You have no since of reality on the truth, and all of your post prove so.

Job1, The Obama administration has failed. Even his Socialist healthcare is down the drain. The man has not achieved nothing. Name me one. Look around Job1, there are more govt jobs than private jobs. A country cannot prosper with a govt run economy. We are in the doldrums of stagnation. The pipe dream is over.

Obama is a poor leader, but A good speaker. His words mean nothing. His campaign promises are the joke of the free world. His economic policies are a disaster. His foreign policy is a bag of wish-washy nonsense.

Repeal Obama and his health care mess.

I would like to edit my post, it should say "Is he having to buy an election? not "and" election. My Bad.

Nah, the unions will buy it for him.

When your used to spending trillions (as if they were tokens at an arcade) with no end in sight, spending a billion on a campaign is a let down. Obama doesn't care, none of it is his money he just likes to spend it. Like the Clash song "Daddy was a bank robber, but he never hurt nobody. He just loved to live that way he loved to steal your money"

Or from the Steve Miller Band,

"Go on take the money and run":)

I would love to see the truth on Obama's contributors. I would bet the house, it will be from the Health Ins industry, Soros, GE, and Unions. Plus the Wall streeters he gave the Federal Tax dollars to. Obama is a failure. Any normal open minded person can see that. Only BO would make me say this, Please Hillary, Please run.

Independents for the repeal of Obama and his health care mess.

Pawlenty, a man with ethics, a man who will do as he states, a man who knows what a budget is. A man who will be able to make a decision without all the corp/special interests telling him what to do. Pawlenty in 2012

Best post on here Joi. Keep it up. I voted.

I disagree....he has come to the nasty realization that he has run out of time and excuses, and on-the-job training is not accepatable at this stage of the game. He has been out-played on the international level as well as at home; not fulfilling most of his never ending campaign "promises." Stop trying to put a rosy spin on everything o'bama. You have more credibility when you realize you may be wrong, as you mention above. He is not, contrary to what you might think, the savior. He is a best a great politician and a second rate president. Take off your rose coloured glasses and stop doing what you accuse the right of doing: regurgitating TV talking pounts...

Great post, Joi!

More like nice try Joi!---- Mr. Obama ( who I voted for) is either finding out he wasn't ready for the job or he is a bold face liar. He hasn't kept one stinking promise I feel let down in a big way. I know now his word means NOTHING "We wont be fooled again no no"He lied to get elected then spent 2 years blaming Bush, I didn't vote for Bush but the dems have been in charge since 2006 a little accountibilty would be nice. When Pelosi came in and THE MOST IMPORTANT thing for her was to change the curtains and carpet in her office. As far as politics I havent been this disappointed since Carter.

joi,you are right. Obama is finally, at least temporarily, coming to grips with reality.The reality that the public is no loger buying his rhetoric or believing the lip service that he gives. They have seen his weak leadership and been given a dose of his failed policies and practices. They are also seeing, especiaclly on foreign policy issues that Obama has had to come to grips with the reality that what Mr. Bush was doing while in office was not borne of his political ideology, but of necessity. The same necessity that has forced Obama to adhere to many of the same foreign policies and practices of the Bush administration, albeit via a much weaker delivery/implementation.

On domestic policy he has been way worse and has failed to demonstrate any leadership capabilities. Take the budget, for example. he failed to submit a timely budget proposal for 2011, when he had full control over Congress in 2010. And then when he finally got around to making his prposed budget, welll into the 2011 fiscal year, it failed to address the things he sstated we need to address to keep the economy heading in the right direction. The following are direct quotesfrom Mr.Obama:

To kick these problems down the road for another four years or another eight years would be to continue the same irresponsibility that led us to this point. That's not why I ran for this office. I didn't come here to pass on our problems to the next President or the next generation

We are living with a legacy of deficit spending that began almost a decade ago. And in the wake of the financial crisis, some of that was necessary to keep credit flowing, save jobs, and put money in people's pockets.

But now that the worst of the recession is over, we have to confront the fact that our government spends more than it takes in. That is not sustainable. Every day, families sacrifice to live within their means. They deserve a government that does the same.

