Posted on 07/25/2011 9:17:44 PM PDT by Steelfish
Baby Talk Bill Kristol I was struck by these sentences in President Obama’s speech:
"Now, what makes today’s stalemate so dangerous is that it has been tied to something known as the debt ceiling – a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before.
Understand – raising the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money. It simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills that Congress has already racked up."
Consider the condescension implicit in the president’s statement—“a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before.” These “people outside of Washington” are not little children being lectured on an obscure subject by a worldly adult. These people outside Washington are ... citizens. Judging by the polls, most of us have opinions about whether, and under what conditions, the debt ceiling should be raised. We don’t seem to be as ignorant as Obama thinks we are of the term or concept of a debt ceiling. But the president assumes we’ve never bothered our pretty little heads about such a thing.
And he doesn’t want us to start bothering our pretty little heads about it now. So Obama instructs us as to what the debt ceiling is. He claims that “raising the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money.” That statement might be true about a rise in the debt ceiling that would take us only through the rest of the current fiscal year, for which funds have already been appropriated by Congress.
It is simply not true about the increase Obama is asking for, which is designed to cover the next fiscal year and a bit more. T
he fact is, Obama’s $2.4 trillion increase..
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In the rarified air he believes he occupies, mere mortals who invent things, manufacture things, operate complicated machinery and gadgets, manage small and large businesses, build churches, hospitals, and, in general keep the American dream alive despite his heavy-handed and Machiavellian policies--these outstanding people just simply cannot understand anything like a "debt ceiling."
These just live and operate with one every day of their lives.
Such condescension comes from a place most Americans don't have time to fool with as they study their nation's founding ideas of liberty and realize, too late perhaps, that the emperor they chose not only has no clothes, but may be minus any clue as to why a "debt ceiling" for a nation that expects to be free is necessary at all.
He, an economic idiot, is lecturing us on debt?!?!?!
Sad and amusing at same time.
Well, I can tell you that at an average of 1” per pea, 1 trillion peas would be 16 million miles, or 600 times around the earth. So 2.4 Trillion peas (38 million miles) would circle the earth nearly 1400 times.
If you were to stack the peas, that stack would make it to the Moon and back 60 times. That stack would make it all the way the way past the planet Venus to Mars with 4 million miles to spare.
I go back and forth debating whether he truly is evil or is just the Idiot in Chief.
This is beautiful. Obama is so on his way out of office that I sometimes wonder if he isn’t done with the job anyway
and really doesn’t care if he is re-elected. To me, Obama doesn’t even buy what he is selling. He seems to be going through the motions with the predictable sound-bite insults and the usual “big me, little you”, know-it-all presentation that reminds me of Hillary actually. Who in Sam Hill would buy that waste of breath. Independents? I just don’t think so.
This all must be very annoying to the anointed one when can I go on vacation? When this is all over Obama intends to get on with his profligate spending.
when are people going to find a pair and tell this a**hat to shove it... we aren’t falling for his b.s. anymore.
i, for one, won’t push 50-65% of my labor into the hands of government types... just so they can give 66% of it to the politically favored and union pensions
just ... won’t ... do it
Obama syndrome: extreme self-adoration coupled with arrogance and a pathological need to blame others for your faults and shortcomings. A desperate need to be seen and heard (even when you have nothing intelligent to say). Pathological lying and exageration, posturing and posing. Inability to listen and take advice (see self-adoration).
I cannot stand this man, not because he’s black or half black, but because he’s a corrupt liar and the very worst president this country has ever had. I couldn’t listen to him, I can’t stand it.
Certainly the dumbasses who voted for Obama (but that's still not most of the people.)
Palin is going to butter his ass and have him for lunch in the Debates. Sarah's going to be spitting out tiny, shredded pieces of O'Buttboy afte the Debates.
O'Bongo kin run, buh hee kainz hahd. Diss axe me.
How could it be otherwise? Seriously. All he has had to do, most of his life, is show up with his shoes tied and his pants zipped and he was treated as if he were genius personified.
I think at least part of the reason why none of his old academic works (what little there were) have not been made public is because his old professors would be mortally embarrassed by the gushing, drooling praise they heaped upon his scribblings — and would not want to face their students and colleagues with their incredulous questions — “You gave him an A+ for THAT???”
It’s all been done for him, all his life. He’s always been told he’s superior, so he naturally believes it. He just can’t think any other way.
The LaRazas he spoke to earlier believe in him. The were chanting “yes you can” when he said he’d like to “do it without congress”.
I guess hes starting to think we are all like his fans.
He’s only repeating, and in the same manner, what he’s been told about these complex things that take away his time from golf, and parties, and date nights, vacations, and flying around in the biggest corporate jet...
Obama could do more economic damage to this country than that
caused by Muslim terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11.
According to my calculation (please correct) 1333333333333.333 pounds @ $1.80 wholesale price per pound. I hope that helps.
Wal-Mart has Great Value peas for 98 cents/bag so that would be approximately 2,448,979,591,837 bags. Divided by 310 million Americans, we could each have approximately 7900 bags of peas.
>>Talks down to the audience, and expects the audience to believe what he says.<<
The reason for both is that he thinks he is talking to the people who actually voted for him. You know, the ones that thought if they voted for him they would never again have to worry about their mortgage payment or putting gas in their car.
I’ve talked to some of these people. His speech was absolutely appropriate for them.
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