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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.
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"I don't perform perfectly night after night." Right, just ask Michele. She would know.
After 4 years of Mr Obama's on the job training, he still doesn't have the important stuff at the front of the agenda. Out of ideas except, "you need to give me more time," Mr Obama is truly the empty suit sitting in the empty chair listening to no one except people with the money to get him reelected.
sandiego1969===You got that right.
Sources say that Obama's dismal performance during last weeks debate is directly attributed to his prior knowledge of the following:
"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. Donations from foreign nations are illegal."
When this story breaks, BO is toast.
Uuuuhhhhhh,,, sorry to disappoint but who other than Fox news do you think is going to carry this story??.... I love your optimism though.... Also,,, it isn't just foreign nations who can't give,,, it is also foreign people.. I don't know the % of people in America who watch Fox news,, but my guess is not more than 20 percent,,, and 75% of those were already going to vote for Gov. Romney.. The "Old" Media just seems to act as press secretary for whomever the lib is...... What they don't realize I guess is that as Americans get poorer,,, it is less and less likely that we will be able to afford their products..
Most of the ignorant low brows on here couldn't define socialism.....Obama represents a frightening change to the people who hate him; that is the fact that old white limp dicks will not be calling the shots in this country forever and they know it and man are they pissed! What really amazes me is how many times Romney has completely reversed himself and the Obama-haters are blind to it or they just ignore it. I should vote for Romney? why? I still don't know his f*cking position on anything! The republican party used to be respectable but it has been ruined by the teabaggers. Until they purge these a$$holes from the GOP I'll never vote Republican again. I feel sorry for Romney, he's had to put on so many faces to appease the crazies and to calm the moderates...wait there are no more moderate Republicans. There is the problem.
If you lost your job because of this administrations agenda, you would think differently. You do not give a damn about the thousands of coal miners that have lost their job. What answers do you or Obama have to get these people employed with good wages?
petparent1===Sorry you need to do some more reading or watching TV for the news. Move around to different shows because you are really screwed up man. We have $16 Trillion Dollar debt and another $1.1 Trillion Dollars in deficit spending this year, again. Obama wants to give everything away but someone has to pay for it sooner or later. When do you want to start paying your share and the share of the people that do not have jobs?
We needed and still need jobs so what did we get? We got Obama-Care a brand new entitlement plan to pay for. The clincher is that we can not afford the entitlement plans we have right now. Obama is freaking NUTS!! Those that follow him want something for nothing. Get in line to get your share of nothing. Obama has nothing to give only the tax payers can do that.
I know I suck, but I want you to remain enthusisatic because your enthusiasm is all I have left. If we can shadow manage this sinking ship for just 29 more days, then i'll have four more years to figure it out! Yea, go Obama, you rock! Morons.
So, if Robme has figured it out, what has he figured out?
NOTHING. It is all a sham, a thin plastic sheet of sh*t that is thrown in the faces of the American people.
The problem is that many in our country are too poorly educated to be able to see the truth when it is presented. One thing is for sure, truth is not being presented by the Retardican central command. Their policy has been to promote lies since Obama got into the White House.
tex2c===Gee Tex your a rocket scientist right? Obama didn't know damn thing when he came into office and still doesn't know a damn thing but you think he is great? Lord help this Nation if to many think like you we will see a lot more destruction of this country from the hands of a man that is raping all of us. Romney can run a business and make a good living at it. Obama can't run the corner grocery store. Take a look around Obama is killing the job market instead of helping it. I'll vote for Romney at least he knows more. A lot more than Obama ever will or even care about.
Gee @ tex,,,,, can you give a clue to us stupid teabaggers why Pres. Obama's budgets for the last two years not only get zero Republican votes,,,, he could not even get one single DEMOCRAT vote????????? Or why the Democrat run Senate has not produced a budget of any kind in Pres. Obama's term????? Maybe Gov. Romney can ask him in one of the next debates?? Unless you can tell us?? We are all waiting to be educated by the liberals.....
Not a Romney supporter, nor an Obama supporter, really, though I did vote for him in 2008.
But I would say if anything is to blame for the lack of enthusiasm, at least on my part, it is not one debate performance, it is the last four years. It's been a really, really horrible four years for me, Mr. President, and under your watch it is not getting better seemingly.
And yeah I know, Republican obstruction, yadda yadda. But President Obama, you and Harry Reid have seemed more interested in whining about the obstruction and caving to Republican hostage taking than breaking them or even trying. The interest in politicking as opposed to smashing the Republicans to do good things for the American people is one reason I'm not terribly interested in voting for you or your Democrats.
