A circular logo, circular logic that if you tax more you somehow get a stronger private sector, an economy circling the drain, and now a circular grade.
President Obama gives himself an “incomplete” when asked to grade his first-term performance on the economy.
“I would say incomplete,” Obama told Colorado’s KKTV-11, in an interview aired Monday evening. “But what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.”
Obama’s remarks come as Republicans are pressing the question of whether voters are better off now than they were four years ago.
About three years ago, Obama rated himself a “solid B+.” Now he isn’t even handing in his homework.
Different schools handle Incompletes in different ways; some factor them into the GPA as 0.00 while some wait for the student to get their act together and submit their work before assigning a grade. America doesn’t have time to wait on slacker Barry O. He came into office with the political wind at his back and managed to turn around and spit straight into it.
How does a president who had two years of total control justify giving himself an “Incomplete” with 8.3% unemployment and no end to the magical mystery Obama recovery in sight? Obama’s own decisions to pursue ObamaCare and to pack the stimulus with payoffs to his allies led directly to the Democrats losing the House and several legislatures. His own decision to scuttle the XL pipeline drove the Canadians toward China and told the world that the US still isn’t serious about using our energy resources. Obama’s own decision to try to force Israel back to indefensible borders signaled to the world that we may not have our allies’ backs any longer.
Perhaps by “Incomplete” Obama means that he just hasn’t quite caused enough destruction yet.
Actually, he should’ve given himself the grade of “Present”, but even that would be an exaggeration.
We can’t know, but I surmise that this is exactly how this affirmative action fraudster made his way through Columbia and Harvard. Lots of (choom) smoke and mirrors and lots of lying…
Isn’t an incomplete what you get if you don’t show up?
Obama’s first term was the dream where you realize you signed up for a course and you never went to class. The final is coming in the first week of November and you have no clue how to pass the course.
Unfortunately, Obama has made us live through this cold sweat nightmare with him. He’s begging for an incomplete. But, it’s likely to all work out if the past is any predictor.
Heck, he got into Columbia and then into Harvard Law under pretty much the exact same circumstances. Somebody just has to call Don Warden or Tony Rezco and “fix” this for him.
Then, the nightmare will be only ours.
– “plan” (“No, this time really. For sure!”), then why doesn’t he implement it now?
A former professor of Barack Obama has turned against his one-time student, by publicly urging voters not to re-elect him. Roberto Unger posted a video on YouTube detailing the reasons why he believes the President does not deserve a second term in the White House.
Mr Unger, a prominent Brazilian politician and an adviser to Obama in 2008, said: ‘President Obama must be defeated in the coming election. He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.’ Below is an outline of Professor Ungers Election strategy as unfolded in Brazilian Electoral Politics for it Progressive Socialist Party – The PT (Partido Trabalhista). Mr. Lula, won two terms in office with this strategy and his successor Dilma did, too. Note: In Brazil, Unionization proceeded apace with both Mr. Lula and Ms. Dilma organizing this immense bloc of voters…something Mr. Obama (in the USA) has met with disappointing results.
Professor Unger’s Election strategy for Mr. Obama’s 2008 Presidential Candidacy reviewed:
1) Number of states won by: Obama=19…..McCain=29
2) Square miles of land won by: Obama=580,000…..McCain=2,427,000
3) Population of counties won by: Obama=127 million….McCain=143 million
4) Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:Obama=13.2…..McCain=2.1
Conclusion: the map of the territory McCain won, was mostly land owned by taxpaying citizens of the Country. Obama’s territory, on the other hand, mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off of various forms of government welfare. Recently, estimates have this population total somewhere around 47 million.
Fast forward to 2012:
#1. (2 June 2012) In 2011, federal spending on 79 programs to provide cash, food, housing, medical care, social services, training and targeted education for low-income people was $717 billion. State contributions to these federal programs added another $201 billion and independent state programs added $9 billion … total welfare spending of $927 billion. After adjusting for inflation and population growth, the amount for cash, food and housing was 50% more than in 1991. (Source: 29 May 2012 National Center for Policy Analysis)
#2. (17 February 2012) In 1984, only 14.8% of Americans paid no federal income tax. In 2009, 49.5% (152 million) paid none. (Source: 8 February 2012 Investor’s Business Daily, Heritage Foundation).
His list of complaints against President Obama is a long one in the video entitled ‘Beyond Obama’. From the above two examples, one understands Mr. Unger’s Electoral strategy as “Continental,” just like he did in Brazilian elections. Mr. Obama’s Electoral team (on the other hand) has decided on a “segmenting” strategy (not one dissimilar to 2008’s) and one Mr. Unger sees as self defeating. The esteemed philosopher is scathing of Mr Obama’s plans to salvage America’s ailing economy, saying that his policy solely consists of ‘financial confidence and food stamps’.
Examples of Mr. Obama’s Electoral “segmented’ base strategy are:
#1 In 2009, approximately 4 million Americans fell out of the middle class and now live below the federal poverty line.
#2 The number of Americans enrolled in the food stamp program has set a new all-time record for 20 consecutive months.
#3 In July (the last month for which data is available), 41.8 million Americans were on food stamps.
#4 The number of Americans in the food stamp program skyrocketed more than 55 percent between December 2007 and July 2010.
#5 In 2009, more than 48 million Americans were enrolled in the Medicaid program.
#6 One out of every six Americans is now enrolled in at least one anti-poverty program run by the U.S. government.
Mr. Unger is a marxist Otto Bauer student: Austrian School of Economics. Ludwig Von Mises and Hayek (Bauer’s opposites)advocated:1) Balanced Budgets, 2) Sound Money, 3) Gold Standard, 4) Free Trade, 5) Repeal of Export subsidies, 6) Repeal of other monopolistic privileges 7) and theory of Money- “it originates in the market (not in government) and must always do so.”
Mr. Obama was merely obeying his teacher’s guiding hand. See, Mr. Unger has also collapsed Brazil’s economy because” socialism permits no private property or exchange of capital goods, and thus no way for resources to find their most highly valued use. Socialism, would result in utter chaos and the end of civilization.” Mr. Unger has woken-up!!! God Bless America. Amen.
The frightening thing to me is that in most cases, an “incomplete” means you take the class over again. We don’t want that. Perhaps he could take it in another school district.
Like maybe Antarctica, or Paraguay.