Obama: Just the facts, ma’am

The Boston Globe: “Barack Obama campaign rebuts $25 million attack ad but avoids facts.”

The Youngstown Vindy isn’t pleased that neither Obama nor Biden have sat down with their paper’s ed board, despite Biden being in town once again. “Biden snubs are getting old,” the paper writes.

NPR profiles France’s new first lady, journalist Valerie Trierweiler. She and Michelle Obama are expected to meet at Camp David.

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Bwahaha president is doing what he does best "avoiding the facts"!

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Reply#1 - Fri May 18, 2012 9:21 AM EDT

More misinformation from Obama:

In the last year, the civilian population rose by 3,638,000. Yet the labor force only rose by 945,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 2,693,000.

In the last month, actual employment fell by 169,000, but the unemployment rate dropped by .1%.

That is an amazing "achievement" to say the least.

How did Obama do this magic trick of moving unemployment from a high of 10 percent to 8.1 percent without adding, you know, jobs?

Well according to economists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley say that those on Social Security Disability (SSDI) checks have risen by about 2.2 million.

People who qualify for SSDI are automatically excluded from the workforce, meaning that you can actually have an economy losing jobs while technically the unemployment rate will go down as more people received disability benefits and are subtracted from the workforce.

Social Security Disability is a picture perfect program scam for the Obama administration. It allows Obama to say that unemployment is going down, while adding to the rolls of people who are dependent on some sort of Democrat-Party enabled government assistance.

Prior to these revelations, I had thought that the country’s workforce was shrinking because persistent joblessness was causing people to stop looking for work. In other words, I thought it was just another example of Obama’s economic incompetence.

I’m not ruling out incompetence completely, but when the administration has a vested interest in allowing fraud to happen by turning a blind eye, they act like caravan stuck in a sand storm, especially if it adds more potential voters to the dole.

And what’s worse, the damage done to the economy by this type of fraud - and to the legitimately disabled who need the benefits- will take generation to fix.

Because, while joblessness can be reversed with some sensible economic policies, adding to the disability rolls creates permanent damage to the economy from which the country will not recover in generations.

Based on current trends, 7 percent of the nonelderly adult population could be receiving disability benefits by 2018, Richard Burkhauser and Mary Daly wrote in the spring issue of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. That’s two years after the SSDI program will run through its trust fund, according to an April report by the Social Security trustees.

So the Obama administration is using a program that is already insolvent for a kind of off-the-books loan.

I’d hate to see what another four years could bring.

cited: Heritage Foundation 2012

I think as the campaign goes on, we will all see more little tidbits like this! It's amazing what 'proper' vetting can do to raise our "hope to change" the administration!

  • 18 votes
Reply#2 - Fri May 18, 2012 9:36 AM EDT

What's really amazing SteveH is you'd be silly enough to copy and paste a tea people Koch republican conservative rag like the heritage Foundation. It's been proven over and over they make things up and out right lie. Their joined at the hip with Fox (tea people Koch republican propaganda machine).

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#2.1 - Fri May 18, 2012 10:57 AM EDT

We will be seeing a lot more interesting facts on Obama that weren't disclosed in 2008!

Here's another Obama lie: 'I will ban earmarks' (2008 campaign promise)

Well he has not banned anything except oil pipelines, lol. Boehner reported yesterday that Republicans are putting a bill together to do just that!

2012 will bring a change in administration and I think a Republican majority in the Senate!

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#2.2 - Fri May 18, 2012 10:58 AM EDT

No GOP/TP in WH until at least 2024. Hillary will get her 8 after President Obama finishes his 8. The intelligentsia will be in big enough numbers to save us until then. While 98% of America is too dumb to vote, luckily they DON'T vote. The 4 million people left will be enough to keep us "progressing" in the right direction as a country.

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#2.3 - Fri May 18, 2012 12:43 PM EDT

Mo if you are going to someone a liar you should have some facts to back up your accusations.

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#2.4 - Fri May 18, 2012 1:04 PM EDT

Some of the more vocal libbies are absent from this topic, hiding perhaps?

They are the sort of people that revel in attacking and mocking any opposition to Obama, yet are curiously silent when asked to defend Obama's onerous record! They are truly the real cowards and bully's here!

  • 5 votes
#2.5 - Fri May 18, 2012 2:14 PM EDT

I see first hand the people who you think are being "dumped" into the SS disab program. It's not happening. A majority who make application are denied. If there was "widespread" fraud going on, Breitbart's ghost would have found it - this is not something that can be hidden. The fact is when you are confronted with hobbling and limping to work for the part time job at Target, which after a month off becomes Marshalls, which after 6 months off, becomes TJ Maxx - you get tired of going to the unemployment office and being looked down upon. It's much easier to go once or twice to the Social Security office. The vast majority of these people that you so blithely dismiss are in reality quite contrite about their situation. They don't welcome it and they don't wish it on anyone else.

