Previously Unseen Obama Interview from 1993 to be Given New Life

I thought that Mr. Obama starts to lie when he began his campaign, but it looks like it started even earlier.

He makes be proud to have voted for him and looking forward to vote for him again!

Too late on the “destroy government” thing, Daniel. Bush beat him to it.

Fannie Mae seeks $10.7 billion in new US aid after posting $15.2 billion second-quarter loss
By Alan Zibel, AP Real Estate Writer
On Thursday August 6, 2009, 6:22 pm EDT
O had better say no. Otherwise it is good money after bad.

I have to hand it to the guy. Most of us still love him even though times haven’t been this hard since before I was born. He is one smart guy.

Obama will go down as one of the best Presidents because he is not afraid to tackle the hardest, most unpopular, issues. For years people have talked about health care reform – he is actually trying to do it. And noone had the guts to tackle the problem of energy dependence despite the fact that everyone knew it must be done. Well he is trying to do it. He came into office during a terrible financial crisis and, although there is a ways still to go, we are pulling out of it. This despite the worst, most partisan opposition I can remember. To say nothing of the lies and falsehoods that have been perpetuated from day one of his Presidency. I give him a lot of credit and support him all the way.

What this video shows is very very different from the negative comments about Obama that some have posed here.
I wonder where that disconnect lies?
Never mind, I figured it out.
I continue to be impressed by the clarity and intellect that Obama shows. I do not agree will all his beliefs, but I largely do agree with the man as far as America has strayed from it’s path.
This is not a country that was founded on the notion that greed should suffocate common sense, or that small minded perspectives should trump brilliant vision. This country was founded on many specific cases of common sense, hard work and generosity, and we have lost that for many many years now. It wasn’t stolen from us by liberals, it wasn’t killed by a socialist conspiracy — no, it died in the hearts and the soul of government and we can blame extremists of all sorts for choosing to forget that common sense is as important as gravity, no even more important than gravity.

As Mr Obama destroys the economy due to his extreme ignorance of what made the United States great, I am glad that information like this turns up so that everyone can see what his agenda is.===================================
yeah, how dare he work hard and give back to the community? That’s not what america is about!

Jake, your blog is now toast. You’re being inundated with O love. It’ll get worse.

So many people willing to follow a cult leader — it’s pathetic. I lived long enough to have seen it all before — this too will crash and burn.

I bet he’s wearing mom jeans.

I gotta say…. My 401K is up. My business is up. Homes are selling in my area.
Things are better now than they were during the election.

I am looking forward to universal health care. I have thought about starting my own company, but one thing that has held me back is health insurance. I have pre-existing conditions and so I cannot get insurance now because I was turned down, even though I have paid many tens of thousands of dollars into my heathcare plan over the years. So I cannot leave my corporate job. With Obama’s plan with a real government option that would no longer hold me back. Insurance companies could no longer deny me coverage.
Posted by: Scott | Aug 6, 2009 7:17:06 PM
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Scott, thanks for sharing your thoughts because I also think portable, universal coverage that isn’t tied to employment will do so much for creative people– and entrepreneurial people are creative people. Universal coverage is a big deal to entrepreneurs, small business owners, writers, artists, and those who are self-employed– and mobility is a big part of the high tech, global workplace. I’ve been self-employed for awhile now and my husband owns a small business and the premiums and coverage availabe when you have pre-existing conditions is a killer. So great post!

If you think government can or will provide real solutions without creating bigger problems, YOU are part of the problem.

If you think government can or will provide real solutions without creating bigger problems, YOU are part of the problem.
Posted by: Tony | Aug 6, 2009 8:19:51 PM
This is obviously false. The Army is a government run program…. and they do a great job. Our public Universities are the best in the world. Our roads, bridges, telecommunications were the best in the world. Our public utilities were the best in the world before they were privatized. Social Security is fantastic. The FDA, though imperfect, has saved many lives. Our financial markets did very well under the regulatory structures built by FDR.
It’s just silly to say that the Government can’t do anything right.
It can’t do EVERYTHING, of course, but some things it does exceptionally well.

Yes, I agree that Obama is a very smart man and that’s why I voted for him and yes I happy tosee him taking on the tough issues like the economy, that oh by the way went down the drain due to the Republicans… trickle down..HA!
Also, health care. I makes me angry to see the “mob” scenes at the town hall meetings. I find it odd that people are so concerned about the health insurance industries, you know the companies that deny you care in order to make profits and pay their executive hugh salries. I read somewher where the top executive at Cigna makes 12.2 million a year. If this health care bill does not pass I give it about five years and employers wont’t be able to offer coverage as it ill become too expensive and we will all be on our own to find coverage that we can afford. I have a friend who recently lost her job and her health benefits for herself and her two children and now she has to pay $942.00 a month for coverage so they will have health care. Gee, I wonder what bills she will have to forego paying and if her unemployment goes on for an extended period I guess she will just have to sell her home.
When I see these older people, who are probably on Medicare, screaming about socialized health care and they don’t want that for our country I just want to ask them if they realize that Medicare is socialized medical care. So, if they don’t want this maybe the government should do away with Medicare and let those older Americans find their own health coverage. Hope they can afford the high prices or maybe due to their age or a pre-existing condition they may even be denied coverage. I wonder what tune they would be singing if that happened.

Obama is not a bad person but he’s too much into his image and how he appears to others, even now. He’s going to be a so so president. Not awful not great just sort of there. However, I will vote for him again because he has a D next to his name. The Repubs are already getting behind Mike Huckabee which is insane. The right wing cuckoos are still driving the party, right off a cliff.

hey, guess what guys? we were told the recession would last about 11 months or so then the economy would start to turn around on it’s own. It is slowly doing this but not because of Obama’s out of control spending. Even the chinese government is worried about his spending. It always amazes me when I hear all the blind devotion to Obama. Really, what has this man done? What excatly did he do for Chicago? Is it still not gang infested? Poor school systems? abundent crime? Oh wait, I know he orginized some rallies that he now condems! That must be it. Everyone on here needs to go drink the rest of their kool-aide and go to bed. Obama’s approval rating is 50% and falling fast. All hail Obama!

I know what I get when I vote D. The two parties have different platforms. The Repub party is run by right wing religious fanatics and I have nothing in common with them.

Jenny, that would seem to be the case. I haven’t seen this much support for him in weeks! I have heard some libs accuse others of posting under many different names. That is probably the case here. One or two people all praising obama under many different screen names.

This sounds way too scripted. Was this provided to you on a cheat sheet card? Is obama bringing out the paid bloggers again?
Posted by: Jenny | Aug 6, 2009 9:46:22 PM
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Definitely seems very scripted.

The Repub party is run by right wing religious fanatics and I have nothing in common with them.
Posted by: Lila | Aug 6, 2009 9:37:58 PM
While you may have nothing in common with the Republican Party, this is such a mis-characterization, it is ridiculous. The likes of Michael Steele, John McCain and John Boehner – to name a few – are not right wing religious fanatics. The Taliban are right wing religious fanatics.

If you don’t think the republican Party is veering into right wing religious fanatacism, try reading the new book “The Family” by Jeff Sharlet. It has been talked about a lot in the press lately, so I purchased a copy. It is a REAL eye opener.

I gotta say…. My 401K is up. My business is up. Homes are selling in my area.
Things are better now than they were during the election.
Posted by: barfly | Aug 6, 2009 7:42:09 PM
Your 401K is benefiting from professional investors who find a way to make money with stocks in just about any climate. Houses in your area are no doubt so low that they are a bargain being bought by those who were previously on the sidelines and again investors. TARP was passed by Bush at the end of 08.
Meanwhile, unemployment continues to rise, a new high for food stamps, unemployment being extended, commercial real estate is next for the bill coming due in 2010-11, state and local govts still in deep trouble. ARRA was supposed to save local govt jobs yet counties like Jefferson County in Alabama are asking for the National Guard. Apparently they didn’t get the relief that was advertised and touted on this blog.
600,000 summer jobs are still MIA, 3-4 million jobs still MIA although Obama is trying to convince the country he has saved a half million jobs so far.
And we won’t even mention the debt…

I wasn’t for the bail outs (Obama and the dems sure were), The war in Iraq, well someone had to free those people. Oh and by the way obama has doubled our debt in 6 months time. Oh well, you get what you vote for and sometimes what you don’t.

“Someone had to free those people”. Since when???? How arrogant, especially when our liberation machine took over 100,000 Iragi lives. Iraqi’s who had never hurt us one bit or engaged in terrorism against our country. Oh well, hindsight’s 20/20!

Funny how Repubs weren’t interested in their children’s future back then. None of you said a peep.
Posted by: Lila | Aug 6, 2009 10:22:12 PM
That’s a lie and a load of crap! Conservatives/republicans were against the TARP. I personally called my reps to voice my opinion. Get off the lefty sites and research some conservative web sites. People were out demonstrating against TARP – does “Don’t Tax Me Bro!” ring a bell?

phoenix lady | Aug 6, 2009 10:52:49 PM
Yes. Their guys screw up and then they claim to have the principles to let everybody suffer for it.

