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The only thing you need take away from Obama’s hour-plus, regurgitated speech … [Darleen Click]

… ostensibly on the economy

but with an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball. And I am here to say this needs to stop. This needs to stop.

Chris Stevens and Brian Terry were unavailable for comment.

38 Replies to “The only thing you need take away from Obama’s hour-plus, regurgitated speech … [Darleen Click]”

  1. leigh says:

    Same speech, different day:

    March 7, 2009

    From the day I took office, I knew that solving this crisis would not be easy, nor would it happen overnight. And we will continue to face difficult days in the months ahead…

    That’s why my administration is committed to doing all that’s necessary to address this crisis and lead us to a better day. That’s why we’re moving forward with an economic agenda that will jumpstart job creation

    August 1, 2009 – where we blamed Bush for the economic mess:

    But the truth is, we didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we won’t get out of it overnight. It’s going to take time. But history shows that you need to have economic growth before you have job growth. And the report yesterday on our economy is an important sign that we’re headed in the right direction

    This won’t happen overnight. As I’ve said before, it will take many more months to fully dig ourselves out of a recession – a recession that we’ve now learned was even deeper than anyone thought. But I’ll continue to work every day, and take every step necessary, to make sure that happens.

    October, 2, 2010 – where we blamed lack of “clean energy” funding:

    Over the past twenty months, we’ve been fighting not just to create more jobs today, but to rebuild our economy on a stronger foundation. Our future as a nation depends on making sure that the jobs and industries of the 21st century take root here in America. And there is perhaps no industry with more potential to create jobs now – and growth in the coming years – than clean energy.

    June 11, 2011 – where we blamed lack of education funding for the mess:

    We’ve just come through the worst recession since the Great Depression, and while our economy as a whole has been growing and adding private sector jobs, too many folks are still struggling to get back on their feet. I wish I could tell you there was a quick fix to our economic problems.

    There are also a few other things we know will help grow our economy, and give people good jobs that support a middle-class lifestyle. We know that a quality education is a prerequisite for success, so we’re challenging states and school districts to improve teaching and learning, and making it a national goal to once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.

    September 22, 2012 – where we blamed Congress for the economic mess:

    See, when they skipped town, Members of Congress left a whole bunch of proposals sitting on the table – actions that would create jobs, boost our economy, and strengthen middle-class security. These ideas have been around for months. The American people want to see them passed. But apparently, some Members of Congress are more worried about their jobs and their paychecks this campaign season than they are about yours.

  2. BigBangHunter says:

    Chris Stevens and Brian Terry were unavailable for comment.

    – And every last person involved in Benghazi whos still breathing has been silenced.

    – Note: Whenever I’m ejoying too nice of a week I turn to Barnhardt for some good old punch-in-the-gut down to earth depression.

  3. TaiChiWawa says:

    Next week’s release (Wednesday) of the preliminary GDP figures for the 2nd quarter will include an unusually large revision of economic classifications and calculations going back to 1929.

    I may very well be wrong, but I suspect the report will magically reveal an unexpected economic rebound in recent quarters. For example, they are changing the way research and development and intellectual property are evaluated.

  4. BigBangHunter says:

    For example, they are changing the way research and development and intellectual property are evaluated.

    – Once upon a time in a Galaxy very very close, we in the Aerospace industry used to laugh and point at the blackards that would use the “shoot the arrow first and paint the bulleye around it after” lie to setup favorable outcomes to obvious disasters.

    – It has evolved to where “shoot first, bullseye after” is the standing policy of this administration in almost every aspect of government..

  5. Libby says:

    “Cris Stevens and Brian Terry were unavailable for comment.”

    Neither were Lois Lerner, Richard Windsor, or Edward Snowden. And don’t even bother with James Clapper, he’ll just lie.

  6. palaeomerus says:

    Obama sez: “Shut up. Bend Over. Applaud me when I’m done. ”

    Reactions:

    Mostly White Press sez : ” Kill them my prince! Kill them all! Kill whitey! SWOON! ”

    GOP sez: ” He means YOU ya stinky little hobbits. Jeb Bush 2016! ”

    Democratic Federation of Greater Assholia sez: ” Justice for Trayvon! Obamaphone! Save da’ planet! ”

    Tired, pissed off, still stunned America sez: ” Lame duck gonna quack. Lame duck gonna quack. Lame duck… “

  7. Libby says:

    Didn’t watch the speech, but saw a clip and wondered: when did it become s.o.p. for the American president to give speeches with a carefully selected group of people behind him (selected based on the topic, such as kids for education speeches)? And who are these tools still willing to BE his backdrop?

