President Obama in his weekly address…
“They wanted to terrorize us, but, as Americans, we refuse to live in fear. Yes we face a determined foe, and make no mistake — they will keep trying to hit us again. But as we are showing again this weekend, we remain vigilant.”
In an interview to commemorate September 11th attacks in New York, George Bush credited George Bush for the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
“The work that was done by intelligence communities during my presidency was part of putting together the puzzle that enabled us to see the full picture of how bin Laden was communicating and eventually where he was hiding,” he said. “It began the day after 9/11.”
Although Bush and his brainwashed supporters would go to the grave believing this, the facts just don’t support their position and even George Bush himself showed his carefree attitude when questioned about Bin Laden’s whereabouts.
In 2006, Bush told reporters that getting Bin Laden was not on his ‘to-do’ list, saying, “I truly am not that concerned about him. I am deeply concerned about Iraq, I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.”
But that was then, and this is now, and with the new administration came a new purpose. That purpose resulted in the capture and killing of America’s most wanted terrorist, and now, Bush is ready to go down in history as the president responsible for getting Osama.
Can you say “delusional” ?
See the rest of Bush’s interview here
I have to admit, these days I’m looking for a reason to re-elect our incumbent president in 2012. I can no longer hide my disappointment at his not taking the wheel and steering this sinking ship over to more shallow waters. Why fight so hard and valiantly to become the first African-American president of – what we’re told – is the most rich, the most powerful, the most influential nation in the world only to constantly cave-in with a whimper once confronted with your opposition’s…opposition?
And Mr. President – with all due respect – f**k those bi-partisan pipe dreams! Groveling is not a good look for my president. The public no longer needs that to be one of your goals any longer, anyway. And if another of your actual goals is to appear stymied in making any real, substantial policy changes because those mean old republicans keep bullying you and taking your lunch money… well, again, not a good look.
You’re on the stump now across the country campaigning on those grounds and its sounds more like you’re looking for pity rather than re-appointment. The thing with trying to appear as ” the adult in the room”, is that you get loads of obstinacy when the adolescents in the room with you, have no respect for your authority in the first place. However, that mustn’t stop you from laying down the law. It never stopped my Mom, a single mother of five big-ass kids.
If you’d just concern yourself with blowing your own horn on all you’ve accomplished thus far; Bin Laden, a great start to a future of healthcare reform, being stalwart against the GOP on their insistence to not raise the debt ceiling and their personal vendetta against Social Security and Medicare, a successful auto industry bailout, aggressive moderator to the conflicts in the Middle East, International Kumbayah Ambassador… look, you don’t need me to tell you what you’ve done.
If your true agenda is to be the beacon of ‘Change’, as you touted yourself to be and – we went for – back in your glory days in 2007, you’d better go for it now, with no damn regrets. Don’t give credence to my naysayer associates on Facebook who say you’re a pawn for someone else’s political agenda (ie: Robert Redford’s Bill McKay in The Candidate (1972), remember?).
Hopefully your initiative to present a master plan for (what I wish to be!) an actual Jobs Bill (wouldn’t that be grand!) that could realistically be implemented ASAP – despite the expected stonewalling from the party on the right – will jumpstart your mojo with a “TOUCHDOWN!” tonight.
Just remember to go wide Mr. President.
Information released today by the White House suggests that President Obama and Texas Governor Rick Perry recently had a telephone conversation, where the President offered FEMA’s help to the people of Texas affected by the wild fires. According to the news release;
Today the President called Texas Governor Rick Perry to express his concern for citizens of Texas impacted by the unprecedented fires.
During the call the President extended his condolences for the lives that have been lost as a result of these events, and made clear that the federal government, through DHS/FEMA and the U.S. Forest Service, will continue to make federal assistance available to state and local officials as they fight the fires.
The President also assured the Governor that requests for additional assistance, including as recovery begins, would be quickly assessed.
Following the call, the President directed his national security staff to continue to work closely with FEMA, the Forest Service and the State of Texas to ensure we were making all resources available.
Over the last several days, at the request of the Governor, the Administration has granted eight Fire Management Assistance Grants, making federal funds available to reimburse eligible costs associated with efforts to combat the fires.
FEMA is actively working with state and local officials to conduct damage assessments and to identify areas where additional federal assistance may be warranted.
