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Subscribe to RSSElkhart four years later … State of Union stronger, but not as strong as it could be … It’s still the economy … Obama under 50% in latest polls … Dems plan to ‘win’ the sequester … Bipartisan gun deal? … Breannan pressed, but could teach Hagel a thing or two … Dempsey ‘surprised’ Clinton didn’t know about Benghazi cable.
Published 9:45 a.m. ET -- *** Elkhart (and America) four years later: Exactly four years ago tomorrow, President Barack Obama -- who had just been sworn in for his first term -- traveled to Elkhart, Ind., to sell his economic stimulus. At the time, Elkhart had a sky-high unemployment rate(19.4% as of Feb. 2009) due in large part to the city’s reliance on the manufacturing industry (especially the making of recreation vehicles). “I promised you back then [in 2008] that if elected, I'd do everything I could to help this community recover, and that's why I came back today, because I intend to keep my promise,” Obama said. Because of that promise, NBCNews.com began a series called “The Elkhart Project” chronicling the city’s recovery. Four years later, with Obama set to deliver his latest State of the Union address on Tuesday, Elkhart is pretty much the story of America: Things are better, but not back to where they were before the economy crashed in 2008. Elkhart’s unemployment rate is now 9.3%, down significantly from its peak in ’09, but below the state (8.2%) and national average (7.9%). “We’re definitely not where we want to be, but we have certainly rebounded from where we were,” said Barkley Garrett, the city’s economic development director. “All in all, considering where we were, we are doing well. But we have a long way to go.”
Aug. 5, 2009 (archival video): NBC's Chuck Todd poses questions to President Obama about the economic realities that most Americans, particularly those in economically hard-hit Elkhart, are facing during the recession. President Obama spoke at Wakarusa, Indiana announcing federal grants to support hybrid RV and pick-up manufacturers.
*** The State of the Union is stronger -- but not as strong as it could be: Speaking in Elkhart four years ago, the president acknowledged that full economic recovery would take time. “Even with this plan, the road ahead won’t be easy. This crisis has been a long time in the making; we’re not going to turn it around overnight,” he said. “Recovery will likely be measured in years, not weeks or months.” We now begin Year Five of America’s road to recovery. The state of the union -- at least economically -- is stronger than it was four years ago. But it also would be a stretch to say it’s as strong as it could be.
*** It’s still the economy: Despite the focus on guns and immigration, the economy remains the biggest story. And with analysts believing unemployment will remain in the mid-7% range into next year, the philosophical fiscal divide in Washington, mirrored across the world, will continue. There’s been no bridging the conservative view that austerity measures/spending cuts, especially in the public sector, to reduce the debt will lead to growth and the liberal view that more temporary deficit spending is necessary to provide support to a fragile economy -- and that those public-sector cuts are a big part of what's holding the economy back.
*** Not great news for Obama in latest polls: The president’s approval rating in a round of polls after his reelection showed Obama over 50%. Well, this morning the president’s approval is under 50% in both a new FOX poll (49%) and Quinnipiac poll (46%). The FOX poll also shows pessimism continues to reign.
*** Democrats plan to “win” sequester: Part of Obama’s State of the Union is going to be the sequester, Politico notes, and pushing for ending loopholes for the wealthiest, something Democrats believe they have broad support for: “Senate Democrats are digging in against Republican calls for deeper spending cuts by bringing out some of their favorite punching bags: corporate jets, Wall Street and Big Oil. With the automatic budget cuts in the sequester coming up next month, Democrats hope to vote on an alternative plan to raise taxes on some of their favorite boogeymen in hopes of shifting the blame when the GOP inevitably rejects it. … The Democratic public pressure campaign is expected to begin in earnest next week, starting with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday and a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing expected Thursday at which senior administration officials will most likely sound the alarm that so-called sequestration cuts would devastate the economy. … According to sources familiar with the matter, Democrats are leaning toward a plan that would be split 50-50 between spending cuts and tax hikes, financed in large part by new taxes on corporate and wealthy taxpayers.”
