Official: Obama Accomplished More in 30 Days Than Any President in Modern History

Yes he has done More In 30 Days more then what Bush did in 8 years, And I got to say at least He cares more about this Country and where its going then Bush ever Did. All W cared about was War,And Iraq. Maybe if Bush was More of A President and Actually Payed a Little more Attention to this Country we Might not be in the Mess were in! Keep up the Good work President Obama!

jpt quotes unnamed Obama shill, er, “official”:
“The president will not discuss specific hard choices he supports, the official said, such as specific cuts in Social Security necessary to ensure future solvency of the program. This speech wouldn’t be the right time for that.”
Hahaha. It’s gonna be another … campaign speech, huh? Well, good luck with THAT.

Wow Jake, just pumping out glossy Obama talking points eh? I guess they finally got to you huh?

“the official compared President Obama favorably to Presidents Reagan, Clinton and Bush,”
Quick! Roll out the sandblaster and re-do Mt. Rushmore with this quartet of quislings!
“Mr Tapper, could you please give us the name of this official who is working for the President’s Department of Propaganda?”
–> Yeah, REALLY — what’s his/her name, rank, and salary?
Other stuff one might hesitate to believe: the corporate “popularity” numbers for Obama.
Everybody KNOWS this is nowhere.

The president will not discuss specific hard choices he supports, the official said, such as specific cuts in Social Security necessary to ensure future solvency of the program.
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Color me shocked…

dan-O:
What is “huberis”?

Isn’t it just too convenient that the two polling companies that do daily polls, Ras and Gallup, both show Obama’s approval declining over the month, yet the NYT and WaPo-ABC polls just happen to come out now to allow this kind of Obama “official” spindoctoring?
Just too convenient. I guess the Obama “official” and Jake both missed this Gallup article:
For the first time since Gallup began tracking Barack Obama’s presidential job approval rating on Jan. 21, fewer than 60% of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president. In Feb. 21-23 polling, 59% of Americans give Obama a positive review, while 25% say they disapprove, and 16% have no opinion.

“Mr Tapper, could you please give us the name of this official who is working for the President’s Department of Propaganda?”
I have little problem with an official giving out an assessment or even talking points and being identified as such.
So we know this is the administration that is praising itself and can assess the information accordingly.
Its when talking points are just read as news without any identification that they are talking points that it becomes a problem.
That is what right wing media like FoxNews does.

Bernanke states recession could end this year……now, this is the same man that stated pubically in 2007 that the US was not sliding into any recession.
Borrowing money from China because our government is BROKE, and spending money that we do not have (trillions) is insane! For example in the stimulus 300 million for saving the wetlands mouse in San Francisco Does anyone in their right mind really believe this will help any folks that are having their homes foreclosed on, or that have lost their jobs or their retirements!!!
Jake your a tooting the horn of Obama and you have NO IDEA of the destruction that lies ahead for all Americans.

“In Feb. 21-23 polling, 59% of Americans give Obama a positive review, while 25% say they disapprove, and 16% have no opinion.”
And these are nice middle-class people, remember, who know about domestic surveillance of telephone polls.
Everybody KNOWS this is nowhere.

“The people who invest in the nation’s future have determined quite forcefully that he has got it wrong.”
Do these folks really invest in the nation’s future or just their own?

“And these are nice middle-class people, remember, who know about domestic surveillance of telephone polls.”
ROFLMAO!
So Obama’s poll ratings are due to people fearful of surveillance!
Right wing nuttery at its finest!

“perhaps, you haven’t heard yet that Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement—still yet to come! ”
ROFLMAO!
Right wingers are still passing around a debunked email that began in 2006!
See snopes for the truth!

By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
ABC NEWS Business Unit
Nov. 8, 2007
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke came to Capitol Hill this morning (November 2007).
Bernanke said the Federal Reserve sees growth “as remaining sluggish during the first part of next year, then strengthening as the effects of tighter credit and the housing correction began to wane.” Bernanke went as far as to say that today’s problems will ultimately help the economy.
“The recent developments may well lead to a healthier financial system in the medium to long term,” Bernanke told the Joint Economic Committee. “Increased investor scrutiny of structured credit products is likely to lead ultimately to greater transparency in these products and to better differentiation among assets of varying quality.”
This was 2007 and look at the results in 2009. Now the man (working for Obama) says the recession will end in 2009.

Ryan, you do realize that your debt chart assigns both 2000, 2001 and 2009 to Bush?
So Obama’s tab only begins in 2010? Shouldn’t then Bush’s tab begin in 2002?
Pretty sloppy for an ideologue.
Secondly, you ignore my point re the polls. All the daily polls show a significant downward trend since inauguration….and along comes the NYT and WaPo to bolster Obama sychophants like yourself, the Obama “official” quoted above and the Obama media army at the networks and cable.
Coincidence?

Completely agree. Our Smartest Clueless Leader has accomplished the accumulation of $1.5T deficit in 30 days, more than all Presidents combined.

Oh, yes. Obama the Great has achieved wonderful things.
Coddled terrorists and dictators. Got Iran laughing at him. Had to apologize to China.
Crashed Wall Street. Consumer confidence has plumetted.
Mr. Hopie Changie better get on the stick.

