Barack Obamadashian LMFAO!!!!! What an FNG Moron.

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Jun 14, 3:07 PM EDT

Obama: Election is chance to break stalemate

By JULIE PACE

Associated Press
 

CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama said November's election will give voters the chance to break a stalemate about America's direction, declaring Thursday in a campaign speech in battleground Ohio that he and Republican Mitt Romney offer "two fundamentally different views" about how to grow the economy and create jobs.

Five months before the election, Obama sought to frame the choice for voters on the economy, telling about 1,500 supporters in Cleveland that Romney would join congressional Republicans in revisiting GOP policies of cutting taxes and gutting regulations. At one point, Obama specifically addressed skeptical voters and independents watching on television. "If you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for Mr. Romney," Obama said.

"What's holding us back is a stalemate in Washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take and this election is your chance to break that stalemate," Obama said. He argued that the election presents a choice between two stark visions of how to "create strong, sustained growth, how to pay down our long-term debt and most of all, how to create good middle class jobs."

"The only thing that can break the stalemate is you," Obama said to cheers.

The president's speech came in a month marked by bad economic news, something that could imperil Obama's re-election bid. May employment numbers showed that the private sector created a disappointing 69,000 jobs and that the jobless rate ticked up to 8.2 percent. This week, the Federal Reserve released data showing that the median family net worth shrank between 2007 and 2010 to levels not seen since 1992.

Obama cited a litany of domestic spending cuts that would affect Americans if Romney and GOP lawmakers succeed in adopting their ideas. The president acknowledged that "of course the economy isn't where it needs to be" but said the election-year debate will pivot on how the nation grows faster and creates jobs.

Obama and Romney spoke about 250 miles apart on Thursday. The president was at a community college in Cleveland; Romney spoke at a manufacturing company in Cincinnati. Both regions are key to their individual efforts to secure Ohio's 18 electoral votes. Obama won Ohio in 2008.

In his remarks, Romney told supporters that Obama had failed to deliver an economic recovery and had made job creation more difficult. "Don't forget he's been president for 3 1/2 years. Talk is cheap," Romney said.

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Not really!! Breaking the stalemate means throwing him and a half-dozen Dems out of the White House and Senate, respectively, while keeping the House.

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Jun 14, 2012 12:41pm
The Obamas’ Star-Studded New York Night


 
Tonight is the Obama campaign’s “New York Night” of star-studded fundraisers, with a much-advertised event at actress Sarah Jessica Parker’s home and a ritzy gala-concert at The Plaza Hotel featuring a performance by Mariah Carey.
 
Both President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend. The Parker event, which is co-hosted by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, will raise an estimated $2 million for the Obama Victory Fund from ticket sales — plus millions more from an online grassroots sweepstakes, campaign officials said.
 
The contest was pushed heavily online, through social media and in the Obama campaign’s first national TV ad that aired on MTV during its 2012 Movie Awards. One lucky supporter who gave as little as $3 won tickets to attend. The campaign will release the name of the winner today. They will join 50 wealthy donors who each paid $40,000 to attend the reception inside Parker’s home.
 
The Obamas will spend close to three hours mingling at the event, according to their public schedule. Later, the first couple will headline a 250-person gala at the Plaza Hotel on Manhattan’s East Side. Tickets were $10,000 per person, a campaign official said. Pop star Mariah Carey will entertain guests ahead of the president’s arrival.
 
Obama tonight will net at least $4.5 million for his campaign, the Democratic National Committee and several state Democratic parties, according to figures provided by his campaign.
 
The president tops 166 re-election fundraisers for his campaign and the DNC with tonight’s events — another new record; nearly double the amount of time spent fundraising by George W. Bush.


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/the-obamas-star-studded-new-york-night


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And he has the balls to complain about congress not doing any work? 

95er please! 

