You can’t say we didn’t warn ’em. But, they just didn’t listen. Two-thirds of Americans aged 18 to 29 pulled the lever for Barack Obama last fall whereas the Democrat won only a bare majority (50-49) among their elders, all voters over 30 (you know the ones Bill and Hillary’s generation told us not to trust).
And now they’re bearing the brunt of the sluggish economy. Unemployment among young Americans has surged to a record high, with “more unemployed youths in America today than at any other time since World War II.”
Just desserts?
Caveat Emptor. They got what they paid for. They should have known better. Or should they?
According to the Free Dictionary by Farlex (an online legal dictionary), the doctrine caveat emptor (Latin for “let the buy beware) applies to commercial transactions:
When a sale is subject to this warning the purchaser assumes the risk that the product might be either defective or unsuitable to his or her needs.
This rule is not designed to shield sellers who engage in Fraud or bad faith dealing by making false or misleading representations about the quality or condition of a particular product. It merely summarizes the concept that a purchaser must examine, judge, and test a product considered for purchase himself or herself.
Well, Obama did make a number of false and misleading representations in the campaign. So, maybe these desserts just aren’t just. After all, these young’uns can attribute their bad choice to youth and inexperience.
I had buyer’s remorse on November 5, 2008. Even though I hadn’t chosen the product I got, I knew I would be paying for it.
I think the vast vast VAST majority of that age group (four years older) will emphatically support him again…Especially the gay commnuity
Well I think it has something to do with my generation’s work ethic, plenty of people don’t take the job seriously and there is a lot more older workers who need the job and will work it.
#2 – I think you are right.
The problem with Dan’s thesis is that he seems to assume that young people are dumb enough to believe that Obama is responsible for the current level of unemployment. I think it far more likely that young people understand perfectly well that Obama has probably saved this country from a devastating economic depression, and has laid the groundwork for a strong recovery.
This is Obama’s America:
– Terrorists are released from Gitmo almost straight back to battlefields.
– Meanwhile, independent, pro-America war correspondents are hassled at airports worse than in any other country.
Both links h/t HotAir. Feel the Hope! the Change!
And there Tano goes again, blaming the previous administration for the current administration’s disasterous practices.
TL, you read Tano? His comments are so consistently insane, I stopped long ago.
Why don’t I retest it here? Let’s see.
Yup. Nucking futs. Belly-laugh futs! This was much nearer the truth:
I say “nearer”, because here is the full-on truth: Obama’s policies are causing current unemployment.
‘Terrorists are released from Gitmo almost straight back to battlefields.”
Hmm. I actually did read the article. And the only actual people who are known to have been returned to Yemen, and then rejoined the fight, were those who were released under the Bush administration.
So where do you get “This is Obama’s America”?
As to the Yon story – thats hilarious. You get someone who decides he wants to make a point by refusing to answer questions of border guards – and seemingly going on quite the rant (he describes running through a long list of countries who didn’t treat him this badly). All this a short time after the country experiences a near-hit from terrorists. And he whines that he was temporarily detained, by these “bullies”
Here is guessing that if it were some lefty reporter who pulled a stunt like this, all of you would be falling over yourselves in coming up with demeaning adjectives to hurl at the guy.
And yes, I think young voters will be smart enough to figure that out over time. Most people get smarter over time; it’s called “experience”. (Though Tano probably doesn’t.)
Today auto sales for December were released. More and more bad news for the Obama administration.
Obama run GM minus 10%
Obama run Chrysler minus a whopping 36%
Independently owned Toyota PLUS 23%
Independently owned Ford PLUS a huge 33%
Congratulations to the privately owned, non govenment bailed out
companies of Ford and Toyota.
How’s that cash for clunkers working out for ya?
Hoax and chango.
I don’t think the young people who work for GM and Chrysler or who’s parents work for them, are blaming Bush today for anything. They are Obamas car companies now. The rumors that conservatives and independents refused to buy GM products may be true.
Oh oh. More numbers that may have the kids wondering why they voted for Obamateleprompter…..
4th Q tax reciepts down 11%!!!!
How can that be with the economy perking up and Obama taking credit for a rebounding economy?
Better look into who is calculating the GDP numbers.
They may be green hoaxers or more dumb Obama appointees.
“everything worked perfectly, the system worked”!
All this a short time after the country experiences a near-hit from terrorists.