Obama has indeed achieved great things.
He has put a tax cheat in charge of Treasury. And the sheeple barely peeped their outrage. And the media excused him.
There are more tax cheats in the Obama cabinet than any other administration in history.
But Joe Biden lectures US that it’s patriotic to pay taxes. ROFL
You’ve been so had and you don’t even know it yet.

Angie,
Don’t get angry. We real librals also know how to balance the budget and creating wealth for ALL, not just to those who do not contribute and from whom creating “too” much.
Experience matters. Speech tanks markets.

Hilda Solis is supposed to be confirmed soon.
What a step up for the cabinet. The spouse is the tax cheat this time rather than the nominee.

“Obama, conversely, can point to a $787 billion bill that made major changes in energy, education and tax policies, the official said”
Yep, that bill got passed fast, under 24 hours from printing to passed for over 1000 pages of legalese; with many changes in committee that were in neither the House or Senate bills stealthed in after the fact.
Sure nobody read it, or knew exactly what was in it, but they passed it like good Congress-critters.
I wonder what kind of legislation they’d pass if they read things first; instead of rubber-stamping the unknown.
Obama, the largest, least studied, least debated spending bill of all time; with uninformed votes passing it. I guess you can be proud of that if you want. We forced the hand of the Government to pass our bill without their even understanding what it was, we strong-armed the nation.
Hey, whatever makes you proud I guess.

Obama’s rich Hollywood friends and radical associates must be so proud of the damage he has inflicted upon our country.
In their eyes America deserves it.

AJAX
Bush was in Office in 2000

Bush was in Office in 2000
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Elected November 2000
Took office January 2001

What a step up for the cabinet. The spouse is the tax cheat this time rather than the nominee.
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Due to Hilda Solis being sympathetic to union issues, the GOP may very well battle her nomination quite fiercely, not saying a word about their real concerns.

“Pretty sloppy for an ideologue.”
I would agree since that was not my post.
It helps to check your own reading comprehension before commenting on another’s.
“Secondly, you ignore my point re the polls.”
I did not ignore it. You falsely represented what the polls said.
Then you claimed conspiracy on the part of two other polls (which were not daily) which is just silly.
“All the daily polls show a significant downward trend since inauguration”
First off there was going to be a drop post inauguration based on historical trends, not a big one but certainly a few points.
Secondly there are two daily polls.
One is Rasmussen, which shows approval hanging around 60% the whole month.
Gallup shows his approval for today’s poll at 59%. He has lost about 3 or 4 pts off his average in Gallup over the month.
The other polls are more snapshot polls and since we do not have previous polls to compare them to debating his rise or fall in those polls is pointless.

“Everybody KNOWS this is nowhere: the revelation of the fall of this government — the White House AND most of the Congress — into helpless pomposity is in the very aether.”
ROFLMAO.
Another favorite right wing tactic, tell a lie then claim everyone knows it to be true!

Obama: The only president to ram the biggest spending bill down the throats of congress who admit they didn’t even read it, all because of an “emergency”. And then he left town for 4 days before signing this “emergency” bill.

“LOL, Only Lent. Who said right wingers don’t have a sense of humor?”
It’s Obama who’s the “right winger”.
AFTER your flaky figure-head’s Mardi Gras Massacre over at the Capitol, see if you’re still laughing.

I think it would make a better impression on the right-wingers if he landed on top of Wall St. in a helicopter and declared ‘mission accomplished, the financial crisis is over’.

AJAX
Bush was in Office in 2000
Angie,
Did you just get your degree from the Joe Biden school of history????
Bush took office in January 2001…two thousand and ONE !
No wonder you never get the facts right!

“Obama claims he has done more than any other president in 30 days.”
Looks like that is the case.
Though the time frame is arbitrary.
The whole first 100 days emphasis is overwrought anyway.
“The hubris is breathtaking.”
No, landing on an aircraft carrier 3 months into a 6 year war under a banner of Mission Accomplished is breathtaking hubris.

“RyanC: These Limbaughbots have been swilling the radical right-wing kool-aid so long they can’t help themselves. They react rabidly, knee jerk style, to absolutely anything that happens with their cynicism, hatred and sarcasm.”
Of course.
But that’s why its important that their lies are ppinted out swiftly and loudly.
They are cowardly bullies and slink away from confrontation.

Mike and Ajax
Sorry I was wrong thats Right Bush took Office in 01, My Bad but Jeez Mike no need to Attack!

William
I dont think they want Obama to Fail they are Just whiney Babies because their Party is Being Held Responsible for this Mess, And Its clear to see Republicans are going down in Flames at Least I hope they dont want him to fail Because we all will Fail!

“The only one with a higher disapproval rating was President Clinton, on his way to losing both houses of Congress.”
When THIS right-wing “Democrat” loses both houses of Congress, it may well be to independent candidates who AREN’T wholly owned by the corporations.
This “Obama” caper — going with identity politics over Democratic substance — will finally be the end of the Democratic Party, which has been retreating to the right since JFK.

Limbaugh, the right-wing hero and self-proclaimed head of the GOP clearly stated, more than once, that he “hopes Obama fails.”

