“The Big Difference” Between 2010 and 1994 “Is Me,” President Obama Says, Per Congressman

‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’
In fairness, without being able to hear intonation, this very well could have been said jokingly and not intended as a statement of arrogance. Just reading it that’s how I took it.

Obama is pressing on American an agenda America does not want.
King George III did that too.
Most illuminating was Gibbs saying “People won’t find out what’s in the bill until the bill is passed and the President signs it into law.”
There is a Yiddish expression for this:
“Trust me”
And it means the same as what Gibbs means.

When a president talks like a dope…
……is it OK to CALL him one?

This is the 21st century, we aren’t going to buy FDR’s propaganda over what our own experience tells us.
jafo | Jan 25, 2010 3:07:01 PM
You’re comparing Obama to FDR now? And that’s suppose to be an insult? Wow. The Right wing is really in their own world.

Sounds like when Obama told a democrat congressman who was hesitating on voting for Obamacare,”don’t think we’re not keeping a list.” Looks like Obama’s motto is “I may be wrong but I’m never in doubt.” This guy needs a reality check.

You think we are going to vote again for a snakeoil salesman that needs a teleprompter to talk to 6 graders?
what a lowlife, egotistical piece of manchild

what a lowlife, egotistical piece of manchild
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More slimy name calling from the Republican right. Lowering the bar for political discourse in the United States – no wonder the country is divided. Juvenile, teenage mentality.

Another broken promise: “I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all”………LIAR OBAMA

===‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’===
And that has worked out so well for VA, NJ and MA hasn’t it? Carry on, Obama, you’re doing a heckofa job.

“I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all”.
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Yes, ending the ABUSE of no-bid contracts . .. which is exactly what is going on.
You right wingers had a president who wallowed in no-bid contracts and now you expect pristine perfection.
Bill Clinton was president, as much as $139.2 billion in federal contracts was awarded without competitive bidding. The OMB Watch figures show that the practice ACCELERATED SHARPLY during the Bush administration.
For Obama to have curtailed this practise as much as he has is a MAJOR accomplishment.
Hyprocritical right wingers should give him credit for this.

I guess Obama is no longer responsible for Berry’s feel good moments.

Bill Clinton was president, as much as $139.2 billion in federal contracts was awarded without competitive bidding. The OMB Watch figures show that the practice ACCELERATED SHARPLY during the Bush administration.
Posted by: tierra | Jan 25, 2010 4:11:32 PM
tierra, plagiarizing is against the law. You should at least put quote marks around words that are not your own and ideally document the source, which is FoxNews.
You also forgot to add the part of the quote that said Bush’s “figures are not adjusted for inflation.”
Finally, you forgot to mention another part of Obama’s statement on Oct. 2, 2008 when he also said:
“The days of sweetheart deals for Halliburton will be over when I’m in the White House.”
Obama is now in the White House. So did the “$25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a prominent Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bid” happen while Obama was in the White House or not?

The people have already learned the hard way that Obama is no Messiah, but he still believes it.

“I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all”.
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Yes, ending the ABUSE of no-bid contracts . .. which is exactly what is going on.
You right wingers had a president who wallowed in no-bid contracts and now you expect pristine perfection.
Bill Clinton was president, as much as $139.2 billion in federal contracts was awarded without competitive bidding. The OMB Watch figures show that the practice ACCELERATED SHARPLY during the Bush administration.
For Obama to have curtailed this practise as much as he has is a MAJOR accomplishment.
Hyprocritical right wingers should give him credit for this.
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I can get you some of Bush’s figures if you like – the amounts put out in no-contract bids under his administration.
Obama has done a MAJOR job curtailing this practise – which I guess the right wingers support this practise – they sure love it under Bush. Hypocrites.

Let’s just look at one year of Bush contracting.
” . . . the Administration entered into over 43,000 contracts worth $107 billion without full and open competition in fiscal year 2003. The amount of taxpayer dollars spent on these noncompetitive contracts increased by $40 billion — a 60% increase — compared to the final year of the Clinton Administration.”
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM — MINORITY STAFF
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION
MAY 2004
That is $107 BILLION worth of contracts in ONE year.
You right wingers should be ashamed of your hypocrisy.

Oh and it’s all Bush’s fault anyway!

You evil right wingers just disgust me with your talk about limited govt, strong national defense and free markets.
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Yes, we’ve heard Republican boast about those very things.
Limited gov’t – Bush added as much to the national debt as almost all of the administrations in history combined.
Strong national defense – 9/11 on Republican watch, North Korea tests its first nuclear weapons on Bush’s watch, Iran develops secret nuclear facility on Bush’s watch, Bin Laden and al Qaeda escape in Afghanistan on Bush’s watch.
Free markets – Bush administration thinks out sourcing American jobs to other countries is ‘good for the American economy’.

