Posted on 05/13/2010 11:50:50 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
President Obama: Did what moment required
By CAROL E. LEE | 5/13/10 2:38 PM EDT
BUFFALO — Emboldened by positive jobs numbers and an uptick in his own polls, President Barack Obama stood squarely behind his economic record Thursday and accused Republicans of doing nothing to contribute to the growth.
Obama said he was empathetic to public concerns over bailouts but defended his administration’s unpopular spending spree on aid for the auto industry, Wall Street and the economy as a whole. He didn’t like them either, he told an audience in a hard-hit region of upstate New York. He cast his choices as noble ones in which he defied “the politics of the moment” to do “what the moment required.”
“If we simply gave in to the partisan posturing in Washington — all the poll-taking and calculation that caused an entire party to sit on the sidelines – the same party that was in charge when this crisis unfolded – millions more Americans would lose their jobs, their businesses, and their homes,” Obama said in prepared remarks on the floor of Industrial Support Inc., a manufacturer in Buffalo.
“So we met our responsibilities,” the president added. “We did what the moment required.”
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George Orwell must have been appointed the Presidential Speechwriter.
the outright lying and Doublespeak is getting hard to take, especially when the MSM refuses to call him on it.
Admonishing Republicans not to help with this??? By golly, they BETTER NOT help with this!!!
The moment requires him to step aside and put the adults back in charge.
Remember how the mainstream media went berserk about 4% unemployment during the Bush years? Now we are to believe that 9.9% is a good thing and proof that obama is doing a superior job. LOL
Obama’s disconnect with reality is really starting to get scary. The world is burning, while he’s busy taking credit for fantasies, and patting himself on the back.
If a Republican acted half as crazy as he does, he or she would have been impeached months ago.
I hear he's handy with hanging drapes.
“We need to get him out of the WH.”
He is not a natural born citizen. Bottom line, he needs to be put out. NOW.
His actions are proof of the damage caused by having a person who is not loyal to the United States of America in the Presidency.
Public sector jobs mean more debt.
Obama said he was empathetic to public concerns over bailouts...
BS #2
He didn’t like them either
Marxism is never 'required'. It is always a choice.
17.3% according to the U-6 numbers as of last week...but 9.9999% sounds so much better.
What uptick? What jobs? Is the man totally out of his mind(I think so but just thought I would ask)?
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