barry: “I have more than enough to do without having to worry the financial system”

March 13, 2009

Seems our president is getting to busy to handle the economy. He also is having trouble answering questions…nothing new. Ever hear barry say yes or no? Or is it always the equivocating aka obamanating?

The other day he was asked if he was a socialist and he did not answer the question. He never said *no* or yes I guess. And it so occupied his mind he had to call the reporter later, saying at first he didn’t think the question was for real.

Now how can he possibly think that would fly? Biden said the same thing in his interview with Barbara West - but he said it right away and then answered the question.

Weren’t they asked it after Joe the Plumber came up? Haven’t they been asked it since then? Haven’t the blogs been abuzz with it for months? His botlets are everywhere, sure they have been commenting on the blogs and getting back to their master.

Anyway barry is continuing it wasn’t my fault…it was here when I got here…the economy is going to get much worse…I wish I didn’t have to handle it…where in the heck is this Hope! he stumped on? And who did he expect to implement the Change! he talked about?

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The transcript provided by the Washington Times’ Senior Political Analyst, JOSEPH CURL.

The original question and answer not on the video audio.

Q: Are you a socialist as some people have suggested?

BARRY: You know, let’s take a look at the budget – the answer would be no.

There was not a yes or no - just no in reference to something else. Just like he dodged the question about Hillary Clinton for VP “Well, she would be on anybody’s short list” - but not his.

Q: Is there anything wrong with saying, ‘Yes’?”

Again, no answer - look at my actions…Thing is his actions rarely match up with his words.

Let’s just take a look at what we’ve done…If you look on the revenue side what we’re proposing, what we’re looking at is essentially to go back to the tax rates that existed during the 1990s when, as I recall, rich people were doing very well. In fact everybody was doing very well. . . . We said that we’d give a tax cut to 95 percent of working Americans. That’s exactly what we have done.

This tax has yet to be realized. And then came his call recorded above.

BARRY: Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter. Cuz it was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question.

I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a whole bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement -– the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding.

And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word ’socialist’ around can’t say the same.

Q: So whose watch are we talking about here, sir?

A non answer.

BARRY: Well, I just think it’s clear by the time we got here, there already had been an enormous infusion of taxpayer money into the financial system.

And the thing I constantly try to emphasize to people if that coming in, the market was doing fine, nobody would be happier than me to stay out of it.

I have more than enough to do without having to worry the financial system.

And the fact that we’ve had to take these extraordinary measures and intervene is not an indication of my ideological preference, but an indication of the degree to which lax regulation and extravagant risk taking has precipitated a crisis.

I think that covers it.

It’s not his fault and but he refused to say whose fault it is or whether he’s a socialist.

So why the call?

Him protesting a bit too much?

barry re: Holder’s “nation of cowards”

March 7, 2009

I find this hysterical. Mr Transcender of Race decided to come forward and pretend he really intended to Unite! As usual, he waited to see the fallout before he commented.

Was there a poll re: Holder’s comments?

barry appointee Atty General Eric–I forgot to mention I dealt with impeached governor Rod Blagojevich–Holder made his thoughts known that “in things racial we have always been and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”

He was speaking to a rapt audience at the Department of Justice marking Black History Month.

He had the barry obamanating thing going on though: I believe…too many ways…essentially. He didn’t even have the moral fortitude to come right out and say: ‘I believe we have always been and still are a nation of cowards.’

Then he could at least garner some respect.

As was - he covered his bases, saying what was expected, while leaving himself some qualifiers.

That was February 19th.

My post then (with video).

March 6th is when barry decides to speak out and only because he was with Holder in Ohio.

What is going to happen to those officers when the money runs out next year? Will he go back to take credit for that, too?

And haven’t we had enough of these made-for-documentary campaign moments?

Anyway. CNN:

BARRY: I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language.

I think..it’s fair to say…if I had been…attorney general. Never any definitive statements and he made sure not to mention Holder’s name.

I think the point that he was making is that we’re oftentimes uncomfortable with talking about race until there’s some sort of racial flare-up or conflict, and that we could probably be more constructive in facing up to the painful legacy of slavery and Jim Crow and discrimination.

And I’m not somebody who believes that constantly talking about race somehow solves racial tensions.

Only when he needs the votes.

I think what solves racial tensions is fixing the economy, putting people to work, making sure that people have health care, ensuring that every kid is learning out here.

I think if we do that, then we’ll probably have more fruitful conversations.

We’ve made enormous progress and we shouldn’t lose sight of that.

So much so, 8 million eligible black voters couldn’t be bothered to register to vote for barry.

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Rev Lowery: “When white will embrace what’s right”

John Ridley: “Are you black enough to be part of all this?”

