Obama To Fox News And Tea Baggers: ‘Let’s Not Play Games’
Obama To Fox News And Tea Baggers: ‘Let’s Not Play Games’
President Obama spent part of the 100th day of his presidency today in Arnold, Missouri where he hosted a town hall meeting with local residents. During the town hall, Obama recognized criticism he’s been receiving from the far right. “I know you have been hearing all these arguments about, ‘Oh, Obama’s just spending crazy, look at these huge trillion dollar deficits, blah, blah, blah.’”
Obama then noted that the real fiscal problem facing the United States is the skyrocketing costs of Medicare and Medicaid, not the Recovery Act or bank bailouts, which he said are “one-time charges.” “If we aren’t careful, health care will consume so much of our budget that ultimately we won’t be able to do anything else,” he warned.
Obama then mocked the right wing’s tea bagger gatherings for their misplaced anger and, indirectly, Fox News for promoting them:
OBAMA: So, you know, when you see, you know, those of you who are watching certain news channels, on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term how we’re going to stabilize social security. [...] [L]et’s not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the Recovery Act because that’s just a fraction of the overall problem that we’ve got.
Watch it:
“That’s why I have said we’ve got to have health reform this year to drive down costs and make health care affordable for American families, businesses, and for our government,” Obama said. Referring to the tea baggers’ grievances, he later added, “We tried that formula for eight years. It did not work, and I don’t intend to go back to it.”
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Shorter Obama: Grow up…
April 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pmtea parties were led by FauxSnooze, right wing hacks worried about future…that’s cerious and we got no game!”
fixed it right on up.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:14 pmFox News’s Mike Huckabee responds
Who cares you couldn’t even get far with the religious right.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:15 pm“Obama To Fox News And Tea Baggers: ‘Let’s Not Play Games’”
Good for Obama to call out Fox News. Yes, Obama is simply saying grow up. In other words, stop acting like adult babies.
Memo to Huckabuck: Obama would know about the history of tea parties since he is a Constitutional attorney. Ah, duh…
April 29th, 2009 at 3:16 pmThis man has done more GOOD for this country in 100 days than Bush did in 8 years.
It WILL take a little longer however to undo all the DAMAGE Bush managed to do.
God start Mr. President.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:17 pmDear President Obama:
Quit playing nice with the other side of the aisle. They’re making it crystal clear they will have NONE of it.
They are on record as wanting you to fail.
They have said for the record that they will oppose EVERY thing you will try to do.
They cast ZERO votes in the House for your economic stimulus program.
And, just now, gave you ZERO votes on your budget proposals.
Wise up!
The hand you extend in friendship, courtesy, and bipartisonship will only be chopped off.
If they will not work with you on solving our country’s problems, the Hell with them and STEAMROLL OVER THEM!
April 29th, 2009 at 3:17 pmoh no, cue Tracy__5 and her teabag posting orgy in 3, 2…
April 29th, 2009 at 3:17 pmNo surprise that Huckles the Clown and the other Fox comedians have no interest in a serious discussion. Policy discussions bad for ratings, tribal rants and resentments good.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:18 pmGood on Obama. He is just what our country needed.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:20 pmThe Sour Grapes Sour Loser Tea baggers are all sad that they lost…boohoo….
….you lost, you are scum, fcuk off…what you think doesn’t matter anymore.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pmIt’s good that Obama has acknowledged that the Reichwingnuts are just playing games. They are desperate to regain power, and will go to any lengths to do it. They have no moral guidance and will stop at nothing. They are playing political games and they are losing badly, but they won’t stop. The remnant of the Republican Party is the greatest threat to the United States of America.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pmFaux News and Mike Huckabee still don’t get it…..those “tea baggers” were not who he says they are….they are just part of the Right-wing lunatic fringe. The authentic and real moms and dads were siiting in the audience listening to their President today!
April 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pmMike Huchabee is projecting, or watches FOX.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:24 pm(channeling in on our trolls…)
Whatever, Mr. Teleprompter!
(How’d I do?)
April 29th, 2009 at 3:24 pmFox News’s Mike Huckabee responds via Twitter: “Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
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Yea Mike, right! Playing the family grassroot game. It’s about time you Republican’s start helping, instead of putting roadblocks.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:26 pmUncle Ho I used to think like that but as a friend recently told me “Obama is killing them with niceness, who knew it would have worked?”
April 29th, 2009 at 3:27 pmHey Rev. Huckabee — I perused the news and web the day after the Tea Bagger parties and saw a whole lot of photos and videos of middle aged white guys with distended beer bellys wearing t-shirts or waving signs calling our President a fascist, or a communist and questioning his patriotism. If those people are your idea of good “moms and dads” no wonder your movement is rapidly sliding into irrelevance.
Just saying . . .
April 29th, 2009 at 3:27 pmI am both amused and appalled at those who are against fixing our health insurance system because of “higher taxes”. The people at the GOP tea parties screamed about how they were being taxed to death and how universal health care would just tax them all more.
