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President Obama Sings ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ At White House Blues Concert

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While the Republican candidates fret and prepare for tomorrow’s Western-themed debate, President Obama spent tonight at a Black History Month blues celebration in the White House, with legends such as B.B. King and Mick Jagger. Having stretched out the vocal chords earlier in the year to Al Green‘s “Let’s Stay Together,” the musicians on the stage called to him during the last song in the hopes of having him participate, too. And President Obama did not shy away from jumping into “Sweet Home Chicago.”

RELATED: President Obama Takes Apollo Crowd To Church With Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’

The President appears to have taken the microphone just to thank the artists for the night of performances, but was quickly invited to jump into the singing himself. He hesitated a bit, but not much, before hopping in. At least this time he had quite the band backing him up.

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  • J.Glovington Donahue 3rd

    Don’t worry, Cool Barry, you’ll be back at your Rezko Estates mansion real soon.

  • Anonymous

    As a Chicagoan, this was pretty awesome.

  • Anonymous

    That is one Cool Azz President…  He makes Bush look remedial

  • Anonymous

    Man our president is talented.

  • Hout Bosques

    Oh – didn’t you hear? The tour’s going so well, he’s being signed up for an extension.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    As a Texan that was awesome!

  • richard jr donasco

    Check this out! http://ow.ly/9d64S

  • Anonymous

    Is it just me or does this guy never work?

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans will claim that this is the devil’s music and shouldnt be played at the White House…LOL

  • Anonymous

    Here is another post from another hater……Go pray with Santorum…

  • Anonymous

    Never mind, keep singing. I’ve have seen your work. 9% unemployment. It ain’t working!

  • Anonymous

    I would much rather that he not work.  As it his ultimate goal he destroys the Country every time he does.

  • Anonymous

    Singer in chief. Vacationer in chief. Golfer in chief. Campaigner in chief. Can’t wait for former president in chief!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XYRQZBJNX5E6JHCWR7UXRWUWGE Linda

    Nice try, but you’re thinking of Bush…. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XYRQZBJNX5E6JHCWR7UXRWUWGE Linda

    And your solution is who?  I can’t wait to see who the other side comes up with…

  • Anonymous

    Obama doesn’t flush his toilet, he scares the shit out of it!…..and that makes Repubs & Tetleybaggers quake in thier boots

  • Anonymous

    Yea,they’ll be on tour for another 4 years!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    shut up pablo :D

  • Anne 1

    I hope Mediaite has a ready supply of fainting couches on hand .

  • Anonymous

    Unlike Bush, Most Presidents can do two things at once, like when President Obama embarrassed Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner on the same night he made the decision to get Osama.

  • Anonymous

    You’ll be waiting  4 years with the clowns the GOP are running.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=667476408 Christine O’Meally

    Vocal cords. Really, vocal FOLDS. Chords are a combination of notes.

  • Anonymous

    No Real American considers Obama to be his or her president.

  • Hout Bosques

    Mittens responds: 

    “Oh, and did you know, this is really interesting & sort of exciting, especially for you people who don’t get out a lot & haven’t traveled the world, even the next country, but you’re doing fine, I’m not worrying about you at all. Anyway, did you know there were another 43 verses written for America The Beautiful? I have to say, I really didn’t want to tell all of that to you folks, here today, it might give the wrong impression about me & it’s kind of confidential, but pardon my French, what the heck. The story goes that I learned a lot of these extra verses from a gal who composed these great arpeggios for a very popular barbershop quartet for years and years before she got married to a great guy who knew my brother or my cousin I can’t recall which & they had five fairly beautiful children, I love babies don’t you, what we in the Romney family like to call a “Mitt-ful” of children. Get it? It’s a pun, that’s like joke with words. This gal’s family lived right here in … uh, well around here or somewhere nearby or in maybe on the adjacent counties or somewhere around them, but anyway right on one of those lakes near one of those places in Michigan we all know, because it might make my wife Ann jealous about my crazy youthful past filled with brash hijinks, the one I’m going around Michigan telling everyone one I might actually have had when I was going up right here in this my one & only beautiful home state where I was born & used to live for, oh, years & years, or years anyway, more than I can bear remembering. You know, it was great growing up Michigan with all those great cars, no distractions because you didn’t have to worry about a tree being the wrong height or anything, but it was a little bit wild sometimes. I remember one time when I almost thought about perhaps having a puff on a duvee, which you know, was named after the Duvee Brothers, one of those youthful integrated bands from one of those cities with those far out hippy communes we read about, like in Sacramento or Bakersfield; but this wasn’t one of those rave ups, I was at a concert headlined by a great rockin’ group called Up With People, but I felt the extra liner over my nipples & that helped the feeling pass. Anyway, here’s verses 23 through 37 of American the Beautiful, the Lost Verses they call them, or I do anyway, everybody now, dah DAH dah dah, Oh dismal and forsaken towns, ‘long side the interstate, You feel the urge To accelerate, Be sure that’s not the dog On the dash. Now the chorus, Oh beautiful, come on everybody …”

