Presidents Obama and Clinton Play Golf
EmailABC News’ Tahman Bradley (@tahmanbradley) Reports:
Despite soggy grass, President Obama hit the golf course today with former President Bill Clinton.
It’s the first time that the two have played golf together since Obama became president. Obama chose Joint Base Andrews in Maryland — his usual golf spot — for the outing with the former president. The area in and around the nation’s capital experienced heavy rain Friday, but that didn’t stop the president from doing his usual weekend routine.
The outing with the former president could stoke speculation about whether Obama wants Clinton’s help pushing his $447 billion jobs plan. Last December, when Obama wanted to push for a tax cut compromise, he brought former Clinton with him into the press briefing room at the White House. After brief remarks, Obama left for a holiday party, and Clinton, in a surprise move, took over the briefing.
Will Clinton once again be used as Obama’s closer?
Obama addressed former Clinton’s annual global initiative Wednesday in New York.
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Oh my gosh, he’s golfing again. Doesn’t he know people are starving to death in Africa?
Posted by: Tara | September 24, 2011, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
Two losers! One who sold our jobs to China and third world countries and the other who WASTED trillions of our tax dollars.
Posted by: bb | September 24, 2011, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
he brought former Clinton with him into the press briefing room at the White House. After brief remarks, Obama left for a holiday party, and Clinton, in a surprise move, took over the briefing.
Wasn`t Bill Clinton impeached as a sitting president?
Posted by: NewUnion | September 24, 2011, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
I wonder how many times he said pass this bill during the round?
Maybe Clinton gave him some advice on how to actually get a democrat to introduce the bill sometime. Hard to blame republicans for not passing a bill that even democrats won’t touch.
Posted by: J tayberry | September 24, 2011, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
Maybe Clinton gave him some advice on how to actually get a democrat to introduce the bill sometime. Hard to blame republicans for not passing a bill that even democrats won’t touch.
Posted by: J tayberry | September 24, 2011, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
If you don’t get your facts right, you’re wrong. Somehow a very common state for the Republican right. If ignorance was bliss . . .
09/22/11 09:10 AM ET
“House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson (D-Conn.) on Wednesday introduced President Obama’s American Jobs Act legislation in the House.”Larson’s bill, H.R. 12, is identical to S. 1549, the bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in the Senate last week in a bid to start the process of moving Obama’s jobs plan through Congress.”
Posted by: Blaze | September 24, 2011, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
Hopefully Clinton will give him some advice about dumping his loony left wing base. On the other hand , his dismal approval ratings look like it is too late.
Posted by: jonny | September 24, 2011, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
Who won?
Posted by: BMHJ | September 24, 2011, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Two losers playing on a soggy golf course..how fitting..
Posted by: John H | September 24, 2011, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm
Wow! Just think, though, every weekend that Obama plays golf, he is creating a job, if only for a caddy.
Posted by: jonnie | September 24, 2011, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
Wow! Just think, though, every weekend that Obama plays golf, he is creating a job, if only for a caddy.
Posted by: jonnie | September 24, 2011, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
Separately, the council’s report cited four independent analyses by the Congressional Budget Office and three private economic analysis companies. Here’s what the groups found:
CBO: Between 1.3 million and 3.6 million jobs saved or created.
IHS/Global Insight: 2.45 million jobs saved or created.
Macroeconomic Advisers: 2.3 million jobs saved or created.
Moody’s Economy.com: 2.5 million jobs saved or created.”
Posted by: Jack | September 24, 2011, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
Don’t bother Jack……you’re talking to a brick wall. Or maybe I should change that to brick blockade.
Posted by: 40acres | September 24, 2011, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
who knows? maybe he knows how to do something, like play golf… but i doubt it
Posted by: notblind | September 24, 2011, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm
HILLARY AND BILL FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!!!! HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT 2012!!!!
