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Dan Rather To Obama: ‘Go Big Or Go Home’ With A Major Jobs Program

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With bad economic news surrounding President Obama, Chris Matthews warns that if unemployment stays above 9% Obama will not be able to get re-elected. Dan Rather joined Matthews’ Sunday show panel, agreed that unemployment is the biggest concern for Obama and gave the President advice that should be listened to right away.

Rather’s proposal to Obama:

“Go back to what Harry Truman did, take on Congress . . . for [Obama] it’s go big or go home. If he’s got fight in him, this is the time he has to do it. Face the Congress down, say listen we’re going to have a major jobs program.”

Another important lesson for Obama, according to Rather, is that debt reduction is not as important as job creation. With many of Obama’s supporters fearing that his leadership qualities have disappeared, might one last demonstration of strength with a huge program be the right strategy for re-energizing his base?

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  • Anonymous

    What’s the frequency , Barack ?

    Are you running for something , Dan?

  • Anonymous

    While I think Rather is basically right, how can Obama reverse course on so many of his policies to allow job creation and still maintain his base of voters? That’s not to say there is any way I would like to see him re-elected.
    The thing to note here is that Matthews presents our economic problems as to how they effect Obama’s Presidency and not so much as to how they effect the average citizen. MSNBC isn’t bias or anything.

  • Anonymous

    What President ever needed Dan Blather’s advice? Who let him out of his managed-care facility?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Did Rather recently suffer from a stroke or something?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    America’s response: STAY HOME !1!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    America’s response: STAY HOME !1!

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Yay, morons are calling for the same thing as FDR did in the First Great Depression.

    Remind me again, how did that work out back then?

    Also remind me, why are leftists really bad at history?

  • Moderate

    Dan, go away, you are no longer relevant.

  • DeVoid

    Rather’s good at making sheet up.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Another stimulus PACKAGE!

    Hmmmmm, let me remind the leftists again.

    2010 US GDP stated rise-2.6%
    2010 US Federal deficit spending-9.6%
    2010 actual GDP rise negative 7%

    That is the definition of a depression. I guess even Krugman could not argue my point. Any of you leftist want to give it a whirl?

  • Anonymous

    The elephant in the room is, The President (whoever it is) can’t just “sh*t” jobs. It’s a hollow argument because he’s powerless to do anything, all the policies he has helped shepherd through have strangled any possibility of expansion by anybody.

    The only thing he (as Prez) could do is try to ram through another “stimulus” plan to appropriate funds to have people dig holes and then fill them up…..

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Dan, why not? The first one did so well- we have lost 2 million jobs since the stimulus bill passed- let’s do another and see if we can lose 2 million more.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Wait a MINUTE, didn’t the White House just come out and admit that the government does not create jobs?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSHyEMBOWA&feature=player_embedded

    Ooops, you lefties better come up with some other talking points.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but Chris Matthews is contesting the WH’s position!!!

  • Anonymous

    ‘Go Big Or Go Home’

    A village called Chicago is missing its idiot community organizer.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    I don’t care WHO you are, that was funny!

  • Anonymous

    A big jobs program?  You mean with shovel ready jobs?   And like back in the recovery summer?  And like all those the jobs created or saved by the stimulus?

    Sorry, Dan….been there, done that.

  • Anonymous

    Jobs program  = Tax increase
     
    This is what Dan means if anyone need a translation from liberal new-speak to english, raising taxes is the progressive economic plan, no matter what the economic situation. It’s all they got. They have literally dozens of euphemisms for raising taxes, simply amazing.

  • Anonymous

    Leftists have a short term memory, they can only go back one Republican President.  Anything else to much for their leftist brains.

  • Anonymous

    Leftists have a short term memory, they can only go back one Republican President.  Anything else to much for their leftist brains.

  • Anonymous

    Funny how the libs/progressive always think they need a program to make something happen…. how about incentivizing those that create the jobs, streamlining and making it easier for them, giving them confidence that higher taxes and regulations wont get in the way of their cashflow so they can offer the jobs.  And have government get the heck out of the way.  

  • Anonymous

    These two are clueless. 

