President Obama Attempts Reassurance on Ft. Hood Shootings, Unemployment

The president promised “that I won’t let up until the Americans who want to find work can find work, and until all Americans can earn enough to raise their families and keep their businesses open.”
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Oh, please, Mr. Obama. Let up.
Especially with that “socialist mop.”

“we lost fewer jobs than we did last month,”
And I gained less weight than I did the month before.

Whoopie! I can get a tax credit now that my home is worth 40% of it’s value prior to the housing collapse! Throw in a hundred grand of my own money and I can move!
So where were you guys two years ago? Oh, that’s right – getting ready to bail out the deadbeats who took out liar loans – and giving Hank Paulsen unlimited use of a trillion or so dollars so he could hand over $85 billion to Goldman Sachs!

No shout outs and no apologies.
But still cold, nonchalant, disconnected
sentiments.
Honestly when you give speeches daily for almost three years maybe you get desensitized. Or maybe that is just who he is.
Obama just reads the script.
No emotions.

“But history tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth”
Unless a Democrat is in office with a democratically-controlled Congress. Then it lags behind until the Republicans gain control again.
(Hit me with your best shot. I know you want to!)

Extending unemployment benefits raises taxes on small businesses. That’s just what we need during a time of 10.2% unemployment, right Obama?

“we lost fewer jobs than we did last month,”
And I gained less weight than I did the month before.
Posted by: Visualize World Peas
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I got a good laugh out of that one.. great post!!

He’s not reassuring or comforting.
Did someone have to tell him the shout outs yesterday were terribly disturbing?
Couldn’t he figure that out on his own?

The man is so out of touch I’m surprised he didn’t say “Fired Up-Ready to go” after his lighthearted shout out.
He’s clueless and so are his speechwriters.

It is true that unemployment benefits are one of the best types of stimuli, if stimuli is good at all.
Posted by: Huh | Nov 6, 2009 1:11:56 PM
Huh?

Yesterday was Obama’s first chance to address the nation about the shooting with all the news cameras there while he was at the Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs. The president started the event and thanked various staffers and offered a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.” (The Medal of Honor is for military not civilians like Dr Crow – he probably got the Medal of Freedom) Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured/appropriate terms. Obama needed to give a freaking shout-out BEFORE acknowledging what happened. The man is out of touch and unprofessional and disrespectful to the military.
Obama’s teleprompter was already set up for the speech he gave…there was no time to correct it…..the show just went on……sad, so sad for the United States to have this kind of leader……..
Now the unemployment rate tops 10 percent for first time since 1983; 190,000 jobs lost in October. It looks like Rahm/Pelosi/Reid will now try to use any and every crisis to get government healthcare passed. They have already said that the Obamacare bill will be deficit neutral. Now they will also find away to say that Obamacare will save or create jobs. Sure, right..

At least Obama talked about Fort Hood first before he went on to the economy.
Just checking off the list of his presidential obligations.

Seriously, we’re not to jump to conclusions? Think about it, what’s his last name???? DUH…

I listened to Obama’s first comments yesterday after it happened and he had not one ounce of sincerity or concern in his voice he was cold emotionless. Scary! And as for Unemployment 10.2 higher than expected? 190,000 jobs lost in October? I am confused where are the 650,000-1,000,000 jobs Obama and Biden keep talking about? And if my math is correct 10.2% is higher than 8% correct? What happened to the wont go above 8% talk? What happened to Fiscally Responsible Mr President yet you will sign when approved a 1.2 trillion dollar Health Kill Bill effectively Giving the Government another 18% ownership of our Economy…Lets see since you Became President the Government has taken control of 48% of our Economy! Sounds Like Obama has got us all by the B*lls!

Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
Screams the headlines from NBC Chicago

“So a muslim shouting allah akbar commits mass-murder and we’re supposed to show restraint.
Concerned in OH | Nov 6, 2009 1:51:42 PM”
You would have thought spreading the Ashley Todd hoax would have taught you restraint.
I guess not.

@Huh: Shout outs? Where are you getting that? He was acknowledging the coordinators of the CONFERENCE he was attending. Something lots of people do then they’re addressing a conference!
On the “don’t jump to conclusions”: The Ft. Hood shooter was a well respected psychiatrist that’s helped hundreds of men and women returning with PTSD. He’d also been through three tours of duty, and was preparing to go for a fourth tour, despite being in therapy himself for trauma he had from both his previous service AND from helping people deal with their trauma professionally as part of his job. It sounds to me like he snapped. If he were a “Muslim extremist” as people are assuming, he would have gone AWOL a long time ago. Not waited and continued to serve our country for years, to the point of suffering himself, waiting for the opportune moment to strike…
Lots of the comments here sicken me. Learn a little before jumping to conclusions. That’s all that’s being asked. Clearly a little much for most of the commenter here.

Woody | Nov 6, 2009 2:53:42 PM: is anything you said true? He had not served yet this was to be his first tour, He had a history of saying Muslims should stand up and Fight the Invaders (American Soldiers) He respected Car Bombers!

WOODY: Here is the transcript. This was a special news Conference to talk about the Murders specifically! OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference. “I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a SHOUT OUT to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It’s good to see you. ”
Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

How is that Obama giving “shout outs” then as if an after-thought the Narcissist in Chief remembers the 13 soldiers murdered on American soil. The man-child president is in WAY over his head!

I’ll chalk up the shootings in Texas and Florida as nutcases feeling the effects of a near full moon even though it seems to me that someone spewing hatred on web sites should have been looked into.

Hey, I’d like to give a shout out to Chief J Strongbow. What the heck is this guy in the Whitehouse doing? What an embarrassment!!

Yesterday Rep. Weiner was debating health care with some other republican Rep. Right out of Weiners mouth was lamblasting profits of insurance companies even though insurance companies, from an investment standpoint can be beat by many other industries. Uncertainty breeds fear and if companies, any company sees the Government ready to dismantle one business then they worry about what will be done to them.
No matter how much money the President allocates to pet projects the economy will not grow until nerves are calmed and an absolutely incompetent Government backs away from private enterprise.

I’m appalled by the right wing creeps
Posted by: tierra | Nov 6, 2009 3:50:18 PM
So are you REALLY appalled – or are you just sayin’ your appalled?

“You would have thought spreading the LIE that New Jersey police were suppressing voter turnout would have taught you restraint.”
You really have no idea of the history of New Jersey politics and ugly incidents in which the police were used to intimidate people from voting do you?
Ignorance is bliss for right wingers.
Wiki:”The National Ballot Security Task Force were a controversial group set up in the United States of America by the Republican National Committee in 1981, in New Jersey in a bid to win a gubernatorial election. They were alleged to have carried out ‘voter-suppression’ and intimidation.
The force consisted of a group of armed, off-duty police officers wearing armbands, who were hired to patrol polling sites in black and Hispanic neighborhoods of Newark and Trenton.
Initially, letters were mailed out (using an outdated voter registration list) to largely Latino and African-American citizens. 45,000 letters were returned as non-deliverable; these 45,000 addresses were converted into a list of voters. These voters were challenged by the BSTF. The Republican National Committee filed a request for election supervisors to strike these voters from the rolls, but the Commissioners of Registration refused when they discovered that the RNC had used outdated information”

Was Obama reading his condolences off a tele-prompter Thursday evening? He kept looking down at the podium.

Tierra–
This is America. Men and Women have sacrificed their lives from the founding of this country to protect the right to freedom of speech. Today all those who die are volunteers. Anyone, including you, can say anything they want, it has been paid for.

—Wiki:”The National Ballot Security Task Force were a controversial group set up in the United States of America by the Republican National Committee in 1981, in New Jersey in a bid to win a gubernatorial election. They were alleged to have carried out ‘voter-suppression’ and intimidation.
The force consisted of a group of armed, off-duty police officers wearing armbands, who were hired to patrol polling sites in black and Hispanic neighborhoods of Newark and Trenton.—
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 6, 2009 4:10:45 PM
The National Ballot Security Task Force was created to stop the decades long corruption of elections by the Democrat/Big Union cartel by targeting bogus, illegal, and multiple registrations—like what ACORN and other leftist “community organizers” do today.
So naturally, you fall in line with the NY Times lefties cited in that pathetic Wiki article. And to top it off you indulge in that favorite Liberal pastime, attacking the police.
Whatever, pal. Go back to watching Keith Olbermann. The Wiki stuff you cited is about his low quality.

Name the “many other industries) that generate more than the BILLIONS in profit health insurance companies do every single year.
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 6, 2009 4:07:42 PM
From an article on Yahoo News: “The latest annual profit margins of a selection of products, services and industries: Tupperware Brands, 7.5 percent; Yahoo, 5.9 percent; Hershey, 6.1 percent; Clorox, 8.7 percent; Molson Coors Brewing, 8.1 percent; construction and farm machinery, 5 percent; Yum Brands (think KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), 8.5 percent.”

What is wrong with profits? I guess it is a dirty word for the unimaginative losers who can’t abide the success of others. Profits are what drive the economy-even Lenin saw that.The unemployment rate is 10.2% at best-wouldn’t you want a business to be profitable and grow so that it can hire more employees?China is now an economic powerhouse because it recognized the central role of the profit motive in economic success.Where do you think profits go-into a chest under the bed?As far as the insurance companies, they employ thousands of workers.What are they going to do if the private insurance system is destroyed?Sell apples?

“Yum Brands (think KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), 8.5 percent.”
Yahoonews: “Chain restaurant operator Yum Brands (YUM) said Tuesday that its fiscal third-quarter profit climbed 18%, thanks in part to robust business in China.
The company that owns Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut earned $334 million, or 69 cents a share, for the period that ended Sept. 5. That compares with a profit of $282 million, or 58 cents a share, during the same period last year.”
WSJ: “UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s second-quarter earnings more than doubled amid prior-year charges and an increase in revenue, though enrollment continued to decline as U.S. unemployment mounts.
UnitedHealth reported a profit of $859 million, or 73 cents a share, up from $337 million, or 27 cents a share, a year earlier. Prior-year items including legal settlements cut that period’s profit by 40 cents.”

