Savior holds first fear-mongering press conference

The wealth-redistributor-in-chief, his High Holiness, is set to begin his first official prime-time press conference at 8pm Eastern.
Will he go all Howard Dean?
Will he get snippy?
Drinking game buzzwords: “Bipartisan,” “crisis,” “get the economy moving again,” “create jobs.”
Add your own.
Update 8:05pm Eastern. President Obama. “It is only government that can break the vicious cycle.”
Jobs, jobs, jobs. Investment, investment, investment.
Gag. President Obama claims to be acting on behalf of my children and grandchildren.
Stop, thief.
Update 8:13pm Eastern. Obama dissing those who have criticized FDR’s growth-stifling interventions. Attempts to shut down and whitewash the economic dissenters. It’s the Obama way.
8:15pm Eastern. BOHICA. Obama says trillion-dollar porkulus is “just one step.” Mentions Geithner initiatives still to come…here comes the new mortgage entitlement.
8:40pm Eastern. Huffington Post has a seat in the WH press conference room. Nutroots membership has its privileges.
8:58pm Eastern. Obama lectures conservatives: “People need to break out of their ideological rigidity.”
Repeatedly insists that there is no dissent among economists about his porkulus.
I repeat: President Obama, you can’t stifle this dissent.
Ends the press conference: “Thank you, guys.”
To quote Twitter conservative Lea Hendry Valle:”I’ll be holding onto my ideological rigidity until they pry it from my cold dead fingers.”
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His answer to Major Garrett: “I don’t know.” This, of course, was preceeded by about 2 minutes of total BS.
He is soooooooooo in over his head.
What has happened to Helen? That question made me cringe.
If you want to puke and go blind and cause permanent damage to your liver, how about “uh”!!
He has to step lightly on this subject because he was already scolded by Israel.
Reduce our nuke program ???
No way.
We need that big stick.
This guy is a terrible fear and panic monger. Unfortunately, as he probably predicted, the sheep in this country are falling for it.
Wow, a question from the Huffington post. What next, the Daily Kos?
Did it work?
Give one historical instance when Keynesian economics worked.
Now more than ever.
Due process for terrorists? So marines now are going to read them the miranda?
Uh…, Uhhh…. Uhhhhhhhh (times 100).
Sweet! No more keeping teh terrorist’s alive. Obama said he would abide by Geneva.
Awaiting summary execution of non-uniform partisans…
It’s easy to spend money, NPR lady? Of course it is. When it ain’t yours.
LOL. You’ll be waiting a long time, baybay.
So, he’ll prosicute criminal behavior in the Bush admin, yet if you organize a bombing of the USS Cole and kill 17 sailors, you get all charges dropped.
Ooooookay.
1. TARP was not Keynesian economics
2. WWII is a great example
Put debate aside and just swallow the whole stink’n piece of crap!
I am sick of this talk of how the national debt was doubled under Bush. Just how much of this excessive spending did The One vote against?
He just pissed off the teachers union. Charterer schools are innovative.
POTUS is sure being really negative.
Present totes counts, doesn’t it?
He voted “present”.
How many frigging times did he mention “Elkart”?
Have to say, the one statement I agree with Obama on is that it’s hard to give credibility to Republicans who have screwed us over so badly.
ARE YOU LISTENING, RINOS? The other side is telling you why you were so soundly defeated in the last two elections. TAKE THE HINT
I have spit more beer on my keyboards reading these comments! This is much better than listening to Prompterbama rattle on about uhhhhhhh uhhhhhhh errrrr ummmmmm NOTHING but BS! Okay, I’m drinking another beer! I have to say great questions and horse squeeze for uh er um answers. Thank you Mr. Prompterbama!
Great minds think alike.
ok, 24 is supposed to start now, Obabmi, STFU, get off the tv, real important tv is supposed to start now (including The Bachelor)!!!
I second that emotion.
He is right in one sense: the spending of congress under Bush helped (not caused, but helped) get us into this mess. Thank GWB and his “compassionate (i.e. big government) conservatism” for BHO.
This is what I got out of this “presser”.
I WON! I WON! I WON! I WON! I WON! I WON!
