Posted on 02/03/2009 5:06:05 PM PST by Libloather
Obama says he is alarmed by deteriorating economy
Updated: Wednesday February 4, 2009 MYT 8:46:33 AM
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama says he is alarmed at how fast the U.S. economy has deteriorated, and worrying about it keeps him up at night.
In a series of network television interviews, the president said the short-term outlook is bleak.
He told CNN that even three months ago, most economists would not have predicted the economy was "in as bad of a situation as we are in right now."
There is "no magic bullet," he told Fox News. But he said that working with Congress on his economic package, "We are closer to getting it right."
Other points he made
Obama says the United States can win over moderate Muslims if officials choose their words carefully.
He was asked in an interview Tuesday why he does not use the phrase "war on terror." Obama said he wants to emphasize that America is battling terror organizations like al-Qaida, not the Muslims.
**SNIP**
Cooper did not ask whether Obama had smoked outside the White House grounds since he was sworn in on Jan. 20.
**SNIP**
With little notice, the president and first lady Michelle Obama bolted the gated White House compound in their tank of a limousine on Tuesday.
They ended up at a Washington public school, greeted by children who could not care less about the collapse of a Cabinet secretary nomination.
"We were just tired of being in the White House," the president candidly told the gleeful second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School.
"We got out! They let us out!" Mrs. Obama said as the kids and their teachers laughed.
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I also hear his poll numbers are tanking. Welcome to the real world, Barry.
obama just isn’t ready for prime time.
He’s alarmed that he hasn’t been able to ram this stimulus crap through before we were able to figger out that this is nothing but a used-car sales pitch....
“Hurry, before it’s too late!!!!!!!!!”
I hope no one gets into the strawberries.
He should have said, "Just because the Dem party and our Media minions talked the economy down for two years, doesn't mean we actually thought we'd succeed." "Hopefully we can talk it back up a lot faster."
I don't think so.
What? No magic negro?
hey Michelle, try not to scare the shi* out of those kids by looking at them!!!!
“Hurry, before it’s too late!!!!!!!!!”
“But wait!!!! There’s more!!!”
“There is ‘no magic bullet,’ he told Fox News. 0bama then added, “We’re still stuck with Hillary.”
*SMIRK*
Yeah, you'd better hurry before the recession cures itself.
Wait for it...wait for it...
BLAME BUSH! Yup, Obama’s solution to every problem!
Okay, I never LOL, but I do laugh out loud.
Good one.
The night sweats mr obama are the result of never having any leadership position in your freakin life.
They are ‘tired’ of ‘just being in’ the White House.
Oh my.
You know, this is not a time to be so cavalier about America or its people. People don’t get all snugly thinking of how ‘bleak’ the economy is, especially not from the Leader of the Free World.
Nervous breakdown; resignation; Biden takes oath; Biden appoints Hildabeast as VP; Biden resigns due to “health problems; Hildabeast takes oath of office.
Talk to Jimmah and borrow some cardigans.
Lower the thermostat at the WH. Put a thermometer in the oval office hooked up to the internet so we can audit your behavior. Think of the CO2 savings.
Start serving Spam at social gatherings rather than $100/lb beef. Consider fish heads and rice. Think of the CO2 reduction.
I think W slept well while at the White House despite all the crap he had to deal with. The US on top of everything now will have a sleep deprived President.
Cool. Leave.
The financial problems confronting America and NOT directly solvable through FIXING THEM. The economy must MEND ITSELF NORMALLY which, itself, is an UNPLEASANT experience, to say the least.
Spending MORE MONEY will NOT get this Country out of debt. What it does is shckle the next TWO GENERATIONS of AMERICANS with MASSIVE DEBT.
I'm alarmed at his being President, but at least I'm not pestering schoolchildren.
I wonder if his nervous breakdown will be a full-bore public screamer or a hauled off to the hospital in the middle of the night one.
He’s got to frighten us real good if we are to accept the socialism he’s gonna ram down our throats.
problem is, he has people so scared they are not spending, so things seem even worse.
But if we thought the economy was OK, we’d laugh down his proposals.
One of the people at work said that 0bama will be the greatest President ever. I almost said, "At the rate he is going, he will be right up there with Millard Fillmore".
“They are ‘tired’ of ‘just being in’ the White House.”
