Obama Frustrated That American People Don’t Buy His Crap Anymore
Y’all dirty hilbillies are just two ignant to understand Obamer’s smartness.
Gibbs said Obama is frustrated but understands the public doesn’t realize how much worse things would be if he had not acted as he did.
Obama is “frustrated in the sense that, look, obviously, you would like everyone to look back and say, ‘Here’s where I am, and here’s where I could have been,’” Gibbs said. “It’s understandable why people don’t necessarily think that.
The problem for Obama is not that people don’t understand. It’s that they don’t believe. We remember the graphs. We remember the promises. We remember the lies. Obama didn’t sell the stimulus as “it’ll still suck, but it won’t be as bad.” He sold it as, “this will bring about economic recovery.” Now that it has not lived up to his promises, he is trying to re-sell it under a different marketing scheme. The problem is, we all still remember the original sales job and just don’t believe him.
I guess the big problem here is the “false narrative” crowding out the “true narrative”:
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said that the criticism of Obama as a big-spending liberal grows out of decisions the president felt he had to make to prevent a depression. “We were forced to do things from the start to deal with this economic crisis that helped create a false narrative about spending and deficits that’s had some impact on independent voters,” Axelrod said. “And that’s something we have to work on.”
Ah, yes, there’s that darn False Narrative again.
According to the True Narrative, Obama the Great acted with wisdom and courage to forestall another Great Depression. The charges of profligate spending have been manufactured out of thin air. The stimulus package has been a spectacular success. ObamaCare will bend the cost curve down. The economy is doing swimmingly. The outreach to the Muslim world has led to unprecedented breakthroughs. Nation after nation — Iran, Turkey, Russia, China, Brazil, Venezuela — are bending to Obama’s will. And all the problems America faces — from nearly 10 percent unemployment to polarization to acne among teens — are owing to Obama’s predecessor.
Yet because the Forces of Darkness so thoroughly and completely control the media and dominate the messaging wars — because Republicans have such fantastic spokesmen as RNC Chairman Michael Steele and Democrats have no bully pulpits available to them — Obama has become massively unpopular among independents. The White House, you see, has a message problem, but no other. Once they get their message out better, Obama will once again stride atop the political world.
Within the walls of the White House, it seems, Barack Obama is still viewed by people like Mr. Axelrod as a near-mythical figure. To much of the rest of the nation, he appears to be presiding over a failing presidency. If Obama and his top advisers persist in their self-delusion — which is unusual even for those working in a profession (politics) prone to self-delusion — they and their party are going to face, sooner or later, a brutal awakening.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 10, 2010 at 2029 hrs
Y’all dirty hilbillies
Really, Owen?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 10, 2010 at 2158 hrs
Y’all dirty hilbillies
Really, Owen?
Serious post is serious.
Posted by Jay4Liberty on July 10, 2010 at 2209 hrs
“And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,”
Barack Obama
Really George. That’s what the man occupying the White House thinks about people who don’t agree with him.
Who cares anyway though. We are just “typical white people” in His sight, aren’t we?
The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away
Barack Obama
I guess pushing the same lies gets harder after people have time to see the results of his policies. It was easy to lie when the only evidence came from the accomplice media pushing the Barack Agenda. Now people can see for themselves what he has wrought.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 10, 2010 at 2302 hrs
Obama has been trying to hide behind “saved or created” as the thrust of his economic policy as a way of making an unmeasurable claim.
The problem is that in trying to pass Porkulus he actually slipped up and claimed that it would keep unemployment below 8%. We’ve all seen how well that’s worked.
So even with the very generous definition of unemployment we have, he’s blown that figure as well as almost $800B. If we look at the definition of unemployment that was used the last time unemployment was this high (under Reagan), well, Obama would be looking at close to a 17% unemployment rate.
Recovery? When? Taxes are going up significantly next year for everyone. If the Repubs take over part of Congress nothing will get done for 2 years because of partisan bickering. If they don’t, the Dems still won’t do the right thing—they haven’t even tried for the last 18 months, so why would they try later? Either way, none of the necessary reforms to get job creation going in this country again will work their way through the government (BTW, check out Andy Grove’s WSJ editorial on that topic. Really good!)
