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The Obama Watch
Obama Goes Soft
With every day his fortunes become more shovel ready.
In an interview with WESH-TV in Orlando yesterday, President Obama described the nation he was elected to lead the way one might describe Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett.
“This is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft, and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track.”
Last night, a lot of conservatives seemed to react angrily to that statement, as though calling America soft were to be considered automatically indefensible, no matter the context. My reaction was: “last couple of decades”?
We already know what this president thinks of this country: It’s no more exceptional than any other country, but it might turn out to be exceptional someday if only we let him change it as he sees fit. So he also thinks it’s flabby in the middle? No surprise.
What’s more troubling is that he apparently thinks the current economic mess was caused by Americans spending the “last couple of decades” eating Cheese Doodles and watching NASCAR. (If only the national economy were roaring like NASCAR.)
The bad economy used to be all Bush’s fault. But the voters aren’t buying that anymore, so the president’s trying a new line: the whole country got a little lazy — you know, like Americans do — and now he’s got to save it. That’s why this recovery is so hard, you see. He doesn’t have just four years of Bushonomics to undo, he’s got several decades of couch-surfing by the entire American populace to undo.
But don’t worry; the country is still awesome, he said.
“I would not trade our position with anybody on Earth. We still have the best universities, the best scientists, best workers in the world; the most dynamic economic system in the world.”
Errr, but you just said we’d spent the last couple of decades going soft. If we’re still the best economically, then why are things so bad?
“We just have to bring all those things together,” he said.
To fix the softness America has accumulated over the last couple of decades, someone just has to bring together all the top-notch American professionals who are off somewhere engaging in self-indulgent solo projects. In short, America just has to get the band back together.
This isn’t economics. It isn’t even Obamanomics. It’s just nonsense.
And it doesn’t get any better when the president switches to Obamanomics. Here is what he told the Florida TV station when asked how his new jobs bill would create jobs in the Sunshine State:
“There are a lot of construction workers in Florida who have been laid off. Putting those construction workers back to work on construction projects in Florida would make a huge difference right now. There have been difficulties for state and local governments keeping their teachers in the classroom. So they would get a direct benefit.”
The first is simply a blatant falsehood. The jobs bill would not create any construction jobs “right now.” From a Tuesday Politico story headlined “‘Shovel ready’ jobs could take time”:
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P. Arthurson| 9.30.11 @ 6:59AM
"There are a lot of construction workers in Florida who have been laid off. Putting those construction workers back to work on construction projects in Florida would make a huge difference right now.' What projects? If they are necessary, they will be done anyway. If thery are not necessary, they are not necessary, As you say it's nonense. And Obama's fixation on obviously meaningless words is genuinely alarming.
Lesser Weevil| 9.30.11 @ 1:16PM
It is pathetic that this economic illiterate (the smartest man in every room as long as it's empty) can't seem to grasp Bastiat's broken window fallacy. Merely putting people to work on random projects doesn't create wealth, it destroys it.
CLINTON| 9.30.11 @ 7:11AM
Obama's never soft when he's in the closet with Eric Holder.
Anthony| 9.30.11 @ 12:38PM
Hey!! This Muslim Marxist dude just dissed my white trash main man, Bill Clinton.
My man Bill ain't never gone soft, especially in the Oval Office, where he stood firm with that chubby vixen, Monica!!!
Break out some cigars, dude.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.11 @ 4:39PM
He rose to the occasion and discharged his obligation.
Anthony| 9.30.11 @ 5:53PM
Yeah, what he said.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.11 @ 6:28PM
plus he was wounded in combat, bleeding to death after getting a paper cut from handling his discharge papers.
chuck| 10.1.11 @ 9:34AM
But was he ever like the gay solder who faced the general discharge??????
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.30.11 @ 7:11AM
Yes. We DO know what he thinks about this Country. We know that he thinks that he needs to APOLOGIZE for her. She's not just, NOT SPECIAL, She's to BLAME, for all that's wrong with the world.
His Economic positions aren't "Nonsense". They are DOGMA. "I'm not an Ideologue. I'm not!"
Actually, he is that, and more.
"There are a lot of Construction Workers in Florida", he says. What he MEANS, is that "There's a lot of UNION Construction Workers in Florida, who Pay Dues, that get funneled in to Democrat Campaign Coffers".
He says that: "There have been difficulties keeping Teachers in the Classroom, down there". What he MEANS is that: "There are a lot of Public Union Teachers, down there, who Pay Dues, that get funneled in to Democrat Campaign Coffers".
