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Barack Obama on economic crisis: 'We didn't know how bad it was'
Politico44 ^ | 12/13/11 | JENNIFER EPSTEIN

Posted on 12/13/2011 5:24:27 PM PST by ColdOne

President Barack Obama said Tuesday he wishes he knew the full extent of the economic crisis when he took office, if only so he could have let Americans know just how tough the coming years would be.

"I think we understood that it was bad, but we didn’t know how bad it was,” Obama said in an interview with KIRO in Seattle. "I think I could have prepared the American people for how bad this was going to be, had we had a sense of that."

Obama’s comments came as he sat down with a string of local TV reporters on Tuesday morning to sell his proposal to extend the payroll tax cut while highlighting the end of the Iraq war. He also did brief interviews – all under 10 minutes – with WVEC in Norfolk, Va., WEAR in Pensacola, Fla., and KOAA in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bondcollapse; default; depression; dollarcollapse; economiccrisis; economy; elections; idiot; obama
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To: MamaTexan
Here's a thought....STOP VACATIONING AND GET OFF THE FRICKIN' GOLF COURSE!

He'll just make things worse than he's already made them. Seriously, every minute that idiot spends away from the Oval Office on a golf course or on a beach in Hawaii is good for the Republic.

41 posted on 12/13/2011 5:58:44 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: ColdOne
What chutzpa--using gross incompetence as an excuse for failure.
42 posted on 12/13/2011 6:02:43 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: ColdOne

Bill Clinton: I know I promised you all a middle class tax cut, but now that I’m in office and see the full extent of the terrible financial mess I was handed, I don’t see how that can be done. I’ve worked as hard as I ever have in my life last night and I just can’t give you a tax cut.


43 posted on 12/13/2011 6:04:52 PM PST by DBrow
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To: ColdOne; Yehuda

Translation:

“America is more resistant to tyranny and destruction than I expected. You folks who won’t submit have made change more painful than it should be. Sux to be you. Now where’s my ice cream treat...”


44 posted on 12/13/2011 6:19:30 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: ColdOne

Lying again.


45 posted on 12/13/2011 6:21:42 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: lahargis
Where in the he$! has he been all this time?

Mostly golfing and vacation trips.

46 posted on 12/13/2011 6:23:22 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: ColdOne

Dear Leader:

No, you didn’t know how bad it was. The reason is simple: it wasn’t that bad until you started screwing things up with your ridiculous Marxist/Keynesian non-market solutions to our economic problems.


47 posted on 12/13/2011 6:28:23 PM PST by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: ColdOne

WHEN did he figure out it was worse than he thought it was? Last week? Thanks for telling us, you big galoot.


48 posted on 12/13/2011 7:13:55 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: ColdOne

YOU ARE A CULL, Obambi! Explain again why we needed “Hope & Change”...piss-ant. You knew, didn’t care, and did everything you could to destroy our foundations and bring our roofs down on our heads. All this as an IMPOSTER! You are not my President...you are an active criminal of the most obmamanable snow-job sort. Go home to Kenya...GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE!


49 posted on 12/13/2011 7:14:21 PM PST by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: ColdOne

We know how bad you are, you incredibly incompetent nincompoop. nobama...resign tonight and place your self in custody of the warden in Leavenworth. I know you are reading this.


50 posted on 12/13/2011 7:16:19 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ColdOne

I cannot fathom what platform this man is running on for the 2012 election. I can say, that subsequent Presidents no matter which party for decades to come, will be repeating the headline of this article. The damage this man has done to this country will not be realize for a long time. Some of it is already clearly apparent, which is why anyone with a pulse should vote him out.


51 posted on 12/13/2011 7:25:08 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: ColdOne

Of course, he couldn’t have known just how much everything voters don’t like was George Bush’s fault.

I mean, he knew everything was W’s fault. But noone, not even Obama, could have known just how much everything was W’s fault.


52 posted on 12/13/2011 7:30:30 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: ColdOne

It was your job to know, you, Biden and the rest of your lackeys in the white house. You were a senator for crying out loud, democrats owned the house and senate for two years before you were inaugurated... if you didn’t know how bad it was, that speaks volumes of your competence and intellectual curiosity... you bunch of nitwits.


53 posted on 12/13/2011 8:02:17 PM PST by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: ColdOne

It’s not my fault:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TuLBa-rgBk


54 posted on 12/13/2011 8:12:56 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: ColdOne

Ok, IF I buy the argument that he didn’t know how bad it was, HOW can I then buy his claim that he has taken all the right steps??

And, IF he has taken all the right steps, ESPECIALLY when he had solid majorities in the House and Senate, WHY does he blame all his failures on Bush and the Republicans????

(This is just too easy!!)


55 posted on 12/13/2011 8:17:33 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: ColdOne

Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, Crisis.......that’s all we heard from him, NOW he says he didn’t know how bad it was? Well it wasn’t bad for him, flying around the world, vacationing, playing golf...

He still is.


56 posted on 12/13/2011 8:23:42 PM PST by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: ColdOne

Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, Crisis.......that’s all we heard from him, NOW he says he didn’t know how bad it was? Well it wasn’t bad for him, flying around the world, vacationing, playing golf...

He still is.


57 posted on 12/13/2011 8:24:55 PM PST by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: ColdOne

Oh.....OK Then.

You Muzzie D-Bag.


58 posted on 12/13/2011 9:14:11 PM PST by mowowie
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To: Winstons Julia
I suspect he'll be asking for a recount soon!


59 posted on 12/13/2011 10:10:56 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: ColdOne

Typical. Socialists and Communists don’t have a clue when it comes to economic policy.


60 posted on 12/13/2011 11:31:20 PM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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