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President Barack Obama waves after he talks about the rising costs of student loans while at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, April 25, 2012.
The president this week drove a message without distraction, but also pushed the limits of “official” travel … Boehner accuses Obama of making the presidency “smaller” – he’s become Mitt Romney’s biggest ally on Capitol Hill … Outside group accuses Obama of being too “cool” to be president … Bill Clinton testifies to Obama’s strength, as the campaign highlights the bin Laden raid … Cold War kids … Obama speaks to troops, women … Romney’s in Ohio – at a college campus with Gov. Kasich.
*** Driving a message and pushing the limits: It was a week in which the Obama campaign was remarkably able to push a single issue without distraction from something (or someone) – on student loans. The president took (justified) criticism for pushing that message on official business with Air Force One in swing states, on college campuses (not one but three), while mixing in slow-jamming the news. House Speaker John Boehner yesterday accused the president of starting a “fake fight,” demanded that he reimburse the government for the trips, said it was “beneath the dignity” of the White House, and even went so far as to charge, “This is the biggest job in the world and I've never seen a President make it smaller.” At the end of the day, Obama was able to get out and appeal to groups in areas that are going to matter to his reelection – and, more importantly from a trip-legitimacy standpoint, there is supposed to be a vote today (the last vote by about noon ET, we’re told), on the “policy” in the House, something that might not have happened without the president pushing the issue. Still, the White House pushed the limit on this when they picked three universities all in battleground states. Had they picked just one in a non-battleground, it would have a little higher ground to stand on.
Daily Rundown guest host Luke Russert is joined by NBC's Domenico Montanaro to talk about the House speaker's comments and whether his attack is a coordinated push with Mitt Romney.
*** A “Stark Contrast”: The Romney campaign pens a memo this morning, highlighting what it sees as the difference between its candidate and President Obama. “This past week previewed the stark contrast facing voters in this election. Governor Romney’s speech Tuesday night in New Hampshire contained a crisp and specific critique of President Obama’s policy failures and his own positive vision for a better America.” But: “President Obama … spent the week slow-jamming the news, striking a Heisman pose, and trying to pick a fight over student loans to help the one-in-two recent college graduates who are either jobless or underemployed as a result of his policies (which is apparently really funny stuff to the President). Unfortunately for him, Republicans agree with the need for a temporary extension, but want it paid for by cutting spending rather than raising taxes. So instead of the fight he was hoping for, he got a debate over taxes and spending – which he wasn’t hoping for.”
*** Too “Cool” for the White House? On cue, Karl Rove-backed American Crossroads is up with a video called, “Cool,” which cuts together clips of Obama wearing 3-D glasses, dancing on “Ellen,” singing Al Green, drinking a beer, killing a fly, calling Kanye West a “jackass,” and slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon. It asks, “After 4 years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?” The ad picks up where John McCain left off with his “Biggest Celebrity in the World” ad, a narrative that was starting to take hold… until McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate.
*** Superficial vs. Serious – Bill Clinton testifies: But the Obama campaign is out with its own strong and sober video, featuring Bill Clinton as a testifier. It is juxtaposition to the superficiality narrative the Crossroads ad tries to create. “There’s one thing that George Bush said that was right,” Clinton says, “The president is the ‘Decider-in-Chief.” It then shows pictures of Obama in the Situation Room during the Osama bin Laden raid. “Nobody can make that decision for you,” Clinton says. “Look he knew what would happen. Suppose the Navy Seals had gone in there, and it hadn’t been bin Laden. Suppose they’d been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him. … He took the harder, and more honorable path.” Then, a graphic comes up asking, “Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?” And highlights this Romney quote: “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.” This Sunday, Obama will raise money with Clinton at the Virginia home of Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and former Virginia gubernatorial candidate. By the way, there’s been a lot of talk and about Obama money problems, especially with the Super PAC, Priorities USA. Bloomberg today notes that Clinton backers are waiting for Obama backers to start writing checks to the PAC before they will.
