Tonight: Progress Report

I would assume that the rest of the time will be spent trying to push his budget down our throats….

Obama’s Laugh???
What most people are not discerning is, is that Pres. Obama is somehow aiding us in facing this “shadow” or darkness of greed in our society. He is not trying to Hide it or Cover it up! Ironically, he is being blamed for not trying to Fix it in a hurry, so it will not be Exposed….. But to truly fix it, we must face it, identify it and generate enough public consensus so that it can be changed. That is how change is made. That is why I see Pres. Obama as really a true change agent. True and lasting change can only come from the people, demanding change. That is why Obama can laugh, he knows that the fat cats’ days of unchecked greed and speculation are numbered!
Now GOP’s new buzz word is “unsustainable”, however, what was really “unsustainable” as the recent events so adequately portray is that George Bush’s Iraq War, tax cuts to the wealthy, jobs going over seas, tax breaks to companies that shipped jobs over seas, deregulation of banks and insurance companies, and more (which I will leave to the experts to flush out), is the really true Unsustainable and break down and collapse of our economic system, fabric of society (bridges, roads, jobs, education), you name it, he failed in all aspects of this society. There are “tent” cities popping up all over United States because families can no longer sustain to live in a house because they no longer have a job!
This new buzz word “unsustainable” is a hoax, disingenous and hypocritical. Remember, they want Pres. Obama to Fail!
And lastly, let’s be Clear, George W. Bush’s first year in office was spent more at the Ranch then in Washington. Where was the Party of No’s outrage then? May be if George had spent more time in D.C. working, they would have been more alert about the signs leading to 9/11, just a thought…..

Progress Report? I can get the Sweet Sixteen bracketology directly from my offshore gambling website.

Angellight …. Bush is gone. This is Obama’s show now. As far as Bush spending more time at his ranch than the White House. Obama has NOT spent to much time there either. Too busy with Jay Leno.

CW wants more action? Pay attention. The economy is starting to turn around, to rebound. Wall Street is responding favorably; existing home sales are up; credit is starting to loosen up. Just because the Limbaugh-loving, hope-he-fails crowd does not want to admit it does not make it less true.

am sick of all the speeches this guy gives. Enough already.!!! He is always on TV saying the same scripted cr@@p he said when he was campaigning. I want to hear LESS words and more action.
Posted by: CW | Mar 24, 2009 9:05:55 AM
LOL! I am a OBama supporter, but I agree with you. However, he does this b/c he knows most americans do not know or care whats going on d.c. There is some benefit to the country for him doing it.

From the Desk of Teleprompter One (“TP One”):
Whoever leaked my early drafts for tonight is going to pay. I worked all week on an upbeat assessment to unleash at the news conference and now Rahm or Axe has gone and stolen my fire, making it appear as if I did not write it. I want a raise!

LOL!!!

TOO MUCH EXPOSURE!! I even “READ” his statements “with his voice” & “spacing words” in my brain like he’s live!

Can’t wait for tonight….. he keeps digging himself further into a hole…laughable.

William J. LePetomane |……..The economy is turning around? where do you live? Every week Obama spends another trillion dollars that we don’t have. People continue to loose jobs. Just because the stock market was up for one day does NOT mean the economy is “turning around”.

Tonight is all about shoring up Obama’s political capital and erasing 60 minutes and AIG and everything else that happened last week from the minds of Americans.

matt: erase 60 Minutes? Why would we do that? It is a great show and he had a fantastic interview. Oh, I get it: THOU SHALT NOT SHOW A SENSE OF HUMOR. Lighten up.

There it is! Another “teleprompter tizzy” by the cynics and haters, this time TP One. You can always count on the Limbaugh-Lovers to focus on the burning issues of the day, like teleprompters. LOL. Forget the fact that Ike was the first president to use one and that every president since him has used one.

Obama’s record breaking deficit spending makes Bush look like a piker.
If deficit spending is as bad as Democrats have whined about in the past, why are Obama’s record setting deficits good?

cw: I said, if you will scroll back and review, that the “economy is starting to recover…” I did not say RECOVERED, did I? It will not happen overnight, but I’d rather see the glass as half-full instead of half-empty like all of the naysayers. Jobs will come back. They tend to lag behind the rebound of business, but eventually they will come back.

Willian J–”The economy is starting to turn around, to rebound. Wall Street is responding favorably; existing home sales are up; credit is starting to loosen up. Just because the Limbaugh-loving, hope-he-fails crowd does not want to admit it does not make it less true.”– The market WILL go up when you thro3w a trillion at it.. but in only one day its heading back down again.. thats not what I call a turnaround… Weren’t you the one who said that you had a relative who was laid off from catepillar (or was that someone else).. The CEO of catepillar announced ysterday that they were laying off an additional 2400 and another 600 would have to take a 6 month layoff minimum.. Unemployment continues to climb and with all the money that has been printed lately, inflation should start flaring shortly…Meanwhile, we are completly disregarding the constitution, taking bonuses from people AFTER we told them they could receive them, now we want Geithner to have more power to “take over” failing companies (not just banks) and place them ion government control.. WOW, socialized healthcare, increased welfare, government control of private companies, taxpayer funded selloffs of toxic debt (to “private” investors who are going to be funded at the rate of 93% by the government), 905 taxes on bonuses (unconstitutional by the way). Is anyone out there STILL going to try to convince us that this is NOT a socialist takeover of the US government??

arkievet: you are probably right. Next thing you know, Obama will want to nationalize the interstate highway system. Nationalize defense. Nationalize agencies like the CIA and FBI. Creeping Socialism! Next thing you know, he’ll advocate universal public education, K-12, for all!

