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Joe Scarborough: Obama ‘Can’t Be Hope And Change’; Must Destroy Opponents To Win

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President Obama’s re-election strategy was the main topic of conversation as the Morning Joe crew assessed what Obama might need to say or do in light of such a bad economy. While Joe Scarborough was most critical of Obama’s policies which have failed to reduce unemployment, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle politely reminded Scarborough that in politics everything is relative, and essentially Obama just needs to campaign against the Republican nominee rather than simply discuss the economy.

Scarborough sarcastically asked whether the argument that Obama’s stimulus plan “saved jobs” would sell to middle America? Mika began to respond, “it is an argument,” to which Scarborough humorously interjected “there’s also an argument that monkeys are going to fly into spaceships and magically create jobs, that’s an argument too.” With monkeys on the mind, clearly Scarborough is excited about the new movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes opening this weekend. Scarborough predicted about Obama’s re-election efforts:

“He can’t be ‘hope and change’ this time, if he wants to get re-elected he’s going to have to destroy his opponents, because right now the economy is worse than it was.”

Barnicle suggested that is likely true “unless [the Republicans] destroy themselves.” Later, in another enjoyable exchange, Mika complained about wealthy Americans buying $1500 pairs of shoes and said “this is shameless.” Yet Scarborough replied “get off of your pulpit,” since apparently Mika herself has a pair of extremely expensive shoes that she received as a gift. Caught red footed!

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  • Anonymous

    Please remind me of just what hope he brought and what change he made.

  • Anonymous

    He’s brought plenty of change. I hope he’s stopped.

    Memo to Obama voters: Getting hit by a truck is change too.

  • Anonymous

    The only change he gave us is the little change we have remaining in our pockets.

  • Moderate

    “ rather than simply discuss the economy.”

    When you have been a total failure at something, you should avoid talking about it.

  • Anonymous

    Later, in another enjoyable exchange, Mika complained about wealthy
    Americans buying $1500 pairs of shoes and said “this is shameless.”

    Is there anyone on TV dumber than Mika? Do you really want to talk about expensive shoes, Mika? Would you like to talk about wearing $540 sneakers to a food bank? http://tinyurl.com/3gq9amv

  • Anonymous

    Uh oh, Joe said monkey…how long will it be before we see headlines calling him a racist assuming he will get the same treatment Buchanan got with his “your boy”comment the other day.  Will his colleague Al Sharpton demand an apology?

  • Anonymous

    Ironically, she was referring to fellow lib Lindsay Lohan, but I’m sure she was too obtuse to know that.  

  • Anonymous

    Ironically, she was referring to fellow lib Lindsay Lohan, but I’m sure she was too obtuse to know that.  

  • Valerie

    Well thanks Joe for highlighting that page right out of the the modern GOP-Conservative handbook. You really could not have said it better. Essentially what you are saying is that Obama should treat his opponents the way say Palin has treated Mitt Romney or better yet the way the right has treated Newt Gingrich! You are so right! Thanks for admitting that this is no dealing with or pleasing these people so we might as well just crush them under our bootheels and send them packing like we did in 2006, 2008, and 2010.

    Thanks Joe! YOU’RE DOING A FINE JOB!!!!     

  • Anonymous

    I liked Mika more when she was educating us about our founding father, Abe Lincoln. She was discussing how proud she was of Abe when he first Tweeted the “Emancipation Proclamation” to all Americans. 

  • Valerie

    I love how conservatives never let go of a talking point-especially the ones that don’t work.

    This is the kind of opposition that will keep Obama in the white house! 

  • Anonymous

    He can’t run on his record because it sucks.
    He can’t run on his ability to unite – because he’s been the most divisive Pres ever.
    He can’t run on his job approval rating because even admirers are not approving.
    He can’t run on his previous promises of when elected, because he broke every one of them.
    So, all he’s got left is a negative campaign.  He’s good at that.  

  • Anonymous

    Mika deserves a kick in the teeth and elsewhere; I’m glad to see she’s getting it.

  • Anonymous

    I would argue that Contessa Brewer is dumber. 

  • Anonymous

    Well, that and the socialism.

    Hey, wait! I didn’t get this pocket change from him. And now he says he needs it back.

  • Valerie

    Don’t you love it when conservatives start lying? Too bad they’re not very good at it!

    Case in point-see the insipid collection of talking points graciously collected by old man seek 123!

  • Anonymous

    So that’s why he never has anything to say about Libya.

  • Anonymous

    in other words, he’s got nothing and that makes you happy. lol
    Mighty low standards for a Pres there girlfriend.  