“Heck, I can tear something down faster than I can build it too. That doesn’t mean I’m accomplishing something good.”
The cognitive dissonance of right wingers is astounding.

Once again, right-wing haters distort the truth. The Gallup daily tracking poll for yesterday was 63%

Mike, you’re right. I’ll note that the bloom is off the rose with ubber Obama lover Chris Matthews.
His show was a hoot yesterday. He’s mad at Obama for fumbling the economy so badly and called him Barney Fife.
It was devastating. For Obama.

Tearing a house down is a faster & easier accomplishment than BUILDING a house.
Obama has been incredibly destructive to our nation in such a short time – in that way you could say he has ‘accomplished’ a lot. A lot of REALLY bad things for our future.

This is all too stupid to even be called socialism.
Never again will Americans be able to say the words Obama and fiscal responsibility in the same sentence without nearly killing themselves laughing.

“If this person weren’t “black”, half the DEMOCRATS would be calling for His impeachment by now.”
Right wingers aren’t racist so stop saying that!
Obama’s job approval among Democrats is at 86%.
Poor right wingers…all they have left are on their face ridiculous lies.

Market Watch is reporting the worst of the recession MAY be past. And we haven’t spent a cent of that trillion dollars homeowners are on the hook for.
LOL. Suckers.

Peach:”And we haven’t spent a cent of that trillion dollars homeowners are on the hook for.”
What trillion dollars homeowners are on the hook for? Did I miss a national real estate tax or are you just making stuff up again?

It’s so amusing watching posters defend a bill that no one read and all the earmarks in all the various spending/bailout bills. Likes sheep over a cliff.
It was apparent that would be the response though when there was nary a peep out of the little sheep when a tax cheat was put in charge of our Treasury.

The blind devotion to a failed belief system exhibited by you lefties is too.
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The failed belief system is the one behind the GOP, which has caused it to abysmally lose their senate seats and the election. As a matter of fact, it’s a siren song for continued failure. Excuse me, I’m long overdue with my bird rendezvous.

“42% of Americans don’t pay federal income tax. They helped get Obama and other Democrats elected. So that’s representation without taxation.”
So Peach is just a right wing spam bot today.
And the concept of representation without taxation is an excellent American ideal.
One we began to uphold when we got rid of racist things like the poll tax enacted by your right wing forefathers.

The poll tax was almost exclusively the province of the Democratic Party. And a higher portion of Republican Senators voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act than did the Democrats.

“It’s so amusing watching posters defend a bill that no one read and all the earmarks in all the various spending/bailout bills. Likes sheep over a cliff.”
Peach begins to back away from her flat out lie that the stimulus bill HR1 contained earmarks.
The new spending bill does contain earmarks but it has yet to even be voted on.

“they all want Obama to fail.”
Guess what …we do NOT want him to fail. He has chosen to fail !
Going off the deep end for Geithner. Yep, he was the man we just had to have, no matter what! Now after being in the middle of all this mess for over a year, he decides now he needs to change his approach – right after his boss promises he will go public with “clear & specfic details”.
Yep, that worked well !!! Dow plummeted 389 pts!
Now today His brilliant plans for AIG are blowing up in everyone’s face!
This President spends day after day depressing the hell out of the American people by forecasting doomsday if we dont pass the great “stimulator” immediately. The great new revelation from the “stimulator”…..a new term…that cant be clearly defined! The “created/saved job”.
The “new” math gone wild!
By all means, “we” wanted him to do all this! “We” wanted to see what was left of our 401K/IRA accounts to get sliced up by another 40-50%.
Guess what folks, These are not MY policies. They are Obama’s! I sure as hell wish they were working. I’d love to take a real vacation, fix a few things around my house that need work…etc. I am not looking forward to paying out of my pocket for those who extended themselves too far with their mortgages. I should have gone for the big house with the 2 hot tubs tennis & basketball courts in the backyard and four-car garage!
Those of us who actually took a mortgage that fit our budget, those of us who actually make our payments each & every month…we get the bill for the irresponsibility promoted by Barney Frank!

Ryan C
Where were you when the bill was being signed on President’s Day?
I guess one Senator’s monorail is what another Senator’s constituents call an “earmark.” That’s the way I look at it. And. Read up. They won’t even start work on it until sometime in 2011. This was sooooooo important to stimulate the economy RIGHT NOW that they couldn’t wait for their break and read the darn thing?
RIGHT.

beebop:”If half of the things said about the Palins had been said about the 0bama’s there would have been civil unrest.”
Nothing like a good persecution complex. Obama was called a terrorist, his wife referred to as a “baby momma,” jokes about his extended family taking over the Whitehouse, etc. etc. There was no civil unrest. The things said about Obama and his family on the fringe right wing blogs were every bit as hateful as those about Palin on the fringe left wing. That you don’t even comprehend that speaks volumes about the “woe is oppressed me” view you embrace.

beebop:”I guess one Senator’s monorail is what another Senator’s constituents call an “earmark.” That’s the way I look at it.”
There is no monorail funding in the stimulus bill, and there is no LA-Vegas funding in the bill either (that’s not even one of the Federal Railroad Administration defined corridors going after the high speed rail funding).
Earmarks are a defined type of Congressional spending. There were none in this bill. You can redefine pi to equal 3.0 if you want, it doesn’t make it true.