"These are Blatant Falsehoods"?
No. These are LIES. He's a Pathological LIAR. He's a Democrat, a Liberal, a Progressive, a Marxist, a Socialist, a Maoist, and a Communist.
OF COURSE HE'S A LIAR!
He ran GUNS in to Mexico. He put those weapons in to the hands of the Drug Cartels. And he did it ON PURPOSE. Hundreds, if not, Thousands, of Men, Women, and Children, have been MURDERED, so he could use their Deaths, as a PROP, for the Democrat's endless crusade to kill the 2nd Amendment.
America has not gotten soft. She has been INFECTED, by a Man who would sit bye, and watch this country BURN TO THE GROUND, if it would further his Quest for a MARXIST America.
Hansel and Gretta dropped bread crumbs, so they could find their way out of the woods.
We will find our way back, to what our Founding Fathers left us, by following a Trail of Tears and Corruption, Misery and Death.
Mark My Words.
RichTex| 9.30.11 @ 10:56AM
Are they lies? It doesn’t really make any difference. You have to remember that to a Leftist, all “truth” is relative: What advances their cause is “true”; what hurts their cause is “false”. There is no such thing as absolute truth.
beebop| 9.30.11 @ 9:43PM
Yes!!!!
While I do not like the murderer who was killed today in Yemen, if those "enemy combatants" being held in Gitmo are entitled to a trial, why not those unendicted American "home grown" terrorists? A drone? Into Yemen? Imagine if this had been a Republican? They would be bleeding from the corners of their eye.
Lawrence Boccardi| 9.30.11 @ 7:12AM
The only workers that this disgrace cares about putting back to work, are UNION workers. Any infrastructure contracting will be done under the constraints of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires that contractor's pay their employees "prevailing wage", read UNION wage. Public sector workers? Keep them on the job, temporarily, with money that must come from permament tax hikes. These Obama academics couldn't find their butt with both hands!
Slacker| 9.30.11 @ 1:02PM
Federally funded projects are also a windfall for businesses with DBE or MBE certification.
Every federal project doubles as an affirmative action program. This is why Obama loves infrastructure. He can attach federal funds to any construction project he can find.
Essentially, the way the federal mandates play out is whitey needs to team with MBE in order to bid on federal jobs. Usually whitey has no particular need for the MBE. The whole adventure is a racket.
Doctor_X| 9.30.11 @ 7:16AM
I have nothing against construction workers, but they are not the only ones who are unempolyed. Again he brings up teachers and again what do the two have in common? UNIONS.
Obama doesn'r care about the unempolyed accountant or IT worker. He is playing class warfare and paying off his political base with OUR money.
Herb| 9.30.11 @ 7:50AM
In my opinion Obama's biggest whopper to date:
"This is not class warfare!!"
Okey, dokey.......
Michael Tomlinson| 9.30.11 @ 7:19AM
Ditto to Lawrence and Doctor_X.
martin j smith| 9.30.11 @ 7:38AM
Obama says the same things over and over again.
No change. I get tired and avoid listening to his useless rhetoric. In fact I tune him off as soon as I see him on TV or hear his voice on Radio.
Bottom line its all government work not private sector.
Intelligent Design| 9.30.11 @ 7:54AM
Same here.
VBMax| 9.30.11 @ 10:36AM
I admit that I've contracted a bad case of Obamaphobia. I can't watch, listen or hear about anything he says or does without feeling angry or distressed. Only cure is getting him out of my life completely.
Occam's Tool| 9.30.11 @ 1:02PM
Obama's message is still the semantic nullity that it was in 2008. He was an idiot than and now. I read zombie novels rather than listen to his speeches---much more exciting and more realistic in what might happen.
Norman Conquest| 10.1.11 @ 11:08AM
I agree. Not only is his empty rhetoric grating but having to watch if delivered by those repulsive purple-lips is just too much.
Intelligent Design| 9.30.11 @ 7:47AM
Obama is beyond failure. He is irrelevant. A majority of voters can hardly wait for November 2012, so we can throw Obama and more Demo-Socialists in the Senate into the garbage truck of history.
Michael Tomlinson| 9.30.11 @ 7:51AM
Intelligent spot on. It is up to us to give them a conservative or moderate to replace the FAILURE (no RINOs like Paul or Huntsman). Hopefully, it's the former or a transformative election will be just another election.
