Obama Offers ‘Hope’ in a County Nearing 17 Percent Unemployment

Obama is proving to be far worse than Bush. I am sorry that the good citizens of Elkhart, Indiana are suffering record unemployment as are many other ares of this great country. Obama will not prove to be their savior. He’s incompetent. Hillary is the only bright spot in his otherwise pathetic administration.
The Clintons are what real leadership looks like. Obama, watch and weep, as you will never be their political equal.
Well done former President Bill Clinton and should be our President Hillary Clinton in successfully securing the release of the two female journalists from N. Korea. The Clintons are an incredible team, unmatched in political skills, intelligence and diplomacy.
The DNC made an enormous mistake in betraying the Clintons for the unqualified Obama. Fools. What a tragic loss for the country and the world where they (Bill and Hill) are unmatched.
Also, journalists need to be more careful in crossing borders they shouldn’t, it not only puts their own lives at risk, it puts our nation at risk in trying to save them.
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Hillary 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And change. Nickels and dimes…Goldman got the large bills.

“He said that Navistar, the company that owns the Monaco RV facility, will receive a $39 million grant”
Didn’t Caesar ride through the streets of Rome and toss coins to the masses to keep them under control?

“I don’t want to have to import a hybrid car. I want to be able to build a hybrid car here. I don’t want to have to import a hybrid truck, I want to build a hybrid truck here. I don’t want to have to import a windmill from someplace else, I want to build a windmill right here in Indiana.”
and I believed him, when he said he does’nt like to be in the car business.

“Didn’t Caesar ride through the streets of Rome and toss coins to the masses to keep them under control?”
ROFLMAO!
Wait till Obama sends out $300 to $600 checks to everyone….oh yeah.

“I don’t want to have to import a hybrid car. I want to be able to build a hybrid car here. I don’t want to have to import a hybrid truck, I want to build a hybrid truck here.”
Domestic hybrids aren’t built here?”
Context is important, see this quote before that one
“”See, I don’t want to just reduce our dependence on foreign oil and then end up being dependent on their foreign innovations,” the president said.”
The best selling hybrids are foreign brands.
Ford has done pretty well in the hybrid market grabbing the 5th thru 8th most sold hybrids in May 2009.
But the top brands that dominate that market are Honda and Toyota with the Prius outselling all the Ford’s combined.

Obama’s sounded tentative and insecure today, making mistakes from his trusted TOTUS.
His ego has taken some major hits lately.
He must be surprised that the world has figured him out so quickly–condidering we are such gullible idiots–or so he thought.

“I think we SHOULD be building fuel efficient vehicles here.”
That sentence said it all. Should and wants don’t always match up. Hybrid sales are down 40% from last year. Build all you want, someone has to purchase them.
And by saying “should” be building, your telling me what I “should” be driving. What I drive and purchase will be based on what fits my needs and wants. I don’t need someone else telling me what I should drive. Them theres fightin words! I grew up in a car crazy family so I’m touchy about my car choices.

“That sentence said it all. Should and wants don’t always match up. Hybrid sales are down 40% from last year. Build all you want, someone has to purchase them.”
Hmmmm….let’s take a looks at how the right wing takes a figure and lies to you.
First never assume the figure given by a right winger is true at all.
“Led by strong showings from both third-generation Prius and the gas-electric version of Ford’s Fusion, hybrid car sales in June were up 9 percent from a year earlier and rose 2 percent form May’s tally to mark the sixth consecutive monthly increase in sales volume for the segment.”
“WIth nearly all gas-electric hybrid cars qualifying for the Cash for Clunkers vouchers, hybrid sales in July grew to 3.55 percent of the new car market—its largest market share ever. New car dealers sold 35,429 hybrids, with more than half of the sales coming from the Toyota Prius.
Hybrid sales jumped by 35 percent in July compared with last month and a year ago—while sales of conventional new vehicles rose 15.4 percent for the month and were down 13 percent from July 2008.
Toyota sold 19,193 Priuses, making it one of America’s best sellers in July. Prius sales rose by 47.5 percent for the month and were up 29.7 percent from July 2008.

Investing in future technologies for American businesses is where its at – kudos to the Obama administration for forward thinking.

In these tough times, I’m glad the US government is setting a good example by cutting back on luxuries:
—Last year, lawmakers excoriated the CEOs of the Big Three automakers for traveling to Washington, D.C., by PRIVATE JET to attend a hearing about a possible bailout of their companies.
But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress.
The Air Force had asked for one Gulfstream 550 jet (price tag: about $65 million) as part of an ongoing upgrade of its passenger air service.
But the House Appropriations Committee, at its own initiative, added to the 2010 Defense appropriations bill another $132 million for two more airplanes and specified that they be assigned to the D.C.-area units that carry Members of Congress, military brass and top government officials.—

“Gotta have the truck nuts.”
No, muscle car nuts and proud of it. Touch it and we’ll come to blows.

“Yeah… I think that the Military Brass should walk next time they have a meeting in Iraq. It’s not fair they get to ride around in those “elite” airplanes.”
What part about “members of congress” did you miss?