*** Boehner, Romney’s biggest ally on Capitol Hill: Back to Boehner’s attack. Of course, Democrats made similar charges against former President George W. Bush in 2004. But as NBC’s Luke Russert points out, Boehner, who stayed out of the endorsement fray, has emerged as Romney’s chief ally on Capitol Hill. “One of the more fascinating developments in the last two weeks on Capitol Hill has been the degree to which House Speaker John Boehner has gone after President Obama and helped to try and frame Obama's general election matchup against Mitt Romney.” Since endorsing Romney 10 days ago, Boehner went on the attack the next day, “accusing Obama of being ‘AWOL’ for the last 6 months and on a ‘constant campaign.’” He accused the president of “failing to lead” on the economy and on legislation related to jobs, student loans, gas prices, and the national drug shortage – instead opting for “campaign theatrics.” The DNC’s Brad Woodhouse responded on Twitter, leveling this: “Let’s be clear: John Boehner is the most useless, feckless, weak and failed Speaker of the House perhaps in American history.” Wow. Here’s NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell’s report on NBC Nightly News last night.
*** Outside spending ramps up: Those aren’t the only ads out there. Americans for Prosperity -- a conservative group with ties to the billionaire Koch Brothers, who made millions in the oil and gas industry -- is actually ON AIR in the next two weeks with a $6.1 million ad buy in eight states – all battlegrounds: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, and Virginia. It once again focuses on clean energy and, in an odd way, outsourcing. “Fact: Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries. … Tell President Obama: American tax dollars should help American taxpayers.” There’s also a seven-figure ad buy up in Wisconsin in that recall race supporting Democrat Kathleen Falk ahead of the primary there May 8 to take on Gov. Scott Walker. And the NRCC is going up with $150,000 in ads in the Gabrielle Giffords district, AZ-8.
*** Cold war kids: Vice President Joe Biden was in full attack-dog mode yesterday, lambasting Mitt Romney’s foreign policy, saying that he “mired in a Cold War mindset.” And two Romney advisers added fuel to that attack yesterday when one, former Navy Secretary John Lehman said: "We are seeing the Soviets pushing into the Arctic with no response from us.” And Pierre Prosper, a former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, said, "The United States abandoned its missile defense sites in Poland and Czechoslovakia, yet Russia does nothing but obstruct us, or efforts in Iran and Syria." Czechoslovakia split into what’s now the Czech Republic and Slovakia… in 1993, two years after the Soviet Union fell. Remember, Romney called Russia America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”
*** Obama signs order on troops, education, then speaks to women: Today, the president pushes the issue of education again in Georgia at Fort Stewart, where he’ll sign an executive order “intended to help protect active-duty troops and veterans from deceptive and misleading practices.” (He’ll make remarks at 12:35 pm ET). And who’s going to disagree with that? Later, the president speaks to the National Women’s Issues Conference at 4:55 pm ET in DC. Women are, of course, a key group for the president. In the latest, NBC/WSJ poll, women approved of the job the president was doing by a 52%-43% margin and favored him over Romney, 53%-41%. In 2008, Obama won them 56%-43%, an improvement from 2004, when John Kerry won them by just three points, 51%-48%. Mitt Romney is in that all-important swing state of Ohio at… a college campus (Otterbein University in Westerville). Coincidence? He’ll speak at 3:05 pm ET. Ohio Gov. John Kasich will campaign with Romney in the afternoon. Kasich, of course, isn’t the most popular politician in the country.
***Elsewhere On the trail: Newt Gingrich continues his farewell tour, with stops in North Carolina. … Ron Paul hosts a town hall in Houston, TX.
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WE ARE NOT BETTER OFF THAN WE WERE 4 years ago!
Mr. Obama just can't get the job done!
WE NEED A NEW Coach.
One who can produce a WINNER!
No More Years!
Romney's job creation while governor...second worst job creation in the entire country...now THAT is failure.
Romney is vastly more experienced than the current communist leaning fan of Saul Alinsky whose claim to fame is being a community organizer. Obama has never held a real job and is overtaken by his ideology in the face of reality.
NOT! Romeny is Bush 102 numbnut! That's how we got here to begin with moron!
Super, an old shoe would be better than Obama but a lemming like you who was mesmerized by the chanting, "Yes we can" wouldn't know that.
Well you seem to just know everything about everyone NOT! I am a independent moron!
It's more likely that you've escaped from some institution. Independent? Now that's funny. Is that what Obama told you to say?
Obama is the least presidential person every to reside in the White House.
End of story.
Yeah, cuz the DECIDER was soooooo presidential....lol.
hey dionysus......bush is gone.....ROMNEY IN NOVEMBER!
Mc,
Wanna be Executive in Chief job creation while governor...second WORST in the country.
That is Failure!
and your a moron end of story!
We will have Obama service. You walk up to the counter in any goverment office and request whatever you like, and the guy behind you has to pay for it. Slow jamming with Obama. Class Warfare" is the only tune Obama knows.
NOT! It might be OK for you to see the 1% up 278% in income and the rest only 6% but it's NOT for the MAJORITY of Americans! Class warfare my butt!
Super, stop drinking the Koolaide. It's obvious that you weren't the smartest person before but with every sip you're driving down the IQ of the whole nation.
Please! You are a idiot! You know you have no defense against the truth that's why your response was so informative! again why are you here? We don't like your kind go back to faux news where your BS is accepted with vigor!
Poor Super, no facts he/she can argue. Instead, it's "we" (I'm not sure who this "we" is) don't want you here. Super, I'd hang around just to mess with that marble rolling around in your head.
President Obama took US from a depression and put US on the slow but steady road to recovery. He is doing the very diffcult job, making the very difficult decisions...getting it done despite the do-nothing, dysfunctional Congress.
We have yet to hear anything of substance from Romney, except whinning about President Obama. Appears all of Mitt's plans are "secret", as in there are none. The only foreign policy Mitt knows is how to bike ride around France and hiding money in Swiss and Caymen Island accounts to avoid paying US taxes.
Mr. Obama does not believe in the American people.
He wants to divide Americans and create hate amongst us.
Nuf C Nuf !
Romney thinks that Russia is still our greatest geopolitical foe....what a maroon.
All: Look at the posts from Repubs, listen to Rush, Fox and Beck....and you will see hate for President Obama and anyone that doesn't walk, talk, act, look like the far right/religious zealot base.
Talk about divide....explain the GOP dinner the day President Obama was elected planning to obstruct everything he did...or McConnell saying his highest priority was to make President Obama a one-term president, or Rush saying the day President Obama took office that he "hoped he would fail"......look at all of that say tell me again who hates and who divides...it is the GOP.
Ha Ha! Mr. Obama, supports the Muslim Brotherhood! lol
Good one! :)
Liberals and the DNC own hate and division!
TRUE attacks on women and support for those that do.....Mr. Obama :)
Yeah Dion, and Obamao wants to get into bed with the Russians behind the back of the American people. One of the first things Obama did was screw over Poland when he promised then pulled back from the missile defense shield that would have included them. (Read a history book and see how the Russians have treated the Poles) I have no doubt that the Russians believe they can use a weakling like Obama to increase their status in the world while weakening ours. They are counting on it.
Dragon, you are an idiot with no sensible argument. McConnell would naturally say that. He's a Republican and Obama is a Democrat. Do you not think that Democrats wouldn't try to make any Republican a one term President? That's not even mentioning Obama's lousy policies and tactics. Your post is pure idiocy.
Obama took us from depression? Now that's one of the all time best lemming lines out there. Do you have any idea what the Great Depression was really like? You might want to check out a book sometime because it's nothing like what we've gone through. Those were truly desparate times. Lemmings like you have fallen in love with that line and it's allowed Obama to spend us into oblivion.
what part of the reality that the economic mess this country is in is the direct result of failed republicon economic policies. At least be man enough to say
i screwed it up instead of blaming everyone else.
Hey pax, missed ya!!!
I see your still out here spinning liberal rants, worthy of rachael madcow herself???
Paxil,
There are no MEN left in the conservative camp...only whining losers like Limpbough spewing hate and discontent.
gary k- some one had got to spin the truth now gary. too many R's and tp's on this site sprewing forth inaccurate representations of historical facts.
Not that I would ever accuse you Gary. Take care and make it a good weekend
Why is Mr. Obama talking to colleges about the student loan interest rate when the bill was voted down?
If the War on Terror is over, as the administration has said, will we see the TSA agents disappear from airports?
Focus on Mr. Obama's failures and record as President.
He has the job now! He is the guy in charge.
We are not better off than we were 4 years ago.
Stop the blame and excuse game. Losing coaches are fired!
Nuf C Nuf !
We want a WINNER!
Romney's job creation while governor...second worst job creation in the entire country...now THAT is failure.
Not sure what that has to do with our current President, Mr. Obama's failures or if it is intended to. :)
Even the DNC says Mr. Obama is the best they have to offer. :)
All: Since Romney is probably the GOP presidential nonminee....it has alot to do with the topic...Romney touting he can create jobs, yet he failed to do so in Mass....get it?