    He could always publish a book “How I’m going to Prove  My first term was not a fluke”

  • Anonymous

    That’s a talking point? No, sweetie. That’s an inconvenient truth.

  • Anonymous

    Just what did he post that was untrue? You took an inordinate amount of words to disprove nothing he posted.

  • Valerie

    Old as dust Talking Point, but nice try. 

  • Anonymous

    That would be a horse race right there. We should sit them down for a multiplication contest.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I think we were excluding “professional” dummies :)

  • Valerie

     Or you could publish a book called “Living with Severe Head Trauma” but then again I guess you couldn’t now could you? 

    PFFFFFFFT

  • realheadline

    He’s already picked a strategy Mika, it’s called class warfare. First page in the Marxist handbook.This is best demonstrated by your own comments. Thanks for the insight Comrade Brzezinski.

  • Valerie

    I really love people like you. How on earth did you come to your inordinate amount of words theory? I really need to know your thought process.

    Guess what sugar? This is mediaite-not one of your insipid political chat boards-I know you conservatives pray and wish that it were otherwise and do everything in your power to change it all to no avail.

    If old man seek wants to post his dumb OPINIONS that’s fine; but let’s stop short of calling them absolute truths.

    Perhaps most of you would be better off at NRO or the Daily caller trading your dumb jokes and talking points with others of your ilk.

    Now tell me again-what’s the word count darling? 

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Mika’s a moron. 

    And, there’s a very middle-class person who made those shoes.  Then, there’s the middle-class person who boxed & shipped those shoes who gave them to the delivery company that also employs middle-class people to deliver those shoes to retail stores.  She then apparently forgets that there’s a very middle-class clerk who actually sold those $1500 shoes.  And, even if those shoes were imported, then the US government collects a handsome duty to pay for all those enormous social programs Mika loves so much.  And, let’s not forget about the sales tax, both state and local, that help to also fund those big social programs.

    If Mika wasn’t an idiot, not only would she celebrate the manufacture, distribution and sale of those $1500 shoes, should would pray that perhaps the purchaser bought TWO pairs, rather than just one.

    Liberals hate commerce because they have absolutely no idea how it works.  That’s why unemployment for Barack Obama’s tenure as president is almost DOUBLE where it was on average under George Bush.

  • realheadline

    What hanbook is that? Rules for radicals? Das Kapital? Nudge? Oh, those are your bibles, sorry. 

  • Michelle

    I can see a good nights sleep didn’t make Ms. Jarrett any smarter.  Sweetie you are really embarrassing yourself here.

  • Anonymous

    Wow- all those words to say nothing. 118 words to be exact.You must be a lib. Again, list all the falsehoods seek123 posted.

    All you did was change the subject.

  • Michelle

    And Mediaite is happy to play along.  They’ve got their class warfare piece on page 1. 

  • Anonymous

    BTW, I love how all libs are so predictable; when you have nothing, all ya do is name call.

    Quite funny to watch you melt down.

  • Valerie

    I can see a night full of bad dreams didn’t make Ms. Bachmann any smarter. Honey you are open sore! 

  • Valerie

    Typical BS. Sorry I don’t waste time parsing lies written by shut ins.

  • Valerie

    I can only imagine the amount of times you’ve written that sugar! 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Did you say something? 

  • Anonymous

    Whats the point of being ruthless in campaign, but rule like a Wimp. 

  • Valerie

    You can leave and got to hot and air and live in your bubble. I suspect you’d be much happier there Ms. Bachamnn!!!

  • Anonymous

    YEAP…donnie deutsch gave Mika those $1500 Christian Louboutin shoes right there on the air one morning…mika is sooooo forgetful…mika today also claimed (while joe was doing a segment on Tim Tebow) I DONT KNOW HIM…….hahahahahah…i guess mika forgot the segment she did with tim tebow less than 2 months ago when he appeared on Morning Joe to promote his book…Joe is teaching Mika well, she lies without batting an eye just like her partner

    LOOK AT THIS     http://www.milehighreport.com/2011/6/3/2204812/the-always-poised-tim-tebow-in-todays-episode-of-msnbcs-morning-joe

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Translation: “I got nothing because I’m just a lib.”

    Man, you have a surfeit of ignorance and a dearth of ideas.

  • Valerie

    I said you’re an asshole. That clear enough?

  • Anonymous

    I think the term middle-class is being misused and overused. A lot of these folks are working-class, but it looks like everyone wants to be calssed in that group or the phony Politicians are too Political correct to use the right term. 

  • Anonymous

    I write it only to the most dense libs.

  • Michelle

    Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: “We’ve really begun to turn the economy around”

  • Barry Bonds

    Can you imagine the irony of REPUBLICANS talking about dumb people?
    Man…..

  • Anonymous

    in other words you’ve got nothing honey. lol

  • Valerie

    Like most conservatives you have become tiresome and boring.

    You and your lying friends are dismissed.

  • TruDat

    You should go down on me.

  • Anonymous

    …shut your legs, your breath smells…

  • Anonymous

    This from the bubble brained Pollock seldom wears the same outfit twice and she is going to lecture us on be frugal.??  Stick to what you do best Mika, pantomimes after somebody says something you disagree with.
     
    These two are made for each other.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, with the market down another 200 today and debt at 100% GDP.

  • Valerie

    Ok. Let’ meet. 

  • Anonymous

    Well, they certainly can include you. You bought that phony “Hope& Change” hook, line and sinker!

  • Valerie

    old man seeks stock reply #14

    Yawn.

    That makes you a liar and a coward.

  • Anonymous

    Mika showing off her SHAMEFULL $1500 shoes…..and to think…she had a hissy fit over Michelle Obama expensive Lanvin Sneakers

    LOOK     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/donny-deutsch-apologizes_n_325650.html

  • Anonymous

    Show a lie?

    You can’t because all you do is lie!

    hahaha

  • Valerie

    Breath deep; you know you love it. 

  • Anonymous

    his whole re-election now has to be ‘hope and change’.  ’hope’ that the economy rebounds, and ‘change’ in the unemployment rate to go back down….   the last thing he should do is a bus tour.  Stop talking, just do or pretend to do…. 

  • realheadline

    He’s one of them, no problem.

  • Valerie

    ‘yeah, now you’re interested in the market!!!!’

    You people are so transparent!!!!

    HILARIOUS!

  • TruDat

    I just with they’d stop trying to promote Mika as some sort of sex symbol; she’s a dried up old hag.

  • TruDat

    If Obama stays in the White House, it’ll be as kitchen help only.

  • Valerie

    Judging from your earlier comments you’d be lucky to score with mentally deficient 80 year old homeless woman. 

  • Anonymous

    Now? LOL

    You think that when people refer to the “market” they are taking about Kroger!

    LOL

  • Barry Bonds

    Inordinate!

  • Anonymous

    BTW, your comments are truly unremarkable and devoid of any content.

  • TruDat

    I’m not interested in you.

  • Barry Bonds

    Have you every heard of a guy by the name of Rush Limbaugh – he loves to give people he doesn’t like or things he doesn’t like clever little nick names…. Here are a list: Banking Queen, Dingy Harry, Man-Child, Jackass…..and the list goes ON AND ON AND ON…….

  • Anonymous

    with every response you post val you prove that two points lower on the i.q. scale and we’d have to water you twice a day.  Good going girlfriend – prove that you know nothing and are really proud of it. lol

  • realheadline

    Mika = Sex Symbol = Throw Up ……..There goes breakfast.

  • Valerie

     Oh yes you are. You already made an offer. But like most conservative men you have no balls.

  • Anonymous

    no I couldn’t cause Biden’s got the rights to it.  

  • Anonymous

    honestly, ask a liberal finance person, and we’re at a 30-50% chance of ‘double dip’ recession right now. That’s just the facts.  The market is seeing technical signs of a ‘double dip’ now and the euro contagion fears are back.  The summer of recovery part II is off the tracks again.   

    Reality knows no political affiliation… 

  • TruDat

    Sure I do, they’re resting on your chin.

  • Valerie

    I suggest you climb up your own rear end and vanish.

    And take a few of your friends with you, you lying coward you.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: How can Obama proceed with Hope and change policies when the Progressive cult members vote against your policies you sign in to law plus hate America and want you to fail because your black?

  • Valerie

    Really? They sure have you responding over and over again. Why is that? Hmmmmm?

  • TruDat

    Perhaps if she cut back on her shoe expense, she could afford some sleeves.

  • Michelle

    Hey, you need to visit a great place call, SHUTTYVILLE!

  • Anonymous

    the economy is at best in a ‘holding pattern’, at works, it’s heading into a ‘double dip’ recession.   Facts are not talking points.    Ironically, the Beck fans are probably enjoying their rise in gold prices.   Must kill libs to know he was ‘dead right’ about gold prices, though I completely disagree to ride it with a company when it should b in ETF’s or in other securities…..

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t see any offer made. In addition, if you are claiming that Conservative men have no balls then how by definition can they be “teabaggers?”  Liberals are such mental midgets.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Another demarodent throwing the elderly out in the cold!

