Obama tells Americans: You are 'absolutely better off' than you were four years ago

UK Daily Mail ^ | 9/6/12 | Toby Harnden

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

A defiant President Barack Obama today told Americans that they are ‘absolutely better off’ than they were when he was sworn into office in January 2009.

The question ‘are you better off than you were four years ago’, famously posed by Ronald Reagan in 1980, has dogged the Obama campaign over the past week as aides have responded ‘no, but’ or dodged the issue entirely.

‘We are absolutely better off than we were when I was sworn in and we had 800,000 jobs beoinmg lost in a month,’ he said in an interview with NBC12 in Virginia.

The Romney campaign has been goading Obama on the issue, printing 'Are you better off?' signs and stickers and making it their main line of attack during the Democratic convention.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Doug Schoen, Carville, Pat Cadell, and virtually every other Dem consultant with half a brain has told them “don’t go there, cause the public won’t believe you”.

[tacticalogic]

You don't get to decide if you're better off.

Obama will decide if you're better off.

[VideoDoctor]

You most certainly are NOT better off. HE and his cronies may be, you and your family are not.

Dawgg... YOU GOT THAT RIGHT.

[MrB]

By definition, since we have 0bama as president, everyone is better off than not having him as president.

[JaguarXKE]

This kind of denial reminds me of the Monty Python sketch about the Dead Parrot.

[GeronL]

Incomes are down almost 10%
(real) Unemployment is at least 15%
47 million on food stamps
National debt is $16 trillion ($10t when he was sworn in)
food and energy prices skyrocketing

...

yep, go ahead and make that your campaign slogan... absolutely. Like watching a train wreck.

[loveliberty2]

Well, there is that reliance on "Divine Providence," "Nature's God," "Creator," and "Supreme Judge of the World," as asserted and celebrated by America's Declaration of Independence from government's regulation, taxation and oversight in 1776 by King George III.

Then, there is this assertion of some common dependency on government, as declared by so-called "progressives" Clinton, Obama, and their "believers."

Which view leads to individual freedom, opportunity, prosperity and plenty?

Will we take the words of two arrogant and defiant 20th Century men whose philosophy sounds more Marxian than Jeffersonian?

Or, will we take the 200+-year history of American liberty under a "People's" Constitution to limit the potential misuse of power by such men over their fellow citizens?

In a recent interview with Charlie Rose (CBS), the current President, responding to a question regarding what he might have done differently: “The nature of this office is … to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism,” not just “to [think] about getting the policy right” said President Obama.

To the youth of America: please contrast that silly statement from the current President with a truly meaningful one from one of your nation's former Presidents whose intelligence, accomplishments, and renown as Author of our Declaration of Independence qualify him to concisely describe the role of an American President:

In his own words:

1801 Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson

(Excerpt) "Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. . . possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?

"Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
= Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion;
- freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and
- trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson

[LibLieSlayer]

One is a liar and hedonist... one is a liar and a homosexual... both worship satan and themselves.

LLS

[mojito]

In the world of 0bamaThink, the closer you are to communism and a diminished America, the better off you are.

So of course you're better off today than you were four years ago.

[Wildbill22]

WHEW! I’m so glad to hear our fearless leader tell us I am better off than I was 4 years ago.

That means my company that employes me must not be in bankruptcy (but everyone else says it is), unemployment isn’t higher (my wife still looking for a job), gas prices aren’t draining my bank accounts and retirement (But it is)...

I am so glad that I must be just imagining that it isn’t so...

(extreme, dripping sarcasm...)

[DonkeyBonker]

What is HE smoking?

[justlurking]

I am definitely better off than I was four years ago: I met and married a wonderful woman.

However, Obama had nothing to do with that.

Economically, we are hanging on. If this malaise continues, we might have to put off some future plans. I am hoping that a Romney/Ryan administration and a Republican Congress will put us back on a pro-growth track.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” ..and if you don’t agree with me I’ll have you audited, or worse.”

I wish I could laugh, but he has done this relentlessly.

[olezip]

A defiant President Barack Obama today told Americans that they are ‘absolutely better off’ than they were when he was sworn into office in January 2009.

I wonder what criteria President Obama is using to report that we are absolutely better off? He might be correct for those items. I suspect that the price of gasoline is not among the items.

However, his statement reminds me of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf who said on April 7, 2003:

"The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes."

Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003.

[MEGoody]

Obama tells Americans: You are 'absolutely better off' than you were four years ago

You lie!

[NEMDF]

And if you didn’t understand, 0bama would just assume you are too stupid to understand, or he didn’t communicate effectively, or along that line.

[albie]

Thanks! Now I feel better! So the foreclosure notice is just for fun?

[cranked]

To put this absolute delusional lie in perspective, allow me to quote Clinton from 2008: “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

Enough said! =.=

[Osage Orange]

Narcissists don't do much self-searching.....

Besides that...he's fixed for life financially. Here's a guy that's never held a regular job...and he won't have to do anything for the rest of his life.

[softwarecreator]

I agree with you 100% =)