posted April 01, 2009 06:46 PM            

This is a punitive tax and one of the most regressive taxes in existence.

Further, signing this tax increase is just one more lie from the Liar in Chief...among many others the press is beginning to see and write about.

BTW, "read my lips, no new taxes" got George H.W. Bush defeated. I didn't vote for Bush senior for a second term.

I also didn't vote for Gerald Ford when he ran for President...after being appointed to fill out the term of Richard Nixon.

Same reason. He lied. He said he would not be a candidate for re-election and would only serve out Nixon's term.

Of course, we got the worst President in the history of the Republic with Jimmy The Teeth Carter instead. I didn't vote for Carter either. O'Bomber is on track to eclipse Carter as worst President in American history.

posted April 02, 2009 08:45 AM            

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O'Bomber is on track to eclipse Carter as worst President in American history.

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Oh! Carter is the worst...gee, I didn't know that. I learn so much in these threads.

posted April 02, 2009 11:28 AM            

No one who makes less than $250,000 per year smokes. Since that's true, O'Bomber's statement "I won't raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year...is true.

As for the worst president in US history, Jimmy Carter, let's review.

Economy

Interest rates of 21%

Unemployment over 10%

Inflation over 10%

Economic Stagflation

Foreign Policy..
these events occurred under Carter either with his assistance or because of his weak kneed appeasement of tyrants and dictators.

Soviet Union attacked and tried to take over Afghanistan. Carter's reaction...he was disappointed in Soviet leadership.

Withdrew US support for Shah of Iran

Installed the most radical Islamic cleric in the world as leader of Iran from which terrorist tactics spread throughout the Middle East. Successive Presidents and other world leaders have had to deal with the aftermath of Carter's stupidity.

Iran storms the US Embassy, takes US diplomats hostage and holds them for 444 days. Hostages released within hours of Ronald Reagan being sworn in...with the full knowledge by Iran that the bombers would fly within hours if they weren't released.

Withdrew support for Somoza in Nicarauga.

Communist Daniel Oterga took over and attempted to spread Communist revolution in Central America and into Mexico. Another bungling stupidity Reagan had to deal with to put out the fire Carter started.

All that in just 4 years of Carter stupidity and appeasment of tyrants.

Worst President in US history fits and Carter needs to own it.

O'Bomber is on track to eclipse Carter's record.

posted April 02, 2009 12:24 PM            

Not! A group of historians, not " just one" thinker mind you, don't even put Carter in the top 10

The poll-The worst presidents, according to the survey, were
• James Buchanan at 42,
• Andrew Johnson at 41,
• Franklin Pierce,
• William Henry Harrison,
• Warren Harding,
• Millard Fillmore,
• George W. Bush,
• John Tyler,
• Herbert Hoover,
• Rutherford B. Hayes.

if this survey doesn't suit, the historians represented are compulsive liars...google best /worst presidents polls and studies from all factions, be they historical or politcal opinion--in NONE of these does Carter rank in the top 10 of worsts. Carter as worst is an opinion. In all fairness given time Bush will rise. [but likely stay near the bottom]

posted April 02, 2009 01:34 PM            

Actually, most were ready to throw Carter out of office after the first 2 years but reflecting on the fact the US is a Constitutional Republic governed by a Constitution, it was legally necessary to wait until the bungling, incompetent boob's term of office expired. What followed was one of the biggest election landslides in US election history. Carter was on the wrong side of that landslide election. Electoral vote...489 to 49. Reagan won 44 states, Carter 6 states and those states were the usual leftist suspects in most elections.

I'm well aware of CSPAN Presidential studies. One of those same studies labeled Kommander Korruption, aka Bill Clinton the most corrupt President in American history. He even beat out Richard M Nixon for the honor of "most corrupt/least moral authority".

posted April 15, 2009 04:53 PM            

Now, we find the President of France, an important ally of the US finds President Teleprompter's teleprompter....Unoriginal, Unsubstantial and Overrated.

I think there's a thread around here somewhere named...The O is for Overrated.

World Agenda: Nicolas Sarkozy puts Barack Obama in the doghouse
Why the master of America's new First Mutt is no longer in good odour with President Sarkozy
(Jason Reed/Reuters)

France has been cooing along with everyone else over the arrival of Bo Obama at the White House, but the master of America's new First Dog is no longer in good odour with President Sarkozy.

