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CNBC Town Hall Questioner To Obama: "I'm Exhausted Of Defending You"
RealClearPolitics ^ | September 20, 2010 | RealClearPolitics
"I'm one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I'm exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for," a woman told President Obama at a town hall.
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Mind you she is African American.
This woman scored a direct hit on the SS Obama.
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This woman really was compsed. wow, i don't think i could do it that well.
Video at site.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/20/cnbc_town_hall_questioner_to_obama_im_exhausted_of_defending_you.html
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Are you libs now going to call her racist?
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Here is the rambling nonsensical response from this complete idiot.
CONGRATS TO WHOEVER VOTED FOR THIS.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/20/obama_responds_to_exhausted_woman.html
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According to billy she is a retarded ni66a anyway...
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Are you libs now going to call her racist?
Nope!! She'll get hit with "Sellout", "Uncle Tom/Auntie Tomasina", and of course, "House N&^@("
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According to billy she is a retarded ni66a anyway...
No, she is a working slob like the rest of us utterly pissed off at this completely obtuse and out of touch admn who is following a Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals agenda.
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Nope!! She'll get hit with "Sellout", "Uncle Tom/Auntie Tomasina", and of course, "House N&^@("
They already started with that crap on RCP.
This woman is a hero IMHO for keeping her composure like that. Me? I probably would have rushed the stage like Springer and tackled him.
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They already started with that crap on RCP.
This woman is a hero IMHO for keeping her composure like that. Me? I probably would have rushed the stage like Springer and tackled him.
I didn't see that on RCP. Are you sure you're not referring to the left-winged goofies on Huffington Post?
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Nope!! She'll get hit with "Sellout", "Uncle Tom/Auntie Tomasina", and of course, "House N&^@("
She'll get the "All politicians are whores, including Obama", from me...
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According to billy she is a retarded ni66a anyway...
No,the retarded ni##gas are the unemployed idiots that vote democrat year after year after year and NEVER EVER see their situation get better.The dopes in Detroit who have voted democrat for thirty years and the city is now destroyed.The other retards are idiots who defend Obama and claim he isnt a racist out to destroy America when the evidence is overwhelming.
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No,the retarded ni##gas are the unemployed idiots that vote democrat year after year after year and NEVER EVER see their situation get better.The dopes in Detroit who have voted democrat for thirty years and the city is now destroyed.The other retards are idiots who defend Obama and claim he isnt a racist out to destroy America when the evidence is overwhelming.
but this lady is black..by your definition she is a dumb ni66er coon and is not fit to breathe the white mans air...
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No,the retarded ni##gas are the unemployed idiots that vote democrat year after year after year and NEVER EVER see their situation get better.The dopes in Detroit who have voted democrat for thirty years and the city is now destroyed.The other retards are idiots who defend Obama and claim he isnt a racist out to destroy America when the evidence is overwhelming.
I'm still impressed how well she presented herself and question under the circumstances. She totally put obama on the spot.
Not like 240's hero.
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but this lady is black..by your definition she is a dumb ni66er #### and is not fit to breathe the white mans air...
No, she is a taxpayer getting railroaded by the govt and sees that under obama's DISGUSTING policies, she is likley yo have to go back to eating pork and beans and hot dogs.
As someone who is in medical school, the ffact that you don't see reality of what this TRAITOR has done to the medical system and your future as a doctor, smacks to me as something beyond your assessment of reality, and something else.
Either its blind party loyalty or something else.
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Are you libs now going to call her racist?
No, ...but I'd be willing to call you one. Her race is irrelevant.
For you to notice it, and think it necessary to point out shows just how significant race is for you.
Here Obama responds to the exhausted woman:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/20/obama_responds_to_exhausted_woman.html (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/20/obama_responds_to_exhausted_woman.html)
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No, ...but I'd be willing to call you one. Her race is irrelevant.
For you to notice it, and think it necessary to point out shows just how significant race is for you.
Here Obama responds to the exhausted woman:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/20/obama_responds_to_exhausted_woman.html (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/20/obama_responds_to_exhausted_woman.html)
Yeah, it was a rambling, incoherent collection of pap, nonsense, made-for-tv soundbites, and spin.
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Good analysis by Rush.
