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Obama: 'Professional Politicians' Understand Debt Crisis Better Than 'The Public'
CNSNEWS ^ | 7-11-11 | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 07/11/2011 12:52:30 PM PDT by Tigen

At a White House press conference today, President Barack Obama said that "professional politicians" understand the debt crisis better than "the public."

Obama was responding to a question from CBS News Reporter Chip Reid. “The latest CBS News poll showed that only 24 percent of Americans said that you should raise the debt limit to avoid an economic catastrophe," said Reid. "There’s still 69 percent who oppose raising the debt limit. So, is it the problem that you and others have failed to convince the American people that we have a crisis here and how are you going to change that?”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: debtceiling; debtlimit; economicterrorist; knowitall; obama; professionalpols; propoliticians
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To: Tigen

Well, the results prove that they definitely do not. Professional politicians don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground, but that’s where they’re shoveling our money anyway.


21 posted on 07/11/2011 1:03:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: Tigen

Wow...I must refrain from saying what I really think of “Professional Politicians”. Lets just say I loath them as much as I loath the Islamic cockroaches who are out to kill us all.


23 posted on 07/11/2011 1:04:07 PM PDT by lormand (A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
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To: Tigen

“You little people don’t need to try to understand what we do here. Just get back to your little boring lives and leave all this hard stuff to your betters.”


24 posted on 07/11/2011 1:04:14 PM PDT by maine yankee
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To: Tigen

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25 posted on 07/11/2011 1:05:12 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Woah, Obama will appease Trump, but not Lakin? Thanks LSM)
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To: Tigen

Oh no he did not say that???? Good grief, the ego is unbounded.

Precisely because we didn’t keep the professional politicians feet to the fire is why we’re in the mess we’re in.

Most of the professional politicians don’t understand how to add and subtract. They don’t read the bills they pass. They sure as heck don’t understand the Treasury markets.


26 posted on 07/11/2011 1:05:12 PM PDT by iceskater (11/2/10 - the beginning of the beginning of restoration.)
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To: Tigen

PPPTTTTHHHHHHTTTTT!

BIG razzberry for this assertion on the part of The One.

Everybody has to give a little bit. How about the US Congress repeals Obamacare, and the figurehead in the Oval Office signs it.

Tht would resolve a large part of the “debt crisis” almost immediately.


27 posted on 07/11/2011 1:06:04 PM PDT by alloysteel ("Devastate your rivals, take no prisoners, smash mouths, glare meaningfully.")
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To: Tigen
Obama: 'Professional Politicians' Understand Debt Crisis Better Than 'The Public'

Of course they do. Professional politicians created it so as to skim millions from the public rubes so they could get rich jumping from each fiscal crisis to tthe next worse crisis.

The question is, would you trust such greasy creatures to fix it or even want it fixed?

28 posted on 07/11/2011 1:08:00 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Tigen

Right, because sane people know that when you need to continually borrow more money just to pay the interest on your current debts, and you adamantly refuse to cut spending in the face of reduced income, you’re probably just a hair’s breadth from going belly up.

“Professional politicians” are insane.


29 posted on 07/11/2011 1:09:49 PM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Very good!


30 posted on 07/11/2011 1:09:58 PM PDT by jimmango
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To: crosshairs

“They don’t understand jack.”

They understand how to get rich.


31 posted on 07/11/2011 1:10:03 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Tigen

,,!,,

Too subtle?


32 posted on 07/11/2011 1:10:03 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Very good!


33 posted on 07/11/2011 1:10:16 PM PDT by jimmango
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To: Tigen

Only Timmy can rescue us.


34 posted on 07/11/2011 1:11:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Tigen
“is it the problem that you and others have failed to convince the American people that we have a crisis here and how are you going to change that?”

Never let a crisis go to waste. Corollary: if there is no crisis, create one and convince the media to promote it.

35 posted on 07/11/2011 1:11:18 PM PDT by LOC1 (Let's pick the best, not settle for a compromise.)
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To: Tigen
Don't spend more money than you have. How difficult is that?


36 posted on 07/11/2011 1:11:45 PM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
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To: Tigen

So when he voted against raising the debt ceiling, as a Senator, he wasn’t a professional politician?


37 posted on 07/11/2011 1:12:54 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Tigen

I guess now we can officially call them pee-pees.


38 posted on 07/11/2011 1:13:17 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: Tigen
At the risk of being flammed, I have to agree with Obama. Liberal control of the public schools has insured that we have a generation that doesn't understand basic economics, self-reliance or personal responsibility. "Non-judgemental" education has raised a generation that see no moral problem with spending money and leaving the next generation to pay the bill.

I am sure professional politicians DO understand the debt crisis better than "the man in the street". However, though liberals may understand what they are proposing, they have no moral problem with deceiving the public with "in the future" cuts that they intend to repeal before they happen.

It is a minor miracle, in my mind, that the majority of the public still understand the simple principle that you cannot spend more than you take in indefinately. If they TRULY understood what liberals are doing to the budget, it would be torch and pitchfork time. But, god bless them, the public may not understand the intricacies of the budget process but they have the common sense to know the status quo cannnot persist forever. Of course, the liberals understand that as well, but their amoral lust for power allows them to push that "inconvenient truth" aside.

39 posted on 07/11/2011 1:14:11 PM PDT by In Maryland ("The Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers." -Justice Clarence Thomas)
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To: Tigen

How ever do we survive without your tax dollars to buy votes with?


40 posted on 07/11/2011 1:14:30 PM PDT by voveo
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