Clint| 10.1.11 @ 11:17AM
RINO Micky, The Ricky Perry Algore Cheerleader Wouldn't Know Real Conservatism,If It Kicked Him In The ass.
" Rick Perry supported Lance Armstrong's 3 billion dollar Texas taxpayer funded medical research center. That’s like ObamaCare. That’s not free market.
Rick Perry, secured a 300 million dollar business handout slush fund for him and just the two leaders of the legislature to dole out to whomever he felt like being friendly to. That’s corporate welfare, a recipe for corruption, and as bad as the TARP bailouts that caused the Tea Parties to explode all across America. In fact, Perry gave 20 million dollars to Countrywide Financial, which later went bankrupt.
He supported a new state business tax. He set up toll road tax collection booths all over Texas highways. The Austin Tea Party and the Austin Toll Party booed him on the steps of the state Capitol for that.
Rick Perry, signed an executive order mandating young Texas schoolgirls to get the HPV vaccine, while his former chief of staff was a lobbyist for Merck. Perry's judgment was so bad the Texas legislature revolted against him and overturned his decision,"
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
Carpe Diem.
Mike D.| 9.30.11 @ 8:03AM
This pathetic POS makes me see my breakfast again. Keep him in front of his teleprompter and his jaw moving because the more people see what a despicable tin horn he is the more they will run, not walk, to the voting booth next year. All he has is his mouth, all he ever had was his mouth, and thats where we want him, spewing out quotes everyday and backing himself farther into the corner. The more he stays in public view the more motivated the opposition gets. He thinks the problem is the country needs more of him. Good!
I want him right where he's at, rubbing everybodies face in it daily.
Michael Tomlinson| 9.30.11 @ 8:10AM
I just looked at the picture with this article. Doesn't Obama look clueless? Captures the essence of how intellectually challenged he really is.
Sam C| 9.30.11 @ 8:10AM
I truly believe even the staunchest kool-aide drinkers who support this empty suit have now figured out he lacks the knowledge and understanding for this job....he is words, not deeds. His rhetoric is "shovel-ready."
Anthony| 9.30.11 @ 3:44PM
Sorry Sam, you obviously missed the rants of one Ms. Elizabeth Schwartz, who yesterday, inadvertantly floated into the deep end of the intelligence pool know as TAS, and found herself flailing and drowning.
The kool-aide drinkers, as you referenced them, have NOT come to the conclusion that Obozo is an empty suit.
Quite the contrary, the rhetoric from them is shriller and more caustic. WE are RACISTS, pure and simple.
I'm afraid Obozo's kool-aide drinkers are more like the zombies in "Night of the Living Dead".
But shovel- ready jobs are the answer to bury Obozo and his zombies.
Tired-of-hussein| 9.30.11 @ 8:15AM
Thief-in-chief knows he is going to get his arse handed to him next year so he is opening the cash-4-crony flood gates to free our money whilest he has the power left to do it. Anyone who says they like this moron "personally", yet hate his policy, is a moron like him!
VBMax| 9.30.11 @ 10:38AM
Yes, how can anyone "like" someone who is destroying your freedoms.
Appleby| 9.30.11 @ 3:06PM
By believing the crocodile will eat everyone but him.
mickey| 9.30.11 @ 8:20AM
Okay Obama, you have insulted me for the last time. I worked HARD for 33 years, paid my taxes, raised a family, saved, invested, volunteered and did everything else a solid citizen does. At age 55 I was forced to retire because you F%@ked up the economy worse than it was when you came into office. Your policies are a wet blanket on growth. The liberal agenda is anti growth. Just go away, please.
Johnny H| 9.30.11 @ 8:49AM
Sympathies for you, Mickey. I'm manning an oar in the same boat...
In '08 I forgave those with "hope and change" bumper stickers as people weary of GWB or hardcore democrats fronting for their candidate or, worse, guilt-ridden whites eager to display their tolerance, inclusiveness and racial sensitivity. This time around, those with the "Obama 2012" bumper stickers can be said to be the genuine opponents of freedom and capitalism. They've outed themselves. There has been plenty of time now for this disaster of a POTUS to employ the philosophy behind the campaign rhetoric. Anyone that still believes in this style of governance is an enemy of The United States and an enemy of freedom loving people all over the globe. There is much work to be done and it begins in November, 2012.
Until then we patriots must continue to stand for our founder's principles and thwart the advance of tyranny by confidently engaging those still blinded by the aura of the One in a conversation about the direction of this country. It's not too late. But the fat lady is warming up by singing "Imagine"...
Semper Fidelis
Bob Grant| 9.30.11 @ 8:58AM
You nailed it.
'08 can be blamed in large part on Bush and McCain who created the need for HopeNChange and who was a very weak candidate respectively.
'12 will be an entirely different Bag-O-Beans. The choice will be simple:
A vote for Economic Liberty and prosperity or a vote for socialism and economic malaise.
Redstateboy| 9.30.11 @ 11:18AM
I lost my job at 51.. people forget.. Nazi Pelosi and Harry-the-war-is-lost-Reid seized Majority control of Both Houses - Jan. 2007 - and it ALL began sliding after that date.
The morons who voted this slime in had no idea what freezing effect their rhetoric had on business in America and Hussein? He's the straw breaking the Camel's back.
RefriedTomatoes| 9.30.11 @ 1:24PM
Hear, hear, Mickey. Same age, same problem. But I'm doing something with my Masters degree and 35 years of management experience ... I'm in my backyard practicing turning that rotating Stop Sign to Caution, then back again. That's our future - embrace it! (NOT)
Bob Grant| 9.30.11 @ 8:46AM
This guy is such a joke of a president and a bore that I find it difficult anymore to muster up the energy to post how I feel about this clown.
The Obama Malaise has truly set in.
Mike D.| 9.30.11 @ 9:00AM
Exactly, Every day his puss and mouth are in the news the more people get sick of him. Everything he touches, endorses, or stands for fails. His ego sociopathic personality won't let him go low profile and thats his undoing and his achilles heel. The more he talks the more people are repelled and revulsed. He's the gift that keeps on giving, he's a teleprompter programmed mouth stuck in third gear.
Steve A| 9.30.11 @ 9:15AM
What we are witnessing is nothing short of a complete & utter meltdown of a political career based upon the implementation of a failed ideaology. Future historians will note how the failure of these progressive policies, on full display, was the turning point for an America that returned to fiscal sanity, smaller Government & it's foundational beliefs.
Obama was & is the single most destructive force to liberalism this Country has seen with the possible exception of Reagan. This guy is the gift that keeps on giving. His own party is even burned out on listening to him ramble on & they will cut him off at the knees here shortly if it looks like he will take Progressivism over the cliff with him. I say he is less than 50% to run & will bow out citing "The good of the Country & partisan politics," as his excuse.
Drunken Sailor| 9.30.11 @ 10:15AM
Sounds like you and Dick Morris are on the same page. The only problem I see is his huge ego will make it impossible for him to bow out. His entire life he has been told he is special. He is not about to think otherwise.
Mike D.| 9.30.11 @ 11:18AM
He won't back out, its not in his genes. The leftists would p!ss all over their black plantation by removing him and that would cost them dearly. Nope, they are stuck with this guy, and that was their big gamble and ultimately their trap in the end. They are going to HAVE TO fall on their swords with this guy whether they like it or not. If they try to force him out, revolt on the Plantation. Either way they are screwed and they know it. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Steve A| 9.30.11 @ 11:31AM
You both may be correct. He may have that Adolf streak that says; " If my people (ideas) prove weaker than the enemy, they deserve full defeat." He will then take his party & the Progressive Platform right off the cliff along with him.
The other factor is this: It is extremely obvious that Obama does not even remotely enjoy being President. He has soured on the office, particularly after all of the recent election thumpings that have sapped his power. A second term, even if he were to squeak it out, would clearly be much of the same if not worse.
If the economy is way in the gutter in the spring, his class warfare strategy fails & his poll #s are in the cellar, Democrats will abandon ship & then the media will follow. He will be isolated with no shot at coming back if this happens. He will bail, just watch.
Appleby| 9.30.11 @ 3:08PM
Obama has only begun to tumble to the implications of the bargain he made with Satan up on that mountaintop (see Luke 4)). He did not really believe until just the other day that when you shake hands with the Devil, you can't win, you can't break even and you can't get out of the game.
Satan doesn't take partners. Ask Saurman.
Cincinnatius| 10.1.11 @ 12:00PM
Appleby, in just a few words, you have eloquently stated Obozo's real dilemma, a deal with a dealer that can't be won. AMEN! I am going to really enjoy watching Obozo be flayed by the demons he thought were Satan's stage props, like those Greek columns he stood between in Grant Park.
Clint Brooks| 9.30.11 @ 9:50AM
But my entitlements, what about my entitlements?
Without my entitlements and Obama I am nothing.
Israel Firster| 9.30.11 @ 4:28PM
Don't Forget Israel's Welfare Payments In Foreign Aid.
squalis| 9.30.11 @ 9:54AM
Didn't we go through this shovel ready thing before, or am I experiencing a moment of deja vu?
Dan Hirsch| 9.30.11 @ 4:35PM
You betcha! All over again!
DTOM
POST American| 9.30.11 @ 10:08AM
"Notice, in every election, the REAL
issues are ignored. There's NO mention
of our treasonous, and wholly unsanctioned,
utterly illegal, NAFTA/GATT treaties;
nothing about the ILLEGAL, unconstitutional
money system and central banks or international USURY cartels; nothing even really about the debt, or ON RECORD and underway extermination agendas. Instead we get squalid bickering about benefits, and personality. Chicken feed for the degraded peasantry."
DO check out ALAN WATT's audio archive
--esp. those National Intel segments.
He even discusses HAARP events involving
Japan --------in 2007.
------------------DO CHECK IT OUT-------------------
------------YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT------------
Anthony| 9.30.11 @ 10:09AM
The only softness demonstrated by Americans were by those soft headed guilty white lefties, who voted for this affirmative action president.
The recent temper tantrums by the left are caused by the fact that all their soft headed beliefs, affirmative action, multi-culturalism, and anthropogenic global warming, are all being exposed for the lies and fraudulent thinking behind these concepts.
The left are besides themselves, as their world crashes in around them.
Americans want to work, they want jobs, they want our economy to boom, yet this Muslim Marxist wants America to become a 3rd world debtor nation.
The Muslim Marxist is going to find out exactly what soft isn't, after he gets his ass kicked hard in Nov. 2012!!!
Drunken Sailor| 9.30.11 @ 10:11AM
This is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft, and we didn't have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track."
A guy that takes a vaction overy 3 weeks thinks the rest of America is soft and needs to get back on track? Seems our leader is reverting back to his college days and using recreational drugs again.
Granny Jan| 9.30.11 @ 10:13AM
You're witnessing the Chauncey Gardiner presidency. He throw out the word salads that might sound like he's saying something but in actually are nothing but cliches and talking points.
The myth of his extradordinary intellect has been the biggest con-job ever pulled over on the American people. I doubt he's even smart enough to have concocted the con himself.
loulou| 9.30.11 @ 10:38AM
"Word salads"--that's perfect!!
He and his wife have average intelligence at best. I still want to see his SAT and LSAT scores.
Obama is just the puppet for Soros and his gang.
Beau Blotz| 9.30.11 @ 10:51AM
He probably got waivers for both tests.
Solo| 10.3.11 @ 8:51AM
If he actually WERE the "smartest President ..evah!", those SAT scores would be the Stage Set Backdrop over at MSNBC.
There's a reason that he had all his records sealed. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out that reason.
Anthony| 9.30.11 @ 11:04AM
Good comments Granny, I especially like the Chauncey Gardiner analogy.
The myth of Obozo's extraordinary intellect was perpetuated by the left because it 1) assuaged their raging white guilt, and 2) fit their hopes and wishes about what affirmative action was to accomplish for the black community.
Both have been proven to be intellectually bankrupt concepts. Obozo's exposed short comings and failures smack the left upside their heads each and every day, and they are pissed!!!!
The very idea that this loafer, who has sauntered through life on the pathway of guilty white lefties, thinks we are soft is an affront to all Americans who have made this country great, no thanks to him!!!
Obozo's failure is also the failure of all that leftism stands for.Watching them all sink together will be a great day for America!!!
Dan Hirsch| 9.30.11 @ 4:37PM
Except Chauncy was scrupulously honest!!!
DTOM
CUFFS| 9.30.11 @ 10:21AM
Pres Fool & Fleece
"Linguistic shiftiness, hybole and disregard
for the integrity of fact."
Drunken Sailor| 9.30.11 @ 10:55AM
There is a article on American thinker that says this little speech of his may be his "Malaise speech". Will be interesting to see if this catches fire like Carter's speech and he gets the same results.
http://www.americanthinker.com.....oment.html
fmm| 9.30.11 @ 11:42AM
Any softness in this country is the direct result of Progressive Democrat policies: moral relativism, degraded ethical standards, the welfare state, centralized control, etc.
