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Subscribe to RSSSULLY, Iowa -- Tim Pawlenty (R) continued to cite yesterday's economic news as proof President Obama is not capable of fixing the economy.
To a crowd of about 20 people gathered here in the Coffee Cup Cafe, the former Minnesota governor likened the president to "a manure spreader in a wind storm, throwing things in every direction with out focus."
It was his first of six stops throughout Iowa today.
"The president of the United States addressed the country yesterday afternoon," Pawlenty said. "And we saw in his remarks - both in content and tone - that his call to the nation that he used in 2008 of hope and change became hope and blame. And he began to act like a manure spreader in a wind storm, throwing things in every direction without any real focus."
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Did he tweet that?
Or did timid Timmy finally come out from behind his keyboard? lol
In other news -- Grama Grizzly is a granny again!
Her oldest son Trick or Treat or whatever the hell his name is & his wife had a baby!
Stunning since, they just got married in MAY... looks like Granny got out her shotgun and actually got his one to the alter!
Maybe he can join Bristol on her 'abstinence only' tour - appears it runs in the family! LMAO!
Did they throw puffed rice after the wedding ceremony?
I have to agree with Mr. Pawlenty.... no one spreads the s__t like Obama! His presidency has now become a joke.... unfortunately, the jokes on America!
Great quote Governor Pawlenty!!
Finally, something the Liberals can understand.
One would think Tim could use some of those manure to grow his b#lls.
What a complete and total ass h*le. Yep- next to crazy-eyes Bachmann, this p.o.s. would make a wonderful ambasador and spokesman for this great country, wouldn't he?
Here'swhat is a complete crock of 'sh!t', though: All that money the wealthy have parked on the sidelines? The money they are not creating jobs with?? See, what they are waiting for is the market to hit bottom, and then swoop in and make a killing. Say adios to your 401K's folks, but be happy- the rich are about to get richer.
Feisty,
The stench of delusion coming from Pawlenty is more odorous by far.
Speaking of "manure spreaders in the wind storms" ......
I wonder who owns the FR first spot on this topic?
America has lost $4 trillion (ironic number, huh?) in wealth the last couple days and you are trying to be cute, make a joke about Sarah Palin?
Speaking of jokes, what do you think about Obama's comments yesterday? Really calmed the markets down, huh?
Temporary payroll tax cuts, extendinding unemployment and infrastructure?
Wasn't that Obama's "Trick or Treat" line last year?
I guess the markets pretty much slammed the door in his face on that.
But when you think about, trick or treat is pretty much his line for everything.
Obamacare, vote for it or I'll egg your house and you won't get a waiver ......
Give me a debt extension or Granny doesn't get Social Security ......
Give me candy for the unions or you don't get the trade agreements that have been sitting on my desk since I walked in .....
Speaking of unions and Trick or Treat ........ vote how we say or we'll break your arm and trash the capital.
Abstinence jokes?
Obama needed to abstain from opening his mouth yesterday.
Instead ...... just one more market abortion.
Personally, I think timid Timmy is full of...manure.
For someone who continually drops a 'load' on other peoples porches...
Finally a topic that JS1 can sink her teeth into - manure!
Please JoAnna, give us some pearls of your wisdom... lol
I read once that when all else fails, you start throwing @!$%# against a wall and whatever sticks just might be the answer.
In this divisionist, hateful, dysfunctional, and ineffective political system we are burdened with until 2012, the @!$%# has already hit the fan....both sides at fault.
Spit balling ideas, may be another name for it.
I saw this headline and my initial reaction was "ewwww, yuck." Is that the best Mr. Pawlenty can do? What a bunch of crap.
Shaping up to be a filthy campaign.
Think I'll take a break from politics today. Need to go take a shower.
Huntsman 2012.
The difference between a farmer and a politician - a farmer has manure on the outside of his boots.
John Deere just introduced their brand new top of the line manure spreader. It spreads manure faster and farther than any of its competitors products. The model name is The Feisty. Looks like it will be a big seller. American made too.
