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The Obama Watch
Obama Misses Wide Left — and Still Scores!
Get ready for tonight’s big game and a president playing by his own rules.
The attempted field goal went wide left in the final moments of the Baltimore Ravens 23-to-20 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday. Poor snake-bitten Billy Cundiff! If that had been Barack Obama instead of him doing the kicking, the president would have split the uprights — with the exact same kick.
The trick is to kick first, and then move the goal posts into the desired position.
If you tune into tonight’s State of the Union address, you will see how the president snatches victory from the jaws of defeat in his telling of recent economic history.
He does it with a hypothetical field goal — claiming credit (even in dismal economic circumstances) for saving the country from a far worse financial and economic disaster.
When President Obama gave his first address to Congress three years ago, he spoke of how the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would transform the flagging economy. He stated:
Over the next two years, this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs…. Thanks to our recovery plan, we will double the nations supply of renewable energy over the next three years…. We have also made the largest investment in basic research funding in American history — an investment that will spur not only new discoveries in energy, but breakthroughs in medicine, science, and technology.… We will soon lay down thousands of miles of power lines that can carry new energy to cities and towns around the country.
Never mind that the U.S. economy actually had a net loss of more than two million jobs over the same period of time that the Obama administration had projected would see the creation of more than three million new jobs.
And never mind that we haven’t seen a real boom in renewable energy or the creation of thousands of new power lines carrying new energy to cities and towns across the U.S. Instead of that we have witnessed a series of debacles involving Solyndra and other clean energy startups that sucked up hundreds of millions of dollars of federal subsidies before going bust.
Obama’s hypothetical field goal — the what-if projection of what might have been in the absence of the stimulus program — is based upon a computer model which assumes (against a large body of contrary evidence) that every $1 of government spending will yield $1.50 or more in higher GDP. On this basis, the president claims that he has “created or saved” several million jobs. The logic here is — ‘It is assumed, therefore it is.”
Still more, this assumption is based on the logic — or illogic — of thinking that it is possible to enlarge the public sector (through borrowing or taxes) without depressing the private sector.
No one — even Obama — expresses much satisfaction over the actual performance of the economy. That best he can say is that it could have been worse. Hence the focus on fairness — the divvying of a pie that no one assumes will be growing from one year to the next.
According to a front-page story in this weekend’s New York Times, Obama is working toward his vision of “an America where everyone gets a fair shot, every does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules.”
But when the president talks of everyone playing by “the same set of rules,” it seems that what he really means is an ever-changing set of rules — which can be endlessly adjusted for any lapses between planned and actual outcomes, and further adjusted to accommodate his personal preferences as to what may be fair or unfair any given situation.
Hence all the Obamacare “waivers” and countless examples both of crony capitalism and of special treatment for political allies in the trade unions and environmental circles.
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Darin| 1.24.12 @ 6:41AM
I love the line "a job saved." It sounds nice but is meaningless and impossible to prove or disprove. In any debate against Obama, the GOP nominee should hammer this point. Insist Obama define what a "job saved" really is in actual employment terms and how Obama can objectively (not subjectively - emphasize this point) prove the "save" part was due to anything he did. In short, expose the line for the political BS it really is. Obama and the lamestream media will hate it, but any American watching will instantly pick up on it.
TrueBlue | 1.24.12 @ 7:05PM
They also need to point out that their unemployment numbers are flawed. How can one consider unemployment to be dropping when the numbers are based only on the number of people applying for unemployment checks and doesn't consider the reduction of ~1.5 million participants (people no longer looking for work) from 2010-2011 alone.
It also doesn't consider the number of people working part-time jobs when they need full-time jobs to support their family and how the larger number of adults in the part-time workforce seriously depresses the number of teenagers participating in the workforce (they aren't even counted in the initial count of reduced participants), down to ~21% from around 34%.
Sam Deakins| 1.24.12 @ 6:52AM
Obama's financial computer model must be the same one used for global warming.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.24.12 @ 6:57AM
You looked into the face of a despicable liar.
Everything he stated was a lie. In three years his only accomplishment was to increase the national debt by 4 trillion.
The Obama stimulus was nothing but a slick money laundering scheme which continues to this day.
If it looks like Obama is going to be re-elected look for further economic bad news.
Share and share alike.
jothepro| 1.24.12 @ 7:31AM
Bill, Try 6 trillion by the end of the year. Just think how bad it would have been without the ONE.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 10:31AM
Only a 40% increase over the $10 trillion he inherited from the RED party. Subtract out the interest on the BUSH debt (America was HUNDREDS of BILLIONS ahead, in the BLACK, before Bush went on a shopping spree for Cheney and Rumsfeld) and subtract out the WAR costs and the interest on THAT, you have a tad over 6% of the entire deficit.
Only instead of a failed war, 5000 DEAD and 30,000 wounded, the respect of only countries we OWN and 10 million HOMELESS families...
.... America has a stock market approaching RECORD levels, renovated and upgraded roads nationwide, unemployment down to to Reagan Era levels despite RED party obstructionism, stonewalling and stagnation.
This last Christmas was the most robust since Geo Bush tanked the economy into recession with neglect and abdication of responsibility. Barack Obama stopped the free fall into DEPRESSION dead in it's tracks within 6 months.
The only obstacle to economic BOOM recovery has been the ancient Republican fantasy that Herbert Hoover did the right thing by cutting taxes for the rich, and not supporting the middle class. They prove their failure to govern effectively EVERYDAY with deregulatory bills stacked up in the House and NO JOBS BILLS, NO FAIR TAX discounts and NO GROWTH in the RED party agenda.
TOnight, I look forward to The American President calling John Boehner A LIAR to his face on National television, knowing he can NEVER be sued for telling truth.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 10:37AM
Without the RED party's blatent and stated agenda to make THE Government of The United States of America ineffective so that they can grab power (that sounds SO much like Achmedinijad explaining Iran's dedication to the extermination of Israel) and drive this country backwards ANOTHER 50 years...
... 5 million less citizens would be unemployed, 5 million homes could have been refinanced, The deficit could have been stabilized and the nation would be free of employer controlled and dictated healthcare.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 11:22AM
There ya go. Straight from the Horses Ass: Everything's fine. We are thisclose to BOOMTOWN USA, if only President Marxism could just Raise Taxes some more. If we only had MORE Regulations. If only there was another source of Oil, waiting to come down from Canada, and bring Oil and Natural Gas, and THOUSANDS of New Jobs, with it, that President Perfect could VETO. Damn those Republicans!
And he hopes that President Pinocchio, will call John Boehner, a Liar.
"I'll have what he's drinking."
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:30AM
TLP: did you note that Biden only contributed $368 to charity last year?
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 1:58AM
there is NOT one single job in all of Bonehead's 27 bills. There ARE however, extra regulations about making regulationas AND the multi billion dollars bugets to make bigger Government happen. Where is it funded from? Whose tax dollars do we use to make CEO get bigger bonuses in EXISTING jobs?
20,000 jobs is all the REDS offer the America they left Obama to fix that was losing 750,000 jobs a month!!!!?????????? No wonder you need a drink Timmy boy.
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 12:52PM
Everyone else here should don [or instead purchase] a extra high level of HIP BOOTS, because this moron is spreading BULLEXCREMENT to heights/levels not witnessed by Noah and his ark!!!!!!!!!!
jothepro| 1.24.12 @ 1:11PM
Only 40%. fckewe you a-hole..
TrueBlue | 1.24.12 @ 7:08PM
40% in a single term being the important bit of information here. It was $10 trillion total from every president since the Great Depression, and Obama managed 40% of that in 3 years...
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 1:59AM
Did you get a hardon typing all that?
markenoff| 1.24.12 @ 5:45PM
The combined costs of both Iraq and Afghanistan were less than the cost of the stimulus bill. Look it up. And by rights we should reduce the cost by the amount we would have spent to continue to enforce the no fly zones over Iraq, to enforce UN resolutions over the same time period and to occasionally launch cruise missile strikes at aspirin factories and empty tents (see Clinton, Bill and USS Cole bombing). For twelve years we paid these costs and would have continued to pay them invasion or no so they are not additional spending but spending used a different way.
And, unlike spending to reward BO campaign contributors under the guise of "green" (the color of the campaign cash) energy (see Solyndra, SUNpower and Fiskar) the money spent on the military actually falls under an area (defense) where the federal government is Constitutionally required to act.
TrueBlue | 1.24.12 @ 7:10PM
Don't forget that they included the paychecks for everyone over there too, DoD civilians and military personnel alike. You know, the paychecks they would have been receiving anyway if they had been back stateside.
Also, the death rate in Iraq and Afghanistan was less than the average percentage of homicide in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and D.C.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:03AM
does that include the reconstruction, the graft ,the LOST cash and the private contractors? NO! Those are NEVER mentioned in public.
Isn't it clever of the RED's to abuse the Constitution to create a war where none existed, for reasons that never happened and to use the Constitution to justify giving thier best buds no bid, uncontested contracts for 100% or more markup on unnecessary services and faulty goods?
you must be soooo proud.
Michael Tomlinson| 1.24.12 @ 7:08AM
If you're a masochist watch tonight's charade, but if you wish to preserve you sanity and kill Obama’s ego (ratings) don’t waste your time. Low ratings for the vaunted blow hard will be knife in his narcissism.
For the single mom thinking about voting for this intellectual midget or the poor black stuck in racial bigotry share these simple realities of the Obama occupation of the White House.
The U.S. city average retail price for one pound of 100 % ground beef was $2.36 in January 2009. As of December 2011, that price had risen to $2.92—a 23.7 % increase and a new peak. (Ground beef prices have risen every month since November 2009 – 26 months of price increases.)
Whole wheat bread prices from January 2009 to December 2011 increased about 5.02 % from $1.97 to $2.07. (The inflation rate in December 2011 was 3 %.) Among the first 36 months of Obama’s presidency, the last four (September, October, November, December) showed the average price of one pound of whole wheat bread hovering slightly above two dollars.
One pound of sliced bacon in January 2009 was $3.73 and in December 2011 had climbed $4.55, an increase of 22 %. The price hit a high in September 2011 at $4.82 per pound.
Whole milk prices averaged above three dollars 33 out of the 36 months since Obama took office. In January 2009, the price for one gallon of whole milk was $3.58; but by December 2011, milk prices had slightly declined less than 1 % (0.28 percent) to $3.57 per gallon.
Moe Blotz| 1.24.12 @ 8:47AM
Right, but look at all the free balogna (or baloney) we have been fed from the slicer in chief and his media distribution network. The White House has been changed into a balogna factory.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 10:38AM
hahaha very clever! LMAO.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 10:51AM
The prives are up because BIG Oil is gouging the consumers (which include most businesses who pass on costs to you and I). Fertilizer's, Diesel for equipment and transportation, power and live stock feed have all been increased in proportion to the $70/BBL oil that is NOW trading @ $100+.
$40 billion a quarter in BIG OIL profits,and you think the President is to blame? This President? Not the guys who spewed 172 MILLION BARRELS oil into the Gulf of Mexico?
That's Almost 16 Valdez tanker spills in one place. That's more than 3 full Valdez size tankers. Funny how oil prices jump after BIG OIL screws up. Would you have blamed BUSH or any other White President? no one blamed Ronald Reagan... So I guess that answer is NO, you wouldn't have.
Big question. Would you have ELECTED Ronald REAGAN if her were black? Would you question his religion, his birthplace, his deregulation policies? Would he still be your hero if he were Black?
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 11:04AM
How much "PROFIT" does the Government (Federal and State) make on every gallon of Gasoline, Fuel, and Heating Oil?
The Oil Companies FIND it. DRILL it. REFINE it. SHIP it. And DISTRIBUTE it.
The Government does nothing. Like any other Organized Crime Family. They take their CUT. 100% Profit, for 0% Work.
That's RICO, for you and me.
Not EWE. I'm talking about Real People. People who Work, and Provide for their families. Not the parasites who spend their waking hours, with their heads up the Muslim's Ass.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:07AM
The resources do not belong to the OIL COMPANIES, they just take it from AMericans (yes, the 1 % as well as the rest of us). Exxon spent more on attorneys and relied on Bush appointees to pay 10 cents on the dollar for permanent damages to industries and land along the 1300 mile disaster area. Talk about CRIME!
Dkid you know that Prescott Bush laundered Nazi pilferings (Gold and Art looted from Jews) and thefts for Hitler and the Third Reich? After he was dumped from the Senate, he was a private banker.
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 12:55PM
No doubt Obama's propaganda machine is in full operation now cranking out the BULLEXCREMENT from a back office with the Holder's US Justice Dept; from the contents of this slime !!!!!!!!!
markenoff| 1.24.12 @ 5:36PM
By "BIG Oil" I'm sure you mean the state owned oil companies PEMEX, PETROBRA, KNP, Saudi National etc. If so I am in agreement. So let's break the OPEC cartels by drilling and refining our domestic oil here.
And yes, I would have voted for "Ronald REAGAN" if her (sic) were (sic) black. Just like I would not vote a socialist who attended an extremist church and who pals around with domestic terrorist if he were white.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:08AM
But you DID! you don't think throwing an election is Domestic Terror?
Appleby| 1.24.12 @ 7:15AM
We in Ontario have a Premier (we call him Premier Dad, which is not a compliment) who spouts the same rubbish in the face of incontrovertable evidence to the contrary -- Ontario has five times the emplooyment of anywhere else in Canada, and we continue to see prices rise and unions control the government -- and while unemployment rises and businesses close or flee Ontario, McGinty focuses on a radical new sex education mandate in schools which will start teaching six year olds that their gender is fungible and that they may be one of five different genders including something called "two-spirit" (fortunately we have the Muslims and Hindus to stop this in its tracks, as forcing Christians to participate has become the norm). Our Green Energy is being provided at huge cost by South Korea (Samsung) and our power bills will rise 46% in the next five years -- the government has told us so.
Yet this man, who has lied about everything he did and everything he plans to do, was re-elected by the liberals of downtown Toronto - everyone else in the Province voted against him.
If anybody down there would study what's happening up here, maybe somebody would get the message.
I will not watch the State of the Union Address; fortunately, I have choir practice.
Appleby| 1.24.12 @ 7:16AM
Five times the unem ployment. Not the employment.
Moe Blotz| 1.24.12 @ 8:54AM
The only news we receive about Canada deals with the country as a whole and Prime Minister Harper, nothing about the separate provinces. Most Yanks know little about our neighbours to the north outside of hockey and the Keystone pipeline. Ontario has a problem similar to New York in the way gotham controls the state. I heard you can get a good pint of cider in Kingston.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 7:43AM
The Democrats ceased being an American Political Party, a long time ago. They're more of a Cult, than they are a Political Party. More like an Organized Crime Family. They don't represent people, as much as they Represent a Movement. An Ideology. A FAITH.
I look at them and I see Lenin's Communists.
Don't you?
The same Slogans. The same "Collectivist" Mantra. The same Anger. The same CLENCHED FIST, on the Signs that they carry.
I see the Nazi Party, in their Demonstrations. The Violence. The Intimidation. The BROKEN GLASS.
I see the Soviets, in their 5 Years Plans. I see them in their Attacks on Wealth, their attacks on Private Property, Socialized Medicine, and their attacks on Inheritance. (Marx would be very proud.)
I see Castro, in the way that a phone call is made, and Buses fill up with the Dictators Street Gangs (SEIU, AFL-CIO) where they travel to the Homes of the Dictator's Enemies, to TERRORIZE and INTIMIDATE their Families.
I see Chavez, in his Total Control of the MEDIA. In his attempts to Control the Internet. And his Campaign of ENVY and ANGER, pitting American against American, in his Quest for Power.
I see Ahmadinejad, in his Plan to ARM the Mexican Narco TERRORISTS, in an effort to Cow the American People in to accepting his Diktat of an Unarmed Citizenry.
I see NERO, in his Lust for Extravagance, and Luxury, even as his Subjects are foraging for their meager existence. I see Caligula, in his total disregard for the LIMITS of his Power. In the way he CHOOSES which Laws HE will Enforce, and which ones HE will not. HE will decide what is Constitutional, and what is not. He will Defy the Roman Senate, and make of himself: A GOD.
Plus, he's married to that Horse.
