President Obama went after Republicans at a community college in swing-state Ohio today, calling the right “patriots” who are “wrong.”
He also told the students in job-training classes that their program could be cut “to give folks like me a tax cut that we don’t need and that the country can’t afford.”
“Understand this is not a redistribution argument,” Obama said. “This is not about taking from rich people to give to poor people. This is about us together making investments in our country so everybody has got a fair shot. And that will make all of us better off.” He then lamented the Buffett Rule’s failure in the Senate this week.
The president said that the election highlighted “the central challenge of our time,” and “the choice could not be clearer” among two competing visions.
“I’ve never believed that government can or should try to solve every problem we’ve got,” Obama said. “I believe that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history. I agree that everybody has personal responsibility for their own lives. Everybody has got to work hard. Nothing is ever handed to us.
“But I also agree with our first Republican President — a guy named Abraham Lincoln – who said that, through government, we should do together what we cannot do as well on our own,” he continued. “There’s some things we don’t do well on our own.”
He cited public safety, public schools, infrastructure, and entitlement programs as those government necessities.
“Investing in a community college, just like investing in a new road or a new highway or broadband lines that go into rural communities, these investments are not part of some grand scheme to redistribute wealth. They’ve been made by Democrats and Republicans for generations because they benefit all of us,” Obama said.
“Somebody gave me an education. I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn’t. But somebody gave us a chance — just like these folks up here are looking for a chance.”
By their acts shall ye know them.
These students will live their lives paying back the Obama deficits. The Buffett rule wouldn’t make a bit of difference.
can’t get over how shameless this guy is
Obama and his ilk think that 1984 is a ‘how to’ primer rather than a cautionary tale.
‘Obama and his ilk think that 1984 is a ‘how to’ primer rather than a cautionary tale.’
To reply in the same vein, Romney and his ilk think that ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a ‘how to’ primer rather than a cautionary tale.
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Yup, he’s certainly a shameless liar. “Somebody gave me an education. I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn’t. But somebody gave us a chance — just like these folks up here are looking for a chance.” This is the poster-child, affirmative-action president, and the quality of his supposed education is way over-rated. This man and his wife have been given everything their entire lives with a golden spoon, you can rest assured.
Yeah, somebody “gave” him an education all right…
Ask the mailman, I think it was the Ayers family that paid his way, wasnt it?
He’s for free markets as long as he’s in charge of them.
‘He’s for free markets as long as he’s in charge of them.’
Since you were commenting after reading an article about Barack Obama, I have to assume that you were referring to him.
However, the same may well be said of every other Presidential candidate this year.
Actually no it can’t. Romney really is for Free Market, Obama, on the other hand, is a bald faced liar who hates the Free Market and he’s just trying to get those independent voters back. JLB, how about you actually use some of your own words instead of copying everyone else? Got anything wise to say, or some FACTS to put out that support your view? Here’s a nice little FACT for you, Romney GAVE UP his inheritance (gave it away actually) and made it on his own. No help from Dad and no help from the government. Can Obama say the same?
It is becoming increasingly clear that a monarchist government is really the best except for all the others.
“This is not about taking from rich people to give to poor people.
Really? Then what does he mean when he keeps saying that we need to tax the rich more so we can give free health care, food stamps, and free housing to the “poor”? And if any job-training programs get cut, it’ll be because his hench agencies have regulated them out of existence in favor of liberal four-year universities that give big bucks to the DNC.
Indeed. ‘This Is Not Redistribution.’ No — this is Retribution.
Probably the most truthful thing Obama has ever said is when the told Joe the Plumber he wanted to raise taxes to “spread the money around.” That’s known as redistribution.
Obama seems to believe that the truth is whatever he says regardless of what he previously said.
Or, as Glenn Reynolds would say, EVERYTHING Obama says comes with an expiration date on it.
No-one wants to take away money that has already accumulated. This is all about taxing INCOME. Rich people already have lots of money. They do not need more money. When they get INCOME, they can afford to have more of it used for supporting the country.
You do love your country, don’t you?
Do you think that other people who also live in your country ought to starve, or live under bridges, or not even get a high-school education so that people who already have lots of money can get more money?
Do you think that the United States is a great country because a very few people who live here have money, and can and do get to go to four year colleges?
By the way, it’s an open secret that “job training programs” are almost entirely wasted money. They may teach specific skills as well as they can, but the “graduates” fail to get those jobs because of…are you sitting down…illiteracy, lack of mathematical skills, lack of reasoning and logical skills…and, if they do get hired, they wash out due to lateness & absenteeism.
Obama is a LIAR….He’s the Capt. Lincoln Sternn of ‘Heavy Metal’. It’s election time so he sounds conservative; he’s trying to get the flexibility TO SELL US OUT SOME MORE. He deserves to be truly historic alright, as the first U.S. president to GO TO PRISON for crimes against the American people. Marxist.
“Investing in a community college, just like investing in a new road or a new highway or broadband lines that go into rural communities, these investments are not part of some grand scheme to redistribute wealth.”
But circumventing the bankruptcy code to give a union preference over bond holders, or giving half a billion dollars to a bundler to make solar panels that they sell for less than they spend to produce them, is wealth redistribution. Using taxpayer funds to send your daughter and 12 of her closest friends along 25 secret service agents (and God knows how many hookers) on vacation to a war zone is wealth redistribution. Sending a bunch of GSA agents to Hawaii for a week so they can attend an hour ribbon cutting ceremony is wealth redistribution.
Expecting to believe this crap is fantasy if not delusional.
“Investing in a community college, just like investing in a new road or a new highway or broadband lines that go into rural communities, these investments are not part of some grand scheme to redistribute wealth.”
‘But circumventing the bankruptcy code to give a union preference over bond holders,’
I believe that GWB went one better in circumventing bankruptcy when using our tax dollars to keep failing banks afloat.
‘or giving half a billion dollars to a bundler to make solar panels that they sell for less than they spend to produce them,’
So, the makers of the solar panels did not make any money, you say.
‘Using taxpayer funds to send your daughter and 12 of her closest friends along 25 secret service agents (and God knows how many hookers) on vacation to a war zone’
‘Sending a bunch of GSA agents to Hawaii for a week so they can attend an hour ribbon cutting ceremony is wealth redistribution.’
Neither of these things is any different from what any number of US Presidents have done in previous administrations, please complain about those presidents, too!
PS I’m fairly certain that teenage girls have little to no use for hookers.
Just curious about what you are making reference to re: “Neither of these things is any different from what any number of US Presidents have done…”.
Maybe you can cite something. But if you attempt to, remember that Barack Obama pledged to change the way things are done in Washington. What a sap I was to fall for that glittering generality. Little did I know that what he had in mind was to double down on the way things are done in Washington, and call that “change”.
While we are on the subject of other US Presidents, do you recall another President moving into “full campaign mode” 2.5 years in and doing nothing much besides giving speeches wrapped around partying with, and raising money from, the beautiful people and the power elite. But that’s what he does. He campaigns. Campaigner in Chief.
It’s convenient, because all politicians begin spinning and puffing and lecturing and contradicting, if not outright lying, while they campaign. And they are seldom called on it. So, because Obama is the perpetual campaigner/candidate (except for in the candid and revealing moment when he shut down discussion with his statement, “I won.”), he gets to say this and do that, to pledge this and do nothing, to pretend he has a strategy while knowing he is making it up as he goes.
Barack, the Phenomenon. Barack the illusory. Not exactly what we need these days.
I apologize. I am unable to cite something. That may be because nobody before this has ever attempted to point this out as ‘abuse.’ One of the problems I have with these ‘abuses,’is that I haven’t seen them reported anywhere but in places that I can only call conservative vehicles.
‘But if you attempt to, remember that Barack Obama pledged to change the way things are done in Washington.’
Obama isn’t alone in Washington. There are three branches of the government, the Executive, (the President) the Legislative, (the Senate and Congress) and the Judiciary, (the Supreme Court.) I have noticed that every attempt he has made to make changes has been blocked by members of the legislature, and undermined by unusual decisions by the Judiciary. Obama was naive when he first arrived in Washington as the President. He apparently thought that the ruling bodies of the nation would want to get the nation to work, when instead, the members of those bodies couldn’t see past an extremely shortsighted desire to get him out of office. Imagine trying to do your job when the people you are working with steal your tools and dismantle or erase whatever you have managed to do.
While we are on the subject of other US Presidents, do you recall another President moving into “full campaign mode” 2.5 years in and doing nothing much besides giving speeches wrapped around partying with, and raising money from, the beautiful people and the power elite. But that’s what he does. He campaigns. Campaigner in Chief.
I can only say to this that I haven’t seen what you are referring to here. I don’t feel campaigned at by Obama.
It’s convenient, because all politicians begin spinning and puffing and lecturing and contradicting, if not outright lying, while they campaign. And they are seldom called on it. So, because Obama is the perpetual campaigner/candidate (except for in the candid and revealing moment when he shut down discussion with his statement, “I won.”), he gets to say this and do that, to pledge this and do nothing, to pretend he has a strategy while knowing he is making it up as he goes.
See my above comments.
As the Republican candidate fits what you have just said about campaigning, who are you going to vote for?
Mitt the Waffler?
“I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
When Obama was 12, his Mother dumped him on his white Grandma. She was VP of a bank. He lived with her… in HI. That was pretty good living.
So, what kind of kid was he? He was into smoking and drugs. This “smart” kid ran a ‘C’ average.
He was given more than a chance. His way was paved for him.
This is a good opportunity to say that I love Bridget Johnson’s style: she gives us the facts, and leaves it to us to draw our own conclusions. Pretty much like Tacitus.
“I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
True, let’s be perfectly accurate about that.
It was a Hammer and Sickle.
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Barack Obama speaks about redistribution of wealth on Chicago public radio in 2001.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsapJii1rMY&feature=related
Funny, didn’t lil’ berry hussein soetoro recently say that capitalism doesn’t work or has never worked or something to that effect? Yeah, it was in Osawatomie, I think. lil’ berry hussein, the DICKtator of deceit and psychopathological liar, is the enemy within !
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Marcus Tullius Cicero [ancient Roman scholar, lawyer, statesman and orator 106BC - 43BC]
I have no doubt somebody gave him his education, that’s why he keeps the transcripts sealed.
Then his lips fell off.
Thomas Jefferson’s Warning To America
http://www.rense.com/general65/ttj.htm
That dude that said “you get the government you deserve” nailed it.
YES HE WAS born with a silver spoon in his lying mouth.
That a poor black man like Obama (according to his own words) could get an education and become president means that these opportunities already exist. What is he trying to sell? Already existing opportunities?
Well, shut my mouth! He finally admits it! “Somebody gave me an education. I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn’t. But somebody gave us a chance….”
Who was it precisely who gave him a chance? Let’s have his name! Rezko, Al-Walid, Ayers! Who was it that paid the bills for Obama’s education?
President Barrack Hussein Stalin displays yet another psychotic rant. He’s lying so fast and furiously, even his press can’t keep up.
He believes in a “free market system” as wholeheartedly as he believes in our “free press”. And the American free press has been bought off and expropriated by the Democrat Party.
So, Barry once again proves that he is the master of “opposite-speak” as well as say one thing, do the opposite and if they don’t believe what I said when I said it, THEY are the liars and fools.
When you reduce his whole oratory to a child’s game, which is, whatever he says, he means the exact opposite, and as mark D stated in post #1,(para) “by his actions you shall know him” he has said “X” over and over but always done negative X always.
When he says, “This isn’t about XXXX” you can bet that’s the ONLY thing it IS about. When he says, “People say XXXX”, but you’ll never be able to find anyone who’s actually said it.
Now, later this year when he starts denying he’s a Marxist/socialist, you will know that HE knows he has lost. By pandering and recruiting the nation’s various minorities, he is intentionally excluding the majority. This is a new twist for presidential campaigning. But there’s a reason they’re called minorities. He already knows he has the black vote…or does he? Is the race-baiting just a method to keep the iron of hate hot enough to get them to the polls?
But surveys have said that gays, young adults, other minorities aren’t so keen on captain skidmark like they were in 2008. And the OWS crowd? Shoot, they’d be too stoned to make it to a voting location, let alone know which candidate they’re supposed to vote for.
He’s losing, if the polls which place him neck-and-neck are any indicator. Remember the polls are taken by the agencies that also carry his water and if you think that the numbers manipulation game ends at bogus unemployment numbers then think again. The polls probably widely show Romney with a very strong lead. Why? Because as sick as people CLAIM they were about Bushhitler, they are even MORE sick of this boy-in-a-bubble president.
They are smart enough to ask themselves, “Am I better off now than I was 3.5 years ago?” The ones who became unemployed when BO got into office and are still unemployed probably can figure that out. I’m not better off and neither are my neighbors. We’re all paying more for gas and groceries and I don’t care HOW they manipulate inflation by not counting those two values, it still costs me MORE just to exist than it did in 2008. Thank you, GOVERNMENT.
The obamanauts must go. To a distant galaxy preferably but I’ll settle for just out the door in January of 2013…after the obligatory race riots in the major cities and other examples of tribal behavior.
Correct; this strategy is right out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook.
“…after the obligatory race riots in the major cities and other examples of tribal behavior.”
Race riots? The “aggrieved” will burn down their own neighborhoods, the local police will bolt and the NGs will form a couldron (to protect the rioters from being shot by residential home owners) around the afflicted areas. More tax payer money will be dumped into the hell holes, paying off the greivance mongers, and then business as usual.
I couldn’t understand the Resident with all that dog in his mouth
“President Obama went after Republicans at a community college in swing-state Ohio today, calling the right “patriots” who are “wrong.”
He also told the students in job-training classes that their program could be cut “to give folks like me a tax cut that we don’t need and that the country can’t afford.”
So, Obama goes to a “community college” in Ohio to argue for the continuation of federal programs which are funded by taxpayers in Wyoming, West Virginia, Idaho, Missouri, etc., etc.. One might think that community colleges should be funded by the community that they serve. There should be no role for the federal government in the funding of local community colleges to begin with. Therefore, our blowhard-in-chief has no business being there in the first place.
Obama has a polygonal mouth of infinite sides.
“This is not redistribution ……. I call it “investment”.”
Investment in places like ‘Solyndra’.
Investment in government programs like ‘Fast and Furious’.
Investment in ‘flexibility’ with the Russians.
“This is not redistribution …… it is investment in my re-election so I can continue investing for 4 more years.” Paraphrased message from President Barak Obama.
FYI: “a community college in swing-state Ohio” is Lorain County Community College, outside of Cleveland.
Obama: “We have two competing visions of our future.”
Yes, indeed, we do. For once, BOTUS speaks the truth. (Fire the TOTUS programmer.)
“This is not redistribution.”
Translation: This is redistribution.
“This is about us together making investments in our country so everybody has got a fair shot. And that will make all of us better off.”
Outright false on its face. Taking from some, by definition, makes them worse off! And when the 48% who pay no taxes now start paying something, Mr. President, then I’ll believe ‘it’s about us together making investments’, which we know is your euphemism for being forced to pay more.
— “I believe that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history,” the president said in Ohio.
Of course you do. That’s why you want shrink the free market (i.e., the private economic sector) and pour its capital into the public sector, which you can manipulate and divvy up among your public-union constituents, your welfare-dependent wards of the Obama State, your leftist-elite fellow travelers, and crony-capitialist bankrollers.
Meanwhile, you TAX investment capital, you TAX individual savings & investments, you TAX the very profit motive that DRIVES this “free market” you speak so lovingly of.
Mr. President, you are a fraud, and a liar, and FAT CAT, high-lving, hypocrite of the n’th degree.
And in addition to that: you are most unskilled, un-qualified (in every possible respect) holder of the office of President that this nation has ever known.
You have managed to sink us into FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS of national debt over the course of three, agonizing, zero-growth years. You have purposely divided the nation into warring camps on the basis of race (first and foremost), gender, religion, age, and political philosophy (see Obamacare, which was crammed down America’s throat without one, single, Republican vote).
If you truly believed in a free market, you would take your wing-tip off the throat American business and ALLOW us to do what we do best: produce, innovate, grow.
If we do not get rid of the Obama anchor in 2012, well, God help us.
Hear hear!
I hope the people attending the CC read between the CiC’s tele prompted lines.
“This is about us together making investments..” – investments. Hahahaha ‘Investments’, riiiiight.
If you read between the lines he actually means, ‘To keep my lifetime membership in the lethargic, unaccountable federal sector and continue feeding the sloth which is me, government in general – I need you to blindingly nod in agreement like useful idiots so us G-men can continue to run up ridiculous debts and continue our obviously poor decisions, lifestyles. Don’t worry I’ll throw in “fairness”, ”choice could not be clearer” and class/ race warfare sound bites where MANY of you eat that stupid s hit up” !
It’s incredibly pompous to threaten, and that’s what Uhbama surely did when speaking of the student’s program ‘..may possibly being cut’ nonsense.
With this Uhbama says, ‘You need me though more importantly you need MORE government ‘intervention’ (i.e. resulting in your enslavement to government).
And SURELY Uhbama DOES believe government is the start all/ end all. Government Motors whereas WE lost $3 billion in that ‘investment’.
‘Stimulus’ – I’m waiting for this administration to see the ‘more prosperous private sectors’ reaping the benefits of the ‘stimulus’.
I know of union success stories.. though even those are inflated for MANY unions who’ve laid off up to 90% of their union members AFTER their grubby hands got some ‘stimulus’ dollars.