Great company, John Deere. Great company.
LOL! Don't you know anything, bob? Of course Oblaba'a comments were calming... Why... I am sure that he SAVED us from a 900 point drop...
Just like when he saved all those jobs... way back before we recovered from the recession! 8-P
Tsk Tsk... poor JoAnna, once again you have it all backwards...
John Deere did introduce a new product but it's called The Feisty Sweeper...
God knows, I've had to sweep more than enough of your crap off my porch!
PS: Order early - they're selling fast! ;o)
PPS: If you order now I'll throw in a free Chewowa Gang pooper scooper & SOB trowel!
John Deere also recommends JS1 as one of the largest wholesale suppliers of manure for the new Feisty model.
It's all relative for Obama. He's out there saving America from something each and every day.
According to Obama, we just need some more social safety nets, that will create (or save) millions of jobs.
As ex-Obama economic adviser/failure Christina Romer said about the economy on that manure spreaders Bill Maher show the other night, "We're pretty darn f____". Even Obama's former hired hands have figured out he's a fraud.
Amazing Z Americans?? - Let me see, if I have this straight...,
One Party rules for eight years, takes the country into its worst conditions since the depression. With not one of the current crop of great political patriots, opening their mouths to say one word, or attempt to do anything to correct the devastated messy conditions that was created. But then, Americans voted them out of office. And then, the same party that created such a mess, proceeds to counteract every single effort to correct the mess they singlehandedly created. And of course, they proceed to blame those who came into office, for the mess they blatantly and shamelessly openly lie about. Then they are joined by the wonderful ignorant racist Patriots of the TParty.
Are the rest of Americans that naive, stupid and such ignoramases to believe such nonsense.
I'm betting on the average decent American, as one who knows far better than the shameless likes of, Speaker of the House John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Joe Walsch Rep., IL., (How can he have the nerve to go out and be seen in public?), Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin and the rest.
Do we still have decent, educated, normal, righteous, sensible people in America??? Because it appears that many in some of the political parties are as big criminals, as many of those we have in our jails.
Think about it America!! We sent Martha Stewart to jail for what, again???
@cesa9276...
Keep drinking the Koolaid.
Feisty, that's hilarious. You can't make up stuff like that. I wonder why it's not in the news. Maybe we are finally rid of Petty Palin...or is she going on the rest of a Magic Bus Tour...?
Bachmann is already starting to bottom. Ron Paul is now ahead of her in the polls.
Pawlenty might want to learn from that. Fire-breathing Haters of the president with a bad track record and no solutions will fall to the wayside, with only a small base of Haters to cheer them on.
Obama does seem to spread the same manure over and over again. You would think the stuff would lose its smell.
I've never been so ashamed of the person in the White House than I am right now! Such arrogance and lack of empathy!
I've never been more ashamed of the GOP than I have been the last two years. Country Last is their motto. They are nothng but a bunch of selfish ideologues who would rather destroy the country in order to defeat President Obama. That says a great deal about the modern conservative party and none of it is pretty. Ronald Reagan would call them shameful.
Oh no Jody you got it all wrong, as soon as we elect a new president (no matter who it is), the stock market will soar, budgets will be balanced, deficits will be paid, business will hire, unemployment will drop like a rock, home values will rise, children will be better educated in the public school system, and Baby Jesus will be happy and cooing again.
Forrest gump... I can extrapolate from your comment that all of the businesses and the government are anti black. Doing what ever it takes to make this black man look like crap. Funny thing huh... The only difference, the conservatives/TP are up front with that effort.
Takes manure to know it Pawlenty the one who wont raise taxes but call them fees thats ok
People can and will extrapolate as they wish, however I did not say anything about anti-black. What I am saying is that laying the blame to all our accumulated woes at the doorstep of one man is damn goofy.
Well you should know Tim because your Pawlenty good at spreading that manure around yourself.
Oh how the worm has turned!
"laying the blame to all our accumulated woes at the doorstep of one man is damn goofy." Unless his name is George W. Bush!
If you think GW is solely responsible that would be just as goofy.
I don't recall President Obama laying all of the accumulated woes at the doorstep of George W Bush.
However, President did jokingly say "I'll be long gone before they figure out what went on in this office.
It was not funny then and it is not funny now.
Obama thought he was inheriting a mess but it was a damn Depression!
And the Teabggers would like for the President to never mention it again.
I think not.
Well Forrest...
LOTS of posts have been made (and continue to be made) on this vine stating just that.
Are we to believe that all of those (liberal) posters were 'GOOFY'?
Selective recall huh Sheila? How convenient. You may however be arguing a technicality with me... perhaps you believe that Oblaba's use of the term 'prior administration' does NOT refer to GW...
Since when does Gov. Pawlenty know anything about farming?
Pawlenty, probably stole the statement from a farmer because he has 'no specific plans for our economy', nor no direction for his own campaign.
If Pawlenty is trying to insult the President, he's using a dumb analogy for someone who is supposed to be a non-elitist. Those of us in rural states know, manure is good stuff. Can't grow a decent crop without it!
Kate and Amy,
You are both correct.
Pawlenty grew up in South St. Paul.It was where the biggest stock yard was located for generations. He is a city kid.
Manure is the best kind of fertilizer. It does make the plants grow.
The joke was indeed pretty lame.
Hmmm...
So Pawlenty's correct.
Even the President's supporters concede that he's spreading manure.
A good cup of manure makes the garden grow.
Great observation Mixed Bag... The problem, the way I see it, is those that have bought into Obama's BS, have no sense of smell. They know it's BS... because it's so obvious, but since they can't smell it, they don't mind that he does it. What other explanation can there be for them to accept his anti-business, anti-American agenda? Wearing blinders only lessens the view.
Brianb-999431
"What other explanation can there be for them to accept his anti-business, anti-American agenda?"
What exactly is this anti bla bla or what are you trying to push through with the word anti. He doesn't look like you? Be brave and say it. This is simply cynical.
Pius - That's right, throw the race card up there. How do you know what color I am? Can you say for certain that I am white, black, yellow? Come on Pius - fess up! Tell me how you know... can you see through your computer screen?
Idiots like you just can't see what he's doing to this country. You are so concerned that he loses face... well, that's not YOUR concern, is it? He does enough damage to himself for you to ever worry about it. Obama has shot himself in the foot so many times, he doesn't have any feet left. Ratings are dropping... before you know it, his ratings will be lower than Bush's. All it took was one term instead of two.
Brianb -- people ask you to specifically list what is "anti-American" about the President's agenda. Why can't you do that?
Brianb-999431
You're such a hopeless idiotic uninformed perplexed white wrinkled bigot who can't deal with the fact that a black man is occupying the WH. But guess what, you're in for it cause he's going to rule your white dumb ass for another 4yrs.....sulker.
Great reply.
Pius Emeka Nebo
WOW! This is just about as racist a comment as I have ever read on this forum. Shame on you! (for showing YOUR true colors)
And to you too JOYCE... for beliving that it was a 'Great reply'
Oh, come on, Feisty, everybody knows it's "elitist" to plan a pregnancy. "Real Americans" consider marriage optional before bringing children into the world. (But, God forbid we recognize gay marriage! Why that's just immoral.)
Immoral is a matter of what you believe Amy - to me, it's just not natural. I could no more think of myself being intimate with another man that I could think of chopping off my arms voluntarily. Being of that mindset, the open expression of that lifestyle is disturbing to me. Areas like The French Quarter of New Orleans, or Grenwich Village, New York, or Key West are areas I have a huge problem bringing my grandchildren to. I can't even bring them to DisneyWorld on gay days. If they want me to accept them, they have to ACT like the rest of society and respect those that don't live like them.
Given the way the gay movement throws it in our faces, my natural reaction is to reject their cause. Do I care what an individual does in their bedroom? Since it's none of my business, no. When they turn it into a public matter, and try to force their agenda on me, I have a problem with that. There is no comparison to the civil rights movement of the 60's to this. All races, have the same rights. Just because gays are different in their sexuality (a private matter), doesn't mean they should be granted special rights. This is what their movement wants. Special rights.
