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Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« on: September 10, 2010, 10:48:54 AM »
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama insisted Friday that the U.S. economy is digging itself out of the deepest recession in decades but conceded that "progress has been painfully slow" and many voters in November's elections may blame him.
NOW WHO would have thought the Legal Intelligent People in the USA would have thought The Man of Change has Short Changed America and Is trying to run us beyond return

 Facing a rising jobless rate, Obama told a White House news conference: "For all the progress we've made, we're not there yet. And that means the people are frustrated and that means people are angry."

"And since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'"
YES WE KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE YOU PUT US IN DEEPER and By the way Change Man Your Doing it behind closed doors I think NO I know you said Transparency somewhere in the Numerous Lies you tell

The president, who also is the leader of the Democratic Party, spent much of his appearance before cameras on the defensive, underscoring his frustration with being unable to convince the public that his economic fixes are working.

At his first formal session with reporters since May, one that lasted nearly an hour and 20 minutes, Obama also appealed to Americans to stand by the nation's long heritage of religious tolerance.

The Rev. Terry Jones, from a small fundamentalist church in Florida, triggered outrage when he promised to burn the Quran on Saturday's anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He canceled the plans Thursday but then said he was reconsidering. Obama said he hopes Jones "prays on it and refrains from doing it."

Declining to mention Jones' name, Obama referred to him as "the individual down in Florida."

A debate is also raging over whether an Islamic center should be built near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

Obama said people must remember that the country's enemy is not Islam but al-Qaida and other extremist groups. He said Americans can't turn on each other and let their fears lead to divisions.

On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks, Obama said the U.S. is still hunting for attacks mastermind Osama bin Laden. He said bin Laden had gone "deep underground" but efforts to hunt him down would go on "as long as I'm president."

He said "the folks who are most interested in the war between Islam and the West are al-Qaida. That's what they've been banking on." He said the battle was against just a handful of people "who are engaging in hateful acts."

He counseled respect and inclusion for Muslims in the United States. He said, "They are Americans. We don't differentiate between 'them' and 'us.' It's just us."

As for continued terror threats against America, nine years after 9/11, Obama said, "There is always going to be the potential for an individual or a small group of individuals, if they are willing to die, to kill other people. ... That threat is there, and it's important, I think, for the American people to understand that. And not to live in fear; it's just a reality of today's world that there are going to be threats out there."

He added, "We are going to have this problem out there for a long time to come, but it doesn't have to completely distort us and it doesn't have to dominate our foreign policy. What we can do is to constantly fight against it."

On the economy, Obama repeated his contention that Republican obstructionism is hampering his ability to steer the nation into a stronger recovery. He renewed his insistence that Senate Republicans drop their stalling of a bill before the Senate to help small businesses.

And he said yet again that Bush-era tax cuts should be extended for individuals earning less than $200,000 a year and joint filers earning less than $250,000. All the Bush tax cuts are to expire at the end of this year unless Congress acts.

Obama said Congress shouldn't delay extending the middle-class tax cuts any longer.

"Why hold it up? Why hold the middle class hostage?" he said.

Some prominent Democrats recently have suggested temporarily extending all of the expiring cuts, for perhaps a year or two, as a compromise. But so far Obama has dug in and rejected all talk of such a deal.

He said extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans "is a bad idea."

Obama repeatedly sought to justify the high-dollar actions his administration has taken to boost a sputtering recovery. And he blamed Republicans for holding back future progress by uniformly opposing other proposals on the table.

His previous revival effort has worked, Obama said, but "it just hasn't done as much as we needed to do." With public opinion sour on the first economic stimulus plan, Obama initially refused to call the three-pronged economic plan he laid out this week a "stimulus" plan but then said: "There's no doubt that everything we've been trying to do ... is designed to stimulate growth and additional jobs in the economy. That's our entire agenda."

Much of the summer has been marked by one discouraging economic report after another.

Yet, reports so far this month _from manufacturing to new jobless claims to home sales to business activity — have topped most forecasts. That has brightened the outlook somewhat as worries of a "double-dip" recession fade.

Still, there is little that Obama can do that is likely to turn the economy around in the short time before Election Day on Nov. 2.

Facing a possible GOP blowout in November, many Democrats who supported Obama earlier this year on his landmark health care overhaul bill have sought to distance themselves from the unpopular law. Some Democrats have actively criticized it as they campaign.

Asked why this was so, Obama cited a "political season" in which he said every candidate has "their own district, their own makeup, their own plan, their own message."

With the unemployment rate at 9.6 percent, Obama said that Democratic and Republican candidates alike "are going to make the best argument they can right now."

"That's how political races work," he said.

Obama over the past week has outlined a trio of job-creation ideas designed to prod the economy: $50 billion for roads, rail lines and other infrastructure spending, a permanent research and development credit and upfront 100 percent business write-offs through 2012.