Uhbama’s pitching the atrocious DoEd as a ‘success’ whereas his buddy had never been a teacher in any sense is the head honcho spending infinite-like IOU’s on this 1 of many turd-like gubmint departments.
Uhbama’s attempted government takeover though NOT improving college loan biz.
Mandated health insurance.. except for the union waivers who PUSHED for said mandated health insurance.. nuff said about that.
STEALING from taxpayers and getting jacks hit in return for boondoggle ‘green energy jobs’ nonsense.
Yo, Mr. President. Look at Spain’s basket case economy due in large part to ‘green investments’ – the very same Spain and ‘investments’ Uhbama praised..!
As for government interference err ‘necessity’ – those who rely on law enforcement, public schools and the entitlements abound ( The ‘infrastructure’ he’d spoken of.. though leviathan in size and run somewhat shabbily nationwide it is a necessity in some aspects) to ‘improve or stay afloat’ – YOU made some poor decisions in YOUR life to come to such a dependency.
The CiC’s never worked in the private sector (o.k. Baskin-Robbins as a teen..) where accountability, work performance, coming in/ under budget is expected and finishing tasks proficiently and on-time is EXPECTED. Something this empty vessel can’t comprehend.
Lastly, going to a Hawaiian private high school, getting accepted to grad, law schools when all AVAILABLE information points to not possessing academia acumen to enter said schools and working ENTIRELY in the federal sector afterwards..
It’s not a silver spoon upbringing, Mr. President though it’s no, ‘rags to riches’ story you’re trying to pimp, either.
The people that actually like and believe the Democrat’s lies are the real problem.. They are the one’s who get the money out of the producer’s pocketbook. If you’re liberal you ate freedom and yet rely totally on others working hard. It doesn’t make sense.
I believe Lincoln said he only had about 6 weeks of formal education, so perhaps this is an area we can do pretty well on our own. Maybe Obama misspoke again. MIT believes people are capable of learning a lot on their own.
I’m beginning to understand his style more and more, how’s this for a real life application;
“Honest officer, I wasn’t speeding, I was driving at an appropriate rate for the vehicle I’m in.”
The sad part is that he probably believes it! I wonder what he things that redistribution is?
The qualifier. Always look for the qualifier. Everything before the qualifier is a strawman to set up for the actual argument the speaker is making. Obama believes that government should do EVERYTHING.
Ford Sold ZERO Electric Cars in Last Two months
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120417/AUTO01/204170368#ixzz1sPRTgLj1
Do you think he EVER tells the truth? Do you think he even knows the truth?
If so, what evidence do we have for that view (aside from his pants crease)?
What is it he’s ever done to qualify for this assumed credibility?
April 19, 2012 The Sea Change: Obama’s Confirmed Forgeries Are Not Going Away By Monte Kuligowski
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/the_sea_change_obamas_confirmed_forgeries_are_not_going_away.html
Obama Lawyer Admits Forgery but disregards “image” as Indication of Obama’s Ineligibility Damage Control
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/04/13/obama-lawyer-admits-forgery-but-disregards-image-as-indication-of-obamas-ineligibility-damage-control/
Simply stated: Doublespeak.
All right, Mr. President, if you don’t feel you are taxed enough why are you taking deductions? Also, you can just write a check to the governmenmt anytime you wish.
And the most sickening part is that opathological liarbama really believes his constant lies and self contradictions. Worse, millions, probably the majority of voters, will end by believing him and voting for him.It seems that as soon as folks figure out that they can vote themselves endless handouts they begin to elect those offering the handouts.
Obama said “Somebody gave me an education.” Who gave it to him? What classes did he take. Why are here NO records of anything available? When he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review there is NOT ONE of his “opinions” available to anyone. NO ONE even remembers him in any class at Harvard in this prestigious program. Was he there?
He is the “invisible man” without a record of anything until he came to Chicago. Some say he was not even a full professor at the Univ. of Chicago.
The MSMedia went after Bush with a vengeance about every single item of his life and on Obama there was total silence and ZERO vetting anywhere.
Obama minions shut down WGN radio twice by overloading the phone lines (takes a lot of people to do that) and servers when Milt Rosenberg had a guest on his talk radio show that they did not like. When they finally answered the phone the Obama team said “they should not have any one on to say bad things about “O”. There was ZERO outrage in the media on this.
Obama says, “Nothing is ever handed to us.” He then says, “Somebody gave me an education.” Am I the only person who sees hypocricy and irony in what he says?