[Clairity]

Note this appeared in a UK paper, our MSM is still protecting "Obamperor".

[Paladin2]

Throw Timmy under the bus.

[ken21]

yes, an indictment of comrade obama.

[Tzimisce]

............sigh..........................

[Baynative]

"Note this appeared in a UK paper, our MSM is still protecting "Obamperor"."

Our media is laying awake at night trying to figure out how to protect the made for television president they have created. Their dilemma is when and how to start moving away from him ...BUT, they can't! He is theirs just like the economy is his, the wars are his, the unemployment is his, the chasm separating the races is his, the class warfare is his, the price of gas is his, the rising cost of utilities is his, the problem on the border is his, the inept justice department is his. And to the media; by association, it's all THEIR'S!

[Jim Scott]

Nile Gardiner is right. Obama owns the downgrade and the whole sinking U.S. economy. Obama and the Democrats blaming Bush, Republicans, the weather, the alignment of the planets, whatever, won’t cut it much longer. Obama has tried European socialism in America and it has failed, massively. Obama and the Democrats will never change their views, they are wedded to socialism. The only recourse is to deny them the power to keep harming our nation and it’s economy. In our democratic republic that is accomplished by an election in November, 2012. We must replace Obama and give the newly-elected Republican president a conservative Republican congress that will work with her to begin to fix this mess. If American fails to do so, we’re screwed. However, I think things are getting so bad that even the usually apathetic are waking up and realizing that they made a huge mistake by electing Obama and that it’s time to get serious, stop voting for slogans and image and vote common sense: Sarah Palin.

[Christian1]

obama has managed to put the US economy on par with an african country.
I guess he wanted to feel at home.
Get rid of the african muslin in 2012.Please.

an european wishing to see America back to normal.

[bigbob]

I hate that it happened, but I love that Obama can always be blamed for presiding over the first ever downgrade in US history. Him and Tax Cheat Timmy are not going to be judged favorably by history.

Wonder if they’ll want him to return his Noble Peas prize?

[freedomfiter2]

While it’s certainly right to lay this at the feet of Obama, both Bushs should be included in the blame.

[buccaneer81]

Ten or fifteen years from now, the pundits will declare that these past three days, Thursday, August 4 through Saturday, August 6 effectively ran the Obama administration and chances for reelection over the cliff. The market decline, the hip hop BBQ, the lowering of the credit rating and the helicopter shoot down all came together in a span of 48 hours to end this presidency.

[The_Media_never_lie]

President Obamamao has degraded America.

[anymouse]

[radioone]

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The debt downgrade shows Obama’s plan is working as designed.

[McGruff]

Once again SOCIALISM fails.

[Hoodat]

Nile Gardiner ping!

[ripley]

“America’s debt downgrade is a damning indictment of President Obama’s Big Government disaster...”

Nah. It’s all George Bush’s fault.

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[Michael Barnes]

What I would REALLY like to know right now is how many of our congresscritters have a good amount of their wealth tied up in markets not affected by America's current debacle. Basically, I want to see all congresscritters' financials. If were going down, they better damn well be coming with us and the ones that won't be I wanna know about for future considerations.

[marshmallow]

Obama has done nothing to help the US financial mess but this has been a long time in the making and indeed gained considerable impetus under his illustrious predecessor George Dubya Bush who spent like a drunken sailor........excuse me.......a compassionate conservative and on whose watch Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers both vaporised.

Easy money......easy credit.........it has been the death of America and has been a consistent policy through several administrations. Obama simply gets to deliver the coup de gras. Now our orgy of borrowing and spending has come to a sudden end, we find ourselves $14 trillion in the hole. Well, it was fun while it lasted, I guess.

This downgrade is long overdue because it has been very clear for quite some time that we are financially irresponsible and the fiasco with the debt ceiling last week was embarrassing proof of that.

The real worry now, is where we go from here. Is this the wake-up call that we need which will turn things around or is it simply another red light which we run on our way to an almighty and catastrophic wreck??

[Senator_Blutarski]

Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the United States has embarked on the most ambitious failed experiment in Washington meddling in US history. Huge increases in government spending, massive federal bailouts, growing regulations on businesses, thinly veiled protectionism, and the launch of a vastly expensive and deeply unpopular health care reform plan, have all combined to instill fear and uncertainty in the markets. Free enterprise has taken a backseat to continental European-style interventionism, as an intensely ideological left wing administration has sought to dramatically increase the role of the state in shaping the US economy. The end result has been a dramatic fall in economic freedom, sluggish growth, poor consumer confidence, high unemployment, a collapsing housing market, and an overall decline in US prosperity, with more than 45 million Americans now reliant on food stamps – that’s over one seventh of the entire country.

Great paragraph, great summary. That paragraph should be the basis of every Republican's 2012 campaign.

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