Will President Obama’s Thursday address be the worst speech ever? Kevin Hassett almost thinks so:
It might be that this jobs report stimulates the Obama team to drop all the Keynesian nonsense, but I doubt it. Frankly, I expect Obama’s jobs speech to be the worst presidential speech in my lifetime.
I don’t know how old Kevin is, but my lifetime stretches back to Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech of 1979. The Washington Post‘s David Nakamura remembers it, too:
Obama is not Carter. But when asked if there were historical parallels between the high stakes Obama is facing in his big jobs speech to Congress at 7 p.m. next Thursday, some presidential historians made the connection to Carter’s moment three decades ago.
“It was a make-or-break speech,” said John Kenneth White, a political science professor at Catholic University. Carter had “gone to Camp David to assess what had gone wrong in the energy crisis, but also what had gone wrong with his presidency, to hit the restart button.”
Obama is scheduled to go to Camp David on Friday for two days, the same day that the newest job report shows unemployment holding at 9.1. percent.
Presidential historians said Obama has raised the stakes by scheduling such a highly anticipated address before a joint session of Congress. An address in the Oval Office could last less than 15 minutes, they said, but gathering both chambers of Congress means the president will have to present something substantial.
Substantial? Perhaps. But will Obama’s proposals be substantially different from his policies of the last two-plus years?
On the negative, you have the appointment of Alan Krueger as the president’s top economic advisor. As we’ve discussed before, here and on PJTV, Krueger is Austan Goolsbee is Christina Romer. I have a better track record on Obamanomics than any of these Ivy-pruned jokers. (Also see here and here.) And it’s not like the president has announced a cabinet shakeup or fired any of his army of czars.
It’s not looking too good so far.
“Obama is not Carter”
At this point such a comparison is unfair . . . to Carter.
Heartily agree.
Carter was (is) a “Gentleman” (that’s compliment #1) and I believe he really thought that he was doing all the “right things” with what he considered to be “integrity”….(compliment #2), given the Party-personnel available to him at that time, even though the summed-up results remain so bad and misguided.
I don’t believe for one second that Obama is a Gentleman, and I believe that every hypocrical, mendacious, syllable prompted from his devious throat has elastic definitions that only he and his writers can know. He’s an egotistical, charismatic chameleon who has taken “charisma” and snookering all those who voted for him (not me) to new lows.
…..Obama is “hoist on his own petard”.
“…these two rouge agencies…”
Freudian slip? Rouge is as red does.
Jeez. It’s been weeks, but I’m still not used to using Autocorrect in OS X Lion.
You see the fix, you assume it’s the right fix, you… aw, hell — I’ll get it fixed now. Thanks!
FYI, you can turn autocorrect off in Safari. Click any given textarea, then Edit -> Spelling and Grammar -> uncheck Correct Spelling Automatically.
Sorry to be a potential nitpicker, Mr. Green, but it’s ‘rogue’, not ‘rouge’… unless you’re commenting on their color preferences?
It’s already been fixed. See the above comments.
Gah! Never mind! My lousy sense of timing!
It’s still better than my lousy sense of spelling. And my blind faith in autocorrect? Fuggidaboudit.
But you’re such a ROUGE rogue, and thats why we love you, Stephen!
Be realistic! It can’t be the “worst” speech because he gets additional affirmative action credits from the media that will “save” him.
Besides, it will actually be the same speech he reads every couple of days, e.g., corporate jet owners, Bush’s fault and incivility from those f**king Teabaggers; you know the regular stuff.
Of course, the MSNBC shills will swoon. Honest Americans, however, will click back to the ball game long, long before the Kenyan’s last, “let’s be clear.”
It tickles me to think that someone else has realized that Obama’s “let’s be clear” is a big ol’ submarine warning siren aaaaOOOOOgh, aaaaOOOOOgh — when he says that it means, “HUGE LIE DEAD AHEAD!” We orig. tried to make a drinking game out of his cliches setting up lies, but gave it up after being drunk within 5 minutes …
Yep. I’m expecting exactly nothing new. Just a reshuffling of the same deck of marked cards.
AND opening game between the Packers and Saints!! It’ll be a tough moral struggle but I’m afraid I have to go with the football game. Yeah, I’d really love to see the president speak but…..
He will try to split the difference. Reagan rhetoric, Carter policies. It’s doubtful that he even understands the contradictions he will introduce, and the inevitable undesirable consequences.
I didn’t vote for the guy, but was willing to be open to the possibility that he really was a different kind of politician with an ability to bridge differences while promoting his agenda. You know, like so many of our betters insisted he was during the 2008 campaign. But even if that was his desire, he simply doesn’t have the capability.
This is a good lesson for the electorate, experience matters. Real experience, and real achievements, and recovering from real setbacks is necessary to qualify a candidate for actually doing the job. You like how candidate X talks and what she/he says? Get over it, ability to deliver has to be present for any results to actually occur.
“I didn’t vote for the guy, but was willing to be open to the possibility that he really was a different kind of politician with an ability to bridge differences while promoting his agenda”
Me Too…I decided after the unhinged level of visceral hatred hureled at the admittedly imperfect, but relatively decent George W, I would give this guy a shot without my instant right-wing-knee-jerk “underminement” (is that a word?) of him just because I didnt vote for him.
I tried to respect the Office, and the choice my Countrymen made.
Then I realized it was like trying to respect the Jury after the OJ trial.
And the people who cheered his freedom. Everyone knew he was guilty, but they gave him a free ride based on old grievences that had nothing to do with the case. Cant negotiate with asholes like that
All we can hope for now is, that the gloves finally come off, and the “evil, mean powerful” Republicans actually live up to the hype (instead of trying to soothe the media) and actually DO full-on drive by of this punk and his gang.
Youre gonna be accused of “going negative” no matter what, might as well get the benefit of actually doing it.
Call him a fraud, and a socialist at the debate.. show the (zombie) pictures of Red-Shirt Commie Unions Thugs, compare them to the IMAGINARY Tea-racists meme, call the MSM active partisans, and tell them to just F*ck off.
Talk PAST them at the debate, with open contempt.
What can they do, call us RACISTS?
Hmmm, it might be “undermining”
In any case, great post.
Late one night a year or two before he was elected I couldnt sleep so I clicked on the TV. Just coming on was an expose of extremist politicians in the U.S.. I vaguely recall that a substantial amount of time was devoted to a little known politician named Barack Obama. I remember thinking at the time, based on what the program revealed about him, that the guy was so far out there that he would never amount to anything; surely America would never be so foolish as to elect this guy to a higher office…..
I wish the whole country had been sleepless that night.
Hint: A single litmus test is all that is needed to decide on who the best cantidate is; what is their stance on the second amendment? The second amendment fundamentally defines the relationship between the citizen and the state. Pro second amendment means pro citizen. Pro private property rights. Pro liberty. Pro rule of law. etc etc etc…..
Anti second amendment means statist control freak and all the evil that goes along with statism; exactly what we are suffering from now.
I am wearing one of my Second Amendments on my hip as I write this response! There are at least three more second amendment items nearby and ready to go, just like taking the next breath!
They must have put that show on late at night, when only a few insomniacs would see it.
I never saw any expose on Obama on television, though from living in Chicago, I knew from the get-go that this dude was no good.
The mainstream media hid from us how astonishingly bizarre, and how un-American, Obama and his family and associates truly are.
Yes they will call us racists and watch the retreat begin.
“He will try to split the difference. Reagan rhetoric, Carter policies. It’s doubtful that he even understands the contradictions he will introduce, and the inevitable undesirable consequences.”
He understands completely, he was well schooled in contradictions and the inevitable undesirable consequences. Remember Cloward & Piven strategies.
I’m not please that Obama is using a joint session…it smacks of a “crisis” of such great magnitude and urgency that something has to be done NOW; even if it’s wrong, to force something unsavory on the unsuspecting. Boehner should have told the POTUS to give the speech somewhere else; now he’s gonna be lecturing Congress and acting like he’s just gathered the kids together on for the TV dress-down; while wasting our tax dollars.
My hope is that Obama will apologize to the nation and resign.
–”My hope is that Obama will apologize to the nation and resign.”
Wouldn’t that be wunnerful?! Most likely not gonna happen
But I diagree Boehner should’ve told him to get lost (altho you just *know* he will do the Lecturer-in-Chief routine again); that would only make Boehner et. al. look bad and ignore centuries of precedent.
I am suprised that no one has pointed out why Obama has chosed the forum of a joint session of congress. It seems obvious that the intent is to have the POTUS rattle off a list of “compassionate and sensible” job initiatives that will thrill the redistributive hearts of the Democrats who will stand and cheer his every applause line while making the Republicans look like mean-spirited ghouls as they sit on their hands. Watch the Dems jump to their feet if oil company profits are demonized and a promise is given to take away their “loopholes and subsidies” and redistribute their unseemly profits to some job creating works initiative. What a graphic as Republicans are made to look like job-killers who are more interested in big corporate profits than helping out the little guy. This is a setup from the beginning that tailor-made for the fawning media. Snookered again.
Typo….should be chosen not chosed
He is using this venue for campaign purposes. I have stopped listening to any of his teleprompter readings.
Same here. He’s always lying anyway, so what’s the point of listening?
Geese, O’s trying very hard and should get an A for Affort (spelling doesn’t count). That was the grade he got at Harvard in ‘Economics for the Disadvantaged’. He must believe that paying workers more, requiring paid leave, lots of health care costs, new rules by OSHA and EPA will make the private employer hire more.
“Why don’t you hire 20% more workers as I raised the cost of each by 20%” that way you can get the same amount of work done.
LOL!
Businesses are afraid of arbitrary actions by the Federal government. Arbitrarily directing the EPA to withdraw new regulations does nothing to reassure people; on the contrary, it makes them feel like all these new regulations are based on political considerations and not on any actual need.
Obama is really damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t at this point. He has been playing dangerous games with the economy for over two years now, and anything he does will just look like more of the same.
Who can trust that Obama will stick to his “withdrawal”, once the heat’s off? He’s known for sliding things in under the radar once people aren’t looking.
He also slides them in when people are looking. All the while flipping us the bird and saying, “stop me if you dare”.
Obama’s saving grace might actually be that people don’t even tune in to watch the speech, preferring to track down whatever pregame show airs on whatever cable channel for Saints-Packers. If a crappy speech falls in the Capitol with no one tuned in, did Obama make a noise?
Speeches to joint sessions are reserved for big things, he’s sacrificing prestige for optics that will work as well as his healthcare joint session speech.
I would like to have seen the speech happen on Wednesday many of the house members would have to come from the airport to the house floor. Democratic house members wearing sequined red cowboy hats would have made a great optic.
No real job growth in the private economy will happen under Little Lenin because people are scared shitless. (btw, more than 1 in 7 of all full-time current jobs are in the public sector….who knew?)
But don’t be surprised if his full-time marxist minions find a way to game the system.
If he can drive 1 million more people out of the workforce and add 1 million make-work and/or gubamint jobs by Sept 2012, the slimey current method of calculating unemployment will show a number under 8%. And that is if they don’t change the calculation methodology. Who imagines for a second that they wouldn’t be willing to change the formula.
Nothing is beyond these power-mad freaks.
Employment is the LAST thing that’s on their minds.
The idea of redefining unemployment is one of the things I fear too. He might very well follow the precedents set by his socialist friends in the British Labour party and simply define hundreds of thousands of healthy unemployed people as sick. (Mind you, this is a bit harder in the US than it was in Britain with its socialized medicine.)
Theodore Dalrymple, who was a practicing doctor at the time (he’s since retired) was appalled by this and saw many of his colleagues strong-armed into declaring able-bodied unemployed people as sick. Labour then bragged about bringing the unemployment numbers down and didn’t actually have to increase health care budgets to treat these new sick people since they weren’t actually sick. Really a brilliant solution if you can ignore the moral component.
I’m having a bit of trouble tracking down the article that mentions the pressure put on doctors to give sick certificates but he describes much of the scheme and the consequences in this article from 2005: http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_01_28_05td.html
There are many ways to do it.
The slimey formula is people employed full-time divided by “the workforce”. Tinker with either side and the unemployment % can go down in a flash.
