Candidate Obama Hits the Trail

He hasn’t become the President yet, he is still a candidate. He doesn’t know anything else. Remember his big qualification is running a great campaign, he’s going back to what he knows, filling the heads of Americans with platittudes. Problem is it doesn’t work when you actually have to do things and people see what you do. I feel for the guy, he’s flailing.

What a slap to the American peoples face, this guy is the most unqualified elected official in history and instead of attempting to do his job or at least learn it, he goes back to campaigning. What a fraud!!!

why doesn’t he try to sell his plan on tv instead of flying all over the place i thought he was the green president.

Maria:”I wonder if he asked for donations in the email.”
No he did not, and neither did the webpage the email linked to for the video. It should be noted that while Obama provided a video message (just as our past president would do for a Right to Life meeting or to support a serviceman on a TV show), this was sent by and funded by the DNC. Which actually makes it surprising that they didn’t ask for money – the RNC certainly never let a Presidential message go to waste like this.

Guess BO is getting tired of the White House cocktails, bands, expensive food, vacations at Camp David.
It’s just not the same as hanging out with the Hollywood crowd.
He deserves an Oscar for pretending to be competent and credible.
And how about that performance where he was outraged over AIG bonuses?

All is well at the White House–President Pelosi is still there.
Obama just around to read off the teleprompter and flash his pretty smile.

Lots of bitter folks in here.
Think sitting in an office all day = work.
Creativity of a tree stump.

GUNS ON A PLANE
Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings.
Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.
The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots.
This looks like completely unnecessary harassment of the pilots. The 12,000 Federal Flight Deck Officers, the pilots who have been approved to carry guns, are reported to have the best behavior of any federal law enforcement agency. There are no cases where any of them has improperly brandished or used a gun. There are just a few cases where officers have improperly used their IDs.

President Obama I fully support you. We now have a President that is willing to at least try to help instead of just sitting around on his hands. I am willing to knock on doors to show my support you and my country. So lets stop complaining and get off our### and help out.

He is doing what he does best, WASTING MONEY America doesn’t have. Would love to know the exact cost of this trip to be on the Tonight Show.
Where is his PAY CUT? No interest in anything he has to say until he leaves the teleprompter behind and starts using his own brain for once and not what is pre-scripted for him by his handlers. America needs to wake up to this nightmare you have elected.

jhw, your kidding me right? everyone (except you) knows how O handles hostile questions. Even ones that arn’t really hostile, just questioning him or his policies. I have NEVER read about one town meeting where a hostile question was asked. only glowing praise and sob stories come out of these meetings.The one and only time the media showed someone (privite citizen) question O was Joe the plumber. See how well that turned out for Joe. The hostility I spoke about above is from not so privite citizens. There was a story not long ago about obama reading letters from the public and NOT ONE, NOT ONE SINGLE letter was derogatory. I don’t know for the life of me where you get your info from

J Moore:”Who can blame them….Its been a free ride so far….whatever garbage they do is sanctioned by the Media”
I think it is more relevant that he just got the vote of the largest percentage of Americans for a non-incumbent ever in the history of the country. And the only incumbent to edge him out was Reagan in 1984.
Obama is implementing the EXACT platform he ran on, the only that the clear majority of Americans voted for. It is clear that there are folks out there who hate everything he’s trying to do, that’s your right. But you are delusional if you think The Media is covering for Obama or something – this agenda was front and center for almost a year. Playing make-believe that Obama somehow conned his way in just makes Republicans look even more detached from reality.

Obama isn’t a real president, he’s just and actor who plays one on tv!

Describing Obama’s email list as “his 13 million plus supporters” is a very inaccurate, misleading statement, implying he only has that many real supporters.
According to today’s Rasmussen poll, which tends to be on the conservative side, Obama has “strong approval” from 37% of the public, and the percentage of Americans who approve of Obama at least somewhat is at 57%.