Laws are being changed because of special interest groups. Our society becomes weakened when one special interest group wins out over another.
Let's say all the laws are changed where gays can marry freely and it's legal for them to get the tax benefits, etc... what will they want next? You don't think it will end when they win this, do you? You can't legislate acceptance when a large segment of our society rejects a lifestyle. They won't stop with changing these laws...
@Brianb - #### - If YOU don't like it, then don't do it. And why are you so concerned with WHAT OTHER PEOPLE get. You're free to get whatever you want, why shouldn't OTHER PEOPLE have that same freedom. I thought you T-baggers were all about getting your freedom on.
Nothing about the bedroom is private anymore, straight, gay or "trisexual" (that means you will try anything!), you better not let your grand-kids watch the cartoon network at night, and you have to be real careful about them watching our politicians on C-Span.
Brian...huh?
Like you, I'm a straight guy to whom the thought of being physically intimate with another guy is not stimulating...at all. But, unlike you, I am not willing to impose my feelings and beliefs others.
I am curious about one thing you said, though, "what will they want next?". What, exactly, do you think they will want next once they have the same rights and priveleges as the rest of us?
Next they will want to have the same special privelage as rich people and demand to pay less taxes than straight working men and women do.
Brianb -
"Gay days" at Disneyworld? I looked it up - it's one day, the first Saturday in June. That gives YOU 364 other days to choose from to take your grandkids there. So which of you has the "special rights" again?
Oh, just one little thing, though - hate to break it to you, but there are gays there the other 364 days, too. There are gays in the mall. At your job. At your grandkids' baseball games. In their schools. In your police and fire departments. Sitting next to you in a restaurant. In your church. Well, okay - probably not in YOUR church, you being such a good "Love thy neighbor" sort and all that.....but the point is, if you're that concerned about the risk of encountering them, maybe you should stay in your own bedroom. Trust me, no one cares what you do there.
Fortunately your grandchildren are growing up in a much more open-minded and loving world than you did.
"To a crowd of about 20 people gathered here in the Coffee Cup Cafe"
Wow.....sounds like standing room only! Rick Santorum must be soooo jealous!
Wow.....sounds like standing room only! Rick Santorum must be soooo jealous!
The story doesn't mention that they were standing on their heads.
Rick was in the back with his kids washing dishes for a little gas money.
Why does God ignore their prayers, things got worse after the prayer meeting?
30,000 folks came to see Rick Perry or did they come for the Revival of so-called ministers. The stadium holds 70,000 so not so hot for Perry. Meanwhile in a stadium nearby, 100,000 Texans lined up to receive free school supplies--says a whole lot about just how wonderful Perry is.
For those who might of missed Bill Maher's take on the Prayapalooza:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvd5e9lMm_4
The free snakes for the kids bit is PRICELESS! LMAO!
Free school supplies in Texas! Each boy will receive a free football helmet and each girl gets a pom-pom.
GreedyBizOwner -
Governor Perry spoke for 12 minutes at an all-day event on Sunday - I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that many of those 25,000 were there for the music and the praying and everything else that went on the rest of the day?
By the way -
"The event was Perry’s idea but was financed by the American Family Association, a Tupelo, Miss.-based group that opposes abortion and gay rights and believes that the First Amendment freedom of religion applies only to Christians."
http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-07/news/29861838_1_prayer-rally-prayer-and-bible-readings-evangelical-conservatives
Obviously you don't find that as troubling as I do.....
I have a question, and it is not the kind of of question you would ask a Catholic nun when I was growing up if you wanted to avoid having one of those flimsy yardsticks broken over your head. Does the Christian God create everybody including Muslims, Jews, Atheists, and gay people, or is each God responsible for creating his own crew? Can somebody please answer this for me. I am really confused because it would seem that either the Christian God keeps making Muslims to kill us, and Christians to kill them, or the Muslim God has better production numbers than the Christian God because Muslims far outnumber Christians. Maybe all the giant prayer rallies and TV schedule is causing the Christian God's production to suffer.
yesterday's speech was an absolute embarassment - even his biggest supporters are bashing him....