  • Anonymous

    ‘recovery summer’ is a talking point.  The actually stock market actions and Debt ratios are facts…

  • Michelle

    And Barry, they are usually on point and hilarious!

  • Valerie

    See I knew you wanted me! Is this getting you off thinking of your balls on  my chin? What do you want me to do with them big boy! Come on now don’t be shy!!!

  • Anonymous

    wow, valerie, you just joined RRK for daily personal attacks!  It’s a tough threshold to reach.

  • Anonymous

    Poor barry bonds- this ain’t about Rush.

    Nice try, but please stay on topic.

  • Anonymous

    But most lib women certainly do!

  • Valerie

    Your loss! You could have made some money and got off the cat food diet!

  • Anonymous

    $1680. Holy crap.

    http://tinyurl.com/5uavncz

  • Anonymous

    OUCH!

    Checkmate, Valerie- now wipe your chin and go away!

  • Anonymous

    Valerie, darling, sugar, you have not posted one fact to dispute seeks posting. You have posted a bunch of dribble but no facts. It must suck not to be able to dispute the truth. Oh heck, it just must suck to be you.

  • Anonymous

    The Big Wind from Chicago is taking a bus tour this month between vacations . Taxpayers will pay for this campaign trip .

    “ President Barack Obama’s upcoming bus tour through the Midwest states typically viewed as swing states during presidential election years will be paid for by the taxpayers, the White House says.”
    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/taxpayers-cover-obama-bus-tour-midwest-b

      

  • Valerie

    Good morning. How do you do. You must be one of those “smart” republicans I’ve heard about. Don’t meet to many of your ilk around here. I hope you stick around to help raise their collective IQ.

    Good luck and God speed!

  • Valerie

    I know a place you should visit but politeness prevents me from-oh nevermind its Hell.

    And don’t just go for a visit Ms. Bachmann.

  • TruDat

    What do I want you to do with them??  Hmmm, compare them to Rachel Maddow’s.

  • Anonymous

    exactly what did I lie about Val?  That fact that you’re not up to a cognitive thought?  You’ve proven that.  

    As for Obama – please point out even 1 lie.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Well the markets have dropped over 200 pts in the first 2 hrs of trading this morning, bringing losses to over 1000 pts in less than 10 days of trading..  Words like Stagflation are again being thrown around to describe our economy….  Maybe the president can dust off Carter’s Malaise speech and tweek it alittle..  Yeah he is doing a great job!

  • Anonymous

    Why would I need money?  Remember I’m the idle rich.  How soon you forget.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    Heh, I knew I wouldn’t be the only one who noticed that. Thankfully Joe will get off the hook for that since there is a new Apes movie opening tomorrow, so he likely had that on the brain. Or he just badly mangled that quote from Wayne’s World.

  • Valerie

    They’re much smaller. And hers work!

  • Valerie

     See I knew it. Like most conservatives you pretend you have class but in actually you are just like the rest! And seems you can’t quit me. why is that? Seems you are enjoying another man’s balls on my chin. Sounds a bit gay-not that there’s anything wrong with that!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    smart enough to know to should be too.  Oh the horrors of trying to show intelligence and falling on a big zero. lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    She called Fedup In Florida an a-hole. Isn’t that a sufficient enough counterargument? What do you want from her? Substance? Actual facts and statistics?

  • Valerie

    I know! I strive!

  • Valerie

    Inordinate!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    “Mika complained about wealthy Americans buying $1500 pairs of shoes and said ‘this is shameless.’”

    I know she ain’t referring to me. I bought 2 pairs of sneakers the other day for a combined 70 bucks(plus tax). And even that was more than I wanted to pay. And BTW, that’s after clinging to my previous pair for so many years that they were literally falling apart.

    Joe should take his show on the road and see how us peons are living. It would be an eye-opening experience for someone like Mika.

  • ImNotBlue

    That’s actually a very good point.  Obama isn’t a fighter when it comes to making the tough calls, or going toe to toe with an opponent.  In the last election, he didn’t really need to… but he will this time around.  He’s going to let those around him make the attacks, and pretend to stay out of it… but frankly, I doubt it will work.

  • ImNotBlue

    Again, another great point!

    I remember doing an exercise in a history class, where everyone who thought they were middle class had to raise their hands.  Everyone did.  Many were surprised to find that while they think of themselves as “middle” they’re not.  It’s just like politics.  Everyone wants to think of themselves as “center,” but many are not.

  • Anonymous

    Joe is simply repeating the MSNBC mantra.  MSNBC’s hosts don’t really talk about hope or change…or even about policies.   They put all their faith in character assassination, mud-slinging, ridicule and distortion.  The President may very well be forced to do the same in next year’s campaign — since his track record is so disastrous, he can’t really run on his accomplishments.  But this will backfire, just as it backfired in the midterm elections.  

  • Valerie

    Your above post is gibberish.  Check your first sentence then jump off a cliff.

    Epic Fail.

  • Anonymous

    From the lefty responses, I’d say we’ve hit a nerve.  No attempt to  rebut, just flame throwing.

    I do hope that he does not get re-elected.  We cannot afford to have this man messing with the economy any longer.  He had all his pals in there with him and none of them knew anything about governing, only about election tampering.  Enough already.  

    My biggest fear is that the left will double down on stupid.  

  • Anonymous

    p.s. val – check your spelling. lol

  • Valerie

    More drivel from old man seek.

    Nothing new to see here.

  • Anonymous

    I think Sam has had a sex change.  Smells like Sam, talks like Sam – we’ll I’ll be damned! lol

  • Anonymous

    I see you still have nothing.  An empty vessel that’s leaking sludge.  

  • Valerie

    I think I’ll leave the spelling to you since you care so much!!!!!

    Mental Midget Mines Minutae?  

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  • Valerie

    And you are still a lying coward; An overflowing tub of lies and cowardice.

  • Anonymous

    Obama, what is best in life?

    To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

  • Anonymous

    The fact is you have no “fact” – it’s your biased opinion.

    The race card is handy isn’t it?  Got anything new?  Perhaps having a look at our struggling economy and admitting honestly that what you thought would work in fact didn’t.

    Remember the chuckle about “shovel ready” jobs?  When he was promoting that brilliant idea, the right pointed out that there is no such thing and the left jumped all over them.  

    I realize it’s the hardest thing to admit that your best laid plans sucked, but it is what it is and you have to learn to deal with it.  

    Your attempt to stifle criticism by claiming it’s race related is juvenile and dishonest.  

  • Italians5

    what the hell is that moron wearing?
    she looks like a complete ass.

  • Anonymous

    Typical BS. Sorry I don’t waste time parsing lies written by shut ins.

    Then what was the point of those 118 words?

  • Anonymous

    Cat food diet? Who is on the cat food diet anymore? We got us some Obamamoney. Obamamoney for all- right out of his stash. Ya hoo!!!

  • Anonymous

    I thought it was “shared sacrifice”.

  • Anonymous

    thanks sam.  

    I’m a lying coward?  What is cowardly about what I said?  You realize that even flame throwers have to make sense.  Coward? lol  

    I would venture to guess that any thought you ever had you swatted away thinking it was a tiny mite.  

  • Greg

    A mysterious company funneled $1 million into a Super PAC supporting Mitt Romney and then dissolved just months later, reports NBC News’s Michael Isikoff.  The contribution represented one of the largest donations of this election cycle and, according to Isikoff, “provides a vivid example of how secret campaign cash is being funneled in ever more circuitous ways into the political system.” The firm W Spann LLC, formed by Boston estate tax lawyer Cameron Casey, dissolved in July after being formed in March. In between that period it made a $1 million contribution to the Super PAC Restore Our Future started by former Romney aides. Though it’s listed as being located in midtown Manhattan office building, that location has no record of it being a tenant. Casey, who filed W Spann’s incorporation papers, specializes in “wealth transfer strategies,” is an associate at Ropes & Gray’s whose longtime client is Bain Capital, an investment firm formally run by Romney. The former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission Lawrence Noble was mystified. “I don’t see how you can do this,” he told Isikoff. “There is a real issue of it being just a subterfuge.” Meanwhile, the Restore Our Future’s campaign treasurer says it’s not doing anything illegal. “Restore Our Future has fully complied with, and will continue to comply with, all FEC disclosure requirements.”

    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/08/company-mysteriously-disappears-after-giving-1-million-romney/40830/

  • Valerie

     Yes you’re a lying coward.

    And whoever “sam” is lives in your tiny head rent free it would seem!

    Good luck with that!!!

  • realheadline

    We don’t have cats on the yacht.

  • Darladoon

    so, being a conservative, you’re logically glad that he brought neither

    so………….what are you complaining about?

    you can still sell bundle bad collateralized mortgages, sell them as junk,
    fail miserably in the midst of a housing crisis, have the taxpayers bail you out,
    and THEN make millions in bonuses, AND keep your jet tax loophole

    obama did exactly what wall street wanted.  

    so, again, WHAT ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT?!

    i’m sooooo sick and tired of you puerile, spoiled, frat boys!!

    get a job!!

