"Happy-Talk" from the White House, While Unemployment Surges
A total of 637,000 people filed new claims for jobless benefits in the week ended May 9, the Labor Department said. That’s an increase of 32,000 from an upwardly revised 605,000 in the previous week.
The 4-week moving average of initial claims, which smoothes out volatility in the measure, rose 6,000 to 630,500.
In the week ended May 2, the most recent data available, 6,560,000 continuing claims were filed. That’s the highest number since the Labor Department started tracking the data in 1967.
That’s all bad news, but there’s always “hope” in Obama-land, and Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, says…
Well, I think what happened is the free-fall in the economy seems to have stopped and we’re, I guess the analogy there are some glimmers of sun shining through the trees, but we’re not out of the woods yet.
“Some glimmers of sun shining through the trees…”
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Meanwhile, AFP says we're entering the Twilight Zone...
May 18, 2009 9:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
And for any globaloptimists in the house, here's a bucket of ice-cold water from Germany...
May 18, 2009 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the headline that's not understood - "For example, the worst U.S. postwar recession was in 1982, when GDP fell by almost 2.0%." I figure we should pull out of this one we're in and be back to normal by Fall, don't you? [Insert patented HarHarHar here ________.]
'Tis the season for closing our eyes and wishing - real hard. We're fucked in the economy, and all anyone wants to do in Make Believe-land is repeat, "There's no place like home." Kansas circa 2006. Jesus H Christ. Wrist-slitting levels of denial.
Oh wait, I got another one, Ruta. Someone told me the other day, the US hadn't "directly" tortured since the Philippines. That made me feel better. Whew. I'd been having one helluva bad dream. There were all these dead Hondurans in it. Creepy li'l fuckers. Or maybe they were Iranians. (Sorry. I always get them mixed up.)
Oh yeah, Happy Christmas, War is Over!!! And our new guy McChrystal's bringing a ten million Happy Meals to the poor starving Afghans. No Blood, No Foul!
Oh wait. Forgot one. Health care's gonna have a public option that's accessible to every member of Congress! I agre, it's so important that they include free dental. They have to look good. After all, they represent us, and it'd be gross if they looked like those English MP's! I'm not trying to avoid the real debate, don't worry. Was just working up to it. Personally, I think a real universal option - you know, one that includes every Congressperson - has to include hair treatment. Up to and including hair replacement. You might call me an idealist - but a person's got to have principles.
I can't wait 'til they propose Condi for the Supremes.
May 18, 2009 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm glad to hear from you, quinn!
But instead of joining in about the madness of more or less everybody...
Do you know what's become of readytoblowagasket?
No comments since May 3rd, an ominous date!
I miss that guy!
If you have some contact info, I'm at jacobfreeze at gmail dot com.
And BTW...
That was a great comment you left on one of the egregious astral66's diaries about the torture photos, where that chump kept asking anyone who thought they should be published...
"Do you get off on seeing little children tortured?"
Nasty!
May 18, 2009 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
My question was for Lalo35adm as part of a discussion the two of us were having, and if you're going to quote me, then quote what I said, not a complete fabrication, you lying pile of excrement. The statement I made to Lalo that you are referring to reads:
"Tell me again why you want to look at pictures of children being sodomized? That's what bothers me."
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/astral66/2009/05/do-we-really-need-to-see-photo.php#comments
As stupid and offensive that so many of the remarks are that you make here, it's nice to see you expose yourself once again as one of the biggest hypocrites here at TPM.
May 18, 2009 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that Quinn gave a good digest of your choicest, uh, suggestions:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/astral66/2009/05/do-we-really-need-to-see-photo.php#comment-3467746
I don't really know what else to say, except that I would have rather forgotten all of that.
May 18, 2009 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um...tell me again what you call it when someone completely fabricates a quote and attributes it to you?
May 18, 2009 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
My summary actually under-represented the nastiness of astral66.
May 18, 2009 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like I said, cherry-picked fragments from a back-and-forth between Lalo and me. And Lalo never did justify why images of child-rape should be made public. For that mattter, neither did you.