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People need to understand, and we said it from the day this pofs was elected, that this is all intentional and he is trying to to destroy the middle class so he creates essentially two groups, a small uber wealthy elite he considers himself part of and aspires ro, and a vast impoversihed class dependent on te govt for evertything.
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People need to understand, and we said it from the day this pofs was elected, that this is all intentional and he is trying to to destroy the middle class so he creates essentially two groups, a small uber wealthy elite he considers himself part of and aspires ro, and a vast impoversihed class dependent on te govt for evertything.
why?
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why?
Why? Its about control, dependency, and making people subservient to the Govt and massive Corps who are in partnership with the Govt. A massive population dependent on the govt for everything is easily controlled, manipulated, and told what to do.
Again Mal - I go back to the KRS 1 interview the day Obama was elected. Obama does not see himself as a citizen of the USA whose mission is to help us and make us better off.
Obama, as he said so himself in his Germany Speech, considers himself a citizen of the world and trans-national figure. He seems himself using the POTUS position as merely a stepping stone to future massive wealth and power that he can wield for decades.
Just look who he surrounds himself with and who is pulling the levers and strings here. Obama is the medium and figurehead for all these forces to implement these measures of more control over us and Obama really does not give a rats ass since it will never effect him.
Everything he has done so far is to impoverish the middle class and make it extinct. And bro - you as a medical student of all people need to twake the hell up. ObamaCare destroyed your profession and you had better hope that the GOP repeals this farce.
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;D
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I was fliping thru the radio a couple of weeks ago and there was a black lady on NPR of all places. She does some type of spoken word thing and she was talking about how ANYTHING Obama does, all blacks are just supposed to keep their mouth shut and "like that shit" it was pretty funny, but very poignant as she was a big supporter until she saw how empty so many of his promises were.....getting out of Iraq/Afghanistan being her biggest gripe.
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People need to understand, and we said it from the day this pofs was elected, that this is all intentional and he is trying to to destroy the middle class so he creates essentially two groups, a small uber wealthy elite he considers himself part of and aspires ro, and a vast impoversihed class dependent on te govt for evertything.
If this is the case, ...and I'm not saying it's not, ...what are you doing about it besides screaming & name calling?
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If this is the case, ...and I'm not saying it's not, ...what are you doing about it besides screaming & name calling?
Trying to make enough money to stay out of Obama's serf class. voting for people who will hopefully, just maybe reverse his insanity, spreading articles on social networking, etc.
What else can I do?
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Trying to make enough money to stay out of Obama's serf class. voting for people who will hopefully, just maybe reverse his insanity, spreading articles on social networking, etc.
What else can I do?
See your PM's
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The Enraged vs. the Exhausted If you thought the 1994 election was historic, just wait till this year.
By PEGGY NOONAN.
www.wsj.com
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All anyone in America who cares about politics was talking about this week was the searing encounter that captured, in a way that hasn't been done before, the essence of the political moment we're in. When 2010 is reviewed, it will be the clip the producers pick to illustrate the president's disastrous fall.
It is Monday, Sept. 20, the middle of the day, in Washington. CNBC is holding a town hall for the president. A woman stands—handsome, dignified, black, a person with presence. She looks as if she may be what she turns out to be, an Obama supporter who in 2008 put up street signs, passed out literature and tried to win over co-workers. As she later told the Washington Post, "I was thinking that the people who were against him and didn't believe in his agenda were completely insane."
The president looked relieved when she stood. Perhaps he thought she might lob a sympathetic question that would allow him to hit a reply out of the park. Instead, and in the nicest possible way, Velma Hart lobbed a hand grenade.
"I'm a mother. I'm a wife. I'm an American veteran, and I'm one of your middle-class Americans. And quite frankly I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are." She said, "The financial recession has taken an enormous toll on my family." She said, "My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot-dogs-and-beans era of our lives. But, quite frankly, it is starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we are headed."
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Martin Kozlowski
.What a testimony. And this is the president's base. He got that look public figures adopt when they know they just took one right in the chops on national TV and cannot show their dismay. He could have responded with an engagement and conviction equal to the moment. But this was our president—calm, detached, even-keeled to the point of insensate. He offered a recital of his administration's achievements: tuition assistance, health care. It seemed so off point. Like his first two years.