….reading lamp, not reading lap. I know how blogs get when you misspell a word!!!

What would you 0pologists do without “right wing” in your condemnations of everyone and everything you don’t agree with. Listen up youngster. I voted for Democrats for 36 years, so your shout down politics doesn’t impress me.

today’s liberals have become the new socialists of 1939 Germany!to blindly follow a leader, that is on the path of destruction! to deny the truth, even when everything is falling down around them!their right, we need a new American revolution!god save america from the liberal brainwashed!

Recent polls by ABC News/Washington Post, CBS News/New York Times, and others showing the president with high approval ratings is “earned,” the official said. “This isn’t just the afterglow of the inauguration.”
How can you spout this propaganda of theirs without at least a hint of doubt at its veracity? I cannot believe journalism has fallen so far it reports the rhetoric of the sitting administration, the ones in power, and not exercise your First Amendment right and obligation to question it. Isn’t it those in power who must be held accountable? It certainly shouldn’t be those out of power who are examined. Please begin investigating and not ‘passing on’ this mumbo-jumbo.

Hypocrites

“How can you spout this propaganda of theirs without at least a hint of doubt at its veracity”
Jake clearly identified that this was an administration official passing on background.
Contrast that with FoxNews which just reads GOP talking points on the air as news.

beebop:”Listen up youngster. I voted for Democrats for 36 years, so your shout down politics doesn’t impress me.”
On that hilarious note (pot, meet kettle, now get off my lawn!), I have to head back to work.

“God is pretty busy as it is working with those who are interested in knowledge versus campaign rhetoric and making America a better place to live and work for everyone — not just those with their hands out.”
Demonizing those on government assistance from a supposed 36 year voter for Democrats.
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

today’s liberals have become the new socialists of 1939 Germany!
Posted by: bob green
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Liberals and socialists were persecuted in Nazi Germany. What’s your point?

beebop: are you truly that naive? What position do you think an “administration spokesperson” is going to take???? When you read a report like this, you take it with a grain of salt, thats all. I don’t suppose you had the same rants against the media when they reported Bush spokespersons defending all his BS. Then it was gospel, right?

“If the Bush administration had done the same thing, it would NEVER have made it to this stage without serious questioning”
The Bush admin did much worse than that.
They passed talking points along to FoxNews which then shaped Fox’s coverage.
Where is your outrage at that beebop?

I joined this thread to help beat back the threat to the First Amendment that your attacking people who don’t kiss the ring represents.
You don’t have to like my politics. I voted for Hillary Clinton and God, do I wish she was in the White House right now!

The entire media is turning into the Huffington Post. Only here at ABC there is no swearing.
It must be a God given talent to know who listens to what media and who voted for whom. Goodness. All of that “hope” and “change” amounts to so much business as usual from the other side of the aisle, doesn’t it?
After eight years of being told to “shut up” by the GOP, imagine how furious the Clinton Democrats are going to be in two and four year’s time. When you marginalize a large portion of the base, you better expect to reap the “rewards.”

Some on here do not appear to like conservatives and that is there right. I do think they should get there facts straight though. First of all; we don’t like the liberal media but, we don’t think Rush or Hannity or any of the others are unbiased, they are very biased, but they don’t lie about it and say they are. They are conservative commentaters and proud of it.
Posted by: Randy | Feb 24, 2009 4:16:36 PM
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they don’t lie….
How’s the koolaid?

“Rush or Hannity or any of the others are unbiased, they are very biased, but they don’t lie about it and say they are.”
FoxNews’s slogan is fair and balanced.

There is a name for the integrated approach to the solutions that the President is proposing. It is called socialism.

“Rush or Hannity or any of the others are unbiased, they are very biased, but they don’t lie about it and say they are.”
FoxNews’s slogan is fair and balanced.
The slogan for the New York Time’s is “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” Was there a point?
Every media features opinions.

Mike_C,
Yes, I read the Bill. And spending that amount for Agriculture, Farming, will benefit us all. What we saw on display was an United States Senator, giving on the record testimony, that monies would be spent on “Nancy Pelosi’s mouse. A mouse that probably walks around in sun shades and flip-flop sandals.” That stuff is ignoramus talk.

“Was he then a member of the conservative media? ”
Apparently yes.
Last week when Gibbs did not do well answering some of Jake’s questions(which are usually quite good), he was praised as a hero by right wingers pointed here by Drudge.
Though to be fair there are plenty on both sides who accuse Jake of partisanship

Mike_C,
I have re-read that section AGAIN!!! And if you want to interpret that to mean money for a marsh mouse, that’s a stretch, is about all I can say. Now, with transparency we should all be able to track how this money is being spent. I understand you skepticism, because the last

Did the same “senior official” write the ridiculous remarks delivered by Bernanke today (which clearly were not his own)?
Note that television is pitching the “Congressional” address as an address to “the people”. This is in the same vein as using a crowd in Elkhart to generate teevee time for the Executive.
You’d think SOMEbody in the Congress would take exception to being used in this cynical way while the country is falling apart.

Mike_C – I don’t want to get between you and Ryan but didn’t you leave something out in your last post to him? The big “HOWEVER” point you made in a previous post?
Let me refresh your memory:
“HOWEVER…That does NOT mean that 30 million will NOT be spent on the salt marsh mouse.”
as posted by Mike_C

The final report on the market today: Up 236 points.
Posted by: William J. LePetomane | Feb 24, 2009 4:39:57 PM
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crickets today….
when it dips again
the naysaysers hair will be aflame again claiming Obama don’t instill confidence in the markets.

“The final report on the market today: Up 236 points.”
Given that Geithner and his associates are playing around with a few TRILLION public dollars, it’d be TRULY weird if they couldn’t hold the slide for ONE day.
Some might quibble about … AIG … of course …

“I don’t see any reason to destroy the franchise value or to create the huge legal uncertainties of trying to formally nationalize a bank when it just isn’t necessary,” Bernanke said at the Senate Banking Committee hearing.
The Fed chairman’s remarks eased concern among some investors that the Treasury’s capital-injection plan would hurt banks’ shareholders and lead to nationalization. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Banks Index climbed 13 percent, the most in more than two weeks, to 66.88 at 3 p.m. in New York.
“Today at least there seems to be a growing sense of relief that nationalization was de-emphasized and put into perspective,” said Marshall Front, who oversees $500 million as chief executive officer of Front Barnett Associates in Chicago. “There’s a bit of relief that that’s not going to happen.”
to much Gloom and Doom from Obama and not enough confidence in Giethner. it take’s Ben to restore some confidence…

“I NEVER said the original story was right. I STATED that the bill DID have provisions to provide 30M for a project like that.
That is FACT, not a lie!”
And those projects were wetlands restoration not mouse protection.
The whole thing was made up by Republicans.

I hope the DOW crashes to ZERO. You alls belief in it is fake anyway. GM, McDonalds, Intel, MicroSoft, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, you name it they all make crappy products that are OVERRATED. THIS ECONOMY IS FAKE, the values of these stocks are reflecting their true worth. Yep, you $1 bill in Band of America is only worth $0.50. Yep, that stack of wood at Home Depot that you paid $20 per 2×4 is only for $2.50. Please stop being market watchers people.

“If the online poll at CNN is any indication, less than 40 percent of Americans are going to be watching the speech tonight and more than 25 percent will be ignoring it. Sounds like some more Bush to me .”
An online poll?

“Bank stocks surged after Bernanke said it is unlikely banks will be nationalized or even majority-owned by the government.”
Cause and effect.

“Of course the details of his speech tonight were released to Wall St. early today. Or did you conveniently overlook that part?”
Posted by: William J. LePetomane | Feb 24, 2009 4:57:42 PM
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Yeah, okay Will. Have it your way. What was leaked about the speech? Why, it was that Obama was going to end on a positive note. YES WE CAN!!! O-bam-a, O-bam-a. Junior finally decided to to take Bill Clinton’s advice.
But whatever….the market doesn’t rally based on some un-named WH official leaking sugar coated information about a speech the teleprompter reader-in-chief is going to deliver.

jennifer,
This may be hard to do, but, take a cue from your Rep leaders as they all called the (insert insult here)-in-chief, Mr. President yesterday.

I watched Bernanke’s testimony this morning. As Chris Dodd began his opening remarks the Dow was up ~80 points. As he continued speaking the Dow dropped, dropped, dropped, all the way down to 2 points over yesterday’s close…It reminded me of those voter response polls during the presidential debates where voters would respond real-time to remarks made during debates by the candidates.
Market up today due to (a.) Bernanke’s remarks, and (b.) bargain hunters. We’ll see if it holds tomorrow – It is not my opinion market is up due to release of excerpts of Obama’s speech – There isn’t much there that the market hasn’t already priced in.

“This may be hard to do, but, take a cue from your Repuklican leaders as they all called the (insert insult here)-in-chief, Mr. President yesterday.”
Posted by: BruhMan | Feb 24, 2009 5:14:34 PM
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It will be hard. After listening to your democrat leaders, Pelosi and Reid, I thought all presidents should be addressed as “biggest failure ever.”

This is just one of the many liberal papers spewing it’s usual nonsense and people eat it up because they are just starved for anything, deserate and empty souls longing to stay dependant on their “daddy” ( Government) Americans are children who live in vain and that is what is most sad. Obama accomplished “nothing” ..and pretending he has is just insane.

Rot ruh, Gallup shows Obama’s approval rating has dropped another 4 pts since it’s last daily tracking poll. Down to 59. Can’t be too happy about that.

“For all the GOP talking points about private investors…where are they??? Thousand of people are getting out of the market as fast as they can. I think the President explained, in full detail, why the Government is picking up the slack. To fill the void left by private investors to chickeny to invest.”
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I’m a privat investor. I’m “chicken to invest” because I don’t trust the government, and specifically, the intentions of the Obama administration! He hasn’t exactly made it a secret he prefers socialist approach towards dealing with the economy vs. capitalist approach. This is why so much cash has been pulled from the markets.
Markets are down 2000+ points since election day, yesterday Dow hit lowest point since 1997. I guess this was overlooked in The One’s “list of accomplishments”….
Another “accomplishment” overlooked: “The Conference Board’s confidence index dropped more than anticipated to 25, the lowest level since data began in 1967, the New York-based research group said today.”

The title should read;
Official: Obama spent More in 30 Days Than Any President in Modern History

Don’t trust the Government??? What’s the government have to do with you taking your money and giving it to a company to research, develop, and put out a product? The government has nothing to do with you investing. You’re chickeny, because those companies were allowed to cook the books forever and the jig is up. Be honest!!! Take your cash tomorrow, and be a private investor in a rail companies plans from Disneyland to Vegas. Do it yourself!!! Take your cash and invest in a company that will be doing Agriculture , Farming work over the next few years. The government has let in be know money will be given to these industries. You won’t because YOU’RE the chicken. Don’t blame the government because you lost your confidence. The DOW and many parts of the economy are FAKE.
jennifer,
Sorry you picked the loser. I didn’t vote for anybody in the Primary, they hadn’t done anything or convinced me of such by that time. By Nov 4th, it was apparent who was interested in governing and who was interested in politics. John McCain knew better than to pick Palin. HE KNEW BETTER!!!

bruh-man…The night is young as they say…

“John McCain knew better than to pick Palin. HE KNEW BETTER!!!”
McCain picked Palin when it was becoming apparent that, contrary to the Obama-wins script, he might WIN the so-called election.
(Palin IS set up nicely for Next Time, if she wants it. Whatever her flaws and gaucheries, she looks pretty good if the alternative is elite-right “Democrats” trailing Bush-retread Geithner and a crowd of Clinton retreads.)

Sorry if that was offensive, but Hillary caused her own defeat. She had no strategy for after Super Tuesday. I’ve actually seen video of her saying the Dem Primary won’t last long, she’ll have the nomination wrapped up by then. Ruh-Roh Shaggy…what do we do now??? She should sue Mark Penn, Terry McAulife, and everyone on her staff that gave her that dumb advice. Don’t even put campaign staffs in the small states? What kind of strategy is that, especially when Howard Dean has been talking about a 50 state strategy for the Dems for a while. After losing Iowa, blow more than $1.5 Million dollars on a pizza party??? Who does that??? To agree Florida and Michigan should be punished for voting early, until she needed the delegates…that was a loony campaign. Sorry if that piece was offensive, but it’s fact.

I call him Bush’d on purpose tjp!!!

I think it’s the Democrats that are investing in America’s future.

“Comments above attributed to yet another fine product of the U.S. education system…”
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Meh, let’s throw a few hundred billion dollars at it and see if that helps. That’s always worked in the past, right? Oh wait………

jpt writes:
He will “acknowledge the difficulty of the moment, but he says optimistically that we can get through it” by honoring the values of “responsibility, accountability and a set of common interests.”
No “prosperity is just around the corner”, huh?

First of all, I used the word “alleged” when talking about the caucus voter fraud. Look up the meaning of the word. Secondly, there is an entire documentary on it. Google it.

….watch it all go to hell….sorry, I type kinda fast. I know how blogs are when you misspell a word or two.

Right, alleged….that means unsubstantiated!!! As in, not proven…yeah…right!!! Alleged…..

Robert Petty, I think the President has been quite clear about expectations. If his plans don’t work, it’s gonna be 4 years and out for him. Had you not heard him say that? Abysmal failure is a bit pessimistic to be planning after only 34 days in office, dontcha think???…wink, wink!!!

I can’t understand why anyone attributes anything meaningful to the daily ups and downs of Wall St. Those guys stampede with as much reason as a herd of frightened cattle. We might as well read a horoscope or a weather report.

It’s funny how a few, far extreme republicans would have us believe that FDR’s spending only worsened the Great depression and that it was really WWII that turned our economy around. Yet, wasn’t WWII nothing more than massive government spending on top of what FDR had already spent? Hey, wars are not free, ya know! Sadly, all that good government spending went on bombs and killing. We got freedom and security, though. GOOD NEWS>>>>Obama’s stimulus ensures our freedom and security and spends, not on massive bombs and killing, but on the good old U. S. of A. infrastructure and energy production (as in cheaper ways to get the electron to the energy grid!) Obama/Biden…yes we can!

“Sadly, all that good government spending [in wwII] went on bombs and killing.”
Not exactly, all the warplane factories became the new airline industry.

Okay RyanC and Bruhman, you both just keep on thinking it’s only far-right wingers who disagree with the policies of the president. lol
Bruhman, did you not realize that people in the United States could get an education out side of the public education system? It’s not necessary to leave the country to do so.

Ryan, there is a new Gallup poll out today that has Obama at 59%. It’s right on their website.

“Ryan, there is a new Gallup poll out today that has Obama at 59%. It’s right on their website.”
There is also a historical comparison done by Gallup using the exact time frame, not a cherry picked daily tracking poll.
Gallup was comparing Presidential 1st months.

jennifer,
A stoke for you ego….Bush beats Obama at the 30 day mark. It’s hard to screw up going on vacation now isn’t it? So, Bush signed No Child Left Behind, But Your Child Left Unfunded, and went on vacation. And he still only managed 62%

BruhMan,
Are you by chance from Hawaii?

Nope, is that in the US education system?