I need for him and the other goverment thugs to start listening. I don’t want goverment controlled health care! I don’t want goverment controlled auto manufacturers!

Oh… yeah… members of congress should walk, too. Or stowaway.
I get really resentful about their fancy jets and stuff. I also resent that Obama eats Ice Cream, has a birthday cake on his birthday, wears a suit to work, went to college, etc. I resent that his wife has a purse. And that they went on a date.
But, I am un-resentful about their government-run health care plan that they enjoy (and that we don’t).
I also do not resent when big businesses get no-bid contracts. Nor do I resent it when lawmakers who take huge donations from lobbyists deregulate the financial markets and cause the economy to collapse.
I do not resent that credit card companies can charge whatever interest rates they want. I don’t resent that our national energy policy was written by oil company executives, behind closed doors, and without any records. I don’t resent that the Republicans have effectively lobbied to limit the amount of damages an individual can be awarded by a big business, but that some grad student can be fined millions of dollars for downloading some songs on the internet. I don’t resent that the police can walk into your house and arrest you for complaining.
None of these things bother me.
But, I do get awfully resentful that the government would buy three jets.

Posted by: gobot | Aug 5, 2009 3:36:18 PM
I wish I knew you when I was in sales.

Well… the stock market is turning around. And the housing market seems to be showing some signs of life.
Given that employment is what economists call a lagging indicator…
Reagan came into office during a recession just as it was ending, unemployment increased following the official end of the recession, and then people started getting their jobs back.
It may very well be the case that we don’t have to “hope” for improvement… we’ll just have to watch it happen.
And then what will the talking point be?
Well, We would have improved MORE if not for that dastardly Obama! We’d all be millionaires! But Obama ruined it all. That’s why your hound dog got sick and your wife left you and your car got keyed in the parking lot.
OR…
It’s just a trick! All these jobs that people have are just fake, until the election passes! The day after Obama is sworn into his second term, you’ll show up to work, and it will all just be gone. The boss will pull of his mask, and it will be Hugo Chavez! And he will be laughing at you in French!

Context is important, see this quote before that one
“See, I don’t want to just reduce our dependence on foreign oil and then end up being dependent on their foreign innovations,” the president said.”
Posted by: Ryan C | Aug 5, 2009 2:48:26 PM
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Context IS important. So how is this country dependent on foreign innovations when it comes to hybrids? Hybrids are produced domestically. Maybe not the first ones in the game, but they are there. It’s only when Americans are forbidden to produce do they end up dependent.
The President is misleading the public into thinking that he is preventing a trend that doesn’t even exist – unless it is created by the government like with drilling for domestic oil which is more of a liberal thing anyway.

I agree, hybrids aren’t the future. But they are a bridge. Developing batteries and transitioning our industry from combustion to electric are going to be key.
In this respect, helping with hybrids will help us move in that direction. But, yes, we need to get rid of gasoline engines.

“‘See, I don’t want to just reduce our dependence on foreign oil and then end up being dependent on their foreign innovations,’ the president said.”
–> Did He think He was back at the Special Olympics, or what? Except for “foreign” capital, this glib poseur would be holed up in a bunker by now.
Looks like The One’s “acting stupidly” again. His bullchip quotient seems to rise alarmingly, the closer He gets to Chicago.
Can’t He be er grounded?

There are many forward thinkers out there Danita (by the way nice name, my sister has it too, first time I have heard it anywhere else) however is it cheaper to make than a conventional car, does it make more pollution than it cures (batteries have some pretty nasty stuff in them and not at all environmentally friendly). I hear Ford is due out with an advanced engine that will blow away the mpg of all others.
Its Ok to come up with new and better stuff but lets hope we don’t kill what we have before we have proven the other stuff works.

“What does that even mean? Is this some kind of birther thing?”
Nooo . . . that’s some kind of China thing. You know: China — where Imminent Skip, ever alert to the profit motive, went to chase down Yo Yo Ma’s DNA.

“Make up your mind: is it a handful of astroturfers or an angry mob?”
Astroturfers are professional operatives who try to create the impression of a grassroots movement. If you read the memos that astroturfers have been passing on to their recruits, they basically instruct people on how to inflate their numbers. So, maybe it appears like a mob. Maybe at times, when they bus people in, they even have numbers approaching a mob.
But at the end of the day, I wouldn’t call it a mob as much as a simulated mob.
But that doesn’t mean that it can’t become a mob. I mean, look at how many “ordinary” Republicans have gotten caught up in the birther hysteria. What was once a classic election season “dirty trick” has become a belief to 58% of Republicans. On its face, its just utter nonsense… but now you have a bunch of nuts running around believing that the President of the United States is some kind of Kenyan sleeper agent.
If an astroturfer gets people whipped into a froth… says that Obama’s trying to kill their grandma or something… there’s really no telling where it will end. Maybe a violent mob… maybe just a “lone nut” worried about something he heard on Glenn Beck… but if Republicans don’t restrain themselves… it’s up to Democrats to be the grownups.