...and we are just tired of you being in the White House!
You don't know the half of it. I tolerated leftist radio for maybe an hour today. They may NEVER move on...
It's amazing what happens, Mr. 0, when you talk down the economy every chance you get (after assuring America you knew the recipe to bring back stability) while proposing nothing that will stimultate the economy but instead support a pork-laden, Democrat constituency-paying congressional bill, and you wonder why the economy is as bad as it is?
Good. Not as easy as it looked, is it, Barack?
President Obama is in way over his head, I mean way down yonder off the continental shelf.
ROFL Sounds like a song.
I think he will have a nervous breakdown too or become like JFK and start getting many shots and who knows what pumped into him so he can “cope”.
” With little notice, the president and first lady Michelle Obama bolted the gated White House compound in their tank of a limousine on Tuesday. “
Brian Williams reported that five network anchors were left cooling their heels in the West Wing ,
after being summoned for interviews-
when Barry and Michelle
suddenly stiffed them and screeched away from the White House.
If President Bush had done this-
all the cables would have on psychiatrists discussing stress and signs of mental instability.
When the going gets tough, Barry books.
Way to lead Obama. Really inspiring.
Everyday as I think about the dangers being foisted on our country by O and the Dems I always think of that quote Biden said about Obama being tested by a manufactured event in six months:
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."
Biden is an idiot but when you hear the clip it is the one time that he seems quite convinced of what he was saying, coupled with the fact that this was recorded in a closed fundraising event so Biden didn't have the standard incentive to bloviate whenever network news cameras were around.
Scary.
“There is “no magic bullet,””
Convincing Nancy, Reid, Barney, Chris, etc. that suicide is painless and brings on many good changes for the country would help him sleep.
Here it comes, “we inherited this from the previous administration”. We will not accept a socialist America!
What a-holes. There are two benefits to the Obama's joy ride - the slobbering, worshipping media big wigs were stiffed and Obama clearly needed to escape (and screw up traffic for a time) to avoid talking about the really bad day he had. Thus he and the Mrs. stole away and decided, just like the Palestinians "Freedom Fighters", to use children as their shields from the "bullets."
Little tip, President Fist Bump: if you keep dissing the media that made you then you may be in for the old Bill Cosby line about his father's number one threat: "I brought you into this world so I can take you out."
Idiots. The Obamas are idiots.
Obama will continue to try to create a false fear out there on the economy and the media, Dems and Obama are all in for the fix. They want to make sure they are creating a false crisis so they can ram as many socialist agenda items as they can.
The Republicans need to stand up to this guy. I pray for someone that will lead against this guy.
See - everything is a plus no matter what the Obama's do. Leaving anchors waiting around, giving the secret service heart palpitations with an unplanned trip, and tieing up traffic is just to avoid getting caught up in a White House bubble. How about it was a childish attempt to escape the duties of the Presidency that was anything but transparent, showed a distain for the House of the People, snarled up traffic and left the world briefly wondering what the heck was going on.
A visible part of the community - even if it is a difficult one? Please. Is there some form of bravery for essentially skipping class to hang out with unquestioning friends? The Obamas, Dems and the LMSM - I don't have anymore puke to puke.
So, 3 months ago nobody could have predicted it being this bad. But from what I remember of the campaign the sky was going to fall any minute.
All he’s doing is making excuses for his empty suit.
In a speech today, President Obama encouraged all Americans to “stand around looking worried”.
That's why it's called "The War on Terror", Nimrod!
A real economic genius, this lawyer from Harvard who's tuition was mysteriously paid for by a muslim extremist, and there ain't no 1994 GOP revolution in the works to turn this around.
Corporations are doing exactly what POTUS MUZZIE HUSSEIN and his commie comrades least expected; giving the USSA government all of the responsibility for the workers they no longer need because they don't have the money to pay them anymore and still remain profitable.
They're shedding them before the socialist government makes it illegal to fire people.
Yep. We're in BIG trouble...
“We were just tired of being in the White House”
Cool. Leave.
Is it too early to tell him to get out of Sarah’s house?
I doubt Bama ever knew these porters had been summoned. I have not seen one sign yet he is actually in control. I think he gets plugged in and unplugged by others. All I am seeing him do is float around like somebody blew star dust.
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