Obama Maps Out ‘Warrior of Working Class’ Message

Ahh! The campaign slogan is beginning to come together.

The entire article is full of contradictions it’s ridicules. Let me see if I have this right, “After a heated battle between the White House and House Republicans, the payroll tax cut was extended until the end of February — a battle the president ultimately won albeit for just two months.” Was it not the republican congress that wanted the one year extension and senate democrats only two months? “… but the White House official noted that it gave the president and his senior advisers time to work through policy proposals that they plan to roll out in the new year — one being to extend the payroll tax cut through the end of 2012. So who was it that wanted two months and who wanted one year extension of the payroll tax? Twisted, twisted political garbage from STEPHANIE Z. SMITH and ABC news. It gets worse. “Another key part of early 2012 will be to ramp up the pace of the “We Can’t Wait” initiatives. Since October, President Obama put in place some 20 executive actions that do not require Congressional approval and aim to boost public opinion of his job performance.” Hold this thought because eight paragraphs later Mr. Smith quotes Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest . “So when does the president begin campaigning? Earnest insists Obama will not be focused on his reelection campaign in early 2012. There will be time later in the year to focus on the reelection.” Which would have boosted faith in the economy more for individuals and businesses – two months of continued tax relief or 12 months? No, let’s just kick the bucket down the street another time. Again more twisting of statements and lining them up to make the republicans look bad and Obama look good. There are so many contradictions in this article I can’t believe any news company would ever use Mr. Smith’s political writings except for maybe ABC.

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 wealthy. When GOP politicians inject the term “the American people”, they are only talking about corporate America and the 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!!

Obama has had almost 4 years to move this country forward and all he has done is bring the country down. All he will do if he gets 4 more years is blame everyone else and stall the economy with his hollow promises. He promises things to your face and then when he gets back to Washington it will be business as usual. Bringing down the US.

I love my current President. There is nobody even remotely capable of doing what he has done in the past 4 years. That is still the case.
He will prevail. We are lucky to have such a patriot. I would not blame him to walk away. He’s gotten little respect for what he has done against such odds.

To all the GOP’ers who attempt to distort..a wonderful site at middleclass.org will show how each party votes, and each member voted..you can pull up the record of these wonderful Republicans, it will show you who they truly represent. In 10 years they have voted on issues that benefited the middle class less than 5%. Do not be fooled, do the research yourself. A vote for the GOP is a vote to allow criminals to make their own rules and police themselves..just look at Wall Street, it’s what they want.

What’s interesting to me is that I have a brother who retired at 41, a father who could have retired 30 years ago, an Uncle that hasn’t had to “go to work” for 30 years and each of these people would consider themselves part of the “working class”. Why must this president be so divisive? His failed economic policies will not escape the scrutiny of the electorate this time around. It’s a terrible thing to vote for a suit and then end up where we have. Time to return to pro-growth policies that reflect our economic reality. For those of you who believe that we only need more time to see the wisdom of Obama’s policies, you’re delusional. They have been tried before (especially in Europe) and they NEVER achieve what their proponents promise. It’s a matter of record, not partisan opinion.

So… he’s now a “warrior for the working class?” What a joke. I have never seen someone who has received so much publicity for so little work. He’s not kept one single promise, and when his job is being threaten, he wants to save our jobs? I can’t believe that no one calls him on this. It is plain bias.

AL Disorder…you’re the one that said, “I love MY current President.” I never said that gas prices weren’t adjusted for inflation, did I? You just ASSumed that. I live in a house that I AM PAYING for with the wages I EARN at no fewer than two jobs. As you cash your government assistance checks next week, thank the people who are paying taxes so you can enjoy the government crack Obama uses to secure your life-long votes to the Democrat party.

Sam Kinman has it right. Republicons attached the Keystone Pipeline to what otherwise was a clean middle class tax relief bill.
Republicons claim it’s there for job creation. Others say the new positions would be filled by existing employees. Either way the US doesn’t get a drop of that tarsand oil.
So why did they do that? I suspect Republicons are just sticking up for their oil buddies.
THAT is why Obama want’s 2 months to look, instead of being a yes man to the drill baby drill baggars.