Posted by: Chris | September 24, 2011, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm
Jackie, reinventing economics terminology is one, if not the only one, great achievement of the Obama regime. Pray provide a definition, from a reliable economics source, of “saved jobs”, and a methodology of how to measure this macroeconomic “indicator”. Repeating this nonsense 10,000 times will not furnish it with any validity or credibility
Posted by: as is | September 24, 2011, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
DURBIN: SOLYNDRA scandal could hurt Dems… AP: Obama’s plan would make ‘small dent’ in joblessness… SHUTDOWN: Harry Reid kills bill to keep gov’t running…
OBAMA_______VS_______AMERICA
Posted by: Yep I said that | September 24, 2011, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm
DURBIN: SOLYNDRA scandal could hurt Dems… AP: Obama’s plan would make ‘small dent’ in joblessness… SHUTDOWN: Harry Reid kills bill to keep gov’t running…
OBAMA_______VS_______AMERICA
Posted by: Yep I said that | September 24, 2011, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm
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The one that is going to get Obama and Holder is the gunrunner scandal.. They are knocking on Holders door…..more holder/obama approved weapons have been found at 11 more violent crime scenes. Look for a special prosecutor soon
Posted by: The delusional Left | September 24, 2011, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm
Posted by: The delusional Left | September 24, 2011, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm
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I saw that in an article 3 days ago, Holder is feeling the heat from what i read, Have you noticed all the networks have gone quiet over this? I bet the White House has sent them emails saying to keep it out of the news…
Posted by: Tax Me More | September 24, 2011, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm
Posted by: as is | September 24, 2011, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
Those aren’t ‘my’ terms, nor the President’s term those are the terms of major economic analysis companies and the CBO. I’m sorry I don’t put much weight on your amateur guesses.
Separately, the council’s report cited four independent analyses by the Congressional Budget Office and three private economic analysis companies. Here’s what the groups found:
CBO: Between 1.3 million and 3.6 million jobs saved or created.
IHS/Global Insight: 2.45 million jobs saved or created.
Macroeconomic Advisers: 2.3 million jobs saved or created.
Moody’s Economy.com: 2.5 million jobs saved or created.”
Posted by: Jack | September 24, 2011, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
Its just more of the Culture of corruption, Tax me More, and Delusional Left
Its funny Obama playing games with Pass the Bill and Spineless Harry Reid saying We’re Jammed maybe next month…..This is just another gimmick by the regime to rip off the middle class
Posted by: Yep I said that | September 24, 2011, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
I also don’t put much weight on the guesses by the amateurs who think they know all the facts and who is guilty and who isn’t. Thank god the country is run on the rule of law, not guesses by right wing parrots.
Posted by: Jack | September 24, 2011, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm
The radical left wing extremist are getting nervous when someone like a Palin gets within 5 points of this radical Liberal Obama….and as far as i know she is not even running.. watch the radical left go into full Palin derangement syndrome if she does LOL
Heck Obama is so dumb he was standing in front of a bridge that did not even qualify under his own plan and squealing… fix this bridge.. LMAO
OBAMA____VS____AMERICA
Posted by: Yep I said that | September 24, 2011, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm
This is just another gimmick by the regime to rip off the middle class
Posted by: Yep I said that | September 24, 2011, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
Oh sure, cutting payroll taxes in half for 160 million ordinary American workers is ‘ripping off the middle class’.
Republicans call for corporate tax breaks almost every day. It’s ironic how they sit on their hands when it comes to small business and middle class tax breaks. Americans better start paying close attention to who’s on the American peoples side and who’s only on the side of multi-national corporations and the super rich. When GOP politicians inject the term “the American people”, they are only talking about corporate America and the very wealthy. They fight against employee rights, employee benefits and anything that may help employees and mom and pop businesses. They don’t care about true small business otherwise they would have voted for the bill in 2010 that was a loan bill specifically FOR SMALL BUSINESS!! They ALL voted against it! Don’t you get it?? The GOP are in the pockets of people like the Koch brothers. Joe the plumber need not apply!!
