Obama Still In Denial: Tells 60 Minutes Voters Didn’t Reject His Policies, But Instead, Failed Communication Skills

November 6, 2010

NEW YORK (CBS) — After suffering a “shellacking” in the midterm elections, President Obama acknowledges what many have seen as his chief weakness – failing to sell the importance of several legislative milestones to the American people.

 

“I think that’s a fair argument. I think that, over the course of two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that, we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn’t just legislation. That it’s a matter of persuading people. And giving them confidence and bringing them together. And setting a tone,” Mr. Obama told 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft in an exclusive interview set to air Sunday.

 

“Making an argument that people can understand,” Mr. Obama continued, “I think that we haven’t always been successful at that. And I take personal responsibility for that. And it’s something that I’ve got to examine carefully … as I go forward.”

 

Republicans enjoyed significant victories Tuesday, wresting control of the House of Representatives from the Democrats and picking up six seats in the Senate, as frustration over the economy drove voter sentiment.

 

A humbled Mr. Obama, who termed the defeat a “shellacking” during a postelection press conference Wednesday, must now grapple with an emboldened and empowered political enemy with its sights set on undoing much of what he accomplished in the last two years – including an effort to repeal his signature achievement, health care reform, reports CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante.

 

Watch the entire exclusive interview with President Obama on 60 Minutes this Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on CBS 2.

 

From:  http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/11/05/obama-acknowledges-failures-says-leadership-isnt-just-legislation/

 


Obama in Denial After Democrats Suffer Historic Losses; Says Vote Not a Referendum on His Policies

November 3, 2010

President Obama, reflecting on his party’s historic losses in Congress, appealed Wednesday for both sides of the aisle to find “common ground” while continuing to stand by the policies that were used to hammer his party’s candidates in the midterm election.

 

Asked to describe how Tuesday night’s losses felt after such a hard-fought campaign, Obama answered bluntly: “It feels bad.”

 

Republican leaders, in a series of speeches since Tuesday night’s victories, have called on Obama to move toward the center. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, calling the election a “referendum” on Obama’s policies, pointedly said Wednesday that the Democrats can either “work with us” or face another “change” election in 2012.

 

Obama on Wednesday directly attributed GOP gains to frustration over the economy, declining to sign on to claims that it was a referendum on his decisions.

 

From: 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/03/obama-addresses-nation-democrats-lose-house/


Are You Better Off Since Obama Took Office? 75% of Americans Say “No!”

November 2, 2010

Washington (CNN) — The number of Americans who say things are going badly in the country, at 75 percent, is higher than it has been on the eve of any midterm election since the question was first asked in the mid-1970s, according to a new national poll.

 

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that the economy remains, by far, the top issue on the minds of Americans. Fifty-two percent of people questioned say the economy’s the most important issue facing the country.

 

“That’s more than the deficit, education, health care, terrorism, energy, illegal immigration and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “No other issue was named as the country’s top problem by more than 8 percent.”

 

The economy has been the issue most on the mind of Americans in CNN polling since the end of 2007.

 

From: 
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/01/poll.election/index.html?hpt=C1

 


Voter Disenchantment with Obama: 5,000 Empty Seats During Final Mid-Term Election Rally in Cleveland

November 1, 2010

Barack Obama sought to rekindle the spirit of the 2008 election today at the final campaign rally of the midterm elections but thousands of empty seats testified that the love affair with the electorate is long over.

 

Speaking in Cleveland at the end of a four-state whirlwind weekend tour to try to prevent a Democratic political meltdown in tomorrow’sTuesday’s elections, Obama acknowledged the pain recession has created but said life under the Republicans would be a lot worse.

 

The Republicans would cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires and leave the working class to fend for themselves, was his message.

 

“You don’t have a job? Tough luck, you’re on your own. You don’t have health care? Too bad, you’re on your own. You’re a young person who can’t afford to go to college? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, you’re on your own,” Obama said.

 

But his famous rhetorical skills are no longer enough, and the Democrats are facing defeat in elections to Congress and for governorships on a scale political analysts say has not been seen in over 60 years.

 

Screens at the Wolfstein Centre, Cleveland, showed the Obama logo from the 2008 White House race, the old campaign songs were played and the crowd noisily chanted his slogan ‘Yes, we can’. However, in contrast with the 2008 election, when across the US an Obama rally was a hot ticket and people had to be turned away, he attracted only 8,000 to the 13,000 capacity stadium. When he appeared at a rally in the same city in 2008 two days before the White House election, 80,000 turned out.