  8. BigBangHunter says:

    – So, in other words, just another creepy assed quacka

  9. BigBangHunter says:

    – “And in the brave new Utopia falling short on talent and criminal backgrounds will no longer hold anyone back. Just lawyer up and the gov will do the rest.

  10. Obama gave a speech?

    UNEXPECTEDLY!

  11. serr8d says:

    Mary Bruce nailed the content of Obagahzi’s speech, one day early…

    For those keeping track, here’s a look at some of Obama’s pivots to the economy:

    February 2009: The president tells Congress “now is the time to jumpstart job creation” and his agenda “begins with jobs.”

    November 2009: Meeting with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, the president says his administration “will not rest until we are succeeding in generating the jobs that this economy needs.”

    April 2010: Obama goes on a “Main Street” tour, saying “it’s time to rebuild our economy on a new foundation so that we’ve got real and sustained growth.”

    June 2010: The president declares a “Recovery Summer” to highlight the jobs created by stimulus-funded infrastructure projects. “If we want to ensure that Americans can compete with any nation in the world, we’re going to have to get serious about our long-term vision for this country and we’re going to have to get serious about our infrastructure,” he said.

    December 2010: The president tells reporters “we are past the crisis point in the economy, but we now have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth.”

    August 2011: After lawmakers reach a compromise to avert default, the president vows “in the coming months, I’ll continue also to fight for what the American people care most about: new jobs, higher wages and faster economic growth.”

    February 2013: At the start of his second term, the president refocuses on job creation in his State of the Union address, saying “a growing economy that creates good, middle-class jobs – that must be the North Star that guides our efforts.”

    May 2013: Kicking off his “Jobs and Opportunity Tour,” the president says “all of us have to commit ourselves to doing better than we’re doing now. And all of us have to rally around the single-greatest challenge that we face as a country right now, and that’s reigniting the true engine of economic growth, a rising, thriving middle class.”

    July 2013: The president says his speech Wednesday is going “to be the kickoff to what is essentially several months of us trying to get Washington and the press to refocus on the economy and the struggles that middle-class families are going through.”

    Until the next Trayvon-like opportunity to seethe his base presents, he’ll have to pretend to care about middle-class jobs and the economy.

  12. happyfeet says:

    the piggy piggy nsa spyfags got a rousing validation from our congresswhores today, lots of them Team R ones

    that was a way bigger story I thought than food stamp giving a fucking speech

  13. daveinsocal says:

    Captain Tourette’s apparently ended his speech with hackneyed pleas for Americans to “set our eyes on the horizon” and search for “an ocean of tomorrows, a sky of tomorrows”.

    “America, we have made it through the worst of yesterday’s winds. And if we find the courage to keep moving forward; if we set our eyes on the horizon, we too will find an ocean of tomorrows, a sky of tomorrows – for America’s people, and for this great country that we love.”

    Folks on twitter are understandably having a field day with it.

  14. daveinsocal says:

    Kept waiting for Obama to implore us to be “always twirling towards freedom”.

  15. daveinsocal says:

    Until the next Trayvon-like opportunity to seethe his base presents – See more at: https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=50233#comment-1005448

    Is “seethe” like the inverse of “soothe”? Rather than calm them down you get them riled up instead?

    Appropriate.

  16. BigBangHunter says:

    [Rather] than calm them down you get them riled up…

    – 2014 is right around the corner you see, and the Left and its puppet master need to keep a fabulous number of fantasy balls in the air, as well as campaign for the Narrative(tm) without letup.

  17. RichardCranium says:

    President Obama gave a speech? Who knew?

    Who cares?

  18. “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time”

  19. “RichardCranium says July 25, 2013 at 12:21 am

    President Obama gave a speech? Who knew?

    Who cares?”

    Yep.

  20. newrouter says:

    In 2010 — the year that Walker was elected governor — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 48 was thriving, having enrolled more than 9,000 workers and reporting income exceeding $7 million.

    By the end of 2012, District Council 48 was down to just under 3,500 dues-paying members — a loss of nearly two-thirds of its represented workers.

    The local also reported its net worth had plummeted, so it is now more than $650,000 in the red.

    link

  21. StrangernFiction says:

    Why did 111 ‘rats vote for the Amash Amendment?

  22. Squid says:

    I think Chris Adams hit on the other major takeaway from The Speech To End All Speeches:

    “Inequality will continue to increase, money’s power will distort our politics even more. Social tensions will rise, as various groups fight to hold on to what they have, start blaming somebody else for why their position isn’t improving. That’s not the America we know.”