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What You Get at a Fundraiser With Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker

Anna Wintour speaks on stage at the 2012 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall, June 4, 2012 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)


 By MATT NEGRIN (@MattNegrin)

June 14, 2012





 Fixing the economy will be put off for a few hours this evening: President Obama will be busy shaking down some celebriguests attending a fundraising dinner hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Wintour at Parker's New York City home.
 
Tickets cost $40,000, about as much as the average person makes in a year. For donating all that money, what kind of party favors do these guests get? We can't afford to attend ourselves to find out firsthand, and even if we could, journalistic principles would bar us from going in the first place.
 
So we're left to imagine what Obama's uber supporters are paying for:

For $10,000: Matthew Broderick will sit next to you. For $5,000, you'll share a table with Will Smith. For $50, Joe Biden will watch you eat and tell you it's a "big f***king meal."
 
The standard dinner will be overseen by Michelle Obama and will consist of locally grown herbs, low-fat beet-garnished eggplant and a corn-and-soybean protein shake. For $4.50, you could get a tasty dinner from Burger King.


For $15,000: You might get a flattering profile in Vogue — though it'll cost another $15,000 for that profile to remain online once the editors kill the link.
 
For $2,000: Obama will give you a personal shout-out at the beginning of his speech. For $4,000, he'll serenade you with three seconds of Al Green. For bundling a half-million dollars for his re-election campaign, he'll make you the ambassador to England.
 
Donate $30,000, and you'll get you the cell phone number of super PAC major domo Bill Burton, but only after working through a series of increasingly complex clues to throw the Federal Election Commission off track.
 
For $9,000: Mayor Cory Booker will light your table on fire, then carry you out of the house on his shoulders. And for an extra two grand, he'll write you a job recommendation for Bain Capital.
 
If Fifth Avenue is packed and you're running late, for $5,000 the president will call you in your car and tell you that "the traffic is doing fine."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/fundraiser-sarah-jessica-parker-anna-wintour/story?id=16567579





 


For this to be posted at ABC you know Barack Kardashian is finished 

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Anna Wintour gets fashionably political for Obama fundraiser
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Anna Wintour is becoming quite the fashionable fixture on President Obama's campaign team this election season.

The Vogue editrix hit Chicago on Tuesday - flanked by supermodels Iman and Chanel Iman, designer Rachel Roy and Obama campaign manager Jim Messina - for an evening of haute fund-raising at Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios.

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Wintour was on hand to preside over the Windy City debut of the "Runway to Win" collection, a line of Obama-themed clothes and accessories by designers like Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Marc Jacobs, Beyoncé & Tina Knowles, Tory Burch, Tracy Reese and Narcisco Rodriguez - several of whom are favorites of First Lady Michelle Obama.

Tickets ran from $150 for a guest pass to sip cocktails and shop the collection to $1,000 for a VIP package, including a photo reception with Wintour and Iman (aka Mrs. David Bowie) and a limited edition bag, to $2,500 for access to the show, the reception and an exclusive dinner party at Oprah's Harpo headquarters. Donations benefited the Obama Victory Fund, according to a dedicated page on Obama's website.

The "Runway to Win" line is also being promoted on the site, with most tops, bags and accessories going for under $100 - a much lower price point than those designers' creations typically command.

Wintour has been ramping up her involvement, and her visibility, in the president's reelection effort of late. Proving she's good for far more than dispensing fashion tips to FLOTUS, Vogue's longtime editor-in-chief has emerged as one of President Obama's top boldfaced bundlers, raising over $500,000 for his second run on the White House.

The British-born Wintour's rising profile in the American political arena has stirred up rumors that the 62-year-old fashion doyenne could be in the running to become America's next ambassador to the United Kingdom, replacing the outgoing Louis Susman. However, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap that Wintour is happy at her current job.

Tuesday's summit for Chicago-area fashionistas was a repeat of a "Runway to Win" campaign event co-hosted by Wintour and Scarlett Johansson in New York on February 7. On Thursday, Wintour will return to Manhattan for yet another fund-raiser, this time with the high-end asking price of $40,000 per guest to join Barack and Michelle Obama and Sarah Jessica Parker at the "Sex and the City" star's home.

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Obama date night now includes fundraising stops
 Politico44 ^ | 6/14/12 | BYRON TAU

Posted on Friday, June 15, 2012 11:49:50 AM by ColdOne

President Obama has a little less time for romance these days, it seems.

In New York City with first lady Michelle Obama for a fundraising swing, the president cracked a joke about the pace of the campaign and the demands of the office.

"This is what qualifies as date night in the Obama household," Obama joked at a fundraiser at the Plaza Hotel.

The first lady too expressed her concern about the pace of the campaign, but said that she intended to be on the trail "with as much passion as this little body can muster."

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...

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Holy Shit - what a fucking con.

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How utterly absurd 

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Valerie Jarrett Says Obama Has “Genuine Love” for the Black Community – How Cute
KultureKritic ^ | June 25, 2012. | Dr. Boyce Watkins
Posted on June 25, 2012 10:13:35 PM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This week, White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett appeared at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in New Orleans. During her appearance, Jarrett reiterated the deep affection and appreciation that President Obama has for the African American community. Jarrett stated that President Obama has “genuine love” for the black community and that he is proud of being black. She also responded to questions from those who felt that there is no pleasing African Americans who have the audacity to ask the president to actually do something for black Americans.

When I process Jarrett’s remarks, I first wonder what black people she is referring to when she says that President Obama has a “genuine love.” If she is referring to black people who went to Harvard, are part of the Chicago elite and vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, then the answer is a resounding “yes.” President Obama and his wife made a special trip to Chicago to attend the wedding of Jarrett’s daughter, Laura. The black elite have benefited handsomely from the Obama presidency, in the way that a Congolese warlord might benefit when oil companies come and extract resources from underneath the people.

But if Jarrett is referring to the hundreds of thousands of families that are waiting for the president to use his power of the pardon to keep his campaign promise to help alleviate the pain of mass incarceration, then the answer is “hell no.” To date, President Obama, the black man with the power to help countless families who’ve been ripped apart due to the War on Drugs (which he has admitted to being a colossal failure), has pardoned fewer men and women than former President George W. Bush (oh yeah, whites are also heavily favored in Presidential pardons, you can’t blame this one on Congress).

I’m not sure if Jarrett or Obama has shown that they care for families like that of Maria Lloyd, the young woman who wrote an open letter to Judge Marvin Aspen, the man who sentenced her father to 15 life sentences for a non-violent first offense related to powder cocaine distribution. Maria writes about the intense pain of seeing her family torn apart as a little girl and how her brother was murdered after growing up without having a father to guide and protect him. I wonder how deep the Jarrett/Obama love is for families like Maria’s, whose loved ones rot away in prison as our politicians sip lattes on the beltway preparing for the next black tie social.

If you happen to be among the millions of African Americans suffering from black unemployment rates that are higher than they’ve been under any president in the last 20 years, then you have reason to be suspicious of Jarrett’s romantic overtures. When the White House has been repeatedly asked if there should be targeted policy for urban areas hardest hit by unemployment, the White House has been as quiet as a church mouse. The last time I checked, when you love someone, you speak about it proudly and with confidence. A man can’t say that he loves a woman if he is afraid to say her name in public (just ask Beyonce).

It’s not as if Jarrett and Obama won’t gladly use the bully pulpit in a self-serving manner. The White House spoke proudly in favor of gay marriage just a month ago. Right before that, women’s rights were pushed to the forefront of the national dialogue. Most recently, the Obama White House signed an executive order giving immunity to 800,000 illegal immigrants who came to the US before the age of 16.