Scripted by whom? Considering I run a veterinarian practice in Phoenix and have never been scripted in my life, I take that as a compliment. I think it’s possible the right has bashed Obama so much over the whole health care debate, that we of a more liberal mindset are starting to tune in again to counter the poison pens.

The post “Self righteous Republicans are all against the Tarp” is a complete insult to American intelligence. The truth is that anyone questioning where the money is going or what it is being spent on get’s this kind of response. I’d love to meet the poster in person and see whom he, she or it works for. My guess is that this is a Democrat operative…

Get off the lefty sites and research some conservative web sites. People were out demonstrating against TARP – does “Don’t Tax Me Bro!” ring a bell
Posted by: Gimme a Break **************************
As long as you stop listening to the brainwashing
idiotic FOX news. “Read my lips, no new taxes ”
ring YOUR bell?

if you have enough money you could elect a can of spam and make him our next president. like demonceats did.

CNN Poll: After 6 Months, More View Obama’s Presidency as a ‘Failure’ Than Bush’s
A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, “Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?”
Thirty-seven percent (37%) said they believe the Obama administration is a “failure,” while 51% consider it a “success” and 11% say it’s still “too soon to tell.”
An identical question was asked of the Bush administration in an August 2001 CNN/Gallup/USA Today survey. At the time, 56% said the Bush administration was a “success” while only 32% considered it a “failure.” (Link)
This is very surprising considering (a.) Bush came into office after a fiercely contested election, and (b.) ’01-’02 recession was gaining momentum.
I didn’t expect much from Obama…but I’m very surprised at how badly he has bungled his first 6 months in office given (a.) strong majorities in House and Senate, and (b.) his approval rating upon entering office. He is clearly in over his head.

Frank: If Conservatives do not like being branded in that mold (and I don’t blame them), why do they let people like Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Sean Hannity, and Michelle Malkin speak for them. Where are the smart, fiscal conservatives who could also build a broad consensus. Personally, I would vote for a thoughtful Republican who combined fiscal responsibility with some thought for the little guy. General Colin Powell is one I would have voted for. However, most conservatives label the liberal person as a “welfare recipient”, looking for a handout, a Socialist, a Marxist, pro-abortion (rather than pro-choice, and tops it off with anti-American. The name calling cuts both ways, and in the end it gets us nowhere constructive.

somethings never change
He was full of it then and he is full of it now..

Barfly,you state that he “could have had any job…” This is a frequent comment that I read . . .
Posted by: Nephron | Aug 6, 2009 8:55:19 PM
Nephron, you can google his biography, and read his books. I think this is a red herring, but nonetheless–
He graduated from Columbia with a B.A. in 1983 and worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then for a year at the New York Public Interest Research Group. He then moved to Chicago– and you can read all about why in his books– where he was hired as director of the DCP, a church-based community organization on Chicago’s South Side. During the 3 years he worked at the DCP he helped set up a job training program, a college prep tutoring program, and a tenants rights organization. Then, after traveling abroad to Europe and Kenya, he entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year, and became president of the journal in his second year. (I’m assuming you know that typically the best students serve on Law Reviews; at Harvard selection is based on a writing competition, I believe) During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989– that’s where he met Michelle– and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. Those are huge law firms in Chicago. He graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from Harvard. C’mon now– don’t you get why people say he had lots of opportunities available to him? Plus Obama’s election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention. Puh-lease. I don’t recall the specifics of the clerkships offered or discussed, but there’s no doubt there were many opportunities open to him.
Then in 1992, Obama directed Illinois’s Project Vote, which he talks about in the video. His efforts were so successful that Crain’s Chicago Business named him to its 1993 list of “40 under Forty” powers to be.
It’s a compelling story. And he’s always cared about people.