Which Barack Obama and his fellow leftists like you tried to pretend wasn’t a terrorist attack at all
The problem here is that Yon is white. Had he been anything else, he not only would not have had to answer questions, he would have been allowed to walk onto a plane with no passport, a suspended visa, and red flags dangling all over the CIA, the TSA, Homeland Security, the State Department’s, and everyone else’s watch list — just like Mutallab did.
The problem here is that the security of our country is in the hands of a racist incompetent who was all about screaming “God damn America” for twenty years — and of course, his illegally-paid syncophants like Tano, who was among those cheering the death of the “little Eichmanns” he loathes on 9/11.
What stimulus that “saved” the economy? I look around and don’t see ANY shovel-ready infastructural improvements. The local Chevy and Chrysler dealerships are sad, empty buildings dragging down adjacent property values. And both commercial and residential construction are nearly at a standstill. This is “…Change we can believe in“?
And now we add Guv’mint mandated airport strip-searches, gropings and almost-intolerable travel delays for babies and Grandma while the Islamists laugh at America. Yes, this is all predicable….
Do I blame the young-uns for helping elect this lightweight? No, they don’t have the real-world experience of living under real liberal-Democrats like Carter. They grew up in the false-comfort of Reagonomics, Clinton’s Third-Way and Bush-family benign neglect when things sorta-worked. They don’t have the memories of gas-lines, “turning-down the thermostat” and cardigan-wearing Presidential televised-malaise. Today’s youth now have the to-them-novel experience of declining real-income and lessened-expectations cutting into their purchasing-power, rather than the erosion of 1970s-style inflation stealing their dreams of a brighter future.
We tried to warn them…Obama is another Carter. But they didn’t listen. That’s not “caveat emptor”, it’s “…as ye sow, so shall ye reap.“
$800 billion Wall Street bailouts and 0% interest rates. Of course, those things don’t save real jobs or real businesses, they destroy them – while making the economics statistics look better very temporarily.
I don’t think it’s “caveat emptor” so much as it is “be very careful what you wish for.”
So I’m watching our young inexperienced President give his war on terror speech. It’s 4:47pm est.
I lost complete confidence when Barack Hussien Obama ,after 11 days, couldn’t pronounce the name of the terrorist who tried to kill 325 people.
Even though he was reading his entire 9 minute speech. Help!!
BTW didn’t Obama say heads were going to roll?
The 18-29 cohort of voters are the least wise in that wisdom comes with experience. There are a small number in this group who are “wise beyond their years” and who have risen unusually rapidly in position and authority. But most of the voters in this group are fully ensconced on the “dime a dozen” shelf.
In my view, telling them “Caveat Emptor” is to say “you made your bed, now lie in it.” I don’t think that goes to the heart of the matter for this age group. The liberal heart is common among those who have no stake in their games. This age group is largely unconnected from the sobering effects of parenthood, estate building, and involvement in community affairs.
I do not think their natural reaction will be to double down and work harder for the Obama Hope and Change dream in 2012. I think they will sluff it all off and walk away from bothering to vote at all.
Oh, and it gets better; Nancy Pelosi openly admitted today that Obama lied to get elected.
Then again, she surrounds herself with Tanos. Why wouldn’t you expect that she knows she can say that publicly, she can state that Obama made promises he never had any intention of keeping — when she knows she has a whole army of Tanos on the government payroll who will support and endorse anything that Barack Obama and the Obama Party do, no matter how immoral, arrogant, or illegal it is?
Just in……
2 term ND liberal Democrat Senator B Dorgan (helmet head) says
no mas. He won’t run for re election in 2010. This should now be an easy pick up for Republicans. ND current governor plans to run for the seat and was 20 points ahead of Dorgan in recent polls. (Rasmussen polls, I wonder why Dorgan believed the Rasmussen polls?)
Apparently a horrific economy and now national security concerns amidst the Christmas Day bomber… convinced Dorgan most Democrats didn’t have a chance in November.
Is Blance Lincoln or Chris Dodd far behind?
Keep in mind there is only one, 1, in here making excuses still for this administration.
As I remember it, the conservative ‘warnings’ about Barack Obama involved not much more than thinly veiled racism and hysterical fear-mongering that hasn’t come to pass. On pretty much every front, Obama’s picking up right where Bush left off – giveaways to corporations, more war, indefinite detention and torture, etc. He hasn’t socialized anything, he’s not implementing black liberation theology, and he runs at full speed from every frivolous Republican challenge.
So before you start pretending like you’re the smartest people on the internet, maybe you should browse through the archives you’ve got here and see exactly what you were warning us young morons about. Because you got that wrong too, as usual!
I think Obama nationalized countless banks, 2 auto companies….
And we warned about the fact that this new President of the United States had less experience than any President in our history.
Experience that helps you avoid catastrophes, and experience that helps you solve problems not create new ones. So how;s our young inexperienced President doing.? After apologizing for his country, we are still being attacked by folks he refuses to call terrorists. He’s naive and has hired tons of bunglers and boobs in his administration. Let’s pray we continue to get lucky while Obama dithers on what to do about his inept security team.
Not so good.
On pretty much every front, Obama’s picking up right where Bush left off – giveaways to corporations, more war, indefinite detention and torture, etc.
Which means he lied to you.
The even funnier part is watching you blabber and reverse yourself after having screamed that Bush should have been impeached and convicted of war crimes for doing all the things that you now admit Obama is doing.
But we understand the reason for these intellectual contortions. Having screamed, as you did, that any and all criticism of Obama is racist, you are now faced with the conundrum of calling yourself a racist — or attacking other people who daily are pointing out what a fool Barack Obama made of you and everyone else who voted for him.
How is that possible since Obama voted in lockstep with the Democrat majorities that have controlled BOTH houses of congress since a full year before the recession even STARTED, and TWO full years before the sub-prime CRA mortgage crisis?
Its not possible.
The truth is that Obama and the Democrats enjoy their strongest support from the DUMBEST, LEAST INFORMED GROUPS IN THE COUNTRY.
The very same reason that liberal pollsters always want to poll the retards who are too stupid to vote. The more ignorant people are, the more likely they are to support the deeply dishonest, corrupt Obama and the Democrats.
Case in point, this sub-moronic pablum!
Conservatives warned that Obama would be Jimmy Carter II. And hes been even worse! Spending more than all presidents before him combined, destroying the dollar, destroying any hope for a recovery, setting the stage for massive inflation, and economists are now saying that we can kiss any chance of a real robust recovery goodbye for at least the next decade. His foreign policy has been an utter disaster which America will be paying the price for for decades to come.
Many conservatives predicted the utterly unqualified, deeply corrupt and deeply dishonest Obama would be the worst president in history, and hes proving them more and more right every day.
So….what? You’re shooting for the Biggest Horse’s Ass award? You got my vote.
Also, I’m guessing you won’t have a problem sharing how much you make with us, right?
Levi sets the record straight:
Oh.
Levi clearly spells out his beef: Obama hasn’t cut and run from the war on terrorism and his redistribution of wealth, government jobs for all takers, and bold march to socialism hasn’t materialized.
But Levi remembers that conservatives were against Obama because of his race. Such an overt thing is easy for him to prove and he says he can go right back to comments on this site and show us for the racists we are.
We also engaged in hysterical fear-mongering that has not come to pass. Personally, I think wrecking the economy for generations and then trying to load cap and trade and socialized medicine on top of it all is worth noting.
But what is really instructive is how Levi dumps on Obambi. Clearly, if Levi is forced to choose Obambi again in 2012, he will. But maybe a lot of the guys Levi talks to on the computer in his mom’s basement will just not bother to carry Obambi’s water and vote even once.
But we understand the reason for these intellectual contortions. Having screamed, as you did, that any and all criticism of Obama is racist, you are now faced with the conundrum of calling yourself a racist — or attacking other people who daily are pointing out what a fool Barack Obama made of you and everyone else who voted for him.
I’ve never said anything of the sort. My criticisms of Obama are legitimate and based on real things, like the fact that he’s not doing any of the things he said he would do, while most conservative criticism (at least during the campaign) involved questioning his citizenship (because he’s black), calling him a secret Muslim (because he’s black) and screaming about Reverent Wright (because they’re black).
He’s hardly converted us to socialism (the health care industry loves his health care bill) and his problems aren’t stemming from inexperience but incompetence and stupidity. And really, how any conservative could be complaining about his foreign policy thus far is beyond me. He’s sending more troops Afghanistan, he’s bombing Pakistan and Yemen, and he’s shuffling all of the Bush administration’s war crimes under the rug. But oh – his foreign policy has been a disaster because he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia!
It may feel like the time is right for you guys to be all cocky and sure of yourselves again because the Democrats are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, but you’re just as wrong and you’re just as stupid as you had been during the Bush years. You can say I’ve been made a fool of by voting for Obama, but at least I didn’t spend the last three elections voting for the far stupider Bush (twice) and Palin.
Of course, for Levi it all comes down to race.