Facing a possible GOP blowout in November, Obama sought to rally his struggling party, casting Democrats as warriors for the hard-pressed middle class and Republicans as protectors of millionaires and special interests.

Asked how he had changed Washington, Obama said the dreadful economy made it hard to demonstrate real progress.

"I think that's fair. I'm as frustrated as anybody by it," Obama said.

Obama also:

• Said he was naming White House economist Austan D. Goolsbee to succeed Christina Romer as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers.

• Said he is encouraging peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians because the alternative is a status quo that puts both parties — and the U.S. — at risk.

• Praised consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor and head of a panel investigating the financial meltdown, but said he's not ready to make an announcement of whether she is his choice to head a new financial consumer protection bureau.

• His administration has fallen short in his goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center after promising to close it within his first year as president. He said he still believes the American justice system is capable of prosecuting, convicting and holding terrorists who have attacked the U.S.

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Associated Press writers Liz Sidoti, Anne Gearan, Erica Werner, David Pace, Jim Kuhnhenn, Donna Cassata, Merrill Hartson and Mike Hammer contributed to this report.

  I watched a good Part of the Fumbling fool  He or the one writing teleprompter  could not get together He should just ask to be Ousted

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Re: Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2010, 02:16:45 PM »
Had enough change yet??? I know I'm ready for a big change in November. POWDERMAN.  ;D ;D
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Re: Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2010, 02:26:05 PM »
He is now saying that of course you can't insure 30 million people without it costing something...he at first said it would more than pay for itself. 
Just heard him say that this afternoon on the radio.  He also said it would take a lot of time to lower the costs. 

He's scratchin big time...I am noticing a bit of anger and frustration in his voice in interviews where the facts are being thrown at him from his own lefties.
He may be going down...well see, but even if he does, he and congress have done more damage in a shorter time than anything I can remember.

Would be nice if he could have just stretched it out slowly like a republican... ;D   (just had to say it)

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Re: Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2010, 05:28:44 PM »
And where are the 4 million jobs old leather face from San Fran claimed health care reform would create? They must have been swallowed up by the 500 million jobs she said we are losing every month.
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Re: Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2010, 05:58:14 PM »
I'm thinking that they finally caught on to his blaming Bush was not working anymore. Now they put blame the voters on his teleprompter.
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Re: Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2010, 09:02:44 PM »
My TV has an ignore button on it. There are a group of communist libs and their lying, muslim puppet that activates the button. I don't or want listen to the puppet.
If I want to listen to a bunch of lies and BS. I will look up a drug dealing whore but she would still have better character and make more sense.

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Re: Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2010, 02:55:04 AM »
My memory is that things went to pieces in the fall of 2008, before President Obama was elected - but will voters blame the President for how things are? Sure. Most of those blaming him wouldn't vote for him anyhow.
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Re: Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2010, 03:54:56 AM »
My memory is that things started to go bad in 2007 after the Dumocrats took over Congress.  From that point on, there wasn't much that GWB could do, even if he wanted to.  Yes, he could have shut the government down, but that would have given the Dumocrats the ammunition they were looking for.

As badly as things did go sideways with spending and deficits in the last couple of years of the Bush administration, you don't fix that by quadrupling it and starting a whole bunch of new social programs.

I think that President Bush and the Republicans underestimated how irresponsible the Dumocrats can be.  They probably thought the Dumocrats would have to put their socialist agenda on hold in order to correct the badly out of balance spending etc.  Never make the mistake of thinking that Dumocrats are incapable of making a bad situation, many, many times worse.
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Re: Obama says voters may blame him for economy Duh! Ya!! Think??
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2010, 04:23:56 AM »
 I watched most of it yesterday something I don't often do, But I'm starting to think, I want to hear what this Liar is going to bring to the table for the Following fools
 He was completely out of his element IMHO during the entire session. Yes he is discouraged, I feel part of it is that the Bush Blaming has been worn beyond thin  
 Horse Dung is catching him, the throwing of it on a daily basis, has started to stick on the mirror, I say the speakers or the crooks behind him and his TelePrompTer are telling him he's done. The sarcastic shove it down the Americans throat attitude is taking toll. He is mad in many many ways and it shows very well, yesterday he couldn't follow the TelePrompTer is was not helping his anger and I actually liked to watch him Failing miserably
I also like that they are hiding the crazy Pelosi, I'm sure in the near future they will speak of her as the Wart that needs removing . I just hope the Press shows her in a full blow out spasm
 I can't see any way this male can make round two, I said from the onset I hoped he would get caught at something and be Ousted ,I feel my hopes are not to become Fact. I feel the reason is, If it were to happen Jack arse Joe would take over, In a day he could absolutely ruin what’s left of our Great Country
   I feel he'll be kept right where he is and the Liar will finish his 4 years  with the forth having him as the largest joke of the world