Posted on 03/10/2010 8:31:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ST LOUIS, Missouri (AFP) – Many Americans have lost faith in their government, US President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday, tackling a pervasive sentiment hobbling his hopes for enacting sweeping reform.
American suspicion of government was deepening, he said in a speech from the heartland state of Missouri, where he pushed his endangered health reform drive that has been branded by Republicans as a government takeover.
"People have lost faith in government -- they had lost faith in government before I ran (for president), and it has been getting worse," Obama said at a rally in St. Louis.
He quoted his political hero, US Civil War-era president Abraham Lincoln, as saying that the role of government was to do what needed to be done but could not be done by citizens themselves without help.
"That pretty much sums up my attitude," Obama said.
The president used the trip to roll out a plan to crack down on waste and fraud in federal health programs for the poor and senior citizens as well as other government spending, which he said amounted to billions of dollars per year.
"I don't accept business as usual... and the American people don't accept it either," Obama said, adding the plan would help cut massive long-term deficits casting a shadow over economic recovery hopes.
In many ways, Obama's entire political program represents a bid to show that government can work, despite inbred US skepticism about federal power and Republican claims that he wants to orchestrate a takeover of much of American life.
Obama has embarked on a fierce week-long campaign to secure crucial votes in Congress on his health care plan before he leaves on a trip to Indonesia and Australia on March 18.
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There is nothing wrong with our elected Federal Government Officials that 537 Bullets couldn’t cure.
There he goes again!
I never heard Abraham Lincoln say that!
You’re right. Lincoln never said anything close to that that I know of.
But, 0bama knows he can say about anything and the dumb asses will beleive his propaganda.
0bama is one evil bastard sonovabitch.
The list, ping
How very stylish. The lips match the SEIU tie.
Is there anything he thinks people are capable of doing themselves?
Would someone tell that clueless moron that he happens to be the guy in charge and the Democrats are running the government.
I don’t believe Lincoln is his political hero. That is what the media says, that is what he implies, but I don’t buy it. At the very least, all I see in Obama is malice toward all.
Of course Lincoln is no hereo of 0bama. 0bama is using typical communist propaganda. He’s playing on a revered figure in our history and expecting the dumbed down ones to fall for it. 0bama is beyond deplorable. He is pure evil and exhudes all the traits of that evil.
Oh, and by the way lurking FedGov, by that, I mean the guy will resign because he will have just had enough, trying to turn Americans into Europeans from his Indonesian/Kenyan/Globalist mindset/funk, and will throw in the Presidential Towel and let Biden take the wheel, due to inability to make any of it work to any major extent. Because it just won't work. Everything he has done will be reversed. The American People, most of them at least except the Big Government Teat-suckers, will rise up against him. It is like throwing a cat in a pool and thinking it will want to stay in there and somehow feel comfortable with it's new environment. Obongo is getting major pushback from the American People because the guy is out of his freaking socialist-progressive Occidental College noggin to try to force this all on the Republic. The guy is in deep denial, he cannot see the American People say NO!! to the Dear Leader. Sucks to be him.
The headline is almost correct, but I think the last two words are reversed. I think it should be “Americans lose faith in Obama government”.
So will he do the right thing and resign?
If any of us ever had “faith in government” the Bummer and this whole circus in Washington is a stark reminder of why we shouldn’t.
The teat-suckers will also become disgusted with him because he achieved nothing for them.
“They want to send in the ‘peacekeepers’ from the UN (the communist coffee klatch) to maintain order, and duhwon would welcome it....”
That would be a bad mistake, a verrrrrrry bad mistake. In essence, declaring a full-scale war on the American people on American soil. Bad ju-ju for the UN.
"He (Obamassiah) quoted his political hero, US Civil War-era president Abraham Lincoln, as saying that the role of government was to do what needed to be done but could not be done by citizens themselves without help."
The lady with the sign has the right idea!
Bid with our money.
Care for a cup o’ tea, Zero?
Paging Larry Sinclair...
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