But it was the word Mrs. Hart used that captured everything: "exhausted." From what I see, that's how a lot of Democrats feel. They've turned silent, too, like people who witnessed a car crash and can't talk anymore about the reasons for the accident or how many were injured.
This election is more and more shaping up into a contest between the Exhausted and the Enraged.
In a contest like that, who wins? That's like asking, "Who would win a sporting event between the depressed and the anxious?" The anxious are wide awake. The wide awake win.
But Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee suggests I have the wrong word for the Republican base. The word, she says, is not enraged, but "livid."
The three-term Republican deputy whip has been campaigning in Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. We spoke by phone about what she is seeing, and she sounded like the exact opposite of exhausted.
There are two major developments, she says, that are new this year and insufficiently noted, but they're going to shape election outcomes in 2010 and beyond.
First, Washington is being revealed in a new way. The American people now know, "with real sophistication," everything that happens in the capital. "I find a much more knowledgeable electorate, and it is a real-time response," Ms. Blackburn says. "We hear about it even as the vote is taking place." Voters come to rallies carrying research—"things they pulled off the Internet, forwarded emails," copies of bills, roll-call votes. The Internet isn't just a tool for organization and fund-raising, it has given citizens access to information they never had before. "The more they know," Ms. Blackburn observes, "the less they like Washington."
Second is the rise of women as a force. They "are the drivers in this election cycle," Ms. Blackburn says. "Something is going on." At tea-party events the past 18 months, she started to notice "60% of the crowd is women." She tells of a political rally that drew thousands in Nashville, at the State Capitol plaza. She had brought her year-old grandson. When the mic was handed to her she was holding him. "I said, 'How many of you are grandmothers?' The hands! That was the moment I realized that the majority of the people at the political events now are women. I saw this in town halls in '09—it was women showing up at my listening events, it was women talking about health care."
Why would more women be focusing more intently on politics this year than before? Blackburn hypothesizes: "Women are always focusing on a generation or two down the road. Women make the education and health-care decisions for their families, for their kids, their spouse, their parents. And so they have become more politically involved. They are worried about will people have enough money, how are they going to pay the bills, the tuition, get the kids through school and college."
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.Ms. Blackburn suggested, further in the conversation, that government's reach into the personal lives of families, including new health-care rules and the prospect of higher taxes, plus the rise in public information on how Washington works and what it does, had prompted mothers to rebel.
The media called 1994 "the year of the angry white male." That was the year of the Republican wave that yielded a GOP House for the first time in 40 years. "I look at this year as the Rage of the Bill-Paying Moms," Ms. Blackburn says. "They are saying 'How dare you, in your arrogance, cap the opportunities my child will have? You'll burden them with so much debt they won't be able to buy a house—all because you can't balance the budget.'"
How does 2010 compare with 1994 in terms of historical significance? Ms. Blackburn says there's an unnoted story there, too. Whereas 1994 was historic as a party victory, a shift in political power, this year feels more organic, more from-the-ground, and potentially deeper. She believes 2010 will mark "a philosophical shift," the beginning of a change in national thinking regarding the role of the individual and the government. This "will be remembered as the year the American people said no" to the status quo. The people "do not trust" those who make the decisions far away. They want to restore balance.
What is the mainstream media getting wrong about this election, and what is it getting right? The media, Ms. Blackburn says, do not fully appreciate "how livid people are with Washington." They see the anger but don't understand its implications. "They're getting right that people want change, but they're wrong about what that change is going to be." The media, she said, "are going to be amazed when Carly Fiorina and Sharron Angle win."
The mainstream media famously like the horse race—red is up, blue is down; Smith is in, Jones is out. But if Ms. Blackburn is right, the election, and its meaning, will be more interesting than the old, classic jockeying. And the outcomes won't be controlled by the good ol' boys but by those she calls "the great new gals."
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And she still supports Obama. ::) ::)
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Velma Hart, Who Questioned Obama's Policies, Loses Job
Published: Monday, 22 Nov 2010 | 7:17 PM ET Text Size By: John Harwood
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40324591
Velma Hart, who told President Obama she was "exhausted" of defending him and became the face of disappointed Americans this fall, has lost her job.
Oliver Quillia for CNBC.com
A spokesman for AmVets confirmed that Ms. Hart's layoff was "an economic decision that had nothing to do with her job performance."
