Posted on 04/16/2010 5:23:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser tonight, President Obama touted his administration’s tax cuts and said that the recent tea party rallies across the nation have “amused” him.
“You would think they should be saying thank you,” the president said to applause.
The president’s 30-minute speech included a lot of recycled material from previous fundraisers.
In a nod to Vice President Biden, the president acknowledged the crowd for their help getting health care reform across the finish line.
“As my vice president said, 'This is a big deal,'" Obama said to laughter, even though he omitted the one key word to that infamous quote from his No. 2. "And he was right."
That earned the president a “Go Joe Biden!” from a man in the crowd.
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You want thanks, Mr. Pres__ent?
Tell your RAT buddies that they must make the Bush tax cuts permanent, stop the reinstatement of the death tax and keep capital gains taxes low. Just for a start. Then stimulate business with repeal of needless regulation and taxation that is stifling it. Get out of the way and let the economy perform.
Never happen; doesn’t march us to Marx’s tune!
Hope we have this footage on tape, because it won’t play well in a lot of races in October.
9.7% unemployment and we should be thanking this Empty Suit?
“They should be thanking me”
What an arrogant snot!
We are not amused.....................
What tax cuts?
Duh.... the tax cuts for Congress and Senate silly....
Let us all make his 1-term presidency effectively end in November 2010.
What an arrogant POS. His government demands our money and we're supposed to say thank you and be grateful? How about 'F--- You!'
What this really portrays is that he views the fruits of your labor as his and that only by his grace do you get to keep any of it.
Well said.
At least Jimmy Carter was a better actor. I thought he was trying.
BO is just giving us the finger in the face.
The only thing I might thank this loser (nobama) for is resigning immediately.
Undercurrent of anger at Tea Party rally in Loop
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/2165074,041610chgoteaparty.article)
April 16, 2010
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH, Sun-Times Media
The Tea Party movement is not about anger, Republican congressional candidate Joe Walsh told thousands of shouting, sign- and flag-waving people in Chicago’s Daley Plaza on Thursday.
“This is not a movement of disgruntled Americans,” said Walsh, who won an upset primary victory in his northwest suburban congressional district thanks to Tea Party activists. “This is a joyous movement. This is a happy movement.”
Well, maybe. Some harsh anti-President Barack Obama signs showed anger, and the crowds got fired up when Walsh and other speakers complained on the day when federal taxes are due that the Obama administration was raising taxes.
In fact, fed-up taxpayers massed across the country in an estimated 2,000 Tea Parties. Locally, some speakers complained the “mainstream media” is unfairly portraying Tea Party activists as “extremists.” Some at the rallies wore minutemen hats, Uncle Sam suits, a Soviet uniform and a Wonder Woman outfit. One woman wrapped herself in a flag.
But there was overall a gentler more conventional face on the Daley Plaza crowd than at some previous Tea Parties across the country. GOP congressional candidate Joel Pollack, 32, even pulled out his guitar and led the crowd in a folk song he composed.
“There’s only one thing the Tea Party needs: Every great protest movement has a folk song,” the 9th Congressional District candidate said, singing, “American freedom is here to stay ... don’t tax our freedom away.”
At Naperville’s Tea Party, David Rades, of Indian Head Park, a Tea Party opponent, took the microphone and said, “Germany was inundated with lies, so much so that when the Germans finally heard the truth, they thought that it was lies.” He then followed with a list of modern American conservative pundits, including Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, to cheers in the crowd.
“They are all lying to you,” he shouted, before being booed off the steps of the Municipal Center.
At Daley Plaza, Tea Party critics were pretty open about who they were, and they argued, sometimes loudly but not violently, with Tea Party members. Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine had told an audience of 200 liberal activists at a Chicago Ethiopian restaurant Wednesday night that the Tea Party was built on “anger politics - and the anger movements peter out.”
Plenty of Tea Partiers said Thursday that they were angry.
“People are really angry,” said Deirdre Sandquist, a retired Cook County probation officer. “I think a lot of the Obama voters have buyers’ remorse. ... I’m afraid his economic policies are going to increase the deficit.”
Russ Emmert, 47, a Lombard computer engineer, wore a T-shirt that translated “OBAMA” as “One Big-A(donkey) Mistake, America” and buttons that said “Illegal means Illegal” and “Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.”
And while Republican speakers outnumbered Democrats at the Loop rally, Democrat-turned-independent Forrest Claypool’s campaign workers gathered hundreds of Tea Party signatures for Claypool’s bid to run for Cook County assessor - carrying clipboards that said, “Are your taxes too high? Vote for Forrest Claypool.”
CONTRIBUTING: JENETTE STURGES
He’s such a card, isn’t he? He should be a stand up comic.
We will be thanking you for leaving the WH.
Total BS! There have been NO tax cuts!
They just played some games with payroll withholding, and I believe people had to pay it all back when they filed their income taxes.
WHAT TAX CUTS????????????? He just signed a law with 35 NEW taxes in it. And the VAT is next on his list of tax increases.
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