DL Hughley: “The Republican Convention looked like Nazi Germany”

Pres Clinton was right: barry's Iraq was a fairy tale

February 24, 2009

"Words don't matter"

True.

The nation is finally getting a chance to see that barry's words mean absolutely nothing and that they never have. His road to and out of Iowa was based solely on Iraq. He stumped on his "superior judgment" in speaking out on Iraq and then never acting on his words. Folks didn't even bother to check...until now. He was polled over and over that people voted for him because "he voted against the war". Pundits throughout the primary - and even after - even now - said he "won" because he opposed the war.

Michelle Bernard said Hillary Clinton might well have won if she didn't vote for the war.

Carlos Watson said Clinton's comeback might have been complete if it wasn't for Mr Bill's comments.

Now the fairy tale that got him to and out of Iowa and into the general - he has completely lied about. How many time has his stance on Iraq changed? How many times did he swear he would have all combat troops home from Iraq in 16 months? When he announced his intention to run he said he would have them all home by March 2008 - before the primaries were over.

Are anyone other than historians ever going to actually look at his words?

Will anyone ever hold him accountable for and to them?

Both he and Clinton got 18 million votes. Exactly how many were cast for barry solely because of his Iraq fairy tale and bogus promise to get the troops home? That lie alone was the only thing separating him from Hillary Clinton. And all along she massively outpolled him in regards to handing the economy and Commander in Chief.

You don't think the election was a cult of personality - let alone a splendid example of misogyny and sexism?

The dead chimp cartoon is an outrage and yet asking on TV how much Hillary Clinton's cunt is worth gets nothing.

barry's cabinet picks have already disproven his "superior judgment" myth. His inclusion of lobbyists has shown he lied about that, too. He was all along anyway - Axelrod is a lobbyist. Yes, folks, go check it out. Like Gibbs said about Daschle - "he's not a lobbyist because he's not registered as one." Illinois rules are such that Axelrod could get around having to register - by now you have to know how things operate in Illinois.

As far as foreign policy, Clinton visited 43% of the countries in the world and all she did was sip tea with Ambassadors and now all of a suddenly Secretary of State. His first decision as the nominee was Biden and it's clear how that went.

Admit it, folks - you voted for someone you didn't know (and still don't know), someone with no qualifications and someone who is a complete and utter fraud.

Fine.

Just admit to it.

barry's Iraq 25.0

He had the choice to do what he said and said and said and said he would do - but he didn't take it. Instead he took the middle choice. Surprise.

• At present there about 14 brigades = 142,000 troops
• All combat troops removed in 19 months (August 2010)
• 30 - 50,000 "non combat" troops left behind to advise and train Iraqi security forces and to protect US interests
• Also staying beyond the 19 months would be intelligence and surveillance specialists and their equipment, including unmanned aircraft
• Complete withdrawal of troops by December 2010

Change = Just what Bush agreed to.

Clearly words don't matter.

Other facts from CBS:

• Congress has approved more than $657 billion so far for the Iraq war.
• 148,050 defense contractor personnel working in Iraq as of December - 39,262 of them US citizens.
• More than 200 US military installations in Iraq and it can take up to two months to shut down small outposts that hold up to 300 troops.
• Larger entrenched facilities, like Balad Air Base, could take up to 18 months to close
• At least 4,250 members of the US military have died in Iraq.
• More than 31,000 injured.
• 35,841 have received medical air transport due to non-hostile incidents.

What does this mean?

How much is due to mental illness?

Land of Obama license plates

February 15, 2009

Now the Land of Lincoln is the Land of Obama. For $50 you can get his face on a temporary (60 days) license plate. But this merchandising is for a good cause and doesn't go to barry. $40 goes to libraries and the state's i-READ program, a summer reading program for kids. The other $10 pays the inmates' salary pounding them out. How long do you think they will last on people's cars before somebody rips them off and starts selling them on eBay?

The smoothest transition ever!!!

January 19, 2009

Everything barry does is the best ever! He is getting rave reviews for the smoothest transition in history:

Despite his two top aides Valerie Jarrett (talked with SEIU) and Rahm Emanuel (talked with blago multiple times) and barry himself having to be interviewed by the Feds because of their involvement with Blagojevich.

Despite his pick to head the National Economic Council, Larry Summers, who thinks women's minds are innately defective and not geared to mathematics and the sciences and that it's ok for pollution to be exported to undeveloped countries because it's cheaper to treat their potential health hazards.

Despite his pick for Commerce Secretary, Bill Richardson being involved in a federal investigation with more proof at present than blago's own alleged pay-to-play scheme.

Despite his appointee for National Intelligence Admiral Blair's questionable involvement in Indonesia.

Despite his Treasury Secretary (who will head the IRS) Tim Geitner - not paying his taxes ("an innocent mistake") even after he was audited and oh by the way didn't know that his housekeeper was an illegal alien.

Despite his pick for Attorney General, Eric Holder "forgot" to mention his involvement with blagojevich.

Despite his pick to head the CIA Leon Panetta has no intelligence experience .

Despite his first choice for CIA John Brennan had to bow out because of his - however nebulous - involvement with Bush's policy on harsh interrogation.

I'm sure there are more. And then there are the lobbyists barry was going to root out! How blind are folks? And barry's famed reaching across the aisle that he has no personal history of doing? He's laying the load on Sen McCain should something fall through and of course he needs McCain in the Senate, since McCain has a proven track record of acting and making a deciding vote.

Everything barry does is politically expedient. The only way the proobamedia is going to see that is when he actually has to act. So far he has been consistently "redefining" his view on almost everything. Does anyone know his views on illegal immigration? What's his latest on Iraq? Taxes? Guantanamo Bay? And many many more.

Yes, he has sought McCain's counsel - but has he publicly apologized for his comment in the debate--the last thing the electorate heard--that McCain's supporters were yelling "kill him"? It was a complete falsehood. But how are people to know that when the MSM is ignorant of the facts - still. And did barry ever make a stand on Rep Lewis' comments comparing McCain to George Wallace? No.

Uniter?

Transcender of Race?

Mr Transparency?

Right. Who still is buying that? And the release of his birth certificate? A list of his donors? His school and medical records?

How is that anything but a typical barry obamanation?

What is it going to take folks?

Barry's first unilateral decision with consequences will be as Commander in Chief and may very well be at 3am on 1/21.

You ok with that?

barry: US does not torture

January 9, 2009

barry answers a question about national security, torture and Iran.

VoiceofAmericans2008

BARRY: I was clear throughout this campaign and through this transition that under my administration the United States does not torture. We will abide by the Geneva Conventions. That we will uphold our highest values and ideals. And that is a clear charge that I've given to Admiral Blair and to Leon Panetta. And, I think it is important for us to do that, not only because that's who we are, but also will ultimately make us safer. And will help in changing hearts and minds in our struggle against extremists.

With respect to Iran. I will have more to say about Iran after January 20. I have said in the past, during the course of the campaign, that Iran is a genuine threat to US National Security. But I've also said that we should be willing to initiate diplomacy as a mechanism to achieve our national security goals.

And my national security team is reflective of that practical, pragmatic approach to foreign policy. And when we have a policy towards Iran that has been shaped by my national security team - we will release it.

He's already trying to pawn it off on his team even though he says the change will come from him. And note his use of "does not" not WILL NOT. He knows exactly what he is saying and is still trying to obamanate 11 days before he becomes president. It is going to be a very rude awakening...for him, The American People and the world.

Watch his previous stumps on Iran. One day it's a tiny country that doesn't pose a serious threat and the next day it's a grave threat. What do you think he'll settle on come Jan 21st? Here's a few more of his favorite poll-directed, politically expedient stances.

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May 18, 2008: Iran, Cuba and Venezuela- these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us.
May 19, 2008: Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.
May 20, 2008: This obsession with Ahmadinejad is an example of us losing track of what's important.

barry's campaign promises?

January 11, 2009

barry's making the rounds to state what he will do instead of being questioned by reporters. I have been waiting for this obamanation. I was worried I wouldn't win my bet that he would back up on every campaign promise before he got into office. But he did. It's the one thing you can count on with barry: political expedience.

"This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. (Transcript)

courtesy of lester941111

STEPHANOPOULOS: Which of your ambitions, which of your campaign promises will you have to scale back on because of all this?

[...]

BARRY: So our challenge is going to be is identifying what works, and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don't work, and making things we have more efficient.

I'm-I'm-I'm not suggesting George, I-I-I want to be realistic here, uh, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me press you on this. At the end of the day, are you really talking about over the course of your presidency some kind of a grand bargain? That you have tax reform, healthcare reform, entitlement reform, including Social Security and Medicare, where everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good.

BARRY: Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And when will that get done?

BARRY: Well, uh, the, uh--right not I'm focused on a pretty heavy lift, which is making sure that we get that reinvestment and recovery package in place. But what you described is exactly what we're going to have to do. What we have to do is take a look at our structural deficit - how are we paying for government, what are we getting for it, and how do we make the system more efficient.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And eventually sacrifice from everyone?

BARRY: Everybody's going to have to give-everybody's going to have to have some skin in the game.

In other words: he is raising taxes on everyone.

Wonder what Joe the Plumber thinks about "where everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good."