The tide is hopefully turning on this rookie. Even dumb people will not be able to defend his stupid policies and actions. One week, we are in a crisis and need to pass his spending bill and 2 weeks later the fundamentals of the economy are strong. HMM, wonder who said that in the past but got blasted for saying it. (that would be Bush and McCain) But it’s okay for Obama to say it, he got his spending bill.

Message to Republicans.
Obama said “ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMY” are fundamentally sound.
Romer said Obama is “FIXING THE FUNDAMENTALS” of the economy, and that they are only sound in a certain sense.
Too bad a few mainstream reporters misled the country on this issue by ignoring Obama and Romer’s full statements.

Obama is a joke. He belongs on Jay Leno.

Not sure who is worse Obama or Pelosi!!!!!
Pelosi Tells Illegal Immigrants That Work Site Raids are Un-American.
The speaker of the House told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants recently that enforcement of immigration laws in the United States is “un-American.”

Joe the Plumber was a U.S. citizen who asked a question of a candiate for President of these United States. Don’t blame him – or the Republicans – for Obama’s answer.

The cynicism, sarcasm and outright hatred directed at a president who has been in office less than three full months is stunningly disheartening. It says absolutely nothing for fairness and giving a person an opportunity to succeed. The attacks are often vicious and downright nasty with name-calling included. IMHO it is shameful behavior.

“Joe the Plumber was a U.S. citizen who asked a question of a candiate for President of these United States. Don’t blame him – or the Republicans – for Obama’s answer.”
Ok, but only on the condition that you don’t blame Katie Couric for making Sarah Palin sound like a jabbering idiot. They’re both US citizens too.

drjohn: you just made William J. LePetomane’s point for him.

Concerned in OH: if that indeed happened to Bush, it is no less shameful. But to use that argument to somehow justify these attacks on Obama is bogus.

“In all candor, I don’t know why they’re so exercised by some bonuses. These pathetic excuses for politicians cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars and, worst of all, they’re still in power.”
–Doug Ross
Exactly. Government on both sides of the aisle (including Obama) created this economic mess (and are exacerbating it to this day with their insane never-ending bailouts). And what do the American people do? Reward them with re-election.
We are the Stupid Nation being ruled by the Stupid Parties.

“Here’s an idea: If you stop nationalizing banks, there will be no need to engage in phony-baloney indignation over bonus payments anymore.”
–David Harsanyi

Obama is fleeing the heat in Washington. When the going gets tough, Obama goes to Hollywood.

“Cut the crap Mr. President, Mr. Geithner and Congress. You are lying and this entire “bonus” game is a smokescreen to try to divert attention from the real theft – nearly $100 billion dollars of taxpayer money that has gone to Goldman and other banks, including foreign banks, to pay off Credit Default Swaps written by AIG that were worthless as the company had no capital behind them. This in turn means that the accounting of these firms has in fact fraudulently overstated earnings – perhaps for years – and still is!”
–Karl Denninger (Had Enough FRAUD America?)
Please, people. Put partisan politics aside and hold this government responsible for it’s crimes!

“How many of you gave Bush a chance? How many of you hoped Bush succeeded (polls show not many).
You’re a bunch of disgusting hypocrites.”
I can understand why you might be bitter about Bush leaving office as one of the most unpopular presidents in history but he brought it on himself by letting himself become a hand puppet for corporate American. He never stood up to them on any issue, and look where they took us.

I heard on NPR today that it took a full ten years for the nation to work out of the Great Depression. And many here expect Obama to solve the current economic situation in less than three months? How is that fair?

drjohn: how many trips has Obama made to Hollywood? Specifics? Dates?

“Mr. President,
You must fill the remaining appointment postions in Treasury!
Posted by: Mike_C | Mar 18, 2009 12:47:00 PM”
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What. You hadn’t heard?
They just appointed Citigroup crony Lewis Alexander, who contributed to the derivatives structure at Citi, to assist Geithner.
Because you know, who better to fix everything than the very people who screwed it up to begin with? /sarc

Once again, it took a full ten years to work out of the Great Depression, and concerned in oh is bailing on the president because the economy has not been fixed in less than three months? That about it, concerned?

jhw: I am impressed that he accepts the occasional hostile questions;
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A few moments ago he was asked about contributions from AIG and ignored the question.
The question desrved a response.

“I like the part where they claim FDR caused the Great Depression 4 years before he got into office.”
I like the part where they claim to have found proof that the New Deal was a failure in FDR’s Treasury Secretary’s diary.

I like the part where they claim FDR caused the Great Depression 4 years before he got into office.
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Wasn’t that Biden? He’s one of yours.

“I like the part where they claim to have found proof that the New Deal was a failure in FDR’s Treasury Secretary’s diary.”
That’s a good one too.

“You Obama haters are so scared he will succeed because if he does, republicans will be lost for a very long time.”
I agree.
The Republicans have little to gain by Obama succeeding.

This is just like FDR going on the radio in his day for his fireside chats.
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I hear this is coming – because YOU just can’t get enough of President teleprompter!

Anybody noticed stocks are down today because co-operate executives on wallstreet(AIG) are under fire?

“Did they call him “candidate FDR”?
Posted by: Tom | Mar 18, 2009 2:00:25 PM”
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I call FDR an evil SOB.
I mean, what is it about that Fascist tyrant that Americans love so much?
He interned innocent people in camps, seized private property, tried to stack SCOTUS when his policies were ruled unconstitutional, prolonged the Great Depression by about 7 years, set up the SS Ponzi scheme, and put this nation on the fast-track to Economic Fascism.
“The Fascist Principles are very similar to those we have been evolving here in America.”
–FDR’s NRA
Read: Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt
*What FDR had in common with the other charismatic collectivists of the 30s*

Jake, why no coverage on the biggest story of the week? The Obama plan to charge soldiers for war injuries?
Here is a brief clip from Wash Post and CBS:
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(Washingtonpost.com) This story was written by Washington Post Staff Writer Ann Scott Tyson.An Obama administration proposal to bill veterans’ private insurance companies for treatment of combat-related injuries has prompted veterans groups to condemn the idea as unethical and powerful lawmakers on Capitol Hill to promise their opposition.
Nevertheless, the White House confirmed yesterday that the idea remains under consideration, and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and leaders of veterans groups are scheduled to meet tomorrow to discuss it further.
The proposal — intended to save the Department of Veterans Affairs $530 million a year — would authorize VA to bill private insurance companies for the treatment of injuries and medical conditions related to military service, such as amputations, post-traumatic stress disorder and other battle wounds. VA already pursues such third-party billing for conditions that are not service-related.
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“Anybody noticed stocks are down today because co-operate executives on wallstreet(AIG) are under fire?”
NEW YORK – Stocks turned mixed Wednesday as investors awaited details from the Federal Reserve’s meeting on interest rates.
The market pulled back in the early going, marking a slight pause to the blockbuster advances over the past week which have lifted major market indicators more than 10 percent. But by early afternoon, stocks pulled off their lows and struggled to move higher.

Milton Friedman: “Roosevelt’s policies were very destructive. Roosevelt’s policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been.”

Bush/Cheney and Supporters legacy
- 11 trillion dollar Deficit
- Two wars
- Republicans in DC at 28% approval rating.

Bush/Cheney and Supporters legacy
- 11 trillion dollar Deficit
- Two wars
- Republicans in DC at 28% approval rating.
Posted by: Chuck | Mar 18, 2009 2:39:01 PM
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Vote Democrat 2010 and 2012!

“Vote Democrat 2010 and 2012!
Posted by: Caesey | Mar 18, 2009 2:42:40 PM”
No. Vote Third Party!
I don’t even care which.
We need to kick all the Craven Criminals on Capitol Hill out on their corrupt butts.
The Republicrats are, after all, responsible for the mess this country is in.
The Democrat and Republican Parties need to go the way of the Whigs.

this is soooo much fun to watch!! the obama administration is hoping that we all get into a big uproar over the “problems” with aig and corporate america, to divert attention away from his (and nancy pelosi’s) socialist agenda. you libs are far too mesmerized to even notice!!! is is just a matter of time for barack obama. this entire situation will drive most americans to embrace conservatism, not out of agreement with it, but out of necessity. when it is all said and done, we will have no cahnge in health care, education OR energy in this country and we will have all been taxed to death. there is no way you can spend as much taxpayer money as obama and his administartion already has committed to and cut taxes to 95% of the american taxpayers. do that math!! it is mathematically impossible. keep in mind, that everything we spend taxpayer dollars on in this country, whether republican or democrat, winds up costing way more than we were told in the first place. you libs are all being “hoodwinked” by a harvard educated lawyer with good speaking skills and a nice smile! all sizzle and no steak.

To all with this “President Teleprompter” nonsense.
Obama smoked McCain in all three of the debates… in style, substance, and specifics.
That was the biggest canard of the primary fight between Clinton and Obama, that he “was just words” and “an empty suit”.
if anybody has watched any of the townhalls, or the recent Q&A sessions during the summits at the White House, Obama knows his stuff, and can speak AT LENGTH on any topic.
You may not like his programs and policies, which is OK, but don’t try to delude yourself into thinking that Obama isn’t one of the smartest President’s in a long, long time.
You don’t become the Editor of the Harvard Law Review, or a professor of Consititutional Law, because of a “teleprompter”.

tom…back up your mouth!! let’s hear from you, even one (1) specific that we have heard from obama on anything, and furthermore, if he has been so specific, and doesn’t feel like he is on shaky ground with a large percentage of the american people, then why, oh why is he continuing to travel the country trying to sell his policies as if he were still on the campaign trail??????????

Ahmed: you only have about 4,000 more universities and colleges to go.

Posted by: Tom | Mar 18, 2009 3:15:21 PM
He wasn’t a professor.
He also opined that the Constitution supported redistribution of wealth.
And that if he couldn’t get it that way, it could be done legislatively.

brydog: good question. Maybe you should check with Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox News, O’Reilly, Coulter, Drudge, Buchanan, Novak and Carlson?

EDDOC80…
WHEN YOU HAVE NO COMEBACK, IT’S TIME TO MAKE FUN OF THE CONSERVATIVE TALK SHOW HOSTS. CLASSIC LIBERAL BEHAVIOR!! IT’S FUNNY HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ALL OVER TRYING TO “REINSTATE” THE “FAIRNESS DOCTRINE” TO ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN THE CONSERVATIVE TALK SHOW HOSTS. KNOW WHY THEY WANT TO DO THAT?? BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE LISTENING, AND YOUR PRESIDENT IS FLAILING!! I DON’T HEAR ANY SPECIFICS FROM ANY OF YOU HERE, EITHER! WHO EVER EVEN HEARD OF ..OH, LET’S SAY RACHEL MADDOW UNTIL OBAMA BECAME PRESIDENT. NO SUBSTANCE THERE EITHER! WHAT A JOKE.

“IT’S FUNNY HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ALL OVER TRYING TO “REINSTATE” THE “FAIRNESS DOCTRINE” TO ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN THE CONSERVATIVE TALK SHOW HOSTS.”
No, this is what’s funny.
“The Senate voted Wednesday (Feb 25th) to bar federal regulators from reimposing a policy, abandoned two decades ago, that required balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves. The pre-emptive strike against the so-called Fairness Doctrine has been actively pushed by conservative radio talk show hosts who have warned that Democrats would seek to revive the policy to ensure that liberal opinions get equal time.
The 87-11 vote added the measure as an amendment to a bill giving District of Columbia residents a vote in the Houses.
Most Democrats voted along with the amendment, pushed by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., but said it was unneeded because President Barack Obama has stated he has no intention of reviving the Fairness Doctrine. They added that it is generally recognized that it is no longer relevant with the proliferation of television networks, some 14,000 AM-FM radio stations and the Internet.”
So what’s funny?
A right wing parrot working off the old talking points who writes in all caps.
That is downright hilarious.

