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Obama: People having to work during Christmas week another example of failed Bush policies
Liberal Lunacy ^ | 12/23/08 | Liberal Lunacy Staff/REM

Posted on 12/23/2008 6:52:54 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32

(Hawaii – 12/23/08) – In informal discussions today with reporters during his holiday in Hawaii, Barack Obama said that people having to work during Christmas week is yet another example in a long line of failed Bush policies.

“I find it hard to believe, during the week of the biggest holiday during the year, people have to actually continue working in order to afford the things they want. According to reports, this has been the worst Christmas season in years, and the problem is, you know, people can’t get to stores because they have to work. It’s a testament to failed Bush policies and his reluctance to look after the working class that it has come to this. It’s the fault of his abhorrent, backwards policies carefully implemented over 8 years of rule.”

“It may take 4 years to overcome this decent into madness, but rest assured, my following 8 years after the first 4 will correct the situation and ensure all Americans will be able to take the complete week off, with pay and insurance, to right this seriously listing ship. Look at me, I’m about to take over the toughest job in the world, yet I’m able to take the week off to frolic in the surf and have my picture taken. All Americans are equal, we should all have this chance.”

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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: bds; christmas; holidays; humor; obama; satire; taxes; xmas
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1 posted on 12/23/2008 6:52:55 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

People worked during Christmas week during the Clinton Administration too, WOW this Obama is some kind of idiot isn’t he


2 posted on 12/23/2008 6:54:02 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

LOL poor reporters being forced to go to Hawaii to work.


3 posted on 12/23/2008 6:54:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

That’s easy to fix, Mr. President-Select...declare the whole week a national holiday...duh


4 posted on 12/23/2008 6:54:58 PM PST by pray4liberty (Always vote for life!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Is this satire?

It should be.


5 posted on 12/23/2008 6:55:25 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: vladimir998

It’s gonna be a long 4 years isn’t it


6 posted on 12/23/2008 6:56:11 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: vladimir998

it is..:)


7 posted on 12/23/2008 6:56:19 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
I'm trying real hard to give they guy a break, but this just makes it harder.

How about all those who ar working during this week to serve him and his family?

8 posted on 12/23/2008 6:57:27 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Another blatant lie from the Presidential Elect Administration (PEA). I don’t have to work the Christmas week.


9 posted on 12/23/2008 6:59:16 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

What? Is he so privileged that neither he nor Big Mouth Michele ever worked during a holiday? I’d like to share that cloud 9 he’s on.


10 posted on 12/23/2008 6:59:24 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
I say we outsource the remaining American jobs. We'll all sit at home and buy cheap junk made by Chinese slave labor, and one of China's banks will issue every American some credit cards. Individual citizens won't pay the credit card bills. We'll just send them fiat currency as fast as Ben can print it.

Any company that fails because of this policy will just get nationalized. And we'll call it capitalism anyway.
11 posted on 12/23/2008 6:59:36 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Sarah Barracuda
people have to actually continue working in order to afford the things they want

I have never heard a more stupid statement in my life. I wonder if this idiot thinks food magically appears in grocery stores????????????? His disconnect from real life is incomprehensible!

12 posted on 12/23/2008 6:59:59 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: vladimir998
Is this satire?

I should have asked the same question prior to posting. Absolutely, it should be.

13 posted on 12/23/2008 7:00:06 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: lilylangtree

I bet ya the next four years people will be working during xmas week, this guy is an idiot to even say something like this, is everything bushs fault or what?!


14 posted on 12/23/2008 7:00:41 PM PST by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

“people can’t get to stores because they have to work.”

And the people at the store selling, aren’t working?


15 posted on 12/23/2008 7:01:04 PM PST by make no mistake
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
it is...

Shhh, don't tell 'em - the responses are funnier than the piece!

16 posted on 12/23/2008 7:01:31 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

My mother had to work two jobs during the Carter years. She was able to quit her night job during Reagan’s first term.


17 posted on 12/23/2008 7:01:37 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

What’s the penalty for slapping an Office of the President Elect?


