Obama: ‘Tough Votes’ Cast in Congress Are ‘Courageous’ While Putting ‘Congressional Careers at Risk’

“The questions taken from Facebook and Twitter were chosen by the DNC to be representative of all the questions submitted, the DNC says, selected in advance so they could be integrated into the technology of the event.”
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Technology of the event? That means… so the questions could be determined in advance and put on the idiot board.

Obama’s still naive enough to think he can win the religious right vote. It will never happen.

Obama translations:
TOUGH VOTE=VOTE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REJECT TO THEIR CORE
COURAGEOUS=ACTING AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. ARROGANCE.
Any questions?
Nov 2=buh bye Democrats

Posted by: Lydia | Oct 12, 2010 10:43:24 PM
Comedy gold. You should write for The Onion. Seriously. LOL!

This just beats all I have ever seen. Obama begins his campaign OVERSEAS (remember Germany anyone?) He still to this day has not accounted for the foreign donations to his 08 campaign nor has he accounted for the hundreds of thousands in campaign donations from “one” person who swears they never donated a penny. And Obama has the “Audacity of Hope” to call out the Chamber of Commerce to open their books?
Pot…meet Kettle
I don’t think Obama is surprised his flunkies carried his water. He is surprised that so many can actually see The Emperor Has No Clothes!

This arrogant bunch of politicians rammed legislation down our throats and bribed, lied and stole whatever they had to do to get this piece of garbage passed and he is congratulating them? It shows how out of touch this president is. He is not a leader…he is a dictator and the November elections will tell him loud and clear WE are not in the mood to be dictated to. Goodbye Jimmy Carter II.

The “politically easy way out” is just to cram through any bill that you can get the votes for. A politician “doing their job” would do the right reform the right way, and the reason these careers are in jeopardy is that they did not deliver that to the American people.
The cat is out of the bag for President Obama, and people are beginning to understand they were sold a bill of goods.

Oh yeah! Such heroes!

The amazing thing about this article is that it was from ABC! I wonder how much longer the powers that be will continue to allow him to go against the company ‘line’. I don’t think poor Lydia realizes that each of the so-called ‘reforms’ meant US Government intervention/ownership!

Brave? Intentially voting the opposite of the way the people they represent want them to vote is “Brave”?
That statement tells us all we need to know about this man, and should scare the crap out of us.

Lydia,
The politically “easy” thing to do is to just give people money. And that’s why we’re in the debt situation we’re in now.
Sometimes the hard thing to do is to say no, we’re not going to spend money endlessly. You’re going to have to save your own business.
One of this year’s Nobel prize winners in Economics is famous for proving that unemployment insurance makes unemployment rates higher. Yet we keep endlessly extending unemployment benefits and then wondering why the unemployment rate won’t come down.
Bailing people out with other people’s money is the easiest thing to do in the world. These weren’t courageous votes at all. The only difference is that now people are finally waking up to the realization that when everybody’s getting someone else’s money, the system doesn’t work any more.
Cheers to the “Party of No” for acting like grown-ups for once.

Lydia is the only one who has posted anything with any historical accuracy. Stopping denial of coverage for preexisting conditions, when you change jobs and getting dropped for frivolous reasons….just parts of the many great victories over the greedy self-serving health insurance industry. Republicans never have and never will have the guts to stand up to their corporate masters on behalf of our citizens on any issue at such high political costs.

Why wouldn’t Republicans want to save our auto industry? They’d be happy to sell them out for Japanese and German manufactures apparently. It makes you wonder how many Yen are showing up in Republican campaign coffers down at the Chamber of Commerce.

Obama: “. . . many members of Congress have been “courageous” over the last 20 months.”
Courageous? More like arrogant, incompetent and stupid.

The president said if young voters can “muster and sustain that same effort and energy” as they had in 2008 then he is “confident that we will do well in the election. We will win all across the country and the polls bear that out.”
So what Obama is saying is
“I have no hope of convincing older informed voters to go along with my socialist agenda. I have less hope of convincing conservatives as no amount of convoluted logic can fool those folks into believing that my agenda is American and constitutional. That’s why I need you Pie-in-the-Sky young voters to turn out so that we at least have a chance at winning. Forget about our record, which we can’t run on, or the issues at hand, vote Democrat because I, Barack Hussein Obama need your support.”

