[UPDATE^x2: Live Blog PBO's Costa Mesa Townhall] PBO’s Priorities: While the Nation Fumes and Burns, “Nero” Plays a Game

Him am ugly!

I read in the headline news this afternoon his picks. What rot.

Oh, Hillary, where art thou? (Just noticed the pic at the right of the page).

They clearly have a celebrity media strategy.

A friend who runs a bookstore at the ferry terminal, who really likes Obama, says Barack and Michelle have graced so many magazine covers they’re even on “Woodworkers Monthly” now.

Totally unreal. The March Madness bracket photo is still there.

Hey it’s better than his usual nose in the air smirk on his face he usually has.
as for the rest, I think he must have been a fan of Marie Antionette…Let them eat 100 dollar a pound steak.

I thought you were kidding.

Oh, have you seen the new regal pose? That chin-in-the-air better-than-thou, attitudinizing peacockery? NO? Well then, you must click on:

He really needs to grow a mustache, what with the lines around his mouth.

(With apologies in advance to men who wear mustaches, including me).

Oh please. Fulminating, hyperventilating outrage over a lighthearted moment that pretty much every male in the country shares? From a president who for weeks now has been criticized for working too hard and taking on too many pressing problems simultaneously?

Don’t become a parody of yourself, Susan.

LMAO! Criticized for working too hard? By whom? That’s hilarious.

That meme has been all over the news, certainly that he has chosen to take on too many difficult challenges simultaneously. I would have expected no less from him. I’m also that the Fed anted up another $750 billion today. They are taking the financial disaster very seriously and today’s announcement was a sign that they are committed to staying out in front of it. You NQers have your fun now, while the recession is grinding on and Obama’s team is making rookie mistakes. You won’t be laughing a couple years from now when we’ve recovered, health care is spreading out to tens of millions of people who didn’t have it, and Obama is the most popular and successful politician in the world.

SFHillary must be a real slacker to think That One actually does something (other than beat his gums).

He has delegated everything he’s responsible but his own toileting, troll. Have you ever had a thought that wasn’t fed you by some spinmeister? Oh, you’re an automaton… Never mind.

Dude, you were around last summer, surely you remember my name. There’s probably no single thing that drove me away from being a regular visitor to this site more than the pathetic, robotic insistence on the part of you true-believing PUMAs on calling anyone who defends Obama a troll and a bot. Don’t be a freaking idiot.

OMG working TOO hard? How many trips has he made, Chicago for Valentines Day, stupid campaign townhalls, and was rude to our Guest from UK. WHAT planet are you from Working too hard?

That comment was absurd on its face, huh? NQ must be getting the dumbest of the dumb oblahblahbots anymore. Between cynic, zippy, and sfhillary, we have our own version of the three stooges, sans humor.

I personal would love for you to be right. But I haven’t seen anything in his past, or since he took office to give me any HOPE he won’t do anything but ruin the county,like every idea he has had so far. Take guns from the pilots? Screw with the vets insurance?…why?

Honestly I really hope they don’t believe the crap they write, that would be so sad they are that clueless.

yeah, yeah, troll troll troll. Anyone who supports Obama is a troll. Do you even know what the word means in web parlance? The funniest thing about such pathetic insults is how cookie-cutter they are. By calling me (whoever, whatever my other faults, is clearly writing with a voice of my own) a bot, you are revealing yourself to be far more of a bot.

But of course, you’re too bot-like to understand my point or care even if you did. lol

How much of OUR money did that fancy bracket thingy with the Presidential seal and whatnot on it cost? Yes, I know about the Government Printing Office, but why waste our fast disappearing money on this sort of silliness? Someone should tell Obummer that the President isn’t supposed to be trivial. At least, not most of the time.

About the townhall…Did you notice he was sweating the entire time…as well he should be…in waaaaay over his head.

Do you approve or disapprove of the way his administration has handled the economic crisis? Do you approve or disapprove of the priorities laid out in his first budget? Do his decisions on those all-important matters give you more or less confidence in his presidency?

