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Subscribe to RSSCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A top Democrat defended President Barack Obama's self-assessed "incomplete" grade after a term in office, arguing that the president was simply "being humble."
"I give him an ‘A’ for effort. I give him an ‘A’ for making sure that Americans are better off today than they were four years ago,” Antonio Villaraigosa, the chairman of the Democratic National Convention and mayor of Los Angeles, told reporters this morning.
If the Republican National Convention was all about presenting presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's softer side, the Democratic National Convention hopes to shore up key parts of President Barack Obama's voting coalition. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
Monday, President Obama was asked by a television reporter in Colorado how he would grade his performance on the economy.
"You know, I would say ‘incomplete,'" said Obama.
"What I would say," Obama reportedly added, "is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable, and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term."
Rep. Xavier Becerra talks about the role of Latino voters as well as the enthusiasm gap heading into the DNC.
"I think he’s being humble when he says that," Villaraigosa said of Obama during a brief visit to the convention floor here in Charlotte.
Villaraigosa did not answer a question from NBC News about John Burton, the chairman of the California Democratic Party who yesterday compared GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
Today, The Sacramento Bee reports that Burton went home to California for a root canal.
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Incomplete is correct just like he voted "present" so many times while senator. This guy has no idea how to govern. One term and he will hear in November " You're Fired"
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
By Matt Taibbi, August 29, 2012 7:00 AM ET
Mitt Romney, it turns out, is the perfect frontman for Wall Street's greed revolution. He's not a two-bit, shifty-eyed huckster like Lloyd Blankfein. He's not a sighing, eye-rolling, arrogant jerkwad like Jamie Dimon. But Mitt believes the same things those guys believe: He's been right with them on the front lines of the financialization revolution, a decades-long campaign in which the old, simple, let's-make-stuff-and-sell-it manufacturing economy was replaced with a new, highly complex, let's-take-stuff-and-trash-it financial economy. Instead of cars and airplanes, we built swaps, CDOs and other toxic financial products. Instead of building new companies from the ground up, we took out massive bank loans and used them to acquire existing firms, liquidating every asset in sight and leaving the target companies holding the note.
http://Bruce-1628250.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/04/13660654-greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital
AWOL - Absent Without Leave
Republicans have been "Absent Without Leave" (AWOL); Congress allocates $8.5 billion dollars in operating costs including salaries and benefits every year. When take for the past four years, it comes to $34 Billion, in expenses. Even allowing the few days a month Congress is in Washington D.C., Republicans are wasting time, throwing spit balls, staring at the ceiling, or discovering where their arms can reach. The absence of any real participation in the affairs of our great nation, Congress has further decided that it will take one week ever third week to do as they please.
The citizens of the United States of American are hard put to determine the value of this Congress. It is already beyond all tolerance, confabulation of excuses, on its face, it cannot, be dismissed as politics as usual, and there a payback a debt and it is past due. We all know the cause, the major players, their methods, the substance, the length and the duration of these efforts and we can see the direction that Republicans are going.
For all the sad times when Americans have been fooled, frightened by excesses, and have turn to darken thoughts, and with all at the great cost of lack of growth and misallocation of resources. There are only a few individuals more to blame than is Congress. While Congress has been absent from the job, whom has been held financially at risk for the inaction attributed to Congress for all the past four years? Jobs, production, revenue, the consumer, and the vital production capability have fallen into disrepair and to ruin.
It is certainty of economics to recognize that long term historical replacement of one fortieth per year is needed to sustain, maintain and replace worn out production capacity. One fortieth is 2.5% per year, the course of four years has cost the country 10% of the nation's wealth sustaining capital. Congressional charge of $34 billion is a total waste, but nothing compared to the Trillions lost have come from the backs of whatever portion of the workforce is employed, at what tax rate is possible or from the savings that are soon to run out.
We have come to understand, that these were part of series of plans initiated on the occasion of the inauguration to block, ignore, filibuster, thwart, obfuscate every possible action, appointment, initiative by the President.
These men are guilty of the worst act of Treason since the Assassination of Lincoln, and worthy of those conspirators demise.
It is simple to see outrage, but forgiveness will be invisible. If these men stand on the winning side of the next Presidential election, then who else will stand with the President, with the Senate, with the House and the Supreme Court perhaps, but not one living soul otherwise. Is the price too high for politics, when it costs an entire nation?
What about the Senate dems sitting on those bills the House has passed? Last I checked the number of bills sitting on the Senate floor was about 20?
Is the Senate too chicken $#!+ to vote on them? Whats wrong? Are they worried about suffering political capital in an election year?
Also treason is a grandiose claim. Your accusations are bit melodramatic. Did they try to derail is presidency? Yes, but it was his ideas and policies that they were fighting, not him as a person. They did because because they do not believe in his vision of America which in my estimation happens on both sides of the political spectrum.
Just because you are POTUS does not mean that everyone has to toe the line on your ideas.
Political discourse can be avenue of compromise. Unfortunately the POTUS world view is uniquely foreign to the GOP.
get a grip, this guy's a player. remember, he doesn't even remember bill ayers, oh, i mean he used to live in the same area, i mean we served on some committee's together. it's simple, obummer failed, needs removed, no amount of liberal hypocrisy will change the simple fact that obummer made us more polarized, less able to compromise, churned the kettle of class war. come on, you did bow to the saudi, we have pictures. i mean, this guy smokes a pack a day, but does the liberal press ever, I mean ever, take a picture of that? why can't we see his college transcripts if he wants us to see mitt's last 10 years of taxes, how come we can't even see his birth certificate? what was all that about? you didn't build that shows exactly how the great redistributor thinks, why, he's never held a job without the public teat being in the picture. and thats all i have to say about that.
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
By Matt Taibbi, August 29, 2012 7:00 AM ET
Mitt Romney – a man whose own father built cars and nurtured communities, and was one of the old-school industrial anachronisms pushed aside by the new generation's wealth grab – has emerged now to sell this make-nothing, take-everything, screw-everyone ethos to the world. He's Gordon Gekko, but a new and improved version, with better PR – and a bigger goal. A takeover artist all his life, Romney is now trying to take over America itself. And if his own history is any guide, we'll all end up paying for the acquisition.
http://Bruce-1628250.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/04/13660654-greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital
President Obama famously said in 2009 he would be held accountable if he didn't fix the economy in his first term. "If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition," he said on the "Today" show just two weeks after being sworn into office
We already know he doesn't keep promises. Hope for Change now, to a new president. R/R 2012
You people who have such a high opinion of Bain Capital and Romney at Bain are actually very ignorant. You have been fed a load of crap and swallowed it. Even Newt Gingrinch has exposed the TRUTH about Romney and Bain.
So, you don't want to read the Matt Taibbi article, because it would take too much effort I suppose. How about you watch a Newt Gingrich produced video. No effort at all. You just click on a couple links, sit back with your popcorn and beer and watch and learn. Can you do that? Or do you prefer to remain ignorant?
If you have the courage to do this, then watch the video described and available at this link
http://Bruce-1628250.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/02/13615732-when-mitt-came-to-town
This could be the most valuable thing you do before deciding how to cast your vote for the President of The United States of America in 2012.
This could be the most important election you will ever cast a vote in, during your entire lifetime.
It's your choice. Vote informed or Vote ignorant. It's up to you.
Does anyone really take the Mayor of L.A.'s comments as gospel? He's excelled at destroying L.A. even more than I thought possible.
Humble...Read the Monday front page story in the NYT...Humble appeared exactly the same number of times as the votes his budgets have gotten the last two years....ZERO. I about choked on my own spit President Obama and Humble in the same sentence, ridiculous. Man that Mayor is a Hoot.
What else could he have said? He could have said "I failed". That would have been the truth. But he is too arrogant to admit failure. By saying "incomplete" he didn't actually have to tell the truth (that he failed) but can then claim he is being "truthful". Now that open the door for the kool -aid drinking followers to gush out how "humble" and "honest" he really is... He has FAILED you people! Wake up! He has duped you followers with just ONE word! INCOMPLETE ! And you continue to follow him !?!!???
He did learn something in law school... that you can argue what is the truth even when it isn't. Clever lawyer - shrewd politician, but no content in his character. - Like the liar, slime former president Clinton did... it depends on what the meaning of is... is. So easy to fool a liberal yet so dangerous.
Obama humble???????????????? He is arguably the most shocking narcissist in the history of the American presidency.
...i wonder whether mr. obama would be quite so 'humble' were conditions otherwise! and, by the way, does anyone remember uriah heep from dicken's 'david copperfield'? he was 'umble and he was a crook! i wouldn't push the 'humble' bit too far!
If Obama were to be "humble" he would have said "I Failed". By saying "incomplete" he knew that would que up all the kool-aid drinkers to chime in...
He will be known as the "Great Manipulator" even to his end...
Prepare for the landslide - Obama is One-and-Done
incomplete is generous - this president is a non believer and bad for the USA