Posted on 02/02/2010 6:04:49 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama Rips GOP As 'Opportunists,' Touts Loan Plan
DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JENNIFER LOVEN.
NASHUA, N.H. – President Barack Obama branded Republicans on Tuesday as electoral opportunists more concerned about their own interests than the people's, taking a political risk by escalating criticism of the very lawmakers he's urging to work with him. The newly combative approach is a double-edged sword for Obama.
Fearful of losses in the November congressional and gubernatorial elections, Democrats have been urging Obama to throw tougher punches at Republicans. Those calls grew louder after the Democrats' stunning loss two weeks ago of a Senate seat in Massachusetts, seen as an indictment of Democratic control over Congress and the White House. The president complied on Tuesday, choosing to do so in a state where two House seats and a Senate are in play this fall. Citing examples, he took Republicans to task for switching positions on important issues just to score points with voters.
"You're out of patience with this kind of business as usual," he told his 1,600-member audience. "You want us to start worrying less about our jobs and more about your jobs." But even if Obama notches some rhetorical wins, he risks alienating people at the same time. As a candidate, Obama built a winning brand as a change agent. That outsider, reformer image is difficult for any politician to maintain once the messy obligations and barriers of governing take over; it is even easier to lose once the bare-knuckled zingers start flying.
What's more, Obama's sharper tone comes at a time of deepening voter ire about Washington's politics of division and inability to solve pressing problems. Sensing opportunity, Republicans have taken note. Countering Obama's portrayal of himself as above the political fray, the Republican National Committee sent out video ......
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Damn right Skippy. You should NEVER let a good crisis go to waste! Sound familiar?
just when I think I can’t hate him more...
How post-partisan and non-ideological.
FUBOATHYRIO
Keep it up, Obammie the Commie.
You’ve betrayed those who’ve voted for you for practically every issue that they supported you.
May as well prove to them that the “calm, nice guy” act was, in fact, just an act.
more concerned about their own interests than the people’s?
LOL...idiot
Obama is an idiot.
“What’s more, Obama’s sharper tone comes at a time of deepening voter ire about Washington’s politics of division and inability to solve pressing problems.”
No no no no, AP. The people are pissed at OBAMA for pissing away a trillion dollars to his cronies. They aren’t mad at Republicans anymore.
All the Republicans have to do is focus on the devastating effects of his policies. Most people get that. All they have to do is go out and simply tell the truth. Indicate that they see what is happening. What this means.
These policies will destroy this country. Just say it.
All the country’s problems lie with the minority Party which has 40 % of the Congress......... Is that hilarious or what?
And just a week ago that sack of **** said that name calling, political posturing and the like prevent the Dems from talking to the ‘Pubs... FYBO!!!
someone should wisper to ZERO — the campaign is over, you be governing now, you know the stuff about president of all the people.
Ibama is an Idiot.
Just saw Madcow and the Tingler expose the slimey plot Obama is cooking up to cram his idiotic health scheme in. “Try to get his polls up high enough to get hesitant Senators to vote reconciliation” How Pathetic and Sick can these communists get?
TEHRAN – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday proposed a swap of Iranians in U.S. prisons for three American hikers being held in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad said in interview with state TV that there were ongoing negotiations about exchanging the hikers for several Iranians jailed for years in the United States.
"There are some talks under way to have an exchange, if it is possible," he said. "Recently they (the U.S.) have sent messages, we answered to bring them (the Iranians), to bring these people (the hikers). We are hopeful that all prisoners will be released."
Obie has become a comical creature. Overexposed and a looney liar. What makes him an embarrassment is that anyone with half a brain knows he is a liar. Yet he keeps it up.
I have zero respect for ZerO the commie.
People should start laughing in his smarmy face.
People are sick and tired of Obama’s rhetoric day after day, always blaming republicans. His speeches have become so boring and unorganized, that he must have put his teleprompter to sleep. Since he can no longer convince the public of his lies, he continues to pound at the other guys, like a kid trying to build himself up, by tearing down others. It isn’t working because his tactics have become beyond obvious, to blatantly ridiculous. And, the fool doesn’t know how to shut up.
