Plenty of cute, absolutely zero leadership. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way, Barack. 

You wanted to be President, act like a President. Now.

Washington needs its community organized. Does anyone know how to do that? 

Maybe that’s why it was recently reported that both sides told the manchild to get lost. 

Tingles seems to have lost the thrill up his leg…….but not so much that he will blame the downgrade on the incompetent community organizer or the Democrats when they should have passed the budget when they controlled all three branches.

What happened to that tingle up his leg?!

Sure, Pablo. Just blame Obama for everything, and the do nothing “JOBS” Congress bears no responsibility.  Tea Party and GOP have been saying for months, their PRIMARY goal is to destroy Obama’s Presidency.  Our President thought he was dealing with adults who were interested in putting country over party. So, lose the self-righteousness.  Boehner bragged he got 98% of what he wanted — and now refuses to take ownership!? Try putting the blame where it belongs – squarely at the feet of the disgusting Tea Party terrorists. And instead of whining about being called terrorists (which they are btw if you look at a dictionary), why has GOP done NOTHING about the Rep. Congressman who referred to our president as “tar baby”? Why do they sit back and allow a DEADBEAT DAD – Cong. Joe Walsh to speak for them.  Hypocrisy is overwhelming, and it’s President Obama, not Barack. TEA PARTY IS CELEBRATING THE DOWNGRADE. ONLY TERRORISTS WOULD CHEER DOWNFALL OF AMERICAN, THEREFORE TEA PARTY = TERRORISTS.  Simple.

The more Obama said today the more the market fell. 

Maybe he should claim the S&P is run by racists.

Here check out Obama’s approval rating.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

It’s even worse now than at the time of last November’s election.  And we all know how that turned out for Democrats.

Take your George Soros/Move-On talking points and shove them!

(Daily Mail)
— A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost
$1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA
credit rating.Now questions are being asked of whether the trader
had inside information before placing the $850million bet in the
futures market.There are mounting rumours that investor George
Soros, 80, famously known as ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’,
could be involved.He made more than $1billion on currency
speculation when the British pound left the Exchange Rate Mechanism on
Black Wednesday in 1992.The latest bet was made on July 21 on
trades of 5,370 ten-year Treasury futures and 3,100 Treasury bond
futures, reported ETF Daily News.Now the investor’s gamble seems
to have paid off after Standard and Poor’s issued a credit rating
downgrade from AAA to AA+ last Friday.Whoever it is stands to
earn a 1,000 per cent return on their money, with the expectation that
interest rates will be going up after the downgrade.

Even when I I agree with Chris, I have lost respect and don’t care about his opinion.

wasn’t president obama’s priority jobs 2 years ago? never mind it was obamacare

The thrill is gone. Tingles can’t go on.

Obama was, is, and will forever more be an idiot.

Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way.
1. To “lead” you have to have a plan with objectives. To plan you need to have ideas and a pragmatic view of the current economy. Obama has neither, perhaps he will have to wait for the next comments from Friedman/Zakaria/Krugman/Obermann…but he has been doing that all along and look where it has got him.
Liberalism is a failure…..we have seen the future and it is called Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy…..
2. Follow: something we know Obama can do. Follow is teleprompter and talking points. 
3. Get the hell out of the way….that we should be so lucky. .

Such racism from Chris.

Such racism from Chris.

OMG- that far right CNN network has the lowest Obama approval rating!

They are obviously racist!

Do I sound like I’m celebrating, you idiot? No, sweetheart, I’m pissed. America is supposed to have a President. We don’t.

Barry on his #1  focus on jobs:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/obama-pivot-to-jobs_n_918902.html

LOL

(Business Insider) — As President Barack Obama once again pivots to focus on economic growth, Press Secretary Jay Carney declared Thursday that “the White House doesn’t create jobs.”

Next day:

“There is no doubt this has been a tumultuous year,” said Obama. “My singular focus is the American people. Getting the unemployed back on the job.”