This, after all the times Rick Perry has denounced the very existence of FEMA, and his many times promising to end the Federal Emergency Program. This dude is simply unbelievable.
Some bleak news on an even more bleak rainy September day. Various polls now show the President’s approval ratings are on a decline. Bad news for the President and the Democrats, as Americans – frustrated with an economy that is intentionally kept in the doldrums by congressional Republicans – blame the incumbent party.
That poll showed the president’s approval ratings skidding to 44%, with even worse marks for his handling of the economy and his overall leadership. An ABC News/Washington Post poll had similar marks, putting the president’s approval rating at 43% while a Politico/George Washington University poll has him at 45%.
The new numbers caused Democratic pollster Peter Hart to conclude, “Obama is no longer the favorite to win reelection.”
With the election still over a year away, the new polls seem to point to Republicans getting their wish to make this President a one term president. President Obama gets another chance to increase his numbers on Thursday when he presents his plan to create jobs. Although Republicans are expected to go against any plan the president provides, conventional wisdom would suggest that the bigger his plan, the more it will be supported by the people.
Republicans will do their best to make sure this support does not happen. Bet on it….
The truth hurts, huh?
While introducing President Obama at a rally over the weekend, Teamster’s President Jimmy Hoffa had some choice words for the Teaparty congressmen who stormed their way into Washington in the November 2010 election with one goal in mind – denying the Democratic President any political victory, thus, bringing America to her knees.
And so far, these Teaparty congress members have gotten their wish. For the first time in this nation’s history, America lost its Triple A ratings status, simply because the Republicans, controlled by the Teaparty, failed to do what was in the nation’s best interest and raise the debt ceiling – an act they previously did over 80 times, in both Republican and Democratic administrations.
And in Wisconsin, another of the Teaparty’s favorite governor has managed to take away the collective bargaining rights of public employees in Wisconsin, a move that many other Republican/Teaparty governors are trying now to do in their own state.
So naturally, middle class Americans are stressed. These hard working Americans are under the crosshairs, and the fingers of the congressional Teaparty members are on the trigger, aiming, waiting for another opportunity to shoot away another program that benefits the unfortunate like Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare. For some, their very existence is on the line and these Americans feel the need to fight back. So who’s best to state their anxiety, than the union president himself, Jimmy Hoffa.
In Detroit, while introducing President Obama, Hoffa said;
“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Hoffa told thousands of workers gathered for the annual Labor Day rally.
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march… Everybody here’s got a vote…Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.”
Of course, Hoffa was talking about the uncompromising Teaparty members in Congress. But now, the Teaparty and their enablers are enraged. How dare someone open their mouth and state the obvious?!? Their goal was to dismantle all that America stands for without getting any grief from anyone, but now, Hoffa has taken on the mantle and is calling it as it is. They are demanding apologies from Hoffa and from President Obama himself.
Well, to quote a message my editor sent to me this morning, “If Obama apologizes for Jimmy Hoffa, I’ll kick his ass myself!”
Well, maybe not “kick his ass” but still – for once, if feels good to have someone state the truth. Jimmy, you’re right! Let’s hope this is just the start!
Joe Walsh – remember him? He’s the Teaparty Republican who prides himself on how conservative he is. So conservative in fact, that his own family is taking him to court for child support.
Well Joe has decided that hearing the President of the United States give another address is not something he wants to partake in. The United States congressman has decided to boycott Mr. Obama’s speech next Thursday.
“I don’t see the point of being a prop for another of the president’s speeches asking for more failed stimulus spending and more subsidies for his pet projects.
“The president needs to stop the speeches, get out of his office and away from all the White House academics and start talking to real people out there. They’re the ones who are going to create the jobs, not White House paper-pushers and bureaucrats.”
It’s amazing how just about a month ago, the Republican talking point was, “where is the President’s plan?” Now that the President is asking all elected officials to come to the table and work on behalf of the people who elected them, Joe Nelson and his kind don’t want to anything to do with it. They apparently have better things to do. Nelson, a member on the Small Business Committee is planning a meeting with that group instead, which is equivalent to him spending the afternoon clipping his toenails, as no job policy decisions are expected from his get-together.
Meanwhile, the American people wait for some form of cooperation from their elected leaders. Instead, all we get is showmanship and childish political games.