What are you going to do for the next four years? Entertain more hostage taking, fail to fix the filibuster and engage in more whining about obstruction you and your party enabled at every turn?
I'd almost rather have a Republican in office than listen to more.
Andy, think carefully before you jump from the pot into the fire. Remember what it was like during Dubbies years. A war that cost us 3 trillion and thousands of dead and severely wounded based on known lies, money moving up the ladder and not coming down again. A completely collapsed economy that was saved only after WE bailed out the auto industry and the banking industry. Do you think Romney is not controlled by the same lying crooks that Dubbie was?
Actually, I'm already in the fire. And it's just one puny vote, don't get worked up.
I want to put you and people like you there beside me - all the smug. "it's not good but it's a start" people who have theirs and disregard the millions left on the road in the great Obama hope and change revolution. I want you all to experience what I've experienced this last four years.
After four years of Republican enabling, whining, do nothing Democrats, passing a Republican do-nothing health care plan, I've lost my job, my health, my prospects and soon my home.
So I want you there with me, trowling through garbage bins. If the Democrats refuse to run this country, I'm ready for four years of chaos and death and the government going bonkers insane and destroying whatever is left of the middle class.
Romney will break the government. And after the travesty of the Democrats of the last four years, that might be a good thing. We need the reset.
Andy In Denver===Good Job Andy and your right!!
Andy,
The Republican mantra since Reagan has been, 'the federal government is the enemy, we need to eliminate it!' They chose that lie because that was the only way the rich could get richer - to eliminate honesty, integrity, and fairness from our social contract. Fact is, WE are the government, many have just been brainwashed into abandoning that basic element of the American system so that the sh*t heads at the top can accumulate more.
I cannot disagree with your position, I just have a little hope left that if the Congress turned blue and Obama got elected to 4 more, we could see some better times. It is clear that we will not if Romney gets in. I have never embraced violence as a solution, but it seems sort of inevitable.
BTW, this is classic Marxist thinking. The dialectic may be at work as we speak and Romney may be the Marie Antoinette of our times. Romney: 'Cake anyone?' Hunker down cause here they come to make your life even worse!
The stench in California has gotten really bad lately, especially the last two days. Now I found out the reason why the JB* is in town. Darn if I had know that I would have gotten out of the state. Normally I would leave here but the home if paid for.Now I need some ones help, an intervention, how do you cure someone that has drunken the Kool-aid. My son like so many his age that do not have the time to follow the douc__bag and all the lies that he's been spewing with forked tongue believes he needs to be reelected. The really bad thing is that he works in the defense industry. He's been there for 12 years and doesn't realize what the JB* is doing.That is the problem with the youth, well younger then me. They don't have the time to research what this douc__bag is doing. Raising kids working taking his kids to karate, soccer, etc. Home schooling which really is working out better then regular school. I really do praise them for the time they give their kids.
BUT DARN I NEED A ANTIDOTE FOR THE OVOMIT KOOL-AID.
*jungl__bunny
P.S.
Has anyone heard from Peggy Joseph, you know the one that was going to have gas in her car and her mortgage paid by Ovomit.
P.P.S.
Did Ovomit send a empty chair? It would have been a better talker.
Did you suffer a head injury in Dubbies little war? If so, I offer my sympathies. But if not, you need to get a good education. Being an embarrassment to the corps is not in your best interest any more than supporting a rich prick whose major goal is to rob you of your last dollar for president.
sounds like the ugly green monster got hold of you. please explain to me what's wrong with being rich other than that you're not?
the obama's certainly are and pay the whopping rate of 26%, far less than the 39% he wants everyone else to pay
Ok, I will try to help you. It has to do with HOW you get rich. For instance, Sam Walton got rich by treating his employees fairly and CREATING a product that the public could use. We win, employees win, and he wins. Of course, ever since Sam left the planet, the small minded greed based Romney types have taken over Walmart and turned it into a job crusher like many in the 1% are want to do.
Robme has done nothing but buy up companies that are already producing and figure out how to steal the structure out from under them so he could make another buck. Everybody but him loses, he wins.
See how well it works? If you cannot see through the lies and manipulation of the Republican model since Reagan, you need to go back to school and get some courses in economics and bookkeeping.
tex2c===So Tex you believe everything that read or see about anybody? Maybe if we all knew the real facts about what Romney did for a living we could hold a better conversation about that. I'm interested in Obama's past, got any clues? I want to know how a kid from so-called poor side of town made it to Harvard? Harvard? So you believe that he pulled that money off the money tree in the backyard?
walton got rich by putting every mom and pop store within the vicinity of one of his stores out of business
But Walton was allowed to put them out of business because he had a better business model, that is called free enterprise and even though many small businesses lost out, that is just the way it is in a free enterprise system. You snooze, you loose! Now, as I pointed out in my post, Walmart is no longer free enterprise, it is a bully. That is the ultimate result of an unregulated system.