Sucks to be us. Best (and most probable) case is that we limp along for the next 5-10 years as the bubble deflates and the system absorbs all the losses.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 11, 2010 at 0023 hrs
Lots of people out there are ignorant dirty hillbillies who wouldn’t know good public policy from a hole in the ground, and lots of things Barack Obama does are not necessarily good public policy.
Let’s acknowledge that the two things are not mutually exclusive.
And I beg you, while it’s funny for one post, please never become one of those people who uses phrases like “gummint” or “Diamond Jim Doyle” or “porkulus” or “Jim Doyleone” or any one of the other phrases that some conservatives use because they think they’re being witty when all they’re doing is sounding like petulant six-year-old asshats. I, for one, have always greatly appreciated your willingness to treat your readers like adults.
Posted by Recess Supervisor on July 11, 2010 at 0300 hrs
I, for one, have always greatly appreciated your willingness to treat your readers like adults.
Posted by Recess Supervisor on July 11, 2010 at 0300 hrsMethinks somehow your moniker belies your commentary.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 11, 2010 at 0908 hrs
The goal of gummint under Diamond Jim Doyle and the Kenyan Marxist intruder in the White House are one in the same. Control the dirty hillbiliies wherever they are found. Tax them to death. Then control them some more.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 11, 2010 at 1056 hrs
Calling what PBHO and the Congress passed a “Stimulus” bill is highly inaccurate, calling it “porkulus” is far more accurate. Look where the spending went and explain how much of it was real stimulus.
For real government spending to be stimulus you have to have a multiplier effect. None of the projects passed has any stimulating effect except for quite a while down the road while taking capital out of the market immediately since in the present environment nobody is lending to private business, it’s all going to government debt. And even then, most of projects steal from future economic growth at the price of increased government debt and the economic drag of trying to pay for them in the future.
So calling what we had “stimulus” is like badging a Yugo a GT.
Or do you have a better word that Porkulus? Perhaps you prefer Democrat Wet Dream Spending Bill?
In all seriousness, the ARRA was a purely policital calculation. Had this been a normal recession the ARRA would have protected and rewarded core Democratic constituencies and there would have been little complaint as the economy started to recover before this election cycle.
The problem is that the folks in Congress aren’t very well versed in economics and history. This is a financial correction similar to several others we had before and not a capacity one and we’ll be in a deflationary cycle for quite a while, and the ARRA is increasingly perceived as what it was and the resentment against it is rising. Similarly, the HCRA may have been popular if the economy was going well, but in the present environment adding on debt isn’t well received and why a solid majority favor repealing it.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 11, 2010 at 1316 hrs
Only if we allow this to continue each election cycle.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 11, 2010 at 1316 hrs
The goal of gummint under Diamond Jim Doyle and the Kenyan Marxist intruder in the White House are one in the same. Control the dirty hillbiliies wherever they are found. Tax them to death. Then control them some more
...and pass more porkulus bills.
Posted by Jay4Liberty on July 11, 2010 at 1501 hrs
PBHO? See, I had to look that up because I use grown-up words to talk about politics. Maybe I’m just not fluent enough in wingnut to hang with this crowd. I mean, you could just call him Barack Obama, or President Obama, instead of taking some half-assed juvenile swipe at his middle name. And then the emphasis would be on your critique of his actions (which I think is well done) and not the other garbage that makes you seem like a nut.
Or maybe you’d rather be lumped in with the stuff in comment #8. Your choice, I guess. Freedom’s a beautiful thing.
Posted by Recess Supervisor on July 11, 2010 at 2045 hrs
And in true clueless moonbat fashion, he can’t tell even with hints when he’s being mocked… *sigh* Here’s a hint, look for the clue word: seriousness.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 11, 2010 at 2138 hrs
Recess,
So I decided to go to your site and run a hypocrisy check. Took ten seconds to find:
So it turns out that the teabaggers….
