Posted on 08/25/2011 7:56:43 AM PDT by mathprof
The rising impatience with the leadership of President Obama was epitomized on Aug. 8 in the middle of one of the now-habitual Wall Street roller coasters. His speech on the economy was 53 minutes late. What showed on TV screens was an empty White House podium, an image suggestive of the absence of leadership. When the president did speak, the best he could come up with was "We've always been and always will be a triple-A country." The market's response was a Bronx cheer, a drop of another 300 points.
Mr. Obama seems unable to get a firm grip on the toughest issue facing his presidency and the country—the economy. He now asserts he is going to "pivot" to jobs. Now we pivot to jobs? When there are already 25 million Americans who are either unemployed or cannot find full-time work? Does this president not appreciate what is going on?
Fewer Americans are working full-time today than when Mr. Obama took office. We have lost over 900,000 full-time jobs in the last four months alone, and long-term unemployment is at a post-World War II high. The public's faith in his ability to deal with the economy has plunged. As Doyle McManus of the L.A. Times put it, "Can this president persuade voters to let him keep his job when so many have lost theirs?" Even Jimmy Carter didn't plumb the depths of national dissatisfaction revealed in the stunning Gallup poll taken Aug. 11-13. The president's approval rating was only 39% with a mere 26% approving of his handling of the economy.
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Eggsactly!
The plan is going well if you’re a ‘progressive’. The propaganda from the leftists’ camp is that Obama is too ‘conservative’. That’s scary! It may be taking longer than they expected but the defacto ‘nationalization’ of business through regulation and taxation doesn’t just happen over night.
Memo to Zuckerman: Don’t come crying and asking “why oh why” unless you’re ready to apologize and grovel before those of us who pleaded with you and your ilk to reveal the truth about the asshat Marxist you foisted on us. Better yet, just go suck an egg, you stupid sycophantic boob.
YEP....told my husband, if we get Obomba for another term...it's OVER....he doesn't quite believe it...but, then he's a working stiff, and doesn't have the time to watch everything that's happening....has to just believe me...LOL
He’ll still vote for the bum. I don’t buy for a minute the line that these leftists will abandon Obozo in the booth...most would vote for Joseph Stalin if he had a (D) behind his name.
They'd vote for Joseph Stalin if he had a (C), for Communist Party, behind his name.
Its been good to see the Rat Pack make a comeback (of sorts) over the past decade. Maybe there are more of us out there than the popular culture wants us to believe.
Indeed. I work in export compliance for a large multi national and Obama would not be able to pass our level one security clearance for an on site visit let alone an employment screen.
You championed a lightweight "community organizer" for the most important office on earth, and now it dawns on you that he might not be up to the task.
Just shut up, you twit.
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:122
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor
Adequate consideration of the fact that America's achievements in freedom, opportunity, productivity, prosperity, and plenty for over 200 years were based on the ideas articulated by Jefferson and the other Founders, one might conclude that considerable focus and planning have been required to "transform" it into its monumental decline under the so-called "progressives."
But, despite his dissatisfaction, Zuckerman will still vote for Obama in 2012.
Per Rush, a liberal is a liberal first, last, and always.
Unless halted, the path away from America's constitutional restraints on coercive government power is being traveled at breakneck speed. Those who see 4,200 new "regulations" as "progressive" are either misinformed or taking America on a potential "road to serfdom."
The unprecedented cancerous growth of government, which impedes economic freedom, erodes all other freedoms at the same time and is antithetical to the kind of benign government influence described by the "father" of the Constitution, James Madison (below).
"Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise." - Thomas Jefferson
"The enviable condition of the people of the United States is often too much ascribed to the physical advantages of their soil & climate .... But a just estimate of the happiness of our country will never overlook what belongs to the fertile activity of a free people and the benign influence of a responsible government." - James Madison
“Poor Mort has not yet embraced the obvious....Barry’s plan to destroy America as we know it is working just fine.”
I agree. Obama does not mean well. And that’s an understatement. While Obama is out there campaigning, his junta is busy in the White House dismantling America.
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