I dare say that Valerie Jarrett, in all of her and Obama’s alleged love for the African American community, cannot point to any bold stand that the White House has taken for African Americans that is equivalent to what they’ve done for the gay community, Latinos or women’s rights groups. But if we are ignorant enough to simply buy what a politician sells us and not require them to engage in action to prove it, then we deserve nothing more than second-class citizenship.

Valerie, talk is cheap, which is why politicians such as yourself like to do so much of it. If I owe someone money and can repay my entire debt by saying “I love you,” then I will always be happy to give them words instead of action. Genuine love is communicated through activity and policy, not a bunch of woulda-coulda-shouldas. If I say that I care deeply for my mother and then let her starve to death on the street, some would say that my actions are not consistent with my words. So, when you say that you and President Obama love black America, while black children die from gun violence, black families suffer from unprecedented unemployment and black families are tortured via mass incarceration that can be alleviated by executive action, then your words are as empty as any other politician in Washington.

The most damning challenge for the Obama Administration is that they cannot find reliable proof that the quality of life for black folks has improved under their regime. The administration has been missing in the lives of black people like an absentee father who only shows up on birthdays to say “I’ve been thinking about you.” I can’t imagine Valerie being satisfied if her new son-in-law said, “Laura, I love you, but I’m sleeping with other women.”

No different from the parent who has neglected their responsibility or the man who uses smooth words to seek instant forgiveness, the administration can’t simply show up at election time and ask black America to “have it’s back. ” Loyalty gets what loyalty gives, and you’ve been missing in action.






LOL!!!!   I spend more time around blacks than does obamadashian.

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Obama: Biggest mistake too much perspiration, not enough inspiration
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Posted on July 13, 2012 5:45:34 AM EDT by Sub-Driver

Obama: Biggest mistake too much perspiration, not enough inspiration By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 11 hrs ago

Call it "too much substance, not enough style?" President Barack Obama says his biggest mistake since getting to the White House three and a half years ago has been his tendency to tackle the job as national policy wonk rather than the inspiring figure he cut in the 2008 campaign.

"When I think about what we've done well and what we haven't done well," the president told CBS television in an interview, "the mistake of my first term - couple of years - was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right."

"And that's important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times," Obama said in an excerpt of the exchange with Charlie Rose.

Presidents — politicians in general — tend to sidestep questions about their biggest mistake in office, though they sometimes stumble spectacularly over them (as George W. Bush did in April 2004), or offer up a self-serving answer that might be lampooned as "I just love America too much." Obama seems to be saying that, dagnabbit, he just took the job too gosh-darn seriously. Republicans wasted little time in mocking the answer. Republican National Committee spokesman Tim Miller tweeted "I'd go w/ utter economic failure."

And Mitt Romney hit out hard at Obama: "Being president is not about telling stories."

"Being president is about leading, and President Obama has failed to lead. No wonder Americans are losing faith in his presidency," Romney said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...






LMFAO.    What an effing moron. 

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And yet you wake up every morning in a basement and logon to getbig while the man you hate wakes up in the white house;)

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How utterly absurd 

and you bitch about "non-stories" 

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Obama: Romney Not Necessarily Qualified to Think About “Economy as a Whole” or Something
 Jammie Wearing Fools ^ | Jul 13, 2012 at 8:24 am

Posted on Friday, July 13, 2012 9:50:40 AM by Lazamataz


Obama: “When some people question why I would challenge his Bain record, the point I’ve made there in the past is, if you’re a head of a large private equity firm or hedge fund, your job is to make money. It’s not to create jobs. It’s not even to create a successful business – it’s to make sure that you’re maximizing returns for your investor. Now that’s appropriate. That’s part of the American way. That’s part of the system. But that doesn’t necessarily make you qualified to think about the economy as a whole, because as president, my job is to think about the workers. My job is to think about communities, where jobs have been outsourced.

....this must be some groundbreaking stuff from CBS, as they’re releasing this interview in dribs and drabs. Maybe at some point we’ll get to the part of the interview where Charlie Rose asks him why he’s a stuttering cluste****k of a miserable failure.