Just a thought here. Universal health care doesn’t have to create a tax burden on anyone greater than what they have now, and it could be less for many.
Employers currently shoulder the biggest cost of health insurance — a burden that’s becoming more burdensome as costs skyrocket. If businesses quit paying health insurance benefits for their employees and paid just HALF that amount in extra taxes, they’d pocket more in profits, their employees would still be insured, and the taxes they’d pay would go a long way toward covering universal health care costs.
Individuals are also currently paying insane amounts of money for their health insurance — those who can afford it at all. Ask individuals if they would be willing to pay half of what they currently pay for health care in increased taxes in exchange for not having to pay for insurance premiums, and I bet you’d get a lot of takers. I’d take that deal in a heartbeat (although I doubt too much burden would be placed on individuals, since so many of them are not currently paying for health insurance — and added taxes would just be added taxes to them).
So, if employers win, and individuals win — who loses? The for-profit health insurance companies. Eliminating their gravy train means the entire cost will be less.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pmHuckabee “Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
Moms dads worried about their future is serious. And its a disgrace to see a “news organisation” like Fox News play games and exploit their fears for their own political agenda
April 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pmYes, Huckabee, I’m sure there were moms and dads at the tea bag parties. I have no doubt that right wing operatives procreate as much as anyone.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm14. Ape-Man Says…..
Ape-Man, why not pick both ?
April 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pmFox News’s Mike Huckabee responds via Twitter: “Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
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And most of the things these “moms and dads” claimed to be worried about were imaginary — such as “skyrocketing taxes”.
The reason they were “worried” was because they had been listening to the fearmongers too long.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pmWhy does President Obama even waste his breath explaining things to the idiot extremists and religious zealots on the right?
All they care about is unborn children, but once the baby is born they are against any social or health programs to help the baby or it’s mother.
They don’t really care about taxes because they would have been outraged over the Bush tax cuts for the upper 1%.
When the republicans are in charge of our government they ruin government agencies and make government fail so that they can push for privatization of everything for profits like Nixon did with our health care system.
They pushed the privatization of social security. Can you imagine with the fall of the stock market what would have happened to millions of Seniors retirement benefits and young peoples benefits had they been successful at this?
In short…allow Texas to secede and force all republicans to move there. Of course if this happened Texas would become a dangerous country full of religious zealots and extremists on caliber with Al Qaida and the Taliban.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:32 pmAfter listening to that bumbling idiot Bush for the last 8 years, its so nice to see President Obama speek. Bush didnt give a rats ass about most Americans. President Obama is trying to improve our country, and our image abroad. The repugs need to just shut up and get out of the way.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:32 pmI’m tempted…TEMPTED…to go onto Twitter just to rip into Huckabee using 140 characters or less.
Mike Huckabee Says:
“Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
You know, when someone doesn’t mention something in a speech, that doesn’t mean the orator is not aware of something. I could easily do the following Tweet:
“Astounded Huckabee still doesn’t know moms and dads worried about future voted for Obama…that’s serious and no game!”
Twitter, please PLEASE develop technology so people can speak their mind without having to narrow their thoughts to one or two sentences. I mean, Joe Scarborough’s thoughts are already narrow enough…
April 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pmI pay $12.5/year per employee for health insurance. If I could give even half of that in salary to the worker he’d be paying more into taxes. If I didn’t give it to him and I actually made a profit I’d be paying into taxes. If I didn’t have to give the insurance to new workers I’d hire two more people and they’d be paying into taxes instead of being out of work. Instead I give the money to the insurance company and the upper management takes a big bonus and sends it to the Cayman Islands and it helps nobody.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm2 points here.
1) Notice how Obama always brings it back to a policy discussion? They snipe and call names and he inevitably will work it back to a question of ideas.
2) To those who say ignore them or steamroll them. Like it or not, they are a part of the governmental apparatus. By ignoring them, you allow them to sit on the sidelines and snipe with impunity. By including them (or at least offering) you highlight the fact that they have no ideas.
Obama is doing EXACTLY the right things.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:39 pmPurple State Says:
Twitter, please PLEASE develop technology so people can speak their mind without having to narrow their thoughts to one or two sentences. I mean, Joe Scarborough’s thoughts are already narrow enough…
April 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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Then it wouldn’t be Twitter. That’s like telling the Coca-Cola company to start manufacturing cars.
And it’s not up to them. The 140-character limit is the standard set by the creators of the SMS protocol for GSM telephones. Changing it would involve reprogramming 2 billion mobile phones.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:40 pmUPDATE: Bassist and amateur presidential candidate Mike Huckabee twits, “I’m super cereal!”
April 29th, 2009 at 3:43 pmYou should Purple State although I’ll say it again, Twitter sux.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:43 pm“Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
Maybe, “Huck”, but they were organized, backed, & promoted, by your network. What Huck and the rest of the T-Baggers dont seem understand is that if we dont stabilize the present, there wont be a future that they claim this administration is mortgaging.