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In another casualty of a weak national economy, Ms. Hart learned late last week that she'd been laid off as chief financial officer of AmVets, a non-profit veterans service organization based outside of Washington, D.C.
"They called me in on a Friday afternoon," Ms. Hart told CNBC in an interview on Monday, "and said they had made a decision...we should make that cut."
Even when she addressed Obama in a September 20 CNBC town hall meeting on the economy, Ms. Hart knew that the recent recession had put her job in danger through its dampening effect on donations, memberships and sponsorships at AmVets. She had hoped to remain on the job to help AmVets weather the financial storm, but instead became one of its casualties.
Watch Hart's question to the president here.
A spokesman for AmVets confirmed that Ms. Hart's layoff was "an economic decision that had nothing to do with her job performance." A White House spokeswoman had no comment.
The painful news caps a roller-coaster autumn for Ms. Hart. Her statement to Mr. Obama at the Town Hall drew immense national media exposure, from networks news programs to Comedy Central's The Daily Show to a profile in her hometown newspaper, The Washington Post.
The Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx even felt the need to rebut Ms. Hart's comment at a campaign rally for Mr. Obama in Los Angeles last month.
"What's in my heart is now, even more than I did before, I appreciate what millions of people who are in my condition now have been experiencing for the last two, three, four years," Ms. Hart said at the kitchen table of her home in Upper Marlboro, MD. "Of course I'm afraid. Everybody's a little afraid."
"I don't take lightly the fact that I know friends who've been looking for jobs for two years," she added. "Could it take me two years to find a job? Wow, that's a scary proposition for me and my family."
Ms. Hart said she continues to support Obama, though she worries he's been hurt by the recent midterm elections. As she and her family cope with her new financial setback, she plans to explore the administration's mortgage loan-modification program.
This Thanksgiving week, however, the wife and mother of two teenage girls is trying to remain upbeat.
"I'm a data-driven person," she said. "The data says the economy's getting better."
"I want to focus on the positive and be optimistic," she concluded. "And assume that somehow things will work out, that there's an opportunity out there with Velma's name on it that's right around the corner."
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Ms. Hart said she continues to support Obama, though she worries he's been hurt by the recent midterm elections.
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Black voters who mindlessly vote democrat are freaking idiots by and large. 95% voted for Obama, he in enacting policies destroying the economy and job growth, is killing the business climate, she loses her job after questioning obama in what is obviously a political assination, and she is worried about the republicans?
Truly delusional. No wonder we have this asshole as POTUS with fools like this.
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Absolutely nothing surprising here. She's caught hook, line and sinker, much like the rest of America. It's sad, and while I empathize with her situation, I only hope she finds the courage to wake up.
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For Gods' sake - she is worried about the GOP who has not even been sworn in yet while she just lost her job.
WTF is wrong with these people?
If she gets a job after January 21, 2011 will she credit the GOP?
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Woman who told Obama she was ’exhausted’ loses job
St Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 11/22/2010 | Editor
The woman who told President Barack Obama that she was "exhausted" from defending him and his economic policies and waiting for the change she expected after voting for him has another reason to be put out: She's lost her job.
Velma Hart, the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a veteran services organization based in Maryland, said Monday in an interview with CNBC that she was laid off as part of the nonprofit's effort to cut expenses.
"I want to focus on the positive and be optimistic," said Hart, who lives in Upper Marlboro, Md. "And assume that somehow things will work out, that there's an opportunity out there with Velma's name on it that's right around the corner."
Am Vets executive director Jim King told The Washington Post that the nonprofit was looking for ways to survive financially.
"It's not anything she did," King told the Post for a story that appeared online Monday. "She got bit by the same snake that has bit a lot of people. It was a move to cut our bottom line."
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"It's not anything she did," King told the Post for a story that appeared online Monday. "She got bit by the same snake that has bit a lot of people. It was a move to cut our bottom line."
No shit! The snake she got bit by is Obamanomics
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Liberals are so caring and loving.
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Woman who told Obama she was ’exhausted’ loses job
St Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 11/22/2010 | Editor
The woman who told President Barack Obama that she was "exhausted" from defending him and his economic policies and waiting for the change she expected after voting for him has another reason to be put out: She's lost her job.
Velma Hart, the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a veteran services organization based in Maryland, said Monday in an interview with CNBC that she was laid off as part of the nonprofit's effort to cut expenses.