Which is it dumb and dumber?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/obama-pivot-to-jobs_n_918902.html
Chris, are you saying Obama ‘s “laser-like focus on jobs didn’t happen?

What about his “pivot?”

King Obama is a prissy fellow .

“For entertainment, presidents take in baseball games.  Obama goes to Broadway.
Speaking of America’s pastime, Obama has thrown a first pitch at a ball game.  He  throws like a girl.
He drinks beer in a very effeminate way.  He doesn’t grasp a beer glass with his entire hand as most men do.  Instead, he uses his fingertips to hold the glass and he extends his pinky into the air.  He drinks this way every single time.
When addressing the hardships affecting the family budget, most guys would discuss mortgages, paying utility bills or making the car payment.  When discussing the challenges facing America’s farmers, images of operating tractors and other farm equipment might come to mind.  Obama thinks differently.  For both families and farmers, he frets over the retail price of arugula.

When choosing among television programs on which to appear he ignored traditional hard news outlets and opted to appear on “The View.”  One reviewer of Obama’s visit to daytime talk television observed that “the thing that caught the eye was how the president crosses his legs just like a woman when seated.”No doubt, he is more likely to curl up on the sofa to watch a DVD of “Hope Floats,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” or “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood” then he would be to watch an action film or anything starring Clint Eastwood (except maybe “The Bridges of Madison County.”)Make no mistake.  Barack Obama is no alpha male with a commanding physical presence, who is secure in his manliness and supremely confident in himself.Barack Obama is the beta male.”http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/president_priss.html

Rendell admitted that he wasn’t too impressed with Obama’s speech today, since it was all words…

I know the point you’re trying to make Matt, but that just struck me as being very funny.  ”Empty words” might have been better.

The country is going to take a good long hard look at itself and ask exactly what it expects from a functioning Congress. This country deserves more from its elected officials. I’m bored of the self congratulatory ideologues, who have contributed little and want to offer nothing but obstinacy.

Its really not of any interest to anyone’s future or long-term benefit.

Isthe Kool-Aid finally losing its effect?

Do not forget that the stimulus and all other plans were enacted by the liberal congress under the stewardship of Nancy Pelosi.  An individual, I might add, who’s personal wealth increased by over 500% as a direct result of the economic collapse that she helped engineer.

When Bush signed the first Tarp package it was stated specifically that this was in direct response to the desires of the incoming Obama administration and the Democratically controlled House of Representatives and Senate.  As long as people like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Boxer, Matsui, Frank, Rengel, etc are elected into office the United States will continue to struggle.

Its that “Three letter word: J-O-B-S” that Mr. Biden talked about :P

Krauthammer: “Weak, plaintive and small”

Yup. Carter II. God help us.

Krauthammer: “Weak, plaintive and small”

Yup. Carter II. God help us.

We need to decide who we want to be when we grow up. And then we need to grow up.

http://tinyurl.com/3zl25jy

I would agree 100% with that.

We live in the greatest country in the world and we are doing our supreme best to level. We are better than this, I really would like to see people get over the partisan issues, because their helping nobody right now. 

There is a bigger picture, but sadly some people would happily see it all burn.

Remember the “stagflation” we had under Carter?  Watch this turkey Obama get re-elected, and we will see the economy spiral downward like no economist can remember.

I agree.  Deep down, he is timid.

2nd story of the day on what this idget “thinks.”

Ever the anti-intellectual, Chris Matthews speaks of the need for a huge spending bill on “infrastructure” even as the market reacts negatively to fallout from a non-serious debt reduction measure.  He makes note that Obama should’ve said “here’s my plan, dammit” to the Tea Party in support of demands he might’ve made but doesn’t have the awareness to realize or criticize that Obama put forward no formal plan at any phase of the negotiations to anybody.  He even goes so far, as he lays out a fantasy situation in which Obama should’ve convinced the country to go along with another jobs program, which flies directly against public opinion, in the tail end to dare criticize the Republicans on the theory that HAD Obama put his cards on the table, they wouldn’t have negotiated on good faith.  Welcome to Bizzaro world, folks!

