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“President Barack Obama will sign a measure Monday aimed at helping veterans before heading to Connecticut to campaign for his re-election,” AP writes.
“President Barack Obama, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s affirmation of his health care overhaul, is now embracing the law while campaigning for re-election, just as Republican rival Mitt Romney steps back from it,” the AP says. “Obama sees a second chance to sell voters on the issue despite deep skepticism about it from many people. Romney is avoiding answering hard questions about how he would tackle health care, and thus missing the chance to energize voters who oppose the law.”
Bloomberg: “With the economy growing at a 1.5 percent annual pace, the odds of a recession have risen to 60 percent….”
Can disdain be genuine? Obama apparently doesn’t really like the guy he’s running against.
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Oh no!!! NBC has used the headline "Obama: Birthday Boy". The libs are going to have a field day with this one LOL.
You're darned right I will. How stupid can NBC be to call the first black president a "boy." No president should be called a "boy" and especially not this one. It is not hypersensitivity or left wing liberal madness to remember the past and not want to relive it.
It wasn't too long ago that hard working black man was called "boy" by any snot-nosed white kid. It was so commonplace that in an old song"Chattanooga Choo-Choo" -- the opening lines were "Pardon me, boy..." addressed to a man who shined shoes for his living, and those words were not changed in performances until the 1970s.
I am a white man in my early sixties, and I personally would not mind being called a birthday boy on any of my few remaining birthdays, even by a stranger. I do not pretend to know how it feels to be a black man, but I think that if I were, to hear another black man called a "boy" in any context would conjure up an ugly history and I would not like it one bit.
Yes...very important lib talking point...talk about needing a life!
RealityCheck -- My bet is that this "talking point" will disappear by the end of the day, notwithstanding my contribution to it.
Compare that to the months and months of intense debate over President Obama's origins--- was it Kenya, Indonesia, a cabbage patch... the wingnuts couldn't absorb the fact, even when documented, that the President was born in Hawaii which, while seemingly foreign and exotic, is American soil.
Shall we continue to talk about needing a life?
I'm sure Mitt wants to stay pretty far away from the healthcare law - it mirror's the one he says he championed in Mass, the voters there are quite proplexed with his stance, said when he was governor there it was as if the program had to be the best thing since sliced bread, but now, it is not good enough for the rest of us? No fear Mitt - you are not goint to carry the home state you currently claim (not the one with the elevator for the car).
I agree with President Obama - I don't really like Mitt either, and judging from my recent vacation in the Boston and New England area - neither do the citizens of Mass or other New England states, including Penn.
Mark and Domenico,
Can you take the word boy out of the headline. As a minority it is offensive to call an African American by the term "Boy"! I hope you respect this request!
Romney is avoiding answering hard questions about how he would tackle health care, and thus missing the chance to energize voters who oppose the law.”
What's new?
Romney has been doing everything possible to avoid answering ANY and ALL hard questions since day 1.
He knows that he isn't popular and doesn't have a clue as to how help the average American. His only way to try to stay competitive in this race is to refrain from making any statements. But he isn't always successful in that as we have seen time and time again.
Be there no mistake about it. If Romney were elected we would see sharp drop offs in our tax deductions, an end as we know it to Social Security benefits, medicare and medicaid. In essence, Romney will provide the U.S.A. with a reverse Robin Hood script: take form the poor/middle class and give to the rich.
Happy Birthday Mr. President. Hope this one will be great - and your next 4 in office even better!
Obama/Biden 2012
Shortly after Barak Obama announced his candidacy back in 2006 or 2007 a friend and I were discussing the merits of this particular candidate. It was my feeling at that time, without benefit of research, that perhaps this man wasn't quite ready for the job. I cited lack of experience and the fact that he hadn't had sufficient time to develop useful and meaningful relationships in congress. My thoughts were that with a few more years in congress he would grow and mature politically and be better qualified and positioned for 2012. Boy, was I ever niave. Little do qualifications matter when the big prize is on the line. The Dems rounded up every left-leaning, socialist oriented, me first congressional rep, senator, organization and news outlet to annoint this guy as the savior of America.
Well, we see how that's working out. Not only is Obama unqualified on just about every level to serve as our president but more importantly, he's unworthy. During times of crisis a president's highest calling is to unify us, to lead us. Barak Obama has done everything in his power to divide this country against itself in order to further the agenda of the extreme left. Rich people are not the enemy. This president is. Pandering for votes, he's stated over and over again that he's the president of the middle class. What about the rest of us? What about the poorest among us? I guess that the wealthy don't deserve a president. He has decided out of hand what freedoms we can exercise and those that are irrelevant. No, this guy is not fit to be president of the USA.
My God, Hillary Clinton has been the most effective Secretary of State in my lifetime. President Obama kept on Bob Gates, General Petraus, and John Brennan all proven, effective leaders in their fields, actually holdovers from the Bush years. He brought back Leon Panetta, who has also been great. I don't see how you can fault him for "inexperience" when he has been astute enough to retain the best advisors, and whatever domestic troubles he has had have been caused by dealing with an obstructive Republican House.
(That and the fact the Republicans left him with a collapsing economy.)
richardo: I respect your well written, articulate critique of President Obama. I disagree with your conclusion, but I sincerely appreciate a well thought out, consistent, piece. It is a nice departure even from the diatribes stated by your party's standard bearer.
The issue has never been a person being qualified for the President of the USA. There is no training for the job. It is a unique position which only 44 people in the history of the country have ever been able to do. The real issue amounts to the political division in the country. When the Senate Minority leader states at the height of the financial, fiscal, and economic crisis that the number one priority needs to be the defeat of the President of the United States, that defines the politics of the nation. When every single member of the GOP has sworn a blood oath to never raise taxes as their primary purpose, regardless of what it does to the nation, that defines the politics.
Those are the sources of the division in the nation. Creating millions of jobs, turning the economy around from negative 8%- decline to positive growth, ending combat operations in Iraq, and getting Osama Bin Laden despite that opposition seems to me to be pretty good. Imagine what could happen if the Republican Party decided they actually wanted to govern instead of destroy the country.
dirp,
Your assumption that I have some sort of affiliation with the Republican party is just that ; an assumption, and incorrect to boot. I am proudly independant in my politics. The aforementioned friend refers to me as one of those "GDIs"; that would be "***damned independant". In plain speak that means that I watch NBC, CNN and Fox equally and try to find the truth somewhere in the middle.
As I stated, a true leader will find a way through the morass with personality, compromise, politics and yes even a little luck and prayer. It seems to me that this president, while heavy on personality is woefully light on compromise and his politics tends to be of the bully variety. Oh yes, he's willing to compromise if the other party is willing to do things his way but that isn't compromise, it's bullying.
Our country is divided in a way that it hasen't been since the Civil War over a number of social issues. A true leader would seek to heal that split rather than keep picking at the scab and making us bleed. Thanks for the nice comment.
Happy B-day, Mr. President, SIR!