On the daily kos it looks like a lotta rats are jumping ship. They better find a way to get hillary to jump in before it's too late!
Currently, the President is off of his game. However, he will rebound. The saving grace is the American people would still elect him over any of these Republican Tea Bagger clowns.
Currently??????
However, the generic republican would beat any of the republicans now running.
President Obama's address yesterday was the perfect tone. It is easy to be a critic. Democrats grumble but that doesn't mean they jumped the ship. What did John Boehner or Mitch McConnell offer yesterday? Nothing from McConnell but I think Boehner finally released a statement blaming President Obama--forgetting his own words, too, I "got 98% of what I wanted".
Why would anyone, anywhere be even the slightest teeny tiny bit interested in what Mr. Pawlenty thought about anything, he's just making an ass of himself thinking anyone would want him to be President.
 Pawlenty now joins the ranks of Bachman and Palin as just another Mean Girl with that kind of rhetoric! What a little ankle biting snyde SOB! Â
As an aside...DOW is rallying today!Â
Rallying? (Down maybe...) As of this time the DOW just fell 150 points following the latest Fed announcement.
Go Figure.
This from a wannabee man who hide's in the background until its safe to come out and say something ...once again this" booger eating moron" has embarrassed his state ! He is no longer even in the top 6 !
Nothing to stand on of your own just to try and demean a man whom you will never ever be able to compete with. Your only hope, you and those around you is to hope that someone believes what you are saying, well we don't not even the people you are visiting. If President Obamam came to Iowa today there would be no place to put all the people, so keep tal;king and we will keep praying that God's will be done and that will be to keep our President safe and humble because all of you prideful people will fall as the good book says.
I like the title on MSNBC's Main page "Financial Uncertainty the New Normal"
Boy oh boy - Obama promised to transform America and he has delivered alot of "New Normals".....9+% unemployment, first ever US downgrade, underwater mortgages at record levels, 4 billion a day of borrowing, etc, etc, etc.
As with any business if you hire an incompetent you get results like above. Please remember when you vote in the future to vote for someone with some level of experience.
I would think that the President is well aware that leading and transforming the American collective out of straights and toward a better future, means dealing with the incompetents in the crowd , as well.
And, no, they aren't all named Rob.
Obviously, Pawlenty is unaware of his own frailties. After all, how he can say that about Obama after what he did to Minnesota and its budget? Oh well, another politician who is unaware of his/her behavior.
Real classy guy, that Pawlenty. I'm sure those 20 people were impressed. While he claims President Obama is like a manure spreader in a windstorm, exactly what ideas has Pawlenty provided to improve the economy other than more tax cuts and de-regulation? Two ideas that have been proved far less effective than manure in a windstorm. He behaves as if he is the nominee running against President Obama when his real opponents are the 15 or so GOP wannabees but he's too much of a coward to tackle them. T-Paw is the manure spreader in a windstorm, silly and stupid comments shoot from his mouth every day and fly everywhere.
Sounds as if there were more press people covering Pawlenty than Iowans listening to him. I guess they were supposed to be inspired by his performance as governor of Minnesota. Republicans love to tear others down but they aren't so good at building anything.
Pawlenty; who?.....It's not Obama he has to worry about, he can't even out poll the idiot Bachmann. As the farmer would say,"he put the manure wagon before the horse."
Brianb,
You are mixing your metaphors:" manure smells", "blinders on". :)
Sorry I can't answer your question right now. I have to go to work. but I will be back on the night shift here at FR.
Until then.....
Manure happens!
Has Pawlenty signed his allegiance to Grover Glenn Norquist Iatola of the U.S. Congress yet?
Yes, and he signed that crazy Iowa Family Leaders one as well--the one promising to be prejudiced against those who are different among other things.