May 18, 2009 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Everybody on TPMCafe owes quinn some gratitude for nailing this nasty fanatic for Obama, "astral66."
May 18, 2009 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
And tell me again how you justify making a up a quote and attributing it to me?
May 18, 2009 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
This was a generic representation of your general attitude ("...kept asking...") and the only inaccurate aspect of it is that it under-represented the nastiness of astral66.
May 18, 2009 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
My comment to JNagarya was:
"Girl, there's no way you are ever going to convince me or anyone, that images of children being raped should ever be made public. Courts and prosecutors should see the grim evidence and do their job, but why do you want to look at such images?"
The whole argument I was having with her and Lalo was centered around the notion that images of child-rape from a criminal proceeding have never been made public and never should. Neither could provide any legitimate justification for doing this unprecedented thing. If there is no legitimate reason, then we have to move on to what would constitute illegitimate reasons for doing this. Of course, they wouldn't discuss this either, even when I made a direct provocation.
May 18, 2009 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you ever come back to this thread, astral66, it may or may not interest you to know that I significantly modified my criticism of you, in the comments on Doc Nebula's mean-spirited diary, Rapture of the Deeps.
May 19, 2009 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
As far as Quinn's digest, he did a great job of cherry-picking a bunch of sentence fragments and putting together a digest that removed the original context of the overall discussion. Big surprise there.
May 18, 2009 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll give ya a heads up, son. Where I'm from, there's two kinds of people. Cherry-pickers.
And Ass-pickers.
When you're in public, try to keep your hand out of your pants, kid.
May 19, 2009 4:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
HELLO??? Jacob Freeze??? That explains a lot!
May 18, 2009 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't worry Quinn, it will all be
over soon.
Condi and the supremes. Wow.
May 18, 2009 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Love the link. Dude lists 10 signs of a 2012 apocalypse. Here's my fave:
10. Have a nice day.
May 18, 2009 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just one more reason to enact a single payer health care system now. 2012 election? What election?
May 18, 2009 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
CAN'T WE ALL JUST TAKE FIVE MINUTES AND WISH OTHERS WOULD GO TO HELL!
May 18, 2009 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dick, did you check Saladin's link? The guy has this great End Times stuff, and then he lists his credentials & publications, including:
"Common Sense: Why It's No Longer Common" (Addison-Wesley, 1994) This book enabled me to pursue a brief career as a common sense consultant, with such clients as the United Nations Development Programme (assignment in Bogota, Colombia), and the American Society for Industrial Security.
I mean, how do you argue with a guy like this?? Look at another one of his proud claims:
"Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon Remembered" (Bantam Books, 1980) (co-writer). Written, typeset, printed and distributed twelve days after John Lennon's assassination, this Bantam "instant book" became a NY Times bestseller and was sold globally."
12 days.
May 18, 2009 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sold! I got me some canned food, gold in the mattress and ammo in my cabin up in Montana.
May 18, 2009 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
The consequences of voters electing incompetent liars, clowns, criminals and crony capitalists to run our government the last eight years.
Bush did to the US what his good buddy Kenny Boy did to ENRON, so suck it up ridgepole we won't get out of this quickly or easily.
May 18, 2009 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
The last eight years?
What are you, 12 years old?
Did you miss Nixon, Clinton, and Reagan?
Harharharhar!!!
Suck it up yourself, Buckwheat!
May 18, 2009 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
But don't worry about the financial services industry!
Goldman Sachs was selling for $53 on 11/17/2008, and now it's back up to $140!
That's "Change You Can Invest In!"
In the same time-frame, the Dow Industrials have gone nowhere, from 8300 to 8300 and back!
But not every industry has very good friends in the White House!
May 18, 2009 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, god forbid stocks in anything you don't approve of should rise. Clearly, there must be a betrayal somewhere.
But personally, if it means that maybe my college will quit calling me 24/7 begging for money to make up for what their endowment lost and I can afford to retire before I'm a hundred after all, I'm not going to be able to share your outrage. Oh, and if it means maybe my mom's TIAA/CREF pension payment won't be slashed by as much as they're warning next year, that would be kind of nice too.