So… you are a bullshit artist and a hypocrite. Love the Walker paranoia by the way…
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 11, 2010 at 2141 hrs
So GWB is PC but BHO is wingnut teabagger juvenile. Got it.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 11, 2010 at 2150 hrs
B HO, or butt hole? in either case he’s a sleaze, and anyone who doesn’t see the only things he’s “working hard” at accomplishing is the destruction of the American system that made this country great, just isn’t paying attention. The only stimulus he’s created is in the hearts of those who have remained “quiet” far too long, and now that they are speaking out in opposition he labels them a ignorant. Yes, there’s ignorance afoot, but it isn’t on the part of those who finally see this guy for who, and what he is.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 12, 2010 at 0912 hrs
So GWB is PC but BHO is wingnut teabagger juvenile. Got it.
No Terry, it goes one better than that. Apparently from the commentary of RS(oops, Recess Supervisor), the honorific of P was the killer. Any mother and her idiot son knows BHO. So the P was the wrench and his middle initial was also an insult. If we must use initials, according to Recess Supervisor, we should henceforth use simply BO. Got it?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 12, 2010 at 1025 hrs
Fling more poop monkeys! Do it! Do it now!
Posted by Jay4Liberty on July 12, 2010 at 1032 hrs
Maybe I’m just not fluent enough in wingnut
Beg Owen not to sink to drivel, then do it yourself.
hypocrite = no credibility.
Simple enough? Adult enough?
On the subject of the stimulus. Obama didn’t even have anything to do with the bill. Remember that he farmed that piece of crap out to brain #1 and brain #2 in Congress, and then signed it into law without any criticisms. The term “porkulus” though tiring, and not nearly as “cute” as it was a year ago, is factually accurate. There were over 9000 individual earmarks in the bill. Many for small, short term projects, that were already budgeted for by local government. The remainder went to pay increases for federal employees and teachers.I honestly think that the majority of the “created” jobs can now be found in the stimulus, and we all know how accurate those numbers are.
Face it, we elected a bumbling moron. He appointed other bumbling morons, and congress is controlled (literally) by a woman who thinks anything she does is constitutional.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 12, 2010 at 1055 hrs
grown-up words to talk about politics
This is possible? Politics itself is not “grown-up”.
Na na na na boo boo I’m better than you stinky mcstink face! Shut the front door you skeezy lint licker!
Posted by Jay4Liberty on July 12, 2010 at 1119 hrs
congress is controlled (literally) by a woman who thinks anything she does is constitutional.
It is, just ask Son of Stupidity.
“”The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;”“
That vague snippet opens the door for any agency, policy, program or regulation that could be explained as promoting the general welfare. If you desire to apply, without thought or conviction, the exact letter of the law, then health care works… NASA works, all the things you despise thoughtlessly all work
-Son of Liberty
Posted by Jay4Liberty on July 12, 2010 at 1125 hrs
Wait. I though using his middle name was a term of endearment as sung by children to his honor…
Barack Hussein Obama, mmm mmm mmm
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 12, 2010 at 1237 hrs
I suppose the rule now is that Hussein can only be used like the N-word is used.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 12, 2010 at 1359 hrs
Notice no response from recess now that his hypocrisy is called out….
BTW Recess - It’s “Cubic Zirconium Jim”, not “Diamond Jim”. Ally the glitter, but a complete phony.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 13, 2010 at 1034 hrs
“I suppose the rule now is that Hussein can only be used like the N-word is used.”
As a proxy for the actual racist slur that you really want to use? Yeah, I agree with that assessment. Hey-O! Too easy.
So are we still in an economic freefall? I look at most indicators and it seems that we’ve recovered a little bit since the stimulus began. Is that not economic recovery? People playing fast and loose with these already nebulous terms from the “science” of economics is getting ridiculous.
How long did it take for some prominent right wing media folks (and sadly, even some politicians) to stop denying that we had any kind of economic problem in this country in 2007, 2008, and 2009 - blaming it on a “fake” recession and calling everyone who was sounding alarms babies? How long will it take for some of those same people to acknowledge that things have improved? How much of an effect does their constant, irrational negativity have on consumer confidence? Does that get any blame for the fact that our recovery hasn’t instantly produced riches beyond our wildest dreams?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 13, 2010 at 1300 hrs
as a proxy for the actual racist slur that you really want to use?
What I would prefer to use is incompetent, unqualified, bungling, narcissistic, thin-skinned, socialist, America-hating borderline racist, nit wit… but it’s too long… so BHO will have to stand in it’s place.
