New York – President Barack Obama poked fun at Republican presidential candidates on Monday for promising that they could stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin when they couldn’t “handle” the moderators from last week’s debate on cable network CNBC.
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Republican candidates Donald Trump, Ben Carson and others have criticized the journalists who moderated the well-watched debate for what they said was a failure to ask relevant questions.
Obama, speaking at a fundraiser for Democrats in New York, knocked the Republicans seeking the White House for saying they could turn around ties with Putin, with whom the president has a strained relationship.
“And then it turns out they can’t handle a bunch of CNBC moderators,” Obama said to loud applause from the audience of Democratic donors.
“If you can’t handle those guys, then I don’t think the Chinese and the Russians are going to be too worried about you.”
Not only did they handle them, but Ted Cruz made a mockery of them
The moderators got destroyed. Obama is such a self entitled jerk.
ha ha ha,
Putin who snub his nose to Oblaba twice, and Oblama could not do anything is no one to open his mouth. Both in the war in Ukraine he told Putin not to get involve or US will make a economic blockade and now in the war in Syria Oblama told Putin not to support Assad or US will have a fit.
SO if Putin can give the finger (middle one) to our dear beloved pres, O’bullshoot should shut his stupid trap and sneak back into the Black house.
Obama is a shmuck he run this country to the ground and has the chutzpa to speak this way?
I hope that the jews finally figured out that he is HUSSEIN first and not an American Patriot
A joke of a president. They handled the media stunningly. They are just calling them to task now over inappropriate questioning.
The man has a point. Crybaby Republicans are going on and on about not doing any more debates on NBC if they can’t control this or that. And their claims about unfair treatment are pathetic – Cruz went on and on about how the moderators weren’t asking policy questions, in order to avoid giving and answer about a policy question! How anyone can think about voting for any of those clowns is beyond me.
Yes, Obama…..you have handled EVERYTHING perfectly.
3 points.
1. Obama will say anything to fit his agenda
2. How is handling the media the same as handling putin. ?
3. The way putin has made a mockery of a siting u.s. President. if I were obamma I wouldn’t mention putin
THEY can’t handle CNBC?
They sure did. They confronted it, called it out, made a mockery out of it.
Being quiet about it and allowing yourself to be stepped on, that’s called not being able to handle it.
And only those who did speak up at the time, those are the only ones worthy of nomination. All the others should be discarded. They’re wimps!
For all those who claim the Republican candidates handled the media so well: If they did so well, why don’t they want CNBC to moderate any more debates?
What an arrogant piece of slime this token black-elected nobody president is! The candidates were very well able to “handle” the liberal moderators, and they told them off beautifully! You wouldn’t be so cocky if the press wasn’t in your back pocket. Can’t wait until 2016 so we can see your sorry tuches finally leave the White House, after all the damage you’ve done to our great country!
Once again POTUS shows us that he has only 3/5 of class because he’s missing the C and the L.
They did handle CNBC. Obama can’t even follow the game.