No one knows, at least that I’ve heard on these blogs, the reason Harry Reid cut the payroll S.S. tax relief bill to 2 months instead of 12. The Keystone pipeline is still part of the bill. However Obama can still sit on it until after the election to smooze both the environmentalists and the union portion of his constituency. JohnM, you got it all wrong.

AL Disorder…you say he has “tried” to do everything he promised. You should do stand up. He’s added as much to the national debt in 34 months as Bush did in 8 years. He called it unpatriotic and un-American (running up the debt for future generations) and voted against raising the debt ceiling during the 10 or 15 minutes he was a senator. I guess things look a bit different from the Oval Office, don’t they. We’ll all be paying for this clown’s ineptitude for decades. Let’s vote for change that makes sense.

“So why did they do that? I suspect Republicons are just sticking up for their oil buddies.” — posted by JOHNM ——————– LOL. Don’t you mean Obama and HIS oil buddies?? Seems gas prices were about $1.80 a gallon when Barry was sworn in. And they finally backed off from $4 a gallon just a couple months ago… Yeah, it would be Obama and his oil buddies.

Seems gas prices were about $1.80 a gallon when Barry was sworn in. And they finally backed off from $4 a gallon just a couple months ago… Yeah, it would be Obama and his oil buddies.

Posted by: Logicsgood | December 31, 2011, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

Gas prices hit their all-time high under George W. Bush and were higher than they are now for months in a row. The information is easily available if you chose to actually study it rather than cut and paste from right wing blogs. p.s. – if you’re surprised gas prices are going up into the future, you’re not thinking clearly or honestly at all . . .

ALICE wrote:”Obama has had almost 4 years to move this country forward and all he has done is bring the country down. All he will do if he gets 4 more years is blame everyone else and stall the economy with his hollow promises. He promises things to your face and then when he gets back to Washington it will be business as usual. Bringing down the US.”

Where do you get your news/information? I have my suspicions.

Seriously, since Obama took office, we’ve added about 3 million private sector jobs.

More private sector jobs were created in 2010 ALONE than in all 8 YEARS of the Bush administration (which, in its last year, saw us LOSING between 250,000 and 850,000 such jobs a MONTH!) That is what this President inherited: over 8 MILLION private sector jobs LOST before he was sworn in.

Currently, we are closing in on 2 YEARS of consecutive monthly private sector job growth, and economic indicators are positive.

Again, 3 MILLION of those jobs have been regained, and his first term isn’t even OVER.

In addition,
has overseen the apprehension and/or bringing to justice of bin Laden, Ghadiffi, and several other terrorist king-pins;

democracy is breaking out across the Muslim world;

the two endless wars the Neo-cons started are officially OVER and our people are coming HOME;

health insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for pre-existing conditions or cap coverage for policy holders;

our gay military members no longer have to engage in the farce that was DADT;

and ALL of the TARP money has been paid BACK (Gingrich was only right on one level when he said that Bush’s TARP was the biggest theft in history….it was the biggest ATTEMPTED theft/transfer of taxpayer money to the private sector in history; Obama came in and attached STRINGS (government ownership and oversight) to that money and they couldn’t pay it back fast enough.

And the national debt, under Obama, has increased at a far LOWER rate than it did under Bush (or under REAGAN, ftm)…Republicans never give a fig for the debt UNTIL a Democrat takes office, then, they scream and cry about it and try to use it to tie the hands of the government. It is a strategy that goes back over a century (read Kevin Phillips). Reagan and Cheney both said (of debt incurred under THEIR administrations) that it was a GOOD thing and/or nothing to worry about. Now, suddenly, the Right is in an uproar over it (even though MOST of it was THEIR doing!)

You’re welcome.

I am sick and tired of the LIES regarding this President and his record. “Bringing the U.S. down”? Are you serious? He inherited a nation which had been driven into the DITCH by the economic and foreign policies of the Republicans and has, in less than 1 term, pulled it OUT of the ditch, got it back on the road, pointing in the right direction, and RUNNING.

Now, the Republicans want the keys back.

Are you KIDDING me?