Fred Crump| 9.30.11 @ 11:50AM
Greetings Andrew, read with joy what others are afraid to say. Keep on keeping on. Fred
jackc| 9.30.11 @ 12:26PM
Politicians of all stripes and colors, especially the Obama henchmen and charlatans have been flourishing on the sweat of taxpayers, printing bills, buying cheap votes, and promoting the idea of a welfare state, which equates to poverty and illiteracy.
Votes are only a measure of quantity, not quality. Winning an election does not equate to automatic infallibility in policy-making or leadership.
prestonsbrooks| 9.30.11 @ 12:35PM
In the end, in the bunker, Hitler threw Germany to the wolves: they were not worthy of his Vision.
Adlofobama will do the same thing: we are not worthy of his Genius. Head for the bunker, dude, teh Russians are coming!
Bill A | 9.30.11 @ 12:51PM
For once, I agree with President Obama. America has gone soft. Our politicians in Washington have gone soft in the head. Any American with an ounce of brains knows that our country does not have an income problem. We have a spending problem. The electorate sent DC the memo in 2010. Since reality has not yet sunk in , we will have to send another memo in November, 2012.
Strudwick Wickerwire| 9.30.11 @ 1:46PM
Barack Obonehead is an accomplished extemporaneous speaker, he says nothing most of the time, while turning a yes/no answer into 10 minutes of jive!!! Most folks (media) are afraid of pressing him on questions, they might be accused of racism, so he's allowed to go-off on his verbal octopus routine with impunity, while the taxpayer loses!!!
Peter McGrath| 9.30.11 @ 3:04PM
Whatta Boob!
We're beginning to understand why the big O (Zero) won't release his college and law school transcripts and why none of the students he supposedly taught at the U of Chicago Law School have ever come forward to say anything - good, bad or indifferent - about their former professor.
Apparently, there's nothing even noteworthy about his academics or stint as a law school "lecturer." And - it's now painfully obvious - the guy lacks for basic knowledge and experience about just about any and everything under the sun.
We've got a major problem on our hands with this halfwit. Pressure is building - within even his own party - to get him off the national stage, post-haste, before a cretaceous-like extinction wipes out the Democrats, leaving only fossilized remains.
Trish| 9.30.11 @ 7:46PM
You read my mind Peter. Where are the grades, records, writings, and basic documents from the universities? Sealed. Same with the wife. I would guess that his grades were in the basement, but he was affirm actioned upward. Additionally, I am thinking his writings were radical. Same with her. While proficient languuage is an indicator of IQ, it can surely mask weakness. Example: actors. Gotta admit he is a smooth talker. Not sure he's all that smart however. As you say, pressure is building (I smell the Clintons working behind the scenes) and this narcissist could be cracking.
Nancy in NC| 9.30.11 @ 3:13PM
The idiots in Washington need to be reminded that the primary purpose of government is to protect our liberty. How do you all think they're doing?
I don't think I could bear to be alive on Nov. 7th (??) 2012 if this piece of excrement gets reelected.
Pat| 9.30.11 @ 3:48PM
What’s unforgivable is that the statists in Washington, on both the Left and the Right, have effectively destroyed the many reasons we love our country. After 9/11, millions of Americans re-discovered their love for this country, perpetual cynics were personally surprised at the depth of their feelings for our homeland, further surprised at their deep-seated anger over what was done to us and their rapidly resurging affection for America. But 10 years after this reminder we are a bit sadder, more despondent and yearn for those reasons, first learned long ago, to once again take pride in our nation and ourselves.
At this moment, we’re deep in debt as a nation to others, some friendly toward us and some not so friendly. Our least skilled workers can’t find work anywhere or are constantly worried their current job will disappear permanently into the Far East. We don’t trust our government and the words “national leader” have become a worn out punch line, while the names of our current leaders have become a hissing curse.
We can’t lay all our many disappointments on Obama, but as a leader he epitomizes everything we dislike about America’s politicians and their chosen profession. The constant and obvious partisanship, or his eagerness to confiscate the personal wealth of those Americans he despises and throw it to his fawning supporters like raw meat dropped among a pack of stray dogs. We don’t respect him, he doesn’t respect us. And while we certainly don’t believe that a different president would have made all of our country’s many problems disappear, we’ve now come to realize this president didn’t even bother to try.
Passage of time and a growing contempt can easily kill what little love lingers on and our current political leaders have ensured that any remaining love we feel for this country will be thoroughly unrequited.
The Intermediary| 9.30.11 @ 6:43PM
Pretty sure that picture is of him drinking a beer from a wizards-bulls game in 2009, yet the article title is in the present tense.