“If an astroturfer gets people whipped into a froth… says that Obama’s trying to kill their grandma or something… there’s really no telling where it will end.”
–> If He who came to power through astro-turf rallies, cheap slogans and media manipulation should be hoist on His own petard, that will be quite delightful to many in and out of all political parties.

Obama didn’t get elected by astroturfers…. he got elected by voters…. millions of them.
And we elected him to reform health care.
So, if you want to pit those millions of people who voted for health care reform AGAINST the handful of astroturfers and the angry, opportunistic Republicans who feel sort about the fact that they lost the elections… then I’m all for it.
But don’t go whining about how democracy is anti-democratic when these phony theatrics whither in the face of the real deal.

There you go again… “right before an uncontrollable revolution takes em by surprise and makes air travel inconvenient.”
This is a democracy! We voted. And Obama won. Be a grown up and deal with it. If you don’t like it, then vote for Sarah Palin or something.
But you sit there and talk about a coup… it’s disgusting.

Not all of us elected Obama to overhaul the health care industry.
Some of us voted for him because we were PO’d at Bush.
Some of us voted for him to prove we were not racist and that we were cool.
Some of us voted for him because we had abortions and if we voted for a Republican we would feel like hypocrites.
Some of us voted for him just because he was black and it would be a historic moment for America.
Some of us voted for him because our Union bosses told us to.
Some of us voted for him because our precinct captains told us to.
Some of us voted for him because our college professors told us to.
We didn’t know who we were voting for. We don’t necessarily want government run health care.

Employment is a lagging indicator. Ask any economist, and they’ll tell you that job numbers are always late to rebound after a recession.

“inflate your numbers”… its one of the tips provided by the astroturfers.
I would call that simulating a mob.
Whether or not the fraud is hysterical…. I think that goes without saying.

-”inflate your numbers”… its one of the tips provided by the astroturfers.
I would call that simulating a mob.-
An amazing connection! Almost as good as the Brutus/Caesar thing!

Whats the difference between acorn and astroturfer?
Oh by the way, there has not been a presidential town hall meeting or appearance that the questions were not picked and reviewed in advance, along with the people allowed to attend.
If you can’t take it, don’t give it out.

To quote Mr. Daffy Duck — Easy Stomach

Der Won today in Indiana: “you have seen the economy stabilize.”
Is He smoking crack with those Camels, or what?

A million bucks a truck to go 100 miles?
Leaving aside for a moment the propriety of Uncle Sam financing this effort, does President Obama really believe this crap?
Windmills? Please spare me from such idiocy.

More soaring nonsensical rhetoric, but no jobs! We’ve got to imagine a future? President Obama, Elkhart has 17% unemployment. They are too busy looking for work to imagine your future where the Government controls everything including our health. And what happens to them when all the costs and taxes from your Tax and Con and corrupt Health Care plan hit them. 27% 37% unemployment. Get real Mr. President! Get real fast!

Why wasnt the “great leader” talking about revival of the RV industry and getting those jobs back? His thugs and goons ruined the RV industry by raising taxes thru the roof and loading us down with gov’t debt thus preventing any kind of recovery in the private sector. Now they want to kill it off for good with cap n tax so that energy is unaffordable. Of course the enviro-thugs WANT TO DESTROY the RV industry cause those travel trailer, motorhomes, etc are not “Green” and use gas. Never mind that people love to camp and get tons of personal enjoyment and freedom from RVs – they dont approve so they want to kill this industry off. Its worse then a pipe dream – its a lie! – to say that the jobs in the RV industry will be replaced with “green” jobs making “battery trucks” that arent needed or wanted via government central planning! What a scam – wake up people before you are all serfs of the welfare state!

Pie-in-the-sky nonsense.Nobody ever talks about the enviormental damage from creating and destroying these lithium batteries. Lithium is a highly toxic metal with still unknown health issues when associated with car batteries.It is highly toxic to kidneys-the medication lithium carbonate is used for bipolar disorder despite a very narrow margin for safety.Lithium exposure has the potential to be the next public health issue that asbestos currently is.Of course,our current brilliant president still practices the most dangerous health activity of them all-he smokes! What educated,intelligent adult in this day and age still smokes?

The GOP are losers, who can’t compete, they have offer nothing of substances, they have given us nothing but misery and no ideas,no leadership, they are unable to compete in the 21 Century

What has Obama ever done besides spend other people’s money. He threw millions of other peoples money around in Chicago and achieved nothing. This man and never created anything but carbon from all his talking. He prays on emotion to advance his social engineering project.

When this poor excuse for a president wants to avoid criticism for the economy, he blames Bush. When he wants to claim victory for the economy, it’s the obama economy. He stated only months ago that Caterpillar would hire back all of its laid-off employees if HIS stimulus package passed. Caterpillar ended up laying off more. You far-left lunatics got what you wanted. But, is this what you sound-minded Dems and Indies were after? As the saying goes: It’s not Bush, it’s obama, stupid!

Markos Moulitsas said this about the Senate: “With 60 votes, the Democrats now own the chamber. Any failures are theirs alone.”