William J-”Obama will want to nationalize the interstate highway system. Nationalize defense. Nationalize agencies like the CIA and FBI. Creeping Socialism! Next thing you know, he’ll advocate universal public education, K-12, for all!”
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I realize your comment was abit tongue in cheek, but A national defense IS constitutionally mandated.. this would incorporate agencies like the CIA and FBI since a large portion of their existence is dedicated to the national defense. the interstate highway system is actually an example if infrastructure spending WITHOUT nationalization. While the US government did standardize the highway system, most interstates are the repsonsibility of the states they serve.. not the Fed. The building of those highways was a national program while the maintenance of them is a state responsibility and thats the way it should be. And he has already taken a small step toward universal public education. In this country, your taxes pay for the public schools in your area, but you are not required to go to them.. you can at your own expense, go to a private instution (as it should be). Obama has already taken away the vouchers for the same private DC schools that his own kids attend. In effect, forcing some middle and lower income families to pull their children from these ame private schools and enroll them in the failing public system in DC.. and this is WRONG>>>

arkie vet: when is the last time Bush was criticized for his use of a teleprompter on these blogs? Michelle Obama was criticized here for putting in the garden! The GARDEN for God’s sake. He is criticized for travelling on AF One. He was critcized for taking a family vacation in HI. He was criticized for going back home to Chicago for a weekend visit. Michelle is criticized for wearing sleeveless dresses! He was criticized for entertaining the Irish prime minister on St. Patrick’s Day! He was criticized for having concerts in the white house (common practice for presidents). This is the cruel, petty kind of dung, shouts from louts, that is so infuriating. If you want to criticize his plans and policies, fair game. But to blast him because he likes to shoot hoops to blow off steam? How is that fair? How is that civil?

“In over 30 years of watching national politics, I have never seen a president or anyone else for that matter, receive the kind of free passes that Obama has received”
posted by arkie vet
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did you miss the Reagan administration? Remember the “Teflon President?”

This is a great opportunity for the public to ask the President questions. We are so fortunate to have this system in America.
I am hopeful that the presidents new programs will help average Americans. At a time when the American dream, of designing, building and owning ones home has been frayed and destroyed, what can the President tell me that can be done to set a mandate that the banks be made liable for destroying homeowners homes with criminal and wrongful mortgage practices?
I designed and built my own twenty years ago for my first family. In 2003, Washington Mutual Bank advised me to take the wrong mortgage loan while I was unemployed, instead of their branch manager offering some other modification to save the home. The bank eventually foreclosed and evicted me when job loss was immanent. With the help of an attorney, I recovered my rightful equity of approximately $100,000. What can be done now to re-invest a portion of this to re-establish a new home again at early retirement age? Will the banks welcome that I want to put down say $40,000 while I am underemployed as an artist? Will the President create new jobs for artists? My art has appeared on NASA web pages, awarded and published in many venues. I have spoke of it on NPR’s Talk of the Nation as I offer to lecture as non-profit for schools now. Will there be grants or compensation for those of us that can inspire students in new educational ways in the arts and sciences?

After Franklin Raines left Fannie and it was discovered how much he bilked that company out of, and the time and money the govt. had to spend to find and correct the accounting irregularities, there should never have been a single bonus paid to Fannie execs – especially for the past year. I read that the bonuses were going to be TWICE the size of the prior year’s. Hum, at a time when they were losing money, had to be bailed out – sounds a lot like AIG. If you are going to be indignant over AIG bonuses and expect them returned, then the same applies to Fannie – even if the amounts aren’t the same. The principle is: poor performance should not be rewarded.

Jack,
He never answered your question and you gave him a pass on it. This President loves to hear himself speak and he can side step any hot issues with a kind of specialized “contextual statement” and the world goes “oh…ok.”
This President has spent more money than the sum total of every president since since George Washington. He just sent a message to business people everywhere that if his administration makes a deal they can and will break the deal if they are in the mood.
the election is over; we need to keep our eye on the ball and if this President or any of his administration (not to mention his cronies in Congress like Dodd and Frank & Company) does this democratic tap dance then we need to call them out right then and there. You gave him a pass Jack – I know it is easy for guys like me to armchair this sort of thing but you were there, it was your turn and you were on game. It was just a little discouraging that you let him ramble on and not bring him back to reality.
The new bumpersticker: Answer the Question.