Just think about that for a moment.  Matthews and Ed Rendell are sitting here proposing Obama should’ve shown “leadership” to make a deal to cut 4 trillion and then turn around and “invest” that “windfall” of hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending.  Annually.  Holy Crap!  Don’t these people know what planet they’re living on?  With such a “plan,” our credit rating just might’ve been reduced to Junk status!  All the more reason, if one were to follow their logic, for more government intervention.  It never ends.

How is it his show is called “Hardball” again?

Yup. But let me ask you, when the last deal was at hand, at the last minute before faux-default, which party split evenly for and against the deal? And which party overwhelmingly voted for the deal?

Always the same ‘bitter-old-man’ posts from you day in and day out.

I must admit, though, it’s always entertaining reading your posts. Like a modern day Archie Bunker!!! HAH!!!

Fact: This post is why Obama has no balls! People have no idea what he can do and will not pull off his training wheels! So he will be gone in 2012 and I as a Tea party member will vote him out!

so the tea party telegraphed their plan and STILL made obama their bitch? hell of a leader you got there!! your side will go far hahahaha

“you can blame the Tea Party, I do,”
Matthews just can’t let go of those DNC talking points.

Chris once said after Obama won the election, that it was ‘his job’  to make sure Obama was a successful president.  Great job, Chris. LOL.

If I were you, I’d be embarrassed at getting so worked up.  Your boy Obama won.  Now he should lead.  He should identify specific cuts to balance the budget.  Why didn’t he pass some additional taxes when he had majorities in both houses?  Because he is timid.  And all he wants to do is be President.  All he has to do is posture and blame the other side (which he does brilliantly), and he is assured of re-election.

Fact: Hi Valerie whats-up……………

Fact: Hi Valerie whats-up……………

I don’t know and I don’t care. 

People should be big enough and strong enough to make the deal when it matters to the country.

Right now nobody is going to get away with trivial, because now everyone is finally paying attention.

Pundit after pundit from the left and the right are detailing what Obama is not doing and what he should be doing. It is mind boggling that he has this static inertia that seemingly paralyzes his ability to do anything. He remains aloof and out of the fray as though his mere presence will guide the nation. It’s surreal. Is he just a figurehead and some unseen handler is pulling all the strings. Nothing surrounding Obama makes any sense right now.

He’s playing Chess, bitches!

He’s losing, badly. He’s a lonely King, trying to avoid the inevitable checkmate.

He’s playing Chess, bitches!

He’s losing, badly. He’s a lonely King, trying to avoid the inevitable checkmate.

Wrong answer. You can’t find your way out of the maze when you don’t care to find the exit.

If you ever grow up, you could become Meathead! Which is unlikely.

If you ever grow up, you could become Meathead! Which is unlikely.

If you ever grow up, you could become Meathead! Which is unlikely.

Wrong answer Pablo? 

This country is bigger than any single person, or any single group or party. If people don’t want to be part of it…they should leave.

Fact: Correct on what was said about this fiasco!
Mark Rubio’s speech really worked me up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfCRaNg5EU

Poor Chris . . . . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhs3Rj71gpo

Obama should have never caved into those nut jobs. He could have used the 14th amendment, yes there would have been alot of Rupublicans carrying on, but so what. This downgrade to our rating all came about because of the baggers.

Obama should have never caved into those nut jobs. He could have used the 14th amendment, yes there would have been alot of Rupublicans carrying on, but so what. This downgrade to our rating all came about because of the baggers.

First I love that fact that Ilene is indignant about republicans not taking responsibility for anything, all the while shifting all blame and responsibility away from democrats and Obama.

Just a classic hypocrite’s move- well played!

PLEASE Show me one person from the tea party that is celebrating the downgrade- You are delusional!

This is as false, illogical, and irrational a comment as I’ve ever heard on here.

(and of course, BFD liked it)

It has been nice lately to be void of that hateful……person.

shut up cunt.

Why would the incompetent community organizer need to use the 14th amendment when he controlled all 3 branches last year when the budget was suppose to be presented?

Yet the under and ill informed will continue to spew their talking points like good little lemmings……you are proof!

Impressive vocabulary you libs have.  I’m not surprised my posting bothered you. 

I read that even NOW went after the idiots at newsweek for this; is that true?

Obama’s right hand made 10 billion in a 10 to 1 bet that USA would be downgraded.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023809/Did-George-Soros-win-10-1-return-S-Ps-US-credit-rating-downgrade.html

Stagflation is probably already upon us, if we were to use the same yardstick of statistical data to measure the economy as we did in the 1970s.  The government has since readjusted the way inflation is recorded by exempting food and gas prices, essentials that represent a large % of a household budget to those on the lower end of the income spectrum.  I don’t see the media being interested in revisiting that word.

You’re commenting on the wrong story.

The truth is that Obama doesn’t have a clue what to do and he has no known credible economic people in DC. Notice how they all left when things got tough. They aren’t fools and know he won’t do what needs doing if it interferes with his sensibilities. All you need to know of the man was made clear during his interview with Bob Schieffer when asked why he wanted to raise cap gains taxes when it was clear on two prior occasions (one under Bill Clinton) that by lowering cap gain taxes, there was a windfall of taxes. After quibbling and stammering for a while he finally said, “Because it’s the right thing to do.” Got that, he might offend the fat tax Dems and risk derision. Never mind that it would bring in the life blood of Dems…more mana….dollars to spend on making people dependent on big government not to mention the next election. We need HELP now!

That’s weird.  Thought I opened and commented on the newsweek thread.  Strange.

Maybe you saw something in Matthew’s eyes nobody else has yet commented on.

Hey, I remember all the times I’ve said that Obama was cunning and to clever for his own good and then getting smeared as a racist each time! So I guess this makes it official that Matthews is a racist too!

Hmmm…
Who has a that kind of money, that kind of past record of profiting off of economic collapse and who also previously reveled in America’s demise because he had “a very good year” when America was down?
Could it be the leftist’s sugar-daddy/hero?

That’s what Chris was hit in the head with years ago.

When Obama took the oath as President, he thought he could slide through his term by being a figurehead and have his underlings roll up their sleeves. He never once thought he had to actually had to work.

Cmon is that called for,really??
To blame or suspect Soros when there are 100 hedge funds just as large is ridiculous and exceptionally ignorant, but to use the C word in response is just gross.

All these fat guys on manbc aren’t going to make it to the election. Charge up the d-fib stage hands..

Sorry, even leftists call Mathews a moron, why does Mediaite even give him a spot on their blog?

Chrissy thinks Obama was acting “cute.”  I bet that gave him a big boner!!!

Every opinion is not equal. There’s are right answers and there are wrong answers. If all you do is sit on the fence, all you’ll get is a post up your ass. We really could use a leader right now. It’s a damn shame we don’t have one. Somebody with some common sense and a bit of foresight would be nice.

How many projections has this administration gotten wrong? OK, let’s make this quicker. How many have they gotten right?

Its only going to get worst with these libs as Obama continues to fail.

Like the PeaBrain, PeaBagger in Chief blames Bush for everything! obama wanted to be president, but also be able to still vote present on every issue, except for 2006:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
obama, the original deficit terrorist holding the debt ceiling hostage…

I think it showed he didn’t know a thing about how a economy works early into his first year.He gave a speech in the beginning of the recession.He was going to pass Heath care AND Cap and Trade.If Cap and trade had passed we would have been looking at 14,15% unemployment.

Hedge Funds? John “The Truthful” Edwards in the house? Is he channeling Elizabeth yet?

Mucho intelligence as well. Where is it? Isn’t he a geeeenus?

That out of bounds reply indicates that you can’t refute anything in michelle’s post so……..when faced with the truth……..you throw out insults. The truth hurts huh?……..but no need to act like a 14 year old…..even if you are one. Surprised your not banned.