“I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all”.
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Yes, ending the ABUSE of no-bid contracts . .. which is exactly what is going on.
You right wingers had a president who wallowed in no-bid contracts and now you expect pristine perfection.
Bill Clinton was president, as much as $139.2 billion in federal contracts was awarded without competitive bidding. The OMB Watch figures show that the practice ACCELERATED SHARPLY during the Bush administration.
For Obama to have curtailed this practise as much as he has is a MAJOR accomplishment.
Hyprocritical right wingers should give him credit for this.

Hyprocritical right wingers should give him credit for this.
Posted by: tierra | Jan 25, 2010 6:01:12 PM
Why is Obama giving out sweetheart deals when he said he would not?

Why is Obama giving out sweetheart deals when he said he would not?
Posted by: For The Record | Jan 25, 2010 6:05:10 PM
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Yet again, you seem to have comprehension blockages . . give it one more try. Let your logic work, not your bias.
“I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all”. Obama quote.
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Yes, ending the ABUSE of no-bid contracts . .. which is exactly what is going on.
You right wingers had a president who wallowed in no-bid contracts and now you expect pristine perfection.
Bill Clinton was president, as much as $139.2 billion in federal contracts was awarded without competitive bidding. The OMB Watch figures show that the practice ACCELERATED SHARPLY during the Bush administration.
For Obama to have curtailed this practise as much as he has is a MAJOR accomplishment.
Hyprocritical right wingers should give him credit for this.

Yet again, you seem to have comprehension blockages . .
Posted by: tierra | Jan 25, 2010 6:09:41 PM
You seem to be unwilling to answer this question: Why is Obama giving out sweetheart deals when he said he would not?
“The days of sweetheart deals for Halliburton will be over when I’m in the White House.” – Obama
BTW, how much has Obama reduced the total no-bid contract amount? That’s missing from your comments.
And thanks for clearing up the missing quote mystery – I failed to find it. Just another reason you should always document your quotes which you seem to have trouble doing.

Posted by: For The Record | Jan 25, 2010 6:19:20 PM
People are complaining about one alleged $12 million contract.
Try to wrap your mind around this . . .ONE YEAR of Bush contracting.
” . . . the Administration entered into over 43,000 contracts worth $107 billion without full and open competition in fiscal year 2003. The amount of taxpayer dollars spent on these noncompetitive contracts increased by $40 billion — a 60% increase — compared to the final year of the Clinton Administration.”
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM — MINORITY STAFF
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION
MAY 2004
That is $107 BILLION worth of contracts in ONE year.
Right wingers should be ashamed of their hypocrisy.
But apparently right wingers have no shame – and no ethics. Hypocrites.

” . . . the Administration entered into over 43,000 contracts worth $107 billion without full and open competition in fiscal year 2003.
Posted by: tierra | Jan 25, 2010 6:24:16 PM
Yes, tierra. You’ll find that this spending WAS IN 2003. You can file it under:
United States General Accounting Office
Report to Congressional Committees
REBUILDING IRAQ
Fiscal Year 2003
Contract Award Procedures and Management Challenges
Oh gosh! You forgot to leave that little tidbit out didn’t you! Much of that spending was part of the original rebuilding of Iraq. Now why did you provide SO MUCH detail and leave that out. Could it be you had an agenda?

Now let’s get back to Obama’s broken promise of eliminating no-bid contracts…

Now let’s get back to Obama’s broken promise of eliminating no-bid contracts…
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Sure . .. here’s Obama’s stated intention . ..
“I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all”.
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Yes, ending the ABUSE of no-bid contracts . .. which is exactly what is going on.
You right wingers had a president who wallowed in no-bid contracts and now you expect pristine perfection.
Bush dished out $107 BILLION in non-competitive contracts in ONE YEAR.
For Obama to have curtailed this practise as much as he has is a MAJOR accomplishment.
Hyprocritical right wingers should give him credit for this.

You purposely mislead us about the no-bid contracts in 2003 since that was when they were trying to quickly rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure. You are totally unresponsive to that.
You refuse to respond to the statement that Obama said on Oct. 2, 2008:
“The days of sweetheart deals for Halliburton will be over when I’m in the White House.”
Quit while you’re behind.

Marion Berry is a ‘Blue Dog’ Democrat and as such part of the group that has damaged the Democrats most in the past year – particularly on health care. Without the Blue Dogs obstructionism, health care with a public option would be a done deal – for the betterment of the country.
Blue Dog democrats seem to be basically Republican manchurian candidates. I think his comments are dumb and read very poorly when taken out of context.
Posted by: tierra | Jan 25, 2010 4:59:23 PM
So I take it then from this discourse and what I have been hearing from our elected leaders and others in the Democratic Party, that we are no longer a “Big Tent” party? We must all believe in only one way of thinking, voting, living and no longer can have discussions, debates, and free speech? The leaders I support the most of the ones not afraid to speak and think for themselves and their constituents. I may be naive or seek too many ideals but I believe our founding fathers intended much discourse within their parties, the branches, and citizens.

I read that extremely narcissistic people like Obama are unable to internalize criticism.
Notice how he always blames Bush.
Or must have a villain like the tea party, Wall Street, Fox.
It’s not about him!

