With the nation’s economy continuing to falter and even dissatisfied liberals threatening note to vote in November, President Obama took to the bully pulpit and made a statement on the economy at the White House.
The president wore a dark suit with a blue tie and a flag lapel pin — he had stopped wearing flag pins in public in the years after 9-11. Obama opened claiming that this recovery has been stronger than recoveries from previous recessions. From there he segued into a discussion of the threat of another recession, and blamed the economic environment in Europe for that threat, echoing last year’s attempts to blame the Japanese tsunami and the Arab uprisings for preventing a “recovery summer” in the United States. Obama called on Europe to act to stabilize their financial system, and to strengthen the eurozone by collaborating on national budgets. President Obama also called on the EU to promote economic growth and job creation.
President Obama then blamed Congress for not passing his “jobs plan,” blaming them for stubborn unemployment. He urged Congress to pass his plan in full, a plan that calls for another round of massive government stimulus spending, which would again increase the deficit and national debt. The president claimed that his jobs plan has garnered bipartisan and non-partisan support, and called on Congress to explain why it will not pass his plan.
After about five minutes, the president took questions from the press. Obama called for press questions from a list of pre-selected reporters, a strong hint that the questions themselves had been pre-arranged with members of the mainstream media.
The first question asked what role is the EU “debt crisis” playing in the U.S. economy. President Obama answered that it isn’t just a debt crisis, that Greece has “spent more than they’re bringing in, and they’ve got problems.” Under Obama the U.S. has piled up $5 trillion in debt in three years. He said some EU countries were running surpluses and they’re in trouble, too. The president said Spain and Italy have embarked on “smart” reforms, citing changes to tax collection and labor markets, but not Spain’s cutting back on its massive “green” energy campaign that has been shown to destroy jobs.
I am shocked, shocked that he did not claim it was racist.
You will never hear President Obama call someone racist directly. He uses surrogates for that. Expect to hear that nonsense on MSNBC, NY Times, etc. once they get their marching orders from their glorious leader.
Did any of the press check with the ‘private sector’ for a second opinion?
Obviously as a result of massive amounts of Hope&Change! the private sector is doing just fine.
Win The Future!
Can we sue for patent infringement? I know for a fact that WTF(?) is prior art.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!!
You have to understand that “private sector” in Obama’s mind is the sector of a person’s body that we all like to keep private. Therefore the correct translation of Obama saying “the private sector is doing fine” is “oh my! this new underwear that Michelle bought me is really cool”.
I own a ‘private sector’ business….We are NOT doing fine! Obama should try to walk in our shoes before saying we are fine!
The funny thing is, most of “the press” is doing just terrible.
Of course, it’s been proposed to have the Federal government subsidize them, but strangely that went nowhere.
“He claimed that he has had a “zero tolerance” approach to leaks. But undersecretary of defense for intelligence Michael Vickers still has his job despite the fact that he leaked SEAL Team 6 names to Hollywood producers. The president said it is “offensive” and “wrong” to accuse him or his team of leaking sensitive national security information. He offered no evidence that such a policy actually exists in his administration.”
Has anyone reached ‘Scooter Libbey’ for a coment on this?
Scooter Libby… the guy they got convicted for vaguely incorrect statements to prosecutors while they were fishing around after already knowing (in the first day or two, if they were anything short of grossly incompetent) that it was Richard Armitage who actually leaked the Plame nepotism issue?
“The first question asked what role is the EU “debt crisis” playing in the US economy”
~How does Obama spell Europe? B-U-S-H
It’s all _____’s fault. Europe is the new Bush. This is the new reason ‘why’ – it sure can’t be Obama’s responsibility for his own stupid policies, can it?
This is the latest meme and nothing more. Nice catch, Mr. Preston.
Tsunami, Arab Spring, the sun was in my eyes!
Thank you, #8! You inspired to make up a list of the Top Ten Things Obama Can Blame Everything On:
1. Bush
2. Bush
3. Bush
4. Bush
5. Arab Spring
6. Tsunami
7. Greece
8. Europe
9. Congress
10. The sun was in my eyes
The dog ate my economy?
The president said it is “offensive” and “wrong” to accuse him or his team of leaking sensitive national security information.
It’s offensive? Keep on doing it then. Make him endure a LOT of it.
After all, his flunkies and acolytes have no problem offending his opponents with repeated unfounded accusations of racism.
He said offensive and wrong to confuse. It’s not untrue that they leaked. He thinks it is wrong for anyone to call them on it. Almost up to W.J.C. standards.
Yes, calling a question offensive is not the same thing as a denial.
What a difference from the Bush administration, when the CIA and various arms of the entrenched bureaucracy routinely and maliciously leaked details about sensitive national security programs (remember SWIFT? terrorist “wiretapping”?) or leaked falsehoods about Iran’s nuclear efforts (NIE, Joe Wilson).
In contrast we have the Obama admin desperately trying to claim credit as the font of all national security success–pay no attention to the Bush programs behind every curtain.
Are you serious? These leaks have cost lives, compromised future intelligence initiatives, and infuriated our allies. Outing Valerie Plame was done by a Lib working under Colin Powell.
Try a bit of honesty once in awhile – the “Bush is to blame”, “Bush did it too” excuses don’t hold water. By the way – the new scapegoat is the Europeans and Congress – ignoring the fact that the Senate has a Democrat majority.
Perhaps I misinterpreted your post – in re-reading it, I think I agree. There were factions withing the “entrenched bureaucracy” that were damaging the administration with the support of liberal members of Congress and of course, the dominant liberal media. I think the damage done by this latest series of leaks – all, IMO, intended to make our current president seem “presidential”, are extremely damaging.
Apologies for misunderstanding if that’s the case.
Joe Wilson has been totally discredited as a drone for the Kerry campaign and it’s common knowledge for anyone who cares to dig a little deeper than the Hollywood version of “facts.”
The private sector is doing fine, but they need another jobs bill? WTF?
Heh, I’m tweeting your comment.
Translation.. My policies are WORKING I tell you.. mmmummble “serfs”…..
It’s just my crew is whining they need some more cash from another slush fund. It allows me to pay off the right folks for their support of my policies.
The democrat party is the grand master of dirty money, misspent funds and political pay offs.
Cute that the press sits up and begs on cue for him like that. And the public notices how deep in the tank they are. Poll after poll confirms the public see the MSM as shill for the democrats, and the media response is to snort derisivily at the public as uneducated halfwits, and never address why they believe the MSM is corrupt. That kind of introspection would destroy them completely.
If for no other reason, always tell the truth, because it’s easier and you cannot be caught lying if you simply don’t lie.
The MSM limps along.. but true journalists exist only in the new media.. the MSM are just hacks anymore.
Read Obama’s “jobs bill”, it has nothing to do with private sector jobs. It’s all about “stimulating” public sector jobs…you know…union jobs.
I think we can all agree that when this “president” speaks that the truth is not being shared. The private sector here in NJ is completely destroyed and can be verified by researching who belongs to the local Chamber of Commerce in each township. I would love to see how many government officials own stock in the corporations that have devoured my locality.
“Offensive?” My God, the man must be taking lessons from W.C. Fields!! Suggest to him that he have a little conference with Tom Donilon and John Brennan about which of their staffers they want to “out.”
Special prosecutors are needed for the leaks, and,Fast&Furious. This Justice
Dept. exist to protect the president and secure his policies.It does not work
as a true representative of the law, in the interests of the people.No executive
pardons should be recognized if proposed by this administration, and there
should be no time restrictions on the prosecution of crimes committed by the same.
I wish he’d shove a drone up his arse.
What an annoying, lying, pathetic POS.
I continue to find your comments eloquent, funny when needed, and ON POINT!! Outstanding!!!
“Obama opened claiming that this recovery has been stronger than recoveries from previous recessions.”
In what alternate reality??? http://www.investors.com/image/A1three_120607.png.cms
– to his late night talk show appearances.
As a result of massive amounts of Hope&Change! the private sector is doing just fine.
Win The Future!
Kudos to you and all at PJ Media who manage to cover this president at all. When I hear his voice I generally hit the mute button. Thank you for doing the hard work to keep us informed.
You too on the mute?
Millions of us are doing that I’m afraid. It’s a disgrace a sitting president can be so offensive to so many. I had no trouble in the beginning when he was simply just another pompous bad of wind. Could tolerate his pandering and grandstanding,.. Clinton did that too..
but..
When he began demonizing the GOP, conservative simply citizens, and the Tea Party activists as worse than terrorists.. when his minions with a smirk started comparing a diiference in politics with being Nazi’s.. all our women speaking out were “sluts and whores”.. our veterans potentional domestic bombers like McVeigh while the president kept Billy (did it go off yet) Ayers on his list of friends..
We have a bumbling fool, and a hateful smear artist as president. They practice character destruction as a game, a happy liberal theme that only “they” are real Americans… We can’t even say we’re patriots without the media screaming that’s insulting to everyone else.. “Why that implies that we.. AREN’T”…. not really, but if the shoe fits and the residual guilt hurts.. so be it.
We’re deeply engaged in the second civil war, a cold one.. Cold War II… The victims are millions on unemployed, the wounded are people who speak out and are targeted for media destruction.. from Sarah Palin and George Bush all the way down to a simple unemployeed plumber who asked a question the president flubbed. He was public enemy #1 and had his life torn apart, his divorce made public his work status, even the snarky complaints of a few neighbors “offended” he dared to ask that power speak truth..
The left is Hell bent on not just ruling, Their word” (we’d say governing) they want complete silence and submission from the center and right in America.. and God help you if you attract their ire from just asking a question, or pointing out an untruth….
Breitbart was right.. war.
I NEVER hear his voice anymore- I read the transcripts only. I just hate his preacherly manner. It’s so out of place for a President, really kind of creepy. However, I do think that’s also why so many people thought he was inspirational and bought the whole vague mantra of hope and change. They were looking for a religion, and they found it.
– mute the TV. Given the exclusive company he has kept of late, no wonder he says the private sector is fine. He doesn’t know anyone who wouldn’t vote an Emmy for his good friend, Ms. Parker.
It’s always been obvious but more and more people are taking the blinders off.
He hasn’t “got game”. He’s got nuthin.
The guys been an affirmative action nothing from the first minute. He doesn’t understand anything and he doesn’t have the ability or desire to question anything, no matter himself.
He has his list of things that he was taught 40 years ago, and that’s it. America is the cause of all of the world’s problems. American’s are racist. Wealth has to be redistributed. Capitalism is bad. He is a genius.
The media outperformed even it’s own lofty standards. They hid the guy for three years in plain sight. But the masks are coming off. People were willing to believe the hype in 2008, but after 3 1/2 years of stunning dogma and subbornly rigid approaches to every issue, they have had enough.
The only question now is whether or now the immense power vested in that office and the federal government can be used to deceive and force enough people into voting against their own self intesest and re-electing the most incompetant and rigidly leftist politiian who ever schemed his way into national favor.
This is your president on drugs.
Favorite White House party game. Whenever a military intelligence officer lets you know that an enemy communication has been “intercepted” you yell interception and take a bong hit.
Obama’s rambling answer to New York Times Jackie Calmes had her eyes rolling.
Our President is defeating himself.
He is beclowning himself.
Whether that is sufficient to lead to defeat is yet to be determined. Apparently when the opponent is John McCain, it is not sufficient.
“Beclowning himself”?
Yes, maybe. What I think is worse,for him, is he’s becoming himself!
He’s always been full of beans, but now they’re all turning into gas — simultaneously; and, it’s becoming, shall we say, stinky? But, you know, “you are what you eat”? Now, whatever that was in his case, by his own telling, be it Beans, Hope&Change, or Dog, he’s beginning to be choked by his own BS. Let’s keep up the pressure. No “Heimlich Hugs”, this time.
Choking on Hope&Change, Beans, “Dog”, what an image.
Un chien il soit qui mal y pense!
Slackers for Obama Picks Up Where Occupy Movement Left Off
Washington, D.C. – In an act of desperation after the sizable Democrat loss in Wisconsin, President Obama’s campaign is targeting underachievers and all Americans who like entitlements with a brand new movement called Slackers for Obama. “With Occupy Wall Street’s numbers in decline, we felt we had to reenergize the vast majority of Americans who’ve become accustomed to handouts and give them a reason to believe that Obama will win reelection and keep the freebies coming,” said Communications Director for Obama’s re-election campaign David Axelrod. Together, Axelrod and Senior Advisor to the President David Plouffe came up with the slogan, “We want free stuff” and hope it will catch on like “Yes we can” as the official Obama reelection rally chant. The chant will figure prominently in commercials and contests such as one featuring George “Goober” Lindsey, the recently deceased star of the The Andy Griffith Show, offering a beer summit on his porch with President Obama, Police Sergeant James Crowley and Professor Henry Louis Gates to two lucky winners. One of the few remaining celebrity Obama supporters who hasn’t jumped ship, Lindsey’s last words were reportedly, “There’s a certain synergy two underachievers like Barack and I have together which is very much in keeping with the Pyle tradition.” Ironically, the movement’s t-shirts are anything but free — selling at $19.90 and $15.90 before a Father’s Day Discount — and sales are being used to partially cover an unexpected shortfall in the campaign’s financing. Perhaps not surprisingly, they have become something of an unintended gag item, selling even more brisky to conservatives and Al-Qaeda operatives.
Hey hey! Will wearing one of these get me past the TSA union goons at the airport without the usual grope session?
Alternate slogan: “We want YOUR stuff.”
How’s this for the perfect T-shirt:
” Want YOUR stuff.
(We’ll get it, too!)
Yes, We Can. ”
Just itching to get that printed on a t-shirt
to wear on the beach, around town. Back side:
” Your
Favorite Demcrat”.
Anybody here have a read on whether I’ll get myself canned for disturbing the peace?
I just have one question; if Obama thinks the private sector is doing just fine, isn’t he saying that Romney is right? Let the private sector bring the economy back? I’m just saying…
4.5% unemployment — jobless recovery
8.2% unemployment — doin’ just fine.
The private sector is just fined.
There, I fixed it for him.
The NLRB is now free to move about the country.
The pain is in the public sector, at least in New Jersey, Wisconsin, San Diego and San Jose.
As for Washington, D.C., the bloated, corpulent, excessive hiring binge by this administration would suffer only in the manner of Mr. Creosote in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. “just one more mint”…of course mint in this instance has a slightly different meaning.
However, the result is the same.
The private sector is doing just fine,….said the guy who has never worked there and who wants to raise taxes on those of us who do work there.
He just wants a bigger cut.
Blackmailers usually do.
And, they keep coming back for 2cnds, 3rds…
That is, they try to trade their lack of virtue for your real vice.
Sooo: Be vicious — Be virtuous. And, call them on it.
Relentlessly. They’ll stop or go to jail or both.
When I heard that Obama said that “The public sector is doing just fine,” I almost choked on my coffee. He had better stay out of states like Clifornia, New York, Illinois, Nevada, and even Florida with stupid statements like that. If I were on the Romney team, I would repeat that statement in a commercial every day from now until election day. Then while you’re hearing that, I would show up on the screen the latest unemployment statistics and how many Americans are still out of work. This man really is an empty suit and November can’t come soon enough for me.
…He should have gotten in at least one obligatory jab at “Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires” and the evil capitalists who fly around because of “tax breaks for corporate jets owners.”
Someone with an evil mind (like mine) could put together a simple, direct ad using this outrageous statement:
Obama: The private sector is doing just fine.