POST American| 9.30.11 @ 6:58PM
---------------------FINAL WORD-----------------------
AS the US moves toward its fifth, and maybe
last even ceremonially POST American election
----while fallout from the greatest world nuclear
disaster in world history, AND weaponization
of our food,water, air and meds is unmentioned--
---while Agenda 21 etc. quietly brings the UN
forward as unaccountable, unelected 'world
authority'
----while USURERS,masking as policy makers
borrow 180 MILLION a minute from the
most awesomely brutal regime history's
EVER seen
----BEYOND Cain, Romney, Obama --and even
Ron Paul ---
-------the small matter of TREASON
------------the trifling issue of EUGENICS
--------------the detail of GENOCIDE
There's
----------HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012----------
Bennie violence might never be the same.
Dan Mathewson| 10.1.11 @ 5:51PM
YAAAWWWN!
dw| 9.30.11 @ 8:01PM
There is nothing this socialist idiot is doing that could not have been forseen. I, for one, saw it coming and am dissapointed that so called Americans would elect this traitor to the highest office in the land.
Buck Ofama| 9.30.11 @ 9:17PM
The only thing shovel-ready is Ovomit herself.
Bruce Berger| 9.30.11 @ 9:24PM
This is akin to Carter's "malaise" address to the nation. My only regret about this remark by Obama was that it was not delivered in a national address. If he had done so, there is absolutely no way he would be re-elected.
address unknown| 9.30.11 @ 9:38PM
Obama probably doesn't read TAS postings. How would it be if we al designated ever Friday as "Obama Billet-doux Day" and we write a short note - - it can even be on toilet paper - - telling him how we feel. If nothing else, they will burn up a few shredders disposing of the avalanche of mail every MOnday morning. We can also write a Get Well note to Jay Carney, who looks like he is in total meltdown with what he thought was going to be "walkin' in tall cotton" instead of wading in excrement daily. Mine will say:
Roses are faded
Violets are shrinking
Since you've been spokesman,
Have you taken up
Drinking?
For Obama:
Hope and Change -
What lofty goals!
Your Ship of Fools
Has hit the shoals.
Or I could steal from Roger MIller - -
Dang ya, Dang ya -
They ought to take a rope
and hang ya
From the Truman balcony
should work -
A fitting end for sucha
Obamanable Jerk
How many Fridays until November 12, 2012?
Maybe on November 13, we can send him a condolence card - - "Finally, the Effing Effer's effed." Versatile word - adjective, noun and verb.
For this not to backfire on honest citizens - you would be advised to used rubber gloves in handling paper, envelope and stamp and use a pen you stole from the cup on the counter of some Union Local office and drive to another city to mail it - that is the kind of country we have been reduced to - fear of our leader.
Nice| 10.1.11 @ 4:46AM
He rose to the occasion and discharged his obligation.
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William Tucker| 10.1.11 @ 8:47AM
Wasn't there a President a couple of years back who said America was suffering a "crisis of confidence" - "a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our Nation?" I wonder whatever happened to him?
Dennis | 10.1.11 @ 9:47AM
(Hey c'mon Mr. RET, sir, ZEDO is just pummeling me.......)
Oldefarte| 10.1.11 @ 1:59PM
This country has not grown 'soft', but it has ACTED STUPIDLY. It began this activity mostly upon 11/4/08, when it elected its current president. Until that time, it gradually did so by historically electing Democrats whose party has evolved slowely until that date into its present status of being a haven for socialism, domestic terrorism and redistributive income policies carried out by their control of government and use of taxiation as the means for same. We have beome 'soft' in being gutless and clueless from allowing this to occur [as such this nation is stupid]. Our so-called government of the people, by the people and for the people; has instead become of/for/by the domestic terrorist liberals of the Democratic Party. In that sense, YES WE ARE 'SOFT' [in the head] !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rick| 10.1.11 @ 8:43PM
Your WRONG! Theres' NOTHING wrong with Obamas' polices! Its just headwins. Your a bigget and a rasist. These are tough times worse than even the depresion and Word War 2. We had to control negitive talk then and we should now starting with you!
new_rep | 10.1.11 @ 8:45PM
I wonder which bozo sycophant in his entourage came up with this latest brainstorm.
In the fantasyland of Obamaland, all those "awesome" workers just happen to be fans of his, i.e. government workers, or those dependent on govt policy, i.e. the construction workers.