"I want to focus on the positive and be optimistic," said Hart, who lives in Upper Marlboro, Md. "And assume that somehow things will work out, that there's an opportunity out there with Velma's name on it that's right around the corner."
Am Vets executive director Jim King told The Washington Post that the nonprofit was looking for ways to survive financially.
"It's not anything she did," King told the Post for a story that appeared online Monday. "She got bit by the same snake that has bit a lot of people. It was a move to cut our bottom line."
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"It's not anything she did," King told the Post for a story that appeared online Monday. "She got bit by the same snake that has bit a lot of people. It was a move to cut our bottom line."
No shit! The snake she got bit by is Obamanomics
so job loss came from obama? obamas financial policies caused tis womans loss of employment?
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I believe that Amvets probably is in line for some govt grant and were told to get rid of her to get the cash.
Who the hell ever heard of dropping the CFO to save a few dollars? Who handles the cash now? Something with this stinks.
GROPE & CHANGE!
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I believe that Amvets probably is in line for some govt grant and were told to get rid of her to get the cash.
Who the hell ever heard of dropping the CFO to save a few dollars? Who handles the cash now? Something with this stinks.
GROPE & CHANGE!
That happens all the time in the private sector, but not for reasons given in her situation, almost always politically motivated. (I'm not referring to government politics, but internal/external)
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Check out how some of these far left assholes are attacking her.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/velma-hart-laid-off_n_787124.html
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I believe that Amvets probably is in line for some govt grant and were told to get rid of her to get the cash.
Who the hell ever heard of dropping the CFO to save a few dollars? Who handles the cash now? Something with this stinks.
GROPE & CHANGE!
But im talkin about how you said "The snake she got bit by is Obamanomics"
how can you prove Obamas economic policies were the reason she lost her job
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But im talkin about how you said "The snake she got bit by is Obamanomics"
how can you prove Obamas economic policies were the reason she lost her job
Ha ha ha ha- how about Option E - take a fucking economics class for Gods sake!
Or better yet - go peruse mythread o how obama i killing the economy. I have over 150 articles detailing everything this traitor is doing to destroy the nation.
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Ha ha ha ha- how about Option E - take a fucking economics class for Gods sake!
Or better yet - go peruse mythread o how obama i killing the economy. I have over 150 articles detailing everything this traitor is doing to destroy the nation.
yeah but like thats a pretty simple undertaking. Do you have proof Obamas Economic Policies caused this woman to lose her job.. You dont have to rush and sling an insult.. do your research and get back at me at...sayyyyyy.. end of business.. is that cool?
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yeah but like thats a pretty simple undertaking. Do you have proof Obamas Economic Policies caused this woman to lose her job.. You dont have to rush and sling an insult.. do your research and get back at me at...sayyyyyy.. end of business.. is that cool?
Ha ha ha- are you kidding?
bama's economic policies are like giving a lung cancer patient filterless cigarettes.
Over 50% of the nation hate his policies and the rest of the world is screaming that Obama's plans are a relic of Marxist idealists gone awry. But somehow Option D and Benny know something the rest of the world, businesses, 50% of the population, historical evidence, and reality do not.
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Ha ha ha- are you kidding?
bama's economic policies are like giving a lung cancer patient filterless cigarettes.
Over 50% of the nation hate his policies and the rest of the world is screaming that Obama's plans are a relic of Marxist idealists gone awry. But somehow Option D and Benny know something the rest of the world, businesses, 50% of the population, historical evidence, and reality do not.
yeah.. i feel all that.. but just paint a little picture directly linking what in obamas econ policies contributed to her loss of employment...im saying bro.. take it easy on the comebacks and put a little research into it.. like.. well obama did this.. her industry is this.. because he did this that happened...
you know.. something pretty simple.. youre insanely smart.. so im sure you can whip that up in no time... dont rush.. you got all day.
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Its every industry that is shutting down other than the politically connected naked scanner companies and CEO's hacking along with bama to india on ur dime.
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like a quick.. boom bam would be cool... paint the picture bro.. ok ok ok .. i see this is a bit too much.. alright.. boom.. easy, post one of them youtube clips showing how obama caused this particular lady to loose her job.. ooooorrrr i got it, cut and paste one of them articles and highlight shit in red and cut out like half of it to fit your point.. boom.. ok.. now...3333 take your time...
