Obama's Army
Posted on 12/15/2011 3:32:30 AM PST by Kaslin
President Obama doesn't suffer from amnesia, but apparently he hopes the public does.
In his latest in a series of interviews on "60 Minutes" last Sunday night, the president took positions that are the polar opposite of what he was saying as recently as last spring.
One wishes all of those "fact-checkers" who point out supposed mistakes by the Republican candidates were as committed to noting even worse flaws in the president's promises.
In his interview with Steve Kroft, the president said he always believed that reversing the culture in Washington "was gonna take more than one term." It's a "long-term project," he said, "not a short-term project." And then he claimed that during the 2008 campaign, he "didn't overpromise."
Really?
Speaking in Richmond, Va., on Oct. 22, 2008, Obama promised to put millions of Americans back to work; he pledged "real change." Instead, the unemployment rate is 8.6 percent. Or is it? Ed Luce of the Financial Times writes, "According to government statistics, if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent." Washington remains unchanged, as dysfunctional and gridlocked as ever.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, since President Obama took office, the nation has lost 1.9 million jobs, prompting Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler to write that if the economy does not turn around, "Obama is on track to have the worst jobs record of any president in the modern era."
In 2009, the president said on the "Today" show, "If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition." A few days later in Florida, there was this, "I'm not going to make any excuses," said Obama. "If stuff hasn't worked and people don't feel like I've led the country in the right direction, then you'll have a new president."
The latest right-track, wrong-track poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports found that only 17 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction, while a whopping 75 percent think it's headed the wrong way.
On CBS, the president said the 2012 election is about his vision, but as CBS News' Stephanie Condon reported last week, "Sixty-six percent of Americans say they do not have a clear idea of what he wants to accomplish in a second term. ... Fewer than half of Democrats say they have a clear idea of what the president wants to accomplish if re-elected." Don't we know? It's taxing "millionaires and billionaires" so the government has more of our money to waste.
Is none of this Obama's fault? Can it all be blamed on Bush? Apparently, the president has decided that playing the blame game is good campaign strategy.
The president blames Republicans for not allowing him to accomplish anything, but says nothing about his own failure to get things done (other than the health care bill, whose constitutionality the Supreme Court ultimately will decide) when Democrats controlled Congress for the first two years of his administration. And what about Senate Democrats who have rejected every House bill seeking cuts in wasteful spending to bring the budget closer into balance? Not a word.
Shall I continue? The president's housing programs received $50 billion from Congress to help stem foreclosures on 9 million homeowners. As The Washington Post reported in October, only $2.4 billion of that money has been allocated, helping just 1.7 million people avoid foreclosure.
Imagine what Democrats and their acolytes in the media would say if a Republican president had a similar track record. One doesn't have to imagine. With a lower unemployment rate and less debt in the Bush administration, Democrats were relentless in their attacks, promising improvements. Barack Obama assured us he would make things better.
Democrats didn't improve anything and nothing has been made better. According to President Obama's own standard, and contrary to what he said on "60 Minutes," he does not deserve a second term.
That he thinks he has earned re-election brings to mind the World English Dictionary definition of "hubris": "Pride or arrogance; (in Greek tragedy) an excess of ambition ... ultimately causing the transgressor's ruin."
This is what fascism looks like.
Not as if anyone in the media is going to point it out, so Obama (and by extension, all liberals) are safe on that front.
They never, Never, NEVER have to be worried about some 60 Minutes, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, WaPost, LAT or Boston Globe rump swab ever being so impolitic as to fish a contradiction out of the Memory Hole for the average dumb ass American Voter to ponder.
That just won't happen.
So when Obama says that the economy is worse than he Realized when he was running for President why doesnt the Republican party publicize what the unemployment rate was when Bush was President as well as what the deficit and Debt was and especially what the DEMOCRATS WERE SAYING AT THE TIME, for example 150,000 unemployment claims a month was the apocaplypse,now 395,000 a month is Improvement and heading in the right direction.
The problem is folks is what Rush said a Few weeks ago,we dont need a third party,we need a Second one. The republicans are as feckless and incompetent as the Democrats,they are weak kneed cowards and Pussies,incapabable of defeating a Teleprompter reading ignoramus who is as predictable as the Sun rising in the East,The Republican leadership is pathetic and a Disgrace
The 2012 election will show the result
The foreplay was great but when people finally realized that he was really a dangerous dork they said STOP!!!
Doesn’t 2.4 billion dollars helping 1.7 million people avoid foreclosure amount to less than $2,000 each?
This clip from the end of the entire 60 Minutes Obama interview didn't make it on air.
It does, but why let facts get in the way?
It does, but why let facts get in the way?
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