Aye Chihuahua, I’ve ask that question for the past two years. Where do the ‘welfare riders’ get the money to travel thousands of miles per week to attend the Obamamations? No way a working person could afford it. Maybe the same terrorists/terrorist nations that financed the Messiah’s campaign are providing the money. How long before the 10 million person raid on D.C. with pitchforks and axes happens? Given time the Messiah won’t allow anyone to own a gun.

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Ummmm…. Sidebar, Your Honor…..

If indeed the economy is in such dire straits,
If indeed we, as a people, are on the edge of a deep precipice,
If indeed things are so hopeless, can someone please explain something to me?

How in the hell did 2 million plus people afford to trek dozens, or hundreds, or yea, thousands of miles to see the Immaculate Inauguration of the TelePromTer Jesus?

Finally, if you believe that this country is in the dire straits that you supposedly believe that it is in, then how can you not be outraged that $170 million plus was spent on this celebration?

Sidebar over.

Carry on.

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As a person who just got his pink slip, I find politicans speaking about the economy a bit repulsive.

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Sorry Curt… what part of “Our economy is badly weakened” comes anywhere near “the fundamentals of our economy are strong”

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And McCain said

“There’s tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and on Wall Street, people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But these are very, very difficult times.”

Yup….the same sort of thing Obama said yesterday.

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McCain only added that to the second speech, after it was apparent he goofed it up earlier in the day when the world economies were in freefall. It was a unfortunate and deadly mistake. Remember it’s not beanbag.

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OMG Curt! That’s a HUGE SCORE!

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Actually if you read the entire speech you will find him speaking of “gathering clouds” and: “Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered.”

he goes on to state: ” But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions – that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act – not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. “

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The technical term is he is just “jive talking you”.

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He did say that:

“Our workers are the most innovative, the hardest working, the best skilled, most productive, most competitive in the world. My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals of America are strong.”

Obama said yesterday:

Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished.

Like Patterico said, in other words the fundamentals are strong. Giving him a pass because he didn’t say fundamentals?

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