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Obama's Gaffes Start to Pile Up
Town Hall ^ | March 05, 2009 | David Lambro

Posted on 03/07/2009 7:40:12 AM PST by AJMCQ

President Obama and his White House staff are making mistakes that continue to worsen an already deflating U.S. economy.

As the stock market plunged below the Dow's 7,000 mark -- a loss of 1,500 points since his inauguration -- Obama casually dismissed the sharp drop in equity values, comparing it to the ups and downs of a poll.

The stock market "is sort of like a tracking poll in politics," he told news reporters. "You know, it bobs up and down day to day. And if you spend all your time worrying about that, then you're probably going to get the long-term strategy wrong."

Excuse me? Tracking poll? That's like dismissing a severed hand as a hangnail.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho2009; bho44; blunders; crowtherpriven; democrats; economy; first100days; lambro; manufacturedcrisis; obamanomics; socialism; zeronomics
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1 posted on 03/07/2009 7:40:12 AM PST by AJMCQ
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To: AJMCQ

Please someone, send the messiah an “OVERCHARGE” button

Maybe they have an extra one at the State Dept


2 posted on 03/07/2009 7:41:21 AM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: AJMCQ

Between Obama and “Stand Up Chuck!” Biden, there is enough material on them to make Dan Quayle look like the world’s smartest man.

Of course, since they are Democrats I won’t hold my breath that the rest of the world notices.


3 posted on 03/07/2009 7:41:38 AM PST by rom (Obama '12 slogan: Let's keep on hopin'!)
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Obama's Gaffes Start to Pile Up

I'm waiting for his racist radical wife to say "Let them eat cake ..."

4 posted on 03/07/2009 7:44:16 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO Kenyan Usurper - "Don't Tread On Me!!!")
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To: AJMCQ

As the Mogambo Guru has been saying for some time now, we are so freaking doomed.


5 posted on 03/07/2009 7:45:00 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: AJMCQ

“The stock market “is sort of like a tracking poll in politics,” he told news reporters.”

Actually he’s right. The market downturn pretty much mirrors his own poll numbers sinking.


6 posted on 03/07/2009 7:45:01 AM PST by Rennes Templar
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To: silverleaf

Wasn’t that just priceless?

We need a bumper sticker for that!

Government = an “Easy” button that says “Overcharge”


7 posted on 03/07/2009 7:46:27 AM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: AJMCQ

The Messiah needs to know that for many retired seniors “long term strategy” is not a reality. They have to live in the here and now and don’t have ten plus years to give to his peculiar brand of economic hopey-changiness. For millions of others, retirement has been put on hold indefinitely.


8 posted on 03/07/2009 7:47:16 AM PST by McLynnan
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The man has no clue that this “tracking poll” reflects REAL MONEY. Of course, why would he - he’s never had any private sector experience.


9 posted on 03/07/2009 7:49:04 AM PST by jimt
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To: silverleaf
Please someone, send the messiah an “OVERCHARGE” button

0-vercharge. 0-pression. It's all coming together.

10 posted on 03/07/2009 7:51:20 AM PST by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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...this “tracking poll” reflects REAL MONEY...

Real senior citizens too, who probably voted for him, watching their nest eggs vanish. And to Obama it's just a game, like tracking polls. 0-pression.

11 posted on 03/07/2009 7:53:43 AM PST by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: Rennes Templar

It would be nice if he could recognize that the numbers reflect big business and investor activity which is pretty much American business sentiment. Obviously the markets project and are discounting their expectations of the “successful” future that he and is team are promoting.

The business community has outright rejected a successful obama outcome. Obviously this man wants to be blind to whats good for the people.....jobs and an economy.


12 posted on 03/07/2009 7:56:14 AM PST by himno hero
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To: The Sons of Liberty
"I'm waiting for his racist radical wife to say "Let them eat cake ...""

As the number of Hollywood White House parties continues to accumulate, the concept of "fiddling while Rome burns" also comes to mind.

Wonder if the Christians will get blamed again...

13 posted on 03/07/2009 7:57:08 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: jimt
A trillion here and a trillion there, after while you are talking about some real money.

Everett Dirksen ((R-Illinois, US Senator) 1950s and '60s

14 posted on 03/07/2009 8:01:11 AM PST by TYVets
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To: coloradan
"As the Mogambo Guru has been saying for some time now, we are so freaking doomed."

I think that lately he puts it as, "We’re soooOOooo freaking dooOOOooomed!".

:-)

15 posted on 03/07/2009 8:02:50 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

Wait until Easter. It won’t be eggs that are getting rolled...it will be citizens! That’s the Chicago Style. God Save The Republic.


16 posted on 03/07/2009 8:04:09 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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To: AJMCQ

You know that big “Our National Debt” electronic display they’ve got? Has it caught fire yet?


17 posted on 03/07/2009 8:08:01 AM PST by swatbuznik
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Cept if your retired this “tracking poll” is costing you everything.

Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure


18 posted on 03/07/2009 8:22:09 AM PST by bray (Welcome to the USSA!)
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Hillary’s (Smartest person in America) trip to Europe was a string of embarrassments:

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5253XS20090306?sp=true

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/general/view/2009_03_06_US_gesture_lost_in_Russian_translation/srvc=home&position=recent


19 posted on 03/07/2009 8:22:22 AM PST by DManA (And he was brazenly inviting his listeners to get on Democratic committee Web sites, to say nice thi)
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20 posted on 03/07/2009 8:22:55 AM PST by BigLittle
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