Mirroring his term since wowing the Democratic National Convention in a Denver stadium four years ago, President Obama’s acceptance speech hit peaks and valleys as he tried to recapture the fervor of the “hope and change” mantra.
But after years in the Oval Office, and facing a new foe in his quest for a second term, Obama’s tone was more angry than soaring as he repeatedly took hits at and mocked his GOP challenger.
“I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me — so am I,” he said in a prelude to a bevy of standard campaign lines heard multiple times by Washington reporters.
“Now, our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan. And that’s because all they have to offer is the same prescription they’ve had for the last thirty years,” Obama said. “‘Have a surplus? Try a tax cut.’ ‘Deficit too high? Try another.’ ‘Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning!’”
The president aimed for visionary points about the future of America, but offered few specifics.
“Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place. And I’m asking you to choose that future. I’m asking you to rally around a set of goals for your country — goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and the deficit; a real, achievable plan that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity, and rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation,” he said. “That’s what we can do in the next four years, and that’s why I’m running for a second term as president of the United States.”
The commander in chief touted ending the war in Iraq and killing Osama bin Laden before calling Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan “new to foreign policy.”
“After all, you don’t call Russia our number one enemy — and not al-Qaeda — unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War time warp,” he said. “You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can’t visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.”
Swing…and…a…miss.
Is everyone still waiting for the trickle down checks from 8 years of George Bush? Is Romoney the one to deliver these checks now?
Romney, 10 success stories and more than 300,000 jobs created
ROMNEY AND INVESTMENTS
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/09/15125-10-companies-helped-by-romney-and-bain-capital/
Successes of Bain Staples 85,000, Sports Authority 15,000, Domino’s Pizza 170,000, Experian 17,000, Sealy 4,000, Steel Dynamics 6,000, Duane Reader 6,000, Goodys (Stage Stores) 14,000, Icon Health and Fitness 2,000, Brookstone 3,000,
I can honestly say that Romoney is well loved by the people and he will definitely help people from all walks of life…………IN CHINA!!!!!
Outsourcing, huh? The same outsourcing claims Obama made and the WASHINGTON POST debunked in June?
And “Romoney”…that’s clever. How long did it take for you to come up with that one? How much money did Obama raise at his $30,000 per plate Hollywood dinners while you thought up that gem?
Have an original thought, drone. Your empty suit delivered nothing tonight. You have two months left to cling to your delusions.
Obama outsourced some of his campaign functions to Canada and his jobs council is full of outsources.
GM outsourced Chrysler to Italy… heh.
Jobs Council? Oh the one he hasn’t met with since last January? That JOBS COUNCIL??
Rob you are pounding a drum that has been beating for over 20 years.
Any large comapny, All manufacturing jobs, automotive designing, sewing, automotive plants, toy makers, food bottelers, household wares, fabric packaging, computer manufactures, technical support, ETC………………have been outsourced to different countires. They are also bringing foreign workers from other countries to work for them here and paying them less. For you to pin point one Business man (Romney) working for a company that takes failing American companies and turns them (Bain Capitol) around and yell that some of those jobs were outsourced is ludicrious. They were allready ourtsourcing probably before you were born and it’s a tidal wave int his country that I don’t think any one could stop now. The only one that SHOULD be outsourced is Obama
“Obama Tries to Recapture 2008 Feeling”
Sorry, that old “feeling” is now boilerplate, and that’s all we got from, uh, *The President* tonight.
He has certainly recaptured the “old feelings” with me! The same feelings I had in 2009 when he was sworn in. Revulsion…. and disgust with my fellow Americans for being so empty-headed as to elect a nearly unknown Marxist punk from the corrupt Chicago political machine to represent our magnificent America. Look at the pictures of the cheering crowds applauding these soulless and destructive Democrat gasbags and you have to wonder how can so many otherwise bright looking people be so damned stupid?
Yooper, I don’t think I would have been as kind s you are to this vile, chicago style thug politician that thinks he knows better.
In 2008 I just disliked Obama and did not think he would win and I did not vote that year!
Now after he actaully did win and I have seen the disaster that has unfolded by him and his administration I lothe him and will vote accordingly!
I am currently unemployed and ain’t it funny under Bush I stayed employed as a matter of fact I have never been recieving unemployment check as much as I have with this guy in office, I can’t do that any more!
We are the same Americans as those ‘greatest generation’ Americans who called shantytowns Hoovervilles eight years into FDR’s presidency. Idiots! We are surrounded by them. They are us.
An insufferable ass is an insufferable ass, of course, of course
And no one can talk sense to an insufferable ass, of course
And especially, of course, if the insufferable ass is the famous Barack Obama
Go right to the source and ask the insufferable ass
He’ll give you the answer that deceivers will endorse
He’s always on a dissemblers course
Talk to Barack Obama
Barack Obama just yakkity yaks a streak and wastes your time of day
Does any sane person even believe anymore a single thing he has to say?
An insufferable ass is an insufferable ass, of course, of course
And this one’ll talk in prevaricating circles til his voice is hoarse
You never heard of a talking insufferable ass?
Well, listen to this
He is Barack Obama!
Gold!
that is perfect. good job
George Bush’s nickname is Dubya
Because he did really dupe-ya
Dupe-ya really got people believing
But trickle down was just so deceiving
The haves gets more with a promise to pass it on down
But I’m sure what all the rest of you got was just a frown
Now, Romoney is promising that same ole song and dance
Will this time around result in a different circumstance?
I’m sure you all will hang on to that same devotion
But wait long and hard and you might get that promotion
Keep longing for trickle down to give you that brighter day
Then make sure that each night you never stop to pray
For that day, in the long distant future, might come
And hopefully by then, you will finally get some
That was sad. I feel sorry for you and your family.
It’s 2012, inferior. Is that all you’ve got?….sure sign you’re losing
Bush? Really? Thats a clown poem bro!
It appears that Rob is “waiting” for someone to deliver his free cheese. Poo Wittle Wob.
The reports on the speeches are vomitorious enough. My thanks and condolences to those who watched and reported.
A fine neologism, vomitorious. + 1
I think this thing is over. It was over when Romney picked Ryan–notice the 8 point swing in Rasmussen since the choice was made in mid-August. Obama hates Clinton, but needs him desperately. Guess what–deep down Clinton and Rahm think the Big O is going to lose, and they are paying their dues in an effort to take control of the Dems once the wipeout occurs. Rahm talking to big donors—sure—but not for this campaign, brother. Clinton going around the country lambasting Republicans–not for this president, but for the 2016 candidate, who he will play a big role in choosing.
This is no time for complacency.
Amen. Relying on Rasmussen is…er…’somewhat risky’. Keeping the average GOP denizen awake and motivated enough to grab his oxygen bottle and get out the door and vote is just as hard as bringin’ in the sheaves – independents, floating voters, disgruntled Dems and Jews, and the rest. It will be close. The Stupid Party often insists on being its own worst enemy.
When this hyper-partisan yo-yo thinks it was bad, you know it was bad..http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/07/obama-a-pedestrian-and-overconfident-speech.html
Well, that’s an hour I’ll never get back. B-o-o-o-r-r-r-i-i-i-n-n-ng. Aside from that baritone voice, the soaring cadences, and the true believers in the crowd, what did we hear? Nothing new. I could have done without those repeated shots of Michelle looking so pleased. Ack!
Ya, it was pretty bad. I don’t agree with Obama on much of anything but he is good at giving speeches and this time it was like he put no effort into it.
His words were vapid and meaningless.
I’ve heard plenty of people imitate a televangelist in the past, I didn’t need to commit another hour to it.
I don’t want to travel any road together with the collection of misfits, ignoramuses, assholes, and just plain retarded and ugly looking people I saw at that convention. It was like looking at the inner ring of the ninth circle of hell. Obama can take his collectivist bull shale and stuff it where the sun don’t shine. I am a sovereign individual. If I choose to be a part of a community, it will be my choice and a community of my choosing. Notice the ever increasing idea being put out there by this band of brigands that we are all in this together? WE BELONG TO THE GOVERNMENT? There is no way in hell I would want to associate with any of the vermin on display at that convention and to think that this SOB has plans to bring us so low that in four more years we will be no different that a bunch of dirty Bolshevik rabble with our hands outstretched begging with filth under our fingernails and calluses for a crust of bread from him and his fellow feudal lords. He is the most hateful looking man ever to sit in the Oval Office. He exudes malevolence. He drips with arrogance. And he ain’t fooling me. I still cannot quite believe that a majority of Americans unleashed this cancer into our body politic and we will NEVER be the same again. Damn him and his bald faced lies to hell.
That was priceless…..I loved it!! Thank you Betina!
Tom
Outstanding Betina!
I think we can sum this up with the standard Flight Attendant quip:
Buh-Bye!
Barack Obama… the embodiment of the stupid American. A Pied Piper who gathers to himself all the haters, racists, uninformed, idealistic dreamers without consciences, weak minded fools easily swayed, the disaffected, those who imagine persecution … the liars.
If this DNC convention were broadcast in black and white I would swear I was watching a documentary from 1930s Germany.
Sorry DNC, I don’t belong to government. I belong to God, or if you don’t believe in a deity, then I belong to myself.
Fact checkers pretty much can take the night off. This speech was as factless as it was feckless. Once a con man always a con man. Baghdad Bob rides again.
I get the message – it’s our fault. That change thing, it was the people. And if it wasn’t change enough or in the right direction, it was our fault.
Oh brother.
Who is Providence? Nevermind – we’ll have a Czar of Providence before it’s over.
Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Clint’s empty chair had better answers and more robust information to share.
All style and no substance…and the style was borrowed, trite and stale, stolen from yesterday’s wind.
The one trick pony threw a shoe and came up lame…very lame.
I’m a bit stunned. The Greeks must have taken back their columns and sold them on E-bay or traded them for a sham-wow. And wow, what a sham.
Weak, empty, vacillating, lacking direction, solution, and verve. This wasn’t an empty chair as much as it was a conch shell being used by a slug to still move about. A housing not owner occupied and likely to be foreclosed. Hold this speech up to your ear and you not only can hear the ocean roar, you can hear contested Democratic House members wail. “You got me” is ringing in their ears….they do…like an albatross.
The sound you hear is the pitter patter of several dozen contested race Democrats running away at full speed.
Don’t know how to fisk a vacuum. The Propaganda and Lies Ministry has their work cut out for them propping up this dead cat.
China is our closest ally now? Not the U.K. or France or Japan or South Korea?
So all those surrogates who keep telling us we need to be more like China are a reflection from Obama’s administration?
Fresh material! “…dead cat…” ha ha ha ha ha
When the star of the show is an impeached, disbarred, hoser, the message suffers. China is Hoser Bill’s best ally. He provided a valuable service to them (missile secrets) in exchange for a nice New York house.
I had nightmares of an auditorium full of doting Michelles looking up at me with admiration at me delivering my speech, naked and exposed like this seditious traitor Hussein.
Some folks can rise above the abandonment issues and inferiority complexes brought on by parents who abandon them……..some can’t.
half-white, half-ass, total creep
forked tongue
…Half-President…half-wit…
yeah! That last guy was way smarter. Romney’s plans are just like that last guy’s. C’MON EVERYBODY, BACK IN THE DITCH!!
I think this thing is over. It was over when Romney picked Ryan–notice the 8 point swing in Rasmussen since the choice was made in mid-August. Obama hates Clinton, but needs him desperately. Guess what–deep down Clinton and Rahm think the Big O is going to lose, and they are paying their dues in an effort to take control of the Dems once the wipeout occurs. Rahm talking to big donors—sure—but not for this campaign, brother. Clinton going around the country lambasting Republicans–not for this president, but for the 2016 candidate, who he will play a big role in choosing.
Øbama has been America’s bimbo trophy wife for four years. We’ll send our trophy wife on her way in January. B’ bye!
I thought it funny that he used “Providence.” Fortune is luck, but Providence is God.
“Yes the path is longer – but it leads to a better place, yes the road is longer” Wait a minute Mr. Scoutmaster, we’ve been on this hike for four years and now you’re telling us the end of the trail is nowhere in sight. You got any idea where we are?
+ 1
“You got any idea where we are?”
4 more years away from Total Economic Collapse. That appears to be the “fundamental transformation” Obama’s bringing. He’s done an awesome job achieving that so far –
Downgrade America’s credit rating.
$16 Trillion in debt.
NO BUDGET in the last 3 years.
Record levels of poverty, unemployment, food stamps, despair…
Enabling our enemies and spitting in the faces of our friends.
“knowing that Providence is with us…”
despite the fact that my party very nearly voted to refuse acknowledging Providence’s existence.
Pandering was never more shameful, and the Democrats have decades of practice.
“After all, you don’t call Russia our number one enemy — and not al-Qaeda — unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War time warp,” he said. “You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can’t visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.”
Because nothing says “I love you” like returning a gift bust of a friend’s greatest hero and presenting their royalty with copies of your speeches.
This guy is a megalomaniac.
This from a guy who dallied sub rosa with Medvedev, whispering sweet nothings, leaning forward oh-so-close to holding hands.
“After all, you don’t call Russia our number one enemy — and not al-Qaeda — unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War time warp”
In affairs like these, oe must look at both capabilities and intentions. Al-Qaeda’s intentions are far far far more overt, but Russia doesn’t mind being ruthless to get what it wants–part of which is just less USA as top dog, more Russia.
And its capabilities are far far greater than Al-Qaeda. Russia may not be an enemy. It is not a friend, either. It is Wilhelmine Germany, looking to increase its importance, but without having the Kaiser’s Germany’s economic dynanism. We at least have that going for us.
Putin’s Russia is dying demographically. It’s economy is a one-trick pony, tied to the price of oil. It has been unable to revitalize it’s industrial base, mainly because Putin and his siloviki can and will confiscate any company that’s doing well and throw that company’s officers in jail if they resist. Foreign investment capital has had enough of being bullied and preyed upon and is staying away. As in the Yeltsin years, anyone with money is sending it abroad and any people with talent and ambition strive to escape.
Ex-KGB true believer Putin never got over losing the Cold War and in the most juvenile of ways, spends his time playing the macho strongman on TV and scattering tacks on our chair at every opportunity. Anything we’re for, he’s against. He cozies up to our every enemy. There is absolutely no comparison to the Kaiser’s Germany. Russia hasn’t got the manpower or industrial base to be a superpower. It can only put up a front.
“I’m asking you to rally around a set of goals for your country — goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and the deficit; a real, achievable plan that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity, and rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation,”
I just knew we’d be talking about five-year plans eventually.
Final summary–I want nothing to do with an America made in the image of this man. This fraud.
Rip Van Obama–he’s been asleep for the past four years. He was in the White House way late one night, reading letters from the poor, the tired, the hungary, the huddled masses…under a portrait of Lincoln…he opened his eyes last night and began to talk on and on, without recalling anything he’s done the four years he’s been president. He only remembered he was reading letters, his dog Bo lying by his chair, and he was just going to find Michelle and tell her how angry he felt about what was happening to the poor, the tired, the hungary, the huddled masses…the middle class…
I follow this with a lot of interest from germany
Wo leben Sie in Deutschland?
I wish Obama and his fellow Progressives would get their damn eyes off the distant horizon and focus on what’s going on today.
Romney understands the Cold War isn’t over. AQ is our enemy but thanks to W and also to Obama the threat is done significantly. Meanwhile Iran kills American soldiers, Syria murders its own and helped kill Americans in Iraq, Hizbullah and Iran are a threat not only to Israel but to the US in South America in concert with Chavez. And who is key supporter and supplier of Chavez and Iran and Syria? Russia. The same Russia who thanks to Obama’s forcing down the New START treaty will leave us by next decade behind Russia in strategic nuclear arms as we fail to modernize (if Obama wins) while Russia and China have already modernized their nukes. Meanwhile the Prez wants to reduce of nuclear triad to a dyad in hopes of moving towards a nuclear zero which only the US would join while our force levels go down close to those of the current smaller nuclear powers. All this is a recipe for nuclear proliferation which Obama professes to oppose. As for Romney in Britain at the Olympics: wasn’t it Obama who insulted the UK by returning the bust of Winston Churchill on the (we now know made up claim)assertion that the Brits had tortured his Kenyan grandfather?
Obama needs more time to completely bankrupt the country. And besides, Michelle wants to take a few more extravagant vacations.
we are in this mess together, that we inherited from the last guy in office. we didn’t do anything with this mess, so if you are willing to give me four more years to finish what i haven’t done, we will show what we can really do. can we get a witness! this race is a relay, can we get the one to pass the baton to the next guy in the race. Can we get Mitt Romney to inherit this mess too?
Hmmm… don’t think I’ll buy and fund your dream this time. How about sticking closer to the ground and tell me how my income can increase, how gas prices can come down so I can fill my tank every week without impacting my food bill. And hopefully next year, not five, ten years from now. And don’t tell me to get educated first, can’t wait that long.
I have to admit that I did not watch. I can’t stomach this man anymore and can think of no past president that has had as much airtime. It seems that not one day has gone by where his face is not on the news for any or no reason at all.
If not for his oratory he would have nothing. His sole talent is commonly shared by salespeople and is the root of the most successful of that breed. The ability to convince through skewing facts or outright lies and making false promises.
Jay Leno turned on Obama with this quip, “The president inherited a bad economy, and if he is re-elected, he will inherit an even worse mess.(paraphrased)”
If ever there was a time to argue for the word, “worser” in the English vocabulary, it is now. So, Obama inherited a bad mess, made a bad mess worse, and will make his worse mess worser. It seems to all make sense.
He still seems to be speaking to an audience of poor, angry, jealous, immiserated, disenfranchised, helpless, anomie-ridden, outcast citizens who feel that rich people and conservatives are screwing them over and living the high life at their expense. Peasants. Obama wants them to know he hears their desperate cries and is coming to rescue them.
I am not part of his audience. I don’t live in the same mental world as his audience. He is not speaking to me. The Democrat party is not speaking to me. They are speaking to someone else. So I’m voting for someone else.
– know what has to be done when a team keeps losing year after year. Hope dies. Time for a change.
We don’t belong to the government, the government belongs to us.
I wish this was mine, but I am only forwarding content of an email I received.
The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault”, think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.
At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH
Remember the day…
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
Unemployment… to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress
So when someone tries to blame Bush.
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007…. THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!”
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for, and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.
There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
*SO* Standing Ovation…say on…O, yeah, LISTEN on
No amount of lying, cheating, stealing, obfuscation, propaganda, corruption or concealment can cover up for such an accomplished loser.
The President is my role model. He is athletic, has impeccable taste in females and, at one time, actually owned a Chrysler 300. But, this was before FIAT bought them.
This master of foreign policy has chosen his “friends” like Farrakhan, Rev. Al, Rev. Jackson, Rev. Ike and me, Steve Urkel.
Barry and I are going to borrow our mommie’s bicycles and go for a ride later. Got to get ready.
It’s hard to soar like an eagle when everything that you’ve done
shows you’re a turkey.
i’m heart sick @ our choices this election cycle….a true communist currently occupying the white house and a socialist/mormon…make NO mistake the mormon’s have their own agenda…and for The Truth of GOD ALMIGHTY they are NOT Christians, period…..