This is clearly from the Unhinged Projection Strategy for re-election (hat tip for phrase to Ace of Spades) .....So a guy who’s never crated a damn thing other than misery has the chops to question a wildly successful businessman?

This clown couldn’t make a profit off a lemonade stand.


(Excerpt) Read more at jammiewf.com ...

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33,

even romney's partner of 9 years said that bain's job wasn't to "create jobs".   Rather, it was to create wealth for investors.

Romney's claim that he's a job creator are kinda weak.  He can brag about having a better understanding of the economy than a man who has been POTUS for 4 years.  Maybe he's right, maybe he's not.  But bragging about creating jobs when his role was to create wealth for investors and many workers did fall to the side?


Well, the other repubs in the primaries were right about this. 

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33,

even romney's partner of 9 years said that bain's job wasn't to "create jobs".   Rather, it was to create wealth for investors.

Romney's claim that he's a job creator are kinda weak.  He can brag about having a better understanding of the economy than a man who has been POTUS for 4 years.  Maybe he's right, maybe he's not.  But bragging about creating jobs when his role was to create wealth for investors and many workers did fall to the side?


Well, the other repubs in the primaries were right about this. 

  


Go ask for a refund for the tuition you paid.   You learned nothing at all whatsoever. 

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Go ask for a refund for the tuition you paid.   You learned nothing at all whatsoever. 

bain outsourced a shitload of jobs from 99 to 2002.

Romney didn't 'leave' the company.  His name was on SEC filings during that time and at least 5 new businessees were started.

I can guarantee you - if those 3 years had created 500,000 news jobs and outsourced zero, we'd be hearing "look, that was MY name sitll on the dotted line, the buck stops here, I created those jobs"

I can't balme romney for wanting to distance himself from bain.  He saw 99 as a safe cutoff for claiming his exit. 


it's impossible to say you're the CEO and sole shareholder of a firm that you "left".  LMFAO.

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Obama’s Big, Bad Story Isn’t Right
Townhall.com ^ | July 14, 2012 | John Ransom
Posted on July 14, 2012 7:20:32 AM EDT by Kaslin

Obama’s latest mea culpa just confirms how far gone this presidency is.

In an interview with CBS’s Charlie Rose, Obama says that the problem he’s had isn’t with the failed policies of his first term, but rather that he failed “to tell a story to the American people,” according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor.

"The mistake of my first term – couple of years – was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that's important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times," said the president.

We’re paying White House staffers $38 million yearly, according to Politico, plus looking at roughly $750 million to a billion dollars in campaign spending to support this president- and the best excuse he can come up with for his failed presidency is that he’s not a good story-teller?

This is a man who largely won the presidency on nothing other than a fantastic and unbelievable story he sold to America via willing accomplices in the press.

Remember the story about Chris Matthews and the tingle that ran up his leg when Obama spoke?

That was a true story; a sad story, but still true.        

But being president in one way or another, and at some point in time, for us grown ups in TV land, should become about truth, policy and the American way- not leg tingles.

Leg tingles are great for a romance, but they don’t create jobs; they’re no substitute for an energy policy; they don’t make medical bills magically disappear; they don’t pay the student loans the administration tricked students into taking; they don’t win the war in Afghanistan when you surge more troops into the country and more American troops die; they don’t solve the banking crisis; or make green investments smart; nor do leg tingles restore confidence in government and industry.

But what can you expect from an administration that has nothing to offer but new stories about it being someone else’s fault?

Leg tingles? Forget it.

That was 2008.

For 2012 the tingle is entirely different.   

 “Because that's how you play the game in Washington,” admitted then-candidate Obama according to a transcript of his 2008 “closing argument” speech released by the Chicago Sun Times. “If you can't beat your opponent's ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up."

Indeed you do, Mr. Obama.

Because you can’t take the horror story that’s become Obama’s War-on-Everything and sell it as a children’s tome, or a feel good drama or even as a journey of personal discovery- as we were once warned about by Sarah Palin.

