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05-22-2012, 02:07 PM #12
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If the statement about Romney above is true, then at least he is being honest about his plans and not telling us what we want to hear, knowing that it is BS. If cutting taxes for the rich creates jobs and boosts the economy, then fine. If cutting government handouts will reduce debt and make people take care of themselves, then OK. What's the problem?
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WaPo: No, you’re not better off than four years ago
posted at 10:01 am on August 24, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Thirty-two years ago, Ronald Reagan asked voters a simple question that devastated Jimmy Carter’s chances for a second term, and that presidential candidates have had to answer ever since: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? In 1980, voters overwhelmingly said no and gave Carter the heave-ho. When times are good, incumbents ask that question, and when times are bad, challengers ask it. It’s a personal question, one that has a different answer for each voter.
Overall, though, the Washington Post reports that the answer isn’t just no, but hell no. Household incomes have dropped 4.8% during the Obama recovery, and are now at a level below the recession: http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...010_story.html
Household income is down sharply since the recession ended three years ago, according to a report released Thursday, providing another sign of the stubborn weakness of the economic recovery.
From June 2009 to June 2012, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 4.8 percent, to $50,964, according to a report by Sentier Research, a firm headed by two former Census Bureau officials. http://www.sentierresearch.com/
Incomes have dropped more since the beginning of the recovery than they did during the recession itself, when they declined 2.6 percent, according to the report, which analyzed data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. The recession, the most severe since the Great Depression, lasted from December 2007 to June 2009.
Overall, median income is 7.2 percent below its December 2007 level and 8.1 percent below where it stood in January 2000, when it was $55,470, according to the report.
Households led by the self-employed saw their income drop 9.4 percent, to $66,752, the report said. Households headed by private-sector employees saw wages drop by 4.5 percent, to $63,800, and households led by government workers saw median income decline by 3.5 percent, to $77,998, the report said.
What did Barack Obama say at the beginning of summer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qevbh...layer_embedded
The truth of the matter is that the Obama “recovery” feels like a recession because on a household-income basis, it is. And compared to the private sector, it’s the public-employee households that are “doing fine,” at least relatively speaking.
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09-02-2012, 10:57 AM #14
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Oh, dear. Sunday morning shows sure are hard when one is trying to desperately spin to defend an abysmal failure. Governor O’Malley couldn’t even manage it. In a rare instance of truth, when asked if people are better of now than they were four years ago, he said, “No.”
Want a preview of the presidential debates? Then spend two and a half minutes with this clip from today’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and David Axelrod. Wallace asks Axelrod the quadrennial question: are voters better off now than four years ago? When the man running Team Obama tries to run away from the question by talking about the tough environment Barack Obama inherited, Wallace lays out the comparison on economic statistics between January 2009 and today, and asks Axelrod again: are voters better off now than four years ago? Answer: Er....
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Biden: I’d go into more detail about why we’re better off than we were 4 years ago… if it weren’t so hot
By Doug Powers • September 3, 2012 10:24 PM
A U-Haul carrying some equipment for a Joe Biden campaign event was ripped off in Detroit over the weekend, but fortunately Biden’s comedic ability wasn’t among the stolen items.
Over the long weekend Democrats did some flip-flopping and danced around the “are you better off” question. Among them, Joe Biden, who Monday said you’re darn right we’re better off than we were four years ago. Joe didn’t want to take time to offer the audience any examples of why we’re so much better off than we were four years ago because he said it was too hot. That Biden… always concerned with everyone’s comfort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=CFyPI4eqByw
We’ll probably be hearing more of that approach during Plugs’ VP debate against Paul Ryan. “God love ya, but it’s too hot (or cold) for math, sonny. Try and have more concern for others in the future.”
Zombie has a running list of “if it weren’t so hot, I’d go into more detail how _____” mottos for Biden.
All this “we’re better off…” talk is confusing, because just over two months ago Biden said America was in the midst of a “depression for millions and millions”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=endBtyHs6p0
The Stimulus Sheriff would offer examples of why things turned around so quickly, but it looks like it’s going to rain pretty soon — better take cover.
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Let’s help Joe Biden answer a question, shall we?
Posted by: Phineas on September 3, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Vice President Joe Biden is in Charlotte this week for the Democratic National Convention (1). At a rally, he struggled with the question of whether Americans are better off now than they were four years ago, when he and his boss were elected: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=CFyPI4eqByw
Looks like the heat was giving Joe some trouble, since he couldn’t go into any specifics. Let’s help him out, shall we?