All4, Don't you know what the voting age is? These college students vote, and yes, the GOP voted down the bill so the interest rates would increase for the students.
Who installed the TSA (Dept of Homeland Security), but kept yelling for smaller govt at the same time?
Obama's failures, yep he had a couple, as to his record:
His policies got bin Laden to feed the fish, as Bush canceled that program.
Saved thousands of jobs with the auto bailout. Might want to ask those workers what they think about it, and who they will be voting for.
We all want a winner, and right now we have one, without any help from the assistance Coaches (Congress).
Mitt is not a winner, he is a job destroyer, just like the "trickle down" didn't trickle down, it trickled up to the uber rich. The rest of us got a golden shower, so to speak.
And speaking for myself, I am better off than 4 yrs ago. The stock market has gone up in value, dividends have gone up, more tax free muni bonds out there pay a better rate of return than the banks and credit unions are.
And if you haven't taken advantage of it, I can understand you whinning about it.
ALL4-
I guess I can't get past the connection you seem to have that a wealthy elitist, flip-flopping, out of touch dullard will be any more of a WINNER!
It's the system dude - not the person. If you vote Repub you're likely to get something even worse - a guy who could care less about middle class, average Americans.
You said Romney. I never have and never do.
I say, our FOCUS should be aimed squarely at Mr. Obama, our president, for his failure to produce a winning strategy.
We can not take 4 more years of this. The target of our problems has to be the person responsible for lack of leadership. Mr. Barrack Obama, our current president, coach if you will.
He can not get it done. Whoever is elected, will never have been President before and will have the same opportunity Mr. Obama had to show his skills.
Then, we can disuss say Romney, if that's who it happens to be.
This is about a failed Presidency, that of Mr. Obama.
The nominee doesn't have a record as President yet, Mr. Obama does.
NO MORE years!
Nuf C Nuf !
I do question how women support Mr. Obama as he is a supporter of and has close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood.
They have a true War on Women and Mr. Obama seems to have not problem with that.
The most recent being their trying to pass a law in Egypt that a man can have sex with his wife up to 6 hours after she dies.
I would think any woman would find that repulsive and unacceptable along with other things condoned by the Muslim Brotherhood to keep women down, but Mr. Obama does not speak out against them.
To the contrary, he supports them openly and does not condem this type of activity.
We can not take 4 more years of this. We need a new coach to revive our economy and our nation!
Nuf C Nuf !
We have two choices Ron Paul or the status quo. You decide.
what is obama's message?..."i am a crappy president and i want you to vote for me?"....he is the worst president in our history and has done enough damage.....he is a liar, a distorter, and a divider.....ROMNEY IN NOVEMBER!
Your a moron!
Super, one thing is obvious from your posts. English class meant nothing to you.
I think you meant "You're a moron" and yes you are!
Please! Are you still here why? Still no answer from you as to why you are on this post?
The radical invents the views; conservatives adopt them
Mark Twain
Ah, Super Bonehead, as I said, I would stay on this site just to see what prophecies you are going to reveal next. I'm hanging on every word.
not Romney. Paul!!
Kim Jong Un is Fair!
Castro is Fair!
obama wants to be FAIR?????
OBAMA'S MIDDLE CLASS REDUCTION ACT OF 2012!
----------------The Poor--------------- Middle Class (Me)
------------------- Government Provides
Healthcare ------ Yes-----------------------No
Food-------------- Yes-----------------------No
Transportation-- Yes --------------------- No
Cell Phone ------ Yes---------------------- No
Marriage Penalty- No--------------------- Yes
Headstart ----------Yes ------------------- No
Unearned----------Yes-------------------- No
Tax Credit
Mental disability -Yes---------------------No
Payments
Housing-----------Yes-----------------------No
Rubbers-----------Yes----------------------NO
Jungle Gyms------Yes----------------------No
Colt 45-------------Yes----------------------No
Free College-------Yes---------------------No
I would be better off not working and being part of the Obamanation!
But, Obama wants to make the middle class the lower class.
What would be the best way to take down this country. The Japaneses said it after World War Two.They should have never waged a military war against the US., they should have waged an economic war against this country.
Force the economic collapse of the US and you win the war.
Today we are living with a never ending debt crises that is getting worse and worse as Obama borrows more and more money from foreign nations to keep his government operating.
We all know that the wealth of this country was in the hands of the middle class. A middle class whose wealth is getting eroded daily, by Obama's economic policy of borrow until you drop.
Credit card debt before Christmas was $13.2 trillion. Student loan debt is reaching $1 trillion and growing by leaps and bounds as Obama encourages young adults to get student loans to stay in school because his economy policies aren't producing any jobs for these young people.
Person loans, mortgages, medical debt etc. just keep amassing. No jobs that produce incomes to cover this debt are getting created.
We are losing the war of economical survival for this country. Do you still doubt me when I say that there are indicator that point to the fact that Obama is laying down the foundations for a military take over of our country.
Why else would he create a never ending debt crises that will more than likely destroy our economy.
Moron!
That's better. If you speak and write in one word sentences it will be easier for you.
Super Bon
What, call me names because you can't handle the realities of what Obama is doing.
If you used your brain half as much as your mouth, you would know that there are many indicators that show Obama is laying down the foundations for a military take over of our government.
Its not like he's hiding them at the back of a closet.
You are a paranoid freak! It is crazies like you that are taking this country down!
What, I suspect the problem is that Super Bon is operating on a brain stem alone. There is no argument from him/her. Just names & questioning why another is on this site. Somebody must have told Super Bon this is exclusively his/her site.
I agree that President Obama hasn't done all he promised but I believe he tried but was up against the Repub mantra - "Make sure this President Fails" sung by many leading Repubs and the likes of Lush Limbaugh.
Big John Boner is a failure at uniting his party to be supportive of ANYTHING Dems proposed. THAT'S FAILURE by Repubs. Granted some Dems were in that group as well.
Now why would any Repubs think Mitt (the Weathervane) Romoney will have any better luck? Mitt is wishy-washy to the nnnth degree. He's dull and plastic without much if any charisma and no understanding of the average American citizen.
I'll take my chances with Obama in 2012 over "he who should be congratulated for his wealth" Romoney.
Susqie - Rush said " I hope his (anti American) polices fail" Obama had total control of the gov his first two years. during this time, the Repubs could obstruct nothing! EXCUSES, BLAME AND LIES! WHAT AN OBAMANATION!
Thanks for whatever you said Nazi - your posts are blocked.
SUZQIE has blocked the truth!
Suzq
Your views show that you are just uninformed is all. It isn't the republicans who are preventing Obama's tax reform from getting passed, it was Obama.
He never even proposed his tax reform to Congress when the Democrats had control and he could have gotten it passed as easily as Obamacare.
He waited until he lost the House to the Republicans before he proposed his tax reform to Congress for the first time knowing he would never get it passed.
The simple truth is Obama doesn't even support his tax reform. Its just good campaign rhetoric.
Do you really think that he wants to pay more in taxes? His actions say other wise, don't they?
obama fails and america wins....obama is a liar, a distorter, and a divider.....we deserve a better president....ROMNEY IN NOVEMBER!
mcpaddywack
How does creating a never ending debt crises equate to a win for the American people? One of two things will happen.
1. All the debt accumulated by the never ending debt crises will have to be paid back.
2. The never ending debt crises will destroy our economy.
There aren't and aren't going to be enough private sector jobs to generate the revenues to repay the massive debt that is accumulating under Obama's never ending debt crises.
That means that the odds, that the never ending debt crises is going to destroy our economy, are high that it will happen.
You can't build an economy on debt. What's not to understand?
What Happened -
"President Obama hasn't done all he promised but I believe he tried but was up against the Repub mantra - "Make sure this President Fails" sung by many leading Repubs . . ." I didn't mention tax reform.
Suzq
Why are you refusing to face reality. Obama's tax reform is just one example of where Obama cries about the Republicans when, in fact, it was his actions or lack of action that kept his tax reform form getting passed.
No one held a gun to Obama and prevent him from proposing his tax reform to congress when he had democratic control of congress and could have gotten it passed as easily as Obamacare.
No one forced Obama to nix public options out of Obamacare after he met behind closed door with the Health insurance Companies. Public option that would have kept health care cost down and force lower prices for insurance premiums for most Americans.
As I said, you are just one of the many Obama supporters who are uninformed/misinformed. No reason to be ashame, you are not alone. Give him another four years to drive his never ending debt crises to over $25 trillion and see how well our economy fairs.