Because the story that led to those leg tingles has turned into one that makes the hair on the back of our neck stand straight up after three-and-a-half years.

And we can all feel the tingle now.

It’s the tingle of coal miners without jobs, teachers being laid off, public pension crunches, businesses, small and large, struggling with the most massive government intervention in this history of our country- outside of war- to what purpose?

So Obama can tell us that the only problem is that he hasn’t told us the right story yet.

Save it for your next, navel-gazing book, Mr. President.

And the sooner you write it, the better.

Because there’s another way to tell the story.

It’s the only way that really matters to all of us- regardless of our political persuasion.

You want money for roads and bridges and policeman and pension payments and health benefits already promised to retirees? You want money for teachers and new hospitals and wellness programs?

Then let’s try telling a story about prosperity.

For that story we’ll have to write a new chapter in the book of life; a chapter without President Barack Hussein Obama, and the new, improved massive federal government.

And the chapter will start like this:

Once upon a time there was a business that sold things to people. After a long struggle, it made money and sold more things to people; and so it hired more people to sell more things; and it made a very nice profit for Bain Capital, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, and so Wall Street and Main Street rejoiced alike.

That’s a story every president should believe in.

And never tire of telling us.

It’s a story that Obama will never understand.














Incredible.   He probably believes this shit too.

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Obama: Being President Means Being "Responsible For Your Operations"


SCOTT THUMAN, WJLA-TV: What about Bain Capital? It's a big issue for the past 24 hours right now. Mitt Romney's campaign says he left in '99, yours says it's 2000, there's a significant difference, is he being dishonest with the American public?
 
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well, here's what I know, we were just talking about responsibility and as president of the United States, it's pretty clear to me that I'm responsible for folks who are working in the federal government and you know, Harry Truman said the buck stops with you.
 
Now, my understanding is that Mr. Romney attested to the SEC, multiple times, that he was the chairman, CEO and president of Bain Capital and I think most Americans figure if you are the chairman, CEO and president of a company that you are responsible for what that company does.
 
Ultimately Mr. Romney, I think, is going to have to answer those questions, because if he aspires to being president one of the things you learn is, you are ultimately responsible for the conduct of your operations, but again that's probably a question that he's going to have to answer and I think that's a legitimate part of the campaign.
 
SCOTT THUMAN: And you think he should answer that soon?
 
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Yeah, absolutely.






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fucking speechless at how delusional this freak show is. 

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Obama: "If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."
 whitehouse.gov ^ | July 13, 2012 | Barack Obama



Excerpt from the socialist-in-chief speech yesterday in Virginia:

"If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."

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FUCKING SICK IN THE FUCKING HEAD. 

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Obama: DC 'feels as broken as it did 4 years ago'
Yhaoo ^ | 7/15/12 | AP
Posted on July 15, 2012 12:55:46 PM EDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Washington "feels as broken as it did four years ago," when he took office.

He's most frustrated by the inability "to change the atmosphere" in the capital "to reflect the decency and common sense of ordinary people" who want leaders to solve problems.

He adds "there's enough blame to go around for that."

Obama tells CBS' "Sunday Morning" that there's no doubt that he underestimated how much "politics trump problem-solving."

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If It Were Bush? Obama Goofs and Says Fainting Audience Needs 'Paralegals'
newsbusters.org ^ | July 15, 2012 | Tim Graham
Posted on July 15, 2012 9:44:48 PM EDT by grundle

Joe Newby at Examiner. com noted that the media that loves gaffes that make Republican look dumb somehow goes missing in action when Obama goofs. At a speech in Roanoke on Friday night, as more than 20 people fainted or struggled in the heat, Obama blurted out "the paralegals" would be coming to help.

