President Obama’s Connecticut Speech Interrupted

From Political Punch poster Krakatoa | Nov 30, 2009 9:01:52 PM
From Better Aid (Feb 2008):
“…Steve Bloomfield, the Independent’s Africa correspondent, points out that the U.S. leader (Bush) is the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Africa more than once.
Bush enjoys over 50 per cent popularity ratings across Sub-Saharan Africa, and over 80 per cent in some countries. This according to a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey. Bloomfield reckons this popularity is in no small part due to Bush’s perceived generosity on aid. He summarises the situation:
“‘When President Bush came to power in 2001, the US spent $1.4bn a year on humanitarian and development aid in Africa. By 2006, the figure had quadrupled to $5.6bn a year. And it is likely to get bigger. The centrepiece of Mr Bush’s aid to Africa is the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a five-year, $15bn Aids prevention and treatment programme launched in 2003. His most recent budget proposes doubling the funding to $30bn over the next five years’.
“Bush told the BBC’s Matt Frei in an exclusive interview: ‘mine is a mission of mercy and a mission of the cold realism of the world in which we live’. He continued: ‘when I first went to Sub-Saharan Africa, 50,000 were receiving antiretrovirals. Today, 1.3 million. And that’s a lot in a very quick period of time. But, there’s so much more suffering. And that’s why I’ve called for a doubling of aid’.
“Frei asked the president whether he felt he was getting enough credit for his actions in Africa. Bush replied that he ‘didn’t give a darn about elite opinion’, just whether he was saving lives…”
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Obama: You Lie!!!
(Nothing new there from the Divider-in-Chief)

“Obama: You Lie!!!”
Pretty strong words from someone who has their facts wrong.
First, Obama didn’t mention Bush or 2008. At that time Democrats led Congress and Republicans still cooperated with the President. He mentioned “the other side” currently in office. The side that wanted to freeze all spending. Remember them? Have you noticed that nowadays Republicans vote against funding troops, for heaven’s sake? They worship the military nearly as much as they worship the founding fathers, don’t they?
Anyone have proof– even an anecdote or two–that any Republicans in office or running for office right now are pressing for more funding?
Second, see WSJ, “funding from the U.S. still increased in 2009 to $4.4 billion from $3.95 billion, helping to make up for reduced donations from Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the Netherlands, the report found.”
That’s right, funding increased, and made up for the countries that decreased funding. I’ve read that some of you would like the US to adopt the austere spending cuts of some European countries, and expect the Republicans you intend to vote for to push for that.
Currently, Obama is proposing a 2.5% increase in AIDS funding related to the PEPFAR program, and Obama has made HIV/Aids part of a global health initiative that is to get an overall funding increase of 8%. How many Republicans do you foresee voting to increase AIDS funding? Names? Reason you think that’s how they will vote?

Mr. Obama supposed to bring all people together. That’s what he promised. He sells his lies to the vulnerable.

Second, see WSJ, “funding from the U.S. still increased in 2009 to $4.4 billion from $3.95 billion…
That’s right, funding increased, and made up for the countries that decreased funding. I’ve read that some of you would like the US to adopt the austere spending cuts of some European countries, and expect the Republicans you intend to vote for to push for that.
Posted by: deanna magnussen | Oct 30, 2010 6:40:18 PM
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Here is just SOME of what the Democrat controlled Congress slipped in the Defense bill:
In all, Congress added in 1,720 pet projects, including:
∙$5 million for a visitors center in San Francisco
∙$23 million for indigent health care in Hawaii
∙$18 million for the Edward Kennedy Policy Institute in Massachusetts
∙$1.6 million to computerize hospital records in Oakland
∙$47 million for anti-drug training centers around the country
∙$20 million for the World War II Museum in Louisiana
∙$3.9 million grant to develop an energy-efficient solar film for buildings
∙$800,000 for minority prostate cancer research
∙$3.6 million for marijuana eradication in Kentucky
∙$2.4 million for handicap access and a sprinkler system at a community club in New York
Before you whine about Republicans, DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!

I am glad they interupted Obamas speech. Obama is not following the Lords plan by allowing for abortion and for not instituting mandatory school prayer.We would eliminate Aids funding, since it is Gods wrath.God Bless.

Where’s my money, Regarding the budget: if you look at the Bush administrations’s final budget, which was the one for fiscal year 2009, it commenced on September 1, 2008 and was gifted to Obama 4-5 months later. The budget deficit was $1.416 trillion. If you look at the Obama administrations first budget for fiscal year 2010, the budget deficit was $1.291 trillion, That’s a decrease of $125 billion.

