Obama: Don’t blame me for backroom deals cut in White House backrooms
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The unmitigated chutzpah here is so blinding that I don’t just need sunglasses to protect my eyes. I need blackout curtains. Watch President Obama blame Congress for Demcare bribery and sabotage of transparency. As if Rahm and all the senior goons in the White House weren’t twisting arms and cracking heads to ensure that the deal met their boss’s timeline. As if the Cadillac tax break for unions hadn’t been hashed out at 1600 Pennsylvania.
As. If:
Takeaway quote:
“I think that this gets into a big mush. So, let’s just clarify: I didn’t make a bunch of deals. There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked. So, that’s point number one. Number two is that, I think, it is important to know that the promises we made about increased transparency we’ve executed here in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
“Big mush” indeed.
Of course, if he means “executed” in the homicidal sense as opposed to the operational sense, he’s perfectly right…
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That sure looks “as if” it qualifies as a lie.
What, a runaway Congress that you would’ve liked to turbo charge?!
P.S.
Almost forgot to add:
That excerpt could also be taken as a double entendre.
In one sense, the promises were executed…as in put to death.
Hey Michelle his “I think, it is important to know that the promises we made about increased transparency we’ve executed here in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” belongs in the Spending Freeze thread.
Another “Let me make this perfectly clear” moment. Most 4 yr. old children can think up better excuses.
You mean like a big, stinking pile of male bovine excrement? That kind of ‘mush’?!?!
Has ANYTHING about this White House been transparent? Hasn’t everything been “backroom deals” “behind closed doors”?
What transparency???????
Executed also means killed, right?
“Forget it, Jake! It’s Chitown!” (H/T spaceycakes)
This doesn’t even qualify as “spin”. It is just plain dishonest, shallow, and very transparent. Maybe that is what he means by “transparent”…that we will see through his lies. How can he possibly expect the American people to buy into these ridiculous statements? He really does think we are all “stupid”, doesn’t he? Arrogant, Chicago-thug creep. That man is pure evil. And the scary things is, he truly believes his own lies.
Bush has been sneaking back into the White House to cut deals?
When WILL his W.H. pass expire?
When you edit out all the extra unnecessary words, he seems to be saying he is happy he hasn’t gotten his way.
Either that, or he has no idea what he is saying.
“Let me be clear. The buck stops here with me. By that I mean that it’s not my fault. The time has come (thank yo…. thank you… right back at you..) the time has come … (thank you…) the time has come for open government and transparency. By that I mean closed government and opaqueness. Together I will lead us to a new brighter day!”
They claimed that the “Jeremiah Wright” and “Bill Ayers” that appear on the White House visitor logs are NOT the same Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers with whom Obama has associated for decades.
Transparency demands that we be told exactly who visited the White House under these names.
Are we to just naively trust Obama and believe that there is another Jeremiah Wright, and another Bill Ayers, who have had official business at the White House?
If they weren’t the Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers that Obama knew, who were they? And what business did they have in the White House?
Finding out the true identity of these visitors is like trying to find the true identity of “Ellie Light”.
Heck, I wonder if “Ellie Light” appears on the guest list…
Can this Ass Clown even think without TOTUS to feed him his lines? This is not spin, this is his method of taking a hand full of BS and throwing it against the wall to see how much will stick.
Uh-oh…
Al Capone would have been proud of him.
Yup. We can see right through you and your buds Barry.
“I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked”
He hasn’t changed congress the way he would like to because he is not the dictator yet.
Gee why didn’t he just say so…D’oh He sounds more and more like Nixon every day.
mush? Is that like being all WeeWeed Up?
Classic. Laughed hard.
Probably not, since cow manure can actually be put to good use.
OK, Bogey.
Good one!
it’s no wonder he can even walk upright with that nose growing day by day..ya think??
Maybe he walks backwards, and uses it for balance?
Insomniac: Right you are! When he bloviates, all he does is excrete more CO2 into the atmosphere — and thanks to the EPA, we all know CO2 is a pollutant!
Also, given his “imperial pose” when he sticks it in the air, if his nose gets any longer, the FAA will require a red light on the tip as a warning to low flying aircraft.
That’s the FIRST time he’s taken the blame for ANYTHING since he won the election!
The is just off the chart laughable … Who was it making the backroom deals? Bush?
I remember how the lefties went bonkers over Cheney meeting with oil companies top execs, when trying to craft an energy plan.
Seems like we need a little sunshine in those back rooms.
The democrat strategy needs to be simplistic so that even the moron-in-chief himself can understand it. The current Obama strategy is: “Say one thing, do another.”