  • Darladoon

    if the economy is soooooo bad, then why are hedge fund managers 
    making a killing?  

    why are large corporations sitting on trillions in cash?

    i thought you conservatives LOVED wall street?  i thought you wanted
    him to keep is mitts off the private sector?  lower taxes?  deregulate?

    etc, etc, etc?

    do you want him to actually, you know, DO SOMETHING that would upset
    the private sector?  you know, like, spend more money on infrastructure projects?

    or……..increase taxes on hedge fund managers??

  • Anonymous

    on average huh???…you hobbits are always forced to use a disclaimer, never mind that the unemployment rate rose from 4% to 7.6 % under bush and you calculate the average out over 8 years
     also never mind that Obama STARTED with a 7.6% rate so even if Obama would have only been president for 2 days average rate under Obama would still be higher…..YOURE AN IDIOT
    bottom line is this…Under bush the unemployment rose by 3.6 % while under Obama to date at max it rose 2.6%….so instead of using your hobbit flawed ass math system lets just say that Both Bush and Obama started off at a 0% unemployment rate and recalculate…you’ll find the BUSH REALLY SCREWED THINGS UP

    heres an interesting chart you should look at…it will prove just how bad GW Bush screwed the pooch, sent the national debt way into outer space, left office after draining the treasury and robbing America blind and handed off a complete pile of shit to the next guy…only dumbasses like you would want to backtrack to bush era policy…its like you thought you were hetro then bush stuck it up your butt and much to your surprise YOU LIKED THE FEELING…..dumbass
    http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/25-things-we-learned-during-the-debt-crisis

  • Valerie

    GO DARLA GO!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    valerie in the wild or as he’s known IRL, oliver willis of mmfa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-U6cMdpKmY  enjoy!

  • realheadline

    “…..has fully complied with, and will continue to fully comply with, all FEC disclosure requirements” Just which part of this do you not understand. This is an unsubstantiated ‘hit’ piece by Isikoff and the puppets at NBC, one of thousands. Innuendo aint fact kid, read between the lines.

  • Darladoon

    i’m not sure what the problem is in pointing out the gigantic, almost biblical
    chasm that exists between the wealthy and the those struggling to survive

    but, i’m not surprised conservatives would tear into mika for being a dumb blonde
    rather than reflect on something meaningful.  

  • Darladoon

    “sweetie”?

    so easy to act like a child on an anonymous blog

  • realheadline

    Thanks, no wonder. Hahahahahaha……

  • Anonymous

    Great Genghis! The Messiah will be crushed and driven from office in 2012. PS: I’ll pass on Michelle–she’s all yours.

  • Anonymous

    The Stock Market seems to be loving the new austerity measures the GOTP insisted upon.

  • qwerty

    anyone noticed the stock market collapse after the republicans and tbaggers got everything they wanted in this stupid debt deal???

  • Darladoon

    this response pretty much sums up the extraordinary, orwellian, self-delusional
    contradictions of conservatives:a)  obama is a socialist b)  and yet wall street and large corporations are making a killing like never beforehow can an actual socialist allow b) to happen?

  • Anonymous

    Good grief, you’re an idiot.  Why don’t you try to think for yourself, rather than rely on the idiocy of web blogs.

    Presidents inherit recessions.  It happens ALL THE TIME.  GWB inherited a recession.  Bill Clinton inherited an economy that was coming out of recession and Ronald Reagan inherited a recession that was so bad, economists created something called the “misery index”. .

    When  a president inherits a recession, his #1 job is to NOT make the economy worse. 
    Every free market economy is cyclical, and the best thing a president can do, is stay out of the way of the natural recovery.  Obama, unfortunately, failed on this point.  Not only has he made it worse, he has made it MUCH worse.  And, whatever the debt and annual deficit Obama inherited happened to be, he managed – in a VERY short period of time – to make that debt and deficit exponentially WORSE.

  • Anonymous

    Mika looks like a doily in search of a table.

  • Darladoon

    bush inherited a recession?!

    you mean the housing bubble, right?

    and what did george bush do to ward off that recession?

    a)  started two unnecessary wars

    b)  cut taxes for the wealthiest members of society

    c)  prevented regulation of credit default swaps/collateralized debt

  • Greg

    “Lawrence Noble, the former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission, told NBC that the establishment of a company for the sole purpose of donating to a Super PAC could pose a “serious” legal issue.”