Letting all these companies that got too huge to fail…fail.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:44 pmLetting unemployment just go ahead and rise to 25%.
Letting the gap between the haves and have nots increase while you ignore there is a class system.
All of these things will only serve to insure that those children and grandchildren you speak of, will have a lousy PRESENT…let alone FUTURE.
What a loser that Mike Huckabee is, figuratively and actually.
The tea bag event that happened here had about 250 although the republican rag the poses as a real newspaper said 500 were there. But what you don’t know about this city is that its 51% Chicano and there was not one person of color. They were all white Obama haters, nothing more than that.
So Huckabee, you are totally lost in your asinine religion, which itself is a fake religion.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pmThose wingnut genetic throwbacks who were out teabagging on April 15 are so stupid they don’t even know exactly *what* they were protesting about.
And their wingnut genetic throwback leaders don’t know any better. They just know that a black man got elected President of the United States – and they HATE that.
Idiots all ought to be forcibly medicated – and then sterilized so they can’t reproduce.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:49 pmHow is it possible to take a man, Mike Huckabee, seriously when he proudly admitted to cooking squirrels in a popcorn popper for dinner while in college? Seriously? This man has a national platform to speak from? Really?
April 29th, 2009 at 3:50 pmDRxJapanese Beetle Says:
(channeling in on our trolls…)
Whatever, Mr. Teleprompter!
(How’d I do?)
AWESOME! And the funny thing in this clip is shows how witty he is OFF the promter. Bet the trolls wont mention that.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:50 pmYou tell em
April 29th, 2009 at 3:50 pmLeave it to the idiot GOP to use tea bags for their symbol of protest.
The Boston Tea Party was a protest over the fact tea business owners were being put out of business because of the ship loads of British tea that was allowed to go untaxed…. in other words, American colonists were being ‘WalMarted’ out of business.
def. of tea bagger:
April 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm1. n. A man that dips his scrotum and testicles into the mouth of another person. (as if dipping a tea bag into hot water)
ConservativeForProgress Says:
Huckabee just pwned the ‘pres.
“pwned”?
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya-
April 29th, 2009 at 3:53 pmMy goodness! You go President Obama! Drop kick those teabaggers to the curb. They’re incapable of any kind of serious conversation. Burn rubber on the GOP and leave tracks across their foreheads. The teabaggers need to move out of the way of progress. VROOOOOOM! This bus is moving!
Ding, Ding, Ding! Bring on the trolls! ROTFL!
April 29th, 2009 at 3:56 pmHuckabee is an idiot. Yeah, there were lots of moms and dads worried about their financial future. Problem is they are mad at the wrong person. They should be mad at Bush for having taken a surplus into a huge deficit and doubled our national debt, all the while ignoring the needs of this country.
I would have liked to have a talk with one of those tea baggers. I would have loved to ask them what they thought when Bush was running this country into a financial ditch and how what Obama is doing (investing in America) is not OK, but what Bush did (making the rich richer) was OK.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:56 pmMike Huckabee responds via Twitter: “Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
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Yeah, I luv it, tea parties?? racist signs??
Gov. Perry wants Texas to go it alone [YEAHHH, YEAHH], how come he’s asking the gov’t. for swine flu funds NOW? Why don’t all those ‘teabaggers’ that wanted to ‘go it alone’ fork over EXTRA $$$ for this medical catastrophy??
Remember the guy that infiltrated one of the PROTESTS and took the microphone . .
SCREAMING OUT: Let’s not forget, anybody here make over $250,000, well, President Obama will ONLY RAISE YOUR TAXES if you make OVER $250,000 . .
CROWD: YEAAAAAAAH, YEAAAAAAH, w-h-a-t’d that guy say?
ROFLMO, these bottomfeeders are sooo stooopid and they sooo UNDERestimate the intelligence of President Obama . .
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April 29th, 2009 at 3:58 pmUpdateFox News’s Mike Huckabee responds via Twitter: “Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
Of course it’s a very transparent game, otherwise this wouldn’t have been their *first* gimmicky Tea Tantrum attendance…it would have been at least their 8th. What were these ‘worried moms and dads’ comatose for the past 8 years?????
April 29th, 2009 at 3:59 pmFox News’s Mike Huckabee responds via Twitter: “Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
Excellent point. Glad to see at least one quote in there that was mature. Obama does not like dissent and he will do all he can to silence it. The trillions of dollars spent was not a one time thing. Since it was borrowed that interest will be around for many many years.
I fixed his quote for him.
“If we aren’t careful, interest expense will consume so much of our budget that ultimately we won’t be able to do anything else,”
April 29th, 2009 at 4:00 pmI’m sold. When I voted, I was very skepitcal of Obama. I wasnt randy marsh on southpark caressing his image on the TV. Butt let’s just say the way he handles critics won me over.
He has a quiet dignity. He addresses the other side’s complaints without giving them any fodder or raising his voice. When Obama says something like that the only decent rebuttals you get are stupified half truths from Huckabee.