Go for it. This country is as much yours as it is mine, but don't be surprise that our will economy fail before his four years are up and there is a military take over of our government with him at the head of the new government when it happens.
Moron! Reality is repugnants got us in to this mess and now they are doing NOTHING!
We are still waiting for his muslim terriorist group to come get us!Just like you crazies said he would do his first year! How's that working out....... NOT! You people are paranoid nut jobs!
Super Bon
The best place to hide what you are doing is in plain sight. The indicators that Obama is laying down the foundations for a military take over of our government are in plain sight and a matter of public record.
No one his holding a gun to your head to either see them or believe them. I really don't care one way or the other.
But please, don't get on here and utter the words "what happened" after it happens.
If you believe that Muslim Americans are behind this, you are the moron.They have just as much to lose as everyone else.
What are you talking about paranoid freak! If you read my post i stated we were still waiting for this Muslim attack that the pres was suppose to make when he was elected that you crazies were saying was going to happen and nothing has happened. I am simply pointing out that all your crazy paranoid bs is just that crazy paranoid bs! All these plain as day things you talk about no doubt can be twisted to fit any scenario I'm sure! You need to go to the doctor and let him know you have these thoughts and let him know about the voices too. STOP trying to scare people it is just plain WRONG!
Super Bon, are you hearing voices? And I mean other than Obama's.
The first wave of the economic tsunami that swamped the economy led to the Election of “The One, Barrack Hussein Obama”. This was set into motion with the infamous President Carter and the Housing Resolution Act of 1977. This Act in the name of social justice forced Banks and Mortgage Companies to give home loans without regard to the applicant’s employment status, income, sanity or credit history. The ability to repay a loan should never be a factor for the financially impotent who in turn support the Democrats. President Bill Clinton put this sub-prime loan scheme on steroids. The recession of 2008 was largely due to the prior scheme of the Democrats. “A Government sponsored home loan for everyone is a vote for me”. As all ideas from the Democrats, this venture was doomed to “crash and burn”. Bubba vetoed drilling in An war, made our best coal reserves in the west a national park and gave N Korea two nuclear power plants. Clinton had 3 opportunities to capture Osama, but was occupied with a Lewinsky. Yemen had Osama in their possession and asked Bubba to take him, which he refused. This act of negligence sealed the fate of those killed on 9/11.
“Bubba” (Bill Clinton) was the best president the Chinese ever bought.
Why an energy problem? GOT DEMORATS!
Bubba vetoed drilling in ANWR and made our best coal reserves into a national park. Bubba was always about a good time, avoiding conflict and chasing power, wealth and women. Ditto Hillary. Unlike Barack, Bubba did not hate America. Inaction by bubba resulted in 9/11 and our current energy criisis which is made worse by Barack Insane Obama. Backup data for the lying enablers of the Obamantion. www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089237/posts
Buddhist Monks in America, sworn to poverty and chastity, could each come up with $50,000 in cash for Clinton’s campaign chest. Clinton however cordial with these Chinese Buddhist Monks had no concept of chastity. Cash from the Chinese Buddhist Monks sure beats Moses “Manna from Heaven”. The Chinese ballistic missile program went from the Stone Age to the Space Age with “Bubba’s” gift of top secret missile technology. May this missile technology never return to America carrying nuclear warheads?
Many Democrats professed that Bill Clinton was a Great President. This supports my assertion that the less done by the Federal Government, or President, the better. Bill Clintons view’s on our enemies was “Terrorist, what Terrorist” as he moaned “O Monica”. I thought underneath the desk of the President was a hiding place just for children. At least I think it was when JFK was in office. Monica should be given a medal for distracting “Bubba”, keeping him from the peoples work. Otherwise, it is impossible to ascertain what other damage he might have done to the country. The medal “courageous lack of any restraint” was given daily to Mr. Clinton while he was President. The scientific advancement in medicine (Viagra) has kept him a player until this day.
then why if the failure is the result of the cra do we have a 50% failure rate on commercial loans that had no association with the CRA.
Are you a total idiot or just a robotic arm of the RepubliCON party - I've read your rants before and they tend to be totally divorced from reality.
Nice DEFLECTION, you still blaming Clinton and Carter, but cry like a little baby when someone blames Bush. And you're jealous Clinton got a head job and you didn't?