“Why is the emphasis of Republicans in regards to voting the or seeking restrictions or the creating of obstacles?”
Obstacles to voter fraud are to be desired.
A bulletin for the hapless, but felicitously-named Mr. LePetomaine: all of the columnists and commentators you named readily identify themselves as purveyors of conservative opinion. Bryan Williams, Wolf Blitzer, Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer et al. purport to be objective journalists. If they identifed themselves as liberals, and acknowledged that their news reporting was infected with their personal opinions, I would have no objection to them.

“…the drug-addict comedian Limbaugh…”
So I guess it’s perfectly fine to refer to the dope-smoking, coke-snorting president…
Fair and balanced, as always.

Ryan, don’t even bother. They won’t even know who held those positions in the last administration. They are just copying and pasting. No facts at all. Hell, I’m against the government spending over $790B too, but the alternative is more catastrophic, so I can accept it. 17 lobbyist???, I guess they were ready to accept over 140 if McCain had gotten elected.

“Ryan, don’t even bother. They won’t even know who held those positions in the last administration. They are just copying and pasting.”
That is why the simplest way to derail their lies is to ask them to explain them.
Because most (certainly not all) are just parrots they will fumble around.

“So I guess it’s perfectly fine to refer to the dope-smoking, coke-snorting president”
You are free to do as you wish.
Though I find it odd people rush to defend Rush’s drug addiction when he himself was so hard on other people with drug problems.
But then again hypocrisy is a virtue to right wingers.

“… I find it odd people rush to defend Rush’s drug addiction…”
Read carefully: I certainly didn’t defend Limbaugh’s addiction, any more than I condemned Obama’s use of marijuana and cocaine (a felony). I just strive for fairness and balance.

“…I condemned Obama’s use of marijuana and cocaine (a felony).”
My mistake, I thought you were refering to Bush.

Cocaine use (felony)…WOW…I guess mmmmmBush’d getting multiple DUI’s weren’t felonies? Get a grip Barracks lawyer!!

Ryan C., contact the National Journal and ask them if their source was the India Daily. Meantime, here are a few names for you:
William Lynn
Henry Rivera
Mark Patterson
Bill Corr
Daniel Shapiro
Marc Gitenstein
Rather than do any further homework for you, I’ll just go with the National Journal.
As for tax cheats, we have Geithner, Daschle, the poor woman who had to withdraw as Enforcer or whatever the hell that new job was, and apparently Hilda Solis, unless she’s an innocent spouse. Of course, those are just the ones we know about.

“Well in fairness Bush claimed he never got arrested, when in reality he got a DUI for getting drunk and driving off the road and into a hedge.”
Posted by: Skip | Feb 24, 2009 7:46:27 PM
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Better than driving off a bridge and running off while there is still a young girl trapped in the passenger seat.

“when we saw them defend Obama appointing a tax cheat at Treasury Secretary.”
In a way, Geithner’s being a tax cheat isn’t really the WORST thing, though it may be the TACKIEST thing, about Obama’s appointment of Geithner.
The WORST thing about Bush holdover Geithner is that Obama apparently considered Geithner indispensable BECAUSE of his father’s having funded Obama’s mother’s adventures through the Ford Foundation.

“In 1999, at a hotel suite “somewhere in the Midwest,” McClellan recalls the Bush mind when dealing with rumors that the then-Texas governor had used cocaine.” from Jake P. Tapper of ABC.
WOW, there were witnesses, he doesn’t have to admit it.
Posted by: BruhMan | Feb 24, 2009 7:48:43 PM
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A witness to what, exactly? Did you leave out some of the text or something?

Just reading a story

“While we’re on the subject of drunken escapades let’s not forget Cheney getting popped and shooting his buddy in the head with bird-shot. ”
Posted by: Skip | Feb 24, 2009 8:01:00 PM
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Could you please provide evidence to back up your claimed Cheney was “popped.”
Thanks! ;)

Speaking of education, back in Illinois where the billions for schools in the “Stimulus” are being touted, there is a small “detail” that is being left out. None of the money HAS to go to local school districts. If they cut the education spending, the money (in the form of a block grant)can be used for whatever the new governor and the legislators “create” in their “artificial budget hole.” Hey, but we’re used to it here. Laws are passed only to have ‘new’ laws passed to undo what was just done. The same with promises…grants…you name it. Alot of punishing of legislators by the new regime. Shame they don’t realize what they are doing to the people.

“Well I hope so. How else did he mistake his friend for a bird?”
Posted by: Skip | Feb 24, 2009 8:06:54 PM
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Ah, you “hope” so. I hate to burst your shiny red balloon, but hope doesn’t make your statement about Cheney anymore true than it gets daddy a job and puts food on the table.

Please, no more questions. I’m watching the President of the United States in a joint address to Congress.

Okay, enough, I’m sick of a President so competent. I’m sick of a President so popular. I’m sick of a President so eloquent. I’m sick of a President always thinking of the American people. Enough!!! Take us back to the old days when our President had eggs thrown at his inauguration motorcade. Take us back to the old days, when our President takes the stand and mutters either “I cannot recall, or I plead the 5th”. Is this America???…Where can I be???

he signed ledbetter and schip which were passed twice during the bush administration. bravo.