May 18, 2009 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
ooooh... Time to go shopping! Never a better time to put that down payment on that [insert big ticket item here] I've always wanted. Can we give half a point for not coming right out and saying it?
May 18, 2009 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
In my world, lunch is a "big ticket item."
Unfortunately, Goldman Sachs already ate the free lunch, and all that's left for the rest of us is "investment truisms"
May 18, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, the president should totally be saying that the economy is screwed and we're all going to end up eating rats and fighting over the best cardboard boxes to live in while famine and pestilence ravage the land. That would work out great.
May 18, 2009 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama and his little friends were quick enough to predict doomsday if we didn't bail out his criminal friends in sub-prime banking, and there was absolutely no limit to how far they wanted to go... to save Goldman Sachs.
That would have been at least $20 trillion in guarantees!
But where the survival of the rest of us is concerned, it's all "happy-talk" and a ridiculously diluted "stimulus" that was undermined by humongous concessions to Republicans, and...
At least 150,000 people per week are losing their jobs, and assistance for homeowners in trouble is as nothing compared to assistance for the banks.
May 18, 2009 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Predicting doom if we don't do something is not the same thing predicting doom no matter what we do. The first one gets the "something" done or it doesn't depending upon how credible the threat and the proposed alternative are perceived to be. The second one, coming from the President of the United States, is an instantly self-fulfilling prophecy.
May 18, 2009 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fear Factor!!!
I guess it all depends on what scares you.
Obama and his friends were terrified that Goldman Sachs might fail.
Take no prisoners! Spare no expense! Ring every alarm in Washington and New York!
But 6,000,000 people losing their jobs and 8,000,000 people losing their houses is just "business as usual."
No need for excitement... or any real assistance for the little people.
Tout va bien... and Goldman Sachs is back up to $140, while the rest of the stock market is still in the toilet.
May 18, 2009 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly right, rootie. The bank bailout is what pisses me off the most. So unnecessary, still ongoing. Still utterly ignored...
May 18, 2009 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me too!
May 19, 2009 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry Steve, I know this may sound like a stupid uestion, but what exactly do you mean by that comment. Yes I know this sounds like a stupid question, but i'm curious and would like to know.
May 18, 2009 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
As Keynes observed decades ago, markets are driven by emotion as much as, or more than, any other factor. Its why consumer sentiment is so closely watched as an indicator of future economic performance. When people get worried about the economy going south, they stop spending and that can cause a recession or make it worse.
Presidents walk a fine line when they talk about the economy because when Presidents talk down the economy, it scares people in a way that other people talking it down doesn't and that fear translates immediately into even worse economic performance. If a President says "we may be headed for a recession," it can cause a recession that might not have happened. This is why they're so reluctant to actually use the R word until we're clearly and undeniably in one. Consumer confidence plummets, markets seize up, investment contracts. Gerry Ford made precisely this mistake. But on the other hand, if they go around blowing sunshine up people's asses and proclaiming that "prosperity is just around the corner," when, in fact, its nowhere in sight, they risk losing credibility such that even good news gets discounted and the gloom keeps a recession going longer than it should. (Bush, being a dumbass, went for the full blown optimism throughout 2007-08, right up until the bubble burst, but by then everyone assumed he was lying if they saw his lips moving so no one was paying attention.)
An additonal factor is that the markets know that presidents know that they should never be anything other than cautiously optimistic when the economy sucks. Presidents are expected to be cautiously optimistic. Its priced in, as the stock market people say. If he's mildly pessimistic, they assume that means we're on the brink of an economic apocolypse and if he's really gloomy there's a run on ammo and freeze dried food.
And you know something? I haven't heard anyone saying the news is getting better. I've just heard them say its getting less bad and its the news we're getting is turning out to be less bad than expected and That's what happens when you're approaching bottom. That doesn't mean hitting bottom isn't going to hurt. And it doesn't mean the climb out isn't going to be as much, or more, painful than the climb out. But given that we weren't sure a few months ago that there even was a bottom, yeah, seeing one is a hopeful sign even if its going to hurt like hell when you hit it.
May 18, 2009 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Last thing I heard Geithner say, today, was that while some things are encouraging, it will feel lousy for millions of people for a while yet. Not too sunny, really, but appropriately cautious.
May 18, 2009 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please break it down to me, what is Obama doing then? Seems to me he's cautious optimistic about the economy but always said it's going to be worse before it gets any better. Do you believe that'a what's he's getting at being cautious optimistic and do you believe he should be saying things like that?
Once again Steve, sorry for the weird/stupid questions. As much as I know about government, economics isn't exactly my strong suti lol.
May 18, 2009 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is not surprising that high unemployment rates would yield the highest number (6,560,000), but the percentage means more since we have a larger population than in 1967.
May 18, 2009 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jacob: You are looking for a savior, and then you castigate Obama supporters for looking for a savior. You have to get your head straightened out. What is it that you want? I know instant gratification is a wonderful thing, and we all seek perfection, but, Obama was handed a flaming pile of shit, that took about 20 years to push out. If you think it can be fixed in 120 days, you must be in the arts or something.....relax, stop pissing on everything, and try to be positive. It will make you feel better. And don't push the Koolaid rhetoric on me. I'm too old for that and it rings hollow. I swear, I don't know why I bother with TPM anymore. You are all helping me with cutting loose though. I'll wave as you all float out to sea, beating the hell out of each other and complaining, like a bunch of miserable old farts. The whining is so fucking annoying.
May 18, 2009 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who you callin' Jacob? Is Rut the former J. Freeze?
I'm on your side, the spleen is excessive.
May 18, 2009 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
'ndeed.
May 18, 2009 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
See above: Rut says:
"If you have some contact info, I'm at jacobfreeze at gmail dot com."
It pays to pay attention, eh?
May 18, 2009 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
He was not looking for a savior in the person of Obama:
"Why doesn't Obama have a better photographer to catch these precious moments? If he's looking for someone to show him as he really is, a sociopathic con-man with no more principles than a hockey puck...
I'm available!
Harharharhar!!!"
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/fname/2008/11/credit-the-photog.php#comment-3283051
May 18, 2009 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
And manners were not high priority:
'"Without heading away for heavy reading, I'll take a swing," says Tom Wright.
After all, blogs should be flooded with the shallowest possible bullshit.
Right, Tom?'
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/artappraiser/2008/11/does-the-free-market-corrode-m.php#comment-3283237
May 18, 2009 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Harharharhar!!!
Tom Wright is still looking for respect when he doesn't even bother to read the linked evidence, and responds with nothing!
And there's still nothing ad hominem about the horrific put-down he quotes...
Just frustration that after I take the trouble to gather evidence, he just blows it off.
"The shallowest possible bullshit..."
It wasn't about you, Tom.
It was about your comment.
But it's so much easier to try to make my criticism of Obama all about me, and it's almost impossible to defend the con-man Obama without setting up a straw-man to make a ridiculous argument that I didn't make.
May 18, 2009 10:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I knew there was something about that avatar that pissed me off.
May 18, 2009 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
THANK YOU KATE. Thank you for stating the obvious. I myself am tired of the pissing and moaning of the selected few here at TPM and if I could find a better liberal blog to get my news i'd go somewhere else. I know debate is good, but there's no debate when you got the same Obama haters like bluebell, Des, Oleeb and Ruta pissing and whining about everything little tidbit. I knew going into this that Obama isn't going to fix this country within 1 year or one second, that's why i'm optimistic that he'll get things done and there are many here thank God that believe that like me, you, Steve Katz, NC Steve, FreeRider etc. to name a few.
I mean I respect peoples dissenting opinions is there presented well and are resonable opinions. But I don't tolerate hate and spiteful opinions. Those I shun upon.
May 18, 2009 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
By the way, great post. You couldn't of said it any better.