I did Cocaine for 25 Years. But, I wasn't addicted to it. I wasn't an Addict. I denied being one, and I lost EVERYTHING. I needed to ADMIT what I was doing. What I was.
Every time I read one of these Obama Stories, I just shake my head. When will these people admit what he is doing, ON PURPOSE? When will they admit WHAT HE IS?
People never learn. History repeats itself, again and again, and so do we.
Everything he does, he said he was gonna do. Everything Hitler did, he said he was gonna do. Same with Lenin, Stalin, Castro and Chavez. They ALWAYS tell us, who they are, and what their Plan is. And the people DENY what the See and Hear, until the Train goes off the tracks. Until their lives are no longer their own.
Until it's TOO LATE.
The only "Consolation" is that the Dictator's Reach, always exceeds his Grasp. He always goes too far. And, in the end, the people turn on him, and reclaim their lives. But their Freedom, always comes at a Great Cost.
Someone (I think it was de Tocqueville) that "America gets the Leaders it DESERVES".
Look at our Culture. Look at what passes for Television. Listen to the Lyrics of the "Music" of the time. Violence, incivility, arrogance and indifference. Our Churches sit Empty, as our Prisons fill. We are Devolving, as a Country, as our Elected "Representatives" seek to become Feudal Lords, and our President seeks a CROWN for his head.
I know that my comments, tend to be too long, but I'm trying to make people Open their eyes. I'm trying to make people BELIEVE what they THINK is going on, because it IS happening. Our Freedoms ARE under assault. Our way of life IS in jeopardy. We need to ADMIT IT.
Before it's too late.
Dick Nome| 1.24.12 @ 8:38AM
While you are mentioning cults, don't forget the Paulbot cult.
cvrgrl| 1.24.12 @ 11:59AM
"I look at them and I see Lenin's Communists. Don't you? The same Slogans. The same "Collectivist" Mantra. The same Anger. The same CLENCHED FIST, on the Signs that they carry.
"I see the Nazi Party, in their Demonstrations. The Violence. The Intimidation. The BROKEN GLASS.
"I see the Soviets, in their 5 Years Plans....
"I see Castro, in the way that a phone call is made, and Buses fill up...
"I see Chavez, in his Total Control of the MEDIA....
"I see Ahmadinejad, in his Plan to ARM the Mexican Narco TERRORISTS...
"I see NERO, in his Lust for Extravagance, and Luxury, even as his Subjects are foraging for their meager existence. I see Caligula, in his total disregard for the LIMITS of his Power. In the way he CHOOSES which Laws HE will Enforce, and which ones HE will not. HE will decide what is Constitutional, and what is not. He will Defy...
...People never learn. History repeats itself, again and again, and so do we."
hum, tim, this might be your finest rant
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 6:30PM
They're not "Rants".
They're Diatribes.
(Just kidding)
Thanks.
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:31AM
Dick: don't get Tim started on Paul. He hates him more eloquently than I do. I love Tim's stuff.
Moe Blotz| 1.24.12 @ 8:57AM
We ELECT the leaders we deserve. BTW I tried Coke once, but the bubbles burned my nose.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 10:54AM
WOW! That's some powerful ACID you're dropping there Tiny Tim! Seeing all KINDS of hallucinations! You're NOT driving when you dose yourself with Koolaid are you My boy?
you keep on typing... It'll keep you away fro the Elementary schools.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 11:32AM
And, there he is. Mr. fckewe. And, see how he REFUTES all of the points that I've made.
I'm "Dropping Acid" I'm "Hallucinating".
Mr. fckewe has written one of his Non-Hallucinating comments, up above. I believe it's his 10:31 AM Contribution to this Healthy Debate.
Please take the time to partake in Mr. fckewe's Cogent Findings of How Great Things Are, today, in Obama World, and how much BETTER we all cold be, if we just listened to him.
Then get back to me on just WHOM is on Acid.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:14AM
Believe Me ,things are pretty bad when the Speaker of the House can make 6 million from insider trading, defend tax exemptions for his golf buddies and collect a pay raise while planning to freeze Federal wages for 3 more years.
How can he honestly cash his paycheck when he doesn't even show up when the House is in session? Even on the 100 days a year he is present, he hasn't done a bit of work for his constituents. Has ONE job been created in his district in Ohio?
things are terrible and It will take more than a acid dropping lifetime snow blower to make it better with rants. You aren't living on a VA pension are you? On the DOLE as they say in England.
Ken (Old Texican) | 1.24.12 @ 8:03AM
Thanks Timothy.
I won't be watching tonight.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 9:11AM
Neither will I.
KennesawJack| 1.24.12 @ 9:58AM
Nor I.
Al Adab| 1.24.12 @ 11:23AM
Frankly gentlemen, the entire GOP congressional delegation should absent themselves from tonights campaign speech. The SotU adress has long been a PR event, a partisan sham. It is time to recognize that fact and stop pretending and lending creedence to it through attendance.
cvrgrl| 1.24.12 @ 12:05PM
look what odumbo did to paul ryan for showing up and being respectfully present, better to show no confidence in administration by going skiing, bowling, sticking a fork in eye, anything would be more pleasant
empty seats would be a vote of no confidence
Skippy| 1.24.12 @ 5:32PM
My little girl leaves next month to fight Obamas war in Afghanistan.
I will spend the evening watching the Nat Geo special on Camp Leatherneck.
Those Marines will be her bodyguards while she builds bridges for the Taliban to blow up.
Watch her CinC on TV?
Not since 1/09.
RCV| 1.24.12 @ 6:55PM
I hope the GOP congressmen take your advice - it will further destroy their already abyssmal estimation in the public mind.
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:34AM
RCV: you remindme of Margaret Hamilton a bit here: did you know she loved the line "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog, too..." and tried to work it into conversation when she could?
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:32AM
Obama was speaking? I was blogging on TAS. Much more enlightening.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:16AM
That is abdication of responsibility. My representative didn't show and there is already a petition to have him recalled for dereliction of duty. His obligation is to his constituents, not to abusing his office to shout louder Bullshit than he did before.
Louis Jenkins| 1.24.12 @ 8:48AM
As grandma used to say, "Assume means it will make an a-- out of you and me." That's what Obama has, and was, become. This speech will swell around the "middle class." Since when did he give a rip about the middle class?
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 10:55AM
SInce he spent 4 decades as one of us Working Class people.
TW in SC| 1.24.12 @ 12:37PM
Doing what?
Skippy| 1.24.12 @ 5:34PM
Stepping ahead of a qualified applicant based on his melenin count, that's what.
Louis Jenkins| 1.24.12 @ 1:03PM
Mr. fckewe:
Obama spent four decades as working class person? You are without a doubt the hallucinating individual on this blog. Four decades? In the S. Pacific, in America, at Harvard, in Chicago? Obama may have been black but he has lived a life more filled with privilege than I, or most of the other people on this blog. Now accuse me (another hallucination) of being racist.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:18AM
DOing homework earning an advanced degree, volunteering in his community, representing citizens in court and BTW Mr. Jenkins, What privileges do you deserve that he did not earn?
numbatdog| 1.24.12 @ 8:58AM
The Soviets were masters at this kind of lying on a grand scale. Despite failure after failure of the governments "5 year plans", the long suffering population were assured they never had it so good. As the people of Cuba, Venesuala and North Korea are assured daily everything could be fantastic if only the Western capitalist dogs would stop sabotaging them. This is the real achievement of socialism- endless excuses for constant failure.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 10:58AM
Not only has the West sabotaged them, they have invaded Venezuela for it's PetroEuro policy. Just we tried to di in 1961 in Cuba... Just like we did in 2003 in Iraq and we sabotage our enemies just like we are doing today in Iran.
I agree that Iranian threat deserves MORE sanctions and actions, but the rest was ALL futile and unwarranted.
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 12:59PM
Your Berkley professor no doubt told [brainwashed] you that, huh????
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:19AM
no, I have a Stanford and American university education. Full ride scholarship and paid cash for the MBA.
Where did oldefarte struggle to get his education, Trailer park high?
Dave | 1.24.12 @ 9:12AM
Actually, I'll be more focused on what the Republican good 'ol boys have to say. We all know Obama and his Marxists are liars, but the people WE put in office, and then weasel their way into leadership positions all seem to end-up handing us the SOS day after day, while dabbing their eyes and begging their D.C. tormentors - "Please don't call us bad names or say icky stuff."
Like his chances or not, Gingrich (at this point) is taking it to his tormentors in the national media, and may soon (fingers crossed) begin aiming his spot-on rhetoric where it SHOULD targeted: Barack Obama and his agenda for a socialist America.
We'll see how it goes. At this point, Yogi's quote from many decades ago still rings true: "It ain't over 'til it's over."
Let's hope not.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 11:00AM
you already KNOW what the RED ROBOT party is going to say. The same thing they have said for 100 days, tomorrow will be no different.
"If we can't be quarterback, we won't let you use our ball."
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 1:04PM
In November, we will not only become 'quarterback' but coach, team owner, league commissioner, chief cook and bottle washer besides; and will thereafter begin the process of weeding out the non-athletic-Americans from the team [in addition to shoving the pumpkin up their WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE !!!!!!!!!!!!
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:22AM
You like doing that? Shoving pumpkins? Was that your assisted living center band back in the day?
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:20AM
And Mitch Daniels had written his response BEFORE he heard a word... LOL.
ncatty| 1.24.12 @ 9:42AM
I like the anticipation by the media and Obama supporters every time he delivers a speech. They keep waiting for that old magic. Then it doesn't happen. It won't happen tonight , either. Didn't he just make a speech that was supposed to be momentous? Somebody remind me what it was.
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 9:44AM
The Candidate in the Republican Party who demonstrates that they will be a better choice than Obama will be the winner for my vote.
Anthony| 1.24.12 @ 10:05AM
A game show like no other, has the SOTU become. Clowns participating in a farce, with an Oprah like D party blindly cheerleading for their loser. The only thing missing will be the funny costumes.
Watch for 30 standing O's by the desperate Ds in their prime time display of " how can we fool them again".
It will be a sickening display of hubris and denial by The One.
Then the whores in the MSM will do their clean -up, with their parsing of Obozo's words looking for hope, strength, and another chance to prop up their empty suit of a messiah.
The teleprompter will spew out platitudes like a sing along with Mitch Miller, as the Ds mouth the words in unison with Obozo.
I'd rather watch re-runs of Vanna White than this crap.
Indiana Alex| 1.24.12 @ 10:10AM
The only thing worse than the intellectual bankruptcy of someone who would judge thier performance by hypotheticals is someone who would blindly repeat such nonsense, or even believe it to be true.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 11:02AM
you mean like Geo Bush saying "homeland security and My invasion of an innocent country has STOPPED terrorism because we haven't been attacked SINCE I fumbled the ball in the first year of My administration."
