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Oct 17 10 5:21 PM
WEST NEWTON, Mass. - President Barack Obama said Americans' "fear and frustration" is to blame for an intense midterm election cycle that threatens to derail the Democratic agenda."Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does (sic) not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country's scared.”http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43706.htmlIt's unclear how telling would-be voters that they aren't thinking clearly is supposed to enhance the electoral prospects of Democrats. But Dr. Obama's diagnosis cuts both ways. If his diagnosis has any merit, then surely it explains his own election to the office he currently occupies. Perhaps those who voted for Obama weren't thinking clearly, owing to their fear and frustration, fear and frustration stoked by Obama himself. In fact, he continues his attempts to stoke fear and frustration in attempting to get his fellow leftists elected to Congress. If he is successful (he won't be), according to his own psycho-babble, he MUST conclude then that their election to office did not result from 'clear thinking'.Dr. Obama can't have it both ways. Well, he CAN have it both ways with liberals, who will always give him whatever slack he needs, including their votes and their campaign contributions. But 'facts', which Obama implies he's very interested in, are clear: Along with Pelosi and Reid, et.al., have saddled the nation with trillion dollar annual deficits as faar as the eye can see. They have expanded the roll and scope of the federal government. On their watch, unemployment has skyrocketed and will not decline significantly any time soon. Home foreclosures are at an all-time high, as is the number of Americans on food stamps. After talking incessantly about 'shovel-ready' jobs that his non-stimulative 'stimulus' legislation was supposed to produce, he now admits that there WERE no such 'shovel-ready' jobs in the first place. It is' fear' and 'frustration' that has fueled every single piece of legislation that he has passed, supported, or still hopes to pass. From the 'stimulus', to Obamacare, to Cap and Trade, Obama stoked the very 'fear' and 'frustration' he now complains is responsible for the lack of clear thinking killing his party's electoral prospects.Obviously, it has never crossed his mind that his policies might have something to do with opposition to his party. No, no. With Obama, it's always someone else's fault.This is what happens when an arrogant, condescending, and economically inept man is elected to office.Hope and Change . . .later. iowan15
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sr,If Obama's statement is dead-on, then it cuts both ways, sr. Obama and the Dems were given the keys to government solely based on anger at Bush and on the fear they stoked over the economy. If Obama's statement is dead-on, then his election was not the result of a clear thinking electorate. According to Dr. Obama, we are hardwired such that fear and frustration prevent clear thinking.Further, Obama continues his attempts to raise fear and anger, warning that if Democrats are voted out, the nation will abandon persistently high unemployment and annual deficits of $1 trillion for as far as the eye can see and revert the the horrible Bush years of 5.5% unemployment and annual deficits of $165 billion. By his own criterion, Obama's attempts to scare people will prevent the very thing he complains is now lacking among the electorate - clear thinking.And it is quite clear from your little fit that you, like Obama, haven't a clue about what drives opposition to the Dems and their governance. Your post only serves to prove that point.Where I disagreed with Bush, I expressed my disagreements. In my view, he was wrong on amnesty, wrong to expand Medicare prescription drug coverage, and wrong to try to match the Dems penchant for federal spending. The Republicans did a lousy job of controlling federal spending. I said so at the time. But Bush and the Reps were Scrooge-like misers compared to Obama and the Dems.And, once again, I'll simply repeat that it's not at all clear why Obama and the Dems thinks that belittling American voters who oppose him and his party as irrational will convince those voters to vote Democrat. later. iowan15
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Oct 18 10 10:11 PM
"Meanwhile, independents continue to lean heavily toward the GOP in their voting intentions, a sharp change from both 2006 and 2008. Among independent voters most likely to cast ballots this year, 53 percent say they favor the Republican in their district, compared with 33 percent who favor the Democratic candidate." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/05/AR2010100500005.html
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Nov 15 10 7:14 AM
"Shellacked at home, shellacked abroad. President Obama's Asia trip is extending a losing streak with the latest setback - a refusal by other major financial powers to follow his lead to revive the global economy.The president's nostrums, which began with a call for stimulus-style pump priming by other nations, had evolved into a plan to ease wild swings in currency values and overboard trade imbalances. But he got next to nothing in showdown meetings with other leaders of the G-20 nations, or major economic powers. U.S. leadership, once taken for granted, has all but vanished, and no one's in charge.Wow, Fox News can sure be hard on the POTUS. Unfortunately for Obama, the above is from an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, which is as reliable a liberal rag as there is (having endorsed Pelosi for Congress and Democrats for nearly every other elected office, both nationally and in California. The lone exception was the endorsement of the Republican candidate for California Insurance Commissioner).
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Nov 23 10 6:41 PM
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve officials have become more pessimistic in their economic outlook through next year and have lowered their forecast for growth.
The economy will grow only 2.4 percent to 2.5 percent this year, Fed officials said Tuesday in an updated forecast. That's down sharply from a previous projection of 3 percent to 3.5 percent. Next year, the economy will expand by 3 percent to 3.6 percent, the Fed said, also much lower than its June forecast.
Fed officials project that unemployment won't change much this year, averaging between 9.5 percent and 9.7 percent. The current unemployment rate is 9.6 percent. Progress in reducing unemployment has been "disappointingly slow," the central bank said, according to the minutes of its Nov. 2-3 meeting.
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Dec 6 10 10:13 PM
George W. Bush’s job approval rating as president has spiked to 47 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
That’s 1 point higher than President Barack Obama’s job approval rating in a poll taken the same week.
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Dec 11 10 1:41 PM
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Back in July, your budget office’s Mid-Session Review forecast that unemployment would be 7.7 percent in the second -- in the fourth quarter of 2012. Will this package deal lower that projected rate? And also, is it going to do more to boost growth and create jobs than your Recovery Act.
THE PRESIDENT: This is not as significant a boost to the economy as the Recovery Act was, but we’re in a different situation now. I mean, when the Recovery Act passed, we were looking at a potential Great Depression and we might have seen unemployment go up to 15 percent, 20 percent -- we don’t know. In combination with the work we did in stabilizing the financial system, the work that the Federal Reserve did, that’s behind us now. We don’t have the danger of a double-dip recession.
http://www.whitehouse.gov...ess-conference-president
From the White House, December 8, 2010 . . .
The following day, White House official Larry Summers, National Economic Council Director, stated that the danger of a double-dip recession would be greatly increased if the tax compromise was not passed into law.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/12/white-house-failure-to-pass-tax-cut-compromse-bill-would-significantly-increase-risk-of-double-dip-r.html
Hope and change . . .
later. iowan15
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