why does Obama want to limit success to JUST getting into the middle class?
why does obama want a glass success ceiling?
Obama didnt write that speech...somebody else wrote it for him.
He was definitely just going through the motions. Its almost like there was the Sword of Damocles hanging over him. Could it be that Judicial Watch has already put the DNC on notice that they will be looking for the “Constitutionally qualified” to serve. If its in the document, lawsuits will be filed to show proof. If its not in there, lawsuits will be filed to keep Barry off the state ballots using existing laws. I am thinking thats what got him out of sorts.
Did anyone else see his “Joe, you are the best VP I could have had,” as a dig on Hillary?
I think Romney's internals show he is in pretty good shape. I think O is planning an October surprise.. He's told Isreal they can attack Iran without US interference if they do it two weeks before the election. That's why O put in the comments about Romney lacking foreign and diplomatic experience...
Both Obama’s and Romney’s speeches were the only two that were so bland and empty that they could put me to sleep. Their content was meaningless and forgettable and their delivery artificial and unconvincing. The most maddeningly annoying speeches were Ann Romney’s, Sandra Fluke’s and Elizabeth Warren’s, for different reasons.
The best speeches in terms of sheer personality and delivery were Paul Ryan’s and Michelle Obama’s. They both came off as truly relatable, sincere, genuine individuals who made their points succinctly and with carefully focused precision. Their delivery was totally natural and unforced, in marked contrast to the awkward discomfort of Mitt Romney and the pompous preening of Barack Obama.
The biggest missed opportunity for the Republicans was not having a speech like Clinton’s which just tore into and took apart the Obama administration piece by piece. That would’ve been perfect for Newt Gingrich to do in prime time. Eastwood was the only speaker who did any serious attacking of Obama, and of course his speech was in a class by itself. But that dismantling also needed to come from someone who really represented the party and its policies in a serious way.
Joe Biden without the auto bailout they would have liquidated 1 million jobs.
By the way, Gabby Gifford sounded better than Job Biden. To be chartable, Joe could have benefit from a few more hours of sleep.
Now remember, ObaMao worked for ACORN and participated in one of the first major lawsuits to force lenders to give money to people to buy home that they could not afford. This started the snowball rolling down the mountain...
ObaMao (barf alert):
"It will be a choice between two different paths for America."
"I ran for President because I saw that basic bargain slipping away. I began my career helping people in the shadow of a shuttered steel mill, at a time when too many good jobs were starting to move overseas. And by 2008, we had seen nearly a decade in which families struggled with costs that kept rising but paychecks that didnt; racking up more and more debt just to make the mortgage or pay tuition; to put gas in the car or food on the table. And when the house of cards collapsed in the Great Recession, millions of innocent Americans lost their jobs, their homes, and their life savings a tragedy from which we are still fighting to recover. "
"And thats because all they have to offer is the same prescription theyve had for the last thirty years:
Have a surplus? Try a tax cut.
Deficit too high? Try another.
Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning!
Now, Ive cut taxes for those who need it middle-class families and small businesses. But I dont believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our deficit. I dont believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow the economy, or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China. After all that weve been through, I dont believe that rolling back regulations on Wall Street will help the small businesswoman expand, or the laid-off construction worker keep his home. Weve been there, weve tried that, and were not going back. Were moving forward. "
"we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America."
"Weve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration in the last three years, and well open more. But unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this countrys energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers."
"Millions of students are paying less for college today because we finally took on a system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders.
And now you have a choice we can gut education, or we can decide that in the United States of America, no child should have her dreams deferred because of a crowded classroom or a crumbling school. No family should have to set aside a college acceptance letter because they dont have the money."
"Weve blunted the Talibans momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. "
"I refuse to ask middle class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaires tax cut. I refuse to ask students to pay more for college."
"And I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned. Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but well do it by reducing the cost of health care not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more. And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it not by turning it over to Wall Street."
"Over and over, we have been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are the only way; that since government cant do everything, it should do almost nothing. If you cant afford health insurance, hope that you dont get sick. If a company releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, thats just the price of progress. If you cant afford to start a business or go to college, take my opponents advice and borrow money from your parents."
"We insist on personal responsibility and we celebrate individual initiative. Were not entitled to success. We have to earn it. We honor the strivers, the dreamers, the risk-takers who have always been the driving force behind our free enterprise system the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever known.
But we also believe in something called citizenship a word at the very heart of our founding, at the very essence of our democracy; the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another, and to future generations. "
"We believe that when a family can no longer be tricked into signing a mortgage they cant afford, that family is protected, but so is the value of other peoples homes, and so is the entire economy. "
"We know that churches and charities can often make more of a difference than a poverty program alone. We dont want handouts for people who refuse to help themselves, and we dont want bailouts for banks that break the rules. We dont think government can solve all our problems. But we dont think that government is the source of all our problems any more than are welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants, or gays, or any other group were told to blame for our troubles."
"Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves. "
"Im the President."
Charles is pissed. I like it.
Charles is an elitist, and I have lost ALL respect for him ever since I read the transcript from the death panel/health rationing within the President’s Ethics Committee (yes, then President Bush) in which he was a member and participated many years ago (and may still). It was repulsive.
I won’t listen to Obama and it should come as a surprise to no one that Obama = drivel, government socialist, ‘I, me, and my’ mentality.
I didnt watch the speech, and scanning Facebook, Drudge, and FR this morning I dont know what was in it other than a phantom peace accord. I must have been pretty bad.
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Empty suit. Empty chair. Empty stadium. Empty speech.
Anyone else see a pattern here?
Krauthammer nailed what the Obama NEW PLAN is: “ - - - There’s nothing here that tells us how he’s going to go from today to tomorrow.”
To those FReepers who scoff and claim that this is not a plan, let me remind you what the REAL Leader of the Democrat Party said the night before: “ - - - I want you to listen to me, -—, this is important, -—, NO President, including me, could have solved the economic problems that Obama inherited. NOBODY!”
IMPEACHED Zipper-Boy knows a lot about lies and incompetence, and recognized that drug-fried brain, arrogant, inexperienced, incompetent Obama would never be able to figure out the expression “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Hence, Clinton wisely chose to convince the DNC faithful that nobody could have fixed the economy, and that Obama proven himself over and over again to be that special nobody. (As if Clint’s Empty Chair didn’t sum that up also).
Thus, the ‘Nobody’ Obama’s NEW PLAN is the shoddy re-make of FDR’s NEW DEAL: “There’s nothing here that tells us how he’s going to go from today to tomorrow.”
Most hijacked thread ever.