    “Do what I say, or I’ll community organize my urban armies to steal your shit and burn stuff down.” That’s not the America we know, Mr. President. That’s the American you’ve ‘fundamentally transformed’ us into. Thanks bunches!

  23. sdferr says:

    Why did 111 ‘rats vote for the Amash Amendment?

    Oh, because they just love America to death. Or else because the likes of Michele Bachmann and Tom Cotton would vote against it. Pick ’em.

  24. SBP says:

    “Why did 111 ‘rats vote for the Amash Amendment?”

    Their constituents aren’t quite as brainwashed as SanFranNan’s?

  25. They’re from the states where Senate Democrats are up for re-election in ’14? #JustAGuess

  26. Libby says:

    Why the White House press corps didn’t just change the date on their old copy and run it again is beyond me. And I’ll leave it to others to ponder the media’s seemingly infinite capacity to give Obama as many do-overs as he might need.

    Why the Obama administration is determined to do the time warp again is easier to decipher. Obama’s advisors think the answer to every problem is more cowbell, if by “cowbell” you mean “Obama.” It’s like Obama guru David Axelrod is the Christopher Walken character from the “Saturday Night Live” skit about Blue Oyster Cult (if you don’t know the reference, Google “cowbell”).

    Every time someone comes up with an alternative to throwing Obama on TV, Axelrod says, “No, no, no. Guess what? I got a fever, and the only prescription … is more Obama!”
    – Jonah Goldberg……September 2009!

  27. Blake says:

    Libby, I keep expecting Obama to fall over and get eaten by worms, with the way the press keeps hollering “The voice of a God, not of a man!”

    Yeesh.

  28. palaeomerus says:

    Everybody is calling Anthony “Carlos Danger” Weiner’s wife “smart” today.

    Is “smart” the liberal democrat version of “bless her heart” ?

  29. geoffb says:

    The “middle class” when spoken of by Obama and company is comprised only of public and private union workers. Building from the middle out means expanding the universe of government union employees which he has done consistently. Here’s Michelle’s latest email, notice what is middle class to her.

    From: Michelle Obama (Democraticparty@democrats.org)
    To: Drew
    Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 7:28 PM
    Subject: Barack needs you, right now

    Drew –

    There’s a lot of noise and talk and back-and-forth going on in Washington, but hardly any of it seems to be about the struggles that middle-class families face.

    When I was growing up, a family like mine — living on my hard-working father’s salary at the city water plant — could build a solid life without much debt and without relying on any form of public assistance. Today, for too many families, that American promise is no longer within reach.

    Barack is working to fix that, to give all families a fair shot. And he needs solid Democrats in Congress to help him.

    It’s easy to get frustrated and cynical about politics. Now that the excitement of the presidential campaign has faded, it is so tempting to wait another four years to re-engage.

    But make no mistake about it — while some are tuning out, others are tuning in. They’re doing everything they can to make their voices heard. We’re seeing the effects of that kind of imbalance every single day.

    I know we can make our country a better place to live, for ourselves and our grandchildren, but Barack cannot do it alone. He needs people like you to get involved right now:

    http://my.democrats.org/Now

    Thanks,

    Michelle

    Now “working class” for them is those who are on assistance whether they work or not. The “rich” are the small business owners that were known as the bourgeoisie and hated by the left.

  30. geoffb says:

    “Smart” is what they call that which makes no sense to us and is meant to imply that we are not intelligent enough, sophisticated enough to see the wonderfulness of the complex reasoning behind their actions. “Smart” power, “smart” policies, etc.

    We are the ones who should think of their use of “smart” as “bless their heart”, they don’t, because they are so “smart.”

  31. leigh says:

    Is “smart” the liberal democrat version of “bless her heart” ?

    I believe so, palaeo. In Huma’s case, we’d have to add “God love it” to the initial “bless her heart”.

  32. Blake says:

    Say “Hummer” with a Brooklyn accent.

    Kinda makes me wonder if their respective names had something to do with Huma and Weiner getting together.

  33. bgbear says:

    “smart” is the progressive liberal’s version of “intelligent design”

  34. All kidding aside, in Proglish “smart” means “poliically reliable.”

  35. palaeomerus says:

    I heard them calling Biden “smart” once.

  36. bgbear says:

    what I mean is just as people who endorse “intelligent design” believe that the universe could not come into being without the hand of , lefties think the world can’t run properly with “smart” people like themselves guiding the way.

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