Press Conference

[cawacko]

Republicans...

Yeah, you're fucked.

Good to know, thanks. Is there something in particular we are fucked this time or is this just a general spur on the moment reminder we are going to hell for being evil?

 

[meme]

what a fear monger....

nothing but fearmongering since he took office.

 

[Cancel7]

Personally, I do NOT want to see what 'off the cliff' looks like relative to where we are now.

You're sane. Most of your party members can't say the same...surely you have noticed?

Well, good night!

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

You're sane. Most of your party members can't say the same...surely you have noticed?

Well, good night!

One day you will finally realize that I despise both parties, even though I am obviously far more conservative than you.

 

[cawacko]

I thought he did a good job with it all. Though he of course fudged a bit as to where this crisis started.

Oh, so Obama spoke and everyone had an orgasm. Got it.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Oh, so Obama spoke and everyone had an orgasm. Got it.

Maybe Matthews got a tingle or two... but no... nothing orgasmic.

 

[cawacko]

Maybe Matthews got a tingle or two... but no... nothing orgasmic.

What did I miss then?

 

[Bonestorm]

does anyone kiss that nasty mouth of yours?
His polling numbers have feel 20 points in just 3 weeks. I don't think the Republicans will have any problems by the time the Dems. get through running the country off the cliff.

Hilarious.

This is my favorite reason why (though there are many):

 

[cawacko]

Wow. So I still haven't seen Obama's speech (or press conference?) but I've seen the feedback here and on the USC board (which leans conservative) and (probably not surprisingly) there is a large difference in opinion about the effectiveness of his presentation.

I guess ultimately the voters will decide but it really is interesting (and of course nothing new) how people watch the same speech but come away with completely different reactions.

 

[Canceled2]

Wow. So I still haven't seen Obama's speech (or press conference?) but I've seen the feedback here and on the USC board (which leans conservative) and (probably not surprisingly) there is a large difference in opinion about the effectiveness of his presentation.

I guess ultimately the voters will decide but it really is interesting (and of course nothing new) how people watch the same speech but come away with completely different reactions.

He took just 13 softball questions and waxed philisophical on the answers taking an avergae of 10 minutes to pontificate with each.

 

[Topspin]

Obama is the tiger woods of politics.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

nothing but fearmongering since he took office.

I guess dealing with reality would be fear mongering to people who spent 8 years practicing Ostrich politics.

 

[Annie]

Wow AP actually does fact check the speech:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/fact_check_obama

FACT CHECK: Examining Obama's job, pork claims

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer
Tue Feb 10, 4:05 am ET
WASHINGTON – At least Route 31 is a road to somewhere. President Barack Obama had it both ways when he promoted his stimulus plan in Indiana and later at a prime-time news conference. He bragged in Indiana about getting Congress to produce a package with no pork, yet boasted it will do good things for a Hoosier highway and a downtown overpass, just the kind of local projects lawmakers lard into big spending bills...

THE FACTS: There are no "earmarks," as they are usually defined, inserted by lawmakers in the bill. Still, some of the projects bear the prime characteristics of pork — tailored to benefit specific interests or to have thinly disguised links to local projects...

THE FACTS: Job creation projections are uncertain even in stable times, and some of the economists relied on by Obama in making his forecast acknowledge a great deal of uncertainty in their numbers...

THE FACTS: The economic stimulus bill would allocate about $20 billion to help hospitals and doctors transition from paper charts to electronic health records for their patients. Research has shown that in some instances, electronic record keeping can eliminate inappropriate services and improve care, but it's not a sure thing by any means. "By itself, the adoption of more health IT is generally not sufficient to produce significant cost savings," the Congressional Budget Office reported last year...

THE FACTS: Two of his appointees, former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle for health and human services secretary and Nancy Killefer as Obama's chief compliance officer, dropped out after reports they had not paid a portion of their taxes.

Obama previously acknowledged he "screwed up" in making it seem to Americans that there is one set of tax compliance rules for VIPs and another set for everyone else. Yet his choice for treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, achieved the post despite having belatedly paid $34,000 to the IRS, an agency Geithner now oversees.

That could leave the perception that there is one set of rules for Geithner and another set for everyone else....

OBAMA: "We also inherited the most profound economic emergency since the Great Depression."

THE FACTS: This could turn out to be the case. But as bad as the economic numbers are, the unemployment figures have not reached the levels of the early 1980s, let alone the 1930s — yet. A total of 598,000 payroll jobs vanished in January — the most in nearly 35 years — and the unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 from 7.2 percent the month before. The most recent high was 7.8 percent in June 1992.

And the jobless rate was 10.8 percent in November and December 1982. Unemployment in the Great Depression ranged for several years from 25 percent to close to 30 percent.

 

[evince]

So You still think this depression is Obama's fault?

 

[evince]

I think I'll start calling him, Obummer. maybe he needs some prozac or something.

Maybe its you who need medication.

You liked it when Bush strode out in his jeans to "cut some brush" and spew some idiotic crap about how everything is just great and that if you didnt think so then you are a traitor, while the country was getting fucked by the corporations.

Now a man is president who can actually answer questions with concise answers at an adult level and you find it depressing.

Why am I not surprised?

 

[evince]

Except that was the part he fudged. Technically this whole thing began under pappa Bush... not Clinton.... and it most certainly was due in large part to consumers spending more than they could afford, buying more home than they could afford. That spending bubble burst once the equity bubble burst and the subsequent housing bubble burst.

As I have stated in the past, no question the idiots in DC and on Wall Street certainly played large roles in this debacle as well.... but he was wrong to dismiss the role consumers played.

It started under Nixon. A corrupt man who could not find a way to tell the truth or act in a decent manner. Carter got no credit for anything good that was done to solve the unbefore seen stagflation and these two things set the STAGE for a phony cowboy constructed of purely myth to Lie through his fucking teeth and say "well" while he spet the fuck out of the budget. Then the others came. It was this Myth of Reagan that set the stage for Bush 41 and Clintons bartering with the Rs and the idiot phoney cowboy Bush 43.

The adults are fully in charge now, thank the powers that be.

 

[evince]

Hilarious.

This is my favorite reason why (though there are many):

Its going to be funnier than hell watching the Memes of the world try to claim the fixing of the entire country for the republicans after a couple of years.

Lets see what wil they say?

The economy was fine and everyone knew it so there was nothing to fix.
The republicans fought to make the package good enough to really work and if they had done what Obama really wanted the country would have collapsed.
Obama was really a conservative.
Bush was really a liberal. (oh yeah they are already saying it)


You can write these down meme.

 

[evince]

He took just 13 softball questions and waxed philisophical on the answers taking an avergae of 10 minutes to pontificate with each.

Soft ball question?

jesus you people are fucking demented.

You can write down those future talking points too.

You will need them.

 

[evince]

I loved how Obama took questions from the people at that town hall.

No one was refused entry because of their cars bumber sticker or their palin t shirts.


This is real democracy folks.

They were allowed to ask mean spirited questions and got answers straight from the president in a civil discourse.

 

[meme]

Maybe its you who need medication.

You liked it when Bush strode out in his jeans to "cut some brush" and spew some idiotic crap about how everything is just great and that if you didn't think so then you are a traitor, while the country was getting fucked by the corporations.

Now a man is president who can actually answer questions with concise answers at an adult level and you find it depressing.

Why am I not surprised?

if you call, uh duh uh mu mm uh duh and taking 10 minuets to answer one question and still say nothing being articulate.
I didn't like Obama before he got elected, and I like him even less since he's taken office, he is not a leader, he is a puppet of whoever is pulling his strings.