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After Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted that Democrats’ opening statements had lasted twice as long as Republicans, President Obama responded that his time shouldn’t count in the calculation.
“There was an imbalance in the opening statements, because I’m the President,” Obama declared. “And I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly.”
Throughout the morning session, Obama repeatedly cut off Republicans, citing time constraints. Yet he took as much time as he wanted to respond to Republicans.
Not only did Obama use more time, he also tried to limit the terms of the debate. Whenever Republicans criticized his proposal, for instance, he tried to stop them and argue that they should only be focusing on “areas of agreement.” He also chastized Republicans for using talking points, and argued that it was out of bounds to suggest that the Democratic bill was based on the idea that “Washington knows best.” He said this was unfair argument to make, because there’s a lot of anger at Washington now.
Here’s the video of Obama’s declaration that he is, in fact, president.
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victor| 2.25.10 @ 1:16PM
Dear Leader
"because I’m the President,"
"And I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly.”
The correct response when he said he didn't count his time because he was the President, would be that "we are all counting the time til you're not the President anymore."
JonR| 2.25.10 @ 1:18PM
Well, what did anyone really expect from this megalomaniac? USA, I hope you're happy for electing this "pig in a poke"!
Grzmlyk| 2.25.10 @ 1:19PM
He's an incompetent a-hole.
His self regard is impenetrable. Reality cannot impinge on his utter conviction that he is The Messiah, and if he says it, it shall be so.
It is utterly amazing and, in fact, pathological. Our commander in chief is completely detached from reality.
If he had a job commensurate with his actual abilities, he'd be manning the coat-check room - under the close watch of a patient supervisor.
S.L. Toddard| 2.25.10 @ 2:05PM
I oppose more or less every single thing this president is endeavoring to accomplish, but I still cannot understand the intensity of the hatred directed at him from the GOP side. "Completely detached from reality" seems overblown, or really just wrong. He seems, to me, absolutely attached to reality. He's a sleazy politician, a corporate-owned statist tool, a liar; he knows what he is and is working hard to accomplish his statist goals (in my opinion). I do not, however, see evidence of his being delusional, or of his being a "Marxist" (not that you wrote that, Gryz), or any of the other overblown rhetoric I stumble across. And his "hatred of America" so many commenters here see, seems to me to be the very typical anti-Americanism of the entire left and center, more commonplace, typical and run-of-the-mill than what opposes it.
What I'm saying is, I guess, I just don't find him remarkable in any way. He's a center-left statist/corporatist with a small measure of charm.
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“(Because) I Am The President” | The Magic Negro links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Ammo Guy| 2.25.10 @ 1:34PM
I refuse to judge the President's performance until I hear from Bob...who actually voted for this guy. OTOH, Bob wishes the President had more experience before assuming the office which is good enough for me because this world runs on wishes.
ggoblue| 2.25.10 @ 1:43PM
he must have been quite the spoiled brat...in fact it occurs to me that his upbringing resembles hitlers...no father figure to check his ego...
he is wasting another year on this failure....to hell with jobs...he simply cannot accept no for ananswer...what a spoiled child he really is...
Tomas| 2.26.10 @ 10:42AM
I'm reading a bio on Hitler by John Toland - "Adolf Hitler." According to Toland, Hitler's father was not an absentee. Quite the opposite: he was a huge factor in young Adolf's life. However, his presence was not a healthy one. He drank and womanized quite heavily. And he would regularly administer beatings to his son... a practice not uncommon in turn-of-the-century Austria. How this affected Hitler is debatable, since from an early age he exhibited very clear signs of mental and emotional instability, including depression and disassociation. To lay these all at the feet of the father's behavior is a spurious association; since many kids who go through this environment turn out healthy, and many who go through a healthy environment turn out unhealthy.
That being said, Obama's issues may or may not be caused by the absence of a father figure in his life. I think it's more likely - as Rush Limbaugh said - the result of a lifetime of other people covering his butt for his incompetence and laziness of thought. He now has to put on his man suit, because those people can't cover his butt anymore. Trouble for him is he has no man suit to wear.
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Destiny| 3.3.10 @ 7:23PM
aside from the numerous offensive things stated on this page, this really got me.