 

 

From: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/31/barack-obama-midterm-campaign-rally


Obama implores Americans to ‘keep on believing’

November 1, 2010

President Barack Obama made a desperate bid to stave off a Republican landslide in Tuesday’s mid-term elections by attempting to invoke the magic of the night he won the White House and imploring voters to “keep on believing”.

 

Mr Obama returned to Chicago, where 200,000 people in Grant Park cheered his historic victory on a balmy night two years earlier, to tell a crowd of 20,000 at Midway Plaisance Park that they needed to “keep on fighting” despite all the setbacks.

 

Democrats face the near-certain loss of control of the House of Representatives and a string of defeats in Senate contests in Tuesday’s vote. Even Mr Obama’s old Senate seat in Illinois is under grave threat.

 

“A lot of you got involved in 2008 because you believed we were at a defining moment in our history.

 

“Some of the excitement of Inauguration Day, you know, Beyoncé was singing and Bono was up there and everybody was feeling good, I know that good feeling starts slipping away.

 

“And you talk to your friends who are out of work, you see somebody lose their home, and it gets you discouraged. And then you see all these TV ads and all the talking heads on TV, and everything just feels negative. And maybe some of you, maybe you stop believing.”

 

Democrats currently hold a 39-seat majority in the 435-member House of Representatives and a 10-seat majority in the 100-member Senate. Polls indicate Democrats will lose more than 50 seats in the House and at least six in the Senate.

 

Mr Obama was reduced to spending a valuable day on the campaign trail defending Democratic turf in his home state of Illinois, the third stop on a four-state tour before returning to Washington on Sunday night.

 

Democrats are all but resigned to losing Senate seats in North Dakota, Indiana, Arkansas and Wisconsin while failing to pick up seats in Ohio, New Hampshire, Missouri and Kentucky that once seemed within their grasp.

 

In addition, Democrats could well lose seats in Nevada, Colorado, Illinois and Pennsylvania. If the Republican wave becomes an electoral tsunami exceeding that of 1994, when the party gained 54 House seats during President Bill Clinton’s tenure, then even Washington state and California could fall.

 

A weekend CNN poll found that Republicans had a 10-point national lead over Democrats, higher than the seven-point advantage they enjoyed in 1994 when they captured both houses of Congress. Much of the Republican enthusiasm is generated by small-government, anti-tax Tea Party candidates, who are often critical of their own party establishment.

 

Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, took the opportunity to taunt President Barack Obama on Fox News on Sunday, saying: “You blew it, President Obama. We gave you two years to improve the economy, The message has been sent to Democrats that they blew it.”

 

Democratic leaders sought to portray the mid-terms as always delivering a defeat for the party that holds the White House and argued that big losses would not be an indictment of Mr Obama.

 

“This is a choice, a clear choice, not a referendum,” said Tim Kaine, Democratic National Committee chairman. “They [Republicans] have a political and partisan agenda, which they’ve had from day one. We’re the problem-solvers trying to get this nation going after a lost decade that they created.”

 

But Mr Obama made clear that he was on the ballot in all but name. “Just like you did in 2008, you can defy the conventional wisdom, the kind that says you can’t overcome cynicism in politics, you can’t overcome the special interests…you can’t elect a skinny guy with a funny name to the US Senate or the presidency.”

 

 

By Toby Harnden in Chicago

Published: 6:09PM GMT 31 Oct 2010

From: 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/8100487/US-mid-term-elections-2010-Barack-Obama-implores-Americans-to-keep-on-believing.html

 

 

 


Obama Blames Voters for His Political Failures; Says We’re All Confused and Not Thinking Clearly (Shades of Jimmy Carter!)

October 27, 2010

WASHINGTON – According to President Barack Obama, Americans are angry, frustrated, scared, anxious, uncertain, nervous, discouraged and shaken up.

 

They’re also confused and not thinking clearly.

 

Heading into critical midterm elections, Obama has been freely sharing this gloomy diagnosis on the campaign trail, at times sounding more like a psychiatrist than a politician. He usually couples it with a reminder that the country’s been through tough times before and is resilient enough to bounce back, and an appeal to voters to “choose hope over fear.”

