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Obama's reference to moochers

Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 1 month ago to Politics
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Obama said, “By telling hard-working middle-class families that the reason they are getting squeezed is because some moochers at the bottom of the income ladder, because of minorities and because of immigrants or because of employees or because of feminists, because of poor folks who aren’t willing to work, they have been able to promote policies and protect special interests and those at the very top of the economic pyramid. That’s just the truth. I hope you don’t mind me being blunt about this, but I have been listening to the stuff for a while. And I’m concerned when I watch the direction of our politics. We have been hearing this story for decades, tales about welfare queens, talking about the takers, talking about the 47 percent. It is the story that is broadcast every day on some cable news stations, on right wing radio. It is pumped into cars and bars and VFW halls all across America and right here in Elkhart. If you are hearing that story all the time, you start believing it. It is no wonder people think state government is the problem.”

I'm feeling just a bit tweaked right now.
My mother taught me that if I didn't have something nice to say, to not say anything. OK, I'll just grumble under my breath.

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  • Posted by fivedollargold 9 years, 1 month ago
    Fivedollargold was particularly disgusted by Mr. Ovomit's reference to VFW halls. Kind of explains the low priority given to cleaning up the VA by the present Regime. Pathetic display by our Whiner-in-Chief.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe they should 'really' open his appearances to the 'public' - don't frisk them or demand to see their DNC donor card, just let whatever wanders in off the street into the audience.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 1 month ago
    Obama says that for one reason only: he's been a moocher all his adult life, and he is the champion of moochers. And I don't see him paying any, and I mean any, of the price he demands we pay.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 9 years, 1 month ago
    This seems to be the first time that the Terrorist-in-Chief has remembered his mother's words. And then, not for long...
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    He was born in a bubble and someone popped it and no one knows where all the parts went....No evidence of a functioning brain in that repair job.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 1 month ago
    who ever wrote the above for 0 to say knew that 0 would not understand it to begin with as it is gibberish. 0 is an idiot!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 1 month ago
    If he thinks that "moochers" and "welfare queens" are a figment of everyone else's imagination, he's obviously been in his Secret Service bubble too long - because anyone that takes a subway or light rail to work, or whatever, is going to have a very different opinion of reality.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 1 month ago
    Excuse me, Mr. President but too much government is the problem and I can cite case after case of it. You blame "right wing radio" because you hate the sunshine peering into that coffin in your castle as you avoid mirrors. You are a vampire and seek to create more vampires just like you. The problem is that eventually you run out of people to suck blood from and all the vampires die too.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Probably. He might have read AS and thought the roles of Thompson and Mouch sounded really cool!
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 1 month ago
    So, you're telling me that Obama probably didn't read AS and the parts he's heard about, he really didn't like. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 1 month ago
    So, you're telling me that Obama probably didn't read AS and the parts he's heard about, he really didn't like. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 1 month ago
    Since when did Obiteme every start listening to factual news casts?
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years, 1 month ago
    Just like ALL things progressive...the opposite is True...and it is true; We, the middle class, the least able to support everyone else and Ourselves, are being taxed to death and if we get a second job, create a patient or write a book...they tax us more! and we're no better off than before.
    It's the law of diminishing returns...the more we make, the more they take.

    Every time, I make an extra buck or get some overtime...I grumble...I'm just feeding the beast!...another $666.00 out of my check this week.
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Lol. I thought I felt a tremor in Wisconsin. Rightly so. I couldn't listen to the entire speech or you would have had a quake in Florida.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 1 month ago
    Careful the sky could fall. Every time he says something the opposite occurs!
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    His business, Obamacare, just had its 13th state exchange (out of 23 originally) fold up its tent. Today it was Ohio.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    The sandy soil is such that we don't have earthquakes in Florida. OK, maybe it was a muttering rather than just grumbling. ;)
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 1 month ago
    JB, is there an earthquake in FL or was that just a grumble? :)
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  • Posted by Ben_C 9 years, 1 month ago
    Amazing the brain cramp Barry seems to have displayed - on purpose. Its a deflection from the 19+trillion national debt plus the 120+trillion unfunded liabilities our political elite seem to accept. Yes, the economy is growing at a dismal rate and yes we are faced with a economic sinkhole caused by the debt. And yes, too many people are on the government teat. And yes, we are a long way away from economic prosperity. And what is the point in busting your ass in your business and to have it taxed to the point that your efforts end up on someone else's table and bank account. I would love to see Barry start a business and hear what he has to say five years later - if he is event still in business. Its no wonder that only 4% of people polled have a favorable view of Congress and 'the government."
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Pot calling the kettle dark-skinned.
    THEY did it, wasn't ME! I couldn't help it! You can't blame me!
    Obama hasn't told the truth in the past 20 years.
    (and the rest of the pols in the Dark Center are not any better.)
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 1 month ago
    The key phrase is "been able to promote policies and protect special interests". He's right in claiming that troubled people are easily manipulated into blaming some scapegoat for their problems. In a country where gov't is involved in everything, that means they can protect their interests using this game.

    If gov't were very limited, some people would still look for ways to blame their problems on other people and to hurt other people to feel better about themselves, but it would not translate into their receiving other people's money. Since people don't like jerks, it probably would hurt their interests. So if gov't were limited, the entire problem that President Obama correctly identifies would disappear.
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