What Obama didn’t mention in his speech
Some of the most intriguing things in the Statue of Union address were the issues the president did not address:
- Climate change: The signature environmental issue of this administration evaporated into thin air. The UN conference in Copenhagen didn’t really exist. No reference to cap and trade. Not a word.
- The housing crisis: If you had tuned into planet Earth from outer space, you would not know there was a housing crisis in America. Not a word about the near bankruptcy of government mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Nor did he mention the rising number of foreclosures.It was the president who unveiled his HELP program to keep people in their homes. Most evidence is that it has been a failure. Tonight, not a word about it.
- Jobs: Yes, there was the feeling of pain. But you would not know the country is still in a jobs emergency. There were words like “competition,” “innovation,” and “Sputnik,” but not a road map to explain how he will spur jobs in the private sector.
- States facing bankruptcies: Our biggest state governments are in a debt crisis, most of them led by Democrats. Does he recognize this is a looming problem? Does he wish to bail them out? Tonight there was no word.
- Closing down Guantanamo Bay and trying terrorists in civil court: Gitmo still functions and holds enemy combatants. This was a sterling commitment of his administration — to shut down Gitmo. He also failed to mention any willingness to abandon his attorney general’s effort to try terrorists in civilian courts. It’s a huge issue in New York City where the prospect of trials has been denounced by nearly every political office holder.
- War on Terror: On the basis of this speech, there is no War on Terror. There is community-building in Afghanistan and defeating the Taliban. But nothing about the worldwide terror network that is waged from Malaysia to London subways to Times Square.
- Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the UK: They are all flirting with economic catastrophe.
- Overseas human rights: A Chinese Nobel Prize-winner tonight sits in a prison cell. Nothing about human rights in Egypt or Iran or anywhere else in the world.
- Israel: Supposedly America’s most important ally in the Middle East. Nothing about Jerusalem or one of his stated highest goals of his first term: ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Reaching out to the Muslim world: His next trips take him to South America.
- Osama bin Laden: He’s still at large. John Kerry and the Democrats campaigned that this was the litmus test for winning the war on terror.
- George W. Bush: There was no Bush-bashing tonight. His advisers probably suggested blaming Bush no longer had currency.
Climate was implied by all the “clean” energy hoo-ha.
You noticed that too? Obama is “Liar, liar – pants on fire. Nose as long as a telephone wire”. He is trying to remake himself into “Madonna-Bama” but lacks the authenticity of reinvention like the singer.
This 2009 video of renowned American artist Marc Rubin destroying his presidential portrait of Obama with humor and irony is called “Catharsis”. It gives you a place to put your anger and disgust.
http://www.marcrubin.com/obama.ivnu
He didn’t mention Bin Laden, but he did mention Al Qaeda. That’s something. (BTW, is Bin Laden still alive?)
Interesting Obama didn’t mention climate change. Maybe even he doesn’t believe it. (Or was he afraid of scattered laughter.)
“(Or was he afraid of scattered laughter.)”
With the East Coast facing the prospect of yet another winter storm and all the long-range forecasters leaning toward the rest of winter being, well, wintry, I’m guessing that even Captain Partisan realised that he’s in a dwindling minority on this issue at this time. Now, if winter had only aimed more of its fury at the great fly-over portions of the nation, and less at the ‘civilised coasts’ maybe he’d have ventured a line or two.
The careful student will notice that even the Baron of Bombast, the Prince of Peril, the Count of Climate Kooks, Al Gore, has largely retreated from the limelight for this winter of his discontent. Undoubtedly to ride out the unfavourable weather conditions at his castle on the coast in California.
There’s no making climate change hay whilst the pale, wan sun of true winter shines on the self-anointed progressive elites.
Oh, come on you silly. Don’t you understand that the “extreme” winter weather is caused by global warming, as a matter of fact, that everything is caused by global warming? We may even discover that earth rotation, precession of Eqinoxes, and indeed the entire workings of our solar system is the result of global warming. It is all unequivocal, settled science, done deal – why talk about it?
Don’t you understand that the “extreme” winter weather is caused by global warming, as a matter of fact, that everything is caused by global warming?
Don’t laugh too soon. This is in fact the new “null hypothesis” proposed by Dr Kevin Trenberth (he of climategate’s missing heat) who is very much admired by the Obama administration.
The old null hypothesis was that climate change was natural, where the idea is that the onus was on the scientist to prove any claim to the contrary. According Trenberth the evidence is now so unequivocal that claims of man NOT influencing the climate have to be proven; it’s a given that man is changing the climate.
Meanwhile the EPA is the back door by which unelected Trenberth admirers (and there are a lot of them in place now) can enact law and Obama et al get to claim that they had nothing to do with it. Obama doesn’t need to include climate in the SOTU because it’s all a done deal anyway. He won.
Yep, global warming is nothing but a big joke.
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/16/its-cold-now-but-2010-was-warmest-on-record-globally/
Yes, you just confirmed it’s a big joke. One of the first paragraphs from your link is:
“The NASA statistics indicate that the overall global temperature during the climate year (December 2009 through November 2010) was 1.17 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1951-1980 base period, making it the warmest since records began in 1880.”
Why does the author choose a “base period” that leaves out 28 years of temperature data between 1980 and 2008? Probably because he’s cherry-picking a “base period” where temperatures were cooler than average.
No. You can pick any set of years for a base period and temp anomolies (deviation from the base) will still tell the same picture. You have to do this anyway to see natural change, which would graph the exact same way. The relevant question is whether or not the anomoly is evidence of anthropogenic signal or is this detectable from NATURAL deviation.
The skeptical scientific position is that these signals are indistinguishable. Claiming cherrypicking isnt useful because natural climate change SHOULD create anomolies, so all this does is make you look like an idealogue.
If you want to make hay about climate stuff at least try for the illusion that you have a clue.
Errr, nice tidy article, except when you get the rest of the story…2010 was warmer than average (still not the warmest) due solely to an El Nino two-month outlier (March and June) which had NOTHING to do with carbon or cow farts. El Nino is a phenomenom that occurs periodically with the certain outcome of increased temperatures for those months in which it occurs. In 2010, the latter half of the year was actually very average to below average in temperatures. Now run along in your coal-fired Prius and buy some more mercury-laden- Chinese-slave-labor-environment-damaging “efficient” light bulbs.
Josef is one of the professional trolls. Look for the ones with simple first-name handles and a quick slur or unproven allegation
This is one of his few posts with a link to back it up. They don’t usually make that mistake because they don’t want their nonsense to be picked apart.
They will evolve though. It’s easy enough to make a propaganda list of misleading links and let them pick from them.
The first name handles may change as well, since it’s now so obvious what their style is.
Yeah, NASA is always on the up and up regarding climate:
a href=http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-stunner-nasa-heads-knew-nasa-data-was-poor-then-used-data-from-cru/ rel=nofollowClimategate Stunner: NASA Heads Knew NASA Data Was Poor, Then Used Data from CRU/a
Why would the Obamunist waste time mentioning climate change when he’s busy circumventing congress and regulating as he wishes through his Departments and Agency’s appointed radicals?
And what sane person thought he would make mention of the dozen or more serious problems to be confronted? He only has one plan! Spend more money…I mean, invest more money we don’t have, for the future. Isn’t that the same plan the moron democrats and republicans have been doing aggressively since the 60′s and 70′s?.
Since 1965 the Feds have progressively pumped a staggering $1.85 TRILLION dollars into K 12 education…on top of local and State funding. Each year since 1965, along with increased regulatory mandates on the States, K 12 education outcomes have consistently decreased year after year, decade after decade. Add to this, the federal funding of higher education and consider its equaled outcomes to that of K 12.
Federal revenues constituted less than 1 percent of public school budgets before the 1930s and not much more through post WWII…the youthful generations that raised America to its highest pinnacles through the 80′s. Hmmmmmm!
Yes sir!!! That supreme intellectual Obama feller has it figured out…just have to throw more money…I mean invest more money into education and walla…the outcome will magically be, that all the equal kids will become genius….that mis, when he gets more money to train up a new army of, ummmm, good teachers….to be rewarded with more money.
Praise God we finally have a genius President!
Was quite amazing all ht programs he launched but failed for reason that should his stubborness because Democrats still to this day do not and will not ever know how to create the conditions for Job’s as much as they like to bring up the subject will never know how !!