Saying "um.. every industry" .. its a bit vague dont ya think
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Check out how some of these far left assholes are attacking her.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/velma-hart-laid-off_n_787124.html
As if this is a surprise. These are some of the same buffoons who raked Elton John over the coals for doing Rush Limbaugh's wedding.
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Ha ha ha ha - that lady was right. Beans and franks for everyone under Kenyanomics.
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BENNY.....GET WITH THE REAL WORLD BRO.....EVERYONE SUCKED OBAMA'S DICK AND LICKED HIS ARSE HOLE CLEAN.......NOW THEY REALISE HE IS AS PHONEY AS THE DAY IS LONG.....THE DUDE HAD HIS CHANCE AND HE DIDN'T DELIVER ON HIS PROMISES......HE IS A CANCER TO THE FREE WORLD.....LIBERALS HAVE TROUBLE DEALING WITH THIS FACT.....BUT THEIR BOY IS A HUGE FRAUD....THAT IS ALL....
Good post
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Ha ha ha ha - that lady was right. Beans and franks for everyone under Kenyanomics.
I never saw that video.
Man, she directed that question really well, unfortunately Obama gave the typical bullshit answer. "We're going to uh, uh, uh.....uh, your a hard working American, (insert flowery language), uhm.......you give back, uh.....(insert more empty words), uhm.....we're gonna give billions to students directly, so they can be in debt forever, uh.........insurance, (insert empty promise) uhm....credit card...(insert false hope), uh....." ::) ::)
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I never saw that video.
Man, she directed that question really well, unfortunately Obama gave the typical bullshit answer. "We're going to uh, uh, uh.....uh, your a hard working American, (insert flowery language), uhm.......you give back, uh.....(insert more empty words), uhm.....we're gonna give billions to students directly, so they can be in debt forever, uh.........insurance, (insert empty promise) uhm....credit card...(insert false hope), uh....." ::) ::)
I think that's an actual transcript of every answer Obama has given to an actual real question.
Interesting.
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What a jerkoff. Ha ha ha - Hope & change. I'm sure she feels a lot better now.
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Laid-off government worker to Obama: "What would you do, if you were me?"
Posted by Lucy Madison 17 comments .
In one of the more personal exchanges from CBS News' town hall with President Obama, one audience member, a pregnant woman who recently found out she was being laid off from her government job, asked the president for some earnest advice: "What would you do, if you were me?"
Karin Gallo, who jokingly described her job at the National Zoo as "non-essential employee number seven," said she had taken a job in government "thinking it was a secure job" - but that now, she feared for her family's future.
"I am seven months pregnant in a high-risk pregnancy, my first pregnancy," Gallo told Mr. Obama. "My husband and I are in the middle of building a house. We're not sure if we're gonna be completely approved. I'm not exactly in a position to waltz right in and do great on interviews, based on my timing with the birth."
"And so, I'm stressed, I'm worried," she continued. "I'm scared about what my future holds. I definitely need a job. And, I just wonder what would you do, if you were me?"
Mr. Obama did not explicitly answer the (seemingly rhetorical) question - but he used Gallo's story as a means to defend government workers.
"Let me just first of all say that workers like you, for the federal, state, and local governments, are so important for our vital services," Mr. Obama said. "And it frustrates me sometimes when people talk about 'government jobs' as if somehow those are worth less than private sector jobs."
"I think the challenge has been that in some of these negotiations to try to reduce the deficit, I think the feeling - particularly on the part of some folks on the other side of the aisle - has been that we want to just cut and cut and cut. And that somehow is gonna create economic growth," he continued.
"Everybody has a tendency to think that somehow government is all waste and if we just sort of got rid of all the waste, well, that somehow we would solve our debt and our deficit," he added.
But Mr. Obama pointed to Gallo's situation as proof that slashing jobs - even government jobs - can't be looked at as an abstract sacrifice.
"These are not abstract questions," he said. "And I think Karin makes it really clear that there are real consequences when we make these decisions."
"Part of my argument is that we're having to make some decisions about cuts to federal programs now, but also states and local governments are making these decisions on programs that often times are doing a lot of good. I mean, these are good things."
The president said that one measure he had taken to limit the extent of government layoffs was implementing a federal pay freeze.
"Some folks were upset" at the move, he noted, but "the reason we did that was so we don't have to cut as many workers as we try to get control of our debt and our deficit."
Still, the president conceded, government workers have taken major hits in recent months.
"The reason the unemployment rate is still as high as it is, in part, is because there have been huge layoffs of government workers at the federal level, at the state level, at the local level," he said. "Teachers, police officers, firefighters, social workers-- they have really taken it in the chin over the last several months. And so, what we're trying to do is to see if we can stabilize the budget."
"I do want to make a larger point to people, though, that folks like Karin provide vital services," Mr. Obama continued. "And so, when we have discussions about how to cut our debt and our deficit in an intelligent way, we have to make sure that we understand this is not just a matter of numbers - these are people."
Even if the president could not explicitly answer Gallo's question, he did appear to take her question to heart.
"My main message to you is that the work you've done at the National Zoo's important," he said. "Every child that you see who comes by and is amazed by those animals, you know, they're benefiting from your work."
Noting that he didn't want to pump her for details about her situation on national television, the president promised to continue the conversation with Gallo after the taping.
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like a quick.. boom bam would be cool... paint the picture bro.. ok ok ok .. i see this is a bit too much.. alright.. boom.. easy, post one of them youtube clips showing how obama caused this particular lady to loose her job.. ooooorrrr i got it, cut and paste one of them articles and highlight shit in red and cut out like half of it to fit your point.. boom.. ok.. now...3333 take your time...
Saying "um.. every industry" .. its a bit vague dont ya think
still never got it
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Maybe if you could translate that in to some type of readable and understandable English I could respond to that word jumble.
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But im talkin about how you said "The snake she got bit by is Obamanomics"
how can you prove Obamas economic policies were the reason she lost her job
well...i typed this first and you tap danced around it as well
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well...i typed this first and you tap danced around it as well
ha ha ha ha ha - are you freaking kidding? His policies are akin to giving rat poison to children.
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ha ha ha ha ha - are you freaking kidding? His policies are akin to giving rat poison to children.
and it starts again..
ok... in plan English...please
At the time of her assertion, how exactly did this woman lose her job as a direct effect to Obama's economic policies
lets see if you keep dancing
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and it starts again..
ok... in plan English...please
At the time of her assertion, how exactly did this woman lose her job as a direct effect to Obama's economic policies
lets see if you keep dancing
Do you play this dumb on purpose?
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and it continues
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and it continues
400k who lost their jobs last week agree with you.
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so... 3333..
can...you... illustrate...the... direct...correlation...b etween....this.... woman... losing....her....job... and....President...Obama s....economic....Policie s....
if not, shut the fuck up.. i back your monkey ass into a corner every few months, and you go on for pages.. this is like the 4th time.. now if you want me to stop putting your dumb ass on the spot, just ask.. but this beating around the bush thing makes you look like a typical "voter" with knee jerk reactions, off the cuff remarks, sound bytes and basically opportunist lies...
please Mally dont hurt em
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Obama's agenda, from Day 1, and even before he took office, has created a tremendous amount of uncertainty and damge to the economy to where companies fearing the future lay off people or put off hiring.
He has directly caused energy inflation, health care inflation, commodity inflation, and chaos. This has resulted in many losing their jobs and employers not hiring people.
Also - his constant bs about raising taxes on those who hire people is causing employers to put off hiring people since they don't know what the future holds with his bullshit.
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Obama's agenda, from Day 1, and even before he took office, has created a tremendous amount of uncertainty and damge to the economy to where companies fearing the future lay off people or put off hiring.
He has directly caused energy inflation, health care inflation, commodity inflation, and chaos. This has resulted in many losing their jobs and employers not hiring people.
Also - his constant bs about raising taxes on those who hire people is causing employers to put off hiring people since they don't know what the future holds with his bullshit.
soooo in other words...no... no you cant tell me how his policies affected her industry and caused her to lose her job..
also.. dosent a recession have to run its course or can it be stopped by government intervention.. choose your next words wisely son..
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soooo in other words...no... no you cant tell me how his policies affected her industry and caused her to lose her job..
also.. dosent a recession have to run its course or can it be stopped by government intervention.. choose your next words wisely son..
