Obama Raises $15 Mil at Clooney's, Says Sometimes He Forgets About the Recession

RUSH: Obama is at the Clooney fundraiser last night, where, by the way, the story on that is, the original expectation was ten million. That's what they were gonna raise. But then, our brave, courageous president went out there and said that he thinks the states ought to determine gay marriage, and that gay people should be able to get married. Lo and behold, the floodgates opened, and an additional five million was raised at the Clooney fundraiser. I'm not believing that either. The whole thing is a crock. They got 15 from the get-go.

You got Obama in Clooney's house, the tickets have been sold, but they want us to believe that there's all this newfound enthusiasm in Hollywood where he was lagging behind a little bit. There was some distrust, some disappointment, some people simply didn't have that confidence. But then Obama came out and he said, "I think the states ought to determine whether or not gay people get married." For some reason that got another five million. While he was there, if this isn't in every Romney ad from now 'til November, somebody needs to be fired. Obama said, quote, "Sometimes I forget" the "magnitude" of the recession. "Sometimes I forget" the "magnitude" of the recession. Is it cool to be out of touch? That's what he said.

RUSH: "Sometimes I forget" the "magnitude" of the recession. He said it just before the Hollywood extravaganza. He says this just before he hops on Air Force One. He says this after living in the White House for three-and-a-half years, after partying nonstop, after vacationing, after golfing as if he was a retired lottery winner in the Kennedy family. He says, "Sometimes I forget" the "magnitude" of the recession.

Remember when George H. W. Bush was raked over the coals 'cause he didn't know what a supermarket scanner was? Well, you don't remember that, Rachel, because you were not even out of the womb then. But back in 1990, '91, George H. W. Bush went to a grocery store, he's president, he'd never seen a supermarket scanner. He said, "What's that?" They showed him and he said, "Wow, that's really cool." And they dumped all over him. Presidents go to grocery stores every day, right? The usual question, "Mr. President, do you know what the price of milk is?" "Uhhhh, no." Obama: "Sometimes I forget" the "magnitude" of the recession.

Sometimes I forget. And you know what? The left is gonna look at this as highly sensitive. This is a guy who's in touch. He has the courage to admit he knows how tough it is for people out there. Yes siree, Bob. Before his Hollywood extravaganza, $15 million raised with George Clooney, gets on Air Force One, has lived in the White House three-and-a-half years, parties nonstop, vacations and golf. "Sometimes I forget" the "magnitude" of the recession. After the stimulus bill. After all the jobs bills he claims to have cared about.

RUSH: We got it. Grab audio sound bite number 16. Last night in Seattle... Da-da-da... No. Wherever he was in California last night. Anyway, this is Obama at a campaign event. Listen. Here it is...

OBAMA: It was a house of cards, and it collapsed in the most-destructive, worst crisis that we've seen since the Great Depression. Sometimes people forget the magnitude of it, you know? Sometimes I forget. Eight hundred thousand lost their jobs in the month that I took office, and it was tough.

RUSH: "Sometimes I forget" the "magnitude" of the recession. He says that as though he wants credit. He was in Seattle. He's forgotten to cut the national debt in half in his first term like he said he was gonna do. So after all the partying -- after all the times on Air Force One, after all of the jobs bills, after all the stimulus -- his administration has been focused on bringing the economy back, has it not? According to him?

According to him, the whole reason he was there has been to revitalize the US economy for people. And he says, "Sometimes I forget" the "magnitude" of the recession? He wants credit for this? I never forget it. I can't get it out of my mind! I bet most Americans have not forgotten "the magnitude" of the recession. He's also forgotten to create jobs.

http://www.nber.org/cycles/sept2010.html

The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in June 2009. The trough marks the end of the recession that began in December 2007 and the beginning of an expansion. The recession lasted 18 months, which makes it the longest of any recession since World War II. Previously the longest postwar recessions were those of 1973-75 and 1981-82, both of which lasted 16 months.

In determining that a trough occurred in June 2009, the committee did not conclude that economic conditions since that month have been favorable or that the economy has returned to operating at normal capacity. Rather, the committee determined only that the recession ended and a recovery began in that month.

Well, if a recovery began in June 2009, why think about a recession 3 years later? No one should care. The media won't badger you over an anemic recovery. Democrats never had to produce the bragged about Stimulus bill "3.5 million jobs, and 90% in the private sector", or any other Jobs bills(Pelosi, Reid) reult, or the White House Economic Summit results, ect...

Just an observation....but he’s been in campaign mode ever since the fall of 2006 (for Iowa). I don’t think he’s out of campaign mode a single week since 2006. He still has only two skills....community organizer and campaign organizer.

What recession? When you’re jet setting off, hither & yon, for dinner & Her Hugenass is carrying her entourage, her mother & the presidential children to exotic locations (Spain, India, & on safari in Africa), I don’t imagine that pResident 0ne Per Cent ever even thinks about the niggling details (sniiiiif) his lowly subjects are dealing with. It might mess up his golf game.

(Yes, I am loathe to use that lefty term but frankly, I’d like to cram it down their throats till they gag on it)

Now we're forced to view Moochelle on the tube living high off the crumpets in Merry Olde England, again at taxpayers' expense.

What's she doing there, anyhow, besides having a good old time on another vacation?

I thought salaried vice-presidents were supposed to do the foreign Olympics and state funerals gigs. What exactly does Veep Bite-Me do to earn his considerable yearly stipend plus benefits???

However, that aside, even HE wouldn't allow a Olympic giantess to pick him up and carry him around like a new bride for all the world to see. She's actually more embarassing than he would be, I suspect....and more expensive.

Leni

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