Re-Elect Obama — The Ultimate FAQ
President Obama inherited a mess of an economy and has really turned it around. People seem to have trouble understanding this, though, so I thought I’d answer some common questions about the economy to explain what a great job he’s been doing and why he deserves reelection.
REELECT OBAMA FAQ: THE ECONOMY
Q. Obama was elected in large part because of the problems in the economy, but four years later the economy is in even worse shape. Why, then, should we reelect him?
A. Because Obama has lots of plans to get the economy going and create jobs. Romney doesn’t have a plan except to ride his car elevator and laugh at poor people.
Q. Plans? Hasn’t Obama been president for four years? Why hasn’t he already implemented his plans?
A. He has, and he’s done a great job with the economy! The recovery is in full force! Better stand out of the way of the economy — it’s raging!
Q. So are you claiming that what we see now is a good job with the economy?
A. Well, not all of Obama’s great ideas have been implemented, because the Republicans keep blocking his plans.
Q. So Obama hasn’t done a good job with the economy, and you’re blaming that on Republicans?
A. No, Obama has been a huge success, and his policies have created millions and millions of jobs! Oh! Wow! So many jobs!
Q. If Obama’s policies have made millions of jobs, why is unemployment higher than when he started, and why was it over 8% for well over forty months?
A. Because of BUSH! He was a very bad president, and he’s still on the loose, hurting the economy and losing jobs. Hopefully one day he can be captured and stopped.
Q. I’m a little confused. Are you claiming that Obama has put in place successful policies that have fixed the economy, or that he’s been completely impotent to fix things because of the Republicans and Bush?
A. Obama has done a great job, except for all this unprecedented opposition from the Republicans.
Q. Unprecedented? Hasn’t every president had to deal with an opposition party? Is Obama just much worse at that than all previous presidents?
A. No, it’s the Republicans that are much worse. They are the Party of No. They say no to everything. Obama is like, “Want to spend a few trillion more dollars?” and they say, “No!” What a bunch of jerks.
Q. Won’t the Republicans still be around in the next Obama term? Does that mean there will just be four more years of Obama complaining that the Republicans are blocking everything?
A. No, the Republicans will be cowed into doing everything Obama says when he tells them, “I won. Again.”
Q. But didn’t Obama have a majority in the House and a sixty seat majority in the Senate during his first two years as president? Why didn’t he just pass all his brilliant ideas then?
A. He did! He passed some great things, like the stimulus, and that other thing that we don’t need to spend a lot of time discussing other than to say that it was widely hailed as kinda constitutional.
Q. But wasn’t the stimulus a big failure? By Obama’s predictions, wasn’t unemployment supposed to never go above 8% and be below 6% by now?
A. Obama made those predictions before he knew exactly how bad things were. That awful Bush strikes again! We need a nationwide manhunt to find him and stop him!
Q. So you’re saying Obama spent like a trillion dollars based on bad data?
A. No, it was still a huge success and saved millions of jobs and helped grow our economy. Better stand back — that economy is going to explode… in growth!
Q. It’s years later, and growth is barely over 1%. Hasn’t this been the slowest recovery ever, and thus wasn’t the stimulus a big failure?
A. Well, more needs to be done, but did I mention about those nasty Republicans stopping Obama?
Q. It still just seems like a huge failure, especially considering that we’ve gotten this anemic growth at the cost of a massive increase in the national debt. Didn’t Obama promise to halve the deficit?
A. And Obama has presided over a government that has had the lowest spending rate in decades.
Q. Wait! What?!
A. Lowest rate in decades.
Q. The national debt has gone up $5 trillion dollars! What in the world are you talking about?
A. Lowest rate in decades. Fact checkers will back me up on this.
Q. The debt has gone up from $11 trillion to $16 trillion. For the first time ever, the country’s credit rating was downgraded. Are you insane?
A. While Obama has been in office, the deficit has increased at a really low rate.
Q. Wait a second. So Obama received a record deficit because we were fighting two wars and promised to halve it, and you want us to give him credit for only increasing it a little bit?
A. Obama is thrifty.
Q. And didn’t Obama want to spend even more than he has but was stopped by Congress and the Party of No?
A. Well, maybe Obama hasn’t done the greatest job on debt, but that’s because of his laser-like focus on jobs.
Q. What laser-like focus? Didn’t he use up all his political capital on ObamaCare — a program Americans didn’t want that has nothing to do with jobs?
A. It’s sorta jobs-related, because people often get health insurance through their jobs. So maybe it’s more of a shotgun focus on jobs — you know, hitting jobs and things around jobs, like health insurance.
Q. And what was all the time he spent taking on religious liberty to give a 30-year-old Georgetown law student free birth control?
A. Because… um… people will work harder knowing that Sandra Fluke won’t accidentally reproduce.
Q. And why does Obama spend so much time talking about raising taxes on the rich? How does raising taxes help with jobs?
A. Because… um… er… fairness.
Q. How is Obama supposed to help create jobs when he seems to have so much contempt for small business owners, as demonstrated by his “you didn’t build that” speech?
A. That speech was taken out of context. Obama was simply making the point that the government builds the roads and bridges that businesses need to operate.
Q. Why did Obama, who has never run a business in his life, feel the need to give a patronizing lecture to business owners about who makes roads and bridges? Shouldn’t they be lecturing him?
A. No. One of the biggest economic hurdles we face is the arrogance of small business owners, who won’t admit that they owe us for all those roads and bridges. Only Obama is willing to put them in their place.
Q. Should we take as an indication of which candidate is better on jobs the fact that polls show small business owners overwhelmingly prefer Governor Romney?
A. The reason small business owners like Romney is because they know they can just push him around, making their businesses wherever they want. We need Obama, because he will give the business owners a good smack, keep them in line, and tell them, “Hey, you lazy bums, we did the hard part; we made the roads and bridges. Now just make your businesses along them, and shut up!”
Q. It still seems a lot like Obama is hostile to business. How can we trust him to help with jobs?
A. Maybe Obama doesn’t like all the businesses that are so focused on silly things like profit, but he’s invested lots of money in green jobs.
Q. Like the $500 million he invested in the now bankrupt Solyndra?
A. They certainly didn’t make an evil profit. But don’t forget Obama’s brilliant plan that saved the jobs at General Motors.
Q. What brilliant plan? All he did was throw a bunch of money we don’t have at GM, and it’s still a failing business. It really doesn’t seem like Obama has much business sense.
A. That’s because businesses are stupid. And why is everyone so obsessed with jobs, anyway? Haven’t you heard how easy it is to get food stamps now? And if you end your foolish endeavor to find a job, you no longer count in the unemployment rate and can help bring it down. So do your part, and just give up.
Q. It still seems like Obama has done an awful job with the economy, and there’s no indication he has any better plans for his next term.
A. What are you talking about? He’s got lots of great plans, like more spending to stimulate the economy and higher taxes on the rich.
Q. Tax and spend?
A. That counts as a plan. So expect great economic growth in Obama’s next term — unless Bush is still around causing trouble and the Republicans don’t do everything Obama tells them to do and those stupid business owners get all snotty.
Q. And the deficit?
A. We’ll have the lowest spending ever. Just like now.
Q. You’re psychotic.
A. Not so loud! Bush might hear us and ruin our plans. He’s always out there, and I hear he can take many forms. Like he could be that squirrel over there. Wait. Why is it looking at me? Is that Bush? KILL THAT SQUIRREL!
And vote Obama 2012. Forward!
‘..people will work harder knowing that Sandra Fluke won’t accidentally reproduce’.
That was awesome!
Frank, thanks for the satire.
However, be aware many Illiberals alike will believe both this and The Daily Caller’s, ‘The Lizard King’ not to be satire but ‘shoddy reporting’ by Conservatives.
– how his supporters actually reason and explain.
Yup! That’s how the spin-meisters sold their Cool Aid last time. Same kinda pitching their using now!
“Obama has lots of plans to get the economy going and create jobs.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KksMNKXuiNw
I know people who actually think like that. And what is scary, they vote! I am putting a link to this on Fundamental Refounding (google it, nice site) so our patriots group can partake of some great tongue in cheek! God bless!
Or, the explanation could be even simpler.
I would not be at all surprised if Joe Plugs makes exactly this argument tonight. Remember, he is famous for trying to prove he’s “the smartest guy in the room” by blurting out things that The One and his minions would prefer were not public knowledge.
All “progressives” think they are smarter than everyone else on Earth. The One thinks He is more brilliant, more caring, more compassionate, and just more everything than anyone else in the Universe. In fact, He thinks the Universe revolves around Him, and that reality in same is whatever He wants it to be.
In fact, he seems to be a remarkably stupid individual with the common fault of remarkably stupid individuals, that being that he is absolutely convinced that he is perfectly intelligent, and therefore perfectly right about everything.
For an example of just how badly wrong this can go, read “Day of the Moron” by H.Beam Piper;
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18949/18949-h/18949-h.htm
Then on November 6, vote for the other guy.
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eon
Reposts on Twitter by liberals who completely agree and completely miss the satire part in 5…4…3…
of course…they’re already going bonkers over that evil romney outlawing feminine hygiene products
Liberals use feminine hygiene products? By the looks of them at their ‘rallies’, I’d have that otherwise. I’d be too afraid to take a whiff and find out for certain though. A ‘low stinking tide’ comes to mind…
Obamaphone!
Q. But wasn’t the stimulus a big failure? By Obama’s predictions, wasn’t unemployment supposed to never go above 8% and be below 6% by now?
A. Obama made those predictions before he knew exactly how bad things were. That awful Bush strikes again! We need a nationwide manhunt to find him and stop him!
Yeah, just think of how much worse it would be if Obama hadn’t spent the stimulus money. Bush screwed the economy so much that we really needed TWO tow trucks (i.e. another huge stimulus) to get the economy out of the ditch.
Years later…
“Think of how bad it would be if we didn’t have those five tow trucks. Obviously the solution is a sixth! Granted, there’s little left to tow, but… BOOSH!”
Frank was more fun when he was writing satire.
The China-Japan Dispute Isn’t Getting Any Better, And Now Taiwan Is Jumping Into The Fray Mike “Mish” Shedlock, Global Economic Trend Analysis | Oct. 10, 2012
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-diaoyusenkaku-dispute-is-really-about-2012-10
Any day now Homeland Security will locate the secret lair where Bush, Cheney, and Rove meet to plot against our dear Leader. Mr. Obama will then call up one of his fleet of domestic Predator drones and personally direct a raid to take them out.
Only then will our nation be able to heal from the wounds caused by eight years of bondage and servitude.
Will note for any liberal reader that the above, both my post and the whole article, is what is known as sarcasm.
Classic!
No Mas! No Mas!
Good idea. Poorly executed. Too far over the top. No subtlety.
Nice try.
Obama is a thief, a liar, a conspirator, a forger, a perjurer, a closet Muslim, a usurper and, if actually born in Hawaii, a traitor – if not he’s a foreign spy. He hates America and everything it stands for – especially the Constitution. He has done absolutely nothing for the American people in four years. There is NO reason to allow this usurper to continue his illegal occupancy of the Oval Office.
Then again, as Hunter S. Thompson said of George McGovern in 1972, he may just be a typical politician of the “progressive” sort. Who, HST further pointed out, can at times be difficult to tell from a gibbering dingbat.
Please note that HST voted for McGovern anyway. My mother, who voted for Humphrey in ’68 in spite of having been a registered Republican since 1952 (Democrat from 1934 to that point), voted “None of the Above” in ’72. She said that no matter who won, McGovern or Nixon, the American people would lose.
Fortunately, we don’t have that problem this time around. Romney isn’t perfect, but at least he’s lucid. We need a President who is in contact with reality a bit more often than five or six seconds every other Thursday (except if it would interfere with his tee-off time).
And who spends those five or six seconds swearing at reality for not doing as he says.
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eon
This exchange sounds like it came from the interview last night between O’Reilly and Ben Affleck on the Factor.
Obama is supported by a majority of white women {Hillary and Nancy} who are like religious Handmaidens to the Lord Obama. These women blame their white fathers, husbands and sons for the world problems. The” melanin depleted. testosterone poisoned sons ot the ruling class.” Wonder what Dr. Sigmund Freud would say about this?
Actually, that one was taken up by Carl Gustav Jung;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex
It would be interesting to compare Bill Clinton and Paul Pelosi to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and the late US congressman Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., of Maryland- Hillary and Nancy’s respective fathers.
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eon
As Obama is elected president of the U.S. on his way to becoming president of the U.N. and the world, everyone in the world will be equal. All wealth, health, and zealth will be equal. No nukes means no war. Energy will be free, and all species will live in harmony with the earth.
To make everyone on earth equal one has to regulate the lowest common denominator with a balanced approach.
This is the kind of rope-a-dope Joe Bite-me plans to use tonight. “We’ve done a great job and, if our success has been less than perfect, it’s the fault of Bush and the Republicans.”
Q. If Obama’s policies have made millions of jobs, why is unemployment higher than when he started, and why was it over 8% for well over forty months?
A. Because trickle down economics does not work.
Q. The debt has gone up from $11 trillion to $16 trillion. For the first time ever, the country’s credit rating was downgraded. Are you insane?
A. With a surplus from Clinton Bush $11B means that Bush spent more than $5.5B every 4 yrs. Obama spent $6B in 4 yrs which includes Henry Paulson’s bailouts @ beginning of is term in Feb.. Not bad.
Q. What laser-like focus? Didn’t he use up all his political capital on ObamaCare — a program Americans didn’t want that has nothing to do with jobs?
A. ObamaCare based on RomneyCare funded by Fed. $$ both used MIT Prof. of Economics Jonathan Gruber to crunch numbers and The Heritage Foundation mandate but hypocrite flip flop Romney plans to repeal ObamaCare if president http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/obama-health-care-law-mitt-romney-jonathan-gruber_n_1098036.html
Q. And what was all the time he spent taking on religious liberty to give a 30-year-old Georgetown law student free birth control?
A. First Romney when running for Ted Kennedy’s senate seat says he is for abortion. Running for president he says he against abortion — will not fund planned parenthood. Today he says he will not change abortion policy What does flip flop Romney really stand for o abortion?
Q. How is Obama supposed to help create jobs when he seems to have so much contempt for small business owners, as demonstrated by his “you didn’t build that” speech?
A. Trickle down economics is supp0sed to do that. Has i?
Q. Should we take as an indication of which candidate is better on jobs the fact that polls show small business owners overwhelmingly prefer Governor Romney?
A. Polls show preference for Romney because polls represent Republican lobbyist U.S. Chamber of Commerce stats. The same trade org.also represent amongst others small businesses.
Q. What brilliant plan? All he did was throw a bunch of money we don’t have at GM, and it’s still a failing business. It really doesn’t seem like Obama has much business sense.
A. Could you image the unemployment figures if Obama allowed the auto industry to fail? Obama saved jobs. The job numbers ate at when he took office 4 yrs ago. Therefore, jobs are not worse of during his admin.
Q. If Obama’s policies have made millions of jobs, why is unemployment higher than when he started, and why was it over 8% for well over forty months?
A. Because trickle down economics does not work.
Non answer. Obama doesn’t use trickle down and hasn’t in his 45 months as president. So blaming trickle down is side-stepping the argument. Please answer the question.
Q. If Obama’s policies have made millions of jobs, why is unemployment higher than when he started, and why was it over 8% for well over forty months?
A. Because trickle down economics does not work.
Are you saying the Obama is engaging in trickle down economics and that why unemployement is so high? That doesn’t make sense.
Q. The debt has gone up from $11 trillion to $16 trillion. For the first time ever, the country’s credit rating was downgraded. Are you insane?
A. With a surplus from Clinton Bush $11B means that Bush spent more than $5.5B every 4 yrs. Obama spent $6B in 4 yrs which includes Henry Paulson’s bailouts @ beginning of is term in Feb.. Not bad.
You seem to be using B for Billions instead of T for Trillions. Also Clinton didn’t have a surplus. That is a myth At best he had a slightly slower rate of growth in the federal debt. Some argue that was because there was a Republican congrass.
Debt at end of George Bush’s Term 11 Trillion
Current Debt under Barack Obama 17 Trillion.
Q. And what was all the time he spent taking on religious liberty to give a 30-year-old Georgetown law student free birth control?
A. First Romney when running for Ted Kennedy’s senate seat says he is for abortion. Running for president he says he against abortion — will not fund planned parenthood. Today he says he will not change abortion policy What does flip flop Romney really stand for o abortion?
To be honest. I don’t care about abortion at this time. I just don’t want to pay for yours.
Q. How is Obama supposed to help create jobs when he seems to have so much contempt for small business owners, as demonstrated by his “you didn’t build that” speech?
A. Trickle down economics is supp0sed to do that. Has i?
You’re repeating yourself and that really doesn’t make sense. Are you saying the the trickle down economics of Obama isn’t working? Or business will naturally reduce the number of employees?
Q. Should we take as an indication of which candidate is better on jobs the fact that polls show small business owners overwhelmingly prefer Governor Romney?
A. Polls show preference for Romney because polls represent Republican lobbyist U.S. Chamber of Commerce stats. The same trade org.also represent amongst others small businesses.
And why is that any less accurate then polls that have over 15% more democrats voting then rebublicans?
Q. What brilliant plan? All he did was throw a bunch of money we don’t have at GM, and it’s still a failing business. It really doesn’t seem like Obama has much business sense.
A. Could you image the unemployment figures if Obama allowed the auto industry to fail? Obama saved jobs. The job numbers ate at when he took office 4 yrs ago. Therefore, jobs are not worse of during his admin.
And it is generally believed that GM will have to file bankrupcy again. GM employes about 202,000 people. If all of them become unemployeed that basically adds about 50% to one month’s of unemployement claims. Or about what they are having to adjust each time they update the incorrect initial claims.
I anticipate your reply to be approximately,
“Bush SQUIRREL!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Awesome reply, mattm!
Thank you, mattm. You don’t know how many people I’ve come across, including conservatives no less, who actually believe Clinton created a surplus. Of course, conservatives put the surplus on the Republican controlled Congress while liberals put it on Clinton. What they don’t realize, though, is that since the national debt continued to go up each and every year of Clinton’s administration, there could NEVER have been a surplus created by Clinton. Since Clinton couldn’t pay down the debt either, how could there have been a surplus created by him, lol?
Mind you, the debt was actually in great shape under Clinton, thanks mostly to efforts by the Republican controlled Congress, and came close to creating the first true surplus the country has seen in more than 5 decades. The last time this country saw an actual surplus was during Eisenhower’s administration. JFK’s short administration came close to creating one, as well, but that’s a different story entirely.
Cannings, you do realize that trickle down economics has been flat out PROVEN to work, don’t you? It has worked for DECADES. It worked EVERY SINGLE TIME it was implemented in the last century. Heck, actual PROFESSIONAL economists virtually ALL agree that trickle up economics has absolutely NO chance at building the economy up while trickle down economics is really the ONLY truly successful chance our economy has. You see, it is the rich, the wealth, the elites who actually HAVE the money to trickle down who help the economy grow. The poor, on the other hand, do NOT have the money to trickle up to grow.
In short, the rich spend. The poor do NOT spend. Since it is actually SPENDING that actually grows a successful economy, the rich spending, which is the whole idea of trickle down economics, is the ONLY thing that will actually work, lol. I don’t see the poor driving the economy anytime soon because it has NEVER happened or worked like that in the past. Why would today be any different than 50 years ago? In fact, most ACTUAL economists agree that if NOT for Bush’s tax cuts, Bush’s own debt would be even worse than it was. I don’t care what liberal “economists” or the CBO has to say. Tax cuts are NOT actually a drain on the economy and do NOT actually raise the debt when actual historical data prove differently.