For example, declare that anybody unemployed for 2 years is “out of the workforce”. Presto, unemployment could be 7% with the stroke of a pen.
Or declare that anyone working over 30 hours a week is “fully employed”. Presto, 7% again, maybe better than that.
Or they could “discover” that 2 million of the unemployed ranks are non-residents and strike them from the formula.
That’s off the top of my head. They have thousands of bureaucratic perverts burrowed in the bowels of overstuffed government building throughout DC working on this kind of stuff. They lie for a living.
U-3 already draws no distinction between working 30 hrs a week and 40 hrs a week. Only U-6 makes that distinction, and only for people who want full-time work and can’t find it.
Yeah, tell me about it. I’m a classic example – worked over 30 years in IT, kept my skills up to date, and now I’m working in retail. Where I’m working, they don’t even hire full-time people any more, except for a few managers.
Underemployment is a national tragedy, and one that goes largely unrecognized in the media.
Stephen writes, ” . . . gathering both chambers of Congress means the president will have to present something substantial.” On the contrary. He has addressed both chambers before and never presented anything substantial. Here Stephen, and I fear almost everyone else, regards Obama as an ordinary politician and not the Marxist-Leninist that he is, determined to destroy the American economy and punish productive Caucasian Americans.
Anyone who could not figure out what this man was by 2007 needs to see a psychiatrist, or a brain surgeon for a transplant.
No, I did not write that; David Nakamura did. What I wrote was, “Substantial? Perhaps.” And then I spent 600 words explaining why the “perhaps” was really “most likely not.”
My guess is that Obama will scold Congress to its face and offer a package of Keynesian solutions that will collectively further balloon the budget deficit and national debt. He will push more infrastructure repair and expansion, or repair and construction of schools or some such. We’ll hear about payroll tax holidays and how the rich must pay their fair share. We will need more “investment” in education etc. It will be largely the same crap we have heard since FDR, all the stuff that has bankrupted us and choked off innovation and entrepreneurism.
Obama is supposedly the smartest president ever. I don’t see any case for that at all. He believes in things that routinely fail and are proven not to work. That shows a seriously limited intellect. It is quite pathetic really.
You want to get this economy moving? Simple stuff is needed. Eliminate the Departments of HUD, Education, Energy, Agriculture and Commerce, and freeze the EPA Regs to what was in the federal registry in 1990. Tell all other Departments to reduce their spending by 15% begining in fiscal 2012. Cut the Capital Gains tax to 0 and the Corporate Income tax to 15%. Reduce income tax rates to 15% flat rate across the board. End Obamacare and repeal all legislation passed regarding healthcare after 1969. Phase out Unemployment insurance benefits with a target date of mid 2013. Set up a federal auction of all federal owned mortgages. Close US bases around the world and bring soldiers home.Tell our enemies that if we are attacked we will use the cheapest solution to eliminate the threat and win and we will not rebuild you after the war ends.
We would have the worlds hottest economy in less than a year. When the free market is in charge once again and the forces of government are retarded so we know what the rules are, free enterprise will take care of the rest.
Well kids, the ideology of the president is important. Obama was mentored as a teenager by the life long communist, Frank Marshall Davis. In Obama’s own words he says he sought out the Marxist Professors in college. Obama sat in a black liberation theology (marxist) church for 20 years. Then there is Obama’s creepy association with Rashid Kahlidi and radical Islam. And he was a community organizer (which is marxist/communist agitating). So he’s doing what marxist do: wrecking the capitalist system by loading it up with regulations. And he’s loading up the gov’ment with the grifters. Food stamps for all, housing for illegal aliens, including Aunt Zeituni, unemployment forever. Its a marxist/communist paradise. Dont’ you feel the love??
Why, yes, it’s an Obama family tradition!
‘If the President wants to take bold actions to get Americans working again, he knows what to do’
I was under the impression that the NAFTA,GATT,Globalist destroyers had shipped all our factories to Mexico,China,India,Vietnam and an and on.
What jobs ?
What exactly do we make in the U.S. anymore ?
When you say ;’he knows what to do’ ,do you mean expand Government some more by Stalin’s method of an informant on every street corner ?
Just kidding,then maybe not ?
