Posted on 07/24/2013 8:58:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama and his senior aides are billing Wednesday’s speech at Knox College in Illinois as a major moment in his second term, a unique opportunity to restart a debate over the right way forward for the nation’s economy on his terms.
“Our goal … is to lay out a vision and a plan, and then to just keep on pushing — not just legislatively, but across the board — so that we’re changing the nature of the conversation and focusing on what matters,” Obama said in a preview of the speech at a fundraiser Monday night for Organizing for Action, a grass-roots group manned by several of his former campaign aides.
“Vision.” “Plan.” “Changing the nature of the conversation.” Obama was laying down a marker; this was going to be a b-i-g speech. Mark it on your calendars. And yet, during that same OFA fundraiser, Obama acknowledged that no matter how lofty his goals or his rhetoric, the fundamental realities of the politics of the economy were almost certain to remain unchanged. ”I’m excited about the speech, not because I think the speech is going to change any minds,” he said.
Truer words were never spoken.
In the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, 45 percent of Americans approved of how Obama is handling economic issues while 49 percent disapproved. A year ago, 44 percent approved of Obama’s economic approach — a number statistically unchanged despite the fact that the president swept to a second term thanks, at least in part, to making the 2012 election a referendum on his economic priorities.
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“just words....just speeches......
“Vision” “Plan” “Me” “My”
Drinking words NOT to use.
SSDD
“a major moment in his second term...?”
More like Maalox moment
I’m betting on measures that “target” certain segments of the economy, and that’s precisely why it will fail, and I believe people are beginning to instinctively sense this. This speech may be both an economic and political failure.
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but our economy needs systemic reforms, perhaps merely removing the obstacles the Democrats have placed in the road. Dodd-Frank, Obamacare, Sarbanes-Oxley, Keystone, high corporate taxes, if addressed, the economy might go somewhere.
Lay it out and Keep Pushing.
That is how he jammed Obamacare down our throats.
That is how he jammed Same Sex Marriage down our throats.
That is how he filled the Military with queers.
That is how he put women in Combat
That is how he is closing power plants with the EPA
That is how he is destroying our economy
It’s high time we pushed back.
IMO this is intended to try and save Obamacare.
He is going to whip up a populist frenzy, claiming that he’s “fixed” the economy but GRRRREEEEEDY employers just aren’t hiring. Then he’s going to point out that he has magnanimously granted them a reprieve on the Obamacare mandate, so they have no excuse for cutting anyone’s hours.
He is going to finish off with a veiled threat to any employers who cut hours, convert full-timers to part-time, or are not hiring quickly enough to suit him.
“Truer words were never spoken”—because Obama and his communist-minded ilk see the human drama as having no Author. Hence every “player” on their stage spends many an hour telling their tales while actually just strutting their tails!
Five + years later, Great Leader still gives good speech.
Look what he has done to health care.
Do we really want his cure for the economy?
Congress had better smarten up. The economy will never get better until we rein in the EPA, the FED, the Bureau of Land Management, the US Wildlife, and all of the other creepy Marxist/socialist vermin that really rule this country.
We also must get them to understand that 90% of our social unrest, the black youth crime rate, etc., will go away with the return of good jobs.
There will be no frenzy, Frankly, people are sick and tired of him.
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