Now, even after paying for what we spent on my watch, we will still face the massive deficit we had when I took office. More importantly, the cost of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will continue to skyrocket. That's why I've called for a bipartisan, Fiscal Commission, modeled on a proposal by Republican Judd Gregg and Democrat Kent Conrad. This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem. The Commission will have to provide a specific set of solutions by a certain deadline

All of the above are quotes from Pres Obama. Moreover, just before the Nov elections Mr. Obama was warning that, after the new year, tough choices would have to be made to cut spending and reduce the deficit. However, Mr. Obama has clearly been a man of empty rhetoric and not one of action. His bluff is now being called. Repubs need to stick to the will of the voters and force Mr Obama and the Dems to live up to their rhetoric.

Mr. Obama's lack of leadership and failure to adhere to his own words have been stunning. First, he failed to timely submit a proposed 2011 budget in 2010. This was obviously politically motivated, as he knew that if the budget he eventually did propose, well into 2011, was put before the voters before the Nov elections, members of his party would have suffered even larger defeats at the polls than the massive drubbing they suffered.

Second, the budgets Mr Obama has proposed in the past and the budget he belatedly proposed for 2011 all substantially increased deficit spending and the debt. While his proposed budget for 2011 slowed the rate of deficit spending, it still increased deficit spending. No real cuts were proposed. If that isn't kicking the can down the road, I don't know what is!

Third, Mr. Obama's proposed budget lacks tough choices and is utterly a failure when it comes to providing the leadership need to tackle the tough choices. To the contrary, it encourages the "Progressives" to continue calling for massive big government spending with no end in sight. And he is not working with Republicans to get the tough meaningful choices enacted that will actually reduce spending and the deficit, as opposed to merely reducing the rate of increase in both, as he and the Dems continually propose.

Fourth. Mr Obama was so insistent in having a deficit reduction commission put in place that he bypassed Congress, because they were not willing to spend the money on the Commission, and issued an executive order forming the Commission. Yet when the Commission came out with its recommendations Obama did the exact opposite of what he said he would do, and ignored virtually every recommendation they made when he issued his belated proposed budget. Indeed the Commission was yet another Washington gimmick and waste of taxpayer dollars, put in place by Mr. Obama, designed to try and placate voters into thinking that Mr Obama was serious about addressing deficit spending and the crisis level debt we are now saddled with. Which he has exponentially increased during his term in office. Which, by the way, he would continue to increase if Congress would only allow him to have his way on the budget.

I guess Mr Obama was correct, when he stated that he didn't go to Washington to pass our current problems onto the next President or generation. What he didn't tell us is that he planned on passing along an even bigger problem to both.

Mr Obama has before him the opportunity to show some real leadership while at the same time addressing Washington's spending addiction. He can start off by rallying the members of his own party to pass a balanced budget amendment. If every ones goal is to act fiscally responsible and balance the budget, than why not force them to do so by requiring it under the Constitution? Surely a balanced budget amendment will be favored by the public and the Repubs will back it as well. Once it is passed our elected officials, in all parties, will be forced to deal with realty and live within our means.If he is not willing to go the amendment route, he can propose budgets that only spend as much revenue as we take in. Not the deficit spending budgets he and the Dems continue to propose He can advance the ball along even further by timely proposing a 2012 budget that makes cuts and reforms in the massive entitlement programs that are required if real progress is to be made. Leaving the tough choices to the Repubs and then chastising them when they make tough choice proposals is simply not productive and, quite frankly,a childish political ploy. And certainly demonstrates a lack of leadership capability/will.

If Mr. Obama is a man of action that meets his rhetoric, he will heed his own words. Otherwise his words will come back to end his Presidency when the voters hold him accountable in 2012.

The Repubs need to heed the message the public has been sending since before the Nov 2011 election. Stop the deficit spending and get our fiscal house in order. Drag the President and Dems along with you, no matter how much screaming they do, And when you hit the campaign trail in the coming months do not shy away from reminding the voters of the failure of Mr. Obama to live up to his rhetoric. Failure to do so may cost you your seats and will cause the country to suffer continued unsustainable financial irresponsibility. And if that happens the end will clearly be in place for both parties.

Obama for flip flop king. What a joke this guy is.

Pawlenty in 2012

And to think about ALL that money that would've BOOSTED a state's economy, not to mention jobs for its people; all down the drain.

Amazing how people just love self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the foot.

I love that people blame everything on the Koch brothers. What about Soros? Buffet? and even Bruce Springsteen?

Immelt soaked up $14 billion and has not paid his pal Obamba a rusted cent in taxes. And they talk about Koch.

Soros, Buffet, Springsteen,M Moore, Mellencamp, Sarandon, Most of the View,U2,REM etc.........