Posted on 06/21/2011 12:30:13 PM PDT by kennedy
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat, have a seat.
It is wonderful to see all of you. I've got a lot of friends in the room here. People who knew me before anybody could pronounce my name. (Laughter.) People who knew me before I had gray hair. (Laughter.) It is wonderful to see those of you who’ve been friends for a long time, and it’s wonderful to see new friends here as well.
What I'd like to do is to make some very brief remarks at the top and then have a chance to take a few questions, because that will give us a chance to have a dialogue, and you might have some suggestion that we haven’t thought of. And it’s one of the great things about these kinds of events is people here have so much expertise in so many different areas that it’s a wonderful thing for me to be able to pick your brain as well as just you guys hearing me chatter.
We are obviously going through one of the toughest periods in American history. We went through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and immediately after being elected, I had to take a series of very difficult steps to rescue ourselves from the brink. We had lost 4 million jobs in the six months before I was sworn in; lost another 4 million during the period probably six months after I was elected. And so as a consequence, we had to do some things that we didn’t expect we would have to do, just to save the economy -- stabilize the financial system, make sure that states and local governments didn’t have to lay off police officers and cops and firefighters. We had to save an auto industry. I never expected to be a automobile executive. (Laughter.)
As a consequence of that swift, decisive, and sometimes difficult period, we were able to take an economy that was shrinking by about 6 percent and create an economy that is now growing, and has grown steadily now over many consecutive quarters. Over the last 15 months we’ve created over 2.1 million private sector jobs. (Laughter.)
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“Snort, laughter, snort” would be more appropriate.
Where’s all the ums and uhs?
Are they not one and the same?
“....didn’t have to lay off police officers and cops and firefighters.”
Are they not one and the same?”
He should have just referred to them as the “police corpse”. That would have covered both...
Oh and FUBO!
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Does anybody else think that maybe a law was violated here? This was a party function. Yet taxpayer funded resources are being used to publicize the text and highlights from "The Won's" appearance. This seems to be an inappropriate use of money we are borrowing from foreigners, which we the taxpayers will soon have to pay interest on, and our grandchildren will have to pay back at some point.
The One keeps speking of his grey hair, as if by mentioning that we will all believe he has suffered badly as President. So badly it turned his hair grey.
If anything is turning his hair grey it is the sun on the golf courses or the air conditioner in Air Force One.
He doesn’t spend enough time at the White House for it to turn grey there.
I had to look at the date .... it sounded exactly how
he usually starts his B/S. with the same inserted laughter
each time. Maybe that’s what he was going to pick their
brains about!(Does anyone have any new comedy lines?
I can’t seem to think anymore with all this gray hair! INSERT LAUGHTER?).
I thought I’d post the original before “Laughter” gets edited to “Applause.”
You are very wise, as they did just that!
He is about as funny as testicular cancer.
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