Posted on 06/27/2010 4:19:45 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
President Obama on controlling the debt: "Somehow people say, why are you doing that, I'm not sure that's good politics. I'm doing it because I said I was going to do it and I think it's the right thing to do. People should learn that lesson about me because next year when I start presenting some very difficult choices to the country, I hope some of these folks who are hollering about deficits and debt step-up because I'm calling their bluff. We'll see how much of that, how much of the political arguments that they're making right now are real and how much of it was just politics."
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>> Article quoting Obama: “next year when I start presenting some very difficult choices to the country”
Sucks that we can’t talk about it now.
Our distress, his solemn thought.
.http://www.jrnyquist.com/media/FifeLeary_Int-1.mp3
The First Time I Heard Of Barack
By Tom Fife 11-20-08
During the period of roughly February 1992 to mid 1994, I was making frequent trips to Moscow, Russia, in the process of starting a software development joint-venture company with some people from the Russian scientific community. One of the men in charge on the Russian side was named V. M.; he had a wife named T.M.
V. was a level-headed scientist while his wife was rather deeply committed to the losing Communist cause - a cause she obviously was not abandoning.
One evening, during a trip early in 1992, the American half of our venture were invited to V. & T.’s Moscow flat as we were about to return to the States. The party went well and we had the normal dinner discussions.
As the evening wore on, T. developed a decidedly rough anti-American edge - one her husband tried to quietly rein in.
The bottom line of the tirade she started against the United States went something like this:
“You Americans always like to think that you have the perfect government and your people are always so perfect. Well then, why haven’t you had a woman president by now? You had a chance to vote for a woman vice- president and you didn’t do it.”
The general response went something along the lines that you don’t vote for someone just because of their sex. Besides, you don’t vote for vice-president, but the president and vice-president as a ticket.”Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president very soon.”
The consensus we expressed was that we didn’t think there was anything innately barring that. The right person at the right time and sure, America would try to vote for the right person, be he or she black or not.
“What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he will be a Communist?”
The out-of-the-blue remark was met by our stares. She continued, “Well, you will; and he will be a Communist.”
It was then that the husband unsuccessfully tried to change the subject; but she was on a roll and would have nothing of it. One of us asked, “It sounds like you know something we don’t know.”
“Yes, it is true. This is not some idle talk. He is already born and he is educated and being groomed to be president right now. You will be impressed to know that he has gone to the best schools of Presidents. He is what you call “Ivy League”. You don’t believe me, but he is real and I even know his name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and American and his father is black from Africa. That’s right, a chocolate baby! And he’s going to be your President.”
She became more and more smug as she presented her stream of detailed knowledge and predictions so matter-of-factly - as though all were foregone conclusions. “It’s all been thought out. His father is not an American black so he won’t have that social slave stigma. He is intelligent and he is half white and has been raised from the cradle to be an atheist and a Communist. He’s gone to the finest schools. He is being guided every step of the way and he will be irresistible to America.”
We sat there not knowing what to say. She was obviously very happy that the Communists were doing this and that it would somehow be a thumbing of their collective noses at America: they would give us a black president and he’d be a Communist to boot. She made it quite obvious that she thought that this was going to breathe new life into world Communism. From this and other conversations with her, she always asserted that Communism was far from dead.
She was full of little details about him that she was eager to relate. I thought that maybe she was trying to show off that this truly was a real person and not just hot air.
She rattled off a complete litany. He was from Hawaii. He went to school in California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the legislature. “Have no doubt: he is one of us, a Soviet.”
At one point, she related some sort of San Francisco connection, but I didn’t understand what the point was and don’t recall much about that. I was just left with the notion that she considered the city to be some sort of a center for their activity here.
Since I had dabbled in languages, I knew a smattering of Arabic. I made a comment: “If I remember correctly, ‘Barack’ comes from the Arabic word for ‘Blessing.’ That seems to be an odd name for an American.” She replied quickly, “Yes. It is ‘African’”, she insisted, “and he will be a blessing for world Communism. We will regain our strength and become the number one power in the world.”
She continued with something to the effect that America was at the same time the great hope and the great obstacle for Communism. America would have to be converted to Communism and Barack was going to pave the way.
So, what does this conversation from 1992 prove?
Well, it’s definitely anecdotal. It doesn’t prove that Obama has had Soviet Communist training nor that he was groomed to be the first black American president, but it does show one thing that I think is very important. It shows that Soviet Russian Communists knew of Barack from a very early date. It also shows that they truly believed among themselves that he was raised and groomed Communist to pave the way for their future. This report on Barack came personally to me from one of them long before America knew he existed.
Although I had never before heard of him, at the time of this conversation Obama was 30+ years old and was obviously tested enough that he was their anticipated rising star.
Tom Fife
Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors.
When you understand that, Obama’s later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright’s ideology.”
Ditto!
simple way to call the president’s “bluff”. Just propose, for starters, a budget that excludes all appropriations approved after Sept. 30, 2008.
Why that date? Oct. 1, 2008 is the starting date for a federal fiscal year that was the first one that was infected by Obama’s meddling.
That would eliminate the trillions in wasteful spending approved by Obama, including the retroactive spending that he tries to lay off on his predecessor.
-George
I call your debt bluff and raise you immigration
Emphasis added.
“And what the hell does he mean by “call your bluff”....it’s a ridiculous statement that means absolutely nothing.”
I think he is saying the dumbass republicans are as addicted to spending us into oblivion as he is. And he is right.
I am wondering what stuff is in The Manchurian President.
Looks more and more irrational.
This will be, I suspect, the Big Con of Big Cons! (However, it does seem quite transparent that this could be a setup for a military-hating flim-flam.)
Mister Obama appears to be constructing for himself an artificial "need" (via horrific debt) to cut and disable and degrade and demoralize our marvelous Military.
And, in what might be typical of a malignant narcissist, he will try to set this up so he can BLAME US for wanting to preserve our vital defense, while he pursues his objective. I don't know for certain, yet. But my suspicions are surfacing.
Question: does this guy come to mind?
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Hell, he isn’t going to do anything about the deficit except sign whatever bill Congress sends him without even asking them to cut the budget.
why wait till next year, anything to do with an election and besides he spends trillions, still has money in the stimulus and yet then says he will cut spending the man is a complete idiot
This man is a complete ass.
Obama says the austerity will begin next year in order to preserve the meme that to cut back now would endanger the recovery, but actually it is to provide Dem cover for the Fall elections.
“difficult choices =taxes out the wazoo”
We have a winner.
And...
“Call your bluff” = VAT tax on every blasted thing you ever buy.
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