"upbringing resembles hitlers...no father figure to check his ego"
just because someone does not have a father figure in their life doesn't mean they grow into spoiled brats bent on domination.
lets all take cheap personal shots at someone, especially for things they cannot control.
as a child raised by a single mother i am disgusted by this comparison.
you see just as many aimless people with no goals being pinned with this fatherless accusation as you do people such as hitler.
get beyond the conservative, narrow-minded views of a family dynamic.
Margie| 2.25.10 @ 1:47PM
Obama's arrogance and in-bred beliefs (think Saul Alinsky), seem to be predestined. He is a very scary human being. Cold as a stone, and unmovable. But for evil, not good.
Thankfully, like the rest of the evil, he is only temporary.
And for that, I can rejoice!
LeChat| 2.25.10 @ 1:47PM
Let Obama continue to reveal who he really is to the American people. November 2010 i s coming. We'll be able to drive a stake through the heart of the Democrat party. Then it's on to 2012.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.25.10 @ 1:48PM
Ammo Guy,
Bob has been utterly discredited here. He would never...never face any of us in person and say the nasty lies he writes hiding behind his computer.
God bless him, he is as divorced from reality as our President.
Hopefully he can remain functional enough to sign his welfare checks and collect his food-stamps....until we curtail them.
Grzmlyk| 2.25.10 @ 1:48PM
Funny you should mention Bob, Ammo Guy & Ken. Obama's performance increasingly reminds me of Bob: A decidedly stolid, pedestrian (or worse) mind convinced of its superiority, wrong at every single step, and yet so impervious to reality that the person never allows outrageous errors to affect his opinion of himself.
Oh - and both Bob and Obama do not discern between the truth and a lie, uttering only the latter while disdaining the former.
Just a few of Bob's gems:
The tax burden on the upper class, the middle class and corporations never goes up;
GDP ONLY goes up, and always and everywhere indicates an increasingly healthy economy;
tax law does not affect corporate strategy and/or decisions;
Minimim wage doesn't affect companies because they can always pass along the increased costs to their customers with impunity;
Ben Bernanke is doing a bang-up job;
The housing market, according to Bob, was going to be incredibly healthy by the first of this year.
And yet he thinks the denizens of this web site are idiots! It is to laugh, as Sylvester the Cat used to say.
Bob and Obama: hopelessly ignorant, pathological lying, delusional twins, separated at birth.
Myron| 2.25.10 @ 2:05PM
Uh, he IS the president, whether you folks want him to be or not. You got a problem with that, save it for 2012.
Bush was a complete boob, but when he came to my town and I heard him, I still treated him with the deference he deserves.
Grzmlyk| 2.25.10 @ 2:17PM
Peachy for you, Myron. Pat yourself on the back for your eminent civility.
Uh, Obama is five times the boob Bush was. And ten times as ignorant. And 100 times as delusional. And at least Bush wasn't a wannabe dictator.
Gee, I don't think anybody commenting here is in Obama's presence right now, so you're kinda comparing apples to cantaloupes. Trust me: When Obama comes to my town, I won't be there.
I'm guessing that on the 2,919 days that Bush wasn't "in your town" you were merciless with the vitriol against him, wheren't ya, Myron???
Oh that's right: You're a liberal, and rule number one of liberalism is Lie, lie, lie, lie.
Joyce| 2.25.10 @ 2:26PM
Myron, I have to respectfully disagree with you on the statement that "Bush was a complete boob." No he was not. You may be pretty smart yourself but I don't see you taking the heat that Bush did. Obama has been touted to be the wisest man to ever grace the WH but he sure comes across as a knucklehead most of the time. Bush is human as am I and we both have made mistakes and I expect you have also but Obama's admirers will never concede that he is as stubborn as a mule and sometimes about as bright as one. The first sentence of your post was okay but you just had to get that jab in at Bush. Ever jab Obama?
Grzmlyk| 2.25.10 @ 2:38PM
Joyce, I appreciate your friendly tone with Myron, but I take issue with his entire post, including the first sentence: ". . . you got a problem with that, save it for 2012."