According to that notorious conservative rag, The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...010_story.html
From June 2009 to June 2012, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 4.8 percent, to $50,964, according to a report by Sentier Research, a firm headed by two former Census Bureau officials.
Incomes have dropped more since the beginning of the recovery than they did during the recession itself, when they declined 2.6 percent, according to the report, which analyzed data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. The recession, the most severe since the Great Depression, lasted from December 2007 to June 2009.
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Over the past three years, the inflation-adjusted median income of households headed by whites was down 5.2 percent, to $56,255. Households headed by blacks sustained a staggering 11.1 percent drop in median income. Hispanic-led households saw their real income decline by 4.1 percent over the same period, the report said.
Looking at the data by age, the researchers found that income has risen only for workers older than 65 during the recovery, which report co-author and Sentier partner Gordon Green attributes to the cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients.
Households led by the self-employed saw their income drop 9.4 percent, to $66,752, the report said. Households headed by private-sector employees saw wages drop by 4.5 percent, to $63,800, and households led by government workers saw median income decline by 3.5 percent, to $77,998, the report said.
The problem is that Obama has only greatly accelerated everything Bush did wrong, and reversed everything Bush did right. So Obama’s spending has skyrocketed the federal budget by nearly one-fourth as a percent of GDP in just one term. Moreover, the Obama Fed has abandoned any semblance of control over monetary policy, buying most of the soaring federal debt issued to finance Obama’s record smashing federal deficits with newly printed money (actually created by computer record, a sort of cyberprinting). Of course, the whole point of Obama’s tax policy has been to more than reverse the Bush tax rate cuts, which is now already slated under current law to go into effect on January 1.
That is why it will all only get worse in a second Obama term, as the economy slides back into a double-dip recession in 2013 unless these Obama policies are swiftly reversed. I first began ringing alarm bells about that a year ago with the publication of my Encounter Books Broadside No. 25, Obama and the Crash of 2013. But now even the Washington establishment CBO is pealing the air raid siren as well.
Renewed, double-dip recession would mean unemployment rocketing back into double digits once again, the deficit exploding to over $2 trillion, the highest in world history by far, real wages and incomes declining even more, and poverty soaring further.
Obama has failed the poor as well as the middle class. Last year, the Census Bureau reported more Americans in poverty than ever before in the more than 50 years that Census has been tracking poverty. Now The Huffington Post reports that the poverty rate is on track to rise to the highest level since 1965, before the War on Poverty began. A July 22 story by Hope Yen reports that when the new poverty rates are released in September, “even a 0.1 percentage point increase would put poverty at the highest level since 1965.” But a consensus survey of experts across the political spectrum indicates the poverty rate could soar from the current 15.1% to as high as 15.7%. “Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families to the poorest poor,” Hope Yen reports.
In other words, the Democratic Dream Team inherited a bad situation, made it worse and, if reelected, promise to take it from “bad” to “God-awful.”
No wonder Joe had to plead the heat: answering the question makes the Republicans’ case for them.
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Zombie has a running list of “if it weren’t so hot, I’d go into more detail how _____” mottos for Biden.
Obama campaign officials later explained that the President plans to use Biden’s formulation to clarify every single aspect of Obama’s record. While the campaign’s staff speechwriters will supply many of the variants in upcoming weeks, Obama for America 2012 invited voters to submit their own versions; lucky winners will be selected for inclusion in speeches by the President himself.
A White House press release revealed the following examples which Obama plans to use in his convention acceptance speech and on the campaign trail; voters (no ID required) are encouraged to submit their own in the comments section below.
“If it weren’t so hot”: Motto for an Obama Future
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail how four straight years of 8+% unemployment proves that my economic theories have succeeded.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail why plunging the nation $16 trillion into debt is wise fiscal policy.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail about how you didn’t build that.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail about how aborting babies in the ninth month of pregnancy is a popular mainstream position.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail why I support the Islamic extremists who have taken over Egypt.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail how selling guns to Mexican drug cartels is a good way to safeguard America.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail how I personally helped cause the housing crisis.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail how I promised high energy prices, then got what I wanted, then pretended it was bad news.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail why I recycle the exact same speeches and campaign promises I gave back in 2008, as if I had achieved nothing.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail what I really mean when I say the Constitution is a ‘living document.’”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail, but since the media covers for me every time, I don’t really ever need to go into detail anyway.”
• (To be used in Biden speeches) “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail about how they’re gonna put y’all back in chains.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail about what ‘more flexibility after the elections’ means when translated into Russian.”