Posted by: dan | September 10, 2011, 12:38 am 12:38 am
Posted by: Jack | September 24, 2011, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
Well Yep he did create 1100 temp jobs at that solar company.. LOL.. before they ran off with all that taxpayer money.. Obama owed that ceo big favors since he was a bundler for Obama
Posted by: Tax Me More | September 24, 2011, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm
Looks like you have another left winger in extreme pain yep, you can almost see smoke coming out of his ears and tears coming out of his eyes as he tries to save the failing and sinking White House
LOL
Posted by: The delusional Left | September 24, 2011, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm
Obama owed that ceo big favors since he was a bundler for Obama
Posted by: Tax Me More | September 24, 2011, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm
Wrong again. The CEO of Solyndra was not a bundler for Obama. If you’re going to parrot what you read on right wing blogs at least parrot accurately!
Posted by: Jack | September 24, 2011, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
OBAMASCARE: Longer waits, higher costs under new health law…
Michael Moore: ‘Patriotic Americans’ Will Wait Longer for Healthcare…
LMAO … little mikey will be the first screaming if he can’t get a nicked finger bandaided LMAO
OBAMA_________VS_________AMERICA
Posted by: Yep I said that | September 24, 2011, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
Posted by: Yep I said that | September 24, 2011, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
I’m quoting dan’s excellent post . . .
Republicans call for corporate tax breaks almost every day. It’s ironic how they sit on their hands when it comes to small business and middle class tax breaks. Americans better start paying close attention to who’s on the American peoples side and who’s only on the side of multi-national corporations and the super rich. When GOP politicians inject the term “the American people”, they are only talking about corporate America and the very wealthy. They fight against employee rights, employee benefits and anything that may help employees and mom and pop businesses. They don’t care about true small business otherwise they would have voted for the bill in 2010 that was a loan bill specifically FOR SMALL BUSINESS!! They ALL voted against it! Don’t you get it?? The GOP are in the pockets of people like the Koch brothers. Joe the plumber need not apply!!
Posted by: dan | September 10, 2011, 12:38 am 12:38 am
Posted by: Jack | September 24, 2011, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
Jack, good point and the Pres.Obama is in the pockets of the likes like Kaiser (solyndra) and the Unions and he has to pay them to get their vote.
Posted by: Lizzie | September 24, 2011, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
lots of angry southern men out there?!?
Posted by: david | September 24, 2011, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm
Barry is looking for help with the lecture circuit come Jan 2013
Posted by: Steve_1042 | September 24, 2011, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm
Just another day at the office – the golf course.
Posted by: young_voter | September 24, 2011, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm
More are unemployed than since I can ever remember…..no one in their right mind is buying Obama saved or created jobs BS. Had odummy done NOTHING, we would have more people working.
Posted by: ssss | September 24, 2011, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm
.no one in their right mind is buying Obama saved or created jobs BS
Posted by: ssss | September 24, 2011, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm
Certainly the bigoted right aren’t buying it, but then again it’s not what Obama says, it’s what major economic analysis companies are saying . . .
CBO: Between 1.3 million and 3.6 million jobs saved or created.
IHS/Global Insight: 2.45 million jobs saved or created.
Macroeconomic Advisers: 2.3 million jobs saved or created.
Moody’s Economy.com: 2.5 million jobs saved or created.”
I don’t think the bigots are as well informed as those professionals. They seem to think they are, but they aren’t.
Posted by: Jack | September 25, 2011, 12:51 am 12:51 am
Jack,
You’re making a good point, but not the one you think you are making. Taking even the most generous estimate (CBO’s naturally), that’s $218K per job. Not exactly sound fiscal policy. Ignoring the CBO’s high-end number and going with the slightly less exaggerated estimate you cite of rougly 2.5 million, that’s $314K per job.
I don’t know what “bigots” has to do with your point. While you possess a self-proclaimed ability to perceive bigotry in others’ online comments, that doesn’t seem to indicate you can perform basic math or have the cognitive ability to recognize why people might have a problem with this kind of spending or persistent 9% unemployment.
Posted by: Ken | September 25, 2011, 7:08 am 7:08 am
No, the CEO for Solyndra for wasn’t a major bundler for Obama.
George Kaiser, which was a major investor in Solyndra was. Obama had at least one campaign stop in Kaiser’s home in Tulsa, OK in 2007. Kaiser also had access to the White House during the health care talks that industry insiders had, boasted of his access to ARRA (failed stimulus) funds and lobbied extensively for the loan and its subsequent restructuring that is under fire now.
