The Official Barack Obama Discussion Thread

[wafrederick]

Barack Obama will screw it big time including the congress and senate.I do not trust Democrats,raise taxes and want to take away guns.Most of the senate and congress are anti gun.Nancy Pelosi,Diane Feinstein and Harry Reid are big time anti gun including Obama.Barack will not make it,someone will assasinate him and it will be a white supremesist.Barak is a big idiot to me and a joke to our society.

[thrasher]

Originally Posted by 03cavPA

Why, yes, we ALL know that the Democrats staunchly opposed that war and not a single one of them voted for it. The incoming Madam Sec. of State springs readily to mind here.

Look, many have ranted and raved about how Clinton couldn't be cited for some of the things that Bush had to deal with. What will you now say when the Obama camp says, "it's not our fault, that other guy did it"?

I couldn't agree more. There is no question that Clinton had a hand in deregulation and other factors that played a large part in this whole mess. But that isn't to say that Bush and co. didn't also play a large part. Nobody saw this coming, not the republicans, not the democrats, not the economists. To place blame on any specific person or entity is simply ridiculous.

Barack Obama will screw it big time including the congress and senate.I do not trust Democrats,raise taxes and want to take away guns.Most of the senate and congress are anti gun.Nancy Pelosi,Diane Feinstein and Harry Reid are big time anti gun including Obama.Barack will not make it,someone will assasinate him and it will be a white supremesist. is a big idiot to me and a joke to our society. I hate anything and anyone associated with thinking and opinions that are different from mine

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[kris]

Originally Posted by wafrederick

Barack Obama will screw it big time including the congress and senate.I do not trust Democrats,raise taxes and want to take away guns.Most of the senate and congress are anti gun.Nancy Pelosi,Diane Feinstein and Harry Reid are big time anti gun including Obama.Barack will not make it,someone will assasinate him and it will be a white supremesist.Barak is a big idiot to me and a joke to our society.

Funny since there has been nothing but tax cuts discussed as soon as Obama takes office. If you seriously believe that the Democrats are going to be taking your guns, I think you have other things to worry about. Particularly the men in white suits.

[03cavPA]

Originally Posted by kris

Funny since there has been nothing but tax cuts discussed as soon as Obama takes office. If you seriously believe that the Democrats are going to be taking your guns, I think you have other things to worry about. Particularly the men in white suits.

Well, Obama's brethren in congress are talking about how unfeasible some of his proposed cuts are going to be.

He might be talking about cuts, but I'm not looking forward to watching even more increased spending with decreased income. Look at deficits now. A spit in the ocean compared to how it will look even a couple of years from now.

They won't have to take away guns. Slap a huge tax on it and ammunition will soon be unaffordable. Guns - ammo = big metal club.

Originally Posted by thrasher

Nobody saw this coming, not the republicans, not the democrats, not the economists.

You know, it's simply unbelievable to me that they can claim that. These people are spending their lives watching and adjusting the markets and the industry and they couldn't see how impossible it was to sustain the kind of growth they wanted? I'd have to call it incompetence (more like pure greed), and there's plenty to go around.

Obama answers to his corporate backers the same way presidents before him did. It's now his to fix or screw it up even worse. God help us all.

[wafrederick]

I am a member of the NRA and the NRA found about the truth about Nancy Pelosi,Diane Feinstien,Harry Reid and Obama.They all voted for gun bans which is not the answer.They need to learn guns do not kill,peole kill in the wrong hands!Obama voted for hand gun bans and making it a crime to shot an intrudor when he was in the Illinios state senate

[drunken monkey]

are you still going on about that one article you read in an NRA magazine?

[wafrederick]

Yes and this is true.Obama has history of voting yes on raising taxes.During the campain he pointed the finger at the wrong person for lost jobs,John McCain.He should of pointed the finger at his dmeocratic buddy and former president Bill Clinton for signing NAFTA in 1992.NAFTA is the worst thing to come out and I knwo proof of this.

[03cavPA]

BO is building a pretty good track record here. Richardson backs out over ethics issues, Daschle backs out, Geithner should have backed out, and the pick for the White House performance officer also backed out.

Who would have thought that paying income taxes was so hard?

Maybe we can all just not file returns this year and claim we "made some mistakes" when they call us on it.

[VR43000GT]

Originally Posted by 03cavPA

BO is building a pretty good track record here. Richardson backs out over ethics issues, Daschle backs out, Geithner should have backed out, and the pick for the White House performance officer also backed out.

Who would have thought that paying income taxes was so hard?

Maybe we can all just not file returns this year and claim we "made some mistakes" when they call us on it.

Let's try it...I am sure we will all be off the hook like they will be.

[03cavPA]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/firs...-institutions/

Obama to Limit Executive Pay for Bailout Recipients

AP

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration plans to limit pay to $500,000 a year for executives of government-assisted financial institutions in a new get-tough approach to bankers and Wall Street, a senior administration official said Tuesday.

Obama plans to announce the new limits with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at the White House on Wednesday.

"If the taxpayers are helping you, then you've got certain responsibilities to not be living high on the hog," President Barack Obama said in an interview with "NBC Nightly News".
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With each successive tax cheat nominated for his cabinet, this administration is less and less qualified to comment on anybody's pay and performance.

Time to put your money where your mouth is, Mr. President. I say we open the books and examine the tax returns of every single member of both houses. Start with yourself. Let's go back a few years while we're at it.

People who live in glass houses can't afford to throw stones. (transparency = glass house?)

With the recent 93k raise in petty cash that congress voted themselves, they aren't qualified to tell anyone how to even clean an outhouse.

[ExoticSpotting]

Originally Posted by kris

I think you have other things to worry about. Particularly the men in white suits.

After Hurricane Katrina citizens attempting to flee or assist in rescueing other civilians had their firearms confiscated, blatantly stomping their right to personal protection into the dirt.

Firearm confiscation isn't some paranoid, scitzophrenic delusion. It's happening.

[03cavPA]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...night/100days/

Obama on 'Tonight Show' Discusses Economy, Makes Special Olympics Joke
Some have questioned whether the president's light-hearted chat with Leno would strike a humorous tone when a serious one was merited

FOXNews.com

Thursday, March 19, 2009

President Obama sat down with Jay Leno on Thursday for a late-night TV interview that spanned a range of topics -- from the economic crisis to the presidential dog -- and even, at one point, featured the president joking that his bowling ability was suitable for the Special Olympics.

The bowling comment was a reminder of his poor performance on the lanes last year during one of his campaign stops. Obama bragged to "The Tonight Show" that he recently bowled 129 on the White House alley.

"It's like Special Olympics," he said.

Obama said he was stunned when he learned of the bonuses that bailed-out insurance giant AIG was paying its employees, and the payments raise moral end ethical problems. The administration's going to do everything it can to get them back, he said.

But Obama added the bigger problem is the culture that allowed traders to claim them. He says that's got to change if the economy is to recover.

"The larger problem is we have to get back to an attitude where people know enough is enough, and people have a sense of responsibility and they understand that their actions are going to have an impact one everybody," Obama said. "If we can get back to those values that built America, we're going to be okay."

According to NBC, Obama was the first sitting president ever to appear on "The Tonight Show." He'd already appeared twice as a candidate.

Obama's TV appearance Thursday came during a series of stops in California intended to rally support for his budget proposal and his solutions to the widespread economic troubles facing the country, but some have questioned whether a light-hearted chat with Leno would strike a humorous tone when a serious one was merited.

"It's not an accident that no sitting president has ever done a show like this," media analyst Steve Adubato told FOX News on Thursday before Obama's TV appearance.


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Maybe Barry should stop campaigning and stay in the White House?

Probably not a big deal, since the 'tards wouldn't get it, anyway.

[VR43000GT]

Luckly I record Leno on my DVR so I went and watched it after posted that. I am rather surprised he made that joke. It's not something you would think the POTUS would joke about.

[03cavPA]

In and of itself, it's probably not that big a deal, but the prez (any prez) ought to know better. Agree.

It's interesting that Barry seems to get a pass for it when you know G dub would have been tarred and feathered for it.

Then again, G dub wouldn't be on Leno, either. Not good form for the prez to be on a talk show while the nation needs him to be in the White House doing his job. There might be a reason no other sitting president has done that.

[thegladhatter]

Normally BHO is noted as a great orator, but w/o the teleprompter....he's worse than GWB by a long shot.
He don't be thinkin' too good on his feet.