In half a century we've gone from "Ask not what your country can do for you..." to

[Maven]

"Eat your peas" ... ?

Really, Democrats?

[DJ13]

1. A populace dumbed down is easier to control

Ask Nancy Grace.

[MichiganVote]

2. Thank you. Takes an Ivy league education to elucidate that???

[Warren Stupidity]

3. actually we've gone to "pay us what you owe us you sniveling boot licking

corporate asshats"

[msongs]

4. the republicans are running the show as Obama will not fight back. oh well, thats how he is nt

[tridim]

5. An Inaugural address != A press conference

Think before posting.

That said, "Eat your peas" is pretty freaking genius, unless of course you don't think Congress and specifically the GOP are acting like fucking children.

[Joe the Revelator]

6. Yes, the POTUS using a metaphor to attack a republican is grounds for dems to turn against him

Bizarre.

[Major Hogwash]

7. He was talking to them like they were children!!

Like that's going to work!
His next act is to threaten to send them all to bed early on August 1st if they haven't raised the debt ceiling by then!

Like that's going to work!

[PDJane]

8. Speaking to them as though they are adults

hasn't worked particularly well, either.

[handmade34]

9. bingo!!!!

[Dept of Beer]

11. Well, to be honest nothing else seems to work. Even FDR did that.

[Big Blue Marble]

10. Who is he channeling?

It is it his mother, grandmother? And this is from a man who was to give us inspirational rhetoric.

[Tx4obama]

12. If you are going to use quotation marks then you should use the actual quote.

It is misleading to make up shit and then post it with quotation marks (unless you put your own name on the quote).

Excerpt from the press conference transcript:

THE PRESIDENT: I will not sign a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day extension. That is just not an acceptable approach. And if we think it’s going to be hard -- if we think it’s hard now, imagine how these guys are going to be thinking six months from now in the middle of election season where they’re all up. It’s not going to get easier. It’s going to get harder. So we might as well do it now -- pull off the Band-Aid; eat our peas. (Laughter.) Now is the time to do it. If not now, when?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/11/press-conference-president