Obama: "That is no way to run the greatest country on Earth"

foxnews.com Transcript: Obama's Speech on Debt Talks ^ | July 25, 2011 | Barack Hussein Obama

[DBeers]

~ SNIP -

But there's an even greater danger to this approach. Based on what we've seen these past few weeks, we know what to expect six months from now. The House will once again refuse to prevent default unless the rest of us accept their cuts-only approach. Again, they will refuse to ask the wealthiest Americans to give up their tax cuts or deductions. Again, they will demand harsh cuts to programs like Medicare. And once again, the economy will be held captive unless they get their way.

That is no way to run the greatest country on Earth. It is a dangerous game we've never played before, and we can't afford to play it now. Not when the jobs and livelihoods of so many families are at stake. We can't allow the American people to become collateral damage to Washington's political warfare.

Congress now has one week left to act, and there are still paths forward. The Senate has introduced a plan to avoid default, which makes a down payment on deficit reduction and ensures that we don't have to go through this again in six months.

~ SNIP -

[DBeers]

In my opinion this is the problem, the debt but a symptom.

For some, the fight is over which party in the government gets to run the country. For patriots, the fight involves getting big government out of the business of running the country and back into the business of running a limited government that upholds and enforces the laws of the land and protects and defends the country and its citizens.

[RexBeach]

I hope Mr. Obama was looking in the mirror when he uttered these words.

Good Lord, he is SUCH a tool.

[Tzimisce]

By “greatest country”, he meant Cuba.

But I can see where you’d be confused.

[hometoroost]

So, now that it suits his purposes we’re the “greatest country on Earth?” What a liar. The man will say anything.

[himno hero]

“That is no way to run the greatest country on Earth”

“Let me show you how I can do it, just over 800 days without a budget. I am a genius! Its still running, right? Try that at any corporation and you would be fired!”

[camerongood210]

“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” ~Dumb@ss in the White House

[EGPWS]

That is no way to run the greatest country on Earth.

We were doing fine until community organizers became important.

[GnuHere]

Somebody must have told him it polled well...’cause he’s never bothered to say it before.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” “That is no way to run the greatest country on Earth””

Obama is running for TOTUS again....

[all the best]

Ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. The government should not be running the country. We are the country and it’s billions of decisions that run the country.

[Just mythoughts]

And the decaffeinated ‘tea partiers’ and libertarians end up doing the ‘joker's spending. Some call it compassion, others call it morality, all at the expense of the producers in this nation.

[trisham]

" I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level.

I got some game."

~Barack Obama

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[Eagle of Liberty]

Obama, Pelosi, Reid - YOU THREE spent every last dime you could for the SOLE purpose to claim that the next step needed is to raise taxes to cover all of this spending.

This is like giving your child $20, your child goes out and spends that $20 plus another $20 borrowed from a friend and then comes back home and yells at YOU for only giving $20.

YOU THREE are the LAST ONES who should lecture us on Cut-Only Bills!

[forgotten man]

I think that clown meant to say “Greatest show on earth.”

[TribalPrincess2U]

Is this?

‘Fast and Furious’ guns show up at dozens of crime scenes...

Ya happy now, 0bamo?

[Sarah Barracuda]

How hard must it have been for the Marxist in Chief to say “Greatest country on earth” considering all the nasty things he is always saying about this country..how we are all arrogant, blaa blaa blaa..yeah Obama, old people are gonna be dying in the streets..just like with Obamacare, same BS, if we don’t pass Obamacare old people are gonna be rotting in the streets..but wait, that is happening, but not here, in Europe, why, because of the single payer heath care system they have there..but Obama failed to mention that little part

[ZX12R]

Doesn’t this nitwit know that we are a republic that works a certain way? Or does he just not want it to be such. I’m guessing the latter.

[oyez]

As I was about to say. Come one, come all, children of all ages to the Obama Big Top.

[blackdog]

I thought it was his celebrated job to rid us of that label? I thought it was arrogant and obnoxious to lay claim to being the greatest country on earth?

His whole campaign for the presidency was based on making us less great. Now that he's accomplished that goal, that's a bad thing?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

When did he discover this was the greatest country? I thought he hated America.