Posted on 06/27/2014 2:56:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama warned people in Minnesota Friday not to believe what they hear on television:
"They're fabricated issues, they're phony scandals that are generated. It's all geared towards the next election or ginning up a base. It's not on the level," the president insisted.
Here are his remarks in context:
I don't -- I don't watch TV news generally, or cable shows, but I suspect if you're out here and going to work and picking up your kids and taking them to soccer or at night sitting there paying the bills, and you just turn on the TV, sometimes it must feel kind of discouraging because it doesn't feel like what's being talked about in Washington has anything to do with what's going on in your lives day-to-day. And it must feel as if sometimes you're just forgotten.
And sometimes the news that's being reported on is really important. I mean, what's happening in Iraq is relevant. We got to pay attention to the threats that are -- that are emanating from the -- the chaos in the Middle East, although I want to be very clear: We're not sending combat troops into Iraq -- because that's -- we've done that and we -- we've given them an opportunity, and they're going to have to contribute to solving their own problems here, although we'll protect our people and we'll make sure that we're going after terrorists who could do us harm.
But sometimes, the news that's coming off is just -- these are just Washington fights. They're fabricated issues, they're phony scandals that are generated. It's all geared towards the next election or ginning up a base. It's not on the level. And that must feel frustrating, and it makes people cynical, and it makes people turned off from the idea that anything can get done.
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In recent weeks, the news out of Washington has included:
--The IRS scandal -- suspicions that people at the tax agency may have abused their power by muzzling conservative organizations, then tried to cover it up by destroying evidence;
-- The VA scandal -- reports that some U.S. military veterans may have died while waiting for appointments in a generally dysfunctional and perhaps dishonest system;
-- Iraq -- overtaken by terrorists, the gains of earlier U.S. military sacrifice now erased; Russia -- new tensions over Ukraine;
-- Illegal immigration -- the invasion of America's southern border by tens of thousands of Central Americans, many of them children who have been herded into crowded, makeshift shelters, and are now being sent to vacant buildings in cities across the nation;
-- The backsliding economy -- news of a 2.9 percent GDP contraction in the first quarter;
-- And just this week, word that Republicans will sue the president for exceeding his executive authority and failing to uphold the law of the land.
The same day Obama spoke in Minnesota, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that he "lacked the authority" to make appointments to the National Labor Relations Board when Congress was not in a formal recess.
Obama said his main message, the reason he came to Minnesota, was to let middle class people know he understands their struggles.
"You are who I'm thinking about every single day," Obama said. "And just because it's not reported in the news, I don't want you to think that I'm not fighting for you. And I'm not always going to get it done as fast as I want because right now we've got a Congress that's dysfunctional.
Cue up the dig at Republicans: "I'll be honest with you," the president said, "you got a party on the other side that -- whose only rationale -- motivation seems to be opposing me.
"But despite all that, we're making progress. Despite all that, some folks have health care that didn't have it before. Despite all that, some students are able to afford their education better. Despite all that, some folks have jobs that didn't have it. Despite all that, the Green Line got built here in Minnesota. Despite all that, we can make life a little better for American families who are doing their best, working hard, meeting their responsibilities.
"And I don't want you to ever -- ever forget that. And I don't want you to be cynical. Cynicism is, you know, popular these days, but hope's better."
No.... It’s a phony presidency!!!
0bungle is the most vile liar ever ...we ever had for president. All spin all the time.
The fact that he can say that stuff with a straight face is unbelievable.
If these are “phony scandals”, then what does ot take to make a real one? A Republican in the mix?
We’re not that stupid, you muzzie mulatto.
What makes it worse is that he has no shame-no, not even as much as Billy Bob did, who at least turned red when caught. Hussein doesn’t care if you know he’s a liar-thug code.
Wait until Obozo, Holder and their thugs and thugettes get out of office and start facing civil court trials for the damages they have done to Americans for being Republicans.
You’re a phony president, a phony person with a phony birth certificate and a phony political philosophy.
The Denier In Chief speaks and the Useful Idiots listen.
Veterans dying due to VA waitlists is phoney?
Obama proves himself the same as Stalin who didn’t care that millions died as he fundementally transformed Russia.
Obama's a bull$hitter; he knows you know he's lying, but he knows you won't do anything about it.
I’ve never seen him look more pathetic than he did yesterday (not sure where he was). Encouragingly, I detected a faint hint of resignation and defeat in his voice and body language.
Obama tells his blind followers to cover their ears and they gladly obey.
Sounds sorta like “I am not a crook”, ala Tricky Dicky.
Obama: I don’t — I don’t watch TV news generally, or cable shows ...
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HUH???????????? I thought he found out about EVERYTHING on the NEWS!
IRS Scandal
President Obama in a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Cameron (May 13, 2013): “Well, let me take the IRS situation first. I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.”
On DOJ obtaining AP phone records:
CARNEY: “Yesterday. Let me just be clear. We don’t have any independent knowledge of that. He found out about the news reports yesterday on the road.”
Fast & Furious
Jay Carney during a White House press briefing (6/27/2012): “The president did not know about this tactic until he heard about it through the media; the attorney general did not know about it.”
VA Waiting List Scandal
Jay Carney during a White House press briefing (5/19/2014):
JIM ACOSTA, CNN: “When was the president first made aware of these problems? Of these fraudulent lists that were being kept to hide the wait times, when was he first made aware of those problems? And when did other White House officials, top White House officials, become aware of these problems?”
JAY CARNEY: “When you say these problems, the fact that there have been bureaucracies —”
ACOSTA: “The delays have been known for some time.”
CARNEY: “You mean the specific allegations that I think were reported first by your news network out of Phoenix, I believe. We learned about them through the reports.
They called it a phony war too until the blitzkrieg raged.
And yet the people applaud him.
Exactly. I have known people like him, they get off on knowing that you know they’re lying but can’t do anything about it.
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