May 18, 2009 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dunno. I see your point--the namecalling can be frustrating--but the "whiners" (I wouldn't call them that) are part of why I like it here. Every now and them, I'm even one of them (I'll never forget being told to "get a grip"). A counterpoint of ideas keeps me from becoming intellectually complacent (generally, I mean). And when it amounts to mere annoying peashooting, I just ignore it and rec what I like.
May 18, 2009 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah but there's counterpointing (like what we saw a few days ago in the posts about the torture photos) that was real counterpointing because there was legit points made by thr people who didn't agree with the President and they were well written and presented in a respected way. This is just a post fill with hate, spite and snark.
I get what your saying though and I do enjoy a good debate from people who's opinions are different from me. It good for democracy and it open dialogue and asks the tough questions. This does not.
Good point though worthlesscitizen.
May 18, 2009 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
KateO has set up a silly straw-man, and then congratulated herself for beating it down.
If only Obama's critics had nothing to say except...
"Obama hasn't fixed everything in 120 days."
But unfortunately for the United States, there are plenty of reasons to criticize what Obama has done in his first four months as President.
For example..
He has given away an average of more than $1 billion per hour to bankrupt banks administered by criminal bankers, for a grand total of approximately
$2.93 trillion!
And credit is still in strangulation mode!
Obama also killed 95 children in one bombing run in Afghanistan last week, and when I say...
Obama killed those children!
... I mean that the rules of engagement in Afghanistan which allow bombing civilian targets based on always questionable intelligence made it inevitable that large numbers of children would be killed by our bombs, and those rules of engagement are absolutely and entirely under the control of Barack Obama.
Nothing that came before the inauguration of Barack Obama forced him to endorse genocidal rules of engagement or mortgage the future of the United States to save bankrupt banks and criminal bankers still enriching themselves with multi-billion-dollar bonuses.
So when KateO sets up her straw-man, and pretends that anyone who criticizes Obama is just another millenarian left-wing whiner...
She is insulting the memory of the many children in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq who have already died as a direct result of rules of engagement endorsed and approved by Barack Obama, and...
She is also insulting the millions of American workers and home-owners who are losing their jobs and houses because Obama made it his number one priority to enrich billionaire bankers instead of helping ordinary people.
May 18, 2009 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, I knew you had to be in the arts. But, the melodrama is a little over the top. "Obama killed those children." Tone it down a bit and maybe I'll watch. Otherwise, you are as interesting as Dancing With the Stars. Subtelty must be acquired, I guess. Let me guess, you donate the proceeds from your art to the children of Afghanistan, you live in squalor so that you can empathize with the jobless, you volunteer at a soup kitchen every night. Right out of college you spent time in the Peace Corps, and then Teach for America. You are thinking of becoming a tapasvin to purify your soul. You might even join the Army in solidarity with the troops. You are almost amusing, but you're not.
May 18, 2009 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point Ruta!
Every time some administration or Treasury hack says "we're turning the corner" or "there's a glimmer of hope", etc... I just keep thinking to myself tha there has been no slowing of the foreclosure crisis which remains at 10,000 forclosures DAILY! That number has to be integrally linked to the half a million or more who are becoming newly unemployed each month. That 500,000-600,000 monthly unemployment number is frighteningly consistent and it isn't budging.
We are in a full blown depression and I think the average person is well aware of that, but our leaders seem to be in some sort of a fog and don't really grasp how desperate and grim things have become for the common people of the country.
May 19, 2009 12:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
The situation of ordinary people is likely to be disappeared by the media as things get worse. The few voices that still speak up for the powerless are getting fewer all the time...
Over at OpenLeft, for example, their traffic crashed after the election and now their grant support is drying up, and those were some of the only honest progressives who dared to criticize Obama when almost all the bailout and stimulus money went to banks and tax-cuts.
So now David Sirota is "pursuing other opportunities," and anybody to the left of Obama is classified as a freaky utopian.
And now the voice of voiceless is... just us, a few commenters on the blogs, along with a very few stars like Greenwald and Krugman, and otherwise...silence...
...while bankers divide the spoils.
May 19, 2009 2:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dude. Next time, you gotta do better than using "JacobFreeze's" photobucket for all your pics... And using "JacobFreeze" as your e-mail address... And using the patented Harharharhar approximately every other comment.
That had to be the piss-poorest attempt at reinvention since Symbol Guy. ;-)
May 19, 2009 4:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
In another universe, where I'm good at these games, Barack Obama is a truth-obsessed retro-hippy making art on the fringe of society, and Rutabaga Ridgepole is President of the United States.
But except for exchanging two names, everything else is exactly the same, so why bother?
May 19, 2009 5:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
America's not ready for a blue President.
The "rutabaga" thing, they can handle.
May 19, 2009 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
We blūgroes are not amused!
May 19, 2009 11:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Man, I'm glad I don't live in Blugrovia or whatever puppet state you claim to be the figurehead of.
Seventy percent of the economy is consumer spending. At least it was before we landed in this trash heap. There is very little that is rational about consumer economic behavior -- and "confidence" is a primary driver of spending.
I'm sure you'd go on Blugrovian state tv and deliver a screed similar to that blast of self-indulgent hot air up above. I'm equally sure when you'd finished saying, "We're in a world of shit, fellow Blugrovians. It's a relentless death spiral. It was good knowing you. Ridgepole out," those knowing, world-wearly Blugrovians would just nod their flat depressed heads and say, "heed, for the prez speaks the truth. We are surely in the crapper now. Let's hit the mall."
Of course, this situation never would have happened in Blugrovia. You'd have allowed the banking system to collapse to punish those damned greedy bankers -- they had it coming to 'em. And when what was left of equity in the Blugrovian stock market wheezed out like air from a punctured Zil limousine tire, you'd tell investors they had it coming anyway -- just man up and take one for the team.
Yeah, it sucks. We all got had. Even worse, we've got to buy off the bankers to save what's left of the economy, instead of dispensing the the righteous whup-ass they deserve. This isn't Blugrovia. And the war crap -- give it a rest. Even in Blugrovia you couldn't just pull up stakes and leave that festering cesspool behind. Not if you made the mess in the first place, and one of your flailing client states was on the verge of giving the bomb to a tribe of batshit crazy religious fanatics.
Obama has never claimed an instant fix for the economy. Or the Middle East. Or health care, or our SO2 and CO2-saturated atmosphere. But the administration is going to keep the message positive and keep soldiering on, because to do otherwise would be counterproductive. And irresponsible.
Besides, it's only been 120 days.
May 19, 2009 9:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are very cool, Mr. Meanie.
May 19, 2009 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
You said it better in a quarter the space. Peace.
May 19, 2009 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm new to this whole thing, so bear with me. Bush started this downfall last year, Obama is just finishing us off quicker, however, let's not forget how this all started. Remember Barney Frank and his infamous speech on the Senate floor 5 years ago? Forgot already? Easy to forget the facts to replace with what you want to believe in.
We heard it for 8 years. The vile, hate-filled speeches. The discontent for anything by our former president and to hear everyone bitch about someone saying something negative about poor 'ol Obama is wrong? Hypocrites. All of you.
I'll talk about Obama the way I'll talk about anyone I disagree with. If you can't handle it, Don't read it.
BTW - Every Liberal reporter and supporter need to start carrying bigger hankerchiefs to wipe the cum stain from around your mouths after a day with Obama. The guy has done nothing, yet he is revered. When he speeks, were supposed to take it as truth and the end-all-to-be-all? He doesn't have a clue what he's doing. He gets advice from a guy who ran Freddie and Fanny into the ground, yet they got million dollar bonuses and didn't see the "Community Organizers" at their doorsteps. Anyone actually seen the "stimulus bill"? It's available online. Count how many Dems and "Community Organizers" who supported Obama recieved their Earmarks and Bailouts. Oh, I forgot, Obama said there are no earmarks so were O.K. people. Obama said there were none, yet he didn't even read the friggin thing. I'm still glad I have the ability to think and speak for myself rather than someone else do it for me and rely on a helping hand that may or may not come. Take responsibility for your own actions and your own life. If not, We will not be there to lend a helping hand as we pass you by.
May 21, 2009 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink