Posted on 08/27/2010 7:48:03 AM PDT by Qbert
President Obama’s golf-filled vacation in Martha’s Vineyard neared its close on Friday with more bad news on the economic front, as the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysts revised downward 2nd quarter economic growth of the real gross domestic product, indicating the output of goods and services produced by labor and property in the US grew by an anemic 1.6%, rather than the original estimate of 2.4%.
The announcement came the same week as staggeringly bad news on the housing front – with plummeting home sales – and reports that the four-week moving average of weekly jobless claims is at its highest level since last November. The bad news renewed fears of a double-dip recession.
President Obama was largely invisible to the public, taking in 10 days of R&R in the posh Chilmark section of Martha’s Vineyard. When he re-emerges to the public on Sunday, he will be kicking off a series of high profile events that have little to do with the issue foremost on Americans’ minds: jobs. On Sunday the president will travel to New Orleans to commemorate the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. On Tuesday he will deliver only his second Oval Office address, discussing the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq. On Wednesday and Thursday, he and his administration will focus on kick-starting peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.
“We know he needs to be out there to talk about the economy next week,” a White House official told ABC News. “We haven’t yet figured out the way he’s going to do that.”
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fore!
What? He phoned it in this week. That wasn’t good enough? You ungrateful bastards! You just don’t know what’s good for you. Obama apparently does. Now, we should just shut up. NOT.
Most probably. Obama is certainly the worst President in my 65 years. By a bunch.
The only thing I want to hear out of his mouth is, “I resign.” Anything else is just noise. There is nothing he can say that will change the fundamental fact that he has ruined this country in just 18 months.
“We haven’t yet figured out the way he’s going to do that.”
Might I suggest he just keep lying as he has been?
“What about the car in the ditch? I thought that was going to be good right on through election day.”
Yeah, me too- I think all he has to do is change it to, the “Republicans were eating a Dairy Queen Blizzard”, or “drinking a Big Gulp” instead of a Slurpee while they were driving the car, and he’s home free. ;-)
Shut up, go home and take your blue pill!
Barack Hussein Obama: “out-Cartering Carter since 2009.”
thanks for cracking me up! funny very funny! and I certainly need funny these days!
Even that might be getting risky (there is a remote but very real possibility Katie or Chris might go off script and ask a real question just to salvage a dying career).
Perhaps another visit to The View would make more sense...or The Ellen Show or one of the cooking shows (he could talk about the shrimp and lobster he had at the Vineyard).
We all do, that's for sure.
Have a great day.
They will keep us posted on the next vacation spot in the fall. Pretty leaves in New england and great ice cream joints.
“Let me guess - wearing a “regular guy” polo, in front of gangs of union stooges in specifically-engineered gender/race proportions, reading platitudes and lies off a teleprompter.
Then reciting answers to some Administration-written questions dutifully asked by fawning “journalists” like Katie Couric or Chris Matthews.”
Yep.
Recovery Summer.
You’ll see this after November.
The left will think they didn’t condescend enough,
and that’s why the people defied them.
Perhaps some unintentional truth there. If he thinks he can improve his popularity by talking about HIS Economy, then he is "out there."
What was it Obama promised earlier this year? Oh yeah....Putting jobs first. Gotcha.
“We Know He Needs to Be Out There to Talk About the Economy Next Week”
rather it should read-
“We Know He Needs to Be Out There to LIE About the Economy Next Week”
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