 

Obama’s dreary assessment appears to be an attempt to empathize with voters in a time of acute economic anxiety. It also can serve as an explanation about why voters haven’t embraced his agenda — and why they look poised to deliver a drubbing to Democrats Nov. 2.

 

Americans would be more supportive of his policies, the president suggests, if they weren’t fettered by anxiety he accuses the GOP of stoking. And the descriptions of angst from a president criticized as overly cerebral and aloof also allow him to attempt to show he feels voters’ pain — even if he can’t cure it.

 

So the president who campaigned on hope and change now sometimes sounds more like he’s diagnosing depression than offering inspiration.

 

“People out there are still hurting very badly, and they are still scared,” Obama said recently at a Boston fundraiser. “And so part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared.”

  

From:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101026/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_angry_voters


Obama-messiah sells U.S. out to communist China; state sovereignty movement picks up steam

February 23, 2009

obama-communistObama-messiah sells U.S. out to communist China; state sovereignty movement picks up steam

 

Well, there goes the neighborhood. 

 

America is now little more than a subsidiary of communist China (see news article below). 

 

And you can thank Obama-messiah and Comrade Ho, aka Hilarious Clinton, for selling us out.

 

Of course, the Obama-messiah and his minions like HC will live in the lap of luxury for the remainder of their lives on this earth.  But our children and our grandchildren will be little more than labor serfs to the Chinese bureaucrats who will call the shots in this country from behind the scenes.

 

Our children and our grandchildren will work and toil and sweat just to pay the interest payment on this massive debt to the Chinese. 

 

The American people are only barely beginning to wake up to what’s happening.  I’m afraid that when they finally figure it out – if they figure it out — there is going to be blood in the streets.

 

Of course, the powers that be are ready for this.  So it will be to no avail.  It will only serve to strengthen the scope and power of the federal government over the people, which is exactly what the Obama-messiah wants.  He is pushing so hard, because he want to induce chaos in order to seize additional power for the federal government. 

 

My recommendation:  Work within the system to get rid of these communist bastards that are selling our country out to their commie friends overseas.  Stay within the confines of civil law, as instructed in our heavenly Father’s Word (Titus 3:1, Heb. 13:17).

 

The 2010 mid-term elections (Nov 2, 2010) are only a relatively short while away.  We need to make sure conservative, Christian, pro-American candidates sweep these elections.  All 435 House seats will be up for grabs.  And 33 or 34 out of the 100 U.S. Senate seats will be up for grabs.  What’s more, 34 out of 50 states will be electing governors during those elections. 

 

Make no mistake, these are going to be make-it or break-it elections for this nation.  We must regain a conservative majority in Congress, and among the states, in order to begin overriding and even reversing Obama-messiah’s blatantly communist policies that are selling this nation down the river.

 

The winds of “change” blew Obama-messiah into office.  But they can blow him right back out again, just as happened when the Republican Revolution swept the liberals out of power halfway through Clinton’s term, and effectively stopped him from  implementing any more of his disastrous policies.

 

We need to make sure the same thing happens again.

 

Also, surprisingly, a number of states are reacting to Obama-messiah’s policies by introducing state sovereignty resolutions. These include Arizona, New Hampshire, Missouri, Oklahoma, Montana, Washington state and Michigan (see resolution #4).  Other states, such as California and Georgia already have such resolutions on the books, thanks to patriotic former members of their legislatures who had long-term vision and could see what was coming as the federal government gained more and more power, and began bullying the sovereign states.  

 

State sovereignty resolutions are designed chiefly to remind the federal government that your state stands firmly on the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives the states sovereignty, and protects them from overbearing federal intrusion into state matters, as well as from becoming mere vassals of the federal government.  Most of these resolutions also have language demanding that “the federal government cease and desist mandates that are beyond the scope of constitutionally delegated powers,” which, in Obama-messiah’s case, includes just about everything he is doing. 