Newby wrote, "A Google search at the time of this writing found that the gaffe has gone unreported by the so-called 'mainstream media.'", My own "all news" Nexis search confirms Obama wasn't tagged for this remark:

OBAMA: Now, before I finish, can I say, by the way, that some of you have been standing for a while and I see a couple folks slumping down a little bit. Make sure you're drinking water. Bend your knees. Don't stand up too straight. The paralegals will be -- the paralegals? (Laughter.) You don't need lawyers. (Laughter.) The paramedics will be coming by, so just give folks a little bit of room, they'll be fine.

Perhaps if ObamaCare would be fully implemented, you might need paralegals before you get health care. CBS noticed it, but didn't go beyond a tweet.

"Catching his mistake," CBS Radio reporter Mark Knoller tweeted, Obama corrected himself and told the crowd, "you don't need lawyers."

..."Obama, meaning to say paramedics are available if anyone feels weak, says "paralegals" are around. Crowd laughs along with him," tweeted Roanoke Times Live.

The folks at Twitchy have now been picked up on an MSN aggregator, but as usual, Obama's errors are always seen as far too tiny (or don't fit the smart-liberal narrative).

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Obama to business owners: 'You didn't build that'
 Fox News ^ | July 16, 2012

Posted on Monday, July 16, 2012 12:56:06 PM by Sopater

President Obama, in a speech to supporters, suggested business owners owe their success to government investment in infrastructure and other projects -- saying “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” Obama’s comment Friday during a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va., came just days after he urged Congress to extend tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration only to families earning less than $250,000 annually -- part of his argument that top earners have an obligation to pay more to trim the deficit.

“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me because they want to give something back,” the president said. “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” he said. “The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”


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This is the dumbest piece of shit ever to hold public office. 

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Michelle Obama: ‘Hope doesn’t get actualized in three and a half years’
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff - July 16, 2012 9:45 am


http://freebeacon.com/michelle-obama-hope-doesnt-get-actualized-in-three-and-a-half-years


PRESIDENT OBAMA: But, you know, the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times. I need to do a better job of that in my second term.
 
CHARLIE ROSE: Better job of explaining.
 
OBAMA: Explaining, but also inspiring.
 
MICHELLE OBAMA: Because hope is still there, you know? I mean, hope doesn’t get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we’d be out of luck as a country. So people still need to grasp onto something important. And they need a leader and a message and, you know, a set of possibilities for their lives.

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Report: Obamas Staged 'Kiss Cam' Do-Over Smooch for Media
Monday, July 16, 2012 | Kristinn
Posted on July 16, 2012 10:45:01 PM EDT by kristinn

Barack and Michelle Obama attended an exhibition game between the U.S. and Brazil men's Olympic basketball teams at the Verizon Center in D.C. this evening.

The arena's 'Kiss Cam' showed the Obamas on the jumbotron, but the Obamas would not kiss for the camera.

Apparently word got back to the Obamas that they were being made fun of so a do-over was arranged. First the AP reports:

"Obama and first lady Michelle Obama even appeared on “Kiss Cam,” the in-house video that spotlights kissing couples during a game break. The Obamas wouldn’t oblige during the first half, despite roars and some boos from the crowd. But in the fourth quarter, “Kiss Cam” peered back on the first couple and the president was ready: He put his arm around his wife and planted a big kiss on the first lady as the crowd roared."

The New York Times' Peter Baker reported on Twitter that the do-over was staged:

"Not to be cynical, but press pool was out in motorcade ready to leave and then brought back into arena in time for successful kiss-cam redo." 10:18 PM - 16 Jul 12 via Twitter for iPhone

Baker also reported the kiss earned the Obamas chants of "Four more years!" from the crowd.

Imagine the coordination that had to take place for the do-over. Someone, probably David Axelrod, sent Obama an urgent text message telling him he had to kiss his wife on camera. Next Obama had to tell his aide to order the Kiss Cam operator to focus on Obama again and coordinate when. Then the press had to be dragged back in from the motorcade outside and back to the floor of the arena.