Asked to turn in subjective e-mails from people you may know or not to the White House that differ from the White House position is putting everything this Country stands for in danger..and one could logically ask, what is next.
Posted by: Parallex View | Aug 7, 2009 2:33:57 AM
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Yes, one could logically ask what is next, and a little pushback to ensure the right to free speech isn’t endangered makes sense.
However . . .
Nobody asked you to turn in subjective emails. This isn’t a witch hunt. In fact, this whole notion that the White House would be “collecting names” is about as valid as the idea that the president is a not a natural-born citizen. And yeah, I find the birther thing beyond the pale. So, let’s call a spade a spade. It’s fearmongering to the fearful. So what happened exactly? Shall we review it? A White House blog post encouraged people who come across lies, scare tactics, and misinformation to email the White House Office of Health Reform– to tell them about the blatant lies that were being circulated and the scare tactics that were being used so the record could be corrected, and fears wouldn’t be exploited by those who tend to do that (not saying you, or all Repubs or all conservatives or all dissenters, but there are folks who exploit fears – and some of them, like Limbaugh, do it exceedingly well) It was an effort to combat deception and obstruction.
I do wish it had all been worded and done differently. I understand that people are genuinely upset, but . . .
Right-wing blogs purposely misinterpreted the intent, stating “the White House wants you to report … anybody publicly opposing” health care reform. Drudge, Limbaugh, Malkin, and gang jumped on the bandwagon and started exploiting fears and whipping up the fury with headlines like “Help out the Internet snitch brigade.” By Tuesday, politicians like Eric Cantor were also falsely proclaiming that the White House wants Americans to report on each other. Yesterday, Sen. John Cornyn who, BTW, was all into warrantless wiretaps, came out with the ridiculous assertion that the president is trying to create a “program” to “monitor American citizens’ speech” and catalog “names, email, addresses, IP addresses.”
It’s goes on and on. It’s political; it’s the same conservative food chain that was used to proclaim Obama unAmerican, a Muslim, an alien, a Socialist, a Racist, a friend of terrorists and so on– and it’s ridiculous.
Last night, Krauthammer jumped on the bandwagon and labeled it is a Hugh Chavez-like effort. So, last night on here there were posts about “chavacrats” and Chavez-like posts. This morning “Fox & Friends” made up a “snitch list.”
So again, let’s call a spade a spade. It’s fearmongering to the fearful. It’s a smokescreen to prevent real change on the health care front from happening.

Yes, one could logically ask what is next, and a little pushback to ensure the right to free speech isn’t endangered makes sense.

Unions thugs sent out to beat up protestors by THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
This day is worse than 9/11. The citizens are under assault from their own government.
“If they hit us we will hit them back twice as hard”
The language of violence against citizens, spoken by a president in his call to arms of his union bought and paid for with taxpayer money thugs.
AFL-CIO Pres. Sweeny sends out a public letter, a call to arms of union thugs and a not so veiled warning to protestors.
Reserved seating for SEIU members at Carnahans meeting in St. Louis where they assaulted protestors trying to enter the meeting.
IS THIS THE HOPE AND CHANGE YOU DEMS WANTED? AN AHMADINEJAD STYLED ASSAULT ON THE CITIZENS?
Obama has spoken of an “internal army just as well armed and just as well funded as the military”
I guess he has it now and is not afraid to use it.

Was this guy actually working back then?

Obama is just proving that Bush was a good president! Blaming is in the Obama’s blood and it is becoming old now….It’s laughable how much the media pumped this guy up. What a joke and an embarassment to the presidency…I am ashamed I am a democrat, have been since Clinton. It’s time for a change and that is out of this party!

Who cares? We want to know what didn’t make the propaganda video.

There was no violence at health care town hall meetings until the White House gave the marching orders to the unions.

I hope he’s more effective as President than he was on the South Side of Chicago. Things don’t seem to have improve much there.

There is a reason all the naysayers are in the minority.

There was no violence at health care town hall meetings until the White House gave the marching orders to the unions.
Posted by: jennifert7 | Aug 7, 2009 9:06:12 AM
Yes. What a coincidence. And all of a sudden, I am reading quotes from retired auto workers who support the plan in case they lose their free health care and need something to “fall back on.”

I hope he’s more effective as President than he was on the South Side of Chicago. Things don’t seem to have improve much there.
Posted by: Susan | Aug 7, 2009 9:28:49 AM======================================Exactly Susan….I love how the media “forgets” or “refuses” to tell and replay the story of the FAILED HOUSING projects Obama helped run into the ground with Tony Rezko…..how convenient! or the patient dumping that Michelle Obama engaged in while she was racking in $300,000+ a year at her hospital that past two years……right, they are soooo upstanding!

