Robert Gibbs Is the New Iraqi Information Minister

Remember "Baghdad Bob", the Iraqi information minister who gave us such wonderful quotes as:

"they are nowhere near the airport ..they are lost in the desert...they can not read a compass...they are retarded." (as the Allies were taking control of the Airport)

"They are not in Baghdad. They are not in control of any airport. I tell you this. It is all a lie. They lie. It is a hollywood movie. You do not believe them."

"We will kill them all........most of them."

"Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected."

"These images are not the suburbs of Baghdad. From what I glimpsed, these gardens with rows of palm trees on the side, which you saw in the images, are located in the south of Abu Ghreib, where we have surrounded the Americans and British."

When told coalition troops occupied Baghdad airport -
"...at Saddam Airport? Now that's just silly!"

"The situation is excellent, they are going to try to approach Baghdad...and I believe their grave will be there."

Now check out what Obama's Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, said on Fox News Sunday. It's ironic that his name is also Bob. Maybe we can call him, Obama Bob?:

WALLACE: But, Robert, Scott Brown had a clear platform. Let's lay it out. Stop health care. Cut taxes. End backroom deals with special interest and don't give terrorists Miranda rights. It wasn't the same thing that swept Barack Obama into office. Scott Brown explicitly campaigned against the — campaigned against the Obama agenda.

GIBBS: That may be what he campaigned on but that's not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington. If you look at exit poll, done by the ""Washington Post"" —

WALLACE: It wasn't an exit poll. They did a poll.

GIBBS: Poll where voters participated to why they voted. More people voted to express support for Obama than to oppose him. His approval rating among the electorate was 61%. The enthusiasm for Republican policies among that electorate was for republicans 40% —

WALLACE: You're not suggesting this is a mandate for Barack Obama?

GIBBS: Of course not. I'm also not suggesting that what you said a minute ago meets the truth test either.

WALLACE: You don't think that —

GIBBS: Chris, hold on.

WALLACE: You don't think when they voted for Brown they were voting against Obama policies?

GIBBS: That's not what they told pollsters, no. People are angry in the country and angry in Massachusetts we haven't made more question on the economy. Talk about health care — this is something you said is stopping about health-care reform.

WALLACE: He said he was the 41st vote.

GIBBS: 70% of the voters in massachusetts want him to work with the Democrats on health-care reform. Only 28% want to stop health-care reform from happening. Chris, if Republicans want to assume that the outcome of what happened in Massachusetts is a big endorsement of their policies when 40% are enthusiastic about them and 58% are angry about them, I hope they misread that election as badly as anybody could. What people want in this country is they want to us focus on getting this economy moving again. They want us to work together. The president has tried and I hope that Republicans will try to work with the president. That kind of anger and dissatisfaction at the fact that Washington far too many times puts the special interest ahead of their interest, that anger still persists. That's what people said in Massachusetts.