“Only Obama would be silly enough to say that those who voted with him are “courageous” – substitute “stupid” or “un-American” or “cowardly”!”
The real idiotic cowards are the ones who claim Americans aren’t really Americans when exercising their legal right to vote for whom they choose.

Skip: “Why wouldn’t Republicans want to save our auto industry?”
Ford is doing just fine. And Toyota and Honda are thriving. Why is that?

Obama seems to think he knows what’s better for people than people do. Why? Because he’s smarter than the people? Because his ideology is morally and rationally sound while the people are mired in regressive, bigoted, populist falsehoods? In return for changing America in ways that most Americans don’t want it changed, the voters are going to take power away from the Democrats this November. Notably, the Democrats who will lose their power this November were promised that ObamaCare, the Stimulus, the Bailouts, Card Check, Cap and Trade, etc. would be popular once the people got used to them. Therefore, were their votes in support of these legislative monstrosities really courageous, or were they simply a fool’s hope?

I thing Obama has forgotten a certain document which states” A government of the people, by the people and for the people”.
The congressional actions were not for the people only a small identiifed few.
The people wanted jobs, controlled government spending and leadership. That is why he and the democrats were voted in. Instead, they focused on an agenda that the majority did not agree with, nor want.
This is not the democrat party of Truman or Kennedy”Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”, this is a total new party.
The Democrat party of Obama no longer follows the Democrat principles of Truman and Kennedy it now has transformed itself into “Ask not what you can do for your country, Ask and Demand what your country can do for you”.
It is a sad day in American History

Just because Democrats receive much of their money from foreign donors,
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There’s evidence for this smear?
NO????
What a shocker.
lol.

Now tell us “saved themselves” doesn’t mean mean putting them up for sale on the international auction block. So what’s all the fuss about the Chamber of Commerce taking foreign money again?
Posted by: Skip | Oct 13, 2010 10:09:29 AM
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The Chamber of Commerce is spending a hundred million dollars this election, an unprecedented amount, on attack ads against Democrats. We have no idea how much of it is from foreign funding because they refuse to say– and they’re accounting is “interesting.” (See Washington Monthly, James Verini: “Show Him the Money:Tom Donohue scares millions of dollars out of corporations and Republicans. But is his U.S. Chamber of Commerce good for business?)

progressive mama: “See Washington Monthly, James Verini: “Show Him the Money:Tom Donohue scares millions of dollars out of corporations and Republicans.”
While I’m sure Tom Donohue would appreciate the credit, Obama and the Democrats in congress are responsible. The private sector, the engine of our economy, is scared indeed, and they’re not the only ones. You’ll see in November. Liberals never learn.

“There’s actual evidence of foreign donations to the Obama 2008 campaign”
But they were returned were they not? So I assume the Chamber of Commerce is returning all foreign donations too, right?

PM,
I guess you’re ignoring the work done by other newspapers and magazines, like the NY Times, that say there’s absolutely no reason to think foreign money is being used for political purposes.
Their foreign dues are $100,000 per year, and their budget is $20,000,000. You really think they need foreign money?
But go ahead and go down that road. It’s obvious to everyone that Democrats can’t run on their accomplishments, so they just try to find another bogeyman to scare people with.

Skip: “But what’s pretty apparent is nobody, especially down at the Chamber, is saying there isn’t (foreign political contributions).”
They’ve absolutely said their isn’t. Please see the following quotes in response to the administrations absurd accusation. If you have evidence to the contrary, Skip, by all means, please forward it to the proper authorities.
Chamber of Commerce: “So we do not declare that we use any foreign money to fund any of our issue advocacy activities.”
Chamber of Commerce: “We are under legal obligations to account and have an accounting method that ensures that in our accounts that funds or any aspect of money that comes from a foreign source is not in any way utilized in any political sense. We ensure that we do that.”
Chamber of Commerce: “Look, if you’re in the business that we are in, you are audited annually by the IRS, your activities are reviewed consistently by the federal election commission and others, that’s fine with us, because we comply with all the laws.”

But what’s pretty apparent is nobody, especially down at the Chamber, is saying there isn’t.
Posted by: Skip | Oct 13, 2010 2:40:43 PM
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Skip channels Joe McCarthy. Just when you thought you’d seen it all …

The choices were “tough” because the dems knew full well that the American people did not want the healthcare bill. They voted for the item most important to them, the party line, not the American people. Nov 2nd we the people will let them know how we feel about that.