open your eyes, you might see that you are the mindless sheep and you, my judgmental friend, are being led to the slaughter...

                                                    #24.1 - Sun Apr 1, 2012 12:29 PM EDT
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                                                    In a nutshell Obama says WHEN I get RE-ELECTED (read elected dictator) comrade you WILL get what you want; congress has my hands tied, but in my new term I will do away with congress and RULE. Obama has done nothing in 4 years the guy just showed up for a paycheck; the only reason you see him all of a sudden is there is an election. The left wing (aka domestic subversives) have done an excellent job of blaming G.Bush all the while doing nothing to fix problems that he left and continued to allow those policies to continue, which is typical and SOP of the democratic party. I really have to admire the left wing they are masters of spin and deception especially the race card! This year the battle cry of the left wing liberals is VIVA LA OBAMUNISTA! LONG LIVE OBAMUNISM!

                                                      Reply#25 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:22 PM EDT
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