Nah, sweetie, no payday from Obama For America for you for “finishing a conversation”. Wasn’t it nicer when you guys got paid by the post or by the hour? Belt-tightening for all, I guess.

Disaprove at the way he rammed a 1400 page bill full of wastefull spending thru with out giving anyone time to read it, even tho he PROMISED 5 days on the web to be transparent.Disaprove of his HUGE budget, and disaprove of his priorities. I have even less confidence in him now than I did when I decided to vote Republican for the first time in my life.

We always refer to THAT pose as 0bama’s DICTATOR POSE. Check out the dictators of the past. They use that same pose with the chin in the air and the eyes. Musolino, Hitler, Stalin, etc. Creepy for sure.

Right, right, right…you guys just keep on fantasizing to yourselves about how over his head he is. When I told you early last year that he was going to be your next president, you all laughed. And when I tell you now that as long as their current economic initiatives stabilize the economy and get us back on the path to growth within two years, he will be seen as an extremely successful president and will win reelection in a landslide, you will no doubt laugh again. This reaction — as I told you all last summer, many times — is because most of you do not understand politics, and I do.

whatever drug sfhillary is on, I think I need some fast.
The town hall was a weird mix, and seemed forced and fake.
The Timmy mess..well, people are taking bets on when his last day is…that’s what the NCAA board should have been for!
The loop hole was forced on Dodd, according to Dodd by Geithner???
The plot thickens, and the last people I want handling my health care are these morons.

Yes, yes, he’s the next Hitler or Stalin. We are at great risk of slipping into martial law before 2012.

Could your rhetoric possibly be any more reflexive and shallow?

How are the hirings in the Treasurery coming along? and I STILL want to know why he made it so pilots can’t have guns in the cockpit anymore. IF they wanted to kill anyone I don’t think they need a gun if they are flying a plane.

I’ll grant you guys this: Geithner is flailing, and hurting Obama, and hurting their entire economic program, and thus hurting us all. In my opinion Obama should stanch the bleeding by axing Geithner immediately. He was a poor pick and needs to be replaced. Certainly appears to be Obama’s biggest mistake thus far.

Right, so you disagree with a massive stimulus to try and support the economy? Instead you’d like to see us just sink into a true depression? You and Limbaugh and a few others. Great.

1. I’m a middle-aged man, married with little daughter.

2. I’m a professional writer and trust me, his campaign couldn’t afford my per-word rate, even if I had been willing to take a leave from my (very prominent) day job.

3. Out of curiosity, did they ever come up with any actual evidence that Obama really did pay anyone to blog for him? I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised, since those guys ran the most masterful online marketing campaign I’ve ever seen in my life, but I never noticed any real evidence of this particular piece of it, either.

Trust me, though — if they did, I wasn’t one of them.

The existence of legions of Obamabots pecking away at keyboards for 5 bucks per hour–or alternately for a nickel per post–is part of the prevailing mythology around here.

He bought the office and if you have half a brain, you understand that. If you believe you can defend otherwise, than we are correct in referring to you as an obot/troll as you are surely duped and/or drunk on the koolaid.

“Woodworkers Monthly”

Darn Termites….

Yeah, his stem cell rigamarole sure shouldn’t count. Nor should his support of faith based initiatives. And let’s not mention his no stance on equal rights for LGBT peoples. On that topic, he does a typical Obie dance – says one thing, says another thing, points to either statement if questioned. ‘If’ being the operative.

You make me sick!

You can tell Barky is in trouble since alot of the old bots are back defending him.

I wonder if it has to do with all the emails from David Plouffe asking for help, “In the next few weeks we’ll be asking you to do some of the same things we asked of you during the campaign — talking directly to people in your communities about the President’s ideas for long-term prosperity.

and We know this fight won’t be easy. But important battles never are. Together, we have the opportunity to shape our country’s future. We believed in the power of people to win an improbable election victory. And we believe in the power of people to drown out the cynics”

I guess we can tell who answered the call.

