Comments on: Obama on Signing Statements, 2008

By: magic bullet

magic bullet — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:13:22 +0000

wherein a president says he will choose not to abide by a provision in a bill he has just signed – at an event in Grand Junction, Colorado.

By: Freedom

Freedom — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:07:46 +0000

This man thinks he is a dictator or king, or would like to be. He really wants to be global King and how dare we American idiots stand in his way. Wonder if he bows to himself in the mirror and kisses his own hands before he goes to bed?

By: Nephron

Nephron — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:51:54 +0000

To have Carney so blatantly lie about this confirms to me that these guys will say anything to try to look better,even when the statements are obviously false.I think that this is the key to the birther issue-if they lie and avoid the subject it ultimately will go away. the ONLY reason for such a strategy is that the truth is too terrible to be allowed to come forth.I am now convinced that the Hawaii birth history must be a myth-there can be no other rational excuse for the actions of the White House.For now the most rational explanation is that Obama was born in Washington State and his Grandparents created the Hawaiian birth myth .

By: dave

dave — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:00:33 +0000

J.R., I used to post at HotAir, but AP is a little too liberal for me – he says the “natural born citizen” requirement of the Constitution is “antiquated.” (Rove would say the same thing, I’m sure, to use Obama to aid the Republican party.)
Precious few establishment Republicans understand what Bush/Rove/McCain/Graham/Boehner tried to/are driving our country to. They think all we need to do is get rid of Obama and put in Romney (or another RINO) and everything will be swell.
They don’t realize that they (the establishment Republicans who are 90% RINO) are the cause of the problem. (Just like Carter needed Nixon to get elected, Obama needed Bush. If Bush weren’t the worst President in history, we would never be experiencing the Obama backlash.)

By: J.R.

J.R. — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:47:02 +0000

“He ran them EIGHT YEARS IN A ROW, and the Republicans were completely MUM because it was their guy running them (and running us into the ground with big government).”
Dave, if you actually searched the archives of some popular conservative blogs and magazines I believe you would be shocked at the amount of people crying foul of Bush and his deficits and big-government ways.
Try and step away from the liberals lines you’ve been spoon fed by the media.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:47:26 +0000

EPU, you don’t see any hypocrisies on the part of Republicans? Not even a teenzy weenzy bit??
Sadly, it’s like 90% of the country has self-blinders on and only see what the other guy is doing wrong, all while they’re doing the EXACT same thing.

By: EPU

EPU — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:10:19 +0000

Justin,
. . . not to mention the hypocrisy of the left when they continue to turn a blind eye to the US military death squads in Afghanistan with Obama in office and then impulsively blame Bush for their feigned outrage over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. Humiliating nude prisoners is one thing, repeatedly hunting down and murdering civilians in cold blood is radically much worse. Yet all we heard from the left was that the prisoner abuse “must have come from the highest echelons of the White House” sparking riots and death. The media is curiously hush about the death squads.
How about that 2005 hoax about a Koran being flushed down the toilet which never happened? But because the loony left ran with the phony story, riots broke out and 15 people were killed. Liberals lied, people died.

By: J.R.

J.R. — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:45:10 +0000

“If you want a detailed evaluation of how many promises Obama has kept or not kept PolitiFact is keeping track of hundreds of them.”
Yeah, and according to Politifact Obama’s promise not to use signing statements doesn’t register as promise broken, but “compromised.” That’s all you need to know about their idiotic rating system.
Like Jim Geraghty over at the National Review says, all Obama’s promises come with an expiration date.

By: Noz

Noz — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:56:30 +0000

“The Ds and the Rs are identical now. Their just fighting over who gets to use the credit card.” – Dave
Which is why the Tea Party is America’s Great Hope.
Stand Strong T-Party and if Obama takes raising the Credit Limit to the brink, so be it.
You need to force him to be responsible, he won’t do it on his own.
2012 Vote Conservative

By: dave

dave — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:07:54 +0000

Jose,
What I DO have a problem with is hypocrites that demagogue an issue to make a point, and who have ALREADY DONE what they are criticizing.
Take DEFICITS, for example. Bush ran the greatest deficits in American history up until Obama. He ran them EIGHT YEARS IN A ROW, and the Republicans were completely MUM because it was their guy running them (and running us into the ground with big government).
Take HEALTH CARE, for example. Republicans instituted prescription drug coverage to buy the senior vote which cost (and will cost) trillions that we cannot afford. But when Obama buys the young and poor vote with health care handouts, the Republicans say, “Dictator! Socialist!”
Obama is doing EXACTLY what Bush did to destroy the country, only better! (And most Republicans long for their man to be back destroying the country, because they care more about their party than the country.)
The Ds and the Rs are identical now. Their just fighting over who gets to use the credit card. The credit card is more important to most Republicans than the country. They both want to feed the beast because they’ve set it up so that the beast feeds them. It’s so sad.