*** Bipartisan gun deal emerging? Guns is also likely to be a topic, and AP reports that there’s a bipartisan private group that is aiming at forging a deal expanding background checks and working on mental health issues. AP: “A bipartisan quartet of senators, including two National Rifle Association members and two with ‘F’ ratings from the potent firearms lobby, are quietly trying to find a compromise on expanding the requirement for gun-sale background checks. … The senators' talks have included discussions about ways to encourage states to make more mental health records available to the national system and the types of transactions that might be exempted from background checks, such as sales among relatives or to those who have permits to carry concealed weapons, said people who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to describe the negotiations publicly.” The senators involved in the private group include Democrats’ No. 3 Chuck Schumer, Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Republicans Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois. It’s significant that, once again, Schumer’s in the middle of this, positioning himself as a dealmaker. Makes us wonder if Harry Reid’s thinking about retiring before his re-elect in 2016…
*** Brennan pressed, but could show Chuck Hagel a thing or two: The confirmation hearing for John Brennan to become CIA director began with fireworks with Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein needing to shut it down and clear the room after five protests. Eight people were arrested outside. Brennan sparred with senators over drones, torture, leaks, and Benghazi. Some senators disagreed with him and pushed him, especially on interrogation. Some might not be happy with his "I don’t know what the truth is" answer, but he was ready, confident and unapologetic. He acquitted himself much better than Chuck Hagel, the president’s nominee to be Defense Secretary. It was a stark contrast. Jill Lawrence, writing under the headline “John Brennan Shows Hagel How It's Done,” called it “a startling 180-degree contrast.”
*** The debate over kill or capture: The Washington Post notes that Brennan was challenged on why “the number of drone strikes has soared while captures of terrorism suspects have dwindled to single digits” under President Obama. “I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him,” Brennan said in an exchange with ranking member Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). Still, the number of detainees has declined significantly, according to the Post. Is it because of better intelligence? Does it have to do with Obama wanting to avoid detainees? It’s an important question, but one no one with any knowledge is going to answer in public. (Brennan will go at it again in a closed classified hearing with the committee Tuesday.)
*** Dempsey ‘surprised’ Clinton didn’t know about Benghazi cable: Two pieces of news came out of the other hearing on the Hill yesterday before Armed Services with outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey: (1) Panetta and Dempsey said they agreed with a Hillary Clinton (State)-Gen. David Petraeus (CIA) plan to arm rebels in Syria, and (2) Dempsey said he was informed of the Benghazi cable requesting more security by the U.S. African Command, that he offered more help, but it was turned down. And then when asked how what he thought about Secretary of State Clinton testifying that she had no knowledge of the cable, he said, “I would call myself surprised that she didn’t.”
*** Obama acknowledges tension with Capitol Hill Democrats: At the House retreat yesterday, the president rallied Democrats about budget cuts and that he’s willing to fight for Democratic values in the court of public opinion with Republicans. “I have to tell you, if that's an argument that they want to have before the court of public opinion, that is an argument I'm more than willing to engage in,” he said to. But he also acknowledged tensions with Capitol Hill Democrats with this: "There will be times where you guys are mad at me, and I'll occasionally read about it." Today, Bill Clinton (10:00 am ET) and comedian Stephen Colbert (!!!) address the group.
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the rich are hoarding gold again....whats up with the people at the white house..they are not doing there job..making a slow recovery
edit] 1933
Executive Order 6102 signed on April 5, 1933 by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. Executive Order 6102 required U.S. citizens to deliver on or before May 1, 1933 all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve, in exchange for $20.67 per troy ounce. Violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000 or up to ten years in prison, or both. In 1933 approximately 500 tonnes of gold were turned in to the Treasury at the exchange rate of $20.67 per troy ounce.
