Prez: There are days when I say, ‘one term is enough.’"

[Nu Kua]

"...Obama’s Chicago-based re-election team has been hard at work for months, so there’s no question that he is actively seeking a second term, but, he told Curry, “there are days when I say, ‘one term is enough.’”..."

Ann Curry of the Today Show briefly interviews President Obama.

In the video, right after he says "one term is enough"...

well I don't want to ruin it, but I do think the person producing the segment, was feeling hilarious.

[JenaS62]

For once I agree with him. One term has been more than enough.

[Anarch]

Shit, I dare say we could go a step further and say one term was one too many...

And we could also say thank god Their is no term for Palin.

I think I'll vote JFK. His ghost can do a better job then anyone else.

[Nu Kua]

Did you guys not catch it? Maybe I caught it because when I first had it up, I wasn't watching it but listening. I had to run back to the computer to see what was really going on.


The footage shows immediately after saying that, President Obama walking on a stage somewhere, and he is greeted by cheers and applause.

To hear it that way, maybe without watching it, sounds as if there is thunderous applause as soon as he says "one term is enough"- like a crowd is all "Whoot! One Term!!! That's right, baby!" I dunno, just struck me as really funny!


I really don't think we are going to do any better or worse, whether he is re-elected or not. Even if Palin for some ungodly reason happens to wind up being President, it will be no worse or better. If we could truly blame all our problems on the president, or on the other hand, truly credit just the President with any successes we might have, then maybe, yeah. But what is wrong with our country and our leadership, imho, starts at home- and the problems are so far entrenched in the system that the constant changing of faces every 4-8 years or so, will never even begin to address the issues. We need to do mechanic work to fix the engine, as opposed to just re-painting and detailing.
Just my

I think I'll vote JFK. His ghost can do a better job then anyone else.

Yeah, there is an idea... for one thing, the ghost of JFK will certainly fit in very well with the current bucket of ho's we have cavorting in the White House! Like like well dressed horn dogs they are, putting on a show.

In fact, Kennedy's ghost is probably there already, cheering them on! lol

[Blu-ray]

For once I agree with him. One term has been more than enough.

Shit, I dare say we could go a step further and say one term was one too many...

And we could also say thank god Their is no term for Palin.

I think I'll vote JFK. His ghost can do a better job then anyone else.

If he is not re-elected the next one will be more of the same... Of course the only difference will be the talking heads on the right will be singing the praises of the next president (if republican) while vigorously giving the next president an old fashioned.

[Nu Kua]

If he is not re-elected the next one will be more of the same... Of course the only difference will be the talking heads on the right will be singing the praises of the next president (if republican) while vigorously giving the next president an old fashioned.

Yes.
Or, as the case is largely now... with a few exceptions of course,

"the talking heads on the left will be singing the praises of the next president (if democrat) while vigorously giving the next president an old fashioned."

[JenaS62]

Yes.
"the talking heads on the left will be singing the praises of the next president (if democrat) while vigorously giving the next president an old fashioned."

It is sooooo painfully obvious. The slobbering love affair of the left wing media - much like the slobbering love affair of Fox and Bush. I'm waiting for the middle of the road media (if there was such an animal) to just say that they all suck balls.

[Ningishiddza]

Did you guys not catch it? Maybe I caught it because when I first had it up, I wasn't watching it but listening. I had to run back to the computer to see what was really going on.

Do you have a link to downloadable audio or video (w/audio)?

It might be interesting to check it for reverse speech.

[Nu Kua]

That would be interesting. So far the only video I can find is the one I linked to above- but here it is also from the CBS news page, with a transcript. I don't see an option to downloadl it from here, but maybe in a day or two it will be up on YouTube and if so, it can be downloaded from there.

[Cartesiantheater]

I know. Since after Obama took over with the economy doing so good...

US GDP Growth Rate 2009: -6.8% (as a result of the recession that began prior to Obama's administration)

US GDP Growth Rate 2011: + 3.2%


He's made some bitter lemonade out of rotten lemons. The man is not Poseidon.

Point:

Do You Hate Good Economic News for the Country Because It's Good for Obama?


Oh yeah, I forgot to preempt the inevitable lying from the right:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110603/...t_check_romney


You can't deny that there have been at least some improvements. You can't deny that things could have been a lot worse. But you will, on both counts, because politics isn't really about the truth. It's the science of bullshit.

[Ningishiddza]

US GDP Growth Rate 2011: + 3.2%

Oh yeah, I forgot to preempt the inevitable lying from the right

The GDP is 1.8% for 2011.

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/nati...ewsrelease.htm

Of course, 6 months from now that will be downgraded to 1.5% and then a year from now when the revised figures come out it will be 1.2%, since that has been the standard practice, to fluff the GDP and then modify it when no one is looking.

The BLS also admitted it's Birth/Death formula is flawed, so the 675,000 jobs claimed to have been created never were created.

This...

Real personal consumption expenditures increased 2.2 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 4.0 percent in the fourth. Durable goods increased 8.9 percent, compared with an increase of 21.1 percent. Nondurable goods increased 1.1 percent, compared with an increase of 4.1 percent. Services increased 1.5 percent, the same increase as in the fourth.

...all points to declining economy.

GDP is not something to hang your hat on either.

