Obama: “I always have hope. Don’t you remember my campaign?”

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Bluebear   (1000+ posts)             Sun Jul-17-11 04:20 AM
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Obama: “I always have hope. Don’t you remember my campaign?”
   

 
President Obama visited the White House briefing room again on Friday to talk about his standoff with Republican leaders over the national debt. Obama didn’t have much to offer in the way of new ideas or specifics. Instead, he once again implored Republicans to budge from their insistence that any deficit reduction deal not include tax revenue increases. What makes him think the stubborn likes of Eric Cantor will commit that kind of ideological hara-kiri? “I always have hope,” Obama said with a broad smile. “Don’t you remember my campaign?”

Barely. Obama promised to transcend partisanship, and transform Washington’s calcified debate. But the long and often petty grind of the debt negotiations hardly feels like the new era that he promised. Of course, when Obama fashioned his hope-and-change message he couldn’t know the U.S. economy was about to do a full Hindenburg, largely rendering his presidency a massive exercise in economic triage.

With no new ideas to put on the table, Obama reiterated two key points. The first, aimed at Republicans, was simple: Continue holding out against revenue increases at your own risk; the public is on my side. Obama repeatedly invoked polls that show the public favors his “balanced” vision of deficit reduction that would supplement spending cuts with some tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy. Even a majority of Republican voters, as Obama noted, support including some revenue increases in a debt deal. “I’m assuming that at some point, members of Congress are going to listen” to public opinion, Obama said. Maybe, but at the moment evidence is scant.

His other key message was to liberals who are confounded by the degree to which Obama is willing to accept painful spending cuts far out of proportion to any possible revenue increases. He explained that, although it would be possible to raise the debt ceiling without an accompanying budget deal, that’s not an outcome liberals should root for. Obama wants to bite the bullet now and, as much as possible, remove the deficit as the defining question anytime government tries to do something. ” If you care about making investments …. then you should want our fiscal house in order, so that every time we propose a new initiative someone doesn’t just throw up their hands and say, ‘Aw, more spending, more big government.”

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/15/obamas-debt-talks-...

dipsydoodle   (1000+ posts)           Sun Jul-17-11 06:55 AM
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2. Don’t you remember my campaign ?
   
Was that the one which mentioned change you can believe in ?

WinkyDink   (1000+ posts)           Sun Jul-17-11 08:45 AM
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5. Um, yes, Mr. President; our memory is the issue.

   

mmonk   (1000+ posts)             Sun Jul-17-11 08:50 AM
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6. As a matter of fact, yes I do Mr. President.
   
And that is one of the many things wrong IMO.

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[USA4ME]

Of course, when Obama fashioned his hope-and-change message he couldn’t know the U.S. economy was about to do a full Hindenburg, largely rendering his presidency a massive exercise in economic triage.

How??

This writer has just made the case, whether intentional or not, that a student named Barak Obama slept during his basic Econ 101 class, because that's the only way he wouldn't know his policies would cause an economic trainwreck.

Further evidence that Dear Leader is doing it on purpose.

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[jukin]

Taxing an activity causes less of that activity.

Subsidizing an activity causes more of the activity.

Review what The Great Moonbat Messiah has done in his short reign of incompetence and you will understand why economic conditions will do nothing but get worse with the boy king at the helm.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Obama: “I always have hope. Don’t you remember my campaign?”

All too well, dude.  All too well.