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  • Anonymous

    This is a generality to your generalities: Cash flow is not the problem now. Companies are sitting on cash for lack of customers. As soon as they get more customers, they can spend the cash they have on raw materials and other supplies to get moving.

    However, I am sure you heard the word cash flow somewhere, and thought this was a good place for it. What do bushiness need? Sales. Sales. Sales.

  • Anonymous

    The White House cannot create jobs without the cooperation of the congress. That is the whole sound bite. Thanks for the link be sure you listen to all if it next time.

  • Anonymous

    Reread the history of the Great Depression. Conservative policies of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Isolationism, too. Tariffs and such, but hands off the economy.

    We were in full depression by the time FDR got elected, and no surprise, it took a hell of a long time to get out of it. If the Repubs do get the White House, watch the earmarks start flying again. They were the cover for local stimulus plans.

  • Anonymous

    Leftists don’t listen to liars who say FDR is the culprit of the past. The Great Depression started in 1929. FDR wasn’t elected until 1933. Look up Hoovervilles. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1642.html

    Hoover then. TEA Party now.

  • Anonymous

    Uncertainly is the problem. Regulation is another. The business community is not worried about a lack of customers, they’re worried about the government.

    http://tinyurl.com/3qxaok6

  • Anonymous

    Wynn is a poor choice for support of your point. He says he could add 10,000 jobs in Las Vegas, but instead he is investing in Macao. (Been there) Macao is now a Special Economic Zone of China. It has always had casinos because of the Portuguese, and every rich Chinese goes there for R&R. Wynn sends jobs to China, while making excuses about the bad US economy.
    Do you like that?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: You must be in the 51% that don’t pay taxes!

  • Anonymous

    Wynn is in the tourism business. He builds where people want to go.

    Wynn says WHY he’s not building in Vegas. If we’re going to talk about sending jobs to China, perhaps you could explain to me why the Chair of Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Jeff Immelt, is creating thousands of jobs in China instead of America. He certainly isn’t doing it.

    Are you going to address Wynn’s complaint, or are you satisfied with changing the subject?

  • Liberal

    Rather also said on that show that obama is “perceived
    as such big friends of corporations, big corporations, wall street, bankers by
    the poor and middle class”! Rather also said that he has always been
    “an optimist by experience and nature” unless he is discussing
    watermelons and Bush’s military service record. Then Matthews claimed FOX is
    the party of the rich after his panel saying that obama is the president of the
    wealthy fat cats!

  • Anonymous

    False!

  • Anonymous

    Glitch. Ignore this.

  • Anonymous

    You brought him up as an example. I commented on that example. I get the feeling he wanted to slap Obama for not being tough enough to control the congress.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with these two suckers.  I want them to give me a job making at least as much as them.  I them to give me free healthcare as good as they are getting.  I want them to give me free breakfasts and free lunches and free dinners as good as they eat.  I want them to give me free transportation as nice as they have.  Yep, I love these guys.  Don’t let me down…gimme…gimme…gimme!

  • caconservative

    What the hell is Rather talking about, another “make work” fiasco by this inept government that will cost 10-times what the real cost should be? Payed for by the dwindling number of workers who are paying taxes!
    Looks like STUPID doesn’t stop at the White House, it also dominates the Liberal Press.  

  • bob

    Obama should have concentrated on jobs from the start of his presidency instead of trying to push his health care program through, which the majority of people didn’t want. He wasted over a whole year and still isn’t producing jobs. In fact he is destroying jobs, keeping over 1,000 people out of work at the new Boeing plant in S.C. The president doesn’t creat jobs ? thats B.S. he can get congress to relax regulations that are forcing companies to move overseas, get rid of duplicate departments that the states already have, EPA, Education, Commerce, Homeland Security and the IRS. States can do a better job then Washington ever will. The only business the Federal Government should have is national defense, not sending aggressor forces all over the world fighting other countries wars. The more we attack other countries, the weaker our economy gets, not to mention the lives that are lost unnecessarly. 

  • http://twitter.com/cek100248 charles kirtley

    Dan Rather?? I thought he died two years ago.

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