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Presidential Roast, SPring 2009.

He and Michelle did not quite know what to do with the fact that Helen Thomas was up on the stage with them. It was just the three of them.

Obama ignored Thomas, to go over to the side of the stage and hear more closely a group of people who were shouting "Oh-bama! Oh-bama!"

Michelle finally gave in and starting chatting with Helen. But it was obvious she did this because what else could she do?

Any real progressive would have immediately gone over to Helen and thanked her for all her attacks on Bush while she was the only WH Press Person who bothered to throw difficult questions at the George the Lesser President.

This was quite some time before Helen's gaffe about Israel. So Obama shouldn't have been backing away from her, unless he didn't understand (or care) who she was and how tough a lady she was and how much she took upon herself to roughly question President Bush.