Last night, Krauthammer jumped on the bandwagon and labeled it is a Hugh Chavez-like effort. So, last night on here there were posts about “chavacrats” and Chavez-like posts. This morning “Fox & Friends” made up a “snitch list.”
So again, let’s call a spade a spade. It’s fearmongering to the fearful. It’s a smokescreen to prevent real change on the health care front from happening.
Posted by: Alyson | Aug 7, 2009 3:14:42 AM
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Alyson, I am not taking bits of your post to destort it, it is just that it was too long to repost.
i get what you are saying, believe me I do but the fact is they should have NEVER asked American’s to do this nor should they keep ongoing logs of peoples emails, IP addresses, website,etc..etc.
If American;s truly have a question about the bill because they have been misinformed, then they should send an email, write a letter, fax or call the White House or their Senators for confirmation of the alleged information…..NOT ‘tattle tale” per se on others and send the government their information.
That is the wrong way to go about clearing up issues and only makes it look like the government is setting up a “watch list” of those who disagree with the President and Congress.
My thought’s of course.

I am reading quotes from retired auto workers who support the plan in case they lose their free health care and need something to “fall back on.”
Posted by: Pushed Around | Aug 7, 2009 10:19:49 AM
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“Mel Hoffer, 67, of Monroe, a retired Ford quality control worker, said he supports reforms because the country needs it. There’s no assurance autoworkers will continue to get health care they now have. “We don’t know what’s going to happen.”
“Mel Hoffer, 67, of Monroe, a retired Ford Motor Co. employee, said retired autoworkers have no guarantees. “We may need something to fall back on,” he said.”

hey check out your beloved drunk arse dubya at the bejing olympics.
Posted by: Omentum | Aug 7, 2009 10:33:44 AM
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Again, Obama is an admitted drug user….what is your poin with Bush, who has been in AA for many years?

footage please.Posted by: Omentum | Aug 7, 2009 10:29:19 AM====================
Geeeshhh Omentum, can you read? Obama even has it in his friggin book, but here is some quotes from the Washington Post:
“Long before the national media spotlight began to shine on every twist and turn of his life’s journey, Barack Obama had this to say about himself: “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. . . . I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.”
Obama has not expressed any regrets for his candor. In a preface to the new edition, he says that he would tell the same story today “even if certain passages have proven to be inconvenient politically.”
In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though,” he says.
…..Now, you tell me he did not use drugs after he admits to it in his own book!
PS…Tattle Tale and send that to the white house.

Posted by: KMDay | Aug 7, 2009 11:04:51 AM
no no …. can you read!!!!!!
HE USED DRUGS. HE EXPERIMENTED. HE NO LONGER USE THEM.
HE NEVER HAD TO SEEK HELP BECAUSE OF A DEPENDENCY FOR THEM.
LONG BEFORE HE WAS IN ANY ELECTED POSTION
unlike dubya. he was seen on several occasions trashed WHILE IN OFFICE.
SO sad of a commentary for an elected official.

You people ought to pay attention……Obama wants everyone that don’t like his crap to be turned into whitehouse.gov so maybe he will have a beer with you before you are convicted in kangaroo court for treason!

The Community Organizer in Chief – reminds me of Mein Kampf. How amusing that Bush=Hitler turns out to be, really, Obama=Hitler. How? The will to power and the predilection for socialist/statist socio-political and economic planning.
Some very trenchant observations among the posters here. Obama is doomed, but what damage will he inflict before the end? To paraphrase Hitler, does the U.S. deserve to continue to exist without BHO? He is one scary dude.
It’s the preening egotism. He cares not for this country.

Look at the democommies like Pelosi, Reid, Clinton, Obama and lets not forget Ole Teddy the driving instructor and then try and figure out why things are messed up?? Bush had to deal with a bogus economy from the famous Clinton years of terror and the implosion of the .com’s. Clinton also did away with a technology bill signed by Regan with was keeping this country afloat. What has Obama done for us?? Double digit unemployment, sent the wifey and kids to France to shop on Airforce 1, took over the banking industry, took over the auto industry, spent trillions of dollars that we don’t have, took 5 days to get 1 ship back from 18 year old pirates,(the French who don’t even fight did it in 3 days) and now he wants to dictate the Healthcare system that people from all over the world come here to get treatment…..

Posted by: Steve | Aug 7, 2009 11:23:44 AM
AGAIN
THE REPUBLICANS ARE IN THE MINORITY FOR A REASON.
GET A CLUE!!!!