If this bho isn’t responsible for one single thing for the last year, it is always someone elses fault, why the heck is he still at the WH? Gads, what a slug!
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He can already stick his nose into other peoples business from across the street.
Thanks!
#30, note that he’s only saying he is owning up to the fact that he’s not responsible for what’s happened.
So he’s owning up for not being responsible that the others are such schmucks!
The guys is the most irresponsible president we’ve ever had and that is saying something. We can only hope that this guy and his agenda are toast.
Uh, does Obambi know he is not in charge of the legislative process? I mean he might be taking lessons from Joe Biden about the Constitution again…
Nancy, Harry, and other Congressional Dems — how’s the view from under the bus?
INSPIRED BY ALOHAGUY
Doctor:
What is it he does now? Look how he rubs his hands.
Michelle my Belle:
It is an accustom’d action with him, to seem thus
washing his hands. I have known him continue in this a quarter of
an hour.
The One:
Yet here’s a lie.
Doctor:
Hark, he speaks. I will set down what comes from him, to
satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
The One:
Out, damn’d lie! out, I say!—One; two: why, then
’tis time to do’t.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and
afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our
pow’r to accompt?—Yet who would have thought the bill to
have had so much bribery in it?
To paraphrase Bubba Clinton, “it depends on what your definition of Transparency is”.
Bastille day looking better and better all the time.
Perhaps the President should place the Congress on quarter-rations.
Liar.
Yikes. Another suicide. Bloomberg is reporting that the Davos WEF chief was found dead in his room and they assuming it was suicide. Yeah. Right. Another drama queen who just wanted to go out in style with the whole world watching. I can’t wait to see how this develops.
That was the Davos WEF security chief.
Groucho: But I saw you cutting those backroom deals with my own eyes.
Chico: Well, who you gonna’ believe? Me, or your own eyes?
Groucho: But I saw you cutting those backroom deals down by the viaduct.
Chico: Vy a duck? Vy not a chicken? Vy not a horse?
“Reid and Schumer kept up the “shuttle negotiation” between the leader’s conference room and his top aide’s office, Boxer said. Keenly aware how tense the talks were, the White House dispatched two aides who together have decades of experience in the Senate — Jim Messina and Peter Rouse — to work with Nelson. They relayed their intelligence to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who monitored the talks from a dinner in Georgetown.”
The Empty Suit sings poor poor pitiful me way off key.
I suspect the Davos WEF chief of security was found hanging from a tree with his hands bound behind his back and stabbed 47 times. Details are sketchy at this point but Michelle Malkin is obviously to blame!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0BjhQEWsLDU
Groucho: But I saw you cutting those backroom deals down by the wire fence.
Chico: Why a fence? Why not a…
Groucho: Oh no, I’m not going through that, again!
Michelle, I wonder if you can arrange with the artist to post a picture with Odumbo’s nose a little longer with each new post.
I know, before long all we would see is his nose, but still…..
I’ve never had a pathological liar in my life until now. This guy is really unstable with all his contradictions and lies. And this is the top of the Democrat’s heap?
The teleprompters aren’t needed by him, they’re required by those who prop him up because he’s so pathological he can’t tell when he so easily slips off message and into his self-constructed dreamland where nothing is real, lies are norm, and the universe revolves around his cardboard facade and the sound that emanates.
Simcoe,
Think back a few years and conjure a picture of Bill Clinton. You have seen one before….
“The dollar is in the crapper, unemployment is sky rocketing with no end in sight, the debt is so high the US will never be able to make the interest payments let alone pay this off, but hey, You have me!!” Now thats something even the Onion could not make up.
Only Obambi doesn’t have Bogey’s balls…
I’m sorry, but listening to this dishonest POS we have as a president doesn’t make me any MORE eager to watch his very first State of the Union address. I’ve got better things to do with my time such as:
1) Prepare for an upcoming Job Fair so that I “might” be one of the lucky ones who can still get a job in this lackluster economy. I have my doubts.
2) Get ready for my anniversary cruise, which my husband and I have been saving for for the past year.
I hope that millions of people boycott this idiot while he plays to what little remains of his base and the poor schleps who are looking for a handout.
“Hello, my name is Barack Obama, and I belong to Pathological Liars Anonymous….
Well, actually, I’m the President …yeah…that’s the ticket.”
emjem24 said:
Given a choise between watching the empty suit talk, again and again, and taking a Hammer to my Ankle bone -
You are rather petty, don’t you think? All of our great Presidents used teleprompters to address six graders.
I’m not going to watch the State of the Union. I won’t even watch the videos of him Michelle posts. I just can’t stand to hear his voice or watch his mannerisms anymore. He disgusts me.
I’m not going to watch the State of the Union speech.
I’m going to the DMV to renew my license, and then I’m going to a Jehovah’s Witness dance.
Here in northern Virginia, we at Ragmen for America will be sponsoring a Neighborhood Watch Party during the state of the union speech, just to make sure that no un-(D)-esireables sneak across the Potomac from the District.
POTUS: “Hello, I’m Barack…it’s been 18 seconds since I told my last lie…”
D.C.: “Hi, Barack!”
And people thought BJ Clinton was a sociopathic liar…
Now don’t do that…. you’ll strain our already “greedy” healthcare system. The One will take your “sacrifice” as another example that he, and he alone, can heal our healthcare system.
Better yet, if you do that, you’ll get a cool-looking cast that everybody can sign! You’ll get more friends and admirers that way. Think of all the benefits.
Ok….ok…. just kidding.
He’s lied so many time that he has no concept of the truth. He has spent a life time perfecting the packaging which has become his public image. He knows more about presentation than a French chef. It’s all meant to deceive, distract and obscure the truth. He has taken lying to a fine art in an effort to hide the fact that he has never built anything other than his image; improved anyone’s status other than his own; accomplished anything other than rewarding corruption. He’s so stuck on himself that I’m surprised that he has time for a wife or children. He certainly has no time for doing what’s best for this country when it conflicts with what is best for his self-advancement!
He screams his own name during sex.
So the dropping of Cadillac tax on union Health insurance coverage and the dropping of Drug importation deal with Big Pharma was NOT done at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
emjem24 said:
LOL — I am thinking that given the choise between the two, I think I may just take the dog for a walk.
Ragman,
I don’t have my sector assignment. I expect it to be a target rich environment so I may need more than a standard combat load for ammo…
But let’s not bring up the Constitution, or such outdated concepts as “separation of powers”…
what a disgusting thought…having sex with that woman….
Do ya know why he quit going to Church?
He figures he’s only hearing his own words read back to him.
LOLOLOL. Now THAT’s funny!
This looks like he is trying to claim plausible deniability to raise his own image in the eyes of the voter. You see, he did not do anything it was all Pelosi and Reid who are only trying to fix what Bush did; therefore, Obama did not have anything to do with any of it and should not have to take the blame.
Of course this only passes for reality in Liberaland.
OT
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Buy milk, bread, beer and flashlight batteries now.
GFS is half an inch of tree snapping ice for Oklahoma City. Before the foot of snow…
Beer IS bread.
Good idea. Your dog will thank you. I have two pugs so I give this idea two paws way up!!!
He is lying. He needs to do more interviews like this so whoever opposes him can crucify him with this stuff on camera during the presidential debates in 2012. I hope the potential candidates are taking notes.
And it’s not that he didn’t get around to dealing with transparency. He specifically and purposefully prevented it so his minions could cut a deal with the unions using our money. There’s no way he was going to let those conversations go public.
Then there’s the deals we don’t yet know about.
This guy is in way over his head. His inability to manage makes GWB look like a genius. Clearly reading telepromters does not prepare you for a real job.
Looks like a clear admission that he’s just somebody else’s sock puppet.
vatodio; absolutely. these people really do think we are booger eatin morons, don’t they? they think we forget things in the span of a month if they just keep repeating the same old lie.
The WSJ reports today on Rahm taking the heat from the far left for his WH directed backroom dealings.
Everyone surely must know that Obama is just there to be a rock star, throw parties, take trips, give speeches, appear on TV as often as possible. Fun Stuff. Remember this is a guy who never held a REAL job in his life. Why else would he have so many minions?
He didn’t realize he inherited WORK.
Or Baby (Lauren Becall).
Why would you assume he wasn’t alone at the time?
Since Obama can’t keep blaming Bush, here’s a line he hasn’t tried yet:
“The devil made me do it!”
(Apologies to the late Flip Wilson)
Did he just throw the notion of Obamacare under the bus?
Obama can’t even look her in the face half the time. Guy is either embarrassed or trying to hide something
Lincoln’s portrait in the background, check.
Obama’s lying as usual.
I’m a little surprised he didn’t tap Diane’s knee or is that a guy thing?
Obama IS the devil. He and his whole crew are are creepy. So is Michelle Obama.
We’re going to have to smudge the White House when they are voted out. An exorcism will be necessary. Yikes.
Says Obama, Read my lips, no new union deals!
Yeah, OK…
To paraphrase Bart Simpson: “I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove a thing!”
Ah, but we did….
We can tell Obeyme is lying because his purple lips are moving. Loved the “screams his own name” during sex line–something to smile about. NOTHING he has to say will make me change my opinion of this phony. Time for a Bruce Willis movie this evening.