    “Casey, the lawyer who formed W Spann LLC, did not respond to a request for comment by the International Business Times, and a spokesperson for Ropes & Gray told NBC the law firm “won’t be making any comment on this matter at this time.”

    http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/192397/20110804/mitt-romney-w-spann-llc-presidential-campaign-restore-our-future-super-pac-cameron-casey.htm

  • Tedderman

    Each day “Tojo” Scarborough looses a little bit more of his soul and his sanity in his attempts to ridicule and demean this President.  Scarborough is simply part of the problem when he chooses to throw barbs and insults rather than having any reasonable suggestions.

  • Anonymous

    It was amusing hearing Mika complain about women buying expensive shoes. My first thought was: those are all friends of yours, bitch. My second was: I wonder if Mika ever complained about Michelle Obama wearing $540 Lanvin tennis shoes to a food bank.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/michelle-obama-wears-silv_n_193138.html

  • Greg

    “A Boston tax lawyer to the wealthy is behind a mysterious, short-lived corporate donor supporting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, according to a report. The company, W Spann LLC, dissolved itself soon after donating $1 million to a political action committee (PAC) that is backing Romney’s 2012 presidential bid.”

    “Representatives for Romney and Ropes & Gray could not immediately be reached, Thursday morning.”

    http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2011/08/04/mystery-romney-donor-firm-dissolves.html

  • Darladoon

    that’s what i’ve been saying all along

  • Anonymous

    As ususal you can’t make a comment without a bigoted remark in it.

  • gordonbloyershow

    Someone should remind Mika that Fox and Friends is still the top rated morning cable show and is still pulling away from this crew of fools.
    Obama only has to close the door on his coffin and relax. It will be all over for him soon.

  • Anonymous

    you mean the housing bubble, right?

    No, the dotcom bubble.

    a)  started two unnecessary wars

    Afghanistan was unnecessary? Are you really going to make that argument? http://tinyurl.com/3blcqqz

    b)  cut taxes for the wealthiest members of society

    …and everyone else.

    c)  prevented regulation of credit default swaps/collateralized debt

    Please explain that. Was there a veto that I missed?

  • Anonymous

    How dare you!  Obama is NOT a socialist.  He’s a Marxist. Read his books.

  • Anonymous

    I noticed it going down ahead of the deal. When is Obama going to create those obs he promised 3 years ago?

  • Brad DC

    Ok prove Joe’s point wrong. What part of the Presidents record will he run on?

  • Anonymous

    #1. They know how to money. Unlike government moochers.
    #2, They don’t what Obama will do next to decrease their profits.
    #3. We tried spending money on projects but Obama sent most of the money to the states and cities to keep government employees in jobs. Now that the money has run out the states and cities are cutting back more people an more projects.

  • Anonymous

    Works for the “racist” meme from the liberals.

  • Anonymous

    According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll, 22% of Tea Party supporters approve of the debt ceiling agreement, compared with 26% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats.  How does that square with the B.S. you are spewing?  
    In other news, 29,000 children are dead in Somalia from famine, and Jerry Lewis is no longer the MDA chairman.  Is that the Tea Party’s fault, too?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Where are those green jobs? http://tinyurl.com/ngc6mm

  • realheadline

    Crickets……

  • Anonymous

    Valerie is The World’s Dumbest Blogger™? Really?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWUMDXSUYVXFOVKEDR7OG3SD7A John Doe

    Mika’s reaction is just unbelievable and very foolish, I cant imagine how stupid she is to be touting the newspaper report about someone buying a pair of shoes for $1,500 as if it were news. In the past 100 years a pair of shoes has been bought EVERYDAY for $1,500 or more by wealthy Americans irrespective of the economic situations past and present. There has always been wealthy people from Hollywood, corporate America and the Government, so their wealth can be spent how ever they choose to. Touting the purchase of a shoe by an individual for $1,500 as a sign of the rich getting richer is the most foolish analysis I have ever heard. Mika knows what she is doing and it is the same class warfare they have been promoting with the Obama camp who gives them talking points about the “evil rich”.

    Obama celebrates his birthday today, and there are people from Hollywood who will be in attendance or performing, and I can assure you that the shoes they will have on are no less than $1,500 and it has been so in the past 100 years and will always be. There are rich people who like to dress expensive because they can afford it; there has always been and will always be.

  • realheadline

    Reread my previous post.

  • Greg

    “It’s this kind of stuff that complicates the “money is speech” argument. If you’re being incredibly charitable about it, maybe you can compare this to John Jay writing an essay under a pen name to influence the debate over whether or not New York should approve the Constitution. Boy, that felt stupid even as I wrote it. It’s nothing like that — it’s laundering money and hoping no one asks questions about it.”