BY THE WAY, BY ALL OUTWARD APPEARANCES, OBAMA HAD NO INTENTION OF PAYING OUT BONUSES TO AIG EXECS EITHER, BUT WOW!! LOOK WHAT HAPPENED! COULD IT BE THAT HE DIDN’T READ THE BILL EITHER?? OR IS IT REALLY A DISTRACTION TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE POLICIES THAT OBAMA KNOWS ARE UNPOPULAR WITH AT LEAST HALF OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC? (TO SAY THE LEAST). IT IS AN INSULT TO THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. STILL NO ANSWER FROM ANYONE HERE AS TO WHY YOU GUYS THINK OBAMA IS TRAVELING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY CONTINUING TO TRY AND “SELL” HIS AGENDA TO THE PUBLICAS IF HE WERE STILL ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. DOES HE THINK HE IS GOING TO CHANGE OUR MINDS??? IDEALISM AT IT’S FINEST. AGAIN. ALL SIZZLE AND NO STEAK.
CAPS OR NO CAPS, RYAN C…YOU CANT DISPUTE THE FACTS.

SEE WHAT I MEAN???

“CAPS OR NO CAPS, RYAN C…YOU CANT DISPUTE THE FACTS.”
The facts are that Obama has no intention of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine and the Senate (with heavy Democratic backing) has moved to restrict the ability of regulators to impose such restrictions.
But hey why should I ruin a right wing delusion with facts.
So much better to remain afraid of non existent boogie men.

Saying Rachel Maddow’s show is calm and reasoned dialogue is like saying she’s pretty, attractive, and patriotic. You can claim it all you want but that doesn’t make it so. But she’s on a propaganda hate channel, so rational people can see thru her and the other hate-filled bigots that are there.

“Her ratings are terrific, eh?
Glenn Beck just kills her..”
I didn’t say anything about her ratings but she’s doubled them in under a year.
But what a shock you would love Glenn Beck who’s on the level of morning talking points reader Steve Doocey just with more anger.

“But she’s on a propaganda hate channel, so rational people can see thru her and the other hate-filled bigots that are there.”
Yes because at FoxNews you can get the GOP talking points read directly to you.
You don;t even have to wait for the email!

Hope he brings along some spare telepromters.
I heard he has NASA designing him a new ultra-light, halographic telepromter that projects his speeches in mid-air from his belt buckle.

I hope one of the thirteen million comes to tell me about the budget (not really).

Once again, we see that the political establishment is terrified that the people are going to get involved. The establishment media do their best to make the issues seem as obscure as possible, evade the issue by trumpeting right wing talking points, and now try to belittle the potential involvement of the people in their democracy.

If there were ever a doubt that our educational system is a failure, one need only read the comments made here by our friends on the left. Our President, thanks to them, is an empty suit on permanent campaign mode. His cult members are empty heads on permanent delusion mode. Reality is a concept the left is incapable of dealing with, so they live in their fantasy land despite evidence contrary to their belief system. If Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, I think it is clear that the left are truly insane…as well as delusional, naive, gullible, child-like, ignorant and fun to watch.
I encourage all of our friends on the left to keep it up! You Rock! If they maintin their present course, the grown ups will have an easy time of saving the country from the “Children of the (A)Corn”

A case of Obama doing what Obama does best. He won’t know what to do when he leaves the White House. There won’t be any more campaigning to be done!

Obama is : #1- disarming pilots, then the country. #2- Scaling back the Navy, military. #3- stopping the tax deductions for contributions to Charities & Churches.#4- giving healthcare,drivers liscenses,& welfare to the illegals.#5- Obama is not protecting the borders or America. Obama is Un-American.