18 posted on 12/23/2008 7:01:37 PM PST by TonyStark
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To: pray4liberty; Sarah Barracuda
That’s easy to fix, Mr. President-Select...declare the whole week a national holiday...duh

And give everyone a pony!

19 posted on 12/23/2008 7:02:26 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

OMG....this FOOL is going to be our head of state.....aaagggghhhhhhh.....who does he think delivers and sells all the CHRISTMAS presents bought this week? Santa????


20 posted on 12/23/2008 7:02:38 PM PST by goodnesswins ("Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" said Hillary Clinton. I'll be REALLY patriotic!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
I've always worked during Christmas week unless I had an opportunity to lump Memorial Day, 4th Of July and Labor Day into the week as "use 'em or lose 'em". I've had many years when customer schedules demanded that I work on major holidays. I would just take them during Christmas week to "catch up". Only Christmas day is a holiday at my company. No "early off" on Christmas Eve or day off after Christmas. Ditto for the day after Thanksgiving. It's a standard work day.
21 posted on 12/23/2008 7:02:42 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: goodnesswins

OKAY...GOTME.....it is Satire.


22 posted on 12/23/2008 7:04:05 PM PST by goodnesswins ("Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" said Hillary Clinton. I'll be REALLY patriotic!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

If you only knew the half of it.


23 posted on 12/23/2008 7:04:25 PM PST by sport
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Friendly word of advice: Satire is supposed to be just that little bit divergent from reality.


24 posted on 12/23/2008 7:04:56 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Is this a joke?

If not, what is this nutcase smoking? We wives and mothers work harder during Christmas week, the weeks preceding, and the weeks following than any other time of the year!

But, if the wonderful Obama is going to pay my way to Sandals, so I can have a luscious holiday break from cooking, shopping, cleaning, mailing, decorating,shoveling, etc....

Where do I sign up, and who is going to take care of it all?


25 posted on 12/23/2008 7:04:59 PM PST by jacquej
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Oh ho ho ho. so The Dali Obama is going to order all business shut down for Xmas week? This man is truly an idiot.

Thanx Rats. Thanx Pubbies for giving us a loser candidate. No more excuses. Time to scrag both of these worthless Parties.


26 posted on 12/23/2008 7:06:04 PM PST by Seruzawa (Obamalama lied, the republic died.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Dick Armee was right - we have become a nation of whiners. And BHO is now the Whiner in Chief, because the whiners are now in the majority. Pathetic.


27 posted on 12/23/2008 7:06:06 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Revolting cat!

It was the “you know” that made it so real.


28 posted on 12/23/2008 7:08:03 PM PST by depressed in 06 (Dope in chains, the Chicago way.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Uh, folks, uh, this is what is called ‘satire’.


29 posted on 12/23/2008 7:09:01 PM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: MrPiper

You’re so cruel. Do you know even what it’s like to have an out-of-date iPod or to have to order a small mochaccino when you really need a venti?


30 posted on 12/23/2008 7:11:35 PM PST by ruination
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To: All

Peeple, peeple, read it again. The second paragraph of Zero’s alleged statements gives it away that this is satire!

Good satire or sarcasm will always give you a clue or two.


31 posted on 12/23/2008 7:12:50 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Horribly long I’m afraid.


32 posted on 12/23/2008 7:15:10 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Political Correctness Run Amok

33 posted on 12/23/2008 7:16:03 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

This has got to be satire. Millions have to work this week. His own secret service has to work, his pilot and crew have to work, retail sales people have to work, warehouse and stockers have to work, supermarket employees, hotel employees, restaurant workers etc. etc. the list goes on forever.


34 posted on 12/23/2008 7:16:53 PM PST by Joan Kerrey
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
In informal discussions today with reporters during his holiday in Hawaii, Barack Obama said...

Back in Hawaiiii Eh? Manufacturing his birth sertiphicate and looking for witnesses that he was boorn dere?? Long live kenyan-indo-neesian half black piss be upon him foreign president select bringin commie paradise to this hated falling apart kontry!! As soon as he is installed by Sorosians in the office, the sky will turn rosy and MSM will go ga ga and everything will be honky dory and we will be zinging praises to the great liberator while begging on the corner for that CHANGE (full of klintoons) we believe (riiiiight)!

35 posted on 12/23/2008 7:18:17 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Did he actually say this?!
36 posted on 12/23/2008 7:18:43 PM PST by LiberConservative (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year FReepers!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

There are too many holidays now!!!

If you don’t want to work, lay down and expire and quit taking up space on this planet!!


37 posted on 12/23/2008 7:20:21 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Leo Carpathian

That’s right, I don’t believe that the Indonesian has time for “informal discussions today with reporters” while he’s looking on his “deceased” grandmother in the walk-in icebox in Hawaii. No siree!


38 posted on 12/23/2008 7:20:46 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: LiberConservative

no, but it’s believable, isn’t it..(or else you wouldn’t have asked..)


39 posted on 12/23/2008 7:20:47 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Obama is so out of touch and the reporters are weennies for not reporting it.


40 posted on 12/23/2008 7:25:07 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

What a nut this man is. Hasn’t he ever heard of retail? Grocers?


41 posted on 12/23/2008 7:27:14 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I bet his hotel staff has to work, How about the places he eats out?


42 posted on 12/23/2008 7:27:48 PM PST by sickoflibs (GWB : "Give me a 700B blank check to save the UAW until Obama takes office")
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To: LiberConservative

We here at Liberal Lunacy poke fun at Democrats and Liberals by inventing stories that aren’t true, but based on past actions and/or words COULD be.


43 posted on 12/23/2008 7:27:55 PM PST by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Not from The Onion...but should be. He actually said that? He keeps topping the last stupid thing he said. What’s next?


44 posted on 12/23/2008 7:29:06 PM PST by TheConservativeParty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why the ship was built." by The First Gal of AK)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

All the stores should be forced to give their employees the week off so they can go shopping.


45 posted on 12/23/2008 7:29:45 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I got news for Obama people have worked during XMAS week since Jesus was born. Of course Obama never having had a real job would not know this.


46 posted on 12/23/2008 7:31:45 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

(Hawaii – 12/23/08) – In informal discussions today with reporters during his holiday in Hawaii, Barack Obama said that people having to work during Christmas week is yet another example in a long line of failed Bush policies.

“I find it hard to believeum ah, during the week of um ah the biggest holiday during the year, people have to actually continue working in order um ah to afford the things they want. According to reports,um ah, this has been the worst Christmas season in years, and the problem is, you know, people can’t get to stores because they have to work. It’s a testament to failed Bush policies and his reluctance to look after the working class that it has come to this. It’s the fault of his abhorrent, backwards policies carefully implemented over 8 years of rule.”

“It may take 4 umm,ah...years to overcome this decent into madness,ummm ahhh..... but rest assured, ummmm ah...my following 8 years after the first 4 will correct the situation and ensure all Americans will be able to take the complete week off,ummmm ahhhhhhh..... with pay and insurance,ummm.... to right this seriously listing ship.umamamamamamamamamam.....
Look at me, ummmmmmmmmm ahhhhhhhh,I’m um ah about to take over the um ah toughest job in the world, yet um ah I’m able to take the week off to frolic in the surf and have my picture taken. All Americans are equal,ummmmm ah,look, we should all have this chance.”


47 posted on 12/23/2008 7:31:53 PM PST by Minnesoootan
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
It all depends on when it falls. Those who have the vacation time usually stack it to maximize time off with company-paid holidays and the minimal use of vacation days.

I'd think most companies will give off this Thursday and Friday and next Thursday. If someone takes off four days next week, they end up with a week-and-a-half vacation. I don't think most mind working Monday through Wed. of this week for that.

Obammie the Commie continually shows that because he has never really been in the private sector that he has no idea what the private sector is like.

48 posted on 12/23/2008 7:37:11 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Abortion has become little more than the New Left's execution of political prisoners.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

That is funny. Not a problem, so long as they wan to buy gas, ice and a few assorted munchies from vending machines. While it lasts.


49 posted on 12/23/2008 7:38:40 PM PST by Diverdogz
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

O’bummer is a SHMUCK!


50 posted on 12/23/2008 7:39:43 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks allot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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