Posted on 08/07/2009 9:06:19 AM PDT by IrishMike
Sure, it didn’t rain on his nomination speech held outdoors in Denver. Though the charms once stuffed in the candidate’s pocket — a bracelet belonging to a soldier serving in Iraq, a gambler’s lucky chit and figurines of monkey gods and the Madonna and child, may have helped Obama win the job, they can’t help him now. Our new president is tasked with leading America through the worst times a majority of us have ever known. That swine flu threatens to hit roughly 40 percent of the population in the coming months is patty-cake compared to what things will be like once benefits run out for more than a million jobless Americans at year’s end and job loss completes its downward spiral years from now.
When he took office on Jan. 20, 2009, Obama took the reins not only of commanding two wars but of seeking to reverse the greatest recession since the Great Depression. The government had spent its way into a deficit of more than $1 trillion. In the six quick months that followed, the debt has increased more than a trillion dollars, something that took more than two and a half years during the previous administration. The recession has eaten into whatever revenue the government had left, with tax revenues shrinking at an alarming rate. According to new estimates by The Associated Press, tax revenue will decline by 18 percent this year, the greatest loss since the Great Depression. Corporate income taxes have dropped 57 percent, and individual income taxes have dropped 22 percent since last year.
Amid the struggle to keep existing programs afloat, little response from the stimulus program and the nation poised to hit 10 percent unemployment, Obama is attempting to pass his signature promise of healthcare reform. Though it is no longer popular, with 72 percent of Americans not believing it will be deficit-neutral, members of Obama’s party are attempting to sell reform to constituents at home while being assaulted by angry mobs.
This week began with pushback, bright and early on Monday morning, from the White House press operation against comments Obama’s own top economic advisers made on Sunday shows about nothing being off the table when it comes to eventually tackling deficits. The emergency clarification was made — that Obama won’t raise taxes on the middle class whatsoever — lest the unruly protesters board buses for the nation’s capital to hurl things onto the White House lawn.
On Tuesday Obama celebrated his 48th birthday by having Democratic senators to lunch at the White House, begging them to hang together on healthcare, while former President Bill Clinton was securing the pardon of two jailed American journalists from North Korea. It was more than ironic that as Obama flew to Elkhart, Ind., Wednesday to tout the effects of the recovery program to residents dealing with 17 percent unemployment, a triumphant reunion was unfolding with the two women and their families at an airport in California. The stars of the show were President Clinton and his partner from the good old days of creating more than 22 million new jobs, former Vice President Al Gore.
Clearly, Obama’s luck ran out on Inauguration Day. Happy birthday, Mr. President. Better luck next year.
I don’t know what luck has to do with the deplorable way he has been running the country and representing us abroad.
Does Obama ever stay home?
He can’t smoke in the White House so every morning he has to head out to Air Force One where he can smoke to his heart’s content. The next president is going to need to fumigate that plane.
You mean AF-1 ISN’T considered Federal Property.
Nothing like getting on a nasty smoking allowed airplane.
This seems like a preemptive attempt to explain away Obama’s imminent defeat on health care reform. It reduces to “OK, he failed, but a) at least he tried; and b) he inherited a MESS from GWB, so it’s not his fault that only a super-hero even greater than himself could successfully juggle all those balls without at least one falling to the ground.” The sub-text is: “If it weren’t for the MESS GWB handed Obama and the obstructionist tactics of Republican neanderthals, we coulda had high quality health care for ALL Americans at an affordable cost. Anyone who sez otherwise is a racist!”
“the charms once stuffed in the candidate’s pocket — a bracelet belonging to a soldier serving in Iraq, a gambler’s lucky chit and figurines of monkey gods and the Madonna and child”
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattt?
These were ACTUALLY in his pocket? He believes in that garbage?
“pushback, astro turf” - - -
Can we go back to speaking English? (I know the ignorant Socialists in Washington can’t)
signed - The Serif Patrol
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