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Promises, Promises

Barack Obama, 2008

America, this is our moment. This is our time.

...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. 

Timothy Geithner, yesterday"it's going to feel very hard, harder than anything they've experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come."

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Clint| 7.11.11 @ 12:52PM

This Is A Failed Presidency

Fire Obama's Ass.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates

Carpe Diem.

Controse| 7.11.11 @ 1:20PM

Arrest Obama. He is not eligible to serve as president. You can't impeach someone who isn't president in the first place. The long form birth certificate is a fraud presented to the American people by a fraud. Let the race riots begin. So be it. This man must be perp-walked out the White House back door past the garbage bags.

Oldefarte| 7.11.11 @ 1:58PM

As Congress Joe Wilson [think?] exclaimed at the state-of-the-union address: THEY LIE!!!!!!!

LarryK| 7.11.11 @ 2:20PM

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And Rome burns.

MagnumT| 7.11.11 @ 8:17PM

I wanna talk about me
Wanna talk about I
Wanna talk about number one
Oh my me my
What I think, what I like, what I know, what I want, what I see
I like talking about you you you you, usually, but occasionally
I wanna talk about meeeeee (me,me,me,me)
I wanna talk about me (me,me)

PattyMor| 7.11.11 @ 3:14PM

Well too many people fell for the Hope 'N Change.
The communistic pictures of Obama should have been a clue, as well as the picture of Che hanging in one of the campaign offices. Then there is the fake Presidential seal and the fake Greek columns.
There were Obama associates: Ayres, Dohrn, Rev. Wright, Rashid Kahlidi, and Calypso Louie.
So the people passed on the hapless Juan McLame and elected a radical for Prez. And theyr'e paying a big price for their inattention.
Now we're stuck with no jobs, high debt and deficits, Obamacare, Dodd Franks financial bill, and a moribund real estate market.

Welcome to the socialist paradise, commrad.

Oldefarte| 7.11.11 @ 4:03PM

I was screaming from the rooftops about same prior to November of 2008, but very few would listen, sadly. As the old saying goes, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!!!!!!

Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 3:20PM

Cut taxes. Cut spending. Withdraw troops from Middle East after sufficient trinitite is made in Af/Pak, Iran, Iraq. Let Israel finish the negotiations with the Palis with no pressure from us or the EU. Demand $1.00/gallon oil from the Middle East or more trinitite to follow. Watch economy grow.

Sharia Delenda Est.

Oldefarte| 7.11.11 @ 4:09PM

Agree mostly, but would drop an oil drilling rig every 500 feet in the Atlantic, Pacific and the Gulf and build that oil sands pipeline from Canada to Texas while telling OPEC to GTH; and would Hiroshimize the middle eastern desert, while daring AlQuida/Muslim terrorist to ever again consider attacking either the US or Israel!!!!!!!

Clint| 7.11.11 @ 4:39PM

Damned Straight Oldefarte .
We Need To Drill Our Own Oil & Natural Gas Fields.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Carpe Diem.

RJ| 7.11.11 @ 11:49PM

For the first time, I would like to credit Geithner for his honest assessment. It sounds like an admission that his economic policies failed or even that they were counter-productive. On a less substantive point, it reminds me of Jimmy Carter's malaise speech. While it is likely a truthful statement, it is also a damning one.

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