Seriously, turn off the Fox/Beck/Limbaugh/Hannity et al and pick up your local newspaper or even the Wall Street Journal (which, for all their Right-wing editorializing, regularly publishes the graph of private sector job growth which looks like a capital letter V, with the left side in RED for the last year of the BUSH administration and the right side in BLUE for Obama.)

Or just go on-line and look up the numbers from the Dept. of Labor which show steady growth, fueled exclusively by SMALL to MID-SIZED businesses, hampered mainly by PUBLIC SECTOR job losses (what the Right is doing nationwide to raise the UE rate by eliminating the jobs of government workers, cops, teachers, and firefighters).

Just stop repeating the LIES and come up with some FACTS to justify your position of wanting to go BACK to the SAME failed policies that caused this mess to begin with instead of going FORWARD with what is WORKING to fix it.

This Independent voter loves this country and her kids too much to let that happen.

Memo to Ben – Gas prices increased 7% under GWB during his first 26 months in office vs 67% under Obama his first 26 months in office. That’ll really help out during a recession… Additionally at the end of GWB’s second term, gas was 9% lower (adjusted for inflation) than when he took office. Bush responded to $4 a gallon gas by lifting moratoriums on drilling, whereas Obama’s response has been??? Simply put, Obama could not care less about increasing domestic fossil fuel supply….

President Obama should learn from the words of President Kennedy “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”! We don’t need a nation suckling on big government!

Warrior of the working class year 3:
Highest yearly gasoline price ever.
Highest number of people on food stamps ever.
1 of 2 people living in poverty highest ever.
Focused like a laser and pivoting the country to ruin.

OVER $4 on Bush’s watch. Gas is now just over $3.

Ben – $5 a gallon?? I never paid that much. Matter of fact, AAA reported the highest average gas prices occurred in 2011.

Posted by: Logicsgood5 | December 31, 2011, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm

typo already correct . . . OVER $4 on Bush’s watch. Gas is now just over $3.

Posted by: deadwrestler | December 31, 2011, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm

The things you list are directly the result of the economic collapse on Bush’s shift. 8 million people lost their jobs – you think that might have something to do with the food stamps and the poverty?

THIS IS THREE YEARS LATER, AND NOW YOU CAN BE INDEFINITELY DETAIN
WITHOUT TRIAL AS A RESULT OF OBAMA SIGNING THE DEFENSE BILL.
MAIN PART HERE IT”S 3 YEARS LATER. AND TRILLIONS SPENT IN THE NAME OF
RECOVERY.

Posted by: deadwrestler | December 31, 2011, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm

First of all, the ‘detention provisions’ were put in by the defense act by the Republican majority in the House. Second, there have not been ‘trillions’ spent in the name of recovery. Third, the economy has taken on 3 million private sector jobs since Obama became president, and has shed government jobs. Fourth, most of the increase in the debt has occurred because billions of tax dollars were stripped out of the budget when the Bush economic collapse occurred – and those tax revenues are still stripped out today.

Teagan, Obama signed the bill he owns it. Remember the word VETO!
Second Google my first post facts. All are FACTS!
AND lastly, It is 3 years later, Google National Debt 2008 and 2011
Trillions Spent! Sorry I’m off to celebrate. Argue again next year.

For the one or two that are using my name and making left wing comments – your actions do not surprise me. OK, for RAVEN – you did not comment on the number of federal workers OBAMA has added to the federal work force. Nor did you comment on the make up of the so called 3 million jobs. Hummmm… “More private sector jobs were created in 2010 ALONE than in all 8 YEARS of the Bush administration (which, in its last year, saw us LOSING between 250,000 and 850,000 such jobs a MONTH!) That is what this President inherited: over 8 MILLION private sector jobs LOST before he was sworn in.” Tell me how many federal jobs has Obama created in three years? How many years are you willing to give OBAMA before he will accept responsibility for anything. By the end of the Bush administration the housing bubble issue kicked in and both Bush and Obama faced the consequences. However, Obama had control of both the house and senate and instead of going after saving homes and jobs he and his democratic friends went after Obama Care. They lost a year and hundreds of billions of dollars in addition to millions of jobs which even today are not increasing enough to affect the economy. And as for, “And the national debt, under Obama, has increased at a far LOWER rate than it did under Bush (or under REAGAN.” The rate has nothing to do with anything. How did the debt double if not triple under OBAMA? OBAMA and friends have added trillions of dollars to the national debt significantly increasing the debt well above that under the Bush administration. But let’s look at a bigger picture. Who approved stealing money from social security and issuing IOUs to social security administration? Who put in place the mechanism to allow people who could not afford homes to purchase them? Who set up a Ponzi scheme and called it Medicare? Under which two presidents did the national debt double and double again? If you thought I was going to lay all that on the democrats or Obama you’re wrong. Do you think Bush was a great president? No you don’t. Do you think a president that doubles again the national debt and sets aside jobs and the economy to push a health care bill is a great president. I don’t. The whole lot needs to go and unfortunately for you that means Obama and Harry Reid and many of our congress who are bailing out because when they had a chance to work together and find a solution for the recession they chose not to act but to sit in their plush congressional seats and point fingers. It’s kind of like Caesar fiddling away while Rome burned. How long after that did the Roman culture die out? I don’t believe we have that long until the country defaults on its first loans to China.

Obama is on a slippery, slippery slope and obviously doesn’t realize it or just doesn’t care. How many people know the all 435 seats in the lower house are up for grabs in 2012? It happens every 24 years and coincides with the presidential election. In the Senate 33 democrats are up for re-election while only 10 republican seat are up for grabs. Calling Congress ineffective can come back and bite him in the butt. You’re living in a fantasy land if you think the facts that the Democrats have spent 150% more from 2007- 2012 than the Bush Congress from 2001-2006. While that Congress wasn’t frugal, having spent $500 billion more than revenue generated, the current Congress has spent $1.5 trillion more a year. The deficit has gone from $6 trillion to $10 trillion during Bush’s eight years, while Obama has raised the deficit to $16 trillion in three years. How can Obama say he’s for the working man when that same man has to pay the bill. And don’t even talk about taxing the wealthy. The top 20% of earners have paid the same rate or slightly less since before the 80′s. The lower 20% have seen their tax liability go down threefold. The middle 60% have seen their taxes go down also in line with the top 20%. As for the pipeline fiasco that so much misinformation is being bandied about, know this. Canada already supplies 20% of the US’s crude oil needs. The oil sands will only increase more product for US use and this is from a blue state research paper – not a oil company, not an environmentalist concern. The spin around here makes more people dizzy than a runaway merry-go-round. Even Obama’s rallying cries show his true colors. “We can’t wait”, “I have to consolidate power”, ” The warrior of the working class” – All are paraphrased from Mao Zedong’s book written in 1952. Now who’s fooling who?

Posted by: Bob Olson | December 31, 2011, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm

It’s stunning when folks like you are unable to work the ongoing commitments stemming from the Bush administration into the ongoing budget requirements of the Obama administration, and further, you aren’t’ able to factor in the stripping away of revenues because of the economic collapse under Bush. When 8 million people lose their jobs and no longer pay taxes it has a huge effect on the revenue side of the government budget. But please, ignore all that and rant on.

It’s stunning when folks like you are unable to work the ongoing commitments stemming from the Clinton, Johnson and FDR administrations into the ongoing budget requirements of the Bush administration

Posted by: foggy | January 1, 2012, 11:06 am 11:06 am

You’re biased. You left out the TRIPLED national debt and associated interest payments the Reagan administration left for the following administrations. Some kind of factual, logic gap in your brain? Clever, but not smart.

It’s stunning when folks like you are unable to work the ongoing commitments stemming from the Clinton, Johnson and FDR administrations into the ongoing budget requirements of the Bush administration–Foggy

That is likely because the biggest chunk of budget requirements comes from the Bush admin. Bush’s administration accounts for nearly half– 43% / 6+ billion of the debt– while the Clinton admin accounts for $1.4 billion, Obama admin. $2.4 billion (1.1 billion comes from the stimulus which was necessary regardless of right wing rhetoric– those who adopted the austerity economics the right recommended didn’t fare well and given 2011, austerity economics ought to be dead to all who paid attention), George H.W. Bush, $1.5 trillion, Reagan, about $2 billion, and presidents prior to that about $1 billion.