I see America’s physical problems are all tied to it’s terminal spiritual condition.
#24 is why we have an idiot in the White House leading us to disaster.
We forgot Who made US great.
“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
“With Him are strength and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
“He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
“He makes priests walk barefoot And overthrows the secure ones.
“He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment of the elders.
“He pours contempt on nobles And loosens the belt of the strong.
22 “He reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light.
“He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
24 “He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
25 “They grope in darkness with no light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Job 12
And all this time I thought God created the universe, not jobs. Learn something new every day, I suppose.
Man, He sure does love China!
‘Man, He sure does love China!’
Naw ,Israel is His golden and much TREASURED and cherished centerpiece.
He’s in the process of baiting ALL the nations there for their comeuppance.
“I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
Then I will enter into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
And they have divided up My land.”
Joel 3:2
With China’s ‘bicycle’ economy it would have been impossible for their army to make it all the way to Israel and so God picked a Republican named Richard Nixon to open the door for the backwards Marxist pheasants to move on up.
The rest is His-story in the making.
That’s enough preaching on my blog now, thanks. We’re talking politics, not faith here.
I just hope he does not show up at my account’s office and promise a rosy future.
No, but I’ll bet he’ll p*ss on my boots and tell me it’s rainin’
He chose the path of the “Fast & Furious” long ago.
Not to be critical, but you give this tyrant too much credit.
He is a really sick very sad human being. Our founders understood how people like obama and his ilk operate.
Obama knows they understood who he is.
He chose his path long long ago.
Obama wipes his arse with the Constitution every day he remains in the oval office. He hates you and I, he reeks of it, his fellow travelers hate America with a passion, and for the simple reason he is not an American he takes special pains to shove it right up our backsides and down our throats.
There are special reasons why our founders stipulated only a natural born citizen of the United States could be eligible for the office of the president.
We are experiencing the outcome of the violation of the rule of law.
It is the path as an adult he and his kind chose to take, consciously chose to walk. It is the path of hate.
And his and his kind are hell bent on taking us with them, to the gates of hell if need be, before he and his fellow tyrants and traitors give up one iota of the power and wealth they have acquired.
This is the path of a tyrant and its tyranny.
I for one say:
Up their arses!
Obama is more lame than Carter, more corrupt than Nixon and more out of touch than Chauncey Gardiner.
He’s not stupid or incompetent. He is a Communist of the progressive variety. They just have different goals. Things are going exactly as planed. He used to teach Alinsky.
http://itooktheredpill.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/obama-teaching-alinsky-methods/
But I must admit that he is brilliant at looking clueless and incompetent.
…Except that progressives aren’t communists, any more than libertarians are conservatives.
“Global markets plunge as zero US jobs growth triggers sell-off…”
is Europe’s Friday night bedtime story.
(You guys are going to wake up to that on Saturday morning.)
“I’ll create or save 4 million jobs” the people were told back in 2008.
(And to think that the MSM let him get away with that.)
“he can tack to Carter ’79 or Reagan ’81″
Nope. He’ll tack to FDR ’37 with a little Alinsky and Gramsci thrown in for flavor.
I’m still annoyed that his speech will preempt the 1st NFL game of the year! I most likely will skip the actual speech, find the game on satellite at a bar, and read the speech synopsis later (and throw up).
I will, of course, drunkblog the speech live on the PJ Media home page. That’s not to say there still won’t be any throwing up.
I will be here reading you Mr. Green with my vodka and grapefruit juice in hand.
WPA. Chris Matthews got it started a couple of weeks ago. Civilian Security Force, here we come.
I think they will all be wearing union red shirts. Maybe Congress can demand they have a big set of crosshairs printed on the back with the caption line “Free Fire Zone” beneath.
Obama’s speech will be a disaster because he’s not addressing the core issues as you stated in your article; he’s doubling down on stupid with another Porkulus package. Obama is the son of Carter in every respect.
Not quite. As we discussed three weeks ago, Carter was at least able to learn from his mistakes.
Carter installed inflation hawk Paul Volcker at the Fed (whom Reagan kept on) and began a rearmament campaign (which Reagan expanded on) when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Carter’s failure was more about leadership than it was about his policies. Obama is failing on both counts — precisely because he refuses to learn on the job.
Well, to be fair to Øbama, it’s extremely difficult to learn when you already know everything.
“The EPA and NLRB already have businesses spooked — simply reining them in won’t undo the damage already done.” Don’t forget the dirty and corrupt DOJ!
Obama is likely to get laughed out of town for his same ol’, same ol’ speech, all though the audience will be polite, maybe, the pundits will have a field day with the lameness of it all. If the president were to prescribe the right fix for jobs and the economy, he would have to: cut taxes, ease regulations and basically just get out of the way. In order to do that the president would have to fire his entire cabinet, renounce his upbringing, his Marxist father and his Chicago ways. In fact he would have to be born again. The odds of that happening are about a quadrillion to 1, a real miracle.
So expect the same ol’ Keynesian sh*t and maybe a different colored clown tie for entertainment. Definitely expect a scapegoat tied to a tree and ready for sacrifice on the public alter (George Bush).
The reality is the president and his Democrats are getting meaner and meaner which is what bad people do when they don’t get their way (we are supposed to understand that they are liars and thieves for our own good). Like Gaddafi, who would rather burn it all down then let someone else have it, the president and his friends will try and bite us to death until their last breath because that is who they are.
Jeffrey gets it. As another poster on another article said ( I cannot remember who ) it is time to call these bastards out for who they are and speak of them with open contempt.
America would be better off with a broken clock as President; At least it would be right twice a day. And the rest of the day, it could lie just as good as Obama.
Consider the savings!
Cybergeezer: We would need several broken clocks…One each for the two $1.1 million Canadian custom busses and the “beast” limo. One for each of the 747 Air Force One jets. One big one in Martha’s Vineyard…then one portable broken clock to serve in assorted golf carts and ice cream parlors.
As Joe Wilson Republican Congressional Representative from South Carolina said during one of Obama’s stupid speeches “You lie!” it is time for more of this and with no apologies for saying so!
Not surprising; pocketing his host’s silverware is probably second nature to a lesser cog in the Chicago machine like himself.
“If the president wants to take bold actions to get Americans working again,…”
I don’t understand why anyone would propose that there’s even the slightest possibility that taking “bold actions to get Americans working again” is something that this trainwreck of a POTUS is actually considering.
The Muslims have suicide bombers: he’s a suicide speechmaker. The speech is just the next step in the implementation of national destruction (give them enough “hope” and “things to talk about” for another news cycle) while the clock continues to run down to complete economic implosion.
If, indeed, Obama is the Marxist we all believe him to be, he may be willing to taking a step back so that he can take further steps forward after his re-election.
Lenin adopted the New Economic Policy (NEP) in the 1920s in order to save the Communist Revolution. Substantial, temporary, prosperity followed. Stalin, Lenin’s successor, then later instituted his first Five Year Plan. Look at this reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
God save our republic from our dangerous tyrant of a president.
There’s a key difference.
Lenin was smart.
The best response to President Obama’s speech for the Republicans isn’t to yell “you lie!” but instead to laugh out loud at each proposal as if they were watching a stand-up comic doing his routine.
Or sit with their backs to him.
0bama can take that fork in the road and ‘fork off’ to the great fiery South.
What? I’m the first one to say that quip?
Peshaw!
Well, you know, I’m thinking the whole racism charge might have lost its sting. If cable TV comics are the cutting edge- Harold and Kumar seemed to presage the resentment that brought O to 1600, maybe Daniel Tosh, with his games like ” Is it racist?” and his freakishly offensive videos might spell the end of “racism” as a charge.
Corporations will have diversity training, which is some variant of “have good manners”, but then the trainers leave the room, and the harsher, more honest talk comes out. I don’t think it’s racist- it’s classist- a black woman calling a neighborhood “too ghetto-fabulous” for her to get out of the car, was pretty memorable.
The current generation is the most integrated in school generation, ever. And they never, ever get credit for this. I don’t think name-calling lasts- eventually, the baby boom will be those cranky old men and women yelling at kids to get off their lawn. And, really, the hippy look does not weather well. Can you imagine a tatted up ninety year old, with a peace sign, and scraggly long grey hair? I see it in town at 50, and it’s pretty heinous already.
