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Gibbs On Economy: Obama Has "Pulled The Bus Out Of The Ditch" (video)
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 9, 2012 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 07/09/2012 12:26:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

On the Monday broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs used a familiar metaphor about a "car in the ditch" that President Obama was known for using throughout 2010.

“When Barack Obama got the keys to the bus it was trapped in the ditch with three flat tires. We've changed the tires, we've pulled the bus out of the ditch, and we’re starting up the road to strengthening the middle class," Gibbs said this morning.

"There's a different theory. Mitt Romney wants to take that bus -- probably a bus made in Switzerland or Bermuda -- and he wants to turn that bus around, he wants to pick up some millionaires and billionaires and shower them with cash," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gibbs; obamaeconomy

1 posted on 07/09/2012 12:26:07 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gibbs is going after the stupid person vote.


2 posted on 07/09/2012 12:27:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pulled it out of the ditch, and shipped it to Brazil and China in pieces.


3 posted on 07/09/2012 12:27:51 PM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: BenLurkin
Gibbs is going after the stupid person vote.

Smart move, there's lots of stupid people out there.

4 posted on 07/09/2012 12:28:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Was this Obama’s Canadian made campaign bus?


5 posted on 07/09/2012 12:28:37 PM PDT by crusadersoldier
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To: Free ThinkerNY; windcliff

Lying comes so naturally to these deluded folks.


6 posted on 07/09/2012 12:28:51 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It should be a moral imperative to throw rotten tomatoes at political sycophants whenever they spew forth hogwash such as this, regardless of their political affiliations. I call it 'step one'.
7 posted on 07/09/2012 12:31:28 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

obama gave the bus to the UAW. it’s not our bus any more.


8 posted on 07/09/2012 12:31:28 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

...and driven it downhill ever since right to the cliff.


9 posted on 07/09/2012 12:33:26 PM PDT by SueRae (See it? Hell, I can TASTE November from my house!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This is a perfect example of the silly political argument which so-called "progressives" must employ in order to persuade voters to vote away their freedom in order to allow their government "masters" to enslave them.

Such an argument as Gibbs makes insults the intelligence of even the most constitutionally-illiterate voter who can see all around him that this Obama-driven "bus" is missing an engine, fuel, and a driver who knows the difference or how to acquire either.

10 posted on 07/09/2012 12:34:02 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Free ThinkerNY
More like knifing the bus driver on a winding mountain road; grabbing the steering wheel, and aiming for the steep canyon on the side of the road.
11 posted on 07/09/2012 12:34:40 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("The writing is on the wall - Unions are screwed. reformist2 10:04 PM #27")
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To: I Drive Too Fast

Delusion comes so naturally to these lying folks. :-)


12 posted on 07/09/2012 12:35:01 PM PDT by theyreallthesame
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To: I Drive Too Fast

I agree, and it’s frightening....


13 posted on 07/09/2012 12:36:08 PM PDT by brivette
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To: Free ThinkerNY

"See, this is how it's gonna work"


14 posted on 07/09/2012 12:36:39 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Yes out of the ditch and right on to the rail road tracks!

15 posted on 07/09/2012 12:36:46 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gibbs should be bitch slapped for that comment.. w/an eye poke...


16 posted on 07/09/2012 12:36:57 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pulled it out of the ditch and set it ablaze with all the people still trapped inside.


17 posted on 07/09/2012 12:37:36 PM PDT by crosshairs
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To: Free ThinkerNY

if the economy was doing as well as Gibbs says it is....he wouldn’t have to hide out on MSNBC (and like minded echo chambers)


18 posted on 07/09/2012 12:40:27 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It never ceases to amaze me how much projection these commiecrats use, i.e. they accuse the opposition of doing exactly what they are doing.

This is a standard alinsky tactic that is also a well-known sign of mental illness.


19 posted on 07/09/2012 12:41:53 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: BenLurkin
Gibbs is going after the stupid person vote.

Seriously. I read the article, and I couldn't help but wonder who the heck he was talking to. It's like he's reading some kind of fairly tail to a group of children.

I don't know if these leftist are clinically insane and actually believe what they say is real, or whether they know they're lying their ass_es off.

Either way - It's kinda creepy.



20 posted on 07/09/2012 12:47:34 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He pulled the bus out of the ditch to burn it


21 posted on 07/09/2012 12:48:51 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: 43north
It never ceases to amaze me how much projection these commiecrats use, i.e. they accuse the opposition of doing exactly what they are doing.

Absolutely. I heard some left wing talking head on the tube the other day claiming Obomacare was designed to get rid of the "Freeloading" TAX PAYERS who aren't paying their free ambulance and free emergency room bills. According to this guy, the scrounging left wing welfare base had nothing to do with the theft. It was all the working peoples fault. No joke!

22 posted on 07/09/2012 12:55:14 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Gibbs said this morning.:

"There's a different theory. Mitt Romney wants to take that bus -- probably a bus made in Switzerland or Bermuda."


23 posted on 07/09/2012 12:56:10 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh horse feathers!

LLS


24 posted on 07/09/2012 12:57:02 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Personally, I want to drive my own car or my own bus if I want one. I don’t want to be riding on the bus and I certainly don’t want to be fighting for the best seat.


25 posted on 07/09/2012 1:02:34 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pulled it right out of the ditch that the democrats crashed it into and gunned it right off the cliff into the toilet.

That’s exactly what Obama’s economic “plan” amounts to.


26 posted on 07/09/2012 1:08:24 PM PDT by Bullish (Liars aren't always thieves but thieves are ALWAYS liars)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
We've changed the tires, we've pulled the bus out of the ditch, and we’re starting up the road to strengthening the middle class, as we leave the bodies we run over along the way where they lay" Gibbs said this morning.
There, I fixed it.
27 posted on 07/09/2012 1:12:26 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: concerned about politics
According to this guy, the scrounging left wing welfare base had nothing to do with the theft. It was all the working peoples fault. No joke!

Not to mention the illegal aliens who have bankrupted many emergency rooms.
These lefty's with their delusions and lies are simply amazing.

28 posted on 07/09/2012 1:15:05 PM PDT by Bullish (Liars aren't always thieves but thieves are ALWAYS liars)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is that the big black Canadian/Canadien bus that Baraq rides around in on the taxpayers money?


29 posted on 07/09/2012 1:16:13 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone
It's the big black Canadian bus that Obama jets to his destinations and gets on and off in front of cameras, then loads the bus back on the plane.
30 posted on 07/09/2012 1:35:28 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s all George Bush’s fault!

“bus, ditch”

George Bush, who doesn’t have a vote in congress and who no longer occupies the White House, is to blame for it all.

He broke Obama’s promise, to put all bills on the White House web site for five days before signing them.

He broke Obama’s promise, to have the congressional health care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN.

He broke Obama’s promise, to end earmarks.

He broke Obama’s promise, to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.

Bush broke Obama’s promise, to close the detention center at Guantanamo in the first year.

He broke Obama’s promise, to make peace with direct, no precondition talks with America’s most hate-filled enemies during his first year in office, ushering in a new era of global cooperation.

He broke Obama’s promise, to end the hiring of former lobbyists into high White House jobs.

He broke Obama’s promise, to end no-compete contracts with the government.

He broke Obama’s promise, to disclose the names of all attendees at closed White House meetings.

Bush broke Obama’s promise, for a new era of bipartisan cooperation in all matters.

He broke Obama’s promise, to have chosen a home church to attend Sunday services with his family by Easter.

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31 posted on 07/09/2012 1:41:16 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I don't need a Gibbs/Baghdad Bob picture, nor do I need to hear all of 0bama's broken promises. I don't need to see or hear all of 0bama's and his regime's lies again. What I do need to hear is that of the 53% of the idiots who voted for him the first time to say: I'm an idiot. I don't know why I did it, and I won't do it again, or otherwise I should be put out of my misery.

5.56mm

32 posted on 07/09/2012 1:51:10 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Who dragged Baghdad Bob Gibbs out from under his very large rock?
33 posted on 07/09/2012 2:06:03 PM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Raycpa

“Personally, I want to drive my own car or my own bus if I want one.”

Good point: Gibbs’ analogy betrays his one-size-fits-all mentality. Moreover, who the hell would hire anyone who took THREE YEARS to get a bus out of a ditch. Even if we accepted the analogy as valid, Ronald Reagan got a much more damaged bus out of the ditch MUCH faster. http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-percent-job-losses-in-world-war-ii-recessions-2012-7


34 posted on 07/09/2012 3:20:16 PM PDT by DrC
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To: DrC

That’s what the country gets for electing an affirmative action president who likely had terrible grades. He’s an amateur who’s way over his head. Peoples here is ignant.


35 posted on 07/09/2012 3:36:20 PM PDT by sanjuanbob (I loathe all libs)
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To: theyreallthesame

Good one.


36 posted on 07/09/2012 4:01:56 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: BenLurkin
Once demRATS were finished reworking that bus, it's function had become entirely different than what had originally been intended.


37 posted on 07/09/2012 11:45:17 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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