Mr Sarkozy is pouring cold water on President Obama's efforts to recast American leadership on the world stage, depicting them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated. Behind leaks and briefings from the Elysée Palace lies Mr Sarkozy's irritation at the rock-star welcome that Europe gave Mr Obama on his Europan tour earlier this month.

posted July 10, 2010 10:46 PM            

860 Billion dollars spent supposedly creating jobs for America. What a joke. O'Bomber has managed to raise the unemployment rate while spending trillions in American taxpayer's money mostly to benefit his demoscat supporters.

All those so called private sector jobs O'Bomber is constantly bragging about creating came at a very high price.

For instance, O'Bomber claims he created 50 jobs at Smith Electric Vehicles...for a cost of only $32,000,000.

Let's do the math shall we? That's only $600,000 per job created out of the public treasury. Such a deal...and oh, Smith Electric Vehicle isn't even an American company.

O'Bomber is overrated with a capital O.

Yet, O'Bomber's Kool-Aid drinkers are still defending this clown.

July 10, 2010
Blather in Kansas City
By Chad Stafko

The home of the football Chiefs welcomed the Commander-in-Chief on Thursday, as Barack Obama visited the Midwest to raise some campaign money for U.S. Senate candidate, Robin Carnahan, and to tout his economic plan.

What we heard and saw was more lies and foolishness from the President.

After 18 months as Chief Executive of this nation, the President continued to lay the blame for our economic woes on former President George W. Bush. Obama said, "This recession was the culmination of a decade of irresponsibility-a decade that fell like a sledgehammer on middle class families."

Imagine if after spending 18 months on the job, an executive of a company continued to blame his predecessor as production continued to slide. Would the stakeholders and or the Board of Directors be satisfied with such an attitude? Hardly. They would demand to see what has been done to alleviate the situation and the results of those actions.

What Obama can show us is an unemployment rate that has risen on his watch to just under 10 percent. He can speak of government spending and deficits that are without parallel in our nation's history and a massive leadership debacle during our nation's largest environmental disaster. Add to those a plummeting level of confidence in him and his leadership, as evidenced by the latest Gallup poll in which only 46 percent of Americans approved of his job as President. All of this has occurred under his administration not that of George W. Bush. How's that for job performance?

Just as when the President lied about not having available oil reserves last month in his televised address to the nation regarding the BP oil spill, he told another outright lie in Kansas City. It was so blatant that it was almost humorous. Note the President's words, "So our goal has never been to create another government program, our goal has been to spur growth in the private sector."

Really? Does any sane person who even casually follows politics or watched the 2008 presidential campaign believe this? Four words -- "government health care reform" or to be more accurate "universal health care". When the President signed this into law he created one of the largest government programs this country has ever known. It is essentially the mother of all government programs.

He ran on this very platform during his campaign. What he said in Kansas City about not wanting to create another government program is completely false. Creating universal health care, essentially ran by the government, was a primary goal of his presidency. How amazing it is that the man can say "our goal has never been to create another government program" with a straight face.

Further lunacy was heard when President Obama proclaimed in his Kansas City speech, "And we are guided by a simple idea: Government doesn't have all the answers."

Does this President expect me to believe this? The words of our President speak of one thing, while his actions are the complete opposite. This is a President who has championed a massive increase in government expansion and regulation across multiple industries. His actions tell us that, in fact, he does believe government has all the answers.

Perhaps the icing on the cake was not any of the words that the President uttered, but the location in which this speech was given. It was at the company headquarters for Smith Electric Vehicles, which received $32 million in government stimulus and produces electric moving trucks. The President proudly hailed that the company just hired its fiftieth worker -- but at quite a cost.

Obviously the company had some workers before the stimulus, but just to be kind, suppose they didn't. A little basic math tells us that each worker was produced with just over $600,000. Why would you brag about creating one worker for every $600,000? Again, this is being kind, as some of these individuals were already working for the company. If the stimulus actually only produced an additional twenty workers, then those workers were each added for about $1.5 million of taxpayers' money.

Also, it is worth noting that the $32 million went to a foreign company, as Smith Electric Vehicles is not just some Mom & Pop manufacturer. The company is owned by Britain's Tanfield Group PLC.

So, what we learned from the President of the United States on Thursday is that you and I helped write a check for $32 million to a foreign company to create jobs in the United States that each cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce. And we were reminded that this President doesn't believe government has all the answers because the last thing this President wants to see is another government program.