And all insurance companies cover Viagra, but not all insurance companies cover Birth Control pills. Then you complain about abortions also, right? LMPO
Bush took the cards he was dealt and played them. Obama is a failure and must blame others. I know he never had a good father figure as a child. Obama needs to grow a pair and grow up!
Nazarite,
Bush had a pretty sweet hand to play.
Although he dealt with a recession, which by the standards you "conservatives" use on Obama was Bush's fault, he was given a nearly balanced budget with plenty of capital to avert any economic problem.
Obama needs to grow balls? Like when he decided to go with the much riskier operation when killing Bin Ladin? Or when he used the seals teams to save prisoners and the boat captain off the coast of Somalia?
Crazy alert! The crazies are out! Go back to faux news!
NISSAN advertises the leaf on MSNBC as a kickback since Oduma gave them One Billion Dollars. Crony capitalism at its finest!
Nazarite,
Way to provide more "value" to this discussion....another load of crap from Nazarite. At least you didn't copy and paste this one.
viper is ignored! YEAH!
“Let’s be clear: John Boehner is the most useless, feckless, weak and failed Speaker of the House perhaps in American history.” Wow. Here’s NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell’s report on NBC Nightly News
Suzq-1497446 He had both house of congress for two years! The biggest reason he got slapped in 2010 was because of his sneaky ways with Obamacare, after saying everything would be out in the open. Explain why not even one person in his own party would back him on his 2013 budget? He lost 414-0.
The GOP had control over all three branches of govt, complete control from 2001 to 2007. Why didn't they seal the borders against illegals?
Why didn't they fix the housing market?
Why did they repeal the Glass/Segal law?
Why did Bush have to bail out the banks with TARP 1?
Why didn't Bush get bin Laden in all those years?
Why did everything go to hell under the GOP's control of the govt?
Where are those "trickle down" jobs?
What happen with the "family values" BS, Foley, Craign, Ensign, Vitter, etc come to mind on that manure.
So in two years he was suppose to fix all the screwup's the GOP made? Off the book funding for two wars, VP Cheney said: "Reagan proved the deficit doesn't matter."
If the deficit didn't matter then, why does it matter now? And yes, the budget that the GOP proposed last year, it had no $ signs, no numbers, etc. And all the tea baggers were happy with that. Wow, need more be said.
Sally...you pretty much covered it.
Thanks SallyAnn - I couldn't have explained it better myself!
Why don't you tell the whole truth numbnut! 80% fillibuster! Oh did we leave that part out; oh yes you did numbnut!!!!!!!
Sally, do you really think Obama got Bin Laden? Obama didn't get anything. It was the military & the CIA that got him. It just took longer than anybody expected to find the clown. Obama gets no credit for finding him. He gets credit for allowing the mission to go ahead. That's it.
John Beohner never had any trouble with a Republican hopping back and forth to Texas. What a rube. There are lots of respectable excuses for being a Republican, but the representation has all the class of a grease pit. Boehner's just mad he has to take a charter jet back to his slowly failing cesspool of a district. It's hard to walk across the tarmac with all those unwanted children crawling around on the tarmac with the bloated, starving little white faces confirming how full and happy they are competing with geese for grubs and worms. You know, poor Indiana. The place on the other side of Johnny's fence. The place he's running, ahem came from.
Nevermind the fact he's never seen a government job he couldn't kill. He must know that the president DOES have to reimburse for travel, and that it's actually higher for him than it was for Bush because of reforms enacted by a DEMOCRATIC congress.
Now, unless he is just incredibly uninformed, which would speak to his constituency, or he's a creep. A politican's politician. Liar. Steals money that feeds small unaborted, uncared for baby waves, swaying on bare ground back home in Indiana.
A president to spend time at home is normal and much less expensive! How childish~
nazarite, problem is, when he went home, you tea baggers still complained. How childish is that? Look in the mirror, your tears are streaking your makeup.
Obama went to Kenya? Why didn't they keep him? I really don't care how many vacations the Obama's take or what rules he breaks.
Nazarite- many of your posts are borderline offensive and generally have zero content. Go away
Click "ignore" on guys like Nazi - they offer nothing in the way of info or meaningful dialog!
Suzqie - Typical Demorat, lie and cheat. You mentioned earlier blocking me and your still whining. Go away, far away.
“Let’s be clear: John Boehner is the most useless, feckless, weak and failed Speaker of the House perhaps in American history.” That honor goes to the kool aid drinker "Queen" Nancy Pelosi! But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. . . . Kind of like signing a contract without looking at it to see what in it.
how do you define a leader- can boehner even count votes. How many legislative victories does he have. The man, and the party, are a unmitigated diaster.
