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[Dave007inVegas]

President Obama took the opportunity during his weekly address to pat himself on the back for his accomplishments in his self-proclaimed Year of Action -- and said he could even do more if it weren't for those pesky Republicans.

Touting the addition of 273,000 jobs last month and raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, Obama took credit for "creating more jobs and opportunity for hardworking families." (He did forget to mention that 800,000 people "left" the work force last month.) The president of "I" continued:

I said that in this Year of Action, whenever I can act on my own to create jobs and expand opportunity for more Americans, I will. And since January, I've taken more than 20 executive actions to do just that.

I acted to raise more workers' wages…

I acted to encourage more pay transparency…

And I'm modernizing regulations…

I've launched new hubs to help attract more high-tech manufacturing jobs...

In the spirit of Al Gore, Obama said he was even responsible for connecting more classrooms to the Internet. And then he pointed out, "You can check out the full list at whitehouse.gov."

It seems as though Obama is proud of his record but still found a way to blame Republicans for getting in his way to do more. Of the GOP, he said:

Republicans in Congress have blocked or voted down every serious idea to create jobs and strengthen the middle class. They've said 'no'…'no'… and 'no.'

... We could do a lot more if Republicans in Congress were less interested in stacking the deck in favor of those at the top, and more interested in growing the economy for everybody.

Did the president miss an opportunity to bring up Obamacare? No! He said:

They've now voted more than 50 times to take apart the Affordable Care Act — imagine if they voted 50 times on serious job bills.

Even though Obama mentioned the resistance he has encountered at the hands of Republicans, he did not seem too concerned with them as he marches headlong into his Year of Action. He declared:

I'm going to take action on my own whenever I can. To grow our economy from the middle-out, not the top down. To give every American who works hard a chance to get ahead.

That's what this Year of Action is all about, and that's what I'm going to keep fighting for.

His year of action is more like…

 

[festeringZit]

Worst President ever.

 

[festeringZit]

 

[lt56]

when pubs cockblock everything you do and don't produce 1 single idea themselves, these are the numbers you get. obama is no good, but he never had a chance.

 

[GasMan]

when pubs cockblock everything you do and don't produce 1 single idea themselves, these are the numbers you get. obama is no good, but he never had a chance.

Well played. Did you get that from MSNBC or the Democratic Shleprock playbook? You had better be thanking your asses the Republicans have been able to do as much damage control as they possibly could. Could you imagine single payer healthcare right now being implemented?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

when pubs cockblock everything you do and don't produce 1 single idea themselves, these are the numbers you get. obama is no good, but he never had a chance.

In his first 2 years he had complete control of Congress.

And what did he do? He took the best healthcare system in the world and destroyed it.

Once the voters saw that they immediately turned the House red. I can only imagine what kind of banana republic this country would be without that happening.

Obama has had numerous chances to work with the House over his 5+ years in office, he just simply chooses not too.

His monumental ego won’t allow it.

The president of "I" indeed.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Well played. Did you get that from MSNBC or the Democratic Shleprock playbook? You had better be thanking your asses the Republicans have been able to do as much damage control as they possibly could. Could you imagine single payer healthcare right now being implemented?

Can you say VA hospitals?

 

[GasMan]

Wow..I have worked in some VA hospitals. The employees are terrible and inefficient, and the poor bastards show up in the morning for a 9 oclock appointment and don't end up leaving until 4-5 in the afternoon.

It's pathetic.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Wow..I have worked in some VA hospitals. The employees are terrible and inefficient, and the poor bastards show up in the morning for a 9 oclock appointment and don't end up leaving until 4-5 in the afternoon.

It's pathetic.

I’ve been eligible to use VA hospitals for 46 years. I’ve never set foot in one. And I never will.

 

[wadd]

Well played. Did you get that from MSNBC or the Democratic Shleprock playbook? You had better be thanking your asses the Republicans have been able to do as much damage control as they possibly could. Could you imagine single payer healthcare right now being implemented?

..dont forget all the taxes Hi Royal Highass wants to raise and was blocked.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

David Remnick, an Obama biographer and the editor of the New Yorker, said this morning on national TV that President Obama is disappointed in the world:

"The profile [of President Obama] that I published in the New Yorker was somebody that eerily, eerily seemed to be claiming himself--it was a sense of not giving up, but of deep frustration--that was the profile that I published in the New Yorker. Somebody frustrated and disappointed," said Remnick, who has proven to be deeply sympathetic to this president.

"And that's what's frustrating to me sometimes about Obama is that the world seems to disappoint him," he continued to laughter from others on the TV set. "Republicans disappoint him, Bashar al-Assad disappoints him, Putin as well. And the fighting spirit sometimes is lacking in the performative aspects of the presidency."

But that hasn't kept Remnick from souring on Obama. "Do I think that at the end of eight years this will go down as a terrible presidency? I don't. You do. I don't. I think an enormous amount has been achieved."

Really? Do tell.