Obama was virtually a kid when this happened
Bush was
a father,
a husband, and
a public official
when he was toiling with his drunkedness. a drunk is not good for either of those responsibilites. Posted by: Omentum | Aug 7, 2009 11:24:56 AM=====================================
Obama was not a kid when he “virtually” snorted cocaine, smoked pott and ingested other illegal drugs. I like your “virtually”, such a liberal spin!
Ted Kennedy is a drunk yet he is still in office and i hate to break it to you, but he is in a position with a lot of power. I suppose this is okay with you though, right?
According to Dr. Sam Houston, a well respected doctor in Little Rock (and one-time doctor to Hillary’s father), has made claims regarding an alleged cocaine overdose by Clinton. Apparently the incident is well known in Little Rock medical circles and the incident is well chronicled.
One of Kennedy’s mistresses (in fact, his supposed favorite mistress), Mary Pinchot Meyer, was known to have described a number of Kennedy’s illegal misgivings, including his use of marijuana and LSD. According to Meyer, as described by James Truitt, she was having a prolonged affair with Kennedy, and had admitted to smoking marijuana with the president. Furthermore, she was later quoted as telling Timothy Leary (LSD advocate), about her experiences on LSD with Kennedy, and a small circle of some of the most powerful men in Washington.
Al Gore is rumored by many to have had a somewhat shady past. Including in this haze is his supposed use of drugs during and after his stint in Vietnam and for a period of time after his return from the war. While Gore has publically admitted to smoking pot, he has made claims it was only a “few times.” Former college friends and acquaintances, have a different story to tell, however. According to them, Gore was a significant user of marijuana, and spent a great deal of his time in college smoking pot in his dorm room and watching TV. Friends of Gore, such as John Warnecke, say that Gore got high upwards of three to four times per week. He claimed that Gore liked to get high while listening to the Grateful Dead, and talked about grandiose things like what he would do if he were president. Gore was described by his friends as the sort of stoner who was a mix of melancholy, paranoia and expansiveness.

Posted by: Omentum | Aug 7, 2009 10:49:51 AM
Where are the 600,000 summer jobs?
HAVE YOU REALIZED THAT OBAMA IS TRYING TO FIX THE #### SANDWICH BUSH HANDED HIM AND YOU ARE BELLYACHING OVER SUMMER JJOBS. DID YOU EVER ASK BUSH THESE QUESTIONS???
No excuse. Obama promised 600,000 summer jobs. No report as of today on how many summer jobs were created.
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Passed the stimulus bill and employment still rose over 8.5%
AGAIN …… WE ON THE HEELS OF THE MOST INEPT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY. UNPRECEDENTED TERRITORY. PLEASE SPARE US YOUR WHINING.
No excuse. Obama and his experts stated we “needed” the stimulus to keep it below 8.5%.
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Job losses easing because companies are running out of people to lay off – being spun as the recovery is working
JOB LOSSES ARE EASING BECAUSE WE ARE TURNING THE CORNER FROM THE MOST DISASTROUS ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY
So your theory when things are bad is that it has only been 6 months and Bush made it worse than we thought – but when good things happen Obama is turning things around? Companies are taking a breather, seeing where they are at and if their bottom line gets worse, another round of layoffs will start. And if we are turning the corner, why are small businesses closing their doors in record numbers? And why are food stamps at an all time high? And why are unemployment benefits being extended?
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TARP was supposed to open up credit – lending is still dried up – banks are shoring up bottom lines instead with TARP money
THE SAME TARP THAT BUSH PROPOSED YOU. KUDOS TO BUSH
Great non-response. The real point here is that banks are using the money to shore up their bottom line after TARP was sold as stabilizing the financial sector and free up credit. They lied. If credit was going to be freed up, it shopuld have happened in the second half of TARP – Obama’s half. It did not.
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Stimulus money was sold as a jobs bill, then spun as saving civic jobs like police and fire – Jefferson County asks for Nat’l Guard after county is broke
No response?
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California is broke – Obama ignores it
HE IS NOT IGNORING. THE REPUBLICANS AKA “PARTY OF NO” IS OBSTRUCTING EVERYTHING OBAMA IS DOING TO HELP THIS COUNTRY. REPUBLICAN ARE IN THE MINORITY FOR A REASON. GET A CLUE
So how does a minority in a liberal state obstruct everything? Obama is ignoring the crisis there because he doesn’t care. He sees California “fat cats” going broke as a good thing. He takes their votes for granted. He cares more about his buddies in other areas of the country.
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Arizona is broke – Obama ignores it
DITTO
Republicans there are against a tax hike. Nothing wrong with that. California and Arizona are drowning from illegal immigration. Obama does nothing about it.
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Michigan is broke – Obama starts cash 4 clunkers plan. Why does cash for clunkers cost $1500 per car in administrative costs? Each car is costing the taxpayers $6000
YOU REPUBS LOVE TO MAKE LEMONS OUT OF LEMONADE. CAN THIS PRESDENT DO ANYTHNG RIGHT. HE BROUGHT THE TWO JOURNALIST HOME FROM NKOREA. FOX NEWS WHINES ABOUT THAT TOO. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
NK has nothing to do with C4C. The truth is no one is talking about the overhead involved in C4C being paid for by the taxpayers. And the admin jobs created through this program will not be temporary. They will just grow big govt even bigger. Obama takes office and suddenly a C4C program pops up in the auto industry. Why auto. Why not some other industry devastated by the economy? It’s all payback for their votes.
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Why is Congress spending 200 million dollars for three new jets?
BECAUSE THEY WANT NEW JETS. DUH!!
Very insightful. After roasting the auto execs, they do the same thing. Hypocrites.
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Decent citizens protest health care – Obama sends out union thugs and things get violent
DECENT… HAHAHA HAVE YOU SEEN THE MONGRELS AT THESE TOWN HALL MEETINS. LAUGHABLE.
Angry, frustrated citizens. Not mongrels. No bussing in of Acorn employees. No violence – until union thugs showed up and physically pushed them out of the meeting halls.
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Why isn’t Gitmo closed yet?
YELLOW BACK REPUBLICANS CASTING FEAR!
Another great non-response. He promised to close Gitmo and hasn’t done it.
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Why are we still in Iraq?
GOOD QUESTION. DID YOU EVER ASK BUSH THAT QUESTIONS WE BEEN THERE 7 YEARS TOO LONG. SHOULD HAVE NEVER WENT THERE
Bush never set a firm timetable like Obama did. Why hasn’t he kept his promise?
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Why are we surging troops in Afghanistan?
BECAUSE AL QUEDA IS THE ONES WHO STRUCK US ON 911. NOT IRAQ
Why are we surging troops – not why are we there.
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What is the exit plan in Afghanistan?
DEFEAT ALQUEDA AND EXIT
Pretty lame. Has Obama ever established an exit plan?
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When will the Patriot Act be eliminated?
Patriot Act. How clever…. What is so patriotic about it????
Another non-response.
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TRY AGAIN?