IF, (the BIG IF) Obummer and idiot Biden get re-elected then I will know with certainty that America needs to SUFFER and suffer deep and hard for many, many more years to come. Why? I can only reflect on my own life to ponder why it’s happening to me. Each person must do the same. The good will suffer more than the bad. This is life. It ends. The only real relief from the misery that will ensue is death.. yes to die will be a good thing. For the dead don’t have to listen to the continuous lies from everywhere.. Only a hermit can escape the lies.. and even then the hermit asks ‘Why do I need to isolate myself from society??’ Answer: ‘To stop the filling of every brain cell, every neuron with lies from liars, mostly leftist vermin.’.. If these people are re-elected it will almost be like finally accepting my fate.. just mine. There will be no dreams, aspirations, motivations, reasons to plan for jack crap. I can only plan each day’s objective is to minimize the suffering. Now to be clear, I’m not talking about suffering like that of billions of other unfortunate souls in this world. The suffering will be from being witness to a great country, the best one ever conceived, lost to forces of pure stinking evil. Demorats and the soul-less scum that permeates the dark side of humanity.
The possible impending darkness is already permeating my soul. I can’t comprehend how so many of us could be insane at the same time, that we would willingly give up the American dream to be dependents of a totalitarian system. I believe that ultimately the darkness will not overcome the light, but it’s going to be a long battle. I am so sorry for the youth of today and coming generations, who already have so little for which to live, and probably nothing worthy for which to give their lives, if called upon to do so. I’m sorry for those who saw America as a beacon of light. Where do they go now? If hard suffering is what it will take to turn us back to the truth, then bring it on.
C’mon, folks. Cheer up and try to keep the faith.
The Left would love us to give up and go suicidal since they can’t force us to abort our offspring [yet].
Let’s see how this all plays out.
Yes, America is at a critical tipping point…granted, but, eyes are opening and the truth is outing.
That sounds a lot like Dowd’s NYT piece on why POTUS flubbed the first debate… “He’s just above all that mundane stuff, and anyway, he fixed up the GOP mess and killed Bin Laden”
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Here is my own list of reason why Americans should re-elect President Obama on November 6:
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SPARKY’S REASONS FOR RE-ELECTING OBAMA
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As you can see, I was unable to think of a single compelling reason for America to re-elect Obama.
Please feel free to print this comment and take it with you when you vote.
Empty Chair!
Don’t reelect Obamanation b/c he is the ultimate Faq!
As your articles clearly indicates the only way the USURPER can possibly be re-elected is if he wins the MORON vote. He already has the Black RACIST vote and the immature naive gullible Kiddie vote the bleeding heart Celebrity vote and of course the dyed in the wool Green NAZI and Left Wing moonbat vote. But it is the MORON vote which will seal the deal and only MORONS could possibly vote for the USURPER and allow themselves to be FOOLED a second time.
The best one was “Because… um… people will work harder knowing that Sandra Fluke won’t accidentally reproduce.”, lol! No one wants that skank to reproduce, including her own parents! Too bad Soetoro’s mama didn’t think like that, I would have agreed with her abortion! Sure would have saved America a lot of money and BS because Soetoro would have been fed to some pigs somewhere, compliments of the abortion clinic!
Frank, you’re stupid. I hope the NY Post reads this and fires your dumb ass…
Remember, folks, even if we get rid of Oawful on Nov.6, we are still stuck with the mormon fascist, and thats really not a big step up from the moslem communist.
And we still have a congress laden with greedy, ignorant, amoral Adam Henrys who always end up giving their pretended enemy whatever he wants.
Could it be that the Council on Foreign Relations has actually decided to throw the Traitor-in-Chief under the bus? If so, whats the line on how many of B. Husseins’s unconstitutional executive orders will Mitty,(not Walter), rescind?
Shall we guesstimate at about “not any”?
Folks, status quo or metastable state, ain’t nothin’ gonna change!