Indiana Alex| 1.24.12 @ 12:36PM
Using your logic, not mine, anyone can assert that anything they have done was wildly successful regardless of the actual outcome.
This tactic is an example of intellectual bankruptcy wherever and whenever employed.
Suggesting that this nonsense is viable logic because someone else has used it before is at least consistent with your daily reminders of the intellectual bankruptcy of the left.
TW in SC| 1.24.12 @ 12:40PM
Alex, you cannot reason with a fool. He doesn't think, he only FEELS.
Indiana Alex| 1.24.12 @ 1:01PM
I know, but I just like to picture this clown sitting around in Underoos, eating high sugar breakfast cereal out of a Tupperware bowl at 1pm, staring blankly at the crayola drawings on Mom's refrigerator, trying to grasp the tiniest insight into intellectual rigor, tilting too much in the chair and falling backwards, whacking emptly head on the counter and spilling milk all over Mom's kitchen.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:23AM
As I said, Bush's words, not Mine.
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 1:08PM
No......but instead like your socialist boy's extracting our military from terrorist-dominated countries while correspondingly un-officially encouraging the political takeover of same by Muslim Brotherhood elements so as to fulfill his father's dreams!!!!!!!!!!
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:23AM
you are privvey to his father's dreams HOW exactly?
VonMisesJr| 1.24.12 @ 10:18AM
Please let me explain. In Obama's "Big Brother" Marxist vernacular, "the same set of rules" means "the same set of rules as pre-industrial revolution serfdom."
He is the Monarch, the Congress and Wall Streeet are the Aristocrats and Nobles, and we are the serfs. Got it?
Note to trolls: that means you too. They are not your saviors. They are your enslavers.
Bob K.| 1.24.12 @ 10:19AM
I hope everybody here is smart enough not to watch it.
Peppermint Tea| 1.24.12 @ 10:31AM
"Judge their performance by the hypothetical"
I LOVE IT.
Things are bad, but if it wasn't for Obama, they would be worse. We would probably be dead or eating cat food, or even fish food.
The plan was good, but strong winds got in the way.
The recovery is working, sort of, if you squint--you are alive aren't you? It would have worked better but we had no idea of the crappy situation the George Bush left us in--how deep the trouble was.
Please vote democrat! It is the GOP that is stopping us from achieving the green, high consciousness, peaceful, fair, UTOPIA that we have envisioned. YES WE CAN! If we can slaughter all the republican pigs.
MY EGO is up to it. Is yours?
TW in SC| 1.24.12 @ 12:41PM
The most useless things in the English language, used often by the golfer-in-chief:
Would'a
Could'a
Should'a
Cynicon Implant| 1.24.12 @ 10:44AM
Why would anybody watch it? It's like watching a TV rerun of a show you've seen 10 times already. Boring. Not to mention insipid.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 11:03AM
HAHAHA like the 11 RED party sponsored debates? Where the chair of the debates can be bullied into APOLOGIZING for asking the most obvious question of the guy we need to hear some answers from?
TW in SC| 1.24.12 @ 12:49PM
When, exactly did John King apologize?
And the vetting process seems to be working overtime on republicans when media communists "take it to the floor" with inquiries about Gingrich's marriages. Yet, somehow that same vetting process slowed into immobility when Captain Zero was up. We still haven't seen his college transcripts, and his eligibility fight is about to take it on the chin, mostly because of the incredible secrecy involving his past. Why does he have a Connecticut SSN? Why did the media communists never ask him the "tough" questions that people like you seem to want to know about republicans, but never have the same curiosity about national socialists? Is it possibly because those of us who WORK and PAY TAXES owe you something? Is it because you always feel you're RIGHT to STAND UP FOR LABOR? Well, welcome to the Bolshevik Revolution, comrade fckewe. With a screen name like that, your anger is obvious and it's also pretty evident that it's a blind rage that clouds your ability to see anything beyond your simple agenda. So, let's say Captain Zero gets four more years...Come back and tell me how much better off you are when that happens, OK? I'll be right here.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:26AM
How did he get a SSN if he's not an American citizen by birth? Where are his naturalization papers? and what do his transcripts have to do with anything? There is no educational requirement for his job.
PS, He applied for SSN while going to school.
TW in SC| 1.25.12 @ 12:04PM
I didn't say he wasn't a US citizen, you did. His eligibility is in question because he is born of one parent who was NOT a US citizen. The Constitution doesn't specify the terminology of "natural born" but a federal court case regarding voting eligibility in 1876 does. The Supreme Court determined that a "natural born citizen" is one born of two parents who are US citizens.
As for getting a Connecticut SSN, one has to live, work or both in the state where the number is issued. He's from Hawaii? Why doesn't he have a Hawaiian SSN? His father never lived in CT, he never lived in CT and he never went to school there or worked there or anything. Harvard's in Massachusetts, last I looked, so why not a MA SSN? Columbia's in NY...so why not a NY SSN? So please explain those particulars if you'd be so kind.
As for King's apology, I didn't hear it and the MSM would be blaring it loudly daily if it were so. Or would they?
A google search, John King apologizes to Gingrich turns up only articles that say King has nothing to apologize for, not that he did or attempt to do so. Please provide a link to the video or sound bite where King apologizes.
And, for the record, King brought it up AGAIN when addressing Gingrich this morning. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/n.....have-ignor
King is a complete idiot and a communist tool.
You Marxists really want the golfer-in-chief to be your champion, don't you? Your rage about government has blinded you to what's real and what's necessary. You think that the reason you aren't getting what YOU want is all the republicans' fault. Well, I'll submit that you should look at yourself, first, sir. Drop the anger bit and realize that nobody's "out to get you".
However, the Marxists are rolling in and liberty is suffering. Liberty means the right to fail. People are imperfect and you cannot control that imperfection. You can, however, treat everyone equally under the law. But I think that you cannot understand that distinction. You want the government to control everything that you think is wrong or evil.
Good luck with that. It's called communism/socialism.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:27AM
It was the first sentence King spoke after Gingrich's assault and diversion. He STILL hasn't owned up to the truth yet.
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 1:10PM
Are you referring to the MSM's typical kissin and suckin within most presidential press conferences of the last several years perhaps???????
Mike| 1.24.12 @ 10:53AM
For those paying close attention to the debate last night, the candidates said some interesting things about the economy. Romney reprised Obama in 2008 when the president said the work would be hard, it would take time and it would require cooperation. Okay. That was truthful. When asked why the Bush tax cuts have not yielded tremendous job creation, a major tenet in right wing theology, the best Gingrich could come up with is "It would have been much worse without the tax cuts." Really? Again, a little truth telling.
Having no new dramatic ideas, the candidate relied on the tired old bromides: cut taxes, get rid of regulation and cut government spending. Late in the evening,Gingrich did outline a solid Keynesian plan to jump start the space industry in Florida. But by that time, the audience that come to watch a mud wrestling match had fallen asleep.
fckewe| 1.24.12 @ 11:07AM
AMEN!!!!! If we DON't pump ANOTHER stimulus into this slow rumbling recovery, we will have a 20 year stagnation ala Japan or AMerica in the late 30's. We need to use it to rebate mortgage holders so they can class action SUE the mortgage companies for knowingly offering bogus financing to unqualified persons, thus depriving qualified homeowners of equity and credit appreciation.
Indiana Alex| 1.24.12 @ 12:53PM
Almost 2.8 Million jobs lost, net, since Obama was elected.
Oh, wonderful. The liberal solution to the housing crash is to sue mortgage companies because your fellow libs, and thier friends and family don't enjoy the mental capacity to understand a loan agreement.
Solutions are so simple to the raging lib. I wonder why everyone doesn't see it the same way.
Pete| 1.24.12 @ 1:00PM
Yes, say they put all mortgage companies out of business. How will take help anybody. Now who forced the mortgage companies to give 110 percent loans without credit checks - ah the government.
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:36AM
Actually, just take any Bela Lugosi rant out of an Ed Wood film---it will make more sense than the SOTU address and the Democratic economic plan. "Pull the string, pull the string!"
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:32AM
Achim's Razor. The simplest solution is often the best. Why reorganize angencies with more complications and approval delays in a crisis circumstance. Just fix the dam roads the RED party neglected for 4 decades and guys will be on the job last year if Bonehead hadn't stifled usable legislation.
The pipeline to nowhere? Wouldn't it be cheaper to build the refinery in Minnesota and ship the fuel by rail, thus utilizing an existing Private enterprise and employing more people.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:40AM
And WHY can't the OIl Companies fund this with their 160 Billion dollar annual profits? it would be tax deductible.
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 1:13PM
What, those same mortgage companies who were forced by Democrats in government in 1977 by their passage of the CRA and which began the process of destroying the mortgage industry and the collapse of the housing industry today from same government intrusion???????????????????
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:35AM
They weren't forced to SWINDLE Americans. They all chose to do that on their own. 94% of all Fannie and Freddie loans are paying. have all through the crisis, which was initiated by an EX Fed Governor who shouted fire and wolf in the same sentence.
Granted, the bubble existed, but not from 10 million people conspiring to defraud 2000 banks!!!! LMAO
Slacker| 1.24.12 @ 12:04PM
Mike,
I have no idea how you are doing on Obama’s watch but, at least concede the point that individual circumstances differ. I was far better off in the time of Bush. My income grew every year under little Bush and early doubled during his 8 years.
My personal income has fallen every year under Obama. Frankly it seems the right wing theology worked a hell of a lot better than the disaster we are currently experiencing.
This Keynesian crap only works if you are fortunate enough to be in a sector favored by the regime.
Pete| 1.24.12 @ 12:57PM
Yes, I did well under Bush, at least until Pelosi and Reid took over Congress in 2007. But I did best under Clinton. Those were great years in which I learned to be an independent contractor not needing an employer. And in those Clinton/Gingrich years we actually started paying off the national debt.
Buck Ofama| 1.24.12 @ 1:07PM
>But I did best under Clinton.
Because Clinton moved center, and Gingrich worked out the compromises.
Dick Nome| 1.24.12 @ 3:21PM
Clinton didn't move anywhere, he was just a master bullshit artiste.
Mike| 1.24.12 @ 6:05PM
Slacker,
Many people did well during the housing bubble. I remember the Dow being above 14,000. What the bubble hid was the fact that employment went south throughout the Bush years in spite of the tax cuts. Fortunately both Bush and Obama using Kenysian prescriptions to keep the recession from turning into a depression. As a general rule, people don't do as well financially during a recession, however,mthey do even worse during a depression.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:39AM
I scored very well with investments too, but nonexistent regulation caused the First depression. Margin (leverage) was allowed up to 10 times cash on hand. Not 40oo % above cash assets. That was the liquidity problem Hank Goleman-Sachs Paulsen "just never saw coming".
Why was he so keen to rebate taxes in a deficit wartime economy? To extend the boom just enough to get out of office ahead of the crash. He just failed by 4 months after a 2nd quarter of artificial 3.9% GDP (the fundamentals of the economy are fine).