KMDay
I don’t know what you call people in college but I and most call them kids or young adults.
wow… you have great moves. you pivoted off the subject once again and went there again.
none of the folks you mentioned was in AA or any other program for a dependency.
get a grip. why do you think everyone even mccain stayed a thousand miles away from bush during the elections????
why do you think hannity and the GOP has to jump over bush 1 and two get to any Republican president with they can be proud of …. (oh by the way… he’s dead so he can’t speak for himself which is another reason do what they do)
bush was a failure. not saying it was because he was drunk. maybe he was just an idiot.

President Bush was treaed for dependency and we don’t know if Presidnet Obama was. In fact, we know very little abut Mr. Obama as nothing has been released unless it is something that will make him look good. He won’t show his birth certificate, won’t relesase nay school records, won’t release senior thesis, won’t allow articles, if he wrote any, from the Harvard review, to be released.
This would be seen as red flags to anyone with a bit of common sense. What is he hiding? I will never agree with his politics but must respect the office he holds. When he releases all information that he demanded from he opponents maybe I will be able to respect him. Until then I must believe he is hiding something.

If you want to talk about their pasts, then you open that door to Obama’s 20yrs with Wright, Ayers, shady dealings with Rezko, his ties to Blago, his failed low income housing project in Chicago, etc..etc..etc…
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Hannity… is that you?????
This whole conversation started because you were trashing obama’s past.
I said nothing about bush’s past. Just his present addiction.

A bunch of intellectual derelicks blaming President Obama for the failures of the last 8yrs only with 6 months in office. Hmm! Interesting Stuff. Where do you find these people?

Attention right-wing fear-mongering Republicans: YOU LOST! GET OVER IT!
Offer some solutions instead of just whining and complaining.
Posted by: Nancy | Aug 7, 2009 12:59:12 PM
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Nancy, find a nerdy moment one day and watch CSPAN-I have been doing this a lot lately so that I am informed and not basing my info off of the media’s spin.
The Republicans have in fact offered over 700 different amendments to give their perspective and 4 senators/house members have offered a differnt take on the health care bill-the problem?
Nancy Pelosi will not even look at the bills and amendments proposed, she does not even deny it and in the senate, it depends on which committee the bills and amendments are presented in. Some committee will look at them others will not even look at them.
Almost all have been shot down-this is factual.
I am not sure why you think that they are not offering anything when on live television or taped footage they in fact are.
This is not as simple as saying you republicans lost so get over it-I am an independent and do not agree with what Congress is doing, I suppose i should get over it too?
If you would like to behave like a child, 56 million + did not vote for obama, not all of them are republicans.

