President Obama: "I don't jog, I run."

Double Dog wrote:

No contradiction - he sure as hell didn't show leadership on Obamacare. If he had, he would have made sure that met the constitutional requirements. He also didn't sell his plan to the American people, who were clearly against it.

Yet, you call it "Obamacare", after him. Clearly this was his baby, like it or not.

Double Dog wrote:

Most of those "accomplishments" are either only tangentially attributable to Obama or they aren't really accomplishments at all.

Incorrect x 2.

Double Dog wrote:

Is the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" really important to anyone who isn't gay or isn't liberal?

I'd say it's important to anyone who isn't homophobic.

Double Dog wrote:

Also, Obama's "saving of the auto industry" is a bit of a misnomer - he really saved the unions and their lofty benefit structure, not the auto industry itself. Reports released within just the past week show that the American taxpayers will lose at least $23 billion on that bailout. To claim that as one of Obama's "accomplishments" is laughable at best!

Well worth the cost, considering the alternative.

Yup, it's his baby alright and perhaps the Supreme Court overturns it too. Here are some failures:

1. Explodes the Budget Deficit

One year ago, Obama said, “This legislation will also lower costs for ... the federal government, reducing our deficit by over $1 trillion in the next two decades. It is paid for. It is fiscally responsible. “ Yeah, right.

Today: ObamaCare is projected to cost at least $2.4T when it is fully implemented. Instead of Obama’s promise to reduce the deficit, the CBO estimates that ObamaCare will increase the federal deficit by $260B through 2019. The US has more than $14 trillion in debt already, and will hit the current statutory debt ceiling ($14.3 trillion) in the next couple of months.

2. Kills Jobs

One year ago: Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said that the health care bill “will create 4 million jobs — 400,000 jobs almost immediately." This coming from Ms. "pass the bill before so that you can find out what is in it..." ok!

Today: The only jobs that have been created from ObamaCare are the tens of thousands of new government bureaucrats who have been hired to deal with all the new regulations and taxes from ObamaCare.

Contrary to Pelosi’s prediction, the director of the CBO testified that 800,000 jobs will be lost over the next decade as a result of the law. Even the liberal Urban Institute released a report that said that the health care law will have "no noticeable effect on net levels of employment." Employers are forced to either cut jobs or move workers into part-time slots that are not mandated to receive health insurance in order to meet the regulations, according to the CBO.

3. Crushes Businesses

One year ago: Obama said that the law will “lower the cost of health care” for businesses. What fantasy world does this idiot live in?

Today: While the economy is barely growing at all, companies are facing a government mandate to provide health care for their employees. The law will cost at least $50 billion to employers because of these new mandates.

Even the CEO of Starbucks said that his company is struggling to meet the ObamaCare regulations. His company spent $250 million last year on health care benefits, and the costs are expected to rise by double-digit percentages. He said that if his big company is struggling, then he believes that “under the current guidelines, the pressure on small businesses, because of the mandate, is too great.”

Uh, Obamacare doesn't kick in fully until 2014. Let's talk then.

Kills jobs? Don't drink the Kool Aid!

"Here is the hidden gem. While looking into the different sectors, I found that the healthcare sector added 23K jobs in December and a total of 315K jobs in 2011. But if we listened to the right wing meme, the Obamacare law should have caused layoffs. Especially considering Obamacare DIRECTLY regulates the health insurance and healthcare industries.

http://www.politicususa.com/obamacare-job-creator.html

O-blame-O wrote:

http://obamalies.net/list-of-lieshttp://obamalies.net/obama-lies-directory

Calling your bluff wrote:

Nice try, but that looks like a miss. Admittedly I only checked a few, but each of those was either inaccurate or incomplete. I assume the rest are more of the same.

Lie No. 1: Obama has repeatedly claimed his white grandfather, Stanley Dunham, "fought in Patton's army," when he was a clerk with no combat in WWII.

Lie No. 2: Obama claimed Dunham, a communist sympathizer, signed up for duty "the day after Pearl Harbor," when in fact he waited six months.

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Lie No. 3: Obama claimed his father "fought when he got back to Kenya against tribalism and nepotism, but ultimately was blackballed from the government," when in fact he fought against capitalism and lost his job when he advocated communism.

Lie No. 4: Obama has claimed his late mother's health insurer refused "to pay for her treatment" for cancer while citing a "pre-existing condition," when Cigna paid all her hospital bills and never denied payment.

Lie No. 5: Obama claimed he and a black high school friend named "Ray" were ostracized in Honolulu, when in fact the friend, Keith Kakugawa, was half-Japanese, and neither of them experienced discrimination.

Lie No. 6: Obama claimed the father of his Indonesian stepfather was killed by Dutch soldiers while fighting for Indonesian independence, when in fact the story turns out to be "a concocted myth in almost all respects," Maraniss found.

Lie No. 7: Obama claimed his parents decided to marry in the excitement of the Selma civil-rights march of 1965 — and that he personally has "a claim on Selma" — when in fact they were married several years earlier.

Lie No. 8: Obama claimed his father got to study in the U.S. thanks to JFK's efforts to bring "young Africans over to America," when in fact the Kenyan airlift his father participated in occurred in 1959 under Ike.

Lie No. 9: Obama submitted a phony bio to his book publicist claiming he was "born in Kenya."

Lie No. 10: Obama denied being a member of the socialist New Party, when a member roster of the Chicago chapter of the party lists him joining on Jan. 11, 1996.

Lie No. 11: Obama claimed he had only a passing acquaintance with Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, when in fact they held a fundraiser for their Hyde Park neighbor in their living room, and years later, while Obama served in the U.S. Senate, hosted a barbecue for him in their backyard.

Lie No. 12: Obama claimed he never heard Rev. Jeremiah Wright spew anti-American invectives while sitting in his pews for 20 years, when in fact Obama was moved to tears hearing Wright condemn "white folks" and the U.S. for bombing other countries and even named his second book after the sermon.

Lie No. 13: Obama claimed he got in a "big fight" with old white flame Genevieve Cook, who after seeing a black play asked "why black people were so angry all the time," when in fact she never saw the play nor made the remark.

Anytime you post from a liberal source, you have ZERO credibility. Fail.

You're not clever, you're boring.

one and done wrote:

Anytime you post from a liberal source, you have ZERO credibility. Fail.

Really? Where do you get your "facts"?

Calling You a Moron wrote:

http://news.investors.com/article/615581/201206201901/obama-tells-stories-to-support-radical-agenda.htm?p=full

You've cited an anonymous "editorial" from a biased source. There are no substantiated facts there.

yep, his record is impressive. He's led us to the brink of financial ruin in a scant 3.5 years. It would've taken any other socialist narcisstic at least a couple of terms to do that..

He inherited a bonfire, dumped gasoline on it and turned it into an out of control wildfire. Nicely done, comrade!

Some people call me MAURICE/'cause I speak of the pompatus of love.

The recession is over because I say it is!

--Flagpole

I was stoked when I saw the video of Obama fast roping from that Blackhawk into UBL's compound and taking him out. Dude is one BAMF, no doubt.

I'm not a GWB fan, but have to give the dude props for quitting golf. He at least had enough of a sense of leadership and compassion that he realized it was lame to be playing golf while American warriors were getting blown up and shot in wars he started.

Chooma Bong obviously doesn't see it that way though. He's played 100 rounds while in office, so far. What a friggin' dbag..

barACK! also championed PC crap like promoting gayness in the military. If you haven't served, don't even comment on that..

Thanks for citing an unbiased source like the Center for American Progress, you assmonkey.

'zactly. Which is why I said "Not saying things didn't need to change & racism didn't need to end ". So glad you caught that..

Are you saying blacks are less enslaved now - when the vast majority are dependent on the gov't - than they were 40 years ago, whene they weren't getting their food & shelter from Uncle Sugar? Kinda headed the wrong direction, huh?

I got this thing about democrats fighting against civil rights for blacks in the mid 20th century from a thing called American History. You can use a thing called google or a thing called a history textbook and look it up. Try to avoid biased sources though, which will be admittedly difficult in these days of revisionist rewriting of our history..

thanks for being one of the 61M useful idiots in '08. Glad we can count on your support again.

--Comrade Obama and official court jester Biden

MAURICE wrote:

thanks for being one of the 61M useful idiots in '08. Glad we can count on your support again.

--Comrade Obama and official court jester Biden

I have your IP address, and the drones are en route.

when the sh&t hits the fan, I'm sure it's a huge comfort to Marines in some sh&thole taking fire from the bad guys that some of their fellow Marines are openly gay. That does so much for the fighting spirit of a warrior when his back is against the wall, you f'in dbag. You morons fight for 'progress' like this and are totally oblivious to the damage you're causing and the danger you're putting others in. The military shouldn't be an organization available for social experiments like rewarding homos for being homos. It should exist for only one reason - to ruthlessly rain down death & destruction on our enemies in the most brutally effective methods possible. Unfortunately though, the Pentagon is infected with careerist PC assclowns like you, so it'll only get worse.