Maybe its just nice to have a leader that can speak with integrity off the prompter, or on the prompter too for that matter (lol bush).
April 29th, 2009 at 4:01 pmI have said it befor but will say it again. The GNOP is scared and scared people are dangerous people.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pmConservativeForProgress Says
April 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Huckabee just pwned the ‘pres.
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Um…no he didn’t. Please do not confuse the president’s not wanting to dignify Huckabee’s remark with a response as being “pwned”.
However, President Obama DID say (although not as a direct response to Huckabee), “We tried that formula for eight years. It did not work, and I don’t intend to go back to it.”
Doesn’t sound pwned to me. Try again. But don’t try to impress us by using terms you don’t really know the meaning of. It’s not working.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pmLet me state this again……. The irrelevancy of Republicanism is sooooo refreshing!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 4:05 pmWho’s playing games? President Obama channels Pete Peterson & the U.S. Chamber of Commerce position on health reform.
One look at the Healthy Americans Act reveals for-profit health care the big winner. Citizens need to prepare to pay for their health insurance. If they don’t do it in time, a 15% penalty awaits. And local nonprofit community hospitals, they take it on the chin? It also becomes the screener for government required, citizen paid health care coverage.
Democrats look to make a bloody mess of health care reform. Europeans must be laughing their arses off.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:06 pmBank bailouts one time charges? Hardly, a $700 billion program turned into over $12 trillion in interventions.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:08 pmLIAR BASTARD!
April 29th, 2009 at 4:09 pmJohnM Says
April 29th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Obama does not like dissent and he will do all he can to silence it.
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Really? How, exactly, is he doing all he can to “silence” dissent?
Ah — he’s responding to his critics in a way that completely shreds their arguments. Yes, I can see how that might silence them. But that’s not exactly squelching anybody’s freedom, as you are trying to imply.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:09 pmConservativeForProgress Spews:
Huckabee just pwned the ‘pres.
Oh please. Those “parties” were nothing more than McCain/Palin rallies on steroids. Racist signs. Communist signs. Nonsense about promters. And not more than .5% of them made anywhere close to 250k.
Prove me wrong.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:10 pmThe bottomfeeders at fox will be IMPLODING tonite . .
Hannity will be salivating with nonsense, LIES and obfuscations . .
Billo the Pervert will somehow blame the NYT, liberal media and NBC for Mr. Obama pointing out he is not well liked [daily] by ‘a certain network’ ['cause only Einstein could ascertain which network, duh] . .
April 29th, 2009 at 4:11 pmThere is a difference between dissent and arguing one’s case.
Frankly, I’d like to see evidence where Obama has tried to silence dissent. If anything, the voters have been the ones who have silenced dissent by voting out those who do not represent their voices.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pmJohnnyboyM says:
You mean to tell me that Obama’s “free speech zones” are bigger and fuller than chimpy’s?
Wow! Who would have guessed.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pmPurple State Says
April 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
If anything, the voters have been the ones who have silenced dissent by voting out those who do not represent their voices.
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Not thoroughly enough, though. Michelle Bachmann still managed to slip through the cracks. And I cannot believe that her district is composed of all that many people as stupid as she is, or who agree with her on all her nonsensical ravings.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pmUpdate: ThinkProgress.org’s Purple State responds via comment: “Huckabee is pwned by Fox News. Obama pwned Fox News with his comment. It’s a viscous pwn circle.”
April 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pmThe federal government has become the loaner of first resort, in place of the private sector.
Restarting greed (with a tad less leverage) on the taxpayers dime is the Obama plan. Thomas Lee, a private equity bigshot, said in a Bloomberg piece:
“We’ve looked at several different platforms,” Lee said. The U.S. government is willing to provide financial assistance for bank deals, he said.
Private equity couldn’t buy much of a bank last summer, not without changing to bank holding company status. Between George W. Bush and his successor, private equity is seen as the answer.
In the same article, one private equity underwriter predicted more large banks would buy regional banks. So much for breaking up the “too big to fail.”
President Obama has populist rhetoric and corporatist implementation.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:21 pmmisscoleopteramolly Says:
Not thoroughly enough, though. Michelle Bachmann still managed to slip through the cracks. And I cannot believe that her district is composed of all that many people as stupid as she is, or who agree with her on all her nonsensical ravings.
I live just a few blocks outside Crazy Shelly’s district and I agree on all points. The sad fact is that the local media, which she calls “ultra liberal”, doesn’t hammer her on her BS. Most of her base are unsophisticated people who don’t seek news past the local headlines.
On the bright side? After what the GOoPers are doing by obstructing Franken’s seating, I think Crazy Shelly will be opposed by the most capable, well funded, candidate for U.S. Congress we’ve ever seen.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:27 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Huckabee just pwned the ‘pres.
LOL!! The president just “pwned” (whatever that means) Fox News! He’s not going to pretend they and the knuckle-draggers waving tea bags around are anything better than the guy in Philly who shot those cops. Good for Obama! It’s about time someone besides Keith Olbermann and Al Franken took on those shitbags over there!