Omentum,
Get a clue!!!Kmday is right on. You seem to be getting aggravated while Kmday is just stating the facts. Unfortunatly you and other looser democrats suffer from selective memory most of the time. And ignorance the rest of the time. You probably believed Clinton when he said that he didn’t inhale…I guess neither did Monica! The problem with the democratic party is that they think it is “party time” at 1600…If Clinton wasn’t to busy with his extra sessions (not with Congress or Senate) we would have never been hit on 9/11. We went to Afghanistan and Irac to stop the invasion on our country and it worked. Hell look at the Queen Pelosi….She wanted heads to roll on the “torture” at club Gitmo until she was informed that she was one of the approvers of the situation. We have our people beheaded, killed and really totured and she and other liberal losers bitched about detainees at Club Gitmo having womens panties on their heads or waterboarding which saved how many lives..The democommies are ALL about PROGRAMS so why don’t you get with the program and quit being a sheeple and just going along with the crowd. Do you realize that this adminstration wants to tax employers and employees for their contribution to their health care programs (that is unless you are in a Union then you get a freebie). And I’m sorry to break it to you but Obama’s association with the likes of Rezko, Rev White, (ha) Blogo and other known low lifes should have been a clue that this was the wrong horse to saddle up for the derby..Within 9 months of taking office President Bush had to make some pretty hard decisions on how to protect this great country and after 9 months of Obama we might not even have a country to protect!!
If you are a hard working American are you not tired of paying for lazy people to stay home and get the same things you get. Wait until all these liberal raised children that were not allowed to keep score in little league games (because we have no loosers) loose their jobs, homes, families because they can’t deal with losing because tey were never taught! That will be the new problem here – a suicide rate that is higher than our national debt -
Just like time out works to…

YEAH THE ODUMBA ADMIN. OUR IDIOTS OF COURSE WE KNOW THAT.BUT WERE IDIOTS OURSELVES LETTING THE GOVERMENT DO THIS TO OUR COUNTRY I MEAN WE REALY CANT SAY MUCH OR COMPLAIN ABOUT WHATS GOING ON BUT WE CAN STAND UP FOR WHATS RIGHT AND WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE YES ODUMBAS FAMOUS WORDS BUT IF WE DONT THEIR WILL BE CHANGE HIS CHANGE WHICH I CAN PROMISE YOU THE OUTCOME WILL BE A DISASTER…. MY THEORY ON THIS OUTCOME COME TO A MOVIE I WAS WATCHING THE OTHER NIGHT CALLED EQUILIBRIUM STARRING CHRISTAIN BALE AND IM CHALLENGING YOU ALL TO WATCH IT AND SEE IF THE PLOT IS NOT WHATS HAPPENING TODAY OR LOOK AT THE HOLLACAUST…. I MEAN EVERYONE WHETHER YOUR FOR OBAMA OR NOT… BUT ITS TIME TO TAKE BACK THIS CONSTUTION AND COUNTRY MAKE A STAND….

I live in Michigan where the Cash for Clunkers has supposedly been a “boon” to the economy. Not so. Oh it has sold some cars, but the factories are still shut down, lay-offs have slowed because THERE IS NO ONE LEFT TO LAY-OFF. The problem? Spend-like-there’s-no-tomorrow Democrats and their UAW supporters. I am in middle management in one of the “Big Three” auto companies. Believe me when I tell you, ladies & gentleman, the Big Three ain’t gonna make it. And, yes, directly responsible is our Socialist/Communist wannabe dictator President Obama. Wake up and smell the coffee! I thank God there is no way he will get elected to a 2nd term. But it may be too late in 3 years

Obama went on to become a weak state Senator and very below average US Senator. So why is anyone shocked he is a failed US President?

express how you really feel….

January 20, 2013 is going to be a GLORIOUS Day!! Bye bye Barry! And don’t forget to take Chicago Rahm and the 50 Czar’s with you!

The Dems will be very surprised in 2010 if they don’t take any of the protesters seriously. The mood of the country started when Rick Santelli spoke his mind on CNBC. But it has gotten worse because the Dems have not explained the healthcare bill, have not listened to people who do not want the public option for fear of a govt takeover, and because the stimulus and climate bills were pushed through without anyone reading it. The days of ‘trust me’ are over and no one trusts Congress as you have seen from the polls and trusting Obama is becoming very difficult for many as he pushes the deficit higher. So by ignoring the protesters and marginalizing their voice, the Dems endanger their future. By playing to the far left they are just as bad as the Republicans playing to their far right. Vote them out in 2010 and Obama in 2012.