The arrogance and condescension of this man knows no bounds. The country is all cowards now:
WEST NEWTON, Mass. – President Barack Obama said Americans’ “fear and frustration” is to blame for an intense midterm election cycle that threatens to derail the Democratic agenda.
“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country’s scared.”
Obama told the several dozen donors that he was offering them his “view from the Oval Office.” He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly” and said the burden is on Democrats “to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling.”
Read that again.
So what he is saying is that he never realized how ignorant and scared the people of this country are and he made the mistake to assume that we were all a little bit smarter than that.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this seeing as how the Democrats have always viewed the public as being unable to run their own lives. The government will take care of you since you’re too retarded to figure this thing out we call life. You make good money? Well gosh darn it, the government knows you won’t send any extra cash to charities and such so they will confiscate that cash and give it to those they deem more worthy than you.
Speaking of which, left unanswered (and probably unasked) – are people hard-wired to think clearly while euphoric about the possibility of hope and change? I’d hate to think Obama ran an emotionally manipulative campaign what seems like two eons ago.
Heh
This man has now gone well beyond Jimmy Carter as the worst, absolute worst President evah!
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MARTI: hi, I have to mention that I also think that once a big company show failure to rise up again by themself,they have lost their credibility, and usuely, many like small one,
let go and are taken over by a new one, or change name if they still want to continiue,
there by getting rid of the blood sucker which are guilty in a big way of having drown the company,
instead of working for it’s success. yes your right ,no bail out can fix a lost of confidence.
bye
As I said, I never engage in rebuttal. In this one case, I will break my rule;. Greg has broken one of my sacred rules, “Never believe the bullshit spewed from the mouth of a union representative.”
Only a frothing mouth drone would quote the so called pay rate from a GM company spokesman Tony Sapienza as the truth. Are we supposed to take the words of Presidential Press Spokesman Robert Gibbs as the truth? How about we go go back to the words of old Baghdad Bob to focus our sights on the truth? Hey, Greg? Drink from the fountain of Kool-Aid where you find it. Thanks for your delightful input. We just love hearing from you and ripping apart your sources. Those bums at GM would not go wee wee for $29.49 per hour. Geez.
@ #106
I’m far more inclined to believe information that comes directly from the most knowledgeable source available–in this case, from an official spokesman for the company itself–than the deliberate distortions of a special interest-funded spin-machine, concocted and repeated throughout an extended media echo chamber to further a duplicitous political agenda.
The fact that a deliberately misleading statement has been picked up a hundred times and unquestioningly echoed verbatim in a hundred different chambers does not magically render it true. All it suggests is the presence of a very large Kool-Aid fountain. Endless repetition is a basic tool of the propagandist, not the truth-seeker.
Over the years the UAW has bargained away the best wages.
So, older union employees are still making that $75/hour.
In ~ 2006 a new arrangement allowed some GM new hires to only make ~$29/hour.
More recently, in a move to save a few plants, GM (the government-owned version) made an offer to allow some new hires to only make $15.50/hour.
The UAW refused that deal, so plants are set to close and all who worked at them will be forced into taking early retirement, a buyout or 99 weeks worth of unemployment.
If You’ll Permit Obama to Play Amateur Psychologist. . .
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/10/18/if-youll-permit-obama-to-play-amateur-psychologist/
OLD TROOPER 2: hi, I say yes to your last words, because they where prepared to vote
with the hostile propaganda against PRESIDENT BUSH, made up way ahead to bring some people
on his side, letting them believe he would fix everything and now the moment of truth is telling another story, very different,from promises he was unable to cope with the priorities.
bye
@Greg:
These are labor costs for Ford employees, Chrysler autoworker’s wages and benefits were a few dollars higher and GMC came in second. These are current figures and include the concessions Nan G mentions in post #108. Employer costs….. wages paid to and health/retirement benefits for each employee are compared to what the competition pays.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4BB6VB20081212
Transplants=Japanese automakers, aka, the competition.
Sigh. the fun is gone. Greg has moved on. We no longer have a stinkbug under the microscope to poke fun at. Darn.
@ Marti,
BTW, in addition to enormous direct costs on the electrics and hybrids, is the “distributed” cost of all Tax Credits available for different models, with plug-in electric drive vehicle credits topping out at $7,500, depending on the battery capacity – payed for by your friendly neighbourhood taxpayer.
@ Missy, #111:
Thanks for that link to the Reuter’s factbox. It lays out the wage differences between transplant employees and UAW employees with far more clarity and fairness than an assertion that the average UAW worker pulls down $75 per hour.
@ #113:
Your friendly neighborhood taxpayer is currently footing the bill for billions of dollars in indirect oil industry subsidies per year, mostly in the form of preferentical industry taxation and enormously inflated defense costs related to the protection of their foreign petroleum supply chains. That’s how we’ve been keeping the cost of gasoline in the United States artificially low for years. When you factor all such costs in, the true cost of a gallon of U.S. gasoline is already well over $10. When you look below the surface, here’s really not much down there that’s free market about it.
Current electric car technology becomes cost effective when the cost of gasoline reaches $8 per gallon.
Choose your subsidy.
Greg
In the “Age of Obama” who in the name of heaven would believe any official spokesman for General Motors. I am sorry Greg, you are beyond amusing. You are insufferable.
But it is certainly delightful to have you back. I am tightening the focus of the microscope. Smile for the camera, stinkbug.
@ Greg, on your #115, The EPA just limited energy development in the Gulf that keeps US buying Foreign Oil at rising prices while technology is being restricted by HIS Economic & Environmental Policies that will never come to fruition to make US less Energy Dependent while His idiots meddle with things that are REAL and Not Theoretical. Under Obama, Fire would not have been discovered yet.
You are as economically illiterate and politically stupified as Team Obama. Without reduced regulation there is no bridge to affordable energy production that keeps America a step ahead of Third World Nation Status.
@Greg, we really only have one title holder to the FA village idiot, and john ryan holds that. I’m baffled as to why you are attempting to take his title away.
My suggestion is that you do your homework as to the oil companies who supply our domestic fuel, and where they obtain their profits. Hint…. they lose money providing fuel to this country partially because of the refining capability, and the fact that the amount of oil this nation burns, they do not harvest themselves. Meaning they, too, have to buy it on the open market.
But since you want to assault the 3rd or 4th largest industry in profits, you might want to get your sheeeeeet together on just WHERE they get those profits. And it’s from the P&D departments. That’s production and development, dude. And we don’t allow much P&D here in the US continental boundaries.
Meaning, they make their cash off of other countries not afraid to do P&D, and lose cash here. The accounting all balances out in the end… but it’s not for US business.
Mata,I think that Greg and John Ryan are trying to out do each other to replace that village in Kenya that is missing their village idiot.
Greg #115
Why must the selection be of subsidies? I say screw that. Toss out the EPA and the regulations. Let us simply drill in the gulf as the Chinese and Mexicans are doing (after all, it IS our oil) and drill in ANWR. And, while we are at it, screw the green economy and the people like you who think the way you do. I don’t agree with your options or your thinking. I don’t believe in the entire climate change scam and I am sure no one else on this thread does either.
@Randy… perhaps we can offer to extradite their missing “idiot”?
@Greg #115: Typical Alinsky. When you lose the battle (e.g. auto worker salaries), change the topic, this time to oil “subsidies.”
LOL, sad and predictable.
@ anticsrocks, #122:
I didn’t change the topic. Electric cars came up in posts 94, 95, 96, and finally in 133 with the introduction of the subsidy issue, before I even bothered to comment on it.
Maybe if people stopped launching odd off-topic clay pigeons I wouldn’t be tempted to have an occasional shot at them.
New topic: Six months after Obama signed the ARRC (stimulus) act, the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) funded three new supplemental grants in an effort to jumpstart (woooooo) our economy by creating or saving “millions of jobs” by putting a “down payment on long-neglected research challenges in our country. SO (listen up gang), $10.4 BILLION dollars was awarded to be spent in two years for significant research on the study of 1. Green tea (which is the source of EGCG 2. Curcumin (the herb) and 3. A 4-herb traditional Chinese medicine called PHY906 which has been imported by desperate cancer victims for years and mocked and aped by cancer doctors for decades. These grants were issued to 3 medical doctors who are as follows: Dr. Fazlul Sarkar, Wayne State University. Dr. Rakesh Srivastava, Univ. of Texas Health Center at Tyler. and Dr. Yung-Chi Cheng, Yale University.
Three doctors received $10.4 billion dollars in grants, folks. Now I ask you, how many jobs were created in this two-year injection of money to create jobs for Americans??? (3, maybe 6 jobs were stimulated and some funky doctors got one hell of a lot of money stuffed into their little alien pockets)! You want to know where I got this information? I have in my formerly nicotine stained hands a copy of the NCICAM News published in the Fall of 2009 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To obtain a copy of this newsletter call 1-800-4-CANCER. Just ask for NIH Publication No. 10-7407 Dated November 2009. And, you too can see how stupidly the Obama Administration spent our money.
For the records, I, your resident genius, in one of my former incarnations, was a master herbalist. I have known for years that Green Tea was rich in EGCG and and NK (natural killer properties) and that Curcumin is rich in NK properties. And, during the 1990’s was one of the states biggest smugglers of PHY906 which cost $50.00 for a day’s supply of the nasty tasting crap. But, it was imported from China and the 4 ancient herbs worked then and definitely are effective against lymphoma. And, I do not charge $10.4 billion dollars for the advice. Gob smacking information.
Oh, by the way, that little research center in Tyler, Texas, is a podunk hospital in a tiny town in east Texas that barely makes a dent on the map. And, Dr. Rakesh Srivastava is NOT on the faculty and is not even a resident on staff. I wonder where he went with his share of the $10.4 billion dollars. I am still trying to find out where the other doctors went. We all need to care where this money went because one of the doctors appears not to really exist other than for a few footnotes on some very old and remote, outdated research papers.
Now Greg, want to discuss this issue?
Marti, I am so glad to know someone who understands herbal healing.
I can’t believe how much they have helped me, even though I started using them with skepticism.
But knowing an herb, or green tea, is rich in NK properties is very different from trying to understand the mechanism of action of natural agents.
I knew an older woman who was a master herbalist.
But she knew nothing of how so much of it worked…..only that it did.
When we know how something works we can then use it even more correctly.
With something slightly toxic, like, for instance, Hawthorne Berries, we need to hone in on the right amount because too much will kill you.
And should it be an infusion, an ointment, or taken internally?
I bet there is a great deal of overpricing in herbal cures.
I bet that Chinese combo isn’t the only one.
#125 Nan G
HowdyMarti, Old Trooper here.
Nope. Medical Research is expensive but this smells like $200,000 toilet seats for Air Force One and Wagu Beef Banquets for a few hundred Socialists that defile 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue like it was a Louisiana Sporting House and Bar.
Common sense herbal remedies have worked for more years than I have been on the planet. Poultices that my Grand Dad made were very effective over the years for both man and beast.
Prescription drug prices are exorbitant but a healthy diet, physical exercise and barring genetic predispositions or accidental injuries, folks could do well with herbal remedies. I have TRICARE for Life so I have a better situation than most folks but 10.4 Billion Dollars in Grant money is like pouring borrowed gold dust down a gopher hole. Obama throws borrowed US Treasury dollars around like mardi gras beads. That is typical from a guy that never worked an honest day in his life and is economically illiterate. It is just OPM.
OT2 Is Tricare for life for your life or Tricare life?
@ Randy, it all depends on what Congress does to Us and when. You know the drill. I am not qualified for FEHC so we get what they don’t take away from Us and pay for the privilege.
Volt Fraud At Government Motors
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/550957/201010191855/Volt-Fraud-At-Government-Motors.htm
Green Technology: Government Motors’ all-electric car isn’t all-electric and doesn’t get near the touted hundreds of miles per gallon. Like “shovel-ready” jobs, maybe there’s no such thing as “plug-ready” cars either.
The Chevy Volt, hailed by the Obama administration as the electric savior of the auto industry and the planet, makes its debut in showrooms next month, but it’s already being rolled out for test drives by journalists. It appears we’re all being taken for a ride.
When President Obama visited a GM plant in Hamtramck near Detroit a few months ago to drive a Chevy Volt 10 feet off an assembly line, we called the car an “electric Edsel.” Now that it’s about to hit the road, nothing revealed has changed our mind.
Advertised as an all-electric car that could drive 50 miles on its lithium battery, GM addressed concerns about where you plug the thing in en route to grandma’s house by adding a small gasoline engine to help maintain the charge on the battery as it starts to run down. It was still an electric car, we were told, and not a hybrid on steroids.
That’s not quite true. The gasoline engine has been found to be more than a range-extender for the battery. Volt engineers are now admitting that when the vehicle’s lithium-ion battery pack runs down and at speeds near or above 70 mph, the Volt’s gasoline engine will directly drive the front wheels along with the electric motors. That’s not charging the battery — that’s driving the car.
So it’s not an all-electric car, but rather a pricey $41,000 hybrid that requires a taxpayer-funded $7,500 subsidy to get car shoppers to look at it. But gee, even despite the false advertising about the powertrain, isn’t a car that gets 230 miles per gallon of gas worth it?
We heard GM’s then-CEO Fritz Henderson claim the Volt would get 230 miles per gallon in city conditions. Popular Mechanics found the Volt to get about 37.5 mpg in city driving, and Motor Trend reports: “Without any plugging in, (a weeklong trip to Grandma’s house) should return fuel economy in the high 30s to low 40s.”
Car and Driver reported that “getting on the nearest highway and commuting with the 80-mph flow of traffic — basically the worst-case scenario — yielded 26 miles; a fairly spirited backroad loop netted 31; and a carefully modulated cruise below 60 mph pushed the figure into the upper 30s.”
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Thanks anyway, I’ll stick with my Nissan Titan trucks and do not burn any E-85 fuel in anything I own. How many new coal fired power plants need to be built to supply electricity for the lithium Batteries in that Golf Cart ?
barry is blaming any and everything but himself for the way americans think about him. he may be smart but has no common sense whatsoever. i believe his goal is to destroy the US and then have the middleeast start a war with israel and not help them which would be a disgrace. i think this will alll happen before the 2012 election because they all know he willl not get put back in. so now it the time. it would be a disgrace not to help israel.the man can talk forever and never say a word. he makes me sick. we have to get him and his cronies out of there before its too late and i fear it is already too late.God bless America and Israel.
OLD TROOPER 2, hi, that was a good comment ,I enjoyed al your comments ,, a good reminiscing POST this one is. bye