SallyAnn-4595694 Why can't Obama get one democrat to vote for his 2013 budget?
You right wing numbnuts on here let me set you straight! I am tired of reading your uneducated posts that Obama is not winning or that a majority of Americans don't like him that is blatant BS! You all know it! He is ahead of Romney in just about every pole! Romney will NEVER; mark my words NEVER get the women vote or the Hispanic vote or even a majority of the Independent vote. I am a Independent and would not vote for him ever! I dare you all to defend the biggest flip flopper there ever was! How can you honestly believe what he says....you cant! So you are so driven by hate for the president you are blinded by rage and it is going to cost you big time. It's to bad you are going to have to learn the hard way!
obama is the worst...
Amen!
NEVER say NEVER Super Bom,
Reagan's landslide challenged the pulse-taker profession
For weeks before the presidential election, the gurus of public opinion polling were nearly unanimous in their findings. In survey after survey, they agreed that the coming choice between President Jimmy Carter and Challenger Ronald Reagan was "too close to call." A few points at most, they said, separated the two major contenders.
But when the votes were counted, the former California Governor had defeated Carter by a margin of 51% to 41% in the popular vote—a rout for a U.S. presidential race.
There are too many Reagan/Carter, Romney/Obama parallels to count.
NOBAMA2012, One & GONE, just like Carter.
I don't know SSmith, Super Bon has been closely watching the "poles" and I'm thinking he may have been struck in the head with one of them.
NOT! When it happens you will not be found because finally you will have crawled back under that rock!
Bonehead IS the most worthless, feckle, lame, useless speaker of the house in HISTORY! Pelosi never went on national t.v. and lambasted Bushie like that. What the hell is wrong with this GOP/TP? Everything possitive this President has done, Bonehead and crew turn it around. Everything they do wrong, of course, is the Presidents fault. WOW! Talk about the worst congress in history? Just look back over the last two years!
The GOP/TP these last couple of years have been the worst in history! They all need to be fired for their treason! The party of NO, HELL NO, must GO!
SAVE OUR COUNTRY---VOTE BLUE!!!!
The Country VOTED BLUE in 2006.... Look what happened:
The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. (Harry Reed & Nancy Pelosi) At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.7.
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH
Remember the day...January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress
So when someone tries to blame Bush..
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 &2011.
SAVE OUR COUNTRY -- VOTE RED!!!!
DfromSpence
You talk of treason. Is it because you are uninformed or just refuse to face the reality that Obama is laying down the foundation for a military take over of our government?
Indicators like Obama creating a never ending debt crises that will destroy our economy.
Or maybe the one where Obama uses Executive Orders to manipulate around the Constitutions checks and balances
or maybe its the one where Obama signed into law a Bill that makes peaceful protest a federal felony.
Or the one when in March Obama issued an Executive Order that gives him the authority to declare Marshall Law at his discretion.
Or maybe its the Bill Obama signed in law on December 31, 2011 that gives authority to the military to detain indefinitely for any reason any American citizen on American soil without having to provide that citizen with their Constitutional protects.
Do you think that Obama's openly speaking about creating a civilian military police authority that answers only to him is just campaign rhetoric.
I guess when Obama said that he believes that the Constitution has out lived it usefulness, it was just a slip of his thoughts.
I guess the reports about how internment camps are being built in the South aren't being build to hold the peaceful protesters who have become felons for protesting. Na, that would never happen in this country or has it? Who could ever imagine that American citizens would be put into internment camps against their will.
My mistake, just keep talking about the Republicans being traitors.
what is obama's message? "i will bribe you to vote for me?">......he sure cannnot run on his pathetic record.....obama is a liar, a distorter, and a divider....ROMNEY IN NOVEMBER!
I think you need to stop whacking your paddy
I think you need to stop insulting people when they don't agree with you Super.
Not romney Ron Paul 2012!
mcpaddy - Obama treats US like a whore!
Come November;
America or
obama's amerikka and soros's "one world government"
remember the infamous words of rev. wright 'God Damn America"!!!
Vote comrades soros, van jones and obama OUT!!!!
This Narcissist-in-Chief makes me Puke!
Pelosi will go down as the most inept, incompetent and useless speaker.