No, he was told by Norquist that he didn't have a chance in hell of winning anything, so why waste a perfectly good document, and my time, getting someones signature when people tend to identify him more by his nose rather than his name.
Obama the manure spreader, and the manure flying is gonna be Pawlenty, Bachmann and Perry. Whew that's a lot of crap and stink. I bet all that crap won't help anything to grow and It'll lay out in the field spewing more stink.
Oh how very manly of you Mr. Pawlenty. How authority just imminates from you is incredible.
Interesting you would use the drop in stocks as an indication of how 'investors' don't trust the US under this President, but failed to mention that they put all of their money in the safest place known....the US Treasury Bond.
Continue to play on the stupidity of those around you sir...Lord knows there is Paw lenty of it. (couldn't help it)
Pawlenty should know about train wrecking economies, just look what he did to Minnesota. Is America supposed to trust this guy? Raising debt is his speciality, he is an expert. He will bland us into complacency as he gets us further into debt and economic ruin, especially the middle class.
Pawlenty is just a little punk who thinks he is funny......he is pathetic.
And Kathryn is a name-calling bully who probably got beat up every other day for bad manners on the playground. What a loser.
Bullies don't get beat up, they pick on punks and then give them a silly nickname like T-Paw.
The Governor has used an entirely accurate metaphor in describing the MO of President Barack Milhouse Obama and his army of mushroom minions. Besides telling MSLSD what to say, they are spreading the crap on their own.
You forgot to mention that it's the republicans in the manure spreader and is the s&!t being spread. President Obama is just driving the vehicle filled with the crap that republicans spew on a daily basis.
AmericansLast - if you consider a demand for a balanced budget amendement crap then I guess you are for AmericaLast because that's where we are going to end up with a continuation of Keynesian economics.
Your know who John Maynard Keynes is?
First the balance budget I call crap, is not about balancing the budget. It is really a way to put into law that we need a 2/3 majority to ever raise taxes on the richest again. Why do the rich need this law, and how is it really good for America? Do we really need to tie both hands behind our back to battle the debt?
So what is so un-american to expect that the rich should pay their fair share.
If the debt and balancing the budget is really your concern, isn't a budget with increased revenue needed with cuts?
"To a crowd of about 20 people gathered here..."
If all T-Paw can get is 20 people to attend his events, whatever he's selling is hardly worth reporting. His campaign is going no where fast. And he desperately knows it!
Andy - anyone from MA that supports Barney Frank, as I am certain you do, who single-handedly along with Chris Dodd brought down the housing market, and who said one month before Fannie and Freddie went belly up they were rock solid, who forced Fannie and Freddie to guarantee bad loans to people who could not afford nor had the means to make good on them, is discounted immediately.
You are discounted and so are the likes of you all over this country who have their heads in the sand.
what more astonishing is Barney on TV last night talking about how S&P failed to downgrade the banks providing the bad loans that his committee touted as rock solid ---- absolutely crazy....who votes for these nitwits?
Yes of course, Barney Frank personally signed off on millions of bad loans, and encouraged equity credit lines worth 125% of the homes estimated market value in spite of the owner having little or no equity. Ha you blame two men for thousands of dishonest bankers and mortgage companies who charged higher fees to write bad loans and then sold those loans (that they obviously knew were bad) as a high return investment security. The mortgage companies and bankers did not operate honestly and in good faith, they never told anybody that they simply can't afford this loan for very long, they promoted overbuying, and over-borrowing every step of the way, I don't think Frank or Dodd signed any of those loans. Hell in many cases the mortgage company, the Realtor, and the appraisers worked as a partnership.
Rebelwcause,
First of all, when you make a statement like "... who single-handedly along with Chris Dodd...", you know from the get go you won't be making a lot of sense. Secondly, a lot of economists who have put together a list of culprits most responsible for the mortgage melt down do not include Barney Frank or Chris Dodd in their lists. You know which legislator consistently appears on those lists? It would be the former Senate Finance chair, Phil Gramm (R) -- the man who led the 90's financial deregulation era. So, please spare us the right-wing talking points!