LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- With a touch of humor and at one point admonition, President Obama urged supporters at a Los Angeles fundraiser here not to lose enthusiasm for his campaign just because he had one lousy debate performance.
The president kicked off his remarks with an allusion to last Wednesday night that the whole crowd seemed to pick up on. Praising his opening acts at the Nokia Theater here, which included Stevie Wonder, Jon Bon Jovi and Katy Perry, Obama said, “These guys perform flawlessly night after night.”
“I can’t always say the same,” he continued, waiting a beat for comic timing.
And later he reminded his audience that he had some imperfect moments during the last campaign as well.
“Everybody always remembers the victory but they don’t always remember the bumps in the road; things always look good in retrospect.
“But in the middle of it, we were – we made all kinds of mistakes. We goofed up, I goofed up, but the American people carried us forward,” urging his supporters not to forget that they stuck by him even when he hiccupped in 2008 – something he hopes they do over the next 30 days.


I remind you that George W. Buffoon and his party who controlled government for 6 of 8 years of his reign of horror INHERITED A BALANCED BUDGET AND A STRONG ECONOMY, UNEMPLOYMENT AT AROUND 3.5%.
JUST LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID! If you want to blame Obama, go for it. Idiot.
how were the wars funded under obama and dems leftard? i mean bush has been gone for years and afghanisgtan is still going on genius. so if you r going to rant about unfunded wars tell us zall how they are being funded now. i cant wait....................................
So you acknowledge that Bush inherited a balanced budget and a strong economy and turned it into a $1.4 Trillion deficit, collapsing everything and skyrocketing unemployment?
Good, we are getting somewhere. You can't fix a problem until you identify what caused it.
repubsd balanced clintons budgets; ur a JOKE
uset
Yea and that's why Obama hired Bush's economic adviser and stay the Bush economic course of bailout, stimulus, and tax cuts to the rich because they destroyed the economy. It's all Bush's fault that the economy isn't growing under Obama for introducing Bernanke to Obama.
DUH! I'm an Obama supporter that proves that stupidity is a learned skill Obama supporters have learned to master. DUH!
BUSH;'S HIGHEST spending years are the last 2 arent they leftnut? why do you think that is?
the economy was sliding into recession at the beginning of the bush years leftgard; fact
clinton had 2 years with a dem congress; no balanced budget
obama isnt clinton
ur a JOKE
I feel like I've been dragged into the gutter of low intelligence and hatred commonly found in the great trailer park societies of America. God bless you both, but I have no interest in continuing this debate with people who can somehow justify blaming Obama for inheriting a $1.4 Trillion annual shortfall and catastrophic free-fall of everything, from the guy who inherited a balanced budget and strong economy. Hate is truly blinding. You two just proved it.
OH Petty insults of trailer parks. i see that as a white flag of surrrender leftard.
obama isnt clinton; and dems had the purse strings for 2 years; obama inhedrited the $1.4 trillion shortfall from the Democrat majority congress. like i said ur a JOKE
Upset
Clinton had a Republican controlled congress, didn't he? Bush had the same democratic congress that Obama had when all the spending occurred.
It would help if you bother to get informed before you post, but that is a common practice of you Obama supporters; run your mouth offs out of ignorance.
CLINTON restricted welfare with the welfare reform act; under obama it's expanded to its HIGHEST LEVEL EVER. you can lob stupid charges of "hate" all day. ur a joke
I don't know about the Obama supporter having something positive to talk about, but the democrats sure do.
Now they can make the claim that President Carter is no longer the worse President in this countries history with that socialist Obama replacing him.
What is this fascination with socialism and Jimmy Carter?
Let me guess... You picked that up on Rush Limbaugh?
lol; leftard pulls the rush card when losing the argument. i dnt listen to rush; i dont need rush to see obama has failed. too bad ur blind upset
No mentally "upset", we are living it under Obama.
Oblama is now Obegga, how funny is that? I hope he doesn't stick around after the election; maybe he'll accompany his family on one of their wonderful vacations and be a great dad.
Obama is about to make history according to MSNBC, he will unveil a statue of "Hugo Chavez".
OK team (Obama), this week I announced the Federal memorial to Cesar Chavez. What special interest group are we pandering to next week? Ya know, we've gotta keep these folks enthusiastic.
We may be screwed already with the Chicago machine's dead voters sending in Obama votes nation wide.
I wounder if they get a free phone too?
Letusreason
Betcha President Obama will conjure up an event for the 20th....
lol upset ran off!!!!