Posted by: Ken | September 25, 2011, 7:28 am 7:28 am
Where’s OJ?? Clinton orders the massacre of innocent women and children at Waco, TX and Obama sells weapons to Mexican drug lords resulting in the death of at least one American Border Agent and countless Mexican nationals. Small wonder they reach out to terrorists
Posted by: Pinky | September 25, 2011, 7:46 am 7:46 am
Oh, but of course.
Posted by: newcountryman | September 25, 2011, 8:08 am 8:08 am
Posted by: Jack | September 24, 2011, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
Depending on which estimates you use from Obama’s own Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), the “stimulus” cost taxpayers anywhere between $185,000 and $278,000 per job. It’s proof that the government is extremely inefficient and costly to taxpayers.
The stimulus wasn’t a stimulus at all. It was a slush fund primarily designed to reward union employees so that their union dues would continue to flow to Democrats. Many of those jobs were only temporarily sustained.
It would have been much more effective and cheaper for federal income taxes to be suspended from all paychecks for six months. That would have been a true stimulus across the board, across all job types. But that wouldn’t have rewarded just Democratic constituencies, right? Instead, hundreds of billions of dollars were wasted, our economy is getting worse, our labor force has shrunk, and we’re in MUCH deeper debt now.
Posted by: Chuck | September 25, 2011, 8:32 am 8:32 am
CHUCK, September 25, 2011, 8:32 AM:
“Depending on which estimates you use from Obama’s own Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), the “stimulus” cost taxpayers anywhere between $185,000 and $278,000 per job.”
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hehehe! …….. Naturally, leave it to a shallow right-whiner to keep the analysis of # of jobs created “very simplistic”:
“$ Value of Stimulus Law divided by # of jobs created”
You wouldn’t expect a right-whiner to consider any materiel cost into the equation, that’s too complicated…. LOL!
Posted by: Georgie_Bushie. | September 25, 2011, 10:24 am 10:24 am
Chuck wrote, “The stimulus wasn’t a stimulus at all. It was a slush fund primarily designed to reward union employees so that their union dues would continue to flow to Democrats”.
Chuck, you obviously don’t have a clue what you are talking about. Not a clue. HALF the stimulus was tax breaks and credits. Things that Republicans drool over. Where is your proof of this ‘slush fund for union people’? It never ceases to amaze me how much those on the Right are willing to LIE in order to make some sort of point……….
Posted by: Searambler | September 25, 2011, 10:49 am 10:49 am
“It would have been much more effective and cheaper for federal income taxes to be suspended from all paychecks for six months. That would have been a true stimulus across the board, across all job types.”
80% of our federal revenue comes from income tax. So your proposal is to cut off 80% of federal revenue for 6 months? Un-frikkin-believable. The insanity that is the Tea Baggers apparently knows no boundaries. “Short Term Solutions – Long Term Pain” should be their Party motto……….
Posted by: Searambler | September 25, 2011, 10:52 am 10:52 am
Well, he’s established the pattern….a speech telling the kids parents that their kids are ill educated because of Bush, they are out of work because of Bush and after establishing their misery, he PLAYS golf! “It’s good to be KING!” ;o)
Posted by: hillcoguy | September 25, 2011, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
Posted by: Georgie_Bushie…..You wouldn’t expect a right-whiner to consider any materiel cost into the equation, that’s too complicated…. LOL!
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It’s more like YOU to shriek: “IT’S GEORGE BUSH’S FAULT!” “IT’S GEORGE BUSH’S FAULT!”
Even though he’s been gone for a couple of years or more………but without the Bush crutch, 0′bammys dwindling faithful few would see him fall on his butt! ;o) Bwahahahahahaha!!!
RUSH WAS RIGHT! :o) Hee, hee, hee!
Posted by: hillcoguy | September 25, 2011, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
So glad the Prez found some time to dig up some divots. (Does the Secret Service really drop the balls in the cup for him?). I’ll bet he came back really refreshed and ready to “Create and save” some more union jobs with public money.
Posted by: n'erdowell | September 25, 2011, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm
HILLCOGUY | September 25, 2011, 12:12 PM:
“……but without the Bush crutch, 0′bammys dwindling faithful few would see him fall on his butt! ;o) Bwahahahahahaha!!! RUSH WAS RIGHT!”
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Wow… such an (un)educated rant. Congratulations though, you confirmed that you’re from “the hills”, and a “Rush” believer.
LOL!… Good job at that!… “High Five me now”…. LOL!
Posted by: Georgie_Bushie. | September 25, 2011, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
Two of the planets most accomplished liars fill out a score card . Can you really shoot minus 7?
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Posted by: ray | September 25, 2011, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
Obama’s EPA kills Asthma suffers. As of December 31 2011, those cheap inhalers
for Asthma suffers will be no more. According to Obama’s EPA you are burning a whole in the ozone layer and killing the rest of us. So the President is picking the winners and losers again. Asthma suffers losers, Big Pharma winners as you will dole out more money for new inhalers. Google to see how much Obama has received from Big Pharma for reelection. Did Solydrna do better?
Posted by: deadwrestler | September 25, 2011, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
Clinton said Obama’s new so called jobs plan would not work. Obama is begging him to stop telling the truth and lie to Americans.
Posted by: Freedom | September 25, 2011, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
BB | September 24, 2011, 3:52 ?PM:
“Two losers! One who sold our jobs to China…”
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LOL! … and what kind of jobs were “sold to China”? ANSWER: Manufacturing.
Now, let’s see which presidents actually sold U.S. Manufacturing jobs to China…
CARTER Years, January ’77 to January ’81:
START (Jan ’77) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 17,803,000
END (Jan ’81) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 18,639,000
NET GAIN in ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ Manufacturing jobs during Carter Years = +836,000 jobs.
REAGAN Years, January ’81 to January ’89:
START (Jan ’81) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 18,639,000
END (Jan ’89) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 18,057,000
NET LOSS in ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ Manufacturing jobs during Reagan Years = -582,000 jobs.
BUSH # 1 Years, January ’89 to January ’93:
START (Jan ’89) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 18,057,000
END (Jan ’93) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 16,791,000
NET LOSS in ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ Manufacturing jobs during Bush # 1 Years = -1,266,000 jobs.
LOL! …. “1.3 million ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ manufacturing jobs lost under Bush # 1″
TOTAL LOSSES OF U.S. ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ JOBS UNDER REAGAN (582,000) + BUSH # 1 (1,266,000) = 1,848,000 (“1.8 million manufacturing jobs”) lost under these two Republicans.
CLINTON Years, January ’93 to January ’01:
START (Jan ’93) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 16,791,000
END (Jan ’01) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 17,114,000
NET GAIN in ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ Manufacturing jobs during Clinton Years = +323,000 jobs.
BUSH # 2 Years, January ’01 to January ’09:
START (Jan ’01) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 17,114,000
END (Jan ’09) BLS Data on # of U.S. Manufacturing jobs = 12,559,000
NET LOSS in ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ Manufacturing jobs during Bush # 2 Years = -4,555,000 jobs.
OBAMA
2010 – For the first time since President Clinton, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics data on the manufacturing sector, the nation had a NET GAIN in ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ manufacturing jobs equal to +109,000.
2011 – For the first time since President Clinton, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics data on the manufacturing sector, the nation has had a NET GAIN in ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ manufacturing jobs equal to +192,000 so far thru August 2011.
Posted by: Georgie_Bushie | September 25, 2011, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
Now he is out on the west coast for 3 days campaigning. Why does he need to raise campaign money when we are paying for everything he does?
Posted by: Rafe | September 25, 2011, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
Fore! and twenty years ago . ..
Posted by: Zal | September 25, 2011, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm
Why does he need to raise campaign money when we are paying for everything he does?
Posted by: Rafe | September 25, 2011, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
Rafe, running for public office is based on money. Have you not noticed? To begin with they’re almost ALL millionaires.
Posted by: Zal | September 25, 2011, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm
That’s the only time and place Clinton could find to get Obama’s ear….on the links.
Posted by: newcountryman | September 26, 2011, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
Ah, the 0 and the UniBanger meet for some fun!
Posted by: TexBork | September 26, 2011, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm