Obama Blames Five Years of a Bad Economy on "Phony Scandals" and "Distractions

Townhall.com ^ | July 24, 2013 | Katie Pavlich

[Kaslin]

President Obama did his best to shift his administration's focus to the economy today during a speech at Illinois' Knox College by blaming the anemic economy on Republicans and "phony scandals." 

As predicted, Obama gave America the same speech he's been giving for five years, saying the country needs more infrastructure spending due to crumbling roads and bridges, that we must fight poverty, that CEOs are making too much money while the poor suffer etc. He even went so far as to tout "saving the auto industry" one week after Detroit filed for bankruptcy.  "Today, five years after the start of that Great Recession, America has fought its way back. Together, we saved the auto industry, took on a broken health care system, and invested in new American technologies to reverse our addiction to foreign oil and double wind and solar power," Obama said. "Together, we put in place tough new rules on big banks, and protections that cracked down on the worst practices of mortgage lenders and credit card companies.  We changed a tax code too skewed in favor of the wealthiest at the expense of working families, locking in tax cuts for 98% of Americans, and asking those at the top to pay a little more."

While Obama claims America is "back," 50 million people are on food stamps and 23 million people are unemployed. The healthcare system is starting to collapse as doctors leave their practices and gas is on average $3.68 per gallon. It isn't just the rich Obama has asked to "pay a little more." In January, he raised taxes on everyone. And finally, big banks are getting bigger. 

After claiming the country was on the right track economically, Obama proceeded to blame Republicans for "distractions" and "phony" scandals coming out of Washington.

"With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.  And I am here to say this needs to stop.  Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires.  Our focus must be on the basic economic issues that the matter most to you – the people we represent," Obama said. 

Funny, I'm not sure the IRS targeting American citizens (with the help of one of Obama's political appointees) for political purposes or four dead Americans killed in Benghazi count as "phony" but hey, "what difference, at this point, does it make?" And speaking of distractions, apparently taking the time to personally call pro-abortion Wendy Davis, Sandra Fluke and the first openly gay NBA player Jason Collins while opining on local crime cases, playing golf and going on numerous vacations doesn't count when it comes to deflecting attention away from anything but the disastrous and stagnant economy. 

I'll leave you with this from liberal Washigton Post blogger Ezra Klein:

That was a lot of hype for very little policy http://t.co/hwBPRoTzdC — Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) July 24, 2013

[stephenjohnbanker]

I’m maxed out on my hatred :)

[Leofl]

Different verse
same as the first

[Libloather]

Phony scandals and distractions -

<><> Benghazi do-nothing WRT murdered Americans

<><> Hillary's state dept's coverup of sex scandals---obstructing justice---scrubbing investigations

<><> Holder's DOJ (labeling journo Rosen a criminal--monitoring AP, USSC/Congress' blackberries)

<><> IRS targeting---for political purposes

<><> IRS stealing 60 million private medical records

<><> HHS' Sibelius strong-arming Obamacare insurance providers for money

<><> secret NSA snooping

<><> IRS sending $45 Million/32,000 EITC refunds to illegals at ONE address.

<><> Letting Snowden globe-trot w/ US secrets

<><> EPA using phantom email accounts

<><> Holder's Fast and Furious gun-running; savage drug cartels kill two US border patrol agents

<><> 5 million Ohaha henchmen w/ top security clearance---Ntl security undermined

<><> govt wiretaps rose 71% last year alone

<><> O using drones to shoot down Americans outside military parameters

<><> monstrous TSA travesties

<><> Solyndra and other green money-laundries

<><> sucking up to gays and other predator/perverts

<><> forcing Boy Scouts to admit gays.

<><> Obamacare provisions violated at will

<><> The Data Hub---HHS' database of personal info

<><> forcing primitive populations w/ Third World loyalties on US taxxpayers

<><> violating 2nd amendment rights

<><> empowering Planned Parnthood's savagery

<><> police state---monitoring license plates 24/7

<><> food foreign aid---EBT card abuse

<><> Obamas' non-stop luxe tax-pay vacays

[BlessingsofLiberty]

‘”With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals...”

Yep, describes Obama pretty well...bwahahahahahaha!!

Meanwhile, back to the real criminality, Benghazi, IRS, Fast and Furious, NSA, DHS, Obamacare, EPA, shovel ready jobs, precincts voting 110% for Obama, open borders, spending millions of taxpayer dollars on vacations and Holder, Hitlery Clinton, and...............

[Rikki Doxx]

These scandals just broke several months ago. You’re talking five years ago. What did you do the economy after you took office? You kept on blaming Bush rather than you doing something about it.

[red-dawg]

[Gator113]

If Obama had a piece of toast it would look.........

[Gator113]

Every time of hate him more, I have that same thought.

[QQQQ]

O:” I asked you to write 20 minute long speech but it took me one hour to read it. Why??”
Speech writer:”Mr.P, I gave you three copies...” :-))

[Kaslin]

I don’t hate that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I despise him

[Kaslin]

No one died in Watergate

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Of course! It couldn’t be mismanagement or bad policies that caused our economy to fail. It has to be somebody or something else.

After all, 0 was on vacation or campaigning.

[PATRIOT1876]

Sounds like the words of a dictator...

“Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.”
~Saddam Hussein

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.
-Hugo Chavez

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Boring, lousy, lying speech by a now confirmed “LAME DUCK” POTUS!!!! End of story!!!

[PATRIOT1876]

“I never said that. Why would I even say something like that?” “It’’s not me, it’s him right? Right?”

~Barack Thurm

[saminfl]

I only listened to a couple of sound bites Rush had. They reminded me of Stalin’s new five year plan he proposed every five years.

[DoughtyOne]

How could he take their call. Those are people of privilege.

[Standing Wolf]

It’s always somebody else’s fault with small children and Marxists; the difference is the vast majority of small children outgrow it.

[ought-six]

FUBO!

[Arrowhead1952]

Fox just played sound bites of his speech, and he is such an #@%^^$( (*&%$ )(&*&^% >((*%^**// **-+*+*/-, I had to mute the TV.