Obama says it could be worse at a speech yesterday in Racine, WI. According to Obama, Unemployment could be 15 percent, and not 9.6 percent as it is.
Lucky Us!
His argumentation is that of a kindergartner. If it were 15 percent he could say, "at least its not 20 percent." If 50, "at least its not 75 percent."
Can’t he get it in his head that 9.6 percent is an abysmally bad number on top of the fact that it is higher than the maximum 8 percent that he promised if his stimulus got through?
Americans have longer memories than you think, Mr. Obama, and we are not going to let you get off downplaying a 9.6 percent unemployment rate.
There are 15 million people who won’t accept, "at least its not 13 or 14 or 15."
Obama:"The problem is, number one, it’s hard to argue sometimes, things would have been a lot worse. Right? So people kind of say, yeah, but unemployment is still at 9.6. Yes, but it’s not 12 or 13, or 15."
Tags: incompetent, Obama, UnemploymentBy Michael Barone, National Review Online-Thuggery is unattractive, ineffective thuggery even more so. Which may be one reason so many Americans have been reacting negatively to the response of Pres. Barack Obama and his administration to BP’s gulf oil spill.
The Obama Administration reacts to spill using Thuggery
Take Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s remark that he would keep his “boot on the neck” of BP, which brings to mind George Orwell’s definition of totalitarianism as “a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” Except that Salazar’s boot hasn’t gotten much in the way of results yet.
Or consider Obama’s undoubtedly carefully considered statement to Matt Lauer that he was consulting with experts “so I know whose ass to kick.” Attacking others is a standard campaign tactic when you’re in political trouble, and certainly BP, which appears to have taken unwise shortcuts in the gulf, is an attractive target. But you don’t always win arguments that way: The Obama White House gleefully took on Dick Cheney on the issue of terrorist interrogations, but turned out that more Americans agreed with Cheney’s stand, despite his low poll numbers, than Obama’s.
Tags: Gulf Oil Spill, incompetent, Obama, ThuggeryObama is beginning to remind me of an ancient Roman emperor. No, its not Augustus or Marcus Aurelius, but Nero, the man who played the fiddle while Rome burned. Except for Obama, its not a fiddle, its golf. And instead of one city burning, it is an entire coastline that is being destroyed.
Meanwhile, in his time off from golf, Obama is hard at work trying to convince Nancy Pelosi to pay for one of his commissions to study how "the oil and gas industry operates and how we regulate it."
Ed Schultz wants Obama to act like a dictator, but little did he know he is already acting like one: Nero.
Conservatives are so enraged at Obama’s socialism and radicalism that they are increasingly surprised to learn that he is incompetent as well. The sight of his blithering and blustering while the most massive oil spill in history moves closer to America’s beaches not only reminds one of Bush’s terrible performance during Katrina, but calls to mind Jimmy Carter’s incompetence in the face of the hostage crisis.
America is watching the president alternate between wringing his hands in helplessness and pointing his finger in blame when he should be solving the most pressing environmental problem America has faced in the past 50 years. We are watching generations of environmental protection swept away as marshes, fisheries, vacation spots, recreational beaches, wetlands, hatcheries and sanctuaries fall prey to the oil spill invasion. And, all the while, the president acts like a spectator, interrupting his basketball games only to excoriate BP for its failure to contain the spill.
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The political fallout from the oil spill will, indeed, spill across party and ideological lines. The environmentalists of America cannot take heart from a president so obviously ignorant about how to protect our shores and so obstinately arrogant that he refuses to inform himself and take any responsibility.
All of this explains why the oil spill is seeping into his ratings among Democrats, dragging him down to levels we have not seen since Bush during the pit of the Iraq war. Conservatives may dislike Obama because he is a leftist. But liberals are coming to dislike him because he is not a competent progressive.
Read More: BY Dick Morris, The Hill
Tags: Barack Obama, clueless, incompetent
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