Strangely enough, no one discriminates more than liberals. After all I’m colour blind when it comes to someone who associates with terrorists and communists and truthers, someone who is able to sit in a church of racist invictive and somehow not absorb any of it from the man who baptised his children. I don’t judge by race the actions of a man who thinks we need a ‘second bill of rights’ or that the constitution isn’t needed. I don’t use race as a determining factor when the man gives terrrorists the rights of citizens of this nation.
Levi’s the one who brought race into the discussion, Levi’s the one who gives President Obama a pass on his actions because of the colour of his skin.
And the Healthcare companies support the bill? Wow, you really need to wake up and smell the reality.
Levi, help me, Levi, help me! You say:
1) When dems questioned McCain’s “natural born citizen” qualification since he was born in Panama it was because McCain is black, right? Must be, because anyone questioning Obambi’s “natural born citizen” qualification is because Obambi is black. (I cite Levi #29 for authority.)
2) Wow! Did you know that blacks tend to be Muslim? Neither did I. Obambi has ties to the Muslim world through his father and the school in Indonesia he attended. That is because he is black, you know. Wouldn’t it be easier to stop all the blacks at air ports and then search the Muslim ones?
3) Reverent [SIC] Wright would not have been “screamed about” had he been white. Any fool knows that! He could have gone all across the USofA with his rhetoric and been embraced by Klan members, red necks and liberals alike if he had been white.
What are we going to do about this overt racism Levi sees all around him?
Well I was one of the the the 18-25 year old’s who voted McCain (nose held for him) and Palin.
1) When dems questioned McCain’s “natural born citizen” qualification since he was born in Panama it was because McCain is black, right? Must be, because anyone questioning Obambi’s “natural born citizen” qualification is because Obambi is black. (I cite Levi #29 for authority.)
This never happened.
2) Wow! Did you know that blacks tend to be Muslim? Neither did I. Obambi has ties to the Muslim world through his father and the school in Indonesia he attended. That is because he is black, you know. Wouldn’t it be easier to stop all the blacks at air ports and then search the Muslim ones?
As gullible and willing to listen to their propagandizers as conservatives are, accusing a white guy named Charlie O’Brien of being a secret Muslim wouldn’t work. It would have to be someone with an exotic sounding name that had dark skin and lived outside the country.
3) Reverent [SIC] Wright would not have been “screamed about” had he been white. Any fool knows that! He could have gone all across the USofA with his rhetoric and been embraced by Klan members, red necks and liberals alike if he had been white.
This is basically true, except the last random sentence. The Reverend Wright hysteria was like a disgusting scene out of the 19th century that still doesn’t make any sense – just because two black men are in a room together doesn’t mean they both believe in the same things, just because two black men are in a room together doesn’t mean that one speaks for the other. That whole affair was nothing but pure, rank fear-mongering based on race designed to derail a presidential campaign. The proof is that nobody talks about it anymore – Reverend Wright is totally irrelevant to Barack Obama’s personality and his administration’s politics and it always was. The goal there was to turn out the anti-black vote, which Republicans are always trying to do (along with turning out the anti-gay and anti-woman votes.)
What are we going to do about this overt racism Levi sees all around him?
It’s pretty easy – stop being racists.
You first Levi,
1) You lie again and again.
2) Thank you for conceeding the point that he did have a muslim upbringing. He’s not one though, since he doesn’t worship anything but himself.
3) Two men in the same room? Wow, that’s a mild way to put a man who for 20 years sat in a church and said nothing.
But then again, you love to gloss over men like Ken Blackwell, J.C. Watts, Clarence Thomas, or women like Condi Rice. You refuse to see their colour because it underminds the arguement. We refuse to see their colour because we judge the content of their character.
“Just desserts”
You meant “just deserts”–unless you intended an arch reference to the Dems’ “let them eat cake” attitude. 😀
Two men in the same room? Wow, that’s a mild way to put a man who for 20 years sat in a church and said nothing.
Not to mention, who also repeatedly pointed out Wright as his spiritual mentor and advisor and stated bluntly that Wright influenced and shaped his beliefs.
Not to mention the fact that Barack Obama made it clear, “I can no more disown him (Wright) than I can disown the black community.”
Levi is just like Barack Obama — an infantile individual who thinks he knows everything and, when he’s caught in a lie, screams and namecalls anyone who points out his lie.
“just because two black men are in a room together doesn’t mean they both believe in the same things”
Levi… even a man not wanting to insult will soon push away from the neighbor’s dinner table when the soup they’re feeding him is anathema to his system.