Why? Aren't we permitted to dissent, or do we have to genuflect before our fearless leader? Perhaps Myron should be reminded that the constant refrain during Bush's entire 8 years, as Democrats savaged him mercilessly each and every single day - whether Bush was in town or not - was that "dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
But when a Dem is president - and one who is an ignorant, doctrinaire, immature sociopath to boot - we're supposed to shut up and bend over until 2012????
Not me. I respect the office of the president. I don't respect the man who is trying to turn it into the office of the banana republic strongman.
S.L. Toddard| 2.25.10 @ 3:00PM
"the constant refrain during Bush's entire 8 years, as Democrats savaged him mercilessly each and every single day - whether Bush was in town or not - was that "dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
Yes, it's important to remember that they claimed "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" in response to their (along with we in the anti-war/anti-state right) being condemned as "unpatriotic" or being "terrorist-lovers" for opposing a president "in war time" (a particularly idiotic formulation, since it is almost never not "war time" in America, especially now that we have decided to wage perpetual war forever). You absolutely (and obviously) have a right to dissent, but you have to recall the way anti-war protesters were demonized, especially during Bush's first term. Not saying that you did that, Gryz, but it happened.
Grzmlyk| 2.25.10 @ 3:25PM
Well, I do believe that the scales in the mainstream media were tilted heavly in favor of the Bush demonizers (I mean, come on - the near hagiographic treatment of the tetched Cindy Sheehan was risible).
Yes, Bush administration apologists demonized the war protesters, but the voices on the other side (politicians plus 90% of the mainstream media) kind drowned that out.
Don't forget the rubric "Bush lied" to get us into that war has become the de facto truth, when such rubric utterly ignores the "facts on the ground" as to virtually every other intelligence agency on the globe that reached the same conclusions that Powell advanced before that fateful UN presentation.
I mean, the whole Valerie Plame thing was a sandbag job that didn't remotely resemble dissent; it was politicial assassination plain and simple. But the media played along even after the truth came out.
I have no problem with protesting the war whatsoever, and,while I have mixed feelings about the Iraq venture, opposition to it was, and is, certainly a defensible point of view.
Also, there's a difference between dissent and demonization, and Harry Reid and Dick Durbin and CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NY Times, Chicago Trib, Boston Globe, LA Times, etc. etc. were hardly engaged in honest dissent.
They were engaged in politics. Yeah, I know, Repubs do it too, but just don't have as many guns as the Dems do. Besides, some repubs have come out in defense of Obama's Afghanistan moves, whereas Dems NEVER support Rebublican war moves. It is always ONLY about politics to Dems, and I belive it's only about politics 90% of the time to Repubs.
And, for the record, if I were for some reason invited to the White House under Obama, I would observe all the proper decorum.
Perhaps my invitation got lost in the mail. :-)
paulfromTexas| 2.25.10 @ 3:03PM
This Obama cannot even keep his own law license....removed from him for lying about his alias.......how's he gonna be anything but what he thinks he is.....?,,,Only he can see his clothes though.
StevefromCA| 2.25.10 @ 4:11PM
THAT'S MY LEADER! We have dozens of congressional leaders, but only one "Commander in Chief." Obviously, they needed reminding.
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Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 2.25.10 @ 6:34PM
President or not, he's still an arrogant, petulant little boy pretending to be a man. I'll respect The Office of the Presidency, but I'll be damned if I'll respect the clueless, dictatorial fool who bears the title presently.
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CinciGirl| 2.25.10 @ 9:44PM
What I heard today was someone basically above it all. Someone that knows better and what should be given to us and we will like it. No debate because we are all stupid and don't know better... so shut up and sit down and listen to me!
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Stosh| 2.26.10 @ 3:43PM
Obama was 100% correct. Any calculations regarding which party got the most time to speak should have excluded the President. That would be true in any similar situation, regardless of which party the President belonged to.
Of course, hearing the Republicans and the people here whine about it is entirely predictable. The only thing the Republicans are good at these days is whining.
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Mar10world| 3.1.10 @ 2:07PM
i love it, and trust me these bastards will force it out of him many more times in the next 3 years lol. Hmm? why is it that an American President, the most powerful man in the world would have to remind his political opponants who lust to chastise him in front of camera's (LIAR !! lol) to give the impression that he's a..Boy. Is it..the first black president? lol, of course it is and i know with him being the first he will have to remind mothafucka's daily.