The only thing Democrats are good at doing is spending other peoples money and all the past programs and this speech is evident of that, where once again Obama wants to spend more than he’s willing to cut yet is willing to put our Country in peril by cutting Military and nothing that is really the reason why we are were we are….
Things will get better once we finally show America Obama is nothing more than a one term President and only then will this Country pick up the pace and move forward to a better place !!
There was a plaintive tone in Obama’s SOTU and in his Tuscon speech. Well, the sound bites sound like that. Listening to him for a whole hour is more than I can stand. Last year’s SOTU, in which he dressed down the SCOTUS and the Dems jeered them, cemented in my mind the indelible impression that Obama is a total jerk and he became no longer listenable.
I did not watch POTUS’S speech, fearing that seeing the Dems and Repubs sitting in each other’s laps would make me ill. Seems the things he left out completely overshadows anything he might have said.
“Jobs: Yes, there was the feeling of pain. But you would not know the country is still in a jobs emergency. There were words like “competition,” “innovation,” and “Sputnik,” but not a road map to explain how he will spur jobs in the private sector.”
This is the key to it all. If the unemployment rate and the economy are the same as it is now by this time next year, Obama is finished. And, the way things stand now, I think we’re looking at a jobless recovery and maybe even a “lost decade” like the one Japan had in the 1990s. So how’s that “Hope and Change” working out for us now?
Barack obama referencing sputnik,And our space program?He shut down our space program.Redistributing the taxpayers(INVESTMENT)To the middle east,To build mosque’s,and teach shari’a law to muslim children.Wouldn’t that be Equivilant To J.F.K.Redistributing the funding for our journey’s into space,and to the moon.To help the soviet union build missles in cuba.To assure the soviet union.We are a peace loving nation.Remove the english language from our schools,and only teach russian.To prove it.Instead of our pledge of allegience to the flag.we will instead sing;”We are the world,we are the children”Heil kruschef,Kumbaya propaganda b.s.
So! Obama thinks he’s Sputnik now? He’s definitely unique.
He did bash Bush in a roundabout way (his comment about restoring America’s standing in the world
War on Terror: On the basis of this speech, there is no War on Terror.
Good.
That was a stupid phrase and we will be better off when it is nothing but a bad memory.
Terror is merely an emotion, and terrorism is a TACTIC. Our war is not with either one. Our war is with the terrorists, who are people who employ that tactic.
If we cannot identify our enemies, we cannot defeat them.
Our war is with Mohammed, and his despicable teachings of hate, violence and subversive lies to promote them, war that these Muslim terrorists are following to the letter…our war is with Isalam, period.
But why does he not mention this, yet use the phrase “five pillars” to describe his plan for the future?
Creepily simmilar metaphor to the “five pillars” of islam….
He ought to know better, but he is a devisive person. He’s either rubbing our nose in it, or waiting for the tied and true “bigots among us” speach when people point out the similarity.
Either way, it was no innocent expression, or figure of speach.
Excellent article! But…I think Obama might have the right idea in not mentioning the human rights problems in China…considering the US invaded 2 Middle eastern countries and have reportedly caused the deaths of over 1 million Iraq civilians…no one has bothered to count the deaths in Afghanistan…at least it’s not being reported by the MSM in the US.
so you are saying we deliberately targeted 1 million innocent civilians? I think the candy-crapping Unicorn in your backyard has just produced another bountiful harvest. Best run along and tend to your crop.
Barb, your math is wrong.
Please subtract from the body count, the number of civilians TARGETED, or used as defilade (aka human shields), by our enemies in these nations during our time there, before blaming it on America and her allies.
Your simplistic moral equivalence blinds you to the road to sustainable peace … where the song sounds less like Kumbiyah, and more like Yippie-Ky-Ay-A, when it comes to the history of liberating people and reducing tensions.
The SOTU production sounded a lot like Obama’s campaign speeches, only a lot more toward the right. He proclaimed positions that he has consistently worked against, including “support for the military.” He must have been told that he has to win over more military voters. If (the Democrats in) Congress would do as Obama said, the Tea Party movement could retire. But obviously he didn’t mean a word he spoke, and the fight for our national survival will continue. This man is the worst possible leader this country could ever have, so maybe it’s well to get him out of the way and over with now, so we can get to work rebuilding the nation’s economic capability and create jobs – in spite of bailouts, stimulus, and payoffs – by creating an atmosphere of cooperation for businesses to expand and begin hiring again.
Did anyone notice how Obama passed by Seibelius after the SOTU? I thought he totally dismissed her.I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong. Any thoughts?
Well – I heard it a little different on the climate deal – it was all going quite well until he started on about Sputnik, moon shots and green energy. For a moment there I thought he was actually going to compare himself to JFK but his speechwriters obviously had better sense! Even so the desire to castrate the economy by throttling the oil industry and chase 80% renewables is madness. (dose he have ANY idea as to the innovation and wealth creation from the oil companies?)
Agreed … and someone needs to ask him, how do those oil companies fund their numerous efforts to develop alternative energy, Mr. President? Ever consider that we will be choking off that R&D by said “throttling”?
Problem is, Mr. Obama thinks he can legislate/order wholesale rewrites of the laws of physics and economics in order to realize his green dreams.
Such rewrites were not necessary in order to go to the moon, BTW.
i Even so the desire to castrate the economy by throttling the oil industry and chase 80% renewables is madness. /i
Strawman claim. He mentioned clean coal and nuclear, which is a step toward the sane direction. Hes well aware that windmills dont work. Energy production creates jobs. As for oil, even if we woke up tomorrow morning with perfectly green energy everywhere wed still be consuming just as much oil. The stuff is too valuable to burn.
The president has never worked in the private sector. He doesn’t understand the private sector. It would be impossible to pick a man less qualified to lead private sector job creation.
I had extremely low expectations, which were fully met.
I like the “poised for progress” metaphor; Him, with his tie loose, shirt unbuttoned, feet up on the desk, and leaning back in his easy chair, scheduling his next golf vacation.
I know high school drop outs that have more respect and responsible behavior for their jobs at Taco Bell.
I had to clean out the sock drawer at 9:00 last night and didn’t have occasion to watch the serial prevaricator spew and disassemble.
Why people think this guy is a particularly great speaker or is the smartest guy in the room is beyond me. If you believe in the socialist solutions that this guy believes in despite the evidence showing it doesn’t work, you simply are not that bright.
The low lights I saw of the speech in the aftermath confirm that he isn’t the gifted orator the lefty media always claims he is. This SOTU will be soon forgotten, except for the fact that he is about to find out his wish list is going to go unfulfilled.
The American people have discovered what many of us knew more than three years ago, Obama is an empty suit.
There was at least one “Bush Bash” line in the SOTU – I don’t have the script in front of me, but the line was something about decisions made starting 10 years ago are to blame for the deficit and economy. He also took credit for the Iraq time table which was established by Bush.
In summation; “This greed and incompetence shall not cease as long as I am your President”. (applause)
Shorter summation: “mere words”.
(Applause).
I think I’m going psychotic: did I hear something about the “sputnik” era? It’s supposedly 1958 again, the era of slide rules, not Apple computers, but were not going to the moon. Been there and done it, it’s just too damn expensive: maybe Mars some day. Oh no, were going to hire thousands of more teachers for kids who can’t or wont’ learn now, while playing mid-night basket ball and gang banging, and apparently a domestic Peace Corp to help manage the best and the brightest. Oh, yeah, and we need the Dream Act, wide open borders with 20 percent unemployment; why not amnesty for “illegals,” the Vietnam Era draft dodgers got their amnesty too? Yup I’m going psychotic; looks like were going to redo the 19th century rail road era, only we get to call it mass transit while we play cowboys and Arabs in Afghanistan–the good war where only the enemy and a few straight American males are supposed to die in the new “volunteer army.” What’s a little blood for a lot of oil when it comes to those progressive ideals, saving the Alaskan north slope from Exxon and GE investments in Iran?
I loves me the new semantics!! I’m gonna invest at McDonald’s for lunch today! I invested in a new pair of trousers! Gosh, I feel meaningful. I am going to invest in 15 gallons of unleaded later today!! Hip hip hoorah for investing!!
One more thing B.H. Øbama didn’t mention: Gas prices. They are as high now, as when G.W. Bush was in office. Where the Malfeasant Media outrage now? Or is it still Bush’s fault?
51% of this nation elected a Radical Community Organizer with no managerial experience, no private sector job experience, a miniscule legislative record (consisting mostly of running for a higher office), sealed passport & scholastic records.
I’d say they got what they paid for; an empty suit with an unseen hand pulling the strings.
The rest of us, are simply getting screwed.
2012 seems like a million miles away.
The marxists plan now is to let the Republicans make proposals and pass budgets, and then blame all 4 years of the disaster on them.
Unless, by chance, the economy improves, in which case he will claim complete credit because of the policies of the first 2 years. This is abetted by the Fed which has designed monetary policy to create GNP improvement in 2012, with the resulting disastrous inflation to be held off until 2013, when it will be used to make the claim for more government takeovers.
This is the Tucson / PalinSmear strategy applied to economics. If Palin didn’t respond, she would have been smeared as a coward. When she did respond, she was ridiculed as uncivil and unpresidential. No matter the outcome, she was called a murderer.
Everything going forward will be structured as win-wins for little lenin. If what is done works, he takes credit. If it fails, it will be the Republicans fault. For the strategy to work, he has to allow all but the most trivial suggestions to come from the Republicans. He can propose things that have no chance of passing (provided they aren’t overwhelmingly opposed by the people), because he will be able to say that had they passed, everything would be fine. But he won’t propose anything that has a chance to pass, unless it is 100% risk-free.
All of the new marxist initiatives will be by executive fiat, and they will be well hidden from the public.
There was a time in America when presidents attempted to make the country a better place. Little Lenin’s spends 100% of his time on con games and “messaging”.
He is the most dangerous human since Stalin died. If he succeeds, the dark age to follow will make 400-1300 look like child’s play.
Proreason…you have a valid strategic point being ignored by the “new” movement…["The marxists plan now is to let the Republicans make proposals and pass budgets, and then blame all 4 years of the disaster on them."]
To actually begin fixing any core problems one must have a comprehensive plan for which the “movement” does not. On the the hand, the socialist morons are banking on any potential fixes by the GOP creating some degree of anxiety, confusion and sacrificial pain for the people. If they can project the latter, they will have succeeded in their strategy of making the GOP ideologies the social butcher’s.
There is a reason nobody is actually willing to take on the core problems! Todays generation, by any majority, cannot and will not endure the sacrificial pain needed to fix the real problems. The socialist morons know this!
The GOP plan of bean pushing 12% of the discretionary spending for savings is simply moronic! There simply is no validity to either sides economic recovery theories! America no longer has the domestic economic bases of the past to assist in recovery…short of more [created] superficial, unsustainable “bubble” economies.
All the futurist rhetoric is grand IF, you have the ability to sustain yourself while implementing for the future. America doesn’t have that luxury! Either side has ONLY two options! Tax our way out OR, “terminate” two thirds of the government machine over in the Executive Branch. Either way, the sacrifical pain level will be significant and the socialist morons would love nothing better than to blame that pain on the GOP. The “majority” of todays generations, in such an event, would rush to the side of the socialist morons….finally and completely destroying Traditional America. Its not a matter of the “government”, its a matter of the people and the socialists are betting on historical behaviors (conditioned behaviors) that have yet to fail their causes.
The precipice is around the next bend. There are only 3 choices…full-blown marxism, the current path of an accelerating spiral to economic destruction (aka, European socialism), or a radical return to small government.
Since the precipice is here, I say, go with common sense…Paul Ryan’s or Rand Paul’s plan or a variation.
If Americans are stupid enough to succomb to the marxist’s demonization, then the country doesn’t deserve to survive anyway.
When he campaigned last time he imitiated a DEMOCRAT
This time he is imitating a Republican
Obviously feels no shame in saying what he never means
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Nightline coverage was indication of days to come:
Tucson- mentioned at least 6x as a triumphant victory
and this as the wrap up to a great 2 years
(no shame either in using a poor little girl’s death for political points and as far as great- well eyeof the beholder or just fantasy)
Ah yes it’s the great pretender
(sing it with me now like the Platters)
What I was waiting to hear Barry Soetero blurt out was “I resign; You people are too much like a job!”.
Here is one thing Barry Hussein didnt mention
Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama Freezes Budget for Program
Designed to Stop Terrorists from Getting U.S. Visas
“The visa security process is our first line of defense against terrorists and others who wish to do us harm,” Rep. Lamar Smith (Texas), the lead sponsor of the Secure Visas Act, told CNSNews.com. “But under President Obama, new Visa Security Units ground to a halt.” “If the Obama administration will not exercise its authority to develop new VSUs (Visa Security Units) at the highest risk posts identified by its own Department of Homeland Security, Congress must step in,” said Smith.
Heres another little thing Barry Hussein didnt mention
Barry Hussein Obamas controlled Pentagon had three Navy SEALs who faced assault charges for capturing one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq. Why?
Wow, another thing Barry Hussein forgot to mention
George Soros a man who has made clear his goal is to break the close bonds between America and Israel; a man who has also been a key financial backer of President Obamas; Soros is a funder of the ICG through his Open Society Institute; Other members of the Board include Zbigniew Brzezinski (whose anti-Israel credentials are impeccable) and Wesley Clark (who called US support for Israel during the Hezbollah War a serious mistake.
Dr. Donald Berwick, nominated by President Barry Barack Hussen Obama to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that runs Medicare, published an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), advising leaders of Britain’s socialized health care system: “Please don’t put your faith in market forces.” The article, published in the July 26, 2008 issue of the BMJ, compared the U.S. health care system unfavorably to the British system, which Berwick said he was “romantic about.” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who serves on the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight over Berwick’s nomination, told CNSNews.com that he believes Berwick misunderstands the American health care system. Nobody spends someone elses money as carefully as they spend their own, said Roberts, and thats what weve seen happening over the last several decades as the government pays for more and more care.” Roberts noted that Berwick’s “avid support for the rationing system” in Great Britain makes him a candidate to carry out a similar system here in the United States now that President Obama’s national health care plan has been enacted. “Obamacare will take on payment responsibility for a whole new class of Americans and, predictably, the Administration is searching for ways to contain their newly acquired costs,” said Roberts. “Rationing of health care will be their plan.
Barrys becoming a little forgetful, huh?
Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking member on the House intelligence committee, says the resignation of Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair “is the result of the Obama administration’s rampant politicization of national security and outright disregard for congressional intelligence oversight.” Hoekstra, who formerly served as chairman of the intelligence committee, issued a written statement saying that Blair’s readiness to step down, considering his record of service to the country, was “a disturbing sign of the stranglehold the Obama White House has placed on America’s intelligence agencies.” Clearly, and understandably, Director Blair was frustrated by the White House’s micromanagement and sidelining of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on national security issues. Blair’s resignation is the result of the Obama administration’s rampant politicization of national security and outright disregard for congressional intelligence oversight. Blair’s resignation is disturbing and unfortunate. The concerns I have come from how the Obama administration conducts national security, not over the director of national intelligence, who they never allowed to do it.
Congressional Republicans we will be watching closely who the president plans to name as a successor. Right now, the Obama administration’s national security apparatus is broken, dysfunctional and in disarray. Dennis Blair was the one person you could count on for rationality among Holder, Napolitano and Brennan—and he’s the one the president let go.
Wow, Barry forgot this too?
From Sundays 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised Meet the Press THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag. General Bill Ginn USAF (ret.) asked Barry Barak Hussen Obama to explain WHY he doesnt follow protocol when the National Anthem is played. The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171…During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, Stand and Face It. Senator Obama replied: As Ive said about the flag pin, I dont want to be perceived as taking sides. There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression.. The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing.
Barry? You keep forgetting?
Unemployment in America is hovering at just below 10 percent, so President Barry Barack Hussein Obama hosts a Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, D.C., in an effort to boost economic development … in Muslim nations? The president thinks more U.S. investment in Muslim lands and exchange programs that will bring Muslim women to America so they can work as interns will enhance U.S. prosperity and, thus, change Muslim attitudes about the United States. Egypt receives about $2 billion of American taxpayer dollars every year, yet it still votes against American interests at the U.N. 79 percent of the time. Jordan, a moderate Muslim nation, receives nearly $200 million annually in U.S. foreign aid, but votes against America at the U.N. 71 percent of the time. Pakistan votes 75 percent of the time against the U.S. at the U.N. while pocketing nearly $7 million annually in foreign aid (in addition to the money it gets to supposedly fight al-Qaida). Since 2007, U.S. foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority and to PA-controlled (nongovernmental organizations) reached nearly $2 billion, in addition to $3.7 billion contributed by the U.S. to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Has this aid produced jobs? Has it led to both sides in the Middle East conflict mounting a sustained effort to respect one another and seek common ground? On April 20, 2010 Abbas named a Ramallah street in honor of Abu Jihad, the architect of PLO terrorism during 1965-1988. Honor? For masterminding terrorism targeting Israeli civilians? On March 11, PA (Palestinian Authority) media, which Abbas controls, praised Dalal Mughrabi, who commanded the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre, which resulted in the deaths of 38 civilians, including 13 children. The PA also named a girls school in Hebron, a computer center, a summer camp and a sport tournament after Mughrabi. In 1994, Abbas, who was then deputy to Yasser Arafat, inaugurated a system of hate education that continues to this day. In the PA media, in schools and in mosques, children and adults are exposed to venomous anti-Semitic speech and images that rival those of The Third Reich. In fact, writes Ettinger, Hitler and suicide-bombers are folk heroes. As Arafats top aid for 50 years, Abbas was involved in the betrayal of Arab host countries such as Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait. He enrolled in KGB courses and submitted a doctorate thesis on Holocaust denial at the Moscow University. Abbas supervised the logistics of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre that took the lives of 11 Israeli athletes, co-supervised the March 1973 murder of two U.S. ambassadors in Sudan, was a key member of the Palestinian cell of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo and earned the nickname Mr. 20 percent because of his corruption. And yet, President Obamas special Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, treats him as a legitimate leader who shares American objectives for the region?
During the speech Obama said,
Sustaining the American dream has never been about standing pat. It has required each generation to sacrifice, and struggle, and meet the demands of a new age. Now it’s our turn.” …end quote
What our Resident (no P intended) meant was that MOLOCH is still hungry and we must SACRIFICE more Babies to the Canaanite God of the Democrats. Other generations met the demands (of Moloch) and now its our turn.
So we must struggle to produce food for Moloch, and to feed him, because 3,311 babies per day is not enough!
he didn’t mention the Gulf Oil gusher, aka his Katrina. But wait, that seems to go down the memory hole already, hasn’t it?
Hilarious in that tragic way that he mentioned the Chilean miner tragedy, where a real leader succeeded.
What Obama didn’t mention in his speech? That he is a useless president and he will not run for office in 2012!!!
The most important thing Barry forgot to mention
America, you want our jobs back? The Free Trade arguments are answered convincingly in Ian Fletcher’s “Free Trade Doesn’t Work. Our trade policies have also been a major culprit, and Fletcher does an excellent job both exposing the fallacious arguments for free trade and detailing the damage the free trade ideology has inflicted on our economy. The historical record is ably summarized in Alfred Eckes’ “Opening America’s Market” and in Pat Buchanan’s “The Great Betrayal.” (Eckes is a historian at Ohio University and also served on the International Trade Commission under Reagan). As Fletcher, Eckes, and Buchanan all make clear, protectionism was indeed instrumental in securing American prosperity.
I have only seen one comment from any politician or public figure that hits nail on the head to solve this problem. It was a few days ago with an interview with Donald Trump. Thats right, The Donald. He said he has Chinese friends that tell him that “the Chinese cant believe how stupid our leaders are? He said they are laughing behind our backs, why? There is no free trade? There is one way to solve the problem not matter what these idiot politicians tell you. If China puts a 25% tariff on our goods, we need to put a 25% tariff on their goods. Not 2%, which is happening now? If they dont like it, good, we will build new factories here.
Wake up America, the globalists are cutting our throats while they lie to us.
I too have finally thrown off the propaganda of “free trade.” It ain’t free when the Chinese can spoil their environment, stack workers in dormitories and work em’ cheap 14 hrs a day. We should invoke a “Slave Labor and Environmental Normalization Tariff” of x% factoring in cost disparity and currency manipulation. Only then will “free trade” work. Of course we better expect a brief surge of inflation in the short term, but the increasing productivity and employment as jobs and factories repatriate will make up for this stress within a few years.
Obama also did not have any suggestions for cost reduction. Socialists only know how to spend, oops, I meant invest.