  • Anonymous

    Obama doesn’t flush his toilet because black racists and guilt ridden white people love the smell of it.  Just ask Chrissie Lewinsky.

  • Anonymous

    9%? Time to look at a newspaper.

  • Anonymous

    …. this hate is what’s destroying the republican party. please don’t stop.

  • Anonymous

    omg – so are Alvin and the Chipmunks!

    seriously, you’re going bat shit crazy cause he sang?  Reading your comments it’s like you all heaved a sigh of relief that he didn’t completely suck at singing like he does at baseball, bowling, golf etc.

    It’s absolutely ludicrous to see the groveling over him singing.  Grow up people – it’s as if you all silently exhaled, that finally he might have a career after he leaves the White House.  

  • https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmS1H0GlNDiHCXlUQxKLF8-_OhSQfgcNpg Orktane

    Dear Mitt, tl;dr.

  • Anonymous

     Yayyyyy! Rising gas prices? Home under water? Trillions more in debt with little to show? Don’t look over there, look over here, at Black Jesus singing!!!!!!!!!!

    Mortgage and food prices are lower!!!

  • Anonymous

    Not getting into politics here.  Remember when it was Clinton and his saxophone playing. BTW that’s Bill Clinton not George Clinton.  the super funky soul singer.   From  Truman’s daughter piano playing to today it seems that virtually every president displayed some kind of musical talent.   I love “Sweet Home Chicago” The original I think was written and sung by the great blues singer  Robert Johnson.  I saw the video on youtube. 

  • Anonymous

     You’re the one going going bat shit crazy, Loon.

    Grow up and get a life…

  • Anonymous

    look fool, I’m not the one carrying on as though you finally found something he could do.  Run the Country – not so much.

    It pains me to say that it’s a laugh to see you get all pretzel like contorted over this. lol 

  • Anonymous

    I feel so bad that you feel so bad, really I do.

  • Anonymous

    Do your insides burn with hateful bile when you see this stuff.  Sorry to hear that.

  • Anonymous

    How very unAmerican of you to call others unAmerican.  But go on, keep peeing on yourself.  Make sure you get a diaper change before you start to chafe.

  • Anonymous

    Calm down.  Seriously.  Note: writing lol at the end of your post does not make you seem less crazy.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Barry sings almost as good as he pitches!

  • corri anderson

    At least he’s not wearing momma jeans!

  • corri anderson

    Mind your own business you religious nutbar.

  • corri anderson

    ‘Pains me to say’ and ‘it’s a laugh’ combine for a contradiction in terms.  I guess what they say about conservatives being generally dumber and more religious and racist is true.

  • Anonymous

    As an expat that was awesome, he’s been on German radio all morning. It is so much easier living outside the USA now that Obama is POTUS.

  • corri anderson

    Hey smart guy, if the auto bailout hadn’t a happened it be higher. If the Republican strategy wasn’t to hope he fails, and rather to ensure he and the country succeed, it would be lower.  Anyone can look at a newspaper, it seems only liberals can interpret what they read in a sensible fashion.

  • corri anderson

    You seem like the kind of a-hole who says he has no regrets on his deathbed.

  • Anonymous

    Hey smart guy, I am an Obama supporter pointing out that the unemployment rate is lower than 9%

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    polls indicate otherwise. The GOP is doomed for November.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Says the party that wanted to destroy anyone who said the slightest critical word about their ‘chosen by God’ and ‘true conservative’ hero, George W. Boosh, while he was running the country into the ground.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    says the party of “Now watch this drive!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

    Cool dude.

  • NDanielson

    Finally a boy who should give up his day job! And what a sweet home Chicago is! High crime, high corruption and Barry has community organized so many success stories, still unwritten. Go back and finish what you started, Barry. Chicago needs you.

    Frances, when can we expect a glowing report on all the good that became of Barry’s community organizing in Chicago? Can Tony Rezco have visitors from the press corpse?

  • NDanielson

    Hey, smart guy, if only the former USSR had figured out that all they had to do was bail out their failing industries, they’d be economic POWERHOUSES TODAY! Wow, are you people THAT STUPID. WHY YES, I THINK THAT YOU ARE.

    Newspapers. Pravda. Drink up, clown.

  • Anonymous

    Obama could charm the pants off a grizzly bear.  I’m sure even mama grizzly, if she could shake that chip off her shoulder, would be charmed by him.

  • NDanielson

     Worth repeating for you super smart guys and gals?

    Hey, smart guy, if only the former USSR had figured out that all they
    had to do was bail out their failing industries, they’d be economic
    POWERHOUSES TODAY! Wow, are you people THAT STUPID. WHY YES, I THINK
    THAT YOU ARE.

  • Hout Bosques

    Given the Know Nothing Do Nothing Republican House Caucus is right now shuttering the place for the election – really: two weeks from now, you’ll need to afford a green fee to even hope to find a House rep – it’s like the GOP is going full cryogenic in hopes that a cure can be found in the future.  

    Yeah, it’s over. This is Phony War time, not too much different from when Obama was in full tussle with Generic Republican. The simple fact of presidential polling life is that Generic Republican has been the most spectacular success story in American presidential history, outperforming every other candidate since WWII ended except in Orwell’s year. The general problem is that the less generically Republican the GOP candidate, the worse he does. The particular problem for Mittens is once he’s got it won, they’re not going to want him. They never have, & they never will. This is not without precedent: it happened in 1912 once they learned Taft wasn’t really any sort of politician; it happened in 1936 when they had no one so they nominated no one – tho technically he was named Alf Landon. 

  • Hout Bosques

    That’s what I’ve both heard & seen. Used to be so ugly you put another country’s flag on your shit. Now, all they want to do is talk about how they feel about Obama & What’s Up With Those crazy Republican clown candidates & winger whack jobs that they don’t see how much electing Obama & how Obama handles himself is helping the image of the U.S.

  • NDanielson

    Oh, and where was BJ? LOL. Barry plays the pipes, like BJ plays the
    sax. One sucks and the other one blows. Our first black presidents should form a band. BJ and Barry. Featuring the Taxes. Do the Taxes? LOL. They could call themselves the Bankrupts. Playlists anyone? LOL.

  • Anonymous

    WOW! You are really stupid. You have absolutely no idea how Communism works, do you? 

  • NDanielson

    It probably involves willing participants at first…stupid people, perhaps. At first. What do you think? LOL.

    God, you people are willing dupes, aren’t you? Besides, “it cant happen here”.

  • Anonymous

    Hey dope, I suggest you actually try to educate yourself a little. I love you people who don’t even understand what communism is. 

  • Anonymous

    I suggest you just slink away because “It probably involves willing participants at first…stupid people, perhaps. At first. What do you think?” is a completely meaningless response which in no way explains communism. 
    Here’s an idea READ A BOOK (that isn’t written by either a talk radio or Fox News host)

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    BB King sang The Thrill is Gone. 
    ha!

  • NDanielson

     The first, third, and fifth, usually. Barry focuses his assaults on the first and second. With a minor 14th.

  • NDanielson

     Big guy cbbruunoHey dope, I suggest you actually try to educate yourself a little. I
    love you people who don’t even understand what communism is.
    ——————————————–

    Tell us, big guy. I think it is dopes falling for a government full of promises, lots of “free” stuff, from their “government” what do you think it is?

  • Anonymous

    Exactly. Obama hasn’t even had as many vacation days as Bush at the same point of his presidency. Not even close.

  • Anonymous

    READ A BOOK! 
    And I hope you appreciate how badly you have been exposed and learn to maybe ease up on the “he’s a communist, he’s a socialist” babble because it only makes you look stupid, particularly when you clearly have no idea what it entails. But then I am guessing you are far too stupid to do that.
    Yes, the Soviet Union should have bailed out their industries. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

  • Anonymous

    Obama 2012!!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Great, come next January maybe Carney can start booking him for some lounge acts to fill the time he used to spend undermining our freedoms and democracy.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Wait until those gas prices hit $5.00, and HIS MEDIA can no longer protect him.

  • Anonymous

    …The singing is smooth as cashmere Mr President!

  • http://twitter.com/HOLA_LOVITO OLUMIDE

    Awesome! I love the USA! Only in America.  My PM David Cameron needs to learn man…

  • http://twitter.com/HOLA_LOVITO OLUMIDE

     Hate Kills…

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    I admit, it’s not as good as Romney’s God Bless America, but I have to give Obama credit for trying.

  • http://twitter.com/HOLA_LOVITO OLUMIDE

     Collossal belly ache….

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    take some pepto.

  • Anonymous

    “Obama sings the Blues”

    Considering the state of the economy—How apropos!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jayne-Chapman/623966907 Jayne Chapman

    Has taken the least amount of vacation time of any President in recent memory – less then your hero Reagan, MUCH less than Bush who took over 2 years in his 8 years and when he was on the job PLEASE!!!
    Love this President!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jayne-Chapman/623966907 Jayne Chapman

    LOL – stunning how much the GOP HATES having a man of color in charge!!  The comments above from these clowns show their true “colors”!
    I LOVE my President!  I wish some of these morons would travel overseas – they don’t get this country at all – they all want Obama as their leader and I don’t blame them one bit!  His calm in the face of all the CRAP that GWB left him has been awesome and so comforting to this supporter
    OBAMA 2012!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Name calling is so….Republican

  • Anonymous

    Send the P.O.S. back to Chi-town in November… Flush & Disinfect 2012.

  • Anonymous

    could you see mitt in the white house singing with the mormon tabernacle choir and chugging a milk?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    I don’t want to hear about Obama giving a concert. I want to hear more about Santorum’s war on women, gays, minorities, immigrants, christianity, and did I say women??

  • Anonymous

    Here is the problem with the GOP They don’t know that they don’t know! So they can’t fix what they don’t know is wrong. They just know it’s not right!

  • Anonymous

    Geithner: You’re Right, We Have No Plan To Avert Fiscal Melt-Down; All We Know Is That We Don’t Like Your plan.
    Says it all.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Your President sure can sing.

  • Anonymous

    Yes it does. Just proves you really don’t know. Pitiful when you think about it

  • Anonymous

    Bravo Mister President. 

  • Anonymous

    Our status has gone up in the world !

  • Anonymous

    He’s got it all…..

  • Anonymous

    That was a fun post…..I enjoyed it…..

  • Anonymous

    Music was created by God…and dance,,,and literature… and everything else…..

  • OSTL

     bigot much?

  • Anonymous

    Don’t hold your breath…..

  • Anonymous

    They are so afraid of him…..

  • Anonymous

    Today the USA, Tomorrow the World…..

  • Anonymous

    You can say that again…..

  • Anonymous

    And they would still be better than Santorum, Romney, Gingrich, and Paul.

  • Anonymous

    Spare me the religious sermon…….Sounds like the “god made me do it” defense to a criminal charge….

  • Anonymous

    Learn to ride a bicycle.

  • Anonymous

    It’s you……time to take your meds…..

  • Anonymous

      He’s already pulling in beaucoup dough…..

  • Anonymous

    You Wish !

  • Anonymous

    Is there anything this man can’t do ?

  • Anonymous

    I am guessing you have no problem with the $15T (and rising) debt.

    I am guessing you have no problem with the lack of border security.

    I am guessing you have no problem with the US lack of energy independence.

  • Anonymous

    How about more talk about the deficit, debt, Holder’s ever changing story on “Fast and Furious,” more on Solyndra and other crony capitalism? Should we be giving even more money to Afghanistan? (In Obama’s latest budget)

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It’s nice that the Democrats have a President with talent that can sing, while the Republican’s last President couldn’t even speak in complete sentences!!

  • chalket

    Then your loss, mental giant. It was well-crafted and hilarious! Too long, didn’t read, huh? You must have some real reading difficulties, buddy, you have my sympathy.

  • chalket

    Republicans: Keeping millions unemployed to put one man out of a job.

  • chalket

    You really do hold your own ramblings in high regard, don’t you? You are an idiot nutball who’s IQ can be counted on one hand yet you think you make sense. You don’t. Most thinking people pass you by shaking their heads in disbelief and you are too stupid to even know it. Ignorance truly is bliss.

  • Holistic

    His swan song?

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    After November….He may be singing Sweet Home, Gitmo and various Johnny Cash prison songs.
     

  • Anonymous

    And his Attorney General, Holder, will soon be “Singing as a Canary” about “Fast and Furious.”

  • Anonymous

    Barry is making all Americans sing the blues.

  • Anonymous

     Yep, he is out in 2012.

  • Anonymous

     Yeah, but your head is still up Obama.

  • Anonymous

     ”Grow up and get a life…”

    You and the Emperor first.

  • Anonymous

     Please take your head out ob Obama’s butt.

  • Anonymous

     You are so pompous and irrelevant.

  • Anonymous

     Yeah, he can run up $4.5 trillion in debt in record time, set record deficits, record foreclosures, record on welfare and record living in poverty.

    You libs must be so proud of his achievements.

  • Anonymous

     Wrong! Going to your home is not a vacation. barry has more days off on real vacations.

  • Anonymous

     That was the funniest president quote ever. You libs just can’t get humor can ya?

  • Holistic

    Lets hope so and soon.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Let’s you and I talk about the deficit and debt. To close the budget gap you’d need to find nearly 1.6 trillion in one year, then keep it balanced after that. The question is not how we can get to that number in a sane and responsible way to the people of America; then question is, Is it impossible to get there if both sides won’t agree that no matter how we get there, we’re going to reach that number one way or the other and by a specific deadline. Or even close to that number. The debt negotiations were about 2 trillion over 10 years, or 200 billion a year. Still only 12.5% of what we needed to cut.

  • Anonymous

     Funny stuff. You still can’t get over Bush. I’m so glad to see your obsession with the past because Obama ran the car from the ditch off the cliff.

  • Anonymous

    Look’s like the idiot-children are out in free fall over this post! But, I’ve got a riddle:

    “I
    love the , I love the tall trees, I’ll sing this song so’s youse can vote for
    me’s”
    Detroit
    may be back, and Osama, he be’s dead, but Michigan ‘s my birth state and my
    million’s makes me free!
    I
    was born, I was born, I was born on third base, and I thinks I hit’s a
    triple,
    But
    I’m really not as good as I thinks I is, cause I’s really not a cripple.

    Name
    that candidate_______________

  • Anonymous

    You think of the bad things…..I think of the good things…..

  • Anonymous

    you groupies need to whipe your chin…. and ffs put some panties on. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Multiple ObamaGasms !  Disgusting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    He should have sang “Sympathy for the Devil”, “Highway to Hell,” “Loser,” or maybe a nice “Deutchland Uber Alles”.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like you get it. Both sides have to give some ground, but entitlements must be on the table. 

    I like much of what I have seen in the Simpson-Bowles plan. We need to redo the entire tax structure to eliminate tax loopholes. Just eliminating the Bush tax cuts on the top brackets brings in about $40B a year. The govt. spends $10B a day. So that is worth 4 days. I think you get this, so I am preaching to the choir. 

    The media harps on tax increases without telling how little most of the proposals raise. We need to make the difficult cuts over a long term. Yes, this includes military. We can easily reduce our global military footprint, IMHO. 

    But, again, from what you wrote, I am preaching to the choir. 

  • david r

    You are right in my estimation, but I don’t think you’ll end up being happy about it.

  • Anonymous

    Wonder how much this cost the taxpayers?