How in the hell did you get the C-word passed the moderators here?  I said Mika Brezenski was something that rhymed with the word “hunt” and I got kicked off. Jdaboss? You sound like a word that gets causally and freely thrown around at klan meetings. Eruptor is back. Suck it Abrams!

Blame, that is the problem, leftists can NEVER accept blame for anything they do. They can accept praise, but absolutely no blame.

I ran a huge construction endeavor for about 5 years, the only one responsible person in the whole endeavor was the one in charge, me.

Of course I could of blamed the concrete company, the framing company, the electrical company, the plumbing company, etc, etc, etc, but then I would have been fired. But of course, if you are the biggest leader in the country and you blame someone else, it must be the TRUTH, huh you frelling pieces of SHART!

Jesus Christ folks, does this POS have any responsibility!?

I am not attacking you felix, your comment was the best to drop this off, IMO.

“NOW is the time to create ‘real jobs?” NOW?

How about when Obamo first uttered his hollow phrase, a ‘laser-like focus on jobs…jobs…jobs?’ That was when Scott Brown finally buried the fat Ted Kennedy for good. Then, it seemed like the ‘right thing to say at the time.’ But Obamo is all about what the dueling teleprompters tell him to say.

The happy irony here is that the media HACKS who still kneel Lewinsky-like in front of Obamo realize that they have to pivot AWAY from the Imbecile-in-Chief for their own professional well-being. Matthews is one of those idiots.

Sitting on the
fence?

No, not
really. I just don’t choose to scream my opinions at people’s faces
metaphorically speaking.  If people see agreement that’s fine, but if not,
it doesn’t mean a breakdown. If someone has something worth discussing I’ll
listen. It’s through the desire to see things getting done.

Someone once
described to me that America was like a plane, there was a Right Wing, there
was a Left Wing and in the cockpit was the President. (Although I’m still not
sure where the Independents or anyone else politically sits on it). The point
was that you couldn’t fly the plane without both sides.

This country’s
gone through huge upheavals: A Civil War, A Great Depression, WW2, the Korean
War, the Vietnam War and some pretty significant assassinations. I’m sure I’ve
probably missed mentioning some other big moments. It’s gone through a lot and
will continue to do so. 

I voted for
Bush the second time around and then I proudly voted for Obama. I don’t need to
scream with glee because of the downgrade, because it might mean as some hope
‘the President fails.’ If the President fails then the country will fail with
him. I have always looked at the bigger picture and that’s not sitting on the
fence.

You asked about accomplishments? I could give you a genuine list of eight, but really all that matters right now is improving the economy. Everyone will find agreement on that point.

You are an idiot!

Someone once described to me that America was like a plane, there was a Right Wing, there was a Left Wing and in the cockpit was the President. (Although I’m still not sure where the Independents or anyone else politically sits on it). The point was that you couldn’t fly the plane without both sides.

That analogy doesn’t work, john. The wings of a plane operate in perfect harmony, always. The second the wings start going in opposite directions, it’s already over. The wings of a plane do not squabble. The crew, on the other hand, can.

http://tinyurl.com/3wx82fp

The Independents? They’re in coach. And they’re screaming too.

Obama, i voted for you and i still got faith, but stop with all the speeches. were not idiots, just get something big done, then come talk to us. we dont want to hear you talk everyday, especially when you rarely say anything important or meaningful

In response to the critics on the President’s speech, I’m just saying the President’s behavior, action, or speech can convey urgency or panic.  There is a thin line between urgency and panic.

Obama tried his policies and they failed.  Now he’s out of ideas so all he can do now is throw parties and give speaches.

Ignorant ranting

Ok

“when” is the key word. And JoeLiebermann is not a democrat. Bill Nelson and Blanche Lincoln are dems in name only.

“Coy, cute, too clever by half”???? Oh, Chris, just come out of the closet already!

I’ve been away working for a couple of days. 

I’m afraid we’ll have to agree to disagree.Although if we worked in Congress we’d have to find an agreement somewhere along the line.