With this jackass at the head of state we're nothing but another banana republic!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 08/08/2011 6:44:50 PM PDT by milwguy
A familiar air of indecision preceded President Obama’s pep talk to the nation.
The first draft of his schedule for Monday contained no plans to comment on the downgrading of the U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor’s. Then the White House announced that he would speak at 1 p.m. A second update changed that to 1:30. At 1:52, Obama walked into the State Dining Room to read his statement. Judging from the market reaction, he should have stuck with his original instinct.
“No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a AAA country,” Obama said, as if comforting a child who had been teased by the class bully.
When he began his speech (and as cable news channels displayed for viewers), the Dow Jones industrials stood at 11,035. As he talked, the average fell below 11,000 for the first time in nine months, en route to a 635-point drop for the day, the worst since the 2008 crash.
It’s not exactly fair to blame Obama for the rout: Almost certainly, the markets ignored him. And that’s the problem: The most powerful man in the world seems strangely powerless, and irresolute, as larger forces bring down the country and his presidency.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The administration has no answers, and the reason ol Barry was almost an hour late to give his statement today is that it probably took that long for Michelle to get him out from under the bed where he was hiding.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Barak Obama; An American Menace.
When he took over from Bush and we were still a formidable superpower, Little Barry ran all around the globe bad mouthing us and making a mockery of the term ‘American Exceptionalism’. [Either it mocked it intentionally or he’s too slow witted to know how stupid he sounded talking about the concept.]
Now that his policies are destroying the nation at a frantic clip, he suddenly starts mouthing tributes to our greatness. He is as infantile as he is incompetent. It’s pathetic.
Wow. 30 months of totally failed governance preceded by 12 months of exposure on the campaign trail...and Milbank FINALLY gets it. Not the sharpest tool in the shed.
There have been scores of “Hall Of Fame” posts today on FR, but yours gets
“POST OF THE DAY”
in my book!
Spot on!
Don’t bet on it. Check yesterdays Asbury Park Press. (app.com) This is a Gannett-owned liberal rag here in Southern New Jersey with a fairly wide circulation. It’s all the Tea Partys fault.
How about this one. Give Obama a break... He inherited the AAA credit rating.
Eloquent??? Not!
Here's eloquence from a President who understands his role and that of a government for a free people:
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
When you have lost Milbank, you’ve lost the country!
That was the DNC blast E-mail and Fax that went out. Don't blame them they are just repeating the DNC talking point as ordered.
Ah ha. That explains why it wasn’t signed ‘’The Editors. Putrid article anyway.
The media wants Obama to call Congress back into session.
To do what? To who? For what? And how?
What's done is done. The debt rating got downgraded. they had their chance to deal with the debt. They didn't. And everybody who was paying attention knew what was going to happen. Except, evidently, the media. And the Democrats.
Bravo!
Anyone who doesn't believe the Kenyan and his Keynesian economics are responsible for what is happening in America today just hasn't been paying attention.
If Baraq has lost Dana Milbank, then it really is over. I would actually welcome a Biden Presidency for these remaining 17½ months.
bfl
“The most powerful man in the world seems strangely powerless …”
Strangely? Only if you are a sucker that believed Obama was the smartest person in the world. The author is clearly an idiot.
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