No, Obama’s biggest mistake was thinking he knew his a$$ from a hole in the ground–much like yourself. Obama’s biggest mistake was thinking he could master this job with no experience. The only thing he has mastered is con-artistry of the foolish and gullible masses–much like yourself. If the music begins to play and birds chirp merrily on cue in the rosy, dream-like scenario you describe above, I will admit that I was wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.

From a president who for weeks now has been criticized for working too hard

HaHaHaHAHaHaHa HaHaHaHAHaHaHa HaHaHaHAHaHaHa

Boy, I needed that laugh HaHaHaHAHaHaHa

“become a parody of yourself….”

such is the eternal life….

I once had a neighbor that had a redwood burl table top…

In the grain of the wood, clear as day, one could easily make out the a image of of a monk in monastic garb looking out a monastery window…the kind that a castle would have….small and arched.

I guess his prayers were answered, SFHillary.

“You NQers”….

singular/plural….

I feel better about my typing now.

Really? well that is sad, I had hoped you were a young naive college kid, to fall for this crap, IF you really believe what you are writing. I’m not trying to be mean or a smart ass, I really thought that.
I really pray you are right and I am wrong.

Are you joking? No one on this blog — or in fact — no reasonable person ANYWHERE would EVER criticize Obama for working too hard. He is allergic to work and keeps campaigning instead of governing, and when he’s not campaigning, he is vacationing.

I too felt a twinge of sadness reading that sfhillary is actually a grown man with a child. He reminds me of the republican trolls we used to have to fend off when blogging first began. Now it’s the Dems turn to praise and deify an inexperienced ‘leader.’

Thanks, at least, for admitting the Geithner is a disaster — that is another one we called. By the way, that is not his only mistake thus far.

But I truly do appreciate your acknowledging this much.

I noticed they’re back too. Must have something to do with the orchestrated town hall meetings. But really, do these folks think they will come here and we will buy their goods? How silly is that?!

“THEY’RE BAAAAACK.”

sfhillary – have you ever wondered why, the 2 years from now, is the time frame for the economy to turn around? Huh? Why not now, or sooner? or this summer?

As to O’s budget, what happened to his promise to veto anything with earmarks? 9,000 earmarks weren’t too many?

Instead of shoring up the banks, why not shore up the taxpayers? For the banks, let their overpaid CEO’s start earning their money. They made the mess, they can fix the mess. (Hint : Bernake and Geithner promised their buds a bailout).

You want the economy to get a jump start? Create jobs NOW! FDR did it within 9 working days after inaguration and he wasn’t as “brilliant” as Obama.

BTW – when Obama was a lowly junior senator, why did he support Bush’s proposals and now he’s crying about all the stuff he inherited? Hell, he helped create it!!!!!!

The Obama camp sent out at least 3 emails this week asking for help. BUT of course they pretend they aren’t from Obama, with this farce at the bottom
Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee — 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee

BUT all the links take you to his site

SFHillary, this post is for you–and anyone like you.

The only thing we need to understand about politics, unfortunately, is that this country has now taken to electing American Idol instead of someone actually qualified to do the job — and they have done it now three times in a row.

President Obama has always referred to himself as “The Delegator” — well you cannot delegate leadership and he should not have delegated crafting this stimulus package to Queen Bee Pelosi — who put this together behind closed doors, giving the lie to their false claims about a new era of bipartisanship.

The other rookie mistake of his horrid treatment of PM Brown and his wife is really beyond the pale, too. It is not petty to complain about. Hell, I’m no politician, nor am I Emily Post, and even I would have known a lot better than to treat these people in such a slipshod and careless fashion. And the list goes on.

I dearly want our country to succeed no matter who is President and no matter how much I don’t care for him. I’d love for him to get this right. But unfortunately, so far, his rookie mistakes are the result of the failings for which we criticized him to begin with — his lack of experience and understanding of the issues; also his lack of moral courage (which would enable him to take a firm stand — not to make policy based on polling data — running it up a flagpole to see what he can get away with — then when citizens express outrage, pretend he wasn’t trying to do it in the first place).

Again, that is not leadership.

Talk about a divisive administration!!!!! Go and force your friends and neighbors to support Obama.

Bravo

SFHillary, you aren’t “telling me” anything.

If you think pissing away our chilren’s vfuture is “understanding politics” get a clue.

It matters little to you apparently.

This is the most divisive administration.

We are the BORG, no independant thought allowed. You will be assimilated!!

Well put, Ani. Leading is not the forte of this guy. Deflecting – that’s his style. And it only reiterates his inability to take a stand and lead on SOMETHING, ANYTHING. He cannot stand firm – he’s a wet noodle, or as most folks here like to say, “he’s an empty suit.”

Obama won’t do it. Obama’s mommy worked for Giethner Sr and Geithner himself used to live in all those places that Obama lived. You know the places that he got his foriegn leadership experience as a child. Anyway, Giethner isn’t going anywhere.

Not sure about that. If the poll numbers continue to slide, Giethner will be under the bus too. Obama’s all about ego.

You’re the one who needs to get a clue. Obama is first, digging out of the recession by pure massive Keynesian stimulus. Either you believe in this or you believe in Atlas Shrugged.

Second, his budget. He has said, flatly and honestly, that he believes the future of the American economy lies in supporting a huge new generation of clean energy innovation, transforming our (currently catastrophically inefficient) health care system, and reforming and reinvesting in our educational system for a new generation of American children. Further, on tax policy, he has flatly and honestly said that the tax burden should be lower for all middle class American households and somewhat higher for wealthy households (like mine, and trust me, it won’t hurt all that bad to go back to 1990s level income tax rates).

Again, you either believe in these priorities or you don’t. Everything else in his stimulus package and his proposed budget is trivial.

So what’s the deal, PUMAs? Do you agree with Obama’s basic priorities? If not, why not?

Just like the primary when he told his supporters to get in their faces.

From an AP article from an hour ago:

Obama tried to head off questions about AIG by saying he understood taxpayers’ anger. And he tried to broaden the issue, which has vexed his young administration.

“These bonuses, outrageous as they are, are a symptom of a much larger problem,” he said. It’s “a culture where people made enormous sums of money taking irresponsible risks that have now put the entire economy at risk.”

In fact, no one asked Obama about AIG. The questions focused on jobs, schools, unions’ rights and other issues that are easier for him to handle.

When I read his quote, I immediately thought of $750 million spent to buy this guy the presidency. Talk about outrageous. To put his words back where they belong, “the DNC’s irresponsible risk have put the entire economy at risk.”

And as for no one asking him about AIG – who is surprised at that?! The room was surely filled with folks like sfhillary and ziggy, as only people with no life would camp out in front to make sure they got in to hear more lies.

How about an article in the Washington Post – No I don’t have the link. You’re a writer you can find it.

I have no clue what Obama’s basic priorities are. He talks out of both sides of his mouth. Were I to discern from his actions what his priorities are, they would be:

1. poll numbers down, must get public face time without real questions asked of me
2. be anywhere but in the office working
3. raise money to feed his ego
4. basketball
5. parties
6. vacation

Do I agree with those priorities? NO. Get back to the WH, find some wise and not-in-the-pocket-of-wall-street folks to help fix the mess we are in.

After spending $750 million of money that did not belong to him, he is now owned by the corporations he faux berates. There’s your ‘why.’

Yes and it will be your daughter who’s still paying off this huge deficit.. Enough with the spiel clear off and continue your writing elsewhere.

Why would a rich dude like you want to be here LOL

I am rich I have a daughter……
Look at me I am better than you. Hey dude hit the road. I expect you say it with chin in air and a smirk on your face. We must be way below your pay grade here F*** O**
I cannot stand folk who make sure they let us know what they think they have!!

Could yours be more obtuse and bombast? Hey there STFU! Long time no see! The koolaid has yet to wear off and/or your still selling your soul for 5 cents a post I see.

OMG its the BOT STFU!!! Hi BOT…..where ya been BOT? I guess ol Axelgrease has dropped a few more bucks in the BOTS for hire fund? Gotta have them BOTS like STFU to help Obama keep up the bamboozling.

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/03/obama-speech-networks.html

Well I am going to be really busy – OUTSIDE all night on this particular nite.

“pure massive Keynesian stimulus”

“never smack”

I pretty much agree, WhatNow. He abandoned Daschel after his tax issues became public, but he stayed with Geithner who admits he is experimenting with the economy. His first proposal was to create bad banks for the toxic loans, but he backed out of the idea without an explanation. Chris Dodd may be falling on his sword by saying he added the clause to the stimulus bill allowing previously negotiated bonuses to the officers at AIG. Either Dodd lied through his teeth yesterday or he is lying now and Geithner was responsible. In any case, if this was done without consultation with Obama, then Obama isn’t controlling any of the financial crisis and today Obama was still saying the bonuses were outrageous, covering for Geithner. Wonder why SFhillary is in such a rotten mood?

I have a great spray for termites!

I agree WhatNow…..I couldn’t stop laughing myself. But I had so many laughs at SF’s posts last summer! (or as I like to call him/her…STFU!)

Well one good thing, more people are going to get angry if he keeps interupting their shows to campaign and hopefully the TV stations will start getting pissed and really start acting like journelists instead of groupies, since he is costing them money and viewers..

Ok. Seriously, if you believe BO can do all that mambo jumbo, have at it.

If a POTUS can spend time making bets on Kentucky Derby Day or March Madness or appearing on Leno or reading from a TelePrompter and screwing it up, you think I want him sending Timmy the Turboman to the rescue, when he was one of the jokers in the room last September?

So, who you jivin with that Cosmik Debris?

And I good a rats arse about whether you’re “wealthy” or not; or if it hurts or not. You injecting it into the exchange means you will believe what you will, as long as there is a shred of “hope” the illusion doesn’t fade.

I ask you how much in healthcare industry donations did BO whore for?

I ask you how many teacher unions are happy to hear the 180′s from BO?

So during the campaign he said FISA, made deal with Dodd to withdraw and both of them folded like lawn-chairs.

His priorities are what? I mean, it Wednesday now, what will they be Friday?

” axing Geithner immediately.”

Not that being under the bus post haste will “change” anything, but it speaks to the very basic issue that is BO. His choices show on the whole he is lacking, his words are worthless,
( ask a veteran),

He is an immoral human being that will never gain standing in the court of humanity and will dismissed accordingly. There in lies the rube.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123739512036672809.html

Fannie Is Handing Out Its Own Sizable Retention Payouts

“These bonuses, outrageous as they are, are a symptom of a much larger problem,” he said. It’s “a culture where people made enormous sums of money taking irresponsible risks that have now put the entire economy at risk.”

What part of that succinct little summary of what’s gone wrong with free markets and American capitalism don’t you get?

meileen –don’t forget to add to your list that he wants vets to use their private insurance –sounds exactly like one of the reasons we used to criticize Bushco!

and sfhillary–really aren’t you sick of his perpetual campaign? And didn’t he remind you of Bush after 9/11 scaring the Congress into voting for his “Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002″ when no one had time to read all the intelligence? Your Bambi said we don’t want a “crisis to turn into a catastrophe” and scared congress into voting for the 1,000 pg bailout that no one had time to read. He’s smarter but he really is Bush3.

Look, I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. The Republicans didn’t deserve to stay in power after these last 8 years. But Obama? What a disaster. Does the guy ever work? He only knows how to campaign and read his teleprompter.

Are there good Dem ideas in his budget? Yes. But this is not the time to try to implement them.