The govt caused the meltdown in the first place and cant stop it unless it gets out of the way and stops "helping" people. The very policies that obama has advocated his entire career are what led to the meltdown and he even admits he supported forcing banks to give loans they knew would go into default.
Geez dude - are you really that brainwashed into leftist bullshit that you believe this nonsense?
The only way to end the recession, is to allow the economy to bottom out, get the govt the fuck of buasinesses' back, get out of the damn way, leave people alone, and stop the crazy spending.
That's not what we did. We did, and are doing the opposite of what should be done.
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The only way to end the recession, is to allow the economy to bottom out, get the govt the fuck of buasinesses' back, get out of the damn way, leave people alone, and stop the crazy spending.
then this person looses job anyway right?
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then this person looses job anyway right?
Not necessarily. Many businesses responded with job losses and firing as a direct result of what obama was piling on top of them in addition to the recession.
Cap n Trade, ObamaCare, FINREG, energy insanity, etc, all ADDED to the woes of the economy, and many who may have been retained were let go due to the ADDED uncertainty and bullshit bama's policies inflicted upon the nation and economy.
Like I say to your left wing morons - TAKE YOUR BRIGHT IDEAS ON HOW BUSINESSES SHOULD RUN ITS' OPERATIONS AND FUCK OFF.
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Not necessarily. Many businesses responded with job losses and firing as a direct result of what obama was piling on top of them in addition to the recession.
Cap n Trade, ObamaCare, FINREG, energy insanity, etc, all ADDED to the woes of the economy, and many who may have been retained were let go due to the ADDED uncertainty and bullshit bama's policies inflicted upon the nation and economy.
Like I say to your left wing morons - TAKE YOUR BRIGHT IDEAS ON HOW BUSINESSES SHOULD RUN ITS' OPERATIONS AND FUCK OFF.
GOTCHA... soooooo.... proof to you is a loose correlation of instances and ideas that come together to make some very vague connection with no more in common other than both sides are in the same arena politically.
um i guess proof to you and I have different meanings.. like to me...my ankle hurts.. it hurts because i fell on it wrong.. not because someone was playing basketball on a court across town and he breathed and that breath carried back across town to my court and caused me in some round about way hurt my ankle..
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Proof is in the raw numbers chief.
Your messiah failed big time.
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Proof is in the raw numbers chief.
Your messiah failed big time.
lol there ya go... vague as possible huh
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lol there ya go... vague as possible huh
Yeah - Im sure the employer says to his employees - "listen shirley - you voted for obama who is now jacking our health care costs, jacking our energy and raw material costs, jacking our taxes, etc, sorry you are going to get fired"
Yeah, im sure thats how it is explained. lmao.
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Haha ha a ha.
http://www.hapblog.com/2011/05/obama-came-in-and-he-said-he-was-gonna.html
Video : "Obama Came In And He Said He Was Gonna Help Everybody, That's a Lie!"
HotAirPundit ^ | May 30, 2011 | HotAirPundit
Posted on May 30, 2011 6:24:51 AM EDT by RobinMasters
And who said this?
69 year old Shirley Billingsley, a tornado victim in Tuscaloosa, Alabama who is still suffering from the devastation one month later.
(Excerpt) Read more at hapblog.com ...
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Haha ha a ha.
http://www.hapblog.com/2011/05/obama-came-in-and-he-said-he-was-gonna.html
Video : "Obama Came In And He Said He Was Gonna Help Everybody, That's a Lie!"
HotAirPundit ^ | May 30, 2011 | HotAirPundit
Posted on May 30, 2011 6:24:51 AM EDT by RobinMasters
And who said this?
69 year old Shirley Billingsley, a tornado victim in Tuscaloosa, Alabama who is still suffering from the devastation one month later.
(Excerpt) Read more at hapblog.com ...
She seems to have aged well.
This is my favourite by far...I wonder what Option D thinks about this. ;D
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I wish we could find her.
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I wish we could find her.
She could easily be found, probably chilling out, having her gas and mortgage being paid....just enjoying life. 8)
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Video : "Obama Came In And He Said He Was Gonna Help Everybody, That's a Lie!"
Hahaha ha ha. - how is that hope and change Shirley!
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I wish we could find her.
I was looking for her. Apparently she has gone anonymous because she got so many prank phone calls.