If I manufacture and sell 3 Million widgets at $3 each, then that gets lumped into the GDP as an additional $9 Million.

If materials and labor costs force me to raise the price of widgets to $5 each and I can only sell 2 Million widgets, then I have $10 Million added to the GDP which shows an increase in GDP, but...

...it hides the fact that I produced fewer widgets, which means real production is declining, not increasing.

Obama has no one to blame but himself. He failed to take an unequivocal stand on the Bush tax cuts. Whether it was his desire to let them expire or preserve them is irrelevant. It is the fact that he blatantly refused to take a stand that caused business to put hiring on hold, since they had no idea how that would affect the economy and the sale of their product or services.

His ill begotten Obamacare and its mumbo-jumbo laws written by the IRS, AHA and "health insurance" industry and the subsequent law suits in federal court also put hiring on hold, since employers have no idea whether or not they should hire, since they have no idea how much current and future employees will cost them, and whether or not they will need to raise prices and if price elasticity will result in fewer sales or the same or increased sales.

In short, he created a lot of uncertainty, which is bad for business.

You can't deny that there have been at least some improvements. You can't deny that things could have been a lot worse. But you will, on both counts, because politics isn't really about the truth. It's the science of bullshit.

There have been no improvements.

Unemployment is unchanged (as I correctly predicted it would be).

Under-employment is outrageous.

And those who are finding jobs are not getting the amount of money they used to get.

Having 3 Million lose their $28/hour job and then get hired at $12/hour doesn't return the economy to "normal."

[Reef Badlaw]

-With 2.5 out of every 6 new jobs occurring in one State... Texas.

'Green jobs' going to China. Our Stimulus-money too, courtesy of lightbulb-maker; Cree Manufacturers... Durham, North Carolina.

http://wraltechwire.com/business/tec...gpost/6378023/

Ooops, as their CEO was boasting to stockholders that more than half-their-workforce lives in China, even at that late date.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/12/ob...ocus-to-china/

Last weekend, the Prez's embarrassingly-awkward comment: Our shovel-ready jobs weren't as ready as we thought...

This week's dumb comment that ATM's and airport-kiosks had put ppl out-of-work... not realizing that people build teller-machines and kiosks... Obama's practically asking not to be re-elected.

[Bob]

"We have met the enemy...and he is us."

POGO

[Cartesiantheater]

The GDP is 1.8% for 2011.

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/nati...ewsrelease.htm

Of course, 6 months from now that will be downgraded to 1.5% and then a year from now when the revised figures come out it will be 1.2%, since that has been the standard practice, to fluff the GDP and then modify it when no one is looking.

The BLS also admitted it's Birth/Death formula is flawed, so the 675,000 jobs claimed to have been created never were created.

This...



...all points to declining economy.

GDP is not something to hang your hat on either.

If I manufacture and sell 3 Million widgets at $3 each, then that gets lumped into the GDP as an additional $9 Million.

If materials and labor costs force me to raise the price of widgets to $5 each and I can only sell 2 Million widgets, then I have $10 Million added to the GDP which shows an increase in GDP, but...

...it hides the fact that I produced fewer widgets, which means real production is declining, not increasing.

Ning, ningy ningy...

Do you think it's even POSSIBLE for there to be a long term CONSTANT trend in the positive? Never. As I said last year, any recovery will be and up and down sine wave with a slow net slope.

From 2009 to current, the net slope is POSITIVE.

Obama has no one to blame but himself. He failed to take an unequivocal stand on the Bush tax cuts. Whether it was his desire to let them expire or preserve them is irrelevant. It is the fact that he blatantly refused to take a stand that caused business to put hiring on hold, since they had no idea how that would affect the economy and the sale of their product or services.

Politics is based on compromise. In order to keep the tax cuts for the middle class (his big agenda during the election), he was forced to keep them for the wealthy, due to none other than the Tea Baggers/GOP.

His ill begotten Obamacare and its mumbo-jumbo laws written by the IRS, AHA and "health insurance" industry and the subsequent law suits in federal court also put hiring on hold, since employers have no idea whether or not they should hire, since they have no idea how much current and future employees will cost them, and whether or not they will need to raise prices and if price elasticity will result in fewer sales or the same or increased sales.

In short, he created a lot of uncertainty, which is bad for business.

That's like saying human beings breathe. During any major legislation there will be uncertainty.

There have been no improvements.

False.

So a change from -6+ to nearly 2 in GDP (by your number) is not an improvement?

Unemployment is unchanged (as I correctly predicted it would be).

False. 10.1 in 2009 to around 8.8 at one point and the current around 9.0 is a change (as I correctly predicted, there is a slow NET POSITIVE CHANGE intermixed with tiny troughs and crests. Now continue pretending a small positive average slope [as repeatedly predicted by me] is not a change).

Under-employment is outrageous.

And it was more outrageous a year or two ago (a slope that is not equal to zero = CHANGE)

And those who are finding jobs are not getting the amount of money they used to get.

Having 3 Million lose their $28/hour job and then get hired at $12/hour doesn't return the economy to "normal."

Who said it was returned to normal? Nice logical fallacy there, Ning. I said IMPROVEMENT. That means NET POSITIVE CHANGE, which is FACTUAL, despite your desire to pretend all these NON-ZERO SLOPES are actually zero...