April 29th, 2009 at 4:30 pmJohnM Says:
Obama does not like dissent and he will do all he can to silence it.
WTF kind of good stuff have you been smoking? You must be confusing him with the former presnutz
April 29th, 2009 at 4:35 pmTo Mike Huckabee: You look more like Gomer Pyle everyday…sound as silly as well. The tea parties were sponsored, advertised, and monitored by FAUX Noise and Dick Armey’s think tank. You can sell that crap to the wingnuts but not to those of us too intelligent to be a wingnut.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:38 pmmisscoleopteramolly Says:
Not thoroughly enough, though. Michelle Bachmann still managed to slip through the cracks. And I cannot believe that her district is composed of all that many people as stupid as she is, or who agree with her on all her nonsensical ravings.
If democracy was perfect, then Joe McCarthy wouldn’t have been selected to the Senate.
Bachmann benefited from a three-party race in 2006 and 2008, but yes, it’s amazing she garnered that much of the vote.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:38 pmSmoking “the good stuff” doesn’t turn people into trolls, RUCM. I think it takes meth, hard liquor, and huffing industrial chemicals to create trolls. And even then it probably takes a malformed moron to start with.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:43 pmUncle Ho Says:
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JohnnyboyM says:
You mean to tell me that Obama’s “free speech zones” are bigger and fuller than chimpy’s?
Wow! Who would have guessed.
You do realize the Clinton is the one that created the free speech zones don’t you?
April 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pmHe just guaranteed himself a one term presidency.
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You really have a thing for that Magic Eightball of yours don’t you Proud?
Proud Says:
Well now we know exactly where your clown in chief stands. I thought he wanted to be a uniter not a divider. He just guaranteed himself a one term presidency. He cannot mock an entire constituency and hope to be re-elected. ACORN better get out today and start finding more dead people to register for 2012. Sad that the only successful thing he has done in 100 days is scare the crap out of New York City.
You…again?
April 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pmSo he alienated 21% of the nation. You do realize that the other 79% of us sane people who actually know what’s going on in this country feel the same way about those T-Bag wavin loonies. Dont you? That and we approve of the job the man is doing, he’s at least trying.
And how DARE you insult the city of New York. Dont you dare make a mockery of what those people went thru on 9/11! Were you there? Doubt it..
If we assume Proud means the flyby thing and not the flu thing or god knows what, who here thinks Proud will provide any substanative evidences to support the bs?
I got a pay check that says Proud won’t do shit but post more crap Proud wishes to be true….
April 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pmThe trolls all sound the same.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pmObama shouls shut down Fox and arrest the tea party crowd. They are a threat to America.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pmdear raving lunatic troll “p”,
Only someone seriously deficient in their own beliefs would feel “mocked” and threatened by the following:
let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs
Get a grip son, learn to accept the reality which surrounds you.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pmDemocrats look to make a bloody mess of health care reform. Europeans must be laughing their arses off.
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Um actually they think it’s funny that we don’t have national health care.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:57 pmstateofthedivision, thanks for acting like the regular garden variety troll you are instead of the faux progressive schtick. I suppose you’re freeman too and got upset because nobody was paying attention. You’re just sad.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:59 pmObama needs to arrest these people!
April 29th, 2009 at 4:59 pmThat’s because they each use so many names.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:00 pmTypical snob response from Obama.
Only to a peon.
What else is ailin’ ya today boy?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:00 pmDoodlebug, I was going to compliment your recent posts. They’ve been clever. Then you go name calling.
Read the Wyden-Bennet health insurance bill and get back to me.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pmI can’t wait for 4+ more years of these well earned “b*tch-slaps”.
GOP PRESERVATION SOCIETY.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pmWanna expand on that theme Tracy_5? I’ll provide the argula. If you need the hot pocket or other gas station cuisine, I’ll tolerate it but please pick up your wrappers when we are done…
April 29th, 2009 at 5:04 pmObama needs to arrest these people!
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April 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pmWhy?
The snob one…
April 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pmSome details on Wyden-Bennett bill to cover 50 million people (it could be 60 million by he time the law is implemented):
Democrats propose setting up HHA’s with HAPI’s. Citizens would be required to purchase health insurance from a HAPI, an individual private insurance plan. If they don’t, the person will be turned into the HHA by a hospital or provider. They will owe all back premiums and a 15% penalty. This is the plan offered by two Demmocrats and cosponsored by Arlen Specter.
Alternative: everyone’s covered by a public plan financed by taxes. Use existing tax enforcement system. Why create a complex enforcement system to fuel for-profit health care profits?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:15 pmObama’s known attitude toward the American people
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known by whom.Those all bunched up over him or the rest of the population? Please support this claims with something tangible or are they just opinions of yours that you are expressing poorly?
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April 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pmThan it shouldn’t be hard to substantiate now should it? Time to dodge because everyone that reads it knows you will make no attempt. You look played out to them…
Opinions based on his own statements about those who are not in agreement with his own political philosophy.