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/08/04/mystery_money_for_romney.html

  • Anonymous

    Joe’s Bosses are doing all they can to destroy Obama’s opponents and don’t need any encouragement. They destroy a whole lot more in the process.
    Having said that, Joe is pretty much right, since Obama doesn’t have any real successes on which to campaign. Obama will probably step up the use of one tactic that has never failed him, which is pitting Americans against one another in class warfare.

  • Anonymous

    Fundraising is the only economic activity he is  good at…

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Mika…I hate the rich for wearing nice shoes just as much as I hate the poor for wearing inexpensive shoes.

  • Anonymous

    Right. To quote a popular saying: It’s why fish don’t know they’re wet.

  • Anonymous

    Gone off on a bit of a skewed tangent haven’t you? I got your point though. You really, really, really hate Joe Scarborough.

  • batMAN

    are you stupid? LOL who cares what the public thinks when the deal was 98% of what boehner wanted…republicans and tbaggers got 98% of what they wanted so please explain to me how the public opinion means anything to my stocks and every other stock going down this much today you toad
    and now i await the downgrading of our credit because these nimwits coudn’t agree on the 4 tril dollars cuts that was proposed in the beginning

  • Anonymous

    We continue to pay for our own down fall. This is dirty business.

  • Anonymous

    That’s pretty magnanimous of the American people. It’s kinda like paying for the advertisement of your competitor against you.

  • Mari Johnson

    It is also loaded with a slug of racism.  After the long, drawn out, incompetent years of 

    GW, our Party should take just a moment to think of his huge budget increases and that, even with his two off budget wars he trumped up to try to outdo his daddy and low and behold, he flunked even at that.  I think that GW is the worst President our party has ever fielded and that Obama inherited GW’s big mess he had made in his years as President.

  • Anonymous

    No, I’m not stupid, but since you went to the standard liberal argument (namecalling), you are either stupid or a liar.  The only nimwit who screwed the deal up was your guy in the White House.  And, if think you are smarter than I am, why is it that my investments didn’t go down and yours did, moron?

  • Anonymous

    No, I’m not stupid, but since you went to the standard liberal argument (namecalling), you are either stupid or a liar.  The only nimwit who screwed the deal up was your guy in the White House.  And, if think you are smarter than I am, why is it that my investments didn’t go down and yours did, moron?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    The Teabagger Republicans have been in office for 8 months and no jobs bills, and the economy is getting worse. This happened once before in 1937 when FDR fell for the Hoover Republican, low taxes, cut spending program, and the economy slowed. He reversed this and the economy picked up. We are experiencing again anarchy of the wealthy, and they are lead by people like the Kochs, and their corporate funded ALEC organizations. They write the bills in your state and Fed. legislators, for their interests, not the public’s. This self induced austerity program is going to make things worse and only you have the power to change it at the voting booth. When Democrats and Independents vote, Republicans lose.

  • TruDat

    And the Dummycrats still haven’t proposed a budget for over 800 days.

  • Anonymous

    Clearly Mika has forgotten the 500.00 pair of tennis shoes our First lady wore when volunteering at a food bank. Shortly after preaching to America about sacrifice and ‘tightening our belts”

    The wealthy have never stopped spending -they just toned it down for the past 3 years, unloaded their unwanted debt by blaming it on the economy-took the tax write off and moved on.

  • Anonymous

    there is just one small problem with your logic – the fact that it’s illogical.  The market collapse is due to not enough cuts.  The market is brighter than you and obama – without deep cuts – immediate, nothing changes.

    The republicans did not get what they wanted, neither did the democrats, and lastly neither did the tea party.  Nobody is happy with what was passed – they all held their collective noses and signed.  It was a pathetic compromise that changes nothing – as evidenced by the market.  

  • Anonymous

    they are all slimy and nobody wants them. lol

  • Anonymous

    the fact that you are related to Mika?  Is that what you want us to reflect on?
    a “biblical chasm” – what the hell book did you grab that doozy from? lol

    btw – I’m not surprised at your post – you never fail to illuminate your shallow existence and then your “get a job” is truly funny.  I guess you’re still looking – something will fall into your lap I’m sure.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Sorry Joe – his opponents will destroy themselves.

  • murdock

    Are any of you making these posts in the top 2% of wage earners?  If you are maybe you should be patriotic and start paying your fair share of taxes

    Can’t we all just get along?

  • LJB57

    Once Obama’s thrown out of office, I can’t wait for the investigations of High Treason to start.

    Obama…San Clementi awaits you.  

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