Posted on 07/30/2011 6:04:44 AM PDT by no dems
So much for hope and change. With the economy growing worse and worse, the grand promises of Barack Obamas 2008 campaign have faded as the reality of malaise takes hold.
Mr. Obama has vowed to spend $1 billion in advertising dollars to counteract the effect his policies have had on the nation. The GOPs campaign chief met with The Washington Times on Friday to discuss why thats not going to work. I think this [election] is a referendum on Barack Obama, said Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus. The people in this country are going to ask themselves a question: Am I better off than I was three or four years ago? And the answer is clearly no.
Even liberals feel betrayed on a number of pet causes like torture and Guantanamo Bay, and theyre jumping ship. The Pew Research Center found Republicans were making huge gains among white voters. In 2008, 46 percent of this demographic group sided with the GOP while 44 percent preferred Democrats. Today, the Republican advantage has grown to 13 points, with the biggest gains found among those under the age of 30.
In other words, the young voters who once identified with the youthful, relatively unknown senator from Illinois are having a severe case of buyers remorse. The survey showed Republicans also made a small 2 percent gain among black voters, but larger inroads ought to be possible given the astonishing figure that 16.2 percent of blacks cant find a job in Mr. Obamas economy - double the figure for whites. People are hurting, said Mr. Priebus. The problem that Obama has is that he has had results of his presidency, and these results are awful and people know it.
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"huh..???..oh yeah,unexpectedly"...snoooooze
Looking back on it, it's kind of easy to understand where his commie old man and whore mother were coming from when they abandoned 0 as a child.
Its been kind of funny watching as my liberal relatives dutifully spent the day encouraging republicans to vote yes on the Boehner bill only to see it tabled in the senate without debate.
Malaise and turkey seem to go hand in hand.
That first turkey sandwich the day after thanksgiving always seems great, but after a a few days of the same thing you grow weary of it.
Yo try to mix it up, maybe a little arugula on that turkey sam will perk it up.
More malaise? The turkey is so dry.
Oh God, I am sick of this turkey and malaise.
I thought they wanted to sell him to the Salvation Army.
Great comment; love it.
I guess I’m missing something; I don’t understand your comment underneath the picture.
The NY Times has a slightly different opinion. Read this for a laugh a minute: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/30/2491197/from-poetry-to-drudgery.html
I used to call him Chaunce, the Gardner, though perhaps, I should have called him Gershom, for he is a stranger in a strange land. He is truly, not of us, he is not an American, regardless of where he was born. He is almost completely deracinated, drifting aimlessly and lost.
He is intellectually about as shallow as any president in history, possibly the most. Warren G. Harding appears to be a towering intellect in comparison. He was waifed along on the Zephyrs of affirmative action and has not the least idea of how the world works, nor his place in it, nor how this nation came to be.
Yes. America is abandoning Barry just like Stanley Ann did. Hope was not a strategy, and change was not a tactic. He WARNED us he would fundamentally change America, and he DID. Here is the result. 45% of everything we spend is borrowed. It is unsustainable. The stimulus was a kickback to political cronies. The bailouts of GM and Chrysler were dirty jokes. Enough already!
He is like a hired manager of a 7-11. (for clarity, he has never held a real job and no one would hire him to run a lemonade stand) His mentality is, it would be ‘nice’ if the store makes a profit. It would be nice if no one shoplifts. It would be nice if the store does not go bankrupt. But, all in all, he really doesn't care. He is not vested anyway. No skin off his nose. (and, it would be good if the store failed. it would teach those evil capitalist owners a ‘lesson’ anyway, about exploiting the working man, about keeping the people down) We have hired a manager who wants the store to fail, or at least, is indifferent to it's failure.
None of this is really real to him. He is just playing a game, getting a chip off his shoulder, and making a point about this inherent foolishness of Democracy and Capitalism. This is all a theoretical exercise to him.
His headache is always those real American’s, Republicans and Democrats, who do actually care about this country, who do care more about America than proving some pie-in-the-sky theory and ‘making a point’. We drive him crazy.
...everything that goes on with Odumbo is unexpectedly....unemployment,inflation,now his popularity, even though we all knew it was all BS....people leaving in groups, is NOT unexpected.....but that’s what the MSM claims every time it happens to him.
-—Mr. Obama has vowed to spend $1 billion in advertising dollars-—
A better descriptive would be laundered stimulus Dollars
The money is being kicked back from the recipients
He is intellectually about as shallow as any president in history, possibly the most. Warren G. Harding appears to be a towering intellect in comparison. He was waifed along on the Zephyrs of affirmative action and has not the least idea of how the world works, nor his place in it, nor how this nation came to be.
When we speculate on Obama’s intelligence based on what he has done to the country in his short tenure, we usually assume he is really trying to get this country on its feet again. That is an error. If we assume the opposite, that he is trying to destroy the country, he is succeeding brilliantly. I don’t believe that he is the braintrust behind this coup, but he has certainly proven a useful idiot to those in charge. I wish I knew who “those in charge” were.
"Obama, you think these suckers gonna vote for you again after all your screwups?"
