Posted on 10/25/2010 6:59:19 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
WOONSOCKET, R.I. – President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midterm election campaigning, but his party's prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses. Nor was his greeting totally friendly in a state where Obama has pointedly declined to endorse his party's candidate for governor. Obama can "take his endorsement and shove it," declared Democrat Frank Caprio, battling Republican-turned-independent Lincoln Chafee in a Rhode Island gubernatorial race rated tight in the polls. Chafee endorsed Obama during the 2008 campaign for the White House.
In a little more than five hours in the state, Obama was booked for a factory tour and for a pair of fundraisers that party officials said would bring in $500,000. He said Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, "we can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
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“Gotta,” “Haftuh,” “Gunnah.” Did he learn to speak like that at Columbia or Harvard? Another secret from of his mysterious past, I suppose. I wonder if the guy ever thinks about what it takes to be worthy of the office he holds. Or the sacrifices made by so many for that office even to exist. I doubt it.
You think anyone in the RNC has the guts to produce a “we won” commercial?
“America has spoken. We the people don’t want socialism. We the people don’t want national healthcare. We the people don’t want to bail out private industry. We the people don’t want cap and tax. We the people don’t want to have trillion dollar deficits. Mr. President, We won.”
The arrogant *ss! Can’t wait to see the idiot returned to community organizing irrelevance...
I am not surprised Obama acts like this. Presidents usually know how to act, build coalitions, and conduct themselves publically. This comes from experience they required to hold the highest office in the land.... until Obama.
Obama has little experience politically. He won his state senate seat and senate seat by means of the Chicago machine. He won the Presidency with the help of the media and glitter. He has little life experience and by any measure failed to change anything as a community agitator. He is a typical Chicago machine politician and that does not translate to national politics.
I bet most democrats cringe when Obama approaches a podium. He really has no clue about the mood of the nation and this statement today is another “the police acted stupidly” moment. It should never happen to an experienced politician of either party.
Most Americans think both parties “broke the system” and we don’t want jive talk partisanship. The same shrill partisanship that he promised to transcend. Does anyone think he can successfully work with the opposition to do anything? I don’t. He never has before.
Gridlock here we come.
Obama always tries to fan the flame of racial tension without seeming to directly do so. He always seeks to get a rise out of whitey to make the GOP look bad and back off.
*sigh*
He’s still on the ‘car thing’? He finally ditched the ‘Slurpee thing’?
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Evidently the car thing wasn’t big enough. He’s now onto the bus - you know, the bus he’s been busy throwing everyone under? I guess people that consider themselves Republicans are now supposed to sit in the back of the bus and also drink out of the R water fountains.....
Okay, he didn’t say the water fountain thing but can that be far behind? Maybe he wants a separate dining room for people in the Congress that have the R.
Yeah buddy he’s really united everyone ~ and the seas are receding too, global warming is stopping, people love us all over the world - peace has broken out everywhere ...*faint*
I wonder how the Blacks who voted for Obama are feeling about this half-white blatantly racist President they voted for. . .
Obama’s tactics always seem to be the same: vilify and bait the opposition, repeat.
I see a new campaign slogan: Republicans Refuse To Sit In The Back.
This sick piece of sh!+ Ubanga has lost it.
Honestly, I don’t ever remember Bush talking like this, ever, about the scumbag Democrats.
Like dear old Dad always said, “Class will tell.”
The guy has obviously never had an original idea in his affirmative-action life.
I guess that’s the only time he’s color blind.
And Jimmah Cahtah says this (unbelievable! when is this guy going to fade away??):
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America hasn’t improved much over past 3 decades, Jimmy Carter says
Published: Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 11:02 p.m. MDT
By Jessica Harrison, Deseret News
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America is no better off now than it was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, says former President Jimmy Carter. From national politics to relationships with other nations, there is a lot of room for improvement.
“We had almost complete harmony with every nation on Earth,” the Nobel Peace Prize winner said of his administration. “We not only preserved peace for our country, we never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a missile.”
Carter, who will be at the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City Thursday morning, spoke with the Deseret News about how things have changed since his presidency, how things have remained the same and what life was like in the White House, during a round of press interviews for his new book, “White House Diary.”
Many of the issues that were pertinent during Carter’s administration still face American leaders, he said. Some 30 or 40 of those items, including Middle East peace, relations with China and with Iran, and the search for clean, cheap energy, remain high profile.
While the above issues may be similar, today’s American political scene is vastly different. Carter says he had wonderful bipartisan cooperation, with Democrats and Republicans in both the House and the Senate supporting him.
That doesn’t exist now.
The political environment has become polarized in individual states and among voters, Carter says, caused primarily “by the massive and unprecedented infusion of millions of dollars into the campaign coffers of candidates, which are used mostly just for negative advertising to destroy the reputation or character of your opponents.”
The amount of work a president faces is undeniably daunting. And like anyone else who deals with a major corporation, or has a major responsibility in a law firm or in the military, Carter says it was impossible to keep absolutely everything straight. Nobody can.
That’s where a good staff and strong Cabinet members come into play. “The president has a lot of help,” Carter said. “And I would say, in general, maybe not exactly now when there’s such a negative attitude, but in general, the American people wanted me as president to be successful. Because when I was successful in dealing with jobs and when I was dealing with international affairs and peace and human rights and energy and that sort of thing, then America (was successful).”
Everyone experiences ups and downs, and America’s 39th president says he’s no different.
It almost makes me cry to see what this beast has done to the office of the leader of the free world.
>”I wonder how the Blacks who voted for Obama are feeling about this half-white blatantly racist President they voted for”<
They love him and would follow him off a cliff.
Next question...
This bozo has fanned the embers of race relations into a bonfire which will result in a revolt but that is what the POS wanted all along.
“Any day now he will start confiscating all the farms in the country to give to his supporters”
He is already seeing to it that the current retirees will burn up their nest eggs housing and feeding their children & grandchildren; look how many are moving back to the nest...This is no accident; the current generation of 18 to 30 year-olds is on a truly level playing field (equally hopeless), and affirmative action combined with gubmint hiring will see to it that only his people are hired for the next 2 years (at least). Look at how this financial reform bill included “diversity”...
Chafee wants to tax food in a state with high unemployment and already onerous taxation and fees.
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