I read that extremely narcissistic people like Obama are unable to internalize criticism.
Notice how he always blames Bush.
Posted by: kandy | Jan 25, 2010 7:04:23 PM
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That’s another lie kandy. The President seldom mentions Bush.
Is the right wing nothing but lies?

I’m not sure who bought the Messiah hype more–Obama or his supporters.
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The Republicans and the right ‘bought’ the messiah hype, stuck him with the label and framed him that way – so he could be easily critisised. It’s Karl Rove smear tactics in action.

Notice how Obama sticks his chin in the air and looks down his nose at the peons in the audience.
Not only does Obama think he knows what is best for Americans
He traveled abroad many times to lecture other countries.

He traveled abroad many times to lecture other countries.
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He treats other countries with great respect and delivers his message clearly.

Marxism that is being slammed down our throats at a breakneck pace.
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Wait a second, I thought the President was being critisised for being in the pocket of Wall Street, Big Pharma and the health insurance industry?

“Arrogance” seems to be Obama middle name. Can you imagine how the Clinton’s feel? Basically Obama is saying he is much better campaigner than Clinton is, however, he is 0 for 3! I call that arrogance and/or complete ignorance! An 0 for 3 guy says I am a great campaigner! I wonder how many Democrats will want Obama campaigning for them!! :) :) :)

No, he’s too busy bowing to every world leader.
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Another lie bubbles. You know perfectly well he didn’t bow down to every leader in world. Why the lies?
Did he stare into Putin’s eyes and declare lovingly how he’d seen Putin’s soul. Was he kissing and holding hands with the Saudi’s?

He did bow to the Emperor of Japan.
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Yes, the emperor of Japan is a very old, very small man, and a symbolic leader. It was a kind gesture from a very tall and younger man – the crap the right wing throws on this is disgusting – an insult the president and the nation. Terrible.

Obama is so brilliant and so awesome he has to drag his teleptompters into a sixth grade classroom to give a five-minute speech.
An administration fanatical about optics and images should have realized how silly that would look.

After November, the Democrats are going to long for the good old days of 1994. The reason is that in 1994 there was no Tea Party movement. The movement is getting organized and they are going to insure that there are no safe seats for incumbents this year. The Republicans made the mistake of rejecting the Tea Partiers two years ago, but they learned from their mistake. The Democrats still have not admitted that there is an anti-incumbent movement. For this reason, the Dems will suffer far more losses than the Republicans.

It is easy to sit back and take a shot at the President for this statement. I am not a fan of the President but I still want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I’d like to hear what the President has to say about this statement. We are only hearing one side of the story – it is a little rough to hear him say something like this but I am hoping Jake or someone asks the President if he said it or what he meant.

Basically Obama could care less if moderate democrats get re-elected.
In truth, Obama’s SOLE agenda is to increase the role of unions in this country. Health care and cap-and-tax are simply a means to expand the unionized work force in the federal government. Then Obama will demand that private employers allow unions if they want to do business with the federal government, just as he did when he passed the stimulus.
The disgrace is that unionized federal and state employees are massively overpaid, with unaffordable benefits, and create pension burdens that are already bankrupting the states and the national government. Once government worked for the people, now Obama is working to enslave middle class Americans by requiring that they overpay and expand our bureaucratic work force.
The proper thing to do, is to require federal agencies to outsource federal work wherever possible, to reduce the burden on taxpayers. Obama however intends to increase the bankrupting power of unions in the public and private sectors, by giving governments power over health care and energy, where they can more directly reward their friends and punish their enemies. Obama has demonstrated these tactics in his drive to pass health care with payoffs to Nebraska and Unions.

I believe it is too late for Obama to “lurch” to the right. Primaries are being held in many states starting in the next few weeks. I have to wonder how many Democrat incumbents at ALL levels of government are going to survive the primaries.

The difference is “MOI”…says Obama.
Maybe some of our tax moneys should pay for some lessons in humility on our elected officials. Certainly Mr Obama could use one of those.

I hope this gets lots of coverage. Also, it is time that Obama stops hiding and start answering questions from reporters.
All Obama does is have “planned” interviews/photo opts and have Gibbs shield him from reporters.
Obama had zero experience before becoming president and his on the job training has resulted in many negative results for people in our country.

Yea, how is that working out so far for you Obama? You campaigned in VA, NJ, and MA and all three candidates lost–two of them in dark blue states. You’re a real winner you are.

Did he stare into Putin’s eyes and declare lovingly how he’d seen Putin’s soul. Was he kissing and holding hands with the Saudi’s?
HAHAHA…LOL. No…Obama just trashed the missile defense program for Putin..he might as well have bowed down to him too.
The double cheek kiss and holding hands is a “culture” thing with the Saudis..you know; like Hillary wears scarfs over her head in muslim countries? BOWING is not a culture thing; it’s an “appeasement” thing.
Get educated.

Obama is an idiot.