Helen Thomas refers to “so called terrorists” being harbored in the Middle East.
Obama kicks the hard economic questions to the Treasury Sec for later. “I don’t want to preempt him”. puh-lease Avoiding a good question so as to provide the Tresury Sec a day in the spotlight??
Obama leaves open the possibility of prosecuting Bush. He will “review uh Leahy’s uh proposal”.
One reporter says the crap sammidge should be a “relatively easy decision” and blames delays it on the GOP.
Adam Sandler’s movie “Billy Madison” (courtroom scene)
Somehow this came to mind…
Someone in the press should have asked him to spell it.
Early on, he made a comment about inheriting(?) $1 Trillion of debt…I yelled at the TV, “Which you are doubling in less than 2 weeks!!”
Which collapsed immediately after WWII, which was then propped up by
1. The Cold War
2. Vietnam
You see, when there was no market left for arms, Kennedy and Johnson created one!
Eisenhower warned about this “Military-Industrial Complex” on his last speech to the American people. You can see it here: Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.
Those who do not know and understand history should not use it as an example.
That wouldn’t work. By the time he got to the last letter you’d have forgotten what the first one was.
So I have to ask my believer friends out there…is this how you feel after Mass?
All hopey and warm and tingly inside?
Or is that just the copious alcohol?
Boy, this guy is going to go through a whole bunch of tap shoes in the next four years….10-12 minutes per question of soft shoe.
Is THAT how people get through Mass? Hmm, second look at Catholicism.
Even I’m not sure that I spelled it right….
You forgot to tell him Eisenhower was a Republican.
ok 9:11, 24 is now on, when did the network start the show?
Ashley Judd; “Elk-heart, and stop shhoting them from helicopters.”
Haha in a spelling joke too….
OK y’all:
Look at the AOL poll:
Somebody cache this now!
What did you think of Obama’s prime-time speech and press conference?
Thumbs up
Thumbs up
I didn’t watch
Assuming they’re all governemnt employees, than I’d guess that they feel giddy with joy.
Any of them who work in the private sector are probably trying to decide whether to kill themselves by gunshot, hanging, or drowning.
It seems to me the government was borrowing money heavily from the populace as well as rationing goods during that time. Ever heard of War bonds and stamps?
Do you know of anyone who would buy a TARP bond? Is anybody willing to sacrifice their comforts or volunteer to help the TARP effort?
Try sticking to a subject you might know a little something about, if there is one.
RedRepub,
You mean the same AOL polls that RedPill cited as evidence that Obama was actually losing every state except one to McCain?
Yeah…that turned out to be real reliable.
Bottom line, if you are still using AOL, you are probably too stupid to have an informed opinion about anything.
Interesting isn’t it? Thumbs up is winning HAHA! At least the rest are showing him in a downward spiral and I tend to believe the second one should be down but who knows with the worship that goes on with this idiot.
Your sense of humor is still impaired. Did you see what he wrote?
See anything odd there? Need a hint?
chap, RedRepub was only referencing the choices for the poll, not the results. There’s 2 choices that say “thumbs up” and there’s not a “thumbs down” as an alternative.
Just like the sheep that flock to your messiah PBHO.
Yeah, that sounds like one of our “reporters” all right.
That didn’t go well, I guess there won’t be anymore huh?
You had to point that out to his dumb ass? I thought he was one of these brighter than thou lawyers.
oops…
Ha. Sorry. What about a super duper two thumbs plus big toes option? Cause that is what I am leaning toward.
“Uhh, since the Republicans screwed the American people, they shouldn’t complain when I want to screw the American people.”
BO
Cal…
I blame the drink. As any good lawyer would.
The question that should have been asked but wasn’t:
Deep down, do you know that you are a fraud and this may prove detrimental to our country?
I still can’t get Charlie Gibson’s He-answered-each-question-as-a-teaching-moment comment. I guess the next 4 years will be a white-wash of any hoped for realism.
To paraphrase the great man of letters Lewis Black; I don’t have enough bread crumbs.
What a piece of work. talk with no points… breathing and being smarmy…. he’s a CIC that needs his hootch surprised with a concussion grenade for giggles.