"My screwups? You the one who angered the suckers, gallivanting around in designer outfits."
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Obama has FAILED in every "government service" he has shoved down our throats while throwing away trillions of tax dollars. There are over 200 taxes being collected so that the govt is blanketed with tax income. AND NOW OBAMA WANTS AMERICANS TO BELIEVE he can be trusted with a higher debt ceiling, a multi-trillion dollar budget, and govt-run health care.
Obama's a reverse King Midas---everything he touches turns to trash.
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MOMENTS TO REMEMBER Govt can't even run a high-demand business like a house of prostitution. Several years ago, govt took over the Mustang Ranch in Nevada because they didn't pay their taxes; after which it soon closed.
Talk about colonial attitude. He has it in spades. He thought he could step into the presidency and rule us like an ....skip that word...potentate. He thought we were as easily cowed as the citizens of...well, skip the name of that country.
There’s never been a country like America and there has never been a people like Americans. Give him a dacha and let him live out his days playing “if only” and let us follow the statement of Carl Schnurz
“My country right or wrong
If Right to be kept Right
If Wrong to be put RIGHT.”
We’ll put America right again.
The only solid support Obama has left comes from the Blacks, who support him primarily because he shares a melanin-enriched skin tone. Blacks voting for a Black because he’s Black. But “conservatives are racists.”
He’s a mouthpiece, front man, for whoever is relaying the game plan on the other end of his blackberry when he’s out on the golf course.
LOL!!
I agree that operationally he has been effective in destroying the country. I think we wants to turn America into a socialist utopia, sort of the kind of country a lot of American leftist imagine Sweden was in 1970. I do not think we means to harm the country, it’s just that he is in thrall to a bunch of half-baked and outdated collectivists notions.
I haven't seen one wit of evidence of a single elected Democrat that cares about this country. Well, maybe the 5 vulnerable congressmen allowed to vote for CCB.
” Oh God, I am sick of this turkey and malaise.”
Time for a steak : )
” -Mr. Obama has vowed to spend $1 billion in advertising dollars-
A better descriptive would be laundered stimulus Dollars
The money is being kicked back from the recipients”
You seem to be on of a very few who get this.
” -Mr. Obama has vowed to spend $1 billion in advertising dollars-
A better descriptive would be laundered stimulus Dollars
The money is being kicked back from the recipients”
You seem to be one of a very few who get this.
Very accurate.
” Obama’s a reverse King Midas-—everything he touches turns to trash. “
Everything.
ah yes another “grand experiment” gone bad..Time to Wake Up America. Real Leaders need to have proven experience and track records...community organizers can only do one thing and that is organize the paybacks with taxpayer grease. We are out of grease and patience.
they voted for him.
” MOMENTS TO REMEMBER Govt can’t even run a high-demand business like a house of prostitution. Several years ago, govt took over the Mustang Ranch in Nevada because they didn’t pay their taxes; after which it soon closed. “
Hairy Reids old pal, Conforte....LOL!
America is quickly and quietly marching toward Cloward and Pevin....a complete downfall of the government and country. Obama is the pusher. Behind him marches the socialists who run the Democrat Party and the MSM (Main Stream Media). Finally, Americans everywhere are seeing this happen. To date the market has remained currently stable. It goes up a little, down a little and flatlines quite a lot, but it is the real only stability so far, out there. The constant threats from liberals and the current resident of the White House could unhindge the whole mess, but to date that has not happened. Obama holds the keys of power and messing with the market may be his last try in his redistribution plan. So far, he has managed to almost totally destroy the financial security of America.
Similiar to the buyer's remorse of all the folks who "deserved" to own a home but couldn't afford one...Believng a liberal will always cause remorse in the end.
Yeah viscerally Americans know the money was skimmed by the most corrupt administration ever.
“laundered stimulus Dollars”
Just follow the money and be ready for long trip.
He’ll get the support of those getting checks in the next election.
Let’s see, his mother had a man’s name; Bambi is a homo. His mother and his father were commies; Bambi’s a commie. His friends are all commies; Bambi loves commies. I think I’m seeing a pattern here!
I kid you not.
I laughed so hard the cat jumped up and fell off the tv onto the floor.
I take a different tack, from the "be careful what you wish for file". I liken it to some kid and his siblings playing with a pressure cooker on the stove, who really doesn't understand what the pressure cooker does. Oh, if something goes wrong, he figures he can just blame it on the neighbor kid, and the siblings will provide cover. Problem is, when that cooker blows, its gonna take out the kid and his siblings, and possibly other stuff in the kitchen. At that point, the blame game isn't going to matter.
You may be right but there is nothing “kid like” about Obama and or those behind and/or with him in what is happening. It is a well thought out ongoing plan to make America more like Europe and their socialized way of living.
FYI- Rubio cannot be Sarah’s running mate because he is not NBC, a natural born citizen. His parents were not US citizens when he was born, therefore he cannot ever run for POTUS or be VP.
Nicely stated. With your permission, I’d like to steal that for use with a couple of relatives.
The Alinskyites aren’t about to back off now. They haven’t even got to the government shutdown part yet.
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