Wow.. Obama is starting to go off the reservation here
-Geaux
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If Shakespeare were around today, he’d probably say that “the president doth protest too much, methinks.”
How else to describe Barack Obama’s hour-long harangue to an audience in Elkhart, Ind., about how the economy is doing fabulously well, and that the only reason people don’t believe it is because of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh?
Obama’s pique is understandable. After all, presidential candidates from both parties are currently running around the country bashing the economy — the one that Obama promised eight years ago would be going gangbusters by now.
“People are anxious and uncertain about the economy,” Obama said in the opening of his speech, to which his basic message was, “How dare they?”
Don’t people know about how Obama saved the country from the second Great Depression, or how he single-handedly saved the auto industry, or how his “investments” in clean energy and roads created so many jobs?
“By almost every economic measure,” he declared, “America is better off than when I came here at the beginning of my presidency.”
Sure there are problems, Obama admitted, but they are either the fault of Republicans in Congress who “opposed pretty much everything that we’ve tried to do” or of “longer-term trends in the economy that started long before I was elected.”
But Obama’s speech really went off the rails when he tried to do some “myth busting” about the crazy story that Republicans are telling the public about the economy: that big government, massive regulations and higher taxes have suffocated what should have been a blisteringly fast recovery since 2009. That’s when his own wild tales started.
Obama To Middle America: The Economy Is Doing Great, And If You Don’t Think So, You’re Dumb
-Geaux
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If Shakespeare were around today, he’d probably say that “the president doth protest too much, methinks.”
How else to describe Barack Obama’s hour-long harangue to an audience in Elkhart, Ind., about how the economy is doing fabulously well, and that the only reason people don’t believe it is because of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh?
Obama’s pique is understandable. After all, presidential candidates from both parties are currently running around the country bashing the economy — the one that Obama promised eight years ago would be going gangbusters by now.
“People are anxious and uncertain about the economy,” Obama said in the opening of his speech, to which his basic message was, “How dare they?”
Don’t people know about how Obama saved the country from the second Great Depression, or how he single-handedly saved the auto industry, or how his “investments” in clean energy and roads created so many jobs?
“By almost every economic measure,” he declared, “America is better off than when I came here at the beginning of my presidency.”
Sure there are problems, Obama admitted, but they are either the fault of Republicans in Congress who “opposed pretty much everything that we’ve tried to do” or of “longer-term trends in the economy that started long before I was elected.”
But Obama’s speech really went off the rails when he tried to do some “myth busting” about the crazy story that Republicans are telling the public about the economy: that big government, massive regulations and higher taxes have suffocated what should have been a blisteringly fast recovery since 2009. That’s when his own wild tales started.
Obama To Middle America: The Economy Is Doing Great, And If You Don’t Think So, You’re Dumb
Not to mention........most of the jobs were "part time" jobs. ghey
