“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.” - President Barack Obama on NBC’s “Today,” February 2, 2009.
“Republican voters, if you ask them about my particular policy positions, often agree with me.” – President Barack Obama in PARADE Magazine, August 31, 2012.
I don’t agree with him on much of anything, but then, I actually love America, and understand American Exceptionalism. That said, I very much agreed with his first quote. Too bad he reneged on our agreement. Still, when you have nothing to offer but blame and excuses, rather than results, I can see where you might be so addled that you think that these are adequate bases for renewal of your contract. However, I think the American people are about to hand you your pink slip. Don’t view it as a setback, Mr. President. You didn’t really like the job anyway, and now you can concentrate all of your attention on to your golf game and your third memoir, Car Crash: How I Destroyed A Great Economic Engine While Blaming Those Who Actually Know How To Drive. That is, of course, if Bombing Billy Ayers will return your calls. We know that writing is hard and I’m sure he has plenty of flags to step on while reliving the glory days of blowing up government buildings in his head.
So on this Laborless Labor Day, I can think of no better salute to a thin-skinned and ineffective man, who repeatedly has demonstrated a callous disregard to what the office requires, and an inability to man up and take responsibility for his own failures. Today, on Empty Chair Day 2012, millions of Americans will reproduce this view from the Oval Office on their own front lawns, just like I am.
Enjoy retirement, Mr. President. I hope it is as ignominious as the American People deserve.
Please seek help BiW. You have now crossed the line into clinical insanity. To play with your metaphor, the tank was near empty when Obama got in the driver’s seat. And every time the tank was filled in the eight years prior to Obama, it was paid for on credit, not cash.
Furthermore, a “one term proposition” means that he expects to be tossed out the door by the voters, NOT that he would decline a second term. So he did not renege on any agreement with you or anyone else.
Perhaps it’s a misplaced sense of American exceptionalism that we thought we could fight two wars and lower taxes at the same time?
Thanks for trying to ruin a perfectly good holiday with your delusional bullsh*t.
P.S. The funny thing is, if you are the anti-labor-union conservative that I suspect, today is meaningless to you. Go back to work and let the rest of us honor labor as the day was intended.
I don’t blame you for being bitter, Rutherford. Being promised “Hope and Change”, but only being delivered Excuses and Blame has to be a bitter pill to swallow.
As for being anti-labor, I grew up in a shop town. I had a front-row seat for the Decline of the American Auto Industry, brought to you by the collaboration of a union that would strike every couple of years, REGARDLESS of market conditions and the stunning lack of quality product being put out, and stupid management tricks, perpetuated by leadership that refused to recognize that the market had changed, and they were facing competitors that actually made better product far more efficiently. It shouldn’t have been “saved” at the cost of billions of taxpayer dollars for a union that will end up killing the company AGAIN. It should have gone into bankruptcy, and allowed for a leaner and more competitive company to emerge.
And on a very personal note, I don’t know your work history beyond your corporate job, but my first job was as an assistant grounds keeper for a bed and breakfast that sat on five acres. My second job was at a supermarket. For 6 years, I worked in a bottle room, was a stockclerk, unloaded trucks at 2 am, opened the store at 6 am on Saturdays and Sundays when my peers slept till noon, polished floors, got carts, acted as cashier, and worked in walk-in coolers and freezers. I’ve worked in warehouses and on loading docks. I’ve driven forklifts, and worked on auto subcontractor assembly lines in western Michigan. I don’t hate labor or the people who do it. I want them employed, which is more than I can say for the Charlotte Sand Messiah™, who has come up with incentives that don’t incent, and policy initiatives that make business owners uncertain about the future, because they cannot accurately predict their tax obligations, or understand from year to year the regulatory burdens the government will impose.
He is a failure. He the only “pain” he feels is the precipitous loss of adoration, which is fueled by his lack of results, and his constant offering of blame and excuses.
Those steps need a coat of paint.
Rutherford, like an insolent child, needs a time out. BITTER.
Rutherford keeps talking about the empty tank Obama inherited, but 78 months into Bush’s Presidency, our national unemployment rate stood at 4.4%, the S&P higher than it is now, and the accumulated annual national debt was a tenth of what Obama has accrued.
Hard to believe that in six and one half years, Bush hadn’t done something right.
You can take any economic measure you wish, Rutherford. And I will bet that it is worse than it was in Jan 2009 when Obama took office.
Even in 2007 with two wars and a tax decrease that we couldn’t afford.
Rutherford is absolutely horrible at math, selective in memory, and bitter. Very bitter. He won’t elaborate as to exactly why, but I would guess much of it has to do with he feels Obama’s clear failure is his failure. It’s personal.
And bitter.
Any economic measure since 2009 heh? I’m pretty sure we’ve seen growth in the Dow, modest growth in GDP, all time least reliance on foreign oil and that’s just three. Sadly I’m in middle age and my memory sucks. I heard someone just today rattle off at least a half dozen economic improvements since 2009.
The improvement in domestic oil production was in spite of this administration, not because of it. The gulf drilling permatorium and delays on drilling approvals are the norm for the Obama admin.
The Dow, like much of the stock market, is disconnected from reality.
GDP growth is hardly a valid measure, as the labor force is considerably smaller than when Prrsident Failure took office and job growth is net negative for his Presidency. ( Historic! and Unprecedented!)
BiW the only figure I’ve seen compete with 4.3 million jobs added is 0.1 million jobs added. There is no figure of net negative job growth.
The job growth didn’t even keep pace with population growth, nor did it keep pace with job losses…hence the net negative job growth.
He’s a FAILURE who should be greeted by the Price Is Right loser horn every time he enters a room.
Growth in the DOW? It was higher in October 2007. So I guess Bush was better than Obama
Two questions. Which Obama policy has led to the growth in the DOW? Why is Wall Street campaigning for Romney?
Modest growth in the GDP? Apparently not enough to replace the growth in numbers of citizens as unemployment up 2.5%. That’s not growth. That’s loss.
All time least reliance on oil?
Which talking head on MSNBC fed you this one? Our dependence on foreign oil in 1970 was 10%.
Three questions. Are we at 10% import allocation now? Why was the price of gasoline at highest ever for a Labor Day weekend? If Obama responsible for the increase in hydrocarbons, why is the petroleum industry lined up against his reelection?
First don’t change the goal post. You said 2009, not 2007 so knock off the bullsh*t.
Here is the more specific list:
2009 — GDP -9; 2012 +2 (11 point positive swing)
2009 — 800,000 job/month lost; 2012 200,000 jobs/month gained
2009 – 2012 Dow doubled
2009 — Auto and financial industries in crisis; 2012 both now stable
So bottom line, your original assessment “You can take any economic measure you wish, Rutherford. And I will bet that it is worse than it was in Jan 2009 when Obama took office.” is clearly mistaken. Shame I didn’t take your bet. I could use the money.
The GDP from the end of 2008 to 2012 is 11% greater?
We lost approximately 10,000,000 jobs in 2009, but will have gained 1,800,000 jobs in 2012? That lost jobs number in 2008 gets worse and worse. You goons started at 600K, moved to 750K, and now it’s at 800K. I fully expect it to be a million by November 5th.
The DOW moving from 8,400 to 13,000 represents a double?
A stable automotive system that still owes the American public $35,000,000,000, while Chrysler showed a profit but is owned by Italy?
You didn’t move the goalposts. You changed the sport.
Damned lies, all of them.
The jobs numbers are effected by what is being counted. The 4.5 million created since 2009 is private sector only, Public sector has been badly hurt by shrinking state and local economies and insufficient stimulus to save them.
Ezra Klein did a nice analysis of this last night.
Here Rutherford. Our self reliance on oil… Congratulations on Obama’s fine economic record:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80594.html
Total nonsense … an all time low on reliance on foreign oil does not translate to immediate cuts in oil prices. No one said we still don’t have a heavy reliance on foreign oil. But it is getting better.
Besides, the notion that oil we produce domestically will only be used domestically makes no sense. We live in a global economy. When we sell our oil on the open market, the market will to some extent dictate prices.
It was somewhat foolish for Obama to criticize Bush for gas prices and the criticism is foolish now also. The Pres does not have that much control over the price of gas.
Rutherford, gawd you still aren’t getting it. You are nothing but an affirmative action lackey. You’re a great fit for Obama – ignorant and dreamy.
See this statement, asshole:
Can you do simple arithmetic, dummy?
Calculate this:
Gross U.S. imports of crude oil and petroleum products averaged 11.4 Mb/d in 2011. We refine 19.18 Mb/d per day. What percentage of total refined production is from imported oil, dumbass? Did you not just read that I told you 40 years ago, imports amounted to 10% of our daily refinement?
I would have better luck explaining this to a 3rd grader. It took four years, but I finally had to conclude you are stupid and helpless. You’re as dimwitted as that Newt thing that posts over on your blog with a better writing skill.
You don’t even understand basic mathematics. What a joke Harvard must be if you were able to graduate with a math degree. They gave it to you.
How could we possibly discuss the stock market, economics, and a carbon tax when you cannot even correctly interpret a simple equation?
I’m through trying to explain anything. You deserve Obama as President. You’re as inane as he is.
Bitter.
Not bitter. Tired of trying to educate stupid, sellout, too afraid you can’t cut it on your own. Remember this. No matter who wins in November, your outlook bleak and inevitable. You deserve to burn for your facetious little crap you carry on at your blog.
So listen up phony, cause I’m tired of jerking around with your pretentious ilk. This horse pucky you’ve been trying to sell for four years now, your care about your fellow man? PUKE! Who the hell do you think you’re fooling, elf?
It has nothing to do with your fellow man – it’s you. You want a hand up and a hand out, just like that one that got an obviously unqualified candidate into a prep school.
You’re a parrot who repeats inanity he hears on that trash TV you listen to, neither of you having a clue about basic economics. You’re a wannabee waterboy in the feckless party as attested to by your pathetic tweets to Bill Maher, and Keith Olbermann, and the rest of the low losers you cherish.
I give the Spanish major, masquerading as mathematician, the big “Fuck usted y el caballo que montaba en el.”
You do best to consider me your enemy straight up from here on out. I’ve decided you’re a major asshole, a liar and worthy of contempt.
Like I said … bitter. (And a bit crazed.)