That so GD foolish, I don’t know what to say. 3.6 million jobs, work, people getting paid to do somethiing, have dried up on their own, over the last few months. That’s the same Michael Steele jobs vs work nonsense. Borrowed Chinese money??? Guess what the other industrialized nations are doing? Putting for stimulus packages, by their governments because private investment worldwide has all but evaporated. Handing out the “trillion” as you call it, even though it’s not, would stimulate…what? This package is a combination, tax cut to people, spending by the government to jump start investment and create jobs.

I think the President has a confidence problem. I think he’s getting bogged down by that 59% poll number jennifer’s been pointing out.

Looking at my Gucci, it’s about that time!!!!

Accomplished more? Try saddled my generation with more debt that any president in U.S. History. Now try to explain to your children why THEIR grandkids are still gonna be paying for the stimulus package passed this year…

Multi-generational theft we can believe in!

Dear Namaste 1209:
I decline to do anything end everything you suggest. Too bad for you.
Love always,
Hyena with An Agenda

Obama’s “Read My Lips” moment: “If you make less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increase. Not by one dime. Not one dime.”
Hello? We’re all going to pay more in taxes when Obama lets the Bush tax cuts expire.

“There were no earmarks in the stimulus bill” – said with a straight face. LOL. Bill Clinton is about to understand what the meaning of “is” is. Obama is an accomplished liar. No honest person can say that the stimulus bill has no earmarks. I’m sure Obama is making a semantic allusion, but it’s an attempt to deceive. It’s a lie.

“There were no earmarks in the stimulus bill” – said with a straight face. LOL. Bill Clinton is about to understand what the meaning of “is” is. Obama is an accomplished liar. No honest person can say that the stimulus bill has no earmarks. I’m sure Obama is making a semantic allusion, but it’s an attempt to deceive. It’s a lie.
Posted by: tex | Feb 24, 2009 10:37:01 PM
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A bald faced lie. Even ABC in this blog last week said that it was a lie and that the anti-stimulus bill was loaded with pork.

Axelrod asked whether he’s disappointed there are over 8,000 earmarks in the spending and omnibus bill. LOL
Obama promised no earmarks at all; he didn’t say in certain bills it would be permitted.
Snagged. Even Axelrod could hardly hold his head up answering that one.

The president’s speech was on the net for anyone who wished to look for it at 5:15.

Someone actually said to me today that if China insisted on a seat at the table in the WH, we’d have to give it to them because they own so much of our debt now.

i am a big proponent of separation of powers.
however, let me say this.
the house and senate jump and put together a spending every time the executive branch asks for one.
no debate.
no hearings.
no fact finding.
no delays.
just another treasonous robbery of our treasury and betrayal of our children and grandchildrens’ future.
sounds like a complete take over of the idiots in congress by chairman obama.
adois
heyharvey
lancaster, taxifornia
push 1 for english gringo dummies
got leaf blowers?

in denver, liar barak said that we can look forward to a smart box put in our house to monitor our energy usage so that the government can collect data on u.s. energy needs and trends.
not in my house dude.
i am already worried about putting a camera in the digital t.v. kinda like the stealth cameras planted in your digital computer. no smart box. and no boxcars.
adios,
jarvey (formerly harvey)
lancaster, mexifornia
push 1 for gringo english
got amnesita?

I didn’ know America had so many economists. Everybody is worried about what Obama is spending more than they were ever concerned on the billions used to fund the Iraq war.
Go figure!

Bush did what? A gazillion? Aw come on you can sling better mud than that. By the time Obama and this democratic “party” is finished with the US budget and economy it will make any spending done under Bush look like chump change. And, that is not too mention that the dems had more political control than is admitted. The republicans screwed up because too many “crossed” the aisle and were/are not much more than democrats with a republican name tag. Hang on America the worst is yet to come!

BruhMan,
You are correct, Jindal shot himself in the feet last night. Both feet with a single shot.
Very disappointed in his speech!

How difficult is it to spend other people’s money and doll it out like candy to babies? For someone to say that this is an accomplishment is absurd. It takes guts to say NO. Obama will go down as the biggest governement spender in history, not just US history, but in the history of mankind…..is this something to be proud of? What ever happened to personal resposibilty in this world? Isn’t that what all of this comes down to? Taking care of yourself and your family? And don’t give me the “well what happends when someone cannot take care of themselves” line. There are already numereous governement programs that address this problem.

Yes he did more to destroy liberty in 30 days then anyone before.
He put our Children and there children and so on in so much debt that they will never see prosperity
He came in office with a 450Billion dollar deficit (mostly due to the War pushed on us by terrorists) and in 30 days he brought the deficit to 6 Trillion dollars!
Hurray!!!

On Drudge articles point to now 4 officers…I think he is the first president in history to have military members defy him on grounds he is ineligible, on pain of court martial just to show in court proof that he’s not. Now that’s historical.

And the $8 billion high-speed rail line from California to Las Vegas, which is in Harry’s Reid’s state.
That was no “earmark” — that was just another coincidence.

grand children need to pay for our
previous debts, we had them and we raised them. Let it become their problem. It gives them something to do to unify the people in America and
do away with racism. then all of the problems will be resolved.