Arguing with idiots is unwise, they try to drag you down into the gutter and beat you with their vast "experience". I won't waste my time with you two idiots any further. You are hopeless and I have no desire to spend another second with you in the gutter, a place you feel very comfortable in apparently.
here's a tissue and my obamaphone; hugo chavez is on speed-dial. go cry to someone who cares! lol
obama has failed; idiotic excuses, misdirections and straw man arguements from you doesnt make me hopless; it makes you hopelessly brainwashed
every idiotic straw man argument, red herring and excuse you put forth was dismantled with FACTS, LOGIC, AND HISTORICAL ACCURACY. so go cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhMZBsOSXjw
This is a talk about the national debt not sitting in a movie theater.
Really?
typical america, while you keep blaming the repub's, the dem's, the liberals your government keeps screwing you all...lol
keep letting them give your money to other countries and wasting it on FAILED policies while your arguing about who is the BEST!!!!!!!!! correct answer: they have to work together as a team to accomplish anything!!!!!!!!!
force them to work together as a team or vote them all out!!!!!!!!! why would you keep doing the same old thing year after year when you know they will keep giving you more of the same old mess ?????????? vote them out!!!!!!!!!
they are wasting your time and money!!!!!!!! and, you think they are for americans??????????? i doubt it !!!!!!!!!
Romney favored by a 2 to 1 margin in military.
Romney certainly isn't the end all be all, he can't walk on water or part the oceans but he is better equipped than obama to run the country and get our fiscal house back in order. Obama may have done okay if he'd been elected when the economy was doing well but that was not the case. He tried, he failed and now it's time to get someone with some practical business experience in there so we really can start moving "Forward."
The independently owned website Obama.com, which steers users to the president's
campaign donation website, gets most of its traffic from foreign countries,
raising questions about the legality of tens of millions of small dollar
donations to the campaign, according to a new report. The Government
Accountability Institute today released details of an eight-month probe into
fundraising by the presidential candidates and all House and Senate candidates
that also shows that the president's outreach and fundraising have targeted
websites in Chinese, Arabic, Thai, and Korean. Generally, donations from
foreign nations are illegal.
The 108-page analysis from the group that made news in an earlier report that suggested
President Obama skips many of his national security briefings studied security
flaws in credit card fundraising conducted by Obama may have security flaws,
said the report. But it devotes a large section of its effort to concerns about
donations to the Obama campaign. Secrets reported late Thursday that a TV
network, national magazine and national website were working on the story but
were being pressured by the Obama campaign to kill it. Sources said the story
was still on hold today. ABC News, however, has teased one element of the
story: the existence of fake Democratic fundraising websites. The report
suggests that many of the donations to Obama re-election campaign have come
from foreign sources.
Top colleges in the US are now using the last debate as a training tool in their debate classes: How to lose a debate (Obama) and how to win a debate (Romney).
Man, this is ain't right. regardless of party. No one should be messing around like this. If true, somebody needs to go to jail
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/content/who-knew-what-pascos-school-electioneering-mess
this is bad
http://washingtonexaminer.com/report-obama.com-solicits-foreign-contributions-for-prez/article/2510096#.UHMtZk2eGqj
That my friend is propaganda.
In a "first" for Obama, he finally admits making a mistake "I goofed up, but the American liberals carried us forward anyway (they're so pathetic). Oh, was that microphone on?”
Obama must realize that the hype doesn't last forever. His promises are fading and so are his lofty speeches. I wonder if he would have done anything differently over the past 4 years. Probably not.
Apparently Obama has been getting a large amount of campaign contributions from foreign nations.
Obama campaign part of foreign donation scandal Middle eastern ones it seems...
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/08/obama-campaign-part-of-foreign-campaign-donation-scandal/
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329676/obama-campaign-being-financed-foreign-donations-eliana-johnson
aunt anna, you're sources speak volumes about your wingnut statues. Do you know who writes for humanevents.com? Certainly not what most would refer to as independent-minded journalists: Robert Novak, Ann Coulter, Terrence P. Jeffery and John Gizzi. Occasional contributors have included Pat Buchanan, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich and Oliver North, as well as conservative celebrities such as Ted Nugent, Chuck Norris and Pat Sajak.
Now there's a group of fair-minded, "fair and balanced" people for you! Auntie, why don't you take your drivel to the Faux News website where the brain-dead people who occupy it are apt to believe you.
And let me add that the National Review, Weekly Standard, and a rag produced by some bunch of trigger-happy Marines hardly passes muster for legitimate reporting. God lady, you're a real piece of work.
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) today released details of an eight-month probe into fundraising by the presidential candidates and all House and Senate candidates that also shows that the president's outreach and fundraising have targeted websites in Chinese, Arabic, Thai, and Korean. Donations from foreign nations are illegal.
Sources say that Obama was briefed on the GAI report just prior to last weeks debate, and attributes his dismal performance during the debate to the knowledge of the report being issued.
How can people support Obama when the truth is out there. Obama supporters need to hear: 1. Back in 1961 people of color were called 'Negroes.' So how can the Obama 'birth certificate' state he is "African-American" when the term wasn't even used at that time ?
2. The birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama's birth as August 4, 1961 & Lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father. No big deal, right ? At the time of Obama's birth, it also shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama's father was born in " Kenya , East Africa". This wouldn't seem like anything of concern, except the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama's birth, and 27 years after his father's birth. How could Obama's father have been born in a country that did not yet exist? Up and until Kenya was formed in 1963, it was known as the "British East Africa Protectorate". ()
3. On the Birth Certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is "Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital". This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called "KauiKeolani Children's Hospital" and "Kapi'olani Maternity Home", respectively. The name did not change to Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged.
How can this particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name had not yet been applied to it until 1978 ?
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Why hasn't this been discussed in the major media ?
4. Perhaps a clue comes from Obama’s book on his father. He states how proud he is of his father fighting in WW II. I’m not a math genius, so I may need some help from you. Barack Obama’s “birth certificate” says his father was 25 years old in 1961 when he was born. That should have put his father’s date of birth approximately 1936—if my math holds (Honest! I did that without a calculator!!!) Now we need a non-revised history book—one that hasn't been altered to satisfy the author’s goals—to verify that WW II was basically between 1939 and 1945. Just how many 3 year olds fight in wars? Even in the latest stages of WW II his father wouldn't have been more than 9. Does that mean that Mr. Obama is a liar, or simply chooses to alter the facts to satisfy his imagination or political purposes ?
I support Obama's re-election but if he doesn't do much better in the second debate the enthusiasm he's asking for will all but disappear.
Forget the D and R
Vote for your children's future. Socialism has never worked and will never work.
All it has done is kill millions of people and strip them of freedoms.
auntie, I have a hunch you don't have the vaguest idea what socialism amounts to. Do you think Medicare is socialism. Do you think tax loopholes are socialistic? Do you believe that food programs in schools constitute socialism? Do you think that providing supplemental income to severely disabled people is socialism?
Ayn Rand must be your heroine, which is ver sad.
Jack - It's obvious by your post that you don't have the vaguest idea what socialism is. You might want to study up on it.
Can you spell? Same question to you: Medicare? Tax loopholes? School lunch programs? C'mon pal, give me YOUR answer!
auntie, do I detect an axe grinding going on here? By this post are you suggesting that Mitten's campaign is a model of clean politics? Sure, you betcha. In your dreams. IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS!
The plastic smile Romney pasted to his face each time he rushed through a well-memorized speech he plugged in really bothered me. Looked like he was wearing a Halloween mask.
His party must have noticed during his campaigning that part of the time his face was frozen while he spoke and he didn't even blink, then suddenly he would be speaking and blinking rapidly. I'm certain one of those indicated untruthfulness, but I'm not sure which. Now we have plastic Romney.
Bethams - Obama himself asdmitted he "goofed up" But of course he's been "goofing up" since he took office, so there's no surprise there..
And all you've got is that you didn't care for Romney's smile?
Pathetic.
There is a lot more about Romney that we don't like. Such as his hiding his tax returns even though he demanded Lyin Ryan to submit his and his dad said he should release 10 years if he wants to be taken credibly as a candidate for president. We also dont like his traitorous tax strategy to hide his money in off shore banks. Or his committed mean spirit as CEO of Bain as he crushed citizens lives to make a few more bucks. He has shown his disrespect for 47% of Americans... He will say anything to get elected except what he will actually do if, god forbid, he gets into the White House. Get it?
I agree. One lousy debate performance is not a big deal. The lousy job he’s done since becoming president, however, is the big deal. He didn’t lose the debate because he’s not a good debater. He lost the debate because he’s a horrible president people. Why should this guy get a pass? Are you kidding me? You people cannot be this stupid!
Apparently 47% of them are.....
Since when did the President having a debate become a performance? Mr. Obama if you want to act than stay in LA and give the White House to someone who will lead!!
bethams - you bother me. It's not about his face dumb ass. So, how many government programs you on? Too long to list? I thought so...