I had to look up Ashley Todd. I had no idea who Ryan C. thought was so important to right wingers. I still don’t know why Ryan C. keeps bringing her up.

My wife is an eye doctor for the Navy and sees those service members who are deploying every day. This hits really close to home as Hasan went into a facility similar to where my wife works. They need to allow service members who are pistol and/or rifle qualified to be armed on base so they don’t have to wait for the civilian security guards to come and save them from a killer. We trust these men and women to protect us, let them protect themselves by being armed. We also need to kick the members of the military out who have expressed their opposition to the U.S. and their approval for our enemies. These are common sense things that our PC worshipping leadership need to have the courage to implement.

Ashley Todd copied Tawana Brawley, but without the dog feces.Tawana faked an attack on herself claiming a white man beat her up and smeared dogdo on her,among other things.Al Sharpton took her info and passed it along to the left-wing media which the majority reported without any skepticism.Hardly any left-wingers thought that the dog feces was a clue that it was not real. The difference was that Al Sharpton got sued for defamation and lost( although he didn’t pay the judgement).

Barack says: “We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”
What exactly are the conclusions we should not jump to? …
Posted by: Jason |
I concluded that Americans continue to show amazing calm and constraint but I’m not sure if I jumped to it.

Too bad Obama didn’t wait to jump to conclusions for the Sergeant Crowley incident. He is the biggest hypocrite.

as normal the first thing this character Obama says is “don’t jump to conclusions”….even though this muslim murderer was reported to have shouted Allah Akbar as he gunned down unarmed people. Dressed in garb. Posted on internet about Islamic radical beliefs. Talked to people about his radical views. And Obama says “don’t jump to conclusions”….why does this character’s first response is ALWAYS to deflect from the truth? Scary.

“this poor, overmatched dope”
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Nov 6, 2009 11:54:03 PM
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The juvenile name calling you use against the President reveals the limited and immature level of your political intelligence. Is this another feature of the right wing in America?

Obama says “We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”
Gee…. that didn’t stop you with your good buddy, Gates.
MORON!!

“the moron we have in the White House”
Posted by: Laughin_All_The_Way | Nov 7, 2009 2:47:43 AM
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The juvenile name calling you use against the President reveals the limited level of your political intelligence.
Seems to be a common feature of the anti-Obama ranters on here.

Five more banks failed yesterday (120 total this year). Thank goodness this recession is over. Whew!

Just check out CNN.
You will see a lot of excuse making for the killer.
It is fascinating how left wingers are quick to defend a killer such as this, but bash GWBush who kept us safe from these same type killers.
And the dems wonder why independents and conservatives think they are not on our side.

Pres. Obama and the mainstream media should point out that the Ft Hood incident is just a copy of the London massacre several years earlier, which was carried out by a group of native born Muslim terrorists. In the latter case, the British prime minister Tony Blair had immediately paid visit to their Muslim neighborhood and warned them to have tighter control of their kids. Obama needs to do more besides ordering flag lowered. I think the mainstream media here is wrong in giving too much sympathy to the murderer by stating he was harassed by others and he was against the war in mid east.

bobc;
“I saw more passion in Obama’s words when he speaks to the SEIU and ACORN, than he did about our fallen soldiers in Ft. Hood!”
Fired up, ready to go!
mmm mmm mmm

That’s right Obama, just keep negotiating with our enemies. While the thought might be nice, what an idiot the president is. I guess he thinks he can change human nature. I so dislike this man and everything he is.

Economists tell us that unemployment benefits improve the economy and create jobs? Fabulous. Why don’t we all go on unemployment and really get the economy cooking? Then we can all go out and get one of the new jobs we’ve created.

Let’s raise taxes to stimulate the economy!
New CBO estismates out today:
Senator Gregg: Updated CBO Estimate of House Bill Pulls Back the Curtain on Majority’s Intent to Grow Government by $3 Trillion
Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee today commented on the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) more detailed cost estimate of the manager’s amendment to the House health reform bill.
Senator Gregg stated, “The CBO estimate released last night finally sheds light on the smoke and mirrors game the majority has been playing with the cost of their health care reform proposal. Over the first 10 years, this legislation builds in gross new spending of $1.7 trillion – and most of the new spending doesn’t even start until 2014. Once that spending is fully phased in, the House Democratic bill rings up at more than $3 trillion over ten years.
“Additionally, this bill cuts critical Medicare and Medicaid funding by $628 billion, accounts for nearly $1.2 trillion in tax and fee increases and will explode the scope of government by putting the nation’s health care system in the hands of Washington bureaucrats. The $3 trillion price tag defies common sense – we simply cannot add all this new spending to the government rolls and claim to control the deficit