Unfortunately, Romney is not free enterprise, never was. He started life as a corporate raider that does not employ new ideas to make things better, he simply employs power and money he inherited to crush everyone around him. Romney will say anything and play whatever role his puppet masters tell him to play to get into office so they can get the last few dollars out of our pockets before the whole thing falls into civil war.
Obama got to Harvard because he worked hard, Romney barely got through college because his daddy paid for it. See any difference there?
If you really want to see who Romney is, ask him for his tax returns?
i agree. all he needed were suppliers from china to make a bunch of cheap stuff and pack it all in one place. hardly a great innovation
Actually, during Sam's time, there was a Walmart policy of American products only. When a Republican named Glass took over the helm, the logos as you walk into any Walmart were taken down and the products from China started filling the shelves. That is about the same time that the demographics of the employees shifted from full time with benefits to part time without. Great job there Retardicans at holding onto core American values.
This is just another example of Republicans saying anything they think the American voter wants to hear as they set up to grab everything in sight.
Some of us out here can see through the lies.
Obama's Plan for a Second Term :
Due to the current financial situation caused by the Over spending and Failure of the Senate Budget Committee and The Failure of Obama's 1 trillion dollar stimulus package, President Obama has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 50 years of age and above on early retirement, thus creating jobs and reducing unemployment via Executive order.
This scheme will be known as R A P E (Retire Aged People Early).
Persons selected to be R A P E D can apply to Congress to be considered for the SHAFT program (Special Help After Forced Termination).
Persons who have been R A P E D and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the
S C R E W program (System Covering Retired-Early Workers).
A person may be R A P E D once, SHAFTED twice and S C R E W E D as many times as Congress deems appropriate.
Persons who have been R A P E D could get A I D S (Additional Income for Dependents & Spouse's) or H E R P E S (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance).
Obviously persons who get A I D S or H E R P E S will not be SHAFTED or
S C R E W E D any further by Congress.
Persons who are not R A P E D and are staying at work will receive as much S H ! T (Special High Intensity Training) as possible. Congress has always prided themselves on the amount of S H ! T they give our citizens.
Should you feel that you do not receive enough S H ! T, please bring this to the attention of your Congressman, who has been trained to give you all the S H ! T you can handle.
Sincerely, The Committee for Economic Value of Individual Lives (E.V.I.L.)
PS - - Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas, oil,and food, as well as current market conditions, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
Hope and change I HOPE we can CHANGE the president for a REAL man.
Vietnam, I thought you got the message that you are an embarrassment to the corps last time. Now you are proving to all of us that you are just a liar. These programs do not exist and you know it. Stop making a fool of yourself, even your cohorts in the Tparty cannot stomach your stupidity.
FANTASTIC!!!
GREAT JOB!!
tex2c===Tex Vietnam just ran over you, big time. You are the one that should be embarrassed. Oh, the young and the foolish!~!!
So Tex2 you thought this was being presented as a serious post? Wow, no wonder people beleive the BS Obama and company feed you guys.
Hesea, you are misreading my post, I think Nam is a perfect supporter of Romney, stupid and a liar. Not funny, just stupid. Sorry for your thinking I took him seriously, you lose.
GENIUS!! Too bad there are probably people in the current admin... looking at it thinking,,, wow!! this guy has a future in the Dem. party!!!! ; )
The next Presidential debate will be in New York, close to seal level, in the hopes that Obama won't be affected by the "altitude".
I live very near Hofstra, Obama will be in deep left country.
I finally agree with Obama don't lose enthusiasm - JUST LOSE!!!!!!
Go Romney!!!!!
Agreed!!
What enthusiasm is there to lose?
"American Deceptionalism"
less everyday Obama is in office then with hope that he will be kicked to the curb and then only hope that Romney can return pride and enthusiasm to the country.
Romney will return pride and enthusiasm to the country or he will die trying. Why? Because he is an American!
Glad to see that NBC is working hard for their candidate. I am very happy to see many post referring to the Democrats taking away our constitutional rights. Thank you for getting and staying educated to the facts.
For those of you the support Obama and want to blast over the bias news media statements that Romney lies better look at your own. Democrates as Biden, Peloshi, Reid, Schumer are THE biggest LIARS that we have ever seen in Congress. Talk about your own lies instead of making false statements about someone else lying just to get the LOOSER voted back in to screwwwww over us again.
frank furman===Obama-Care the largest tax increase in the country. You have to pay for it or you will be put on the IRS Collection Agency's list of things to do. Obama and the Democrats taxed and spent us to a new high of $16 Trillion Dollars and counting.. Are we suppose to be happy yet???
Where is Feisty Redhead? - she is in reality Obama Campaign press secretary Jen Psaki - I knew for months that she was a paid political Obama blogger - MSNBC gave her the article and that way she could post first and then her buddies would thumbs-up her making it appear that everyone was pro-Obama ---- she's been on Fox and several other TV shows crowing about Obama --- I will always thumbs-down her as she was not a regular blogger but an inside cheater.
She will be crying in November
Thanks for the info. I knew she had to be paid to always be the first to post. It would be impossible for the average person out here to always be first.
nperk10195===That's good to know. I ran across her several times. She is lost at sea for sure!!
Always wondered how Fiesty was always the first to post, knew she was paid but didn't understand the connection.
I'm against Romney, but I'm even more against Obama!
Nervous Wreck===I kinda likie the guy. We all work for some type of CEO, they give us jobs, some give us benefits, a paid vacation if your lucky and they pay us on top of that. Not a bad deal, most can make a good living working for some type of CEO. Whether it's a man or a woman or a family run business with more than 1 employees that's a plus for us we have a job. We sure need a lot of jobs!! Now that's creates enthusiasum, a job!!!
Yeap -- Another election between dumb and dumber with dumber already in office - Last voted for Reagan and against dumber ever since.
SOS -- Stop Obamas Spending vote Romney
I'm not voting for Romney (at this point) but I do find annoying that Obama keeps needing a kick up the ass to connect with his public. He's right, this HAS happened before. And it will probably happen again.
While I hope he's focused on running the actual country, but a big part of that is being connected with your people. And the people wanted to see something better at that debate. There's only three of them, I would have expected he'd been better prepared. There's no excuse next time.
Glen Mackie===You should really reconsider your vote for Obama, this is the same guy that has been a half a bubble off since he has been in office. If you like Obama-Care and the idea that a person will have to pay for this from the time of birth to the time of death whit the possibility of being tracked by the IRS for collections then Obama is you man. I would rather keep my money and do it my way, after all very few of us will use the health insurance until we are in our late 30's or so.
The forcing Obama-Care on us was a new low for any politician, after we repeated said "No" we don't want it. That rubs a different way than say being free!!
In order to lose enthusiasm you have to have enthusiasm. Just look around. A faded Obama/biden poster is not enthusiasm.
Well this was a nice ending for me and I got to hear from some good people with common sense.
Typical enthusiastic obama supporter: "I gots my obama phone, I gots my obama phone, he givin out phones to evry crackhead dats gonna vote for him! Ronmy, he suck!!" Democrats: this is your base......wow.
So much vitriol, so little time. To paraphrase "Airplane", Mr President, you picked a hell of a time to quit smoking. President Obama needs to look in the mirror and say to the image "Don't lose your enthusiasm".
yea you sucked at the debate not prepared, but I wondering why the news media is out there pounding for Romney so hard Its Romney said this, Romney said that Ryan saying this and that with nothing being said for the Dems side your just letting him slam you... Not happy the Democrats campaign there just siding lined and letting Romney/ Ryan take over...
It was not an issue of being prepared, it was an issue of being out bullied. Robme made repeated statements that he knows are not true as he came off as the NEW Robme. He postured himself as a moderate which we all know he cannot do if he becomes president, his gang of thieves will not allow it.
Here is a solution: let Robme win but run all the Tbaggers and right wing lunatics out of the Congress (you know like the idiot that thinks evolution is a scam and that the earth is really just 9k old). Make the Congress blue and then see if Robme can accomplish his real but undisclosed goal of getting all the money left in the US Treasury into the pockets of his rich friends as he gives it a shot to fix the economy ruined by the last Retardican in office That should be fun, don't you think?
Your not doing anything to keep are enthusiasm up!!!!
16 Trillion in debt, 46 million on food stamps, 8% unemployment, A dead Ambassador in Lybia and a weaker military: Yea, I'm pumped, how about you?
Asking them (Obama Supporters) to stay with him when today Obama's policies have proven Romney right about Obama picking losers: Another Company Obama backed with $150.000,000.00 of American Tax Payer money. This company has never producered a singal battery for the Chevy Volt in two years, and now are going to start furlong employees. The employees will only work three weeks per month. More wasted Tax Dollars by Obama.
Hey Dems, can you spell T.I.M.B.E.RRRRRRRRRR!