Let's see ... before "the last couple of decades" .. we've got ... hmmmm ... OK now I get it. Sounds like he's pining for the good old days of --- hoo boy --- Reaganomics. When the economy was firing on all cylinders, public & private sectors, defense plants as well as consumer industries, everything. Well Mr. O, guess what ... all you have to do to emulate Mr. R. ... meaning do everything pretty much the exact opposite of all you've done so far.
If Mr. O is so concerned about our having "gone soft", he might start to set an example by knocking off the golf games for awhile, take (a lot) fewer vacations ... keep the fundraisers down to once in awhile ... you get the idea. Actually be seen as doing the job, and actually ... do the job. Duh.
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POST American| 10.2.11 @ 12:46AM
--------Putting aside this former Kissinger aide,
Harvard 'innie' and son of Globalist CIA operative
Ann Dunham for a moment-------
Just days ago Bloomberg News admitted,
in some detail, the REALITY that FUKISHIMA
is, by far, the greatest world nuclear disaster
of ALLLLL time.
Each of the 5 melted down GE reactors is tens of
times more powerful than Chernobyl.
The HAARP signatures for the 3/11 and 4/11
seismic events are there.
Remember, days after the first, Yahoo News
reported the GREATEST
ozone hole ever suddenly appearing over
just that area. The report was pulled after
a day, never talked about, and never seen again.
Add to this the 11's --and the Haiti quake
too on 1/11. AND the mega tsunami in SE
Asia in 2004 ---on Mao Tse Tung's Birthday.
And we of the NON hypnotized recall those
massive kills of blackbirds over the midwest,
and millions of dead sardines washing up
in California just weeks before.
And, in this age when NO crime is unsolvable,
has anyone heard anything on John Wheeler's
murder? ---again, a mere week or two before
the FUKISHIMA blast.
Chernobyl, we now know, over the following
decade, exterminated 1 MILLION.
There you have it. 5 reactors, GE reactors,
flawed reactors ---each pulsiing at 50 times
the strength of Chernobyl.
-----------------YOU DO THE MATH------------------
Dan Mathewson| 10.2.11 @ 5:44PM
Nah. Don't want to do math. Math was never a part of my fantasticallness.
Maxx| 10.2.11 @ 4:49PM
Actually I think Obama has got this one right. For those of us old enough to remember our WWII/ Depression era parents and grandparents you would be smacked or at the very least get a lecture for just leaving a light on in a room you weren't in. Credit card balances, SUVs for a family of four, eating out, new clothes, new shoes a home theater!? All this was foreign to that generation and they were better off for it and so were we!
Intelligent Design| 10.2.11 @ 5:15PM
The U.S. economy has declined in step with its acceptance of socialist ideology. Obama and Demo-Socialist comrades are the problem, not the solution.
POST American| 10.2.11 @ 10:03PM
------------------BOTTOMLESS LINE------------------
--------------------TRUTH HURTS---------------------
--------Now BACK to enjoying your rectums--------
-----------Microchips, Prozak n' Autism
--------------Just---- keep---- a----- goin'...
John II| 10.2.11 @ 10:43PM
The Professor's Florida piffle got me to thinking about all the shovel-ready achievements of liberalism over the past several decades. Where to start?
Consider, for example, what liberalism has done to the culture. There's much less waiting, despite the left's preferential option for long lines in places like the Post Office and concepts like a socialized medical system. I am old enough to recollect a time when you had to wait, wait, wait for the circus to come to town in order to see a freak show. Today there's no wait. All you need do is run over to the local shopping mall, or just look out the front window and wait for a few public school kids to walk by.
Or think of what liberalism has done to the economy. I remember when you could actually work your way through college--I mean, forty-five years ago, when tuition, room, and board was about $2400 a year at an upscale private university. Today, forty-five years later, when the general cost of living has increased by a factor of about 5 (a relatively minor liberal achievement), the cost of a year at the same college has increased by a factor of more than 20. Liberalism thus gives us abundant opportunity to be grateful--grateful, for example, that the whole country isn't yet run by the kinds of (very liberal) people who run universities.
People like, for example, the Professor.
And now back to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"--the superior 1956 version, in which Kevin McCarthy (no relation to the senator from Wisconsin, but he WAS the brother of the truthful Mary McCarthy) plays a small-town doctor confronted by the menace of extraterrestrial seed-pods which take over the minds and souls of normal people and turn them into liberals. When I first saw that flick at the local theatre in my home town in the heart of the American wilderness, the popcorn was 15 cents a bag and a box of Junior Mints cost a nickel. Liberalism fixed all that too.