I was waiting to hear someone ask him a real question like:
“So Mr President, what is the secret to your extreme coolness?”
2 years campaigning and answering loaded questions from these reporters and he still doesn’t know their names?
Imagine if you will, the stupidity of the people that voted for this dolt.
Obama is using the bully pulpit precisely to bully and scare America into accepting this crap sandwich.
HuffPoo is all about stifling dissent. That’s the only explanation I can give for being banned twice from there–since I don’t use profane language nor do I engage in ad hominem attacks.
Ridiculous.
As for Pres. BOHICA (I love that, MM!), I don’t want to BO anymore. My waist is getting tired. (Not to mention my wallet.)
Who said he didn’t know their names? He may not have yet memorized where they sit, but I guess I am willing to forgive that, seeing as I am just totally in the tank for him.
Did you notice he mentioned where each reporter was from as he called on them? “soandso from the AP”. It’s like he was taking a test on these guys.
does anybody besides us here have buyers remorse yet??? I certainly had it before he was even the democrap choice for dear leader….
Are you suggesting that we started the cold/vietnam wars for domestic economic reasons? That it was somehow keyensian economics gone wrong?
I listened to part of his tom foolery on the drive home, particularly on Iran, and, imagine if that had been Bush speaking in that manner. All the ah’s and um’s, the pauses, the lame answers. He would have been roasted alive by the left and the media.
Personally, I prefer someone who may create some words now and then, but at least is forceful and understands what in the hell he is saying.
Oxymoronic.
On February 9th, 2009 at 8:30 pm, Tazed and Confused said:
While Marxism is on the march, and winning (a more apt name for the “Cold War” would be “Cold Battle”), most don’t even realize that we’re at war. Though many think Obama is an idiot for not understanding the economic ramifications of this “stimulus” package, I’d argue that what we’re seeing is the fruits of a plan dating back to the 1920s.
We’re missing the ball here folks. Look past the rhetoric for one minute. We can all see the obvious economic flaws of this “stimulus” bill. We see the obvious effect Obama’s rhetoric is having. We see the results of past programs like this: yes, the economics, but think past that. Think about the power and control aspect of this. How many of the programs that we have today in our government have come from times like these? Social security? Welfare? Look at how big our government has gotten through the EPA, HUD Dep., Labor Dep., Health and Human Services, the FDA, CPS, Dep. of Education… Now he’s saying that “only government” is the solution?
It’s interesting, from an art of war perspective, how economic Marxism and cultural Marxism have now come together. (Economic: poor vs. rich; Cultural: changing the fabric of the nation.) We are seeing the results of the combined effects of the Marxist illiteracy cult (control of state-run schools) and sensuality cult (control of the cinema). If you don’t believe my words, that’s fine. I leave you with the words of those whose ideas are coming to fruition.
“By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. … With it you can erase our enemies as insects… Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. … And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known.” ~ Lavrenti Beria, Lenin University, in a 1933 address to a group of American/Marxist Psychology Students
“The family in crisis produces the attitudes which predispose men for blind submission.” ~ Max Horkheimer, former President of the Frankfurt School (Marxist think-tank)
“Literacy is the greatest obstacle to socialism.” ~ John Dewey (“Father of Progessive Education”; taught by G. Stanley Hall, who drew greatly from Ernst Haekal’s erroneous ideas dealing with embryo development)
“To prepare society for psychological control, the very soul of the individual must be destroyed in its youth by disturbing it with evil via forced schooling and media.” ~ György Lukács (learned from Dewey)
“I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural difficulties [Christianity].” ~ György Lukács
“A quiet revolution can be dispersed throughout a culture over a period of time to destroy it from within. Mass psychology and media can break the traditions, beliefs and morals and the will of a nation so there is no possibility of resistance.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
“The civilized world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2,000 years and a culture based on this religion could only be captured from within. By winning cultural hegemony, men could be made to love their servitude.” ~Antonio Gramsci
“Until man is convinced that the world has been abandoned by God, there will be no revolution.” ~ György Lukács
“Of all the arts, the motion picture is the most important.” ~Vladimir Lenin
“This weapon [cinema], which cries out to be used, is the best instrument for political propaganda, which cuts into the memory and may be made a possible source of revenue.” ~ Leon Trotsky
“We are obliged… to make amusement a weapon of collective education. The cinema competes with the church. This rivalry may become fatal for the church. The cinema liberates you from the need of crossing the church door. Here is an instrument we must secure at all costs.” ~ Severneya Pravda
Sun Tzu had it right: “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.”
