^Building all kinds of infrastructure, much of it a complete waste. American contractors get paid quite a bit, and park the money offshore. Total loss.
^Building all kinds of infrastructure, much of it a complete waste. American contractors get paid quite a bit, and park the money offshore. Total loss.
??? Who else is there to blame, he gave the order to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq without thinking things through, and what has been achieved, basically fok all when you consider the cost, as i said OBL has won, he's hit Americans where it hurts most, in your pockets and your civil liberties. Spin it how like with your left/right pointless arguements but those are the facts.
Better to be hated and respected for power than to be laughed at. It's pretty bad when even a Canadian provincial premier lambasts obama for the crappy relations between Can-US:
Premier Brad Wall has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama, saying recent American economic and energy policies are not good for Canada.
“People think in this country, perhaps they do, that the Obama administration is good for Canada,” Wall told reporters Monday...The facts say something else.”
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“When there is a recession, the sabres of protectionism start rattling and that’s what we’ve seen stateside,” Wall told reporters after the speech.
Wall’s comments come weeks after an article in Foreign Affairs...declared the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Canada has sunk to its worst level in decades.
Wall criticizes Obama
Yep, genuflect to your enemies and spit at your allies, obama. This is what you get.
Back to Obama arguably the worst president America has ever had. Heh, his Macacca Moment where he stated "You didn't build that" is resonating big-time. Now, he's trying to walk-back those remarks but just digging himself a deeper hole.
To wit:
The “You didn’t build that!” line resonated most quickly because it’s the clearest rebuke to business starters and builders in the speech. “Somebody else made that happen” gives the credit to whoever invested in the roads and other infrastructure, which, in America’s progressive tax system, are the very same successful people Obama is rebuking. It’s debatable whether the “that” refers to roads and bridges or to the businesses themselves, but the fact remains that the entire passage of the speech is an unmistakable slap at business creators. Context does not help him one bit. The context fully explains Obama’s innate anti-business mindset.
Getting back to the Obama ad:OBAMA: Of course Americans built their own businesses. Every day hard working people sacrifice to meet a payroll, create jobs and make our economy run.Stop the tape: In the Roanoke speech, Obama explicitly said that despite business leaders believing that they work hard, “There are a whole bunch of hard working people out there.” In the “Every day hard working people…” line in the ad, Obama has thrown himself and Elizabeth Warren, whose original remarks he ripped off without attribution, under the bus.
He then rewrites the Roanoke speech:OBAMA: What I said was, we need to stand behind them, as America always has, by investing in education and training, roads and bridges.Stop the tape. That’s not what he said in Roanoke. Here is what he said in Roanoke:There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.His Roanoke speech wasn’t a call to stand behind businesses, it was a call to guilt successful people so they will “give something back.” It was a call for higher taxes on successful people. Context, the original speech, proves that the president is trying to lie his way out of a hole now."
Material ripped from here
A Deplorable Bitter Clinger
Obama is getting more out of his "macacca moment" than Romney is.
Seems every business Romney has chosen to claim has not received help, actually has. The Gilcrest man in the Romney ads has had millions of dollars in government contracts. The businesses in California Romney visited had gained from government contracts and the garage owner in Roxbury had a government loan to start his business.
Americans aren't so dumb they can't see these people did have help.
Obama wins.
Thanks for the constructive reply , what America really needs is at least 2 or 3 more mainstream political parties who can each gain a decent number of seats in both your houses, might help in going some way to stop you all being so polarised thus preventing you from actually being able to see and accept what is actually going on.
Bush wasn't respected, he was ridiculed and reviled.Originally Posted by Minnie Maugham
You think POTUS should make policy decisions based on what is good for Canada? Should the Canadian PM make decisions based on what is good for the USA?Originally Posted by Minnie Maugham
That would be more akin to a new tower of Babel.
Maybe actually a good idea seeing how the inability to get anything done might precipitate the total colapse of the federal government. And the rebuild might be smaller and more manageable.
Or we might see state governments come to predominance and reject the federal scam altogether.
But you're right the current two party federal scam is bloated and broken.
I love this. Obama camp try to walk back the "you didn't make that" remark. GOP on attack, for good reason. LMFAO.
Don't think so Misskit
"The More Context You Get, The Worse It Sounds" - YouTube
Has Obama been Swiftquoted?
What's funny is Obama is still trying to wish away his attack on business owners. Obama pretends to actually like business and capitalism. He tells you all about it in his latest ad. And, he’s still trying to distance himself from his “you didn’t build this” speech from Roanoke. You’d think if they were going to go that route they’d at least scrub the evidence from the president’s website.
The speech is still posted at WhiteHouse.gov
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Seriously, can I ask why you bother watching all this shit when you've already made your mind up for whom you are voting?
Strikes me that this is just airtime filler. Thank God we won't get it on our news channels until about October, but then it will push any real news of worth off the air until the next muppet gets elected to serve and take the flak for big business.
The next post may be brought to you by my little bitch Spamdreth
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Just ideological/political debate is all, Harry...
he's not trying to distance himself....he's trying to illustrate how the romney campaign took his comments out of context and is running misleading ads...and EVERYBODY who follows politics knows this to be the case.Originally Posted by Boon Mee
i don't particularly blame romney for trying to run with this....but there is nothing in the president's remarks that need to be walked back.
here is the actual quote....in context.
and here's romney saying essentially the same thing in 2002
It's a shame that every four years, the world's (supposedly) greatest superpower is reduced to a couple of blokes taking the piss out of each other all over national (and international) television with their supporters brainlessly cheering them on.
And a shedload of "commentators" dissecting every comment and piling on every bit of positive or negative spin they can dredge up.
And given their dependency on their paymasters, it really is no better an advert for democracy than Iran's "Let's just check if you'll do what we want before we let you stand for election" version. Oh hang on. They're exactly the same, except we know who really runs Iran.
^ Completely agree Harry. It's a charade. Honestly, a bit embarrassing.
As for the polls with 13 weeks to go this may mean something, or it may not. As we know, it's all up to the Electoral College.
Entire: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Friday, July 27, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney attracting 49% of the vote, while President Obama earns support from 44%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
The numbers are similar to the 49% to 43% advantage Romney enjoys on the question of who is trusted more to handle the economy.
^ Thanks for catching that Landreth.
Edit in:
Landreth.
That link you post above is from November, 2010
November 4, 2010, 10:41 PM
you really hit the trifecta of irrelevance, barabaro.
the poll you cite is:
a national poll
a daily tracking poll
a rasmussen poll
IOW, it's essentially worthless for determining who is going to win the election.
I reckon when Romney is in the debates and foreign policy comes up, he's going to look a bigger chump than Sarah Palin.
"Good afternoon, Mr., er, Leader".
Nice one!
Well then, how 'bout a Trifecta + one of relevance then, eh?
Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
Barack Obama owns the largest four deficits in history.
Barack Obama added $5 trillion to the US debt in just over three years – another record.
The GDP is sliding each quarter – this last quarter the GDP slid to 1.5%.
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