Obama’s Changing Rhetoric Redux
And one of the things that I’m trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame.
President Barack Obama
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (March 2009)
I don’t want the folks who created the mess do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.
McLean, Virginia August 6, 2009
Some unifier, huh?
“What would the reaction be if a Republican President said this?“
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Whoo boy… that first quote is quite a doozy.
The fact that he has been blaming Bush for everything from the economy to the weather since the day he was inaugurated makes that quite a statement….
Comment by jana — August 8, 2009 @ 3:56 am - August 8, 2009
He’s been blaming Bush for everything since at least 2006. Including the failed Iraq Surge. Its what Democrats DO. They f*ck everything up and then blame everyone else.
Comment by American Elephant — August 8, 2009 @ 6:30 am - August 8, 2009
It seems that Obama’s true nature – Caesarism – is coming out now: “Shut up and let me do whatever I want.” And now his supporters have actually turned to violence to shut down opposition (SEIU goons beating up a TEA Party supporter in Florida). Who would have thought this is the “post-partisanship” he embraces? What I’m wondering, though, is: how long before saner heads in the Democrat Party shut him down? Scary thought: are there saner heads in the Democrat Party?
Comment by Jackson Laurence — August 8, 2009 @ 7:28 am - August 8, 2009
What about his other changing rhetoric:
2007: We’re going to eliminate private health insurance through the public option.
2009: People who claim we’re going to eliminate private health insurance through the public option are spreading “disinformation.”
Comment by V the K — August 8, 2009 @ 8:12 am - August 8, 2009
Here’s some more Obama rhetoric (courtesy of Mark Levin):
Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
Obama To His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
Mr. Civility.
Comment by V the K — August 8, 2009 @ 9:36 am - August 8, 2009
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I will reiterate something I have said over and over again – The Dems are much better at complaining about things than actually running things. Its a whole different arena when you get to finally be “The Man.” Come to think of it, Obama and followers are acting much more like “The Man” than anyone in previous political history!!! Hopefully, Dem politicians and Obama Voters are waking up to the practicality of their “hope and change” illusion of 2008. Student Class – Higher Tuition because of economic meltdown. California Mexican Laborers – Unemployed because of a water cutback due to eco-stupidity regarding the Smelt. California Middle Class – Higher taxes due to overspending by a Dem Assembly. Etc., etc., etc.
Comment by Duffy - Native Intelligence — August 8, 2009 @ 12:15 pm - August 8, 2009
Imagine Bush trying to get away with saying, “I don’t want Democrats to be doing a lot of the talking.” Yeesh.
Comment by Scott Spiegel — August 8, 2009 @ 12:48 pm - August 8, 2009
Dear Teleprompter is a typical liberal socialist elitist. It’s ALWAYS somebody else’s fault.
Someone needs to get an attitude adjustment. Fast.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — August 8, 2009 @ 1:13 pm - August 8, 2009
Obama is a pathological Narcissist. He can’t take criticism… so his instinctive response is to attack… to try to intimidate his enemies into silence. Hence, his “enemies list,” his union goon squads, and the DNC-Pelosi coordinated smear of health reform protesters as “Nazis” and “racists.” The good news in all of this… Dear Leader is re-awakening the Silent Majority… the Dems are in for quite a shock in 2010. Bring it on, Big O. “The One” is short for “One Term.”
Comment by Elephant in the Room — August 8, 2009 @ 1:54 pm - August 8, 2009
And none of his adoring media fans recognize this walking, talking contradiction.
Comment by pjean — August 8, 2009 @ 2:12 pm - August 8, 2009
My favorite is all the comments comparing the protests to the Beer Hall Putsch. First the liberal moon bats say 1930, but the putsch was 1923. As you probably know, putsch means coup d’état. Soooo…..we’re overthrowing the government by attending a town hall meeting in Tampa? How does that work?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — August 8, 2009 @ 2:29 pm - August 8, 2009
Further, if we were Nazis and this was another Beer Hall Putsch, I would imagine Dan, Leah etc. would be pretty nervous but I don’t get that feeling.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — August 8, 2009 @ 2:30 pm - August 8, 2009
Obama’s sophmoric core was revealed in the press conference on health care. Here his most important reform legislation is in big trouble, he insists on a prime time slot to rally the public, and then buries his story by picking a gratuitous fight with the Cambridge, Mass. Police that alienates law enforcement and the majority of the public. If a real Democratic master of political manipulation like Lyndon Johnson were alive he’d be laughing his ass off at this amateur hour performance. Obama is worse than bad–he’s incompetent. And this is the guy some so-called presidential historians were proclaiming to be the smartest president we ever had! (You hear that, Thomas Jefferson?)
Comment by J — August 8, 2009 @ 5:32 pm - August 8, 2009
Unifer, what unifer. He made a big deal about his buddy Gates being treated stupidly by the Cambridge police. But is silent when a black conservative is beaten by Seiu in St. Louis.
So even his racial loyalty will only go so far.
Comment by Leah — August 8, 2009 @ 5:40 pm - August 8, 2009
President Barack Obama in staff meeting after staff meeting.
Comment by heliotrope — August 8, 2009 @ 8:21 pm - August 8, 2009
Jackson–there are not saner heads in the Democrat party. This fact has been evident to me since 2005 when the party started reaching new heights of shrill, crazed hysteria after the second inauguration of George W. Bush.
Comment by Kurt — August 8, 2009 @ 8:50 pm - August 8, 2009
Bush, for all his flaws, always treated his opponents with respect. He questioned their judgment when he disagreed with them; he didn’t tell them to shut the hell up.
Obama is a two-bit wanker. Unless something happens to make him grow up fast, he’s headed for the “dustbin of history” as one of our pettiest Presidents.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 9, 2009 @ 12:33 am - August 9, 2009
Yeah, ILC, in terms of pettiness, he’s definitely challenging the long-term leader of the petty pack himself, Jimmah Carter.
Comment by Kurt — August 9, 2009 @ 3:39 pm - August 9, 2009
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@ILoveCapitalism: “Bush, for all his flaws, always treated his opponents with respect.”
And they walked all over him, vilifying him, demonizing him, blaming him, lieing about his agenda, ideas, policies, even his personal life. I appreciated his gentlemanly manners and the fact that he stuck to them throughout his Presidency, but sometimes, you just have to punch that bully right back.
O’s the type that punches FIRST. He IS the bully.
Comment by DoorHold — August 10, 2009 @ 11:26 am - August 10, 2009
Folks, let’s be clear on something. (heliotrope started to touch on it, but it needs emphasizing.)
DEMOCRATS ARE “THE FOLKS WHO CREATED THE MESS.”
The number one factor in pushing up real medical costs these past several decades is Medicare and Medicaid, programs created by Democrats. The second is the Democrat-sponsored *lack* of tort reform in this country.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 10, 2009 @ 2:42 pm - August 10, 2009
Conversely: pass tort reform, abolish Medicare and Medicaid, and watch medical costs in this country drop like a rock. Reasonable insurance policies (by which I mean, insurance policies against disaster, at reasonable cost) will be available for purchase for all but officially “terminal” patients. (And terminal patients will get end-of-life care in other ways.)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 10, 2009 @ 2:45 pm - August 10, 2009
Democraps also created the immigration reform messes from the 1960s through the present. Since Obama believes the people who created the mess should step out of the way, I’m sure that he will only put forward immigration bills cobbled together by conservatives. Because Obama is a principled man who would never utter statements merely for transitory purposes of personal self aggrandizement.
Comment by eaglewingz08 — August 10, 2009 @ 5:40 pm - August 10, 2009