And, really, nuclear power will come roaring back the day Jane Fonda goes grey. That much power, just there for the taking? Those high-paying jobs? The French build awesome reactors- imagine if they made them with style, instead of clumpy, nasty brute looking parts?
O just strikes me as the last bad joke of the baby boom.
Alternative title: “Obama came to a fork in the road and lectured it, regulated it, and taxed it.”
My thought was, if Obama came to a fork in the road, he’d leave it there, hoping that the tines would get stuck in some white person’s tires! LOL…
“aides to President Obama are privately spreading word that he will not present his entire jobs plan in his address to a Joint Session of Congress”
Translation:
He brought in his labor leader buddies and said, “So here’s my plan…”
After hearing it they said, “you’ve GOT to be kidding us.”
This is just campaigning at its worst. If he had a plan to create jobs, it would have been implemented long ago i.e. this can only be too little, too late.
This president has been busy setting up a trap for the country to get bogged in, and he has done a pretty good job of it. The big speech is not about setting the country free again, it’s about extricating himself from the trap, and keeping the rest of us in it. Rhetoric is his only tool, and the country literally fell for it!
Learning from the school of hard knocks may be the necessary step on the way out of the trap.
Steve,
This could be an epic drunk blog. I’m looking forward to it.
Never have so many gotten so hammered in so short a time based on so little substance.
All along, Obama’s frantic ads for the upcoming jobs speech have reminded me of Ayn Rand’s Mr. Thompson speech. Much ballyhoo about nothing. Obama was like a kid procrastinating. ” I’ll go on a vacation. That’s what I’ll do. And while I’m gone, I’ll think of some new way to lie to the People. My peeps will help me.” It’s been ridiculous all along. “I have a big idea. It’s really good, but I won’t tell you yet. It’s a secret.”
Well, now the vacation’s over and perhaps the Lie Trough’s gone dry. “I’ll tell you a little and save the best part for later.” The job Soros gave Obama is to speak pretty empty words soothingly to keep those frogs in the heating pot just a little longer. It is my one hope that I have left that Soros did not expect so many frogs to be leaping out of the pot the moment the traitor was elected. If Americans successfully rebel against this foreign government take-over, conservative Internet, radio, and FOX News will deserve the credit for shining a bright light on the massive corruption in the Administration of the say much but say nothing World Globalist from Indonesia.
First, full disclosure. I am from India and I don’t know much about what you Americans (btw, my fav westerners, second only to those damn fool Brits), call football. Football is a game played by feet, not hands. My favourite team is Liverpool. Okay, they haven’t won anything in a long while. But hey, you’ll never walk alone.
Green Bay Packers? They’re from the north, aren’t they? The Saints I know are from New Orleans. The city of jazz, of soul. The city which was upto its nose in hurricane waters not too many years ago. Go Saints, go, go marching in.
I have to thank Obama for drawing my attention to this game. I hope ESPN show it live.
Obozo, our clown in chief, will continue with what he thinks is funny, a jobs prgram, that is so important that he needs to address the whole congress, and wedge it in before football starts.
But this was so important that he could take 10 days at martha’s vineyard on vacation, come back and sit for a while, and then in the most fun and political move, want to do it on the day and time of a republican debate, scheduled months ago.
What a hoot.
Wonder what happens if he is late for this speach and coverage cuts away to the football game.
Wonder why he can’t present the outline of what he plans on paper for people to digest.
Wonder if he has ever created a job in his life, or met a payroll.
But I guess he was right when he spend his career voting present, because the issues were above his paygrade.
Put a red nose on your face, and some pan cake makeup and give us your joke of a speach, and maybe you will find that someone, anyone, somewhere, might find it funny.
But the taxpayers and citizens are in the polls with almost a 70% vote, that our clown in chief is taking this country the wrong way. And there are none so blind as those that will not see, nor none so deaf as those that refuse to listen.
People in this site act like drama queens. Everything is exaggerated and inaccurate. Probably just relieving their stress. Nothing wrong with that. Just funny.
Yes, Vivo, watching your country go down in flames is incredibly funny. What a tool you are.