    #2.6 - Fri May 18, 2012 4:09 PM EDT
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    More smoke n mirrors from this failing magician, he will be crying on the podium soon, pleading "Please give me a little mo time, for another trick, never mind my promises while campaigning" and my now failures. He is in the process of signing away our country. The SC will make the right decision in June despite the threats from Obamageddon and his supporting new buddy Bill Clinton. I like how they still send the VP to address groups, he reminds me of Tommy Boy. Obama & his buddies (Eric Holder) feel as if they are above the law, they will all come crumbling down like a house of cards.

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    Reply#3 - Fri May 18, 2012 10:29 AM EDT

    WOW you tea people Koch republicans sure are getting desperate.

    • 4 votes
    Reply#4 - Fri May 18, 2012 10:59 AM EDT

    Wow ! You libtard Soros democrats are even more desperate !!

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    #4.1 - Fri May 18, 2012 11:13 AM EDT

    I agree Mo. They the extremist on the right are a pretty sad bunch.

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    #4.2 - Fri May 18, 2012 11:46 AM EDT

    The funny thing is, more of people on the right you see posting here are more centered. Whereas most of the people on the left that post here are just liberal extremists.

    But we all know how the left thinks, 'if you disagree with me, youre a rightwing extremist'

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    #4.3 - Fri May 18, 2012 12:47 PM EDT
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    Steve H

    Interesting premise. You claim that the Obama Administration is engaged in a massive conspiracy to suspend standard requirements for defining disability and subsequent eligibility for Social Security disability payments.

    Think of the extent of the conspiracy this objective requires. To get the message from the Oval office to the clerk in the local office requires a communication chain involving many thousands of government employees. Some of those employees are certainly republicans who you would expect to have qualms about advancing a vast conspiracy to improve President Obama's re-election prospects.

    There must be some evidence of this nefarious conspiracy given there are so many civil service employees involved. You should file a records request to require the Federal Government to turn over the instructions to the Social Security Administration to inflate the number of disability recipients.

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    Reply#5 - Fri May 18, 2012 11:59 AM EDT

    LoyalTexan, Obama has never been a transparent as he seems! He's all over the board with his campaign. His atttack of Romney's wife, his fake 'war on women', his objections to the 'racial' use of his relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his attack on Romney's high school prank! When will Obama discuss the economy, the debt/deficit, job creation....? Aren't these the important subjects right now! Romney has been very disciplined and has stayed on point, why can't Obama do the same?

    As to Jeremiah Wright... I really think the press should delve into Obama's relationship with radicals. Including others like William Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, George Soros, and lets not forget the bigest radical.... his wife!

    • 7 votes
    #5.1 - Fri May 18, 2012 12:56 PM EDT

    "All this for a damn flag ?"

    I wonder if liberals will deny that Michelle Obama is on tape with this statement.

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    #5.2 - Fri May 18, 2012 1:08 PM EDT

    Well for crying our loud George, what is he supposed to do? Run on his record? BTW the posters here will NEVER admit the president is in bed with the likes of Ayers, Soros & Dohrn.

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    #5.3 - Fri May 18, 2012 1:09 PM EDT

    "All this for a damn flag ?"

    Jim, she actually said this to Barry while at a flag presentation last Forth of July! Classy First Lady, eh?

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    #5.4 - Fri May 18, 2012 2:48 PM EDT

    George

    Perhaps you have friends over at FOX news and opinion that you can feed this tip. They are the part of the media most likely to follow up on these shadowy folks

      #5.5 - Fri May 18, 2012 3:26 PM EDT

      Yawn. Soros! Ayers! Birth cert! Kenya!

        #5.6 - Fri May 18, 2012 3:48 PM EDT

        Sallly (who only wishes she rocks - in any way) - Michelle Obama did NOT say that at a flag presentation on any 4th of July. Your stupidity is only overshadowed by your eagerness to show it. This has been debunked by SNOPES over and over but you like posting lies. It's all you have!

        Again as you stupid people prove - there is NO sanity to be found in the GOP - but plenty of liars!

        Obama/Biden 2012

          #5.7 - Sat May 19, 2012 2:18 PM EDT
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          Joe Biden is the only person in the White House who was against authorizing the raid that got bin Lauden.

          Except for making Obama look like a genius, what purpose does Biden serve?

          Biden makes Bozo Clown look Presidential.

          • 1 vote
          Reply#6 - Fri May 18, 2012 1:42 PM EDT

          Wrong. Biden was not opposed. He suggested one more day to further assure bin laden's presence before taking the risk. The Pres was (thankfully) more decisive.

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          #6.1 - Fri May 18, 2012 2:39 PM EDT

          V.I. Ulyanov - Biden was not opposed. Plus, most advisors were told there was only a 60% probability bin Laden was there so they were not for it. Our President listened to everyone then made the decision. It is Biden's job to present facts and suggestions - which he did.

          And dear, Bozo left office when President Obama came in. You should really try to keep up!

            #6.2 - Sat May 19, 2012 2:20 PM EDT
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