Cut to Richard Pryor: “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
WTF- Bush not responsible for the leaks? Did somebody forget to put it on the teleprompter?
a strong hint that the questions themselves had been pre-arranged with members of the mainstream media.
Two words: Milli Vanilli
“The private sector is doing fine. Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government.”
Thank you, Fearless Leader! Truly, “Ignorance is Strength”
The man continues to amaze me at how inept he really is as a leader.
This retard must think that the ‘private sector’ is some secret location in Chicago where the cock fighting industry is making a profit.
The peasants are getting plenty of food. – Stalin
Our Dear Leader, King Barack Hussein Louie Obama, will be a great Emperor for Life as he is a very highly educated man. He went to University where he was well schooled in bigotry and allegations, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic: ambition, distraction, falsification and derision. Trust him. He knows what he is doing. Just be patient. His economic plan will work perfectly. I have worked it all out mathematically. Let me see now, four million times five million is twelve million, and four billion times six billion is thirteen billion, and four trillion times seven trillion is … … oh my! We shall never get to economic recovery and prosperity at that rate! However, the multiplication table doesn’t really apply. Let’s try geography. Iraq borders Pakistan, the center of the Universe was Iraq but now it’s Afghanistan, America has 57 states, Minnesota is in the tropics because of Global Warming. No, that’s all wrong, but geography doesn’t really apply either, I’m certain! Let’s try religion. The Mossad was behind 9/11, Palestinians are victims, Saudi Arabia is our good friend and Islam is a great religion of peace. No, that’s all wrong too! Maybe if our Dear Leader just starts over and this time he reads the directions then perhaps directly he will be able to direct himself in the right direction.
Of course the questions and answers were rehearsed. It’s pretty scary running a “press conference” without a TelePrompTer. If you watch his face carefully when he’s getting ready to announce the name of the next “journalist” who will ask a question/toss him a softball, that little crease appears between his eyebrows that you can see when he’s thinking real hard, and he checks his notes several painful times before carefully calling on the lucky lapdog. Sure can’t risk accidentally calling on a real journalist at a press conference and having to answer a hard question.
Why doesn’t someone bring back that ’60s satirical program “That Was the Week That Was”? This week was my favorite news week since Jan. 2009, yet li’l o mostly talked about…Europe?
I enjoyed hearing some brave journalist shout, “Can we talk about Wisconsin?” as o raced out of the room. I heard that question followed by raucous laughter and hoped the thin-skinned one took it personally. My eyes told me I saw him flinch. Oh, let it be true. I’ll be taping the re-run tonight and watching it in slow-mo. We can learn a lot about our enemy by reading his facial expressions and body language.
Owebama’s “press conference”:
We’re doing just fine here…but but but but…if we’re not, it’s Congress’s fault.
Hang in there Europe. I’m the President of the United States, and I know you’ll be doing just fine, like us, real soon.
And now for a few spontaneous questions from my favorite kiss asses–
Oh, you want to talk about the European economy too?
Oh, you too? It is the burning question in all our minds this week.
And for my last trick, I’ll call on the midlife-crisis-stylishly disheveled gent for a risky question about my leaky White House: I am offended.
That’s all folks.
Barack could’ve flattened the Road Runner getting out of that room.
I predict that well look back on today and Obama’s “The private sector is doing just fine” comment as the tipping point in this election cycle.
Let’s make sure that every Undecided hears this one frequently between now and election day (just 150 days from now)
I agree. This has been a monstrously bad week for Obama, and this little snippet will stamp that into voters’ minds. Over and over- because this is campaign ad gold for the Romney camp.
Was this another dirty joke?
“The private sector is doing just fine, donchaknow.” *wink wink, nudge nudge, smirk*
Upon finishing this article, the now famous phrase “What, me worry?” popped into my mind along with the face of the character that uttered it.
Geithner Admits: Obligations in President’s Budget “Unsustainable” Feb 17, 2011 By the way they still do not have a budget from the do NOTHING SENATE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WdcQGJF_jmY#at=15
The private sector doing just fine and we need more stimulus???? Does anybody in the MSM remember Obama and Immelt yucking it up in the Bahamas or wherever the heck it was and joking about how “I guess there weren’t as many shovel ready projects as we thought”? And this guy wants more tax money to waste??
Well of course the “Private Sector” is doing just fine, it is the D C Socialist segment that keeps screwing up! The Private Sector still operates under Classic Economics 101 Principles, basicly adjusting its own individual operations to outside conditions that it cannot control. That is, up to and including the decision to cash in the chips and move on to a new game in a venue that does not have onerous restrictions. The entrepreneur takes the capital to the greener pasture (Classic Sense), leaving the land and labor to moulder and rust away.
The Insiders, inside the Beltway, operate differently. The credo is “Regardless, we will FIX it whether on not it is BROKE, until it is no longer fixable by anyone, ever again. Then blame the result on the Private Sector, unfurl their neatly hidden platinum over gold parachutes and sell their memoirs to a fawning publisher.
Obama’s brilliant take on the economy and jobs – the #1 concern of voters – five months from a general election? The private sector is doing fine and creating jobs but the public sector (in essence, government employment) is shedding jobs. If Congress really really wants to help, they should pass my to-do list and sanction more tax dollars to shovel-ready jobs in states and local municipalities.
In short, the private sector is doing fine and does not need new policies. It’s the poor public-employee unions who need more help and more of the same before the elections.
Never mind that the private sector is doing fine DESPITE every obstacle and burden that Obama has piled on them. Never mind that the public sector is NOT DOING fine DESPITE the billions of tax dollars that Obama has gifted them.
Brilliant.
“That’s all folks, that’s my contribution for the day on behalf of the economy. I have to go now for I have a date with celebrities to cash my ATM card for today. Bye-bye, have a nice day”.
I thought Joe Biden took the week off? I guess they sent in a substitute;)
Saying the question about purposely leaking to help Obamas image was offensive did not actually answer the question. He did not deny that somebody in his administration actually did it. Very interesting dodge. I wonder if the MSM will follow up on that dodge. They never would have let Bush get away with a dodge like that.
I suppose the next time a cop pulls me over for speeding, and asks me what speed I was doing, I should reply that the question is offensive, so I dont actually have to say if I was speeding or not.
http://constitutionalamerica.blogspot.com/2012/06/purposeful-careless-or-incompetent-take.html
If your only exposure to the “Private Sector” is 1-hour meetings at Hollywood homes with people who can pay 35,000 per person to schmooze with you, of course you’d think we’re doing fine.
Obama has redefined “flyover country” to: everything between The Beltway and Santa Monica Blvd.
Si Se Puede!!
Just another bit of flatulence from the Bunghole-in-Chief.
What else is new?
Everyone who voted for this idiot should hang their heads in shame.
I won’t wait up.
I think it’s important to note that in his “followup clarification” that Obama did not actually backtrack.
He talked about the Public Sector being the fount of all bad news in the economy while ‘the public sector is doing fine.’
Then he ‘clarifies’ by saying that the public sector is the fount of all bad news in the Economy that is Not doing fine.
So let’s provide some stimulous and get that Public Sector working again.
His verbal pretzel was no different than his ‘compromise’ on Religious Institutions funding Contraception.
This raised a thought. Notice how Obama says we need programs to stop loss of government jobs? Baloney. What a wonderful way to reduce the size of government. After all, will politicians ever consider cutting government during economic good times? Heck, no. Now, lest you think I’m just a cold-hearted, racist Tea Party type, here’s the solution. Reduce regulations, etc. to further free up the private sector to absorb excess government workers when they’re laid off.
MAYBE ON THE GOLF COURSE!
That’s exactly what, and exactly how they say it, about the kids, when one of the parents wants a divorce.
“The kids? Oh, the kid’s'll be fine.”
Another T-shirt idea:
My PRIVATE sec’s
Doing Fine
Ur Fav’rite
Dem’crat
Front and back!