You say you have a good job–do you like his idea to tax your health benefits? How about his idea to get rid of your mortgage deduction? I live in the Bay Area, too and believe me–his ideas will affect upper middle class people on the coasts–not just the so-called wealthy.

athena, just got my copy of “the forgotten man”.

I look forward to reading it soon.

Arrggghh–Can someone ‘splain to me why sometimes my posts don’t post?

I just wrote something, brilliant of course, that disappeared.

The free market isn’t free when the Government enters all aspects of it and tries to manipulate it to force social engineering. Government interference is the primary cause for most problems in the market, capitalism works just fine when the government acts only as the referee, it’s true role, and not as a player.

Name one country where hardcore socialism or communism has produced the utopian world that you seem to want ziggy. And if you think there is such a place, why don’t you go there?

ziggy, do you understand this?

“In a dramatic reversal Wednesday, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., confessed to adding language to a spending cap in the stimulus bill last month that specifically excluded executive bonuses included in contracts signed before the bill’s passage.

“As many know, the administration was, among others, not happy with the language. They wanted some modifications to it,” he said. “They came to us, our staff, and asked for changes, and the changes at the time did not seem that obnoxious or onerous.”

So Dodd lied yesterday when he said he knew nothing of the language in the bill and now says the administration and treasury forced him to include the provision allowing the bonuses for AIG. Therefore, all of Obama’s histrionics and outrage is a lie or Geithner is operating on his own with no consultation with Obama. All the Democrats posturing in the hearings today and trying to lay responsibility on the CEO of AIG, a man who agreed to work for $1/yr, was a distraction. silliness, politics as usual.

.. For the first time in my adult life,I am EMBARRASSED for my Country ..

In this economy everything is hurting… Basketball as a sport needs some boosting and use the celebrity status again to sell tickets and sell appreciation for the game. But that said, my attitude is that every time advertising or a story is designed to push a certain product. ideas or policies, I consider the source and if the messenger is flawed like Obama…forget that. I will stick to hockey anytime and I am still a hockey mom and will support hockey as a sport among my male family members…

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Government interference is the primary cause…

The primary cause was that central components of the free market system were hijacked by amoral people, who set up complex mechanisms that allowed it to be methodically looted from the inside out. They made off with billions, leaving behind broken companies, bankrupted investors, and an economy so flooded with worthless paper that it nearly ceased to function. The problem didn’t arrise because there was too much government meddling. It happened because there wasn’t enough. It’s the result of decades of deregulation; of thinking that the foxes can be trusted to manage the hen house.

I agree that the proper function of the government is to referee. That referee must have real authority, be constantly present on the court, and be totally committed to the integrity and principles of the game. I personally favor a large cadre of highly trained, non-partisan civil servants to perform that function. That could be reasonably interpreted as a statement that we need more government, but the fact that I believe that has nothing to do with socialism.

Since they never filled the other what 14 treasurey positions, if they fire Timmy, who will be working there? not that would necessarily be a bad thing at this point.

Behind almost every one of the “Amoral” people you claim are the cause, is an enabling Government entity (politician, legislation, agency, etc.) that provides cover and legitimacy for their activities. How else can you explain how Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, and Franklin Raines walked away from entities that they mismanaged (F. Mae, F. Mac) with their pockets full of millions, without a scratch? Could it be that hundreds of thousands (millions actually) of payoff dollars from such entities end up in the political campaigns of the very same politicians who should be the referees, thus causing them to “shave points”?

Ziggy, the amoral people that you target as the problem would be toothless without an amoral Government “Dentist” working overtime on their behalf.

What? You say the Prez is not supposed to be TRIVIAL?

Then what is he doing tonight at the Jay Leno foul-mouthed teeny-punks-for trash Show?

Rome’s burning…and Nero is fiddling….What an Empty Suited Presidency

Barry Obummer and Dubbya Bush grace both sides of the coin of Incompetence. Who’s the head and who’s the tail? Aye, there’s the rub….

one of the reasons i didnt vote for him ,i hate basket ball it a waist of money and time.

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