Buck Ofama| 1.24.12 @ 1:06PM
this g0ddamnedNIGGER.
Curtis Rasmussen| 1.24.12 @ 3:31PM
Obama is a lying Marxist POS but your comment pretty much negates anything you say.
Mike| 1.24.12 @ 6:15PM
Curtis,
If Obama is a Marxist the every president since Theodore Roosevelt has been a Marxist. This is the position of Grover Norquist. It is also the position of people who don't even know they are Marxist. D I'm thinking of the man who stood up in a town meeting during the summer of 2009 and insisted that the government keeps its hands off of his Medicare.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:42AM
What exactly makes Him a Marxist? name calling is childish and unless you can answer... you prove your maturity and your worth in a conversation.
Pat| 1.24.12 @ 4:17PM
In politics, as in the science fiction genre, the necessary ingredient to peddling your story is suspending disbelief. Sure, ET doesn’t actually exist, but what if benevolent aliens from distant galaxies really do exist and are presently living in southern California? And sure, Obama, from childhood, has never done a single day’s work which increased America’s economic wealth in the slightest, but what if he really does know how to bring back prosperity? Suspending disbelief is the key to Obama’s message of “Fairness”.
Many American voters instinctively believe Obama cares about them individually, and they further believe he is at least trying to “make things better”. Based on his track record, the assumption that Obama truly knows what to do is as far-fetched as witnessing the silhouette of an alien passing across our moon while mounted on his Schwinn.
And to help suspend disbelief, the mainstream media is happily characterizing the Republicans as old, wealthy white men who don’t care what happens to the little guy or gal. But this deceptive strategy actually works, sad to say. The coming election is about the next 4 years, not the previous 4 years. Pointing out that Obama has done nothing but screw up the past 4 years while being generously compensated for his failures by us taxpayers is preaching to the choir, and a dwindling number of choir members at that.
If the Republicans allow the media to paint them into their standard “old, white and wealthy” corner, disbelief will be suspended because Obama is obviously trying to help in the minds of many voters while the GOP candidates are merely loyal house servants to the wealthy. To win, the Republicans must in turn suspend their belief that Obama’s track record will be his downfall – Obama isn’t running on his track record, he’s running on his ability to come across as a cute and caring ET riding his Schwinn.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:44AM
There are a few yuong, white and wealthy REDs a token skirt or too and Michael Steele... HAHAHA but if you look at McConnel and McCain... you are looking at Republican America.
markenoff| 1.24.12 @ 5:32PM
The #1 ranked University of Kentucky Wildcats taken on the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens at 9 PM EST/6PM PST on ESPN. If your going to get your blood pressure up do it watching some exciting college basketbal not sume infuriating drivel from the teleprompter in chief.
Hugh| 1.25.12 @ 1:42AM
I just watched Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to the combined houses of Congress and the Senate.
What a polished snake-oil salesman Obama is!
No one could accuse him of not being a gifted orator. Or to put it another way - a bare-faced bull-sh_tter!
Why is it at election time that Marxist socialists like Obama get on the stump and start sounding like conservatives ?
They trot out motherhood statements and lofty declarations of praise and loyalty to the traditions and values most of us agree with. Then when they achieve power they do exactly the opposite, tearing down those things that are fair, equitable, inspiring and successful.
But come election time, they do a quick about face and come out again spouting the same highfaluting hyperbole and rhetoric for the values and traditions they have helped to tear down and demolish.
To listen to Obama’s State of the Union address one would think he was coming in to clear up all the ills of a previous administration instead of his own.
He now claims to champion the very values and free enterprise capitalism he came in to tax, regulate and destroy.
He must think that we have all arrived recently from Mars and have not lived through his past couple of years of overspending, waste, misdirected stimulus, divisiveness and incompetence.
His ultimate hypocrisy today is to pretend he stands for small government, having presided over the biggest increase in Big government in America’s history.
All his fine talk about consensus and bi-partisanship is code for condemnation of all those who do not automatically rubber stamp his every thought bubble and crazy policy. That’s not bi-partisanship. That's dictatorship.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:46AM
Obama NEVER raised taxes, he only sought to return them to their proper values. Before Romney earned 30 million in taxcuts this last decade..... The economy was healthy.
fckewe| 1.25.12 @ 2:50AM
Putting Americans to work is a crazy policy? Compared to giving more money to the anonymous JOBCREATORS (who haven't done a thing have they.) These mythical beasts are sitting on 3 trillion in cash and if they had not been set on rapingthe First Amendment so thoroughly, they could have been investing in employees and staving off the depression instead of neglecting America further down the pike.
How many Fortune 500 jobs were created in America in the last 5 years? How many abroad? They don't need more tax cuts, they need to bring jobs to AMerica.
Marc Jeric| 1.25.12 @ 1:47PM
Mullah Obama's economic "thought" is based on the old marxist slogan "Expropriate the expropriators"! According to this thought, the poor used to have all that money until the capitalists came and stole it. Abu Hussein al-Mombassa's other gyiding principle is "Tax the rich and spread the wealth around!" we see easily that the burglars are doing that service admirably - they "tax the rich" and spread their wealth around. (well, mostly to buy more drugs from illegal aliens).
zeke spelkinzeckler the third | 5.4.12 @ 8:21AM
At first glance this site seemed to be a fair-minded news outlet. After reading the sixth article in a row that was whining about Obama with a snarky acidity in tone, I realized that yes, this site has a pretty obvious and blatant agenda.
http://kamikazeearth.blogspot.com/