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April 29th, 2009 at 5:22 pmWhy don’t we take a look at some of those in context, shall we? Please share with us the ones you employed in the process of conclusion drawing…
You mean when he said that disenfranchised folks cling to their guns and religion? Yeah, he sure was wrong on that one. Just ask the gun shops.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:25 pmI already mentioned two.
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April 29th, 2009 at 5:25 pmWas one of them “Either you are with us or you are against us”?Sorry I must have missed them. Could you be so kind as to give me the numbers so we can discuss them. I’ll assume you did not pull them out of context because no one objective person would think of such a thing right?
Proud Says:
Well now we know exactly where your clown in chief stands. I thought he wanted to be a uniter not a divider. He just guaranteed himself a one term presidency. He cannot mock an entire constituency and hope to be re-elected. ACORN better get out today and start finding more dead people to register for 2012. Sad that the only successful thing he has done in 100 days is scare the crap out of New York City.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
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You forgot to mention George Soros, socialism, and Islamofascism. Your trolling skills grow weaker by the day.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pmTracy__5 Says:
“Only to a peon.”
So goes Obama’s known attitude toward the American people. He already did it in Pennsylvania.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
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All he did is speak the truth. You don’t think many Pennsyltuckians cling to guns and religion and racism?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:29 pmSorry, Huckabee, tea bagging parties were planned, organized, advertised & funded by lobbyists & Fox news.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:32 pmSo how do you explain his numbers what with all this divisiveness?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:32 pmrich people own guns too and cling to bibles…
April 29th, 2009 at 5:34 pmI’m with Stateofdivision on this.
Obama is correct that Health Care Costs are going to Bankrupt all of us eventually.
And we could cut costs by increasing efficiency…computerized medical records ,etc.
And we could cut costs by promoting Prevention… because everyone agrees it costs less to treat medical problems early…
And we could cut costs by promoting healthier lifestyles, and cleaning up our environment.
BUT… To REALLY Get Control of Costs…we need a NOT FOR PROFIT, SINGLE PAYER System
We do not need a system that makes the TAX code look simple.We do not need a 2010 version of HillaryCare.
The Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, etc. have found a way to provide Health CAre for ALL their citizens for a lot less than we spend in America. We should too.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:37 pmUpdateFox News’s Mike Huckabee responds via Twitter: “Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
Oh, please, Huckabee, you dishonest tool, if it really were no game, those same people, yourself included, would have had massive protests & tea bagging against Bush & his crowd, who are the major cause of the financial meltdown & the enormous deficit. But you didn’t, did you? And remember, Repubs called anyone who criticized the president (then Bush) “a traitor” or “treasonous”. So I guess those terms must apply to you & the tea baggers now? And if not, why not?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:38 pmTracy_5 I know tons about rural America include rural PA and I don’t buy what you are selling in the least. If you don’t dig your Prsident whatever who cares that is your right but it seems most do so I guess you sort of have to just try and deal with it.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:38 pmFox News’s Mike Huckabee responds via Twitter: “Astounded Pres. Obama still doesn’t know tea parties were led by moms, dads worried about future…that’s serious and no game!”
Since when are the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Taxpayers Union “moms and dads”?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:39 pmIt’s sad, Proud, when all you have to attack Obama’s quote with are bullet points and conjecture.
Obama was pretty upset about the flyover in NYC. Do you really think that Obama orchestrated that?
Voter fraud registrations have been brought up by the RNC quite a bit before in the past. Do you really think that Obama orchestrated that?
Do you really think these are true? My guess is you do, Proud. Do you have any evidence these are true? As much as you will likely say there isn’t any evidence refuting them, we would like to see what you base your arguments on.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:39 pmCNN quick vote – vote now
How do you rate the performance of U.S. President Barack Obama’s first 100 days?
* Excellent
* Above average
* Average
* Poor
* Very poor
So far:
How do you rate the performance of U.S. President Barack Obama’s first 100 days?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:46 pmExcellent 31% 147960
Above average 30% 140094
Average 16% 77030
Poor 11% 52130
Very poor 12% 54815
Total Votes: 472029
You are a liar.
Phuck you you ignorant sexist a$$hole.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:49 pmHere Tracy you lying sack of crap: “Obama Driving Surge in Gun Sales, Firearms Groups Say” and it’s from Fox News.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:52 pmNothing like a FAUX thread to bring out the “Defenders of the Fair and Balanced”.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:57 pmobama teabagged the teabaggers. suck it, fools! is the message the president had for them
April 29th, 2009 at 6:00 pm23% rated President Obama’s job as por or very poor. Hmmmm, I wonder who those 23% are?
April 29th, 2009 at 6:03 pmAnd the stupid troll still insists on quote mining from a piece that refutes his own point. From the linked article:
Asked in a USA TODAY/ Gallup poll April 20-21 what was the worst thing Obama has done since becoming president, respondents named too much spending and too many bailouts.