Is that not economic recovery?
No, actual recovery would be recovery. All we have is a pause in the rapid decline, and a dismal economic and unemployment situation that has been coined “the new norm” by the Obama propagandists and apologists in the media.
How long did it take for some prominent right wing media folks (and sadly, even some politicians) to stop denying that we had any kind of economic problem in this country in 2007, 2008, and 2009 -
Well, the left and the liberal media have correctly predicted nine out of the last two recessions (the first being after 9-11 and having been quickly mitigated by reasonable policies) and they have now also correctly identified six of the last zero recoveries.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 13, 2010 at 1407 hrs
Still no word from Recess re: hypocracy. Crickets chirping.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 13, 2010 at 1851 hrs
I understand why people may question his judgment because of his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.However, it is very difficult to accuse a man who is half black and half white of being racist and prejudice towards white people.First of all, the comments that Rev. Wright made are quite common within the black church and just because the reverend voiced his opinion does not mean that all black people agree with them.Secondly, Bill Clinton invited the same minister to the White House in 1998 to embrace his accomplishments within the church.I believe that people need to wake up and stop letting their ignorance about racism distort them from seeing the serious problems that America is facing.Also, if Obama was anti-American he would not even waste his time and energy running for president. Why would be bother if he really did not love this country.If he is our next president how could he hurt this country anymore than Bush
Posted by facebook layouts on July 14, 2010 at 0220 hrs
Still no word from Recess re: hypocracy. Crickets chirping.
It is possible he doesn’t live on this blog, you know?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 15, 2010 at 1447 hrs
No one is arguing that trade is bad. But 95% of manufactured products (electronics, cars, clothes, ect) are made outside the country. Even companies that claim to be American outsource their labor and manufacturing so they can artificially lower their price and increase profits.
We’ve reached a critical stage in our economy. Jobs in America are disappearing because we’ve shipped the backbone of any economy (manual labor) overseas. We no longer produce, we pay someone a minimal fee to produce for us. This practice can only continue so long before the system collapses due to lack of jobs and the unprecedented amount of economic leverage that we’ve given the third world over us.
Buying American won’t fix a thing, you’re right - because there are so few “American” things to buy. What we need to do is rebuild that sector of our economy and retrain the American consumers so that they stop expecting everything to be dirt cheap. Paying more for goods made here on our soil might be difficult at first, but in the end it would our whole economy stronger, and give us something to offer the world market.
Posted by facebook backgrounds on July 20, 2010 at 0259 hrs
fb - it isn’t just labor costs. You have to look at the fully burdened rates of factories in the US.
I just took a look at a place of ours up in PA to find out why their pricing was so non-competitive - and not by a small percentage - with other suppliers. Their burdened rates were well over $100 per hour. The actual labor costs were - at the highest rates - less than 25% of that.
What is in the burdened rate? The costs of doing business - regulatory requirements, quality systems, variable costs, all the stuff that gets piled onto the consumer when government makes it more expensive to be a business here in the US.
A good example - how regulations cost small businesses in California, on average, over $134K annually; and the entire state almost $500 Billion - with a “B”.
Do companies want to save money? Absolutely. But labor costs are hardly the only reason they are moving overseas.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 20, 2010 at 1558 hrs
With all our problems in the US I have always been proud to be an American.
I get frustrated like a lot of Americans with our government, but I even get choked up during the national anthem, thinking about our freedom and men that have died to keep us safe etc.I have doubts how the Obama family REALLY FEELS about America if they had no problems hanging around Rev WRight, Ayers and many more people that don’t like America and/or don’t respect America
Sure he’s running for President, but WOW wake up people Obama either has bad judment or feels the same as all his buddies
Posted by square peg web on July 23, 2010 at 0140 hrs
We remember the lies. Obama didn’t sell the stimulus as “it’ll still suck, but it won’t be as bad.” He sold it as, “this will bring about economic recovery.” Now that it has not lived up to his promises, he is trying to re-sell it under a different marketing scheme.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 24, 2010 at 0114 hrs
Now that it has not lived up to his promises, he is trying to re-sell it under a different marketing scheme. The problem is, we all still remember the original sales job and just don’t believe him.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 26, 2010 at 0131 hrs
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