 

The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791, and restates the Constitution’s principle of Federalism by providing that powers not specifically granted to the national government nor specifically prohibited to the states are reserved to the states and to the people. It is based on an earlier provision of the Articles of Confederation: “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”

 

One of the many beauties of a state sovereignty amendment is that it publicly reaffirms a state’s Constitutional right to LEGALLY oppose the imposition of martial law by the federal traitor-in-chief.  In a state that has reaffirmed its right to sovereignty, it may be easier to convince the local police and local National Guard to remain loyal to their state, should the Obama-messiah attempt to federalize them in order to turn them against their own citizens and force federal policies upon them. The idea is not to instigate a battle between the federal government and the states, but instead, to signal to the feds in advance that they need to back off and stay within the confines of the 10th amendment in their policy-making. 

 

As writer and radio show producer Jake Jones points out in his article in the Evangelical Examiner, titled New Hampshire Lawmakers Say Obama’s Plan Would Void Constitution:

 

“Obama’s plans for a federal handgun license, ‘hate crimes’ laws to regulate Christians’ speech about their own religious beliefs on homosexuality, a youth corps for mandatory public service and the revival of the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’ to ‘balance’ talk radio have New Hampshire lawmakers telling Obama to basically grow up and get some better ideas…They say that if Obama’s plans are implimented, it would constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States.”

 

Jones goes on to say:

 

“Christian should be concerned with what is going on in the Obama administration.  Freedom of speech is something that Christians have always used to spread the ‘Good News’, tell the truth about sin, and for Pastor’s to speak freely on social and family issues from the Pulpit.  If Obama is successful in asserting his plans, then speaking about any sin including but not limited to homosexuality would be a breach of Obama’s new laws. 

 

The Fairness Doctrine which was removed by Ronald Reagan back in the 80′s stands a good chance to be reinstated under the Obama administration.  There are many ‘Christian Talk’ radio and TV programs that would be limited by the proposed Obama standards.

 

Obama is also pushing for a ‘Hate Crimes’ law that has been discussed, debated by Congress but has yet to be passed.  Obama has made the passage of that law one of his top priorities.

 

Obama’s discussion of a youth corps for mandatory public service is also something that Christians should be concerned about.  That type of legislation sounds a great deal like something that occurred in Nazi Germany.  Next I expect that our young folks would be required to wear uniforms with black arm bands and wear the famous Nazi Jack boots.”

 

If your state is in the process of implementing a state sovereignty resolutions, be sure to support it.  If your state is not, then its high-time to get such a resolution started.  It’s one perfectly legal way for the citizens of the 50 states to send a message to the Obama-messiah that he is overstepping his bounds, and needs to back off.

 

– Spencer

 

 

Obama Sells U.S. to China Inc.


http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obama-sells-u.s.-to-china-inc/

 

AIM Column  |  By Cliff Kincaid  |  February 22, 2009

 

…with Hillary Clinton having signaled to the Chinese dictators that we will beg for their money and ignore unfair trade practices and even human rights violations, it will be left up to President Obama to seal the deal.

 

The truth is starting to seep out. Because of the need for more money to finance the latest bailout―the Obama economic stimulus plan―America is going further in debt to the Chinese Communists. Our country is officially being sold to the highest bidder. And we have striking confirmation of this fact from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

 

The good news is that a correspondent for the mainstream media―Wyatt Andrews of CBS News―has figured this out and has managed to get on the air with his terrifying findings. Andrews’ report on the Friday CBS Evening News with Katie Couric was direct and to the point. Clinton is in China to beg for a handout.

 

“The truth is the Administration needs China’s help. America’s stimulus is very expensive and the U.S. wants China to help finance it,” Andrews reported. This is what America has become―a country that sends its Secretary of State abroad to beg for money from foreigners. In this case, it’s a communist dictatorship that forces women to have abortions, tortures Christians, and threatens the freedom and democratic government of Taiwan.

 

So the cost of the “stimulus” is more sacrifice of American independence and sovereignty, as well as our own values, ideals, and commitment to human freedom. It is a sad day both for America and China.

 

Clinton was shown saying, “We are relying on the Chinese government to continue to buy our debt.” The almighty dollar takes precedence over everything else, even as it falls in value and the dangers of hyperinflation and national bankruptcy loom. The tragedy is compounded by the fact that pandering to the Chinese will not solve anything. This policy, set in motion by big banks and corporations and pursued by Democratic and Republican Administrations, is what got us into this predicament in the first place.

 

Clinton’s comments, which concern the overall economic policy of the new administration, are far more significant than the Obama mortgage plan. Clinton is getting to the heart of the issue―how the mortgage plan and the stimulus are being financed.