Obama and the other Democrats know exactly what they are doing.
Then what is TARP money and where does it come from?
OH! I know. It’s to by up toxic assets. Right?
bybuyI have some War stamps and a few bonds, from my grandparents. I think the current population that voted for the One couldn’t handle that now, hence the giveaway at taxpayer expense for generations.
I could’t believe that he said FDR’s New Deal worked. I am suprised my voice didn’t shatter the TV screen. It was sooooo difficult watching Captain Big Ears without puking.
Send_me-Excellent. That is why this is so terrifying.
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SENDME (#174) has some very good points on how socialism is taking over our society.
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The parts about taking over the 2000 year old Christian traditions from within really ring true for me.
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My church–the Episcopal Church–is beset and divided by heretics from within preaching CHOICE (aka abortion), tolerance (aka gay agenda), and world citizenship (America Last).
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The church membership keeps dropping. And I cringe every time I see another media REPORT (aka whitewash job) about how we are all accepting the new agendas. The church has a death wish.
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Remember what Joshua said, “Choose this day whom you will serve. But for me and my family–we will serve the Lord.”
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John Bibb
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Keynesian economic policy attempts to smooth out the business cycle by spending during recessions and cutting back during booms.
The financial crisis was not really a recession (or a boom). The goal of TARP was not to stimulate growth, but rather to prevent a collapse of a financial system.
Yes, you are correct that the money for TARP came from the government. But not all government spending is Keynesian economic policy. If you don’t accept that, I suppose this conversation is over.
Thanks BillyMays for my laugh of the week!!!!
A little far reaching for my taste.
Unfortunately its just a natural trend for society to move this way. History has proved it with Rome, and now it is proving it again with us.
I concur.
He is a Marxist, his handlers and associates are Marxists and he uses whatever means possible to advance his ideology. Fabian,Trotsky,Alinsky
His actual father was most like Frank Marshall Davis and he exhibits signs of classic narcissism.
I love it when the pundits dismiss all of this out of hand as if they know it all. There is a lot more evidence for this, than against it.
Caring about our country seems to be the least of his concerns and the “Wasted Talent Media” is enabling disaster for this country!
I have read many comments from those that legally immigrated here from the repressive regimes that we fear and they recognize what is happening so clearly.
They have heard and seen this all before.
Read what Frank Marshall Davis was all about and you will know what Obama is all about. The title of his book is his subliminal warning to us, no doubt authored with a smirk by Bill Ayers!
Ayers- “America, Goodbye,goodbye,goodbye”
Two interesting videos and short commentary:
On February 9th, 2009 at 10:16 pm, Send_Me said:
You’re right, Send_Me, and your comment is an excellent one.
I think a majority of the commenters here at MM realize that the Marxists in our own country are at war with us.
Not the least of which is Che Obama
Soviet Ideological Subversion traces its roots to Sun Tzu.
It has four steps, which have been applied systematically to country after country after country:
1) Demoralization
2) Destabilization
3) Crisis
4) Normalization
Manufactured Crisis is being used to pass legislation which further destabilizes our nation until we reach the true crisis stage. From there, either of two paths (Civil War or Invasion) lead to Communist “Normaliation”.
What can be done to reverse this process?
The answer (don’t just take my word for it, listen to all 7 parts of Yuri Bezmenov’s lecture) is the RE-moralization of our country.
Some call that “revival”. Ronald Reagan called it
“a spiritual awakening and a moral renewal”.
Obama wants people to break out of their “ideological rigidity?” Well, when it comes to Marxist ideology, Obama is the total freakin’ poster child for ideological rigidity!
As for his supposed coolness, how does punctuating sentences with “uhhh” and that phony “I’m concentrating hard on my important and serious thoughts” facial expression qualify as anything close to cool? It’s like watching a darker skin-toned version of Ross from the show “Friends” trying to play President.
Oh don’t let dear leader hear you say that. The o told us several times over the last week that stimulus is spending and spending is stimulus.
You’ve just made the Conservative’s point. The Pork bill is the wrong type of spending; and indeed all spending is not stimulative.
Government spending is notoriously WASTE. For every $1.00 they “spend” on Welfare” somewhere around $0.25 makes it into the hand of the recipient. Yeah, it provided a job or two along the way but not really a productive job that actually added value to anything.
Take that $1.00 and put it in the hand of the consumer (through a tax cut which creates no jobs but also adds no admin expense) and the consumer spends an whole $1.00, creating a demand for more goods and services that the consumer purchases.
A natural trend for a Democracy, yes, but not a Republic.
What happened to the confident Obama – all cheery and giddy over hope and change?
I listened to him for a bit and got tired of the umms….uhs… And people thought Bush didn’t speak well! Obama speaks horribly. You could read his body language and see this guy is way out of his league. He was figity, his eyes darted around constantly and he could not speak cleary without the uh and um getting in the way. What was it about this guy’s speeches that made people faint in his presence? Because whatever it was, he doesn’t have it anymore!
Any of our enemies out there are probably rolling around laughing at him and the supposed leadership of America. He is a depressing man. Not much of a leader. Oh that’s right – he’s never actually had to lead before has he?
Borrow, Spend. Borrow, Spend. Borrow, Spend.
Now THAT is a vicious cycle — and one that will eventually lead to catastrophe.
If the dollar collapses and the Fed can no longer borrow from abroad … well, lets hope you and our children never live to see it.
The only way he would be that stupid is if he doesn’t realize that the exact same thing could be used against him once he’s gone. I do not think he is stupid, just really, really, really misguided. Read that last sentence in a Zoolander voice by the way.
I wouldn’t mind being wrong just to laugh at him though. Not to mention how ridiculous the Dems would look if they go forward with it.
I watched most of the replay on FOX tonight-
Observations:
1-How is that HuffPost guy actually part of the White House press corps?
2- The questions that made the President the most nervous all began something like, “Vice President Biden said recently…” or ” As then Senator Biden said…”
3- Another thing to thank W for – not calling on Helen Thomas.
Hey Mr. President,
Let’s start with your nominees, and confirmed cabinet appointees and than work our way up!
Above the law-
*Accepting illegal campaign contributions from overseas?
*Didn’t Hillary vote for a pay raise while senator, for a position that she now holds, disqualifying her per law?
*Like interfering in private contracts of executives? Isn’t that unconstitutional?
*What about your funny financing with Rezco on your home in Chicago?
*Hiding your records to avoid the supreme law of the land like our Constitution?
*How was it you traveled to Pakistan when other “Americans” were not allowed?
Nobody should be above the law but it seems the enforcement of law is as slippery as an eel within your party or does not apply at all!
Your right
It’s over.
This is going to get old fast. It was difficult watching more than ten minutes. When I left the room and came back ten minutes later I couldn’t tell if he was still answering the same question or a new one. His pauses made me think he didn’t have a clear stance on the issue but was trying to figure out how to answer the question in the best political way possible.
His message to the American people is absolutely clear. “You cannot do anything without government help. We will fix this and you need to get on board because we know you don’t have the courage or ability to persevere to succeed on your own” That sounds very much how democrats speak about affirmative action?
When Bush says: “Our enemies are determined to strike us.”, that’s not fear mongering?
It is undeniable that the economic outlook is very dark. We should at least try to do something about it.
“We should at least try to do something about it.”
So since borrowing and spending created this mess, you think borrowing and spending will FIX this mess lgm? Is that your position?
I watched the excuse for a series of mini-speeches last night, excuse me the “Press Conference”. I couldn’t get past how un-Presidential the whole thing was and un-Presidential Obama is.
I wonder how he is impacting the military and the regular fighting in the trenches folks? If I was about ready to put my life on the line for my country and my Commander in Chief, one look at Obama and I think I’d be rethinking my willingness to do so.
I don’t know if I’d be all that willing to let this guy command me into danger.