• “If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail about what’s in my college records.”
Now it’s your turn…
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Pre-convention tussle: Are Americans better off?
By CALVIN WOODWARD and KEN THOMAS | Associated Press – 17 hrs ago.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — In a Labor Day warm-up to the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney and their top allies engaged in a cross-country tussle over whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago. It was a debate that burst open overnight after top Democratic allies offered muddled answers to the same question over the weekend.
Romney said in a statement: "For far too many Americans, today is another day of worrying when their next paycheck will come."
His running mate, Paul Ryan, chimed in from a rally in Greenville, N.C.: "Simply put, the Jimmy Carter days look like the good old days compared to where we are now."
"After another four years of this, who knows what it'll look like then," Ryan wondered.
Obama tailored his better-off pitch toward an agreeable audience of autoworkers in Toledo, Ohio, arguing that because of his administration's bailout "the American auto industry has come roaring back."
"I stood with American workers, I stood with American manufacturing, I believed in you," he bellowed. "I bet on you. I'll make that bet any day of the week and because of that bet, three years later, that bet is paying off for America."
Vice President Joe Biden seconded the broader better-off message at a Labor Day rally in Detroit and put the blame for the country's economic woes squarely on the Republicans, declaring "America is better off today than they left us when they left."
Then he struck up a familiar chant: "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive."
Republicans, though, were happy to mock Obama's supporters for giving equivocal answers to the better-off question in a series of weekend interviews. Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus called Monday's happier talk from the Democrats "a total reversal of their position of yesterday. This must mean that 23 million Americans have found jobs, incomes have gone up, gas prices are going down, poverty is in decline and the deficit has been cut, all in the last 24 hours."
Obama's aides and allies went into overdrive to put a glossy sheen on economic progress over the past four years and on the question of whether Americans are doing better under Obama. "Absolutely," said Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager, on NBC's "Today" show. "By any measure the country has moved forward over the last four years. It might not be as fast as some people would've hoped. The president agrees with that."
Martin O'Malley, Maryland's Democratic governor, had answered the same question with a "no" on Sunday before turning the blame to Obama's Republican predecessor. But appearing Monday on CNN, O'Malley tried a more positive turn of phrase, saying: "We are clearly better off as a country because we're now creating jobs rather than losing them. But we have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward" under Obama.
As they open their national convention, Democrats have plenty of convincing to do.
In the most recent Associated Press-GfK poll, 28 percent said they were better off than four years ago, while 36 percent said they were worse off and 36 percent said they were in about the same financial position.
His convention over and done, Romney spent Labor Day enjoying some downtime with his wife, Ann, at their lakeside estate in New Hampshire. Romney took a midmorning boat ride, pulling up to the Goodhue & Hawkins Navy Yard in Wolfeboro to gas up his 29-foot Sea Ray and pick up a Sea Doo jet ski that had been in for repairs. Ann Romney drove the jet ski back toward their home across the lake, while Romney stayed in the boat.
The GOP nominee planned to lay low for a few days, preparing for the October debates as Democratic conventioneers gathered for the opening of their event Tuesday.
Delegates were gathering across Charlotte on Monday for state breakfasts and a festival in downtown Charlotte featuring singer James Taylor and actor Jeff Bridges.
At a breakfast with the Iowa delegation, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the chair of the convention, told about 60 members of the state's contingent that Romney and running mate Paul Ryan would pursue massive tax cuts that would benefit only the very wealthy — stances that he said were far removed from their GOP predecessors. "Ronald Reagan would turn in his grave listening to some of these people," he said. "They're so far out there."
Villaraigosa told the Iowans that he spent 25 years as a community organizer and urged them to register new voters and recruit volunteers to help re-elect Obama. "We've got our work cut out for us. We know that," he said. "The country is evenly divided. It has been for a long time. So what are we going to do? This is going to be a working convention. Every one of you can sign up as a volunteer. In fact, I know you're already going to volunteer."
The campaign had one immediate need in the turnout department: filling up a 74,000-seat outdoor stadium for Obama's prime-time speech on Thursday night. With 6,000 delegates at the convention and thousands more attached to the event, Democrats were hoping to pack the event.
Obama deputy campaign manager Jennifer O'Malley-Dillon told Iowa delegates the campaign was hoping the rain would stay away when the president delivers his speech. "If you believe in weather gods, you should pray to them," she said.
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro delivers the keynote speech on Tuesday, followed by first lady Michelle Obama's remarks. Obama and Biden will be nominated for second terms on Wednesday night, when former President Bill Clinton takes the stage as star speaker.
Keeping a strong focus on the economy, a new Obama campaign ad running in six closely contested states — Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia — claims Romney's policies would "hit the middle class harder" and that he doesn't see the "heavy load" the middle class is carrying.
Obama aides said they expected Romney and Republicans to outpace the president and his party in fundraising in August because Obama spent less time raising cash than in the month before, and because the GOP held its convention — usually a big money draw — in August.
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Fuel and food prices are still rising. It gets harder and harder when your sallary stays the same and everything else keeps going up!!
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I would love to hear or read any POLL that attempts to get a more accurate number of unemployed. 8.3% comes from those who are currently getting unemployment checks. There are undoubtedly more that ran out of unemployment benefits, who are still just as unemployed. Let's see that POLL. Not polls of "likely voters." Nothing says all those "likely voters" will actually take the time to vote this time. But the unemployed are factaully unemployed.
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8.8% unemployment......Let's talk about the under employed. People that have used all of their unemployment. The homeless that used to have homes and food on the table.
"A record 44.7 million people, or 1 in 7 Americans, were on food stamps last year"- CNN
Some people still think we are still getting better pretty much like the still-born "Recovery Summer" two years pending.
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Let's see, no raises in four years. Gas has doubled, food up over 20%, I won't even mention utilities or insurance costs. You do the math.
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All these people blaming repubs for low taxes, lol.
Obama campaigning in 2008: "If elected, my top priority will be reforming the US tax code so it's fair for all americans."
..yea right, lol.
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Obama rates himself an 'Incomplete' on Economy
By Devin Dwyer | ABC OTUS News – 55 mins ago.
With 63 days to go to the election, President Obama says he still deserves an "incomplete" - rather than a letter grade - when asked to rate his performance on fixing the economy. "You know, I would say incomplete," Obama said in an interview with Boulder, Colo., TV station KKTV. "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," he said. "One big piece of business that we still have to do is make sure our debts and deficits are brought under control, and I've put forward a balanced plan that would reduce our deficits by $4 trillion."
It's not the first time Obama has rated himself "incomplete" when asked about his first-term economic performance. But the latest assessment provides fresh fodder for Republican attacks at the start of the Democratic National Convention.
The interview excerpt has already been circulated by the RNC and Romney campaign as what they see as an acknowledgment of Obama's ineffectiveness. In May, Obama told the ladies of ABC's "The View" that his record on the economy is still in progress. "It's still incomplete," he said. "We've still got work to do."
The president also told ABC's Jake Tapper the same thing during an October 2011 interview:
"Well, you know I'm not going to give myself a grade other than "incomplete" because the work that we started is not yet done," Obama told Tapper. "But the fact is that the American people are rightly frustrated over what they see as a system in which responsibility is not always rewarded, where people who have done the right thing all their lives still seem to be struggling, that sense that the American dream is slipping away. I think that is something that helped get me elected but it hasn't been entirely solved yet, and in some ways it's gotten tougher for folks because of the financial crisis."
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He said if he didn't have it done, he would be a one term president. Time for him to honor at least one promise.
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College is more affordable? What the heck has he been smoking? I just paid almost 200 dollars for a beginning algebra textbook. My guess is that with all the major advancements and new discoveries in the field of beginning algebra the publishers felt that last year's book was just too out of date and we needed a new one.
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How bad does he want it to get before the grade?
8%+ unemployment for nearly 4 years
New college grads- Get a loan, go to college and go home
Median income down ~10%
Economic growth running at ~2%/yr (in a recovery!), a preObama normal yr beats that.
BIG legislation that dampens growth
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Well, it figures. He probably had lots of incompletes in college, too, but we'll never know since he has kept his transcripts from public view.
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An "incomplete" for a President whose leadership has been MIA.
See also :Dems: "Better of?f" question needs context
Associated Press – 1 hr 22 mins ago
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Democrats say answering the question of whether Americans are better off now than they were four years ago requires some context.
Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren tells NBC's "Today" show Tuesday that people should remember how far the economy fell and how hard it is to get back from a time when the stock market was crashing and the auto industry was a mess. She says the real issue is who has the best plan to move forward.
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, meanwhile, says to ask the millions of people out of work if they are better off. He noted on ABC "Good Morning America" that unemployment remains above 8 percent, despite President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.
The question is a major talking point as the Democratic National Convention kicks off Tuesday.
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"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," he said. "One big piece of business that we still have to do is make sure our debts and deficits are brought under control, and I've put forward a balanced plan that would reduce our deficits by $4 trillion."
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But what I would say is the steps that we have taken in ... <snip> ... investing in clean energy and science and technology and research
Didn't think so.
Bottom line . . we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
Ready? It was very simple, and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted 8-04-1977 TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. HEY, PRETTY EFFICIENT, HUH?
AND NOW IT'S 2008, 31 YEARS LATER, AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR, THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE! THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'
Ah yes, good ole beauocracy. And now we are going to turn the Healthcare system over to them? God Help us.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy and nuclear safety. Its responsibilities include the nation's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production. DOE also sponsors more basic and applied scientific research than any other US federal agency; most of this is funded through its system of United States Department of Energy National Laboratories. yes.. they were given authority over the Nuclear industry because it was a way to achieve what was given as their PRIMARY purpose which was to reduce our dependancy on foreign oil. Research into alternative energy sources ... wind, solar, geothermic, hydrogen, ect ect ect .... Seems that they have a huge buget and not much in the way of results.Laissez les bon temps rouler! Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.** a 4 day work week & sex slaves ~ I say Tyt for PRESIDENT! Not to be taken internally, literally or seriously ....Suki ebaynni IS THAT BETTER ?
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Just Released Rock Anthem: “Obama Gotta Go” ~ by Glen Shulfer
September, 3, 2012 — nicedeb
This brand new ditty, “Obama Gotta Go” by Glen Shulfer is a toe tapper I think you’ll enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=16y8peNt0dA
Lyrics:
I been trying not to say anything,
but I been waiting for the end of his fling.
And I can’t wait to hear the Fat Lady sing.
I’m so tired of all the money he spent.
And I wonder where the heck it all went.
But now we got to get a new president.
Doing all his calculation on where to go on his next vacation.
All the while the nation hurts so much, I can’t hold back.
No I can’t hold back any more.
Obama gotta go.
Ship him back to Chicago.
I’ll even help him move his cargo.
I had enough of B.O., so Bama gotta go…go back home!
I been working at my job every day,
just to see him take it all away,
so he can build another Chevrolet.
I don’t know how he could make such a mess.
But I sure can take a pretty good guess.
ObamaCare and the Stimulus.
Doing all his redistribution is only stepping on the Constitution.
All the destitution hurts so much, I can’t hold back.
No I can’t hold back any more.
Obama gotta go.
Ship him back to Chicago.
I’ll even help him move his cargo.
I had enough of B.O., so Bama gotta go!
I have to say with no exception,
I won’t be paying for his contraception.
All of his deception hurts so much, I can’t hold back.
No I can’t hold back any more.
Obama gotta go.
Ship him back to Chicago.
I’ll even help him move his cargo.
I had enough of B.O., so Bama gotta go…go back home!
Here’s another gem by Shulfer from earlier this summer: “Blame Someone Else”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=gXWNM7JhENM
http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2012/09...shulfer-video/Laissez les bon temps rouler! Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.** a 4 day work week & sex slaves ~ I say Tyt for PRESIDENT! Not to be taken internally, literally or seriously ....Suki ebaynni IS THAT BETTER ?
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Are you better off today than four years ago? Consider these #ThingsObamaImproved
Posted at 7:55 pm on September 15, 2012 by Twitchy Staff
Some top Dems were stumped a couple of weeks ago when confronted with the question, “Are people better off today than four years ago?” While the campaign retreated to get its story straight, several polls in the interim showed that most believe they’re not better off in 2012. But somebody (or something) must be doing well. Let’s check with Twitter for a quick list of #ThingsObamaImproved.
Paul Delaney@gipperguy
#thingsObamaimproved his golf game
15 Sep 12brenda watkins@temi227
#thingsObamaimproved The Mexican drug cartels GUN SUPPLY.
15 Sep 12Jim Jam@CoachWalk50
#thingsObamaimproved mmmmmmm......can't think of anything, oh wait the strength of the Muslim Brotherhood in nations where they were weak
15 Sep 12SCPatriot68@SCPatriot68
#ThingsObamaimproved: Iran's nuclear program
15 Sep 12Marty@MaineMiiarty
#thingsObamaimproved. Jimmy Carter's place in the history books
15 Sep 12Jane Galt@JGalt9
#ThingsObamaimproved the wealth of his millionaire and billionaire cronies through stimulus funds #solyndra
15 Sep 12Laissez les bon temps rouler! Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.** a 4 day work week & sex slaves ~ I say Tyt for PRESIDENT! Not to be taken internally, literally or seriously ....Suki ebaynni IS THAT BETTER ?