 

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs expressed irritation last week that CNBC commentator Rick Santelli went into a rant over the prospect of forcing American taxpayers to underwrite the bad mortgages of deadbeats and others who are unable to pay their mortgages. But Santelli only touched on one small part of the problem.

 

Where’s the outrage over the pro-China policy that spans several administrations, and which has benefited his corporate bosses at General Electric, of permitting the communist dictatorship in Beijing to have the upper hand in global trade relations? All that Santelli has to do to understand this problem is attend a GE annual meeting and listen to the complaints of the GE workers losing their jobs to China. But don’t expect to see anything about that on CNBC, NBC, or MSNBC.  

 

If you want more information on this travesty, please go to the website http://www.screwthatbulb.org and learn how GE is going “green,” which has the effect of shipping American jobs to China. If Santelli did a rant about that, you can bet he wouldn’t be on the air again.

 

We were already in terrible shape under the Bush Administration because of a mysterious financial collapse apparently caused by illegal manipulation of our markets, but now the communists have us completely over a barrel because the Obama Administration, with the acquiescence of Congress, recklessly decided to spend even more money that we don’t have. Under the circumstances, this is criminal negligence.

 

Mrs. Clinton is officially stating what everyone should know is the truth. She deserves credit for being brutally honest. America has become a subsidiary of China Inc. In order for the U.S. to stay afloat, we have to depend on Beijing to finance a bailout. But the other major problem, of course, is that the stimulus is not a bailout in any real sense of the word. It depends on more government debt and borrowing at a huge cost of being more indebted to the Chinese. So the bailout is really digging our nation’s grave deeper.

 

To make matters even worse, as the Andrews report made clear, the cost will include the jobs that the Obama Administration says will be created by the stimulus. He interviewed an American manufacturer about the loss of American jobs caused by China’s trade practices, who said that the “cheating” in global trade has cost millions of American manufacturing jobs.

 

In the end, the only “jobs” that will be created or “saved,” as Obama likes to say, will likely be those benefiting from spending the federal money that the federal government doesn’t have. Most of them work for government at all levels.

 

Productive private sector manufacturing jobs will not be created―and cannot be―because despite their campaign promises, neither Obama nor Hillary will do anything about those unfair Chinese trade practices, such as the currency manipulation, that make Chinese goods artificially cheap and American goods more expensive.

 

The Andrews report, which caught me completely by surprise on a newscast that tends to portray the new Administration in completely flattering tones, was absolutely blistering in contrasting what Obama and Clinton had said during the campaign and what they are doing now.

 

“Both the man who became the President and his future Secretary of State told the voters they would make the [trade] cheating go away,” Andrews reported. He showed candidate Obama saying that he would do everything in his power to stop China from manipulating its currency and Hillary saying that she would “aggressively crack down on China’s unfair trade practices.” These claims were shown to be empty and abandoned campaign promises. We should have assumed that would be the case.

 

Andrews asked Secretary of State Clinton about this and “she explained that times have changed.” Clinton said, “That was at a different time when we weren’t facing the kind of difficult situations we face today.” Translation: we need their money and we are in no position to demand or criticize anything. These Clinton comments preceded Andrews’ remarks about the cost of the stimulus and the perceived need to get China to help finance it.

 

As we had noted in a previous column about the Administration’s so-called economic program, Clinton was going to China for the purpose of getting Chinese money to finance the stimulus. Now we have it all on the record. Her trip was designed to reinforce Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s private conversations on this topic with Chinese officials.

 

The land of the free and the home of the brave has now become the land of the quivering milquetoast, in awe of an emerging Communist giant that our big banks and corporations, as well as our government, have built into an economic superpower.

 

President Obama apparently sees nothing wrong with this. Indeed, during the campaign he praised China’s staging of the Olympic Games, saying their infrastructure was impressive and was something the U.S. might consider emulating.

 

Now, with Hillary Clinton having signaled to the Chinese dictators that we will beg for their money and ignore unfair trade practices and even human rights violations, it will be left up to President Obama to seal the deal. When he gives his State of the Union-like speech to Congress and the American people on Tuesday night, he will in reality be auditioning for a front-row seat on the board of directors of China Inc. Don’t expect to hear anything critical of the butchers in Beijing.

 

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Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at cliff.kincaid@aim.org


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