Although it’s still way too early to make any accurate predictions for the 2012 presidential election, a new Quinnipiac Poll taken between August 17th to 23rd shows, that although newly announced Republican candidate Rick Perry is leading his fellow rivals, Mitt Romney still stand a better chance.
While Perry leads the Republican field, Romney poses a stronger challenge to Obama in a general election, according to the Aug. 16-23 poll of 2,730 voters, which has a margin of error of 1.9 percentage points. Romney and Obama each would win about 47 percent of the vote in a November 2012 match-up, according to the poll. Obama topped Perry 45 percent to 42 percent, the poll showed.
What’s even more fascinating however, is this piece of information; the poll also found that “men and white voters prefer Romney to Obama, while the president leads both Romney and Perry among women.”
Again, this is more proof that women are truly smarter than men. Listen to the women guys!
I like the way Dave Johnson started his article on this subject.
He gathered the following three charts from the Budget of the United States Government: Historical Tables Fiscal Year 2012, and advised us that the next time “your right-wing brother-in-law” who “…is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh Lie Machine, and keeps sending you emails about “Obama spending” and “Obama deficits” and how the “Stimulus” just made things worse…”, these are the charts you should show him.
Keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best. Although you will be presenting that person with the facts, the FOX-Limbaugh Lie Machine is very effective. Most, subjected to their daily dose of lies, don’t even know they’re infected.
Here goes!
If I had a penny for every time I heard someone making a stupid joke about President Obama, then apologize because “they didn’t think it would be an issue,” I’d be at least $5.68 richer.
Did you hear the one about Shery Lanford Smith? Mrs. Lanford or Smith is the Chairperson of the Sumter South Carolina Tea Party. Earlier this month, Mrs Lanford or Smith felt the urge, no, the need to post something on her Facebook page about President Obama and his family. She later pulled the posting after it became an “issue.”
Her posting? Well she posted a “joke” about throwing the President and his family out of a helicopter. In the so-called “joke,” the Obamas are on a helicopter suggesting that if they throw money out the window, they could make more people happy. The pilot then says, ” “I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy!” Mrs Lanford or Smith added to the “joke,” saying, ” “If you’re one of 256 million, PASS IT ON.”
Hahahaha…. Oh, that is so NOT funny!
When contacted by the media about the posting, guess what Mrs Lanford or Smith said? “I had no idea it would be an issue.”
With all the real issues facing this nation, and quite frankly the world’s economy, these people are consumed with firing personal attacks at the President and his family. A child wouldn’t be this careless. The teaparty is apparently overrun by immature imbeciles.
We’re all one people… correction… we are all one people, and then there’s Republicans. That’s not a statement I honestly want to make, but with the actions of today’s Republican, it’s easy, unfortunately, for me to do so. Take for example Mr. William Gheen, of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. Mr. Gheen has a message for America – President Obama is a dictator, and he is using undocumented immigrants to wage a war on “white America.”
Really?
But that’s not all. Mr. Gheen knows how to get rid of the President. He said that “extra-political activities that I can’t really talk about because they’re all illegal and violent” may be needed to bring down Obama.
We’re no longer referring to him as President Barack Obama, our national organization has made the decision and made the announcement we now refer to him as Dictator Barack Obama. That’s what he is. And basically at this point, if you’re looking for a peaceful, political recourse there really isn’t one that we can think of, and I’m really not sure what to tell people out there than I guess they need to make decisions soon to just accept whatever comes next or some type of extra-political activities that I can’t really talk about because they’re all illegal and violent.
It is healthy for this country to have a political discourse involving differences of opinion, but as a nation, we must realize when our political differences have crossed the line. Suggesting “illegal and violent” means to bring down the President of the United States shows why we are all one people, until it comes to these Republicans.
Where’s the CIA? Who’s investigating this Republican character?
President Obama took his weekly presidential address on the road this week with a simple message, we must put country’s needs ahead of politics. Speaking about the experiences he’s had and the people he has met on his road trip, Mr. Obama said;
It reminds me of why I got into public service in the first place. Getting out of Washington and spending time with the people of this country. Seeing how hard you’re working, how creative you are, how resourceful you are, how determined you are. That only makes me more determine to serve you as best I can as president. And it only makes me more confident in our future.
That’s why it’s so important that folks in Washington put country before party.