  • Anonymous

    Yup 4 more years of no help from the Republican Tea Party! Republican Tea Party motto “screw the country we want the power”.

  • Anonymous

    Happier than if one of the Republican Tea Party Clown candidates gets there.

  • Anonymous

    A computer voice could have done God Bless America better….oh wait……roboromney….

  • Anonymous

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……….

  • Anonymous

    You hate truthful satire! Roboromney is boring get over it!

  • Anonymous

    Clean the santorum from around your neck!

  • Anonymous

    Shouldn’t you stop bad mouthing your hero George W. Bush. Doubled the deficit, uneccessary war causing Middle East instability, deregulation in favor of big business causing housing failure and job losses resulting in record poverty and greater need for welfare!

  • Anonymous

    Just you and the haters!

  • Anonymous

    Take the coke bottle glasses off and you’ll see thats far from true.

  • Anonymous

    Presidental vacation is a laugh and none issue. No president is ever “on vacation” aides are always close at hand as is the “Football”. Destination is insignificant. Recreation is a must for anyone in high stress positions. Bush liked to chop down trees on his ranch Obama likes to golf so what! Haters make issues of none issues.

  • Anonymous

    Republican Tea Party amnesia!

  • Anonymous

    Oh their laughing constantly with the clown show going on now!

  • Anonymous

    Making any comparison between the USSR and USA is a major fail. Like comparing an ameoba and a elephant. Bailing out major industries that didn’t exsist good one……yeah dumb Ruskies…..

  • Anonymous

    don’t feed him they have attendants for that where he lives!

  • Anonymous

    and earns it…….

  • Anonymous

    Considering how little help he’s getting from the Republican Tea Party it is apropos!

  • Anonymous

    All that hate is bad for the soul!

  • Anonymous

    Hillery do you remember when the President and Boehner came to an agreed 4 trillion cut despite not getting a tax increase on the wealthy. Boehner ran away from it when the light bulb went on over his head because there where cuts in social security a large vote base for Republicans. He openly said they would lose votes. Not much courage after making austerity demands!

  • Anonymous

    Feeding big corporations and the rich is not a plan.

  • Anonymous

    If he wins are you going to jump off a highrise? I hope not I don’t much care for your point of view but I don’t want to see harm come to you fellow American.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah the thing is the Republican Tea Partiers are singing the blues because their not in charge and Democrats are singing the blues because The RTP refuses to help get things done. To busy hating President Obama……

  • Anonymous

    I know you wondered the same thing when any other president held a celebratory event…….

  • chalket

    Sorry, just couldn’t help it this time. Thanks for the good advice!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah I fall into the same trap myself but he keeps drawing you in with his crazy comments!

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    I think the media really tried to have a conversation about the deficit. But they failed. In no case did they convince politicians to reduce the annual deficit by 75, 50, or even 25%. 12% is what they shot for and no one has held them accountable.

    This reminds me of the McCain vs Obama tax plan proposals of 2008.

    1. Neither version passed so it didn’t make a difference anyway.

    2. The total difference was less then $100-200 a year. And that should be enough to by a vote.

    3. With cost of living and increased costs of products due to a weaker dollar from having ahigh deficit, it never mattered anyway.

    4. If you can’t balance the budget, strengthen the dollar, or help me get and keep a job, then why should we care what they think anyway??

    Politicians know one thing all too well. Americans are lazy, stupid, reactionary, and have ADD. They act like small children barely able to even comprehend any totality of any issue whatsoever or how it will affect them.

    The individual American is smart, for the first 5 seconds. After that their intelligence declines and they start complaining about limiting Women’s reproductive rights as if that will help the bring back jobs, jobs, jobs (which is supposed to be issue #1), or that SuperPac donations hinder our Political process (but creating American Idol like Republican Debates where after 20 of them you don’t know how much money you will get back in a tax return or if it even changes), or what ‘broadening the base’ means, it means you pay more taxes and raise more revenue. Or that none of the candidates know why we spend 700 billion a year on National Defense, which is a discretionary fund, when we are not technically at war.

    Man, the American dollar is equal to 2 million Somolian dollars. The Average American Salary is 20 times that of the Chinese. It’s no wonder we act like spoiled silverspoon babies, it because we are.

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