$80 BILLION spent on NATIONAL SECURITY , what D-m NATIONAL SECURITY . All the D-m ILLEGAL’S , DRUGS FROM MEXICO ! H__1 time to clean out the GOV NOW !

Obama is an empty suit – he is arrogant, condescending, and just plain ignorant of the American economic system. The Democrats need to find a credible candidate to challenge him in the 2012 primary. Our country cannot risk another term for this incompetent pretender.

Posted by: Meta Projectus | Oct 30, 2010 11:13:39 PM
How does something Bush did when he was in office equal Obama lying?
It doesn’t make sense
Obama didn’t mention Bush, and I cited an article that pointed that GOP conservatives complained at the time.
Since then the entire Republican party has taken their lead on everything and anything, AND Obama has increased the AIDS funding.

(Nothing new there from the Divider-in-Chief)
Once again Republicans, who label anybody who reaches across the aisle Rinos and tries to purge them from the party, take hypocrisy to new heights when it comes to calling others dividers.

“Obama is either mathematically challenged…”
It’s Republicans who are mathematically challenged if they really think they can keep the debt from rising significantly while cutting taxes at the same time. The debt ceiling is approaching soon and if they take the House they’ll have nothing but their typical economic voodoo to address it; it’s going to be entertaining to watch.

I guess we won’t have to worry who is not telling the truth because if the reps or the tea party get in…they will cut out everything including the good things just to spite this president. The heatlth care bill has more good than bad and I, for one, like the fact that mammograms and colonoscopies are now covered and all people can now get affordable ins I am not in favor of doing away with this bill. I also am not in favor of doing away with the minimum wage as they are, nor medicare and medicaid or privitizing the soc. sec. Unemployment is not an entitlement and will also be done away with and more importantly, for the women of this country…your right to choose will be one of the first things to go and monitoring your pregnancy will be in effect to insure you do not have an abortion. I pity the ones who actually lose their baby through no fault of their own…what is in store for them? Our country will not be the same and not in a good way, I fear. Too many gun tottin angry people out there with really, really bad ideas.

“Specifically, we can calculate the necessary rates that would be required to keep pace with the trajectory of new spending: the 10% bracket would become 23%, 25% would become 57% and the top marginal tax rate would become 90%”
So you or some other biased huckster calculated the 90% tax bracket, not Jim Himes; which makes that whole post another verbosely packaged lie.
BTW: what is the average salary of all the CEOs of the major corporations Republicans shill for?

Regarding the budget: if you look at the Bush administrations’s final budget, which was the one for fiscal year 2009, it commenced on September 1, 2008 and was gifted to Obama 4-5 months later. The budget deficit was $1.416 trillion. If you look at the Obama administrations first budget for fiscal year 2010, the budget deficit was $1.291 trillion, That’s a decrease of $125 billion.
Posted by: deanna magnussen | Oct 30, 2010 7:56:56 PM
Wow…Revisionist history at best, delusional at worst.
Don’t you remember that San Fran Nan did not push a formal budget through the House in 2008? Reason: She was condfident/hopeful a Democrat would be elected President and she knew that Bush would veto the budget (with excessive spending – even for Bush’s standards) she had in mind. The measures Pelosi took led to the Omnibus Spending Bill the Boy King signed shortly after coming into office in early 2009.
Since Democrats came into power in January 2007, the national debt has increased $5 TRILLION. Care to explain/defend?
Democrats cannot be trusted to govern responsibly, especially with regards to fiscal matters.

“Today, Jim Himes is fortunate to be one of over 22,000 federal employees earning over $170,000″
The salaries of all the CEOs Republicans shill for is alot more than $170,000 which that whiner was insinuating is alot.
You try again.

Since Democrats came into power in January 2007, the national debt has increased $5 TRILLION. Care to explain/defend?
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They were left with an unpaid for drug plan, two wars which weren’t in the budget and decreased revenue from a Republican initiated financial crash.

“Both Bushes had the worst job creation records in history. ”
Sorry. I left out “recent” as in the Bushes have the worst job creation records in recent history.” (not all of history :>))

Republican activist…You are not a Republican. You are an extremist and contributor to the downfall of the Republican party. Republicans have gone from fiscal conservancy to the party of religious zealots and sell outs. The party of the rich and screw the middle class. They use people like you to push their agenda under the guise of creating jobs and fixing the very problems they created by doing the same thing all over again. They have destroyed the middle class with their repeated failed policies. They chose corporations over the working man. They hate unions because they protect workers and demand decent wages and a fair working environment.If you want your children to pray, do it at home and in church. Or send your children to a private Christian school.