I always get a kick out of whenever some ambitious politician accuses all other ambitious politicians of being, well, politically ambitious! /laughs
Fearful of losses in the November congressional and gubernatorial elections, Democrats have been urging Obama to throw tougher punches at Republicans.
Which underscores what I just said above ... the ol' Pot calling Kettle routine, as always with these bunch of hacks .....
Could someone please identify them selves as a nobama supporter? please explain why you continue to support this anti-American, marxist, anti-free market, anti-freedom loser of a President. I am truly at a loss as to why anyone would support this Uber Fail.
What a clown, was his audience captive or offered an entitlement?
Funny, he just lectured House Republicans last week that it’s time to stop all the name calling. I guess he meant THEY should stop name calling, not him.
Obama’s like Outback. No rules, just good FUD.
Ahmadinejad said in interview with state TV that there were ongoing negotiations about exchanging the hikers for several Iranians jailed for years in the United States.
“There are some talks under way to have an exchange, if it is possible,” he said. “Recently they (the U.S.) have sent messages, we answered to bring them (the Iranians)
It’s a new low with Obama every hour. I wish I hadn’t read that. Wow.
DemoRATs & liberals are mentally deranged & dysfunctional, including their politicians and anyone who votes for them, including my dumb ass brother & even dumber ass sister-in-law.
He can bit h and complain and accuse as much as he wants, all we have to do is point to his and the Dems recorded actions tactics and plots for America, and how they ignored and called the people names when they thought they could do anything they wanted...Things are different now.
They can 78try* and accuse us all they want...
You can fool some of the people all the time
All of the people some of the time.
But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
And the Dems have exposed their true nature too many times now, in the last year+, for them to get away with fooling any but the zstupidest people any time at all now.
I offer my sympathies. Several of my extended relatives are liberal dumba**es. They are pathetically insane and uninformed.
Obama should be uneasy, though. It will all be proven false, sooner rather then later. His real enemies are reality and time. Winning arguments and convincing the electorate is of little consequence at this point. Their Keynesian solutions will only lead to more cracks, and future liberal successes will only lead to more American failures.
America is under water not because of carbon dioxide and melting icecaps, but from debt and government spending. The left's mirage of utopia is disappearing with growing public discontent. The consequences are inevitable... America's problems are misdiagnosed... Washington lacks the political will to right the ship.
Conservatives must constantly remind the people about the consequences of unchecked liberal power. Natural law should be understood, not improved upon. The notion of this time it's different... will be proven false, again. They are running out of time They have run out of time, and Americans need to brace for impact and pick up the pieces.
I refuse to believe the Zero is so stupid that he doesn’t realize the loans will be useless with no one to buy the small business output. So the alternate reasoning must be in play: the bastard in the Oval Office wants small businesses so indebted that they cannot recover under capitalism and will knuckle under to the bastard-in-chief’s fascist plans for their future.
FUBO! You Lie!
LLS
The only reasons I can think of are, that he is a democrat, and they are straight dummies, that he is black (sort of), that they are socialists, and they aren't paying attention. They say a conservative is a former liberal who has been mugged. There's a lot of mugging going on, as well as a lot of party switching.
Make no mistake about it, Obama is not an idiot. Obama, with his Chicago politics, defeated the un-defeatable Clinton political machine. He has managed negative issues (Wright, Aires, Acorn, and many more) with ease. He is not an idiot. Be very concerned about Mr Obama.....
No, he’s an idiot. He actually believes all the Marxist b/s he’s pushing.
Mr. Obama,
You had better pray that the USA doesn’t have a revolution like the Romanians had in 1989. Keep intentioanlly fu**ing with the economy and our freedoms!
Life’s a bit** when the populace and the military (and the CIA!) turn against you! Don’t go confusing the American people with socialist European pigs! Oh, and if you’re wondering; we don’t need a fu**ing “Dear Leader!”
Want to see a Dictator losing their power (0:48)? Here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZHZHNByCs&feature=related
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