A planet in peril! Two wars! The worst economy!

[Bluebear]

"Even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century," Obama told an enormous crowd in Chicago.

"This is our moment," said Obama. "This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can!"

[Riftaxe]

1. That would be low intensity conflicts to you, sirrah!

The difference can only be parsed by the dead i suppose.

[Rex]

2. YES WE CAN!

If Wall Street, The M$M and Rupert Murdoch say it is okay first. THEN YES WE CAN! Oh wait...they said no. :(

[Broderick]

3. And he is getting it done!

He's got this!

[Bluebear]

4. Chill the fuck out, EPA!!

:cry:

[Broderick]

6. I am a chillin

And I got me a new set of rose colored blinders to boot.

All is well in the world.

[durablend]

34. Cough cough

Yes we cough cough can cough

[Bluebear]

37. ++++

[Eddie Haskell]

13. Sure he does ... He can't even give a speech w/o permission.

He's powerless.

[Broderick]

15. You need some of the blinders I got today

Jobs problem? What problem? Housing crisis? What housing crisis?

It's just propaganda against the President. All lies! Take a look outside and see, it's a wonderful world.

[Eddie Haskell]

21. Everything is beautiful ...

Golly.

[durablend]

35. Everyone complaining is just a HATER

And RACIST too!

Probably from listening to Rush all day!!!!

[rug]

5. We don't have 60 votes!

:cry:

[Broderick]

8. Obama is gonna bring coattails for a super majority

and jobs will be so plentiful that you can pick them right off the trees. Like Manna from the heavens above. Everyone will have two houses. The earth will be cleaner because everyone will want to bike to work to enjoy a more lush beautiful nature; where the weather is always pretty.

[rug]

9. And all our peas will be buttered.

[Broderick]

10. Slathered in butter

melts in your mouth.

[Riftaxe]

14. However, we did

and all we got was delivered to health insurance companies on a silver platter....

Can a single Mom now provide health care to her children, nope and the more i read of the abomination that was passed, she only gets to pay for the privilege of not being able to provide that health care.

This is not surprising to anyone that neither party cares about poverty, but when we had majorities in congress instead of doing anything about it, we chose to nail those in poverty harder to the wall, and demanded congratulations for it.

Those of us who pay attention, will just say Et Tu Ceasar and perhaps weep.

[Broderick]

16. Good business to be an executive in

Aetna, Ronald A. Williams: $24,300,112
Cigna, H. Edward Hanway: $12,236,740
Coventry, Dale Wolf: $9,047,469
Health Net, Jay Gellert: $4,425,355
Humana, Michael McCallister: $4,764,309
U. Health Group, Stephen J. Hemsley: $3,241,042
Wellpoint, Angela Braly: $9,844,212


That was 2008, 2009:
Aetna, Ronald A. Williams: $18,058,162
Coventry, Allen Wise: $17,427,789 (took over from Dale Wolf)
WellPoint, Angela Braly: $13,108,198
United Health, Stephen Helmsley: $8,901,916
Cigna, David Cordoni: $6,593,921 (took over from CEO H. Edward Hanway)
Cigna, H. Edward Hanway: $18,800,000
Humana, Michael McCallister: 6,509,452
Health Net, Jay Gellert: $3,643,342

[Riftaxe]

31. Point well made

but comfort for some reason does not follow.

[leftstreet]

7. Is this from an old campaign speech? n/t

[Rabblevox]

11. It's from his acceptance speech election night in Chicago. /nt

[Bluebear]

30. Indeed

[sad sally]

12. No comment.

So what does President Obama think about the abysmal jobs report,

The one where ZERO jobs were created in the month of August?

President Obama left for a mini-vacation in Camp David with no comment on the jobs report.

[Broderick]

19. He deserves a vacation

He has been working his fingers to the bone every day on jobs.

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Another vacation?

:eyes:

[Broderick]

28. Yes. Don't you think he deserves a vacation????

Come on now. Let's be reasonable.

[Bluebear]

29. It's only been a week

[Broderick]

39. But that is a week of working his fingers to the bone

Carney has said he works each and every day on jobs, tirelessly. He is a hard working dynamo, but not to be confused by the one true superman, Bill Clinton who took a mere 24 days of vacation in his first several years in office. Bush had 140. I stopped counting Obama's vacation days, but it is nowhere near what Bush took.

[durablend]

36. Business needs more TAX CUTS, of course! n/t

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[hifiguy]

18. To drag out a phrase from the Nixon era

"That statement is no longer operative."

[Bluebear]

26. Perfect

[readmoreoften]

38. Gets you elected quicker than "Fuck your social security, I'm with the bankers"

Or: "Hey you desperate suckers, I'm going to give you some Bush era policy plus a few bones to keep you debating. Now shut the fuck up--I got this."

[Electric Monk]

22. I feel like I must be dreaming. Something doesn't connect.

"Where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can!"

Does that depend upon what ones definitions of the words "Yes" "We" and "Can" are?

[spooked911]

23. I always wonder-- with the power of the US Presidency, and then seeing what he's done since then...

is what he's done REALLY what a forward-thinking, caring, DECENT person would have done?

Done ANYONE get the feeling that Obama has really tried to end the bullshit in DC?

[Broderick]

24. Relax

This is inter-dimensional chess on levels you couldn't possibly understand. He has them by the throat and they don't even know it. When he pulls the rip cord out, and the parachutes of American salvation come flying past you - will you be able to even comprehend the strategy and skill that it took to do what he does when he does it?

[spooked911]

32. wow, it makes sense now, sort of

:)

[Broderick]

33. LOL

[inna]

25. more like SIX wars, actually. "timeless creed" - he may be on to something there.

:nuke: