Oh goodie, now doesn't that just give you a big warm and fuzzy. So, in what should now send a very cold chill down the back of every single patriotic American, is the mere thought of that which has now been identified as being the central theme of Barry's re-election campaign. What is that, you ask? Well, it's Barry's claim that there is still much unfinished business that remains in urgent need of being addressed. So it is then, that as he now goes about the business of raising significant campaign funds and appealing for votes, Barry "Almighty" continues to frame his 2012 re-election campaign as being one that is essentially about the creating of an opportunity that would allow him to complete that unfinished business. Also, it's about presenting a very clear choice between his ideas and those of his potential rivals who he likes to whine and complain about as being no different than those "obstructionist" congressional Republicans who, he says, are desperate to thwart his efforts no matter what. This entire cockamamie message is designed to allow Barry a means to "highlight" what he sees as being his "accomplishments" and to also allow him lump Republican presidential candidates in with unpopular legislators. Time and again Barry reminds his campaign backers that the 2012 election will be more difficult than the last. And, aware that some Democrats are less enthusiastic about him than they were three years ago, he is using every opportunity to enumerate his "achievements," from health care to financial regulatory changes to the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gay service members.
Lately, Obama has been busy telling audiences that he has been marking off the list of campaign promises that he made back in 2008. "We're through about 60 percent of it," he told a group of about 100 donors in Denver Tuesday. "Which isn't bad for three years." "There's still a lot of people hurting and there's still a lot of work to do," he continued. "And that 40 percent that's not done, I'm going to need you, because I need five more years." God, what a nightmare scenario that is! I can only hope that enough people come to the realization that this country simply cannot survive another four years of having this "community agitator" in the Oval Office. Hell, at the rate we're going I wouldn't be willing to bet that we'll even survive intact until the 2012 election. Anyway, Denver was the last stop in Barry's three-day swing that also took him to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco, a fundraising-rich tour that let him spend some time hobnobbing with top Los Angeles celebrities and to get some media attention in the battleground states of Nevada and Colorado. During a quick stop in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, Barry sought to draw distinction between his economic plans and those of his Republican rivals, who he, as part of his continuing theme, said are only interested in cutting taxes for the wealthy and eliminating regulations. "It's not as if we haven't tried what they're selling. We have. And it didn't work," he told a 200-person crowd, each of whom paid a minimum of $5,000 to attend. If I recall, it was just such an idea that worked pretty well when Reagan and, to a certain extent, Bush tried it.
But as his poll numbers continue to sag and enthusiasm among even his more hardcore supporters waning, Barry "Almighty" has worked to remind backers that his administration has had, what Barry views as being, some pretty significant accomplishments. From yanking control of healthcare away from the American people and handing it to the federal government, the seizing control of two car companies and a large chunk of our financial sector and student loan program, to ending the military's ban on gay service members, such are those things he views as being his significant "accomplishments." But he acknowledged that change hasn't always been easy to come by. "It's not as trendy to be an Obama supporter as it was back in 2008," he said. "We've had setbacks, we've had disappointments. I've made mistakes on occasion." The Western tour was one of Barry's busiest donor outreach trips to date during this election season. In Los Angeles, he turned to lefty celebrities, including actor Will Smith and basketball legend Earvin "Mr. HIV" Johnson, to bring in some big money for the brother, and then he mingled with such washed up losers as Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas over canapés at the couple's home. Left wing, wack job celebrities are a tried-and-true fundraising draw, particularly if you happen to be a left wing, wack job Democratic president like Barry "Almighty." Both the president and the stars enjoy the basking in their reflected fame and the endorsement of stars can be a useful asset especially when focusing on the less intelligent segment of voters.
So as he travels around country collecting money, he has also been actively promoting the charade that is his $447 Billion bogus jobs/stimulus bill. The bill now been broken up into its component parts which says he says was done because it must have been too complicated for the Republicans to understand. Despite his endless blaming of the Republicans for its lack of passage, it must remain too complicated for Democrats because it has still been unable to successfully navigate through the Democrat controlled Senate. In the meantime, Barry continues in his effort to circumvent Congress and simply rule by decree, as he focuses on steps his administration can take without the nuisance of congressional approval, including an initiative announced Tuesday to offer millions of student loan borrowers the ability to lower their payments and consolidate their loans. Earlier this week, the administration unilaterally created new rules to allow homeowners who are deeply underwater on their mortgages to refinance at lower rates. Because if his policies, we now have more people than ever receiving some form or another of government subsistence, we are farther in debt than we have ever been and, for the first time in our nation's history, our credit rating has been reduced. Since Barry first took office 2.4 million people have lost their job and yet for the first two full years of his term, the only mention of jobs came about when he wanted us to go along with his first attempt at a stimulus, when he promised unemployment would never go above 8 percent. Upon passage of that same stimulus it shot up to over 10 percent and has never been below 9 percent. So what is there that now exists that would provide the necessary impetus for passage of what is essentially nothing more than a second stimulus?
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