But right now, he is primarily seen as a president taking action, forced to clean up a mess left by his predecessor, George W. Bush. And Americans equate his success with the country’s.
“Americans like him, and they want to give him the benefit of the doubt,” said Peter Brown, a pollster for Quinnipiac University. “They are skeptical, however, of the bailout actions he has the government getting involved in.”
I guess when one belongs to the stupidest 21% of the populace it’s hard to read more than the paragraph someone posted at some Reichwhiner site.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:04 pmso twaacccieee,
April 29th, 2009 at 6:07 pmwhat’s going to be your new beacon of hope after the repukies get their asses handed to them again in 2012? mass suicide?
Well for one thing Tracy_5 I actually lived in rural PA for a very long time and for another I have lived in rural areas in well let’ssee… 1,2,3,4,5 okay five other states and I live in a rural area right nowand I don’t know anyone that is all that concerned about the statement you wish to cling to. I also see strong evidence that this president holds preety good numbers especially when you consider the mess he inherited from the last horrorshow of an administration. So mostly I remain unconvinced of the product you are trying to sell….
April 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pmHeh. We’ve lost him, class. The test subject has been broken. The certain sign of insanity is the inference that God and guns are not logically contradictory.
If God needs guns, or soldiers, or armies, or even evangelists? Then He’s not omniscient and is, by definition, not God. And if one believes in God’s Providence? One would not be afraid.
Show me a person with a Buy-bull in one hand and a gun in the other? I’ll show you a person who shouldn’t be trusted with either.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:11 pmI suppose the evangelicals were all bunched up when Rove called them “nuts”…
April 29th, 2009 at 6:21 pmWell scrappleis only edible with ketchup. Lots of sentences are ended with “say”. Be careful of all the god damn deer, and make sure the bar has pickled eggs that are purple…
April 29th, 2009 at 6:23 pmskeptical as in reserving judgement. Is this the single word you wish to cling to as evidence? Damn…
April 29th, 2009 at 6:26 pmSeems there isn’t much call for architects these days that have issues with unions… Architects tend to be real salt of the earth rural rubes…
April 29th, 2009 at 6:28 pmMr. Huckabee, it doesn’t matter who LED these tea bagger rallies. It makes no difference if they are moms, dads, whatever. You certainly didn’t care when moms and dads were protesting the war, or other massive protests. You and your “news” channel actively did all they can to belittle those people at that time.
No, it isn’t WHO attends rallies that determines how “serious” they are. It is the level of awareness, knowledge, and intelligence among those rallying. We all saw the clueless, ignorant, uninformed morons that were attending the tea bag rallies. And that is why they are mocked as being nothing more than a stupid and petty game. A GAME that was essentially started and promoted by YOUR channel.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:29 pmA large region of low population density.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:31 pmWhat I refuted was your implication that the American populace is against the President’s fiscal policy. Being “skeptical” is not the same as “he’s not doing well”.
Though I’m surprised you have the wit to argue the niceties after yesterday’s embarrassing display.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:34 pmthat shit was already clearly debunked in #140 or whatever it was. If you wish to cling to it fine, but again regular folks won’t
April 29th, 2009 at 6:38 pmI know only a few architects and just one that claims to be an architect while also claiming to represent “rural” america.I think I will base my judgements on the few I know not the one that claims to be.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:40 pmThe same quote mine twice? Sheesh! From the article:
Obama’s 100-day grades:
• Domestic/economic policy. B-plus.
Obama has already committed well over $1 trillion in borrowed money to bail out failing banks, car companies and fiscally teetering states, and on road, rail and other infrastructure. Even some Democrats are alarmed at the size of his spending and deficits.
Asked in a USA TODAY/ Gallup poll April 20-21 what was the worst thing Obama has done since becoming president, respondents named too much spending and too many bailouts.
But right now, he is primarily seen as a president taking action, forced to clean up a mess left by his predecessor, George W. Bush. And Americans equate his success with the country’s.
“Americans like him, and they want to give him the benefit of the doubt,” said Peter Brown, a pollster for Quinnipiac University. “They are skeptical, however, of the bailout actions he has the government getting involved in.”
• Foreign policy. B
Are you still going to try and spin a “B plus” as “not doing well” and “I hope I didn’t make a mistake when I voted”?
April 29th, 2009 at 6:42 pmHEAR! HEAR!!
April 29th, 2009 at 6:43 pmpete:
April 29th, 2009 at 6:45 pmReading comprehension is not what it once was. Damn you can’t hardly swing a fisher cat round these parts without hitting a wild turkey… Nature abounds…
All the architects I know went to upscale schools in not so rural areas and live lifestyles that I wouldn’t say fit your rural america stereotype. Is it just that they are more successful? Which school did you go to and what is the name of your firm again?
April 29th, 2009 at 6:50 pmNot quite.
The issue at hand relates to your equating what people are most worried about with what ALL people are worried about and how that relates to his over all high ratings.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:51 pmand I expect some understanbding of big words like “skeptical”
April 29th, 2009 at 6:51 pmSo now we get the acknowledgement that overal lpeople feel he is doing well. I am so glad the population is so much more statisfied with the new administration as opposed to the last. Nice to see us moving forward…
April 29th, 2009 at 6:55 pmdbadass:
Not much for critters around here except for bunnies. I did flush the local pheasant the other day and I’ve spotted a green heron on the local pond a few times. The ducks and geese have thinned out so I imagine many of them are brooding.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:56 pmI have a question. Why do you design leaky buildings?
April 29th, 2009 at 7:16 pmWow, four RHF posts in a row to skip. Makes catching up on a thread easier when RHF spams hate.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:18 pmI guess B.O. (body odor) has forgotten that Rush has invited him to a one on one debate (No Teleprompter) and Rush said he would pick up the whole cost of the debate…including travel of all people including security. He said the only rule would be that the debate be telecast live…with no outside interference…or monitor.
B.O. is SCARED to do it because Rush would chew his butt up one side and down the other on B.O.’s liberal issues. Why hasn’t B.O. responded to this challenge? What is he afraid of? Why hasn’t the other networks brought this to the American public’s attention except EIB & Fox?
I guess without George Soro’s programing the teleprompter…it will not happen? B.O. is a joke. 100 days of failure.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:34 pmPoor RC still thinks that the President should listen to an entertainer. Get over it, moron. Rush has no standing except in the Wing Nut Hall of Shame.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:49 pmYou can’t argue with a troll like that. Another one goes completely off the rails.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:53 pm…
just dropping by…
when i heard this, my heart rose and i smiled so big!
so glad to know he’s paying real attention… and not afraid
to scold the idjits…
thank you, mr. president… thank you so very much.
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April 29th, 2009 at 7:55 pmRealityCheck isn’t real and does not expect to be taken seriously
April 29th, 2009 at 8:00 pmSo Tracy, how were your classes in the art school?
April 29th, 2009 at 8:19 pmdbadass (dstankass) Says: nothing again.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:32 pmWhy would anyone be stupid enough to be interview by Rush? I would be embarrassed to appear on his show.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:53 pmRealityCheck Says:
I guess without George Soro’s programing the teleprompter…it will not happen?
April 29th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Didja happen to notice during tonight’s press conference that President Obama did speak quite well without an effing teleprompter? Now STFU about it! And that goes for any of you other trolls who keep bringing it up! It’s just childish and stupid.
BTW, I flagged you, d!ckhead.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:37 pmhttp://www.reason.com/news/show/133177.html
Read it.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:46 pmPoor trollies. Their little pointy heads are exploding.
Good thing they’re all empty — or there’d be one hell of a mess to clean up.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:47 pmAre you still a Libertarian who has no idea what is in the Libertarian Party platform?
April 30th, 2009 at 1:53 amTracy__5 Says:
The issue at hand was specifically about people not being happy with the spending and the bailouts, not the he isn’t doing an overall good job.
I’m not happy with the spending and the bailouts. I wish they hadn’t been made necessary. I hope they work. And I hope the consequences of them aren’t too much.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:35 amRP2012 Says:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/133177.html
Read it.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:37 amAccording to Pajamas Media…
I’m done.
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April 30th, 2009 at 8:22 amSesli Chat
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Please stop using the term tea bagger when referring to these people. It’s not only a silly slur against them, it’s a silly slur against gay men, as well.
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April 30th, 2009 at 8:23 amMakeThemAccountable.com
Caro Says:
Please stop using the term tea bagger when referring to these people. It’s not only a silly slur against them, it’s a silly slur against gay men, as well.
It’s not a slur against gay men. Straight people can teabag.
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Tracy__5 Says:
…it’s the crap labor that in some cases is unionized that the owner hires that does poor work.
Nice finger-pointing there; you should run for office.
In some cases? In some cases the workers are Republicans. So by your logical method, that means Republicans can’t make buildings that don’t leak.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:48 amWOW. A day later and Tracy is still defending the un-defendable.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:51 amYou heard what I said. Dont look confused.
April 30th, 2009 at 3:40 pmTracy__5 Says:
You got the gist of the logic wrong…again. Even you pointed out “in some cases”. You logic of saying that Republicans CAN’T build buildings the don’t leak is extremely flawed if not down right obtuse.
You were implying that union labor is substandard. I gave a counterargument regarding how that same implication could be made of any group. The underlying logic (of your implication) is indeed extremely flawed if not downright obtuse. Stop using such.
April 30th, 2009 at 4:55 pmGiven the success of the Tea Bagging event heavily promoted by Glenn Beck and the other scrotally-challenged clowns at FOX News, next week the GOP plans to promote a new campaign which celebrates the BEST policies of the Republican Party. They plan to call it “conservative bestiality”.
This will be followed up with a series of programs devoted to how increasing tax cuts for corporations and the ultra-wealthy will rain wealth on the rest of America. The name for this event: “Trickle-down economics lead to Golden Showers”.
Stay tuned.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:21 am