The price of gold from the treasury for international transactions was thereafter raised to $35 an ounce. The resulting profit that the government realized funded the Exchange Stabilization Fund established by the Gold Reserve Act in 1934.
US goes off the gold standard for US currency. Gold continues to be used to settle international debts.
The rich are doing it again..like reagan would say here we go again..while you people in office do nothing..yes tea party im talking to you
The Republican tea party are hoarding gold...do you see how high gold is today....lets take from that ..to pay the bills
Mine's is right next to my 40 cal, if you let me know when you coming, I'll put on a pot of coffee???
hey dumb azz...the gold Glenn beck has...in wall street...not your one ring you have dumb azz
elvis how do you get those ears and your head up comrade obama's azz and still type???
that one gold ring you have is worth a lot hahahahaha..yeah gary can save our economy with his one ring..hahaha
Gotta go with Gary on this one, I started buying gold almost 20 years ago. Sorry Elvis you can't have it, buy your own.
Elvis, let's get one thing straight that you seem to "forget" to mention:.
1: Both Democrats and Republicans voted for the wars. If you don't like that, talk to your congressman about it. The blame game is getting OLD and a lot of people recognize this. It shows a severe lack of intelligence when hypocrisy is your only defense. Similar to waterboarding/drone strikes as of late. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
2: The reason why gold is being hoarded is due to the ridiculous influx of printed money by the Fed into the markets. To the tune of 40 something billion a month. Which devalues the dollar. Gold, other precious metals, and stocks don't suffer the same losses, so anyone worth his suit would borrow said money from the Fed at a ridiculously low interest rate and invest in those stocks and metals, for a profit gain. You liberals may call the rich evil all day long, but when it comes to being wealthy, they're all much smarter than you as far as keeping their status that way.
Don't like it? Then tell the Goverment/Fed to stop borrowing money and printing it like it's growing on trees. Then maybe the Dow will be normal again and the dollar will remain valuable.
As far as the Tea Part is concerned, they don't affiliate themselves with either political party. And though there are radicals are both sides, your ignorance and blame game yet again continue to paint you out to be the only fool in these posts.
no the government is not doing there job...there is a law..to get us out of this..read above.GOld .they just sit on there hands...and yes i do know both party voted on war...but guess what they were not the boss...they were told..mass destruction remember..if you cant belkive your boss..then what??but they found out later ..huh
elvis.... it's been said by all government officials (except Ron Paul) we will NEVER go back to the gold standard. Only smart people want to do that, the rest, well y'all keep voting them in, and we would like an apology.
A law is in place Government....do your job and take from the hoarders....Gold is the way out
Yes, but until we start voting in people who actually believe and would deliver on that, guess what? I'll keep hoarding my gold and silver.
@Elvis
Political leaders on both sides of the aisle lie through their teeth to gain the votes needed to win. Both Bush and Obama drove/drive the candy van, yet only those kids who weren't taught well enough by mommy and daddy to be skeptical of strangers obliviously run up with hands out and saliva dripping for the available goods.
The only difference now is that Bush is gone 5 years, and Obama has filled his candy van with gas hundreds of times since while making his rounds through the neighborhoods on the prowl for impressionable kiddies.
Blame can only get you so far in life. Looking in the mirror and acknowledging that there may be a problem is the first step to enlightenment.
I also didn't mean to be harsh in my initial post, but the truth needs to be said for what it is, regardless of what side of the political fence you're on. Afterall, we are ALL Americans.
how long did the great depression last?????oh it started when the 2 one came in huh..he took the gold and it work
you want to get out of this..Obama take the gold...they cant do a damn thing to you
He cannot. The law that Roosevelt used to issue the executive order was amended in 1974 to "permit United States citizens to purchase, hold, sell, or otherwise deal with gold in the United States or abroad."
Obama take the gold from walls street..and see how fast that money comes out like a can of tomatoes back to the economy. fat cats will take money out of Gold...do it
Obama is an EPIC FAIL. Trillions of dollars in additional debt and a economy that is still in the crapper. He spends most of his time pushing through his left wing agenda and cares little about the millions unemployed,the mounting debt and the struggling economy.
one word take from..... Gold...The governmnet can do it..yes the president can do it..and i hope he does
Nope, he can't. Unless Congress re-authorizes that authority which they took away in 1974.
not going to happen elvis.
The economy as a whole still sucks. Period. Businesses remain in bear mode and they are not investing in plant property equipment - unless they have received multi-million handouts from POTUS because they are green companies making products no one wants because they cannot offer energy at a competitive price to fossil fuels, n gas and oil.
GDP Q4 shrank and contracted to a negative number. Will continue to do so. See no investment in PPE above coupled with low demand and very soft consumer confidence. No more private sector jobs are being created than the number of new workers that enter the jobs market for the first time every month. A sideways jobs report month after month is not growth.
The DOW? Big deal. It's paper profits that do not create jobs. And the only reason there has been earnings per share growth the past few years is because companies have laid off 10's of thousands of employees to prop up their EPS. It is a contributing factor as to why unemployment remain around 8% month after month and at the same level it was when POTUS took office.
POTUS wants all to think of it as a new normal but that thinking is for fools. 4% is full employment and we need to get back to those horrible policies of the Bush years where it hovered around 5.5% most of the time until the 2008 crash.
The crash? Democrat mortgage policies directed to Fannie and Freddie written in stone, i.e., any one with a pulse qualifies for a mortgage, the last few decades created that disaster and not Bush's reckless spending, a lack of regulation, and return of excess tax revenues to the people in the form of tax cuts for all.
Democrats are kings and queens of obfuscation where the economy is concerned. It boggles my mind so many are so blind to their BS.
"There's been no bridging the conservative view that austerity measures/spending cuts, especially in the public sector, to reduce the debt will lead to growth and the liberal view that more temporary deficit spending is necessary to provide support to a fragile economy -- and that those public-sector cuts are a big part of what's holding the economy back."
First Read always chooses the progressive rhetoric and spin when supposedly showing 'balance' in their stories...
"austerity"...the freaking government has grown to unimaginable size and scope, and any effort to slow its growth, never mind actually 'cut' the massive pork and waste is "austerity".. whatever you say, state run media flack.
"public sector cuts"...WHAT public sector cuts? Have we cut any of 600,000 postal workers, who have no more snail mail to deliver, and sit around trying to get on disability?
"more temporary deficit spending"...temporary, my arse. How'd the stimulus work out? The Transportation Sec. says US roads are a 'pothole'...after spending hundreds of billions on infrastructure, all we have to show for it are cool-looking large signs with hardhats and Obama/Biden names plastered on them...
it will not cause a depression if the president takes from gold...because that's where all the money is....hoarding Gold is not helping
elvis read my lips.... WE DO NOT RUN ON A GOLD STANDARD ANY LONGER! If we did I might agree with you.
it will not cause a depression if the president takes from gold...because that's where all the money is....hoarding is not helping
and, buying all those foreign cars and products really boosted your economy...
great job supporting your country and it's people!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yep..cut cut cut..the Republicans mojo..only good paying American jobs
And this means what Chris Rhodes Scholar? That gun owners are dumber than we first thought.
"We now begin Year Five of the road to recovery."
So said state run media Pravda in the 1960s, about the Soviet Union's 5 year plan for economic recovery...
So says state run media First Read in the 2010s, about the supposed "Obama recovery"....
Here is a hint...we have to recover FROM the failed Obama statist policies...
this will help
hey tea party...this is whats cause by people like you
then Governmnet comes in a fix the problem.. yes from people like you
Timeline of the Great Depression
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The Great Depression era can be divided into two parts. The initial decline lasted from mid-1929 to mid-1931. Around mid-1931, there was a change in people’s expectations about the future of the economy.[1] This fear of reduced future income coupled by the Fed’s deflationary monetary policy resulted in a Mundell–Tobin effect. This further depressed the economy until Roosevelt stepped into office in 1933 and ended the gold standard, thereby ending the deflationary policy.[2]
A true understanding of the Great Depression requires not only knowledge of the U.S. monetary system but also the implications of the gold standard on its participatory nations. The gold standard made the involved nations interdependent on each others’s monetary policy. Due to a fixed exchange rate, the only way to affect the demand for gold was through interest rates. For example, if interest rates were high in one country, then investors would have no reason to exchange currency for gold and the gold reserves would remain stable. However if interest rates were low in a different country then its investors would elect to move their funds abroad where interest rates were higher. In order to stop this from happening, each nation within the gold standard union had no choice but to raise its interest rates in correspondence with its fellow nation.[2] This interconnectivity of deflationary policy amongst so many nations resulted in the prolongation of the greatest economic downturn.
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[edit] 1928
France significantly increases its gold reserves
Germany's industrial production declines
Spring 1928: The Fed increases interest rates
[edit] 1929
U.S. decline in industrial production
August: The recession begins, two months before the crash. Production falls by 20%.
October 24: Stock market crash begins.
October 25: Brief surge on the market.
October 29: 'Black Tuesday'. U.S. Stock market collapse.
Decline in the commodity prices.
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February: Federal Reserve cuts interest rates from 6% to 4%
June 17: Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act passed.
September - December: First U.S. bank failures
[edit] 1931
May: Creditanstalt, Austria's premier bank, goes insolvent.
May–June: Second U.S. bank failures / Change in people's expectation of the economy
July: Germany banking crisis
September 21: Britain goes off the gold standard.
September - October: Substantial amount of dollar assets are converted to gold in the US
September - December: Fed increases interest rates
November - Summer 1932: Foreign trade restrictions / Imperial Preference
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April - June: Government conducted open market transactions to increase money supply.
July: The Government discontinued open market operations.
November 2: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President.
[edit] 1933
Executive Order 6102 signed on April 5, 1933 by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. Executive Order 6102 required U.S. citizens to deliver on or before May 1, 1933 all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve, in exchange for $20.67 per troy ounce. Violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000 or up to ten years in prison, or both. In 1933 approximately 500 tonnes of gold were turned in to the Treasury at the exchange rate of $20.67 per troy ounce.
The price of gold from the treasury for international transactions was thereafter raised to $35 an ounce. The resulting profit that the government realized funded the Exchange Stabilization Fund established by the Gold Reserve Act in 1934.
US goes off the gold standard for US currency. Gold continues to be used to settle international debts.
Nothing like getting info from wikipedia and then calling them "facts". wikipedia is a good tool for somethings, it can not be relied on as "facts" since I can go in and change them most of the time.
Not to mention that a left wing nut could have wrote them or a right wing nut for that matter.
"Not great news for Obama in latest polls: The president’s approval rating in a round of polls after his reelection showed Obama over 50%. Well, this morning the president’s approval is under 50% in both a new FOX poll (49%) and Quinnipiac poll (46%)."
If First Read headlines the President's poll numbers, it is always good news for the President.
If the information about polls is unavailable or buried way down in an unrelated story, guess what? It isnt good news for the President.
Funny, that...
sorry...wrong..70
Fox news poll?
I almost threw up
your country is screwed, but look on the bright side your helping all those other countries that hate you prosper oh so well at your expense...!!!!!!!!!!!!
your government is doing a great job...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
roflmaoooooooooooooooooooooo
and, the people allow it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes this is what happens when you elect in walls street.fat cats in office...the house..and a president that is not..you know hoarders of Gold
hey as long as the ass obama is president, the economy will not be strong......it is hard to move the economy when we have a marxist ideologue as president....someone draw up articles of impeachment on this clown.....dereliction of duty, lying under oath, war crimes......take your pick.....obama is poison for our nation....
7.9% unemployment rate.....
Nice job Oblameo..
There has been a jobs bill just sitting there but Republicans in congress wont even allow a vote on it?
So for you to complain about unemployment is stupid my friend.
what kind of jobs bill????...more wasteful spending like the stimulus plan?....any JOBS PLAN from the ass obama is a non-starter......he doesn't have a clue about jobs unless it is hiring more government worker bees....someone impeach this fraud....
Just shut up A hole. yes you
Damn Johnny, do facts HURT that much?
call names moron lib.....impeach this fraud obama......he is poison for our nation....
@whack job
You can scream, kick, shout impeachment everyday. Nobody is listening to you dumb a$$. I guess since you don't have a job to work on you got plenty of time on your hand to repeat the same crap on a news blog everyday.
“Senate Democrats are digging in against Republican calls for deeper spending cuts by bringing out some of their favorite punching bags: corporate jets, Wall Street and Big Oil. With the automatic budget cuts in the sequester coming up next month, Democrats hope to vote on an alternative plan to raise taxes on some of their favorite boogeymen in hopes of shifting the blame when the GOP inevitably rejects it.
So it's the Democrates who play partisan games? I am confused media, which is it?
really...????????
if you would of backed your country up by staying loyal to your country and it's people by buying american products and if you would of stood up to your government and demanded that they stopped allowing all your jobs to go overseas...you wouldn't be in this mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but, the people wanted all those foreign products!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
of course, it's not your fault too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could someone PLEASE tell that to Obama and the Democrat Socialist party, PLEASE!
Question: How many times over the past four years have exploitative liberal journalists and Democratic leaders rushed to pin random acts of violence on the tea party, Republicans, Fox News and conservative talk radio?
Answer: Nearly a dozen times, including the 2009 massacre of three Pittsburgh police officers (which lib journos falsely blamed on Fox News, Glenn Beck and the “heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-Obama forces”); the 2009 suicide insurance scam/murder hoax of Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman (which New York magazine falsely blamed on Rush Limbaugh, “conservative media personalities, websites and even members of Congress”); the 2009 Holocaust museum shooting (which MSNBC commentator Joan Walsh blamed on Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and yours truly); the 2010 Times Square jihad bomb plot (which Mayor Michael Bloomberg falsely blamed on tea party activists protesting Obamacare); and the 2011 Tucson massacre, which liberals continue to blame on former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Question: What will this rabid Blame Righty mob do now that an alleged triple-murderer has singled out prominent lefties in the media and Hollywood for fawning praise as part of his crazed manifesto advocating cop-killing?
Answer: Evade, deflect, ignore and whitewash.
And what do you know, Chris Dorner, the former police officer suspected of being behind the murder rampage presently unfolding in Los Angeles, has apparently left behind a manifesto addressed to America that the media are already selectively reporting on to leave out the more inconvenient portions. You see, there is no political upside for the media to reveal the politics of this suspected madman.
What is being reported as Mr. Dorner's manifesto not only endorses Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and vigorously defends Barack Obama and the Democrats' current gun control push; he also savages the NRA's Wayne LaPierre while expressing all kinds of love for some of the biggest stars in the left-wing media -- by name.
No Tea Partier is this suspected mass murderer, who just might be politically motivated:
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Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad Obrien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley, and Anderson Cooper, keep up the great work and follow Cronkite's lead. I hold many of you in the same regard as Tom Brokaw and the late Peter Jennings. …
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Willie Geist, you're a talented and charismatic journalist.
Mr. Dorner also seems to have a soft spot for those the media tells us are "safe" Republicans to like, such as George H. W. Bush and Chris Christie, "the only person I would like to see in the White House in 2016 other than Hillary."
When it comes to defending Obama, Dorner sounds like he's been watching an awful lot of NBC News:
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You disrespect the office of the POTUS/Presidency and Commander in Chief. You call him Kenyan, mongroid, halfrican, muslim, and FBHO when in essence you are to address him as simply, President. The same as you did to President George W. Bush and all those in the highest ranking position of our land before him. Just as I always have. You question his birth certificate, his educational and professional accomplishments, and his judeo-christian beliefs. You make disparaging remarks about his dead parents.
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Mr. Dorner's gun control views make it sound as though much of his thinking has been affected by CNN. In a paragraph that mentions Sandy Hook, Dorner writes:
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If you had a well regulated AWB, this would not happen. The time is now to reinstitute a ban that will save lives. Why does any sportsman need a 30 round magazine for hunting? Why does anyone need a suppressor? Why does anyone need a AR15 rifle? This is the same small arms weapons system utilized in eradicating Al Qaeda, Taliban, and every enemy combatant since the Vietnam war. Don't give me that crap that its not a select fire or full auto rifle like the DoD uses. That's bull@!$%# because troops who carry the M-4/M-16 weapon system for combat ops outside the wire rarely utilize the select fire function when in contact with enemy combatants.
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Those sound just like Piers Morgan's talking points, no? Well, surprise-surprise, Dornan agrees 100% with Morgan on gun control, though he does worry that Morgan is hurting the cause:
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Mr. Morgan, the problem that many American gun owners have with you and your continuous discussion of gun control is that you are not an American citizen and have an accent that is distinct and clarifies that you are a foreigner. I want you to know that I agree with you 100% on enacting stricter firearm laws[.]
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The manifesto is thousands of word long and mentions dozens of people and topics. But politically, the manifesto is pretty clear.
respect is earned....obama hasn't earned respect.....it is hard to respect a liar, a divider, a distorter, and a deceiver...among other things......someone impeach this fraud!!!
If you are going to level the charge of austerity against conservatives, would it not be more effective if the federal outlays in 2013 were actually going to be less than 2012? The only austerity measures of any consequence in the 2013 plan are the $200 billion in new revenues from the ending of the payroll tax holiday, income, cap gains and dividend tax increases on the "rich" and various new ACA taxes on a variety of things and people, including the "rich". Are any of those measures tied to Republican policy initiatives? Even the $85 billion sequester was a White House initiative and got more Democrat yea votes than nay votes.
I think you are guilty of trying to mischaracterize moderation of the 4 year long spending blowout as austerity. Ask folks in southern Europe if keeping spending at last year's levels, and keeping trillion dollar deficits for more than 4 years is their idea of austerity.
All you libs that keep singing the praises of the Empty Suit should come to Elkhart and ask the folks there just how much better their lives are with past four years of empty promises from this pretender. You'll get an education real quickly on this liar's popularity which is down below 50%..........He can only tap dance for so long and soon EVERYONE will see this "spoiled child" for who he truly is.......
obama's approval rating is crashing through the floor...buyer's regret?.....obama is poison for our nation....
What has Obama focused on for the last 4 years?
1. A trillion dollar stimulus that didn't improve unemployment, it had the opposite effect.
2. $5 trillion more in debt.
3. $1 trillion dollar deficits but still a terrible economy and high unemployment.
4. Obamacare which is turning out to be filled with extra taxes and fees and has made health insurance worse, not better.
5. Amnesty for "dreamers" which at a time when millions of American citizens can't find a job doesn't make sense.
6. Gun control which has nothing to do with the economy.
7. Higher taxes on the "rich" which also has nothing to do with helping people find jobs or improving the economy.
8. Executive orders, recess appointments and the most liberal administration in history, all of which haven't improved the economy.
9. "Financial Reform"...did it make anyone on this posts life better? Nope!
10. Fast and Furious scandal, Benghazi scandal, tax cheat for Treasury Secretary and a President who lies to try and "relate" to the rest of us. "I go skeet shooting all the time"!
The media should be exhausted by now trying to defend this administration but as you can see from "first read" they